All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S02E01 Mysterious Places

NARRATOR: Certain places

around the globe have baffled

scientists and scholars for

decades...

locations with names like the

Zone of Silence...

the Gate of the Gods...

and the Bermuda Triangle.

Visitors to these mysterious

sites report a variety of

strange energies, unexplained

disappearances,

and supernatural phenomena.

Numerous legends describe "star

beings" traveling in and out

of these places from other

worlds.

Might these myths be describing

real events?

Have the strange energies in

these locations been attracting

visitors from other worlds for

thousands of years?

An alien coming here 10,000

years ago could use the magnetic

spots on Earth as signposts.

They have to enter through

certain doorways and portals

into our planet.

NARRATOR: And is there a

pattern to where these spots are

located?

Somebody told them, "Use the

word "star" for your village,

for eternity; don't change it."

NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the globe believe we

have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our world?

And if so, did they concentrate

around specific locations?

Could a better understanding of

ancient alien visitation unlock

the secrets behind some of the

world's most mysterious

places?

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NARRATOR: Perhaps the most

famous, or infamous, of all the

world's mysterious places is the

Bermuda Triangle.

For decades, this stretch of

ocean, covering over 500,000

square miles, located between

Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda,

has baffled scientists,

experienced sailors, and even

military investigators.

PHILIP COPPENS: Planes

disappearing, various kinds of

strange lights being seen, a

whole bunch of weirdness, all

conglomerating into this very

tight corner of the Atlantic.

MICHAEL BARA: Ships that have

shown up absolutely empty.

No sign of any struggle, and

yet the crew has just vanished.

GIAN QUASAR: This is

something that's very real.

They exist in records, and now

that they're all gone, in fair

weather.

That is not supernatural

phenomenon to me.

That is something unexplained.

NARRATOR: What caused ships

and planes to disappear without

a trace?

Why has aeronautical and

navigational equipment stopped

working or changed course by

itself?

Historical shipping records show

that the mysteries of the

Bermuda Triangle are much older

than many people realize.

Ever since the earliest days of

oceanic exploration, sailors

have witnessed strange sights.

JASON MARTELL: Really, the

awareness of the Bermuda

Triangle started with

Christopher Columbus, being such

an esoteric navigator and a

well-respected sailor, his log

traversing to the New World is

very accurate.

And it turns out, just as

Columbus got into the area known

as the Bermuda Triangle, he

recorded having compass

malfunctions.

The following night he saw a

large fireball hit the ocean.

COPPENS: He saw strange

lights, he saw strange weather

phenomena happening there.

So it's definitely a case that

the story of the Bermuda

Triangle is not just some

modern or some urban myth at

the threshold of the 21st

century, it is as old as there

are accounts of people going

into that area.

NARRATOR: About 450 years

after Columbus, on December 5,

1945, the U.S. military

experienced the Bermuda

Triangle's most perplexing

mystery.

At 2:00 in the afternoon, five

U.S. Navy torpedo bombers flew

from a naval base in Fort

Lauderdale, Florida, on a

routine training exercise.

But not long into the two-hour

mission, all five planes were

suddenly gone.

The mystery was compounded when

the Navy sent out a rescue plane

and it, too, disappeared.

Six planes, all flown by

skilled pilots, had vanished

into oblivion.

QUASAR: That struck everybody

as very odd.

This was now the modern era...

we have radar, we have radio,

and still five aircraft

vanished.

COPPENS: Now, the question

is, where have all of them gone?

It really is as if they have

been snapped out of our reality

into something else.

And, of course, what that

something is, that's the

mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

NARRATOR: Over the years, few

have lived to tell of any

strange anomalies that have

occurred to them in the Bermuda

Triangle.

But American pilot Bruce Gernon

is an exception.

In 1970, Gernon, his father and

a business associate were

flying from the Bahamas to

Florida when Gernon reported

seeing a strange cloud directly

out in front of their plane.

Then, as he approached, Gernon

claims the cloud formed a

donut-shaped hole, or vortex.

GERNON: The tunnel was huge

at first, but then it started

getting smaller rapidly.

When I penetrated into the

tunnel, an incredible thing

happened.

These lines instantly formed.

It was like looking down a

rifle barrel, because the lines

were swirling slowly

counterclockwise.

I encountered some intense

electricity.

There were, like, flashes going

on and off.

And all I could see was this

strange grayish-yellowish fog.

I call it "electronic fog."

I noticed that my instruments

were malfunctioning, and at the

same time, I'm feeling this

unbelievable sensation.

NARRATOR: Gernon says when he

finally exited the tunnel, he

radioed Miami air traffic

control, but they couldn't find

his plane on their radar screen.

GERNON: And then about

three minutes later, the radar

controller came back on the

radio, and he's all excited.

He had identified me over Miami,

and I couldn't believe it,

'cause I'd only been flying for

33 minutes.

It should've been more like

an hour and three minutes.

NARRATOR: Could such a

discrepancy in time and

location really happen?

And could extraterrestrials be

using this kind of gateway to

travel to Earth?

According to Albert Einstein's

General Theory of Relativity,

it is possible.

MARTELL: Through Einstein's

principles of being able to

bend space using a gravitational

pull, it's very possible that

extraterrestrial craft could

somehow get a higher charge of

energy from these locations,

like the Bermuda Triangle, which

allow them to do a burst of

energy, if you will, a warp

speed, and harness some type of

extra particles or energies from

these locations to get them

where they're trying to go.

BARA: What happens is, is

that any time you have energy

generated at all, especially

from a higher plane, a higher

dimension, it's going to come

out by spin.

It's going to be rotation and

spin that allows that energy to

gate through.

So, by definition, such energy

emissions are going to be

vortexes.

So a vortex and a gateway are

the same thing.

NARRATOR: Since wormholes are

theoretically located

throughout the universe, could

these same types of gateways

exist in smaller areas on Earth?

If so, are strange

electromagnetic levels the key

to discovering them?

QUASAR: Completely

unconnected people report the

same thing, and it always has

something to do with

electromagnetic phenomenon,

usually involving an

unexplained vapor or cloud.

This phenomena indicated UFOs

materializing or

dematerializing in our

dimension.

CHILDRESS: It's quite

possible that the Bermuda

Triangle is exactly one such

interdimensional doorway that's

used by these aliens.

NARRATOR: With reports of

UFOs appearing, and ships and

planes disappearing, some claim

the Bermuda Triangle is a portal

that works in both directions.

So if, as ancient astronaut

theorists claim, otherworldly

visitors have been using them

to come here since ancient

times, might we someday use

this shortcut to visit them?

And if there really is a portal

in the open waters of the

Bermuda Triangle, might there

be others on land?

NARRATOR: 400 miles south of

El Paso, Texas, in northern

Mexico, stretches a remote and

rugged section of high desert.

This area, near the town of

Ceballos, is referred to by the

locals as the Zona del Silencio,

or the Zone of Silence.

It's an epicenter for some of

the strangest phenomena ever

experienced on Earth.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Nothing

works there.

If you go there with your cell

phone, the cell phone stops.

If you go with a radio, it

stops.

If you go there with a compass,

the needle just keeps spinning.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's

completely bizarre.

There's strange rocks

everywhere.

You have strange mutated animals

living in the desert in this

area.

You feel a strange tingling

when you're there.

(wind whistling)

NARRATOR: The Zone of Silence

was first identified in the

1930s by Francisco Sarabia, a

Mexican pilot, who claimed that

his radio had mysteriously

failed to function while flying

over the area.

RUBEN URIARTE: They call it

Mexico's Bermuda Triangle.

It's located practically on the

same parallel... the 28th and

26th parallel... and as a result

of that, it goes and connects

with the Egyptian pyramids,

so, around that whole

sector, there seems to be some

connection between the

anomalies that occur through

these different parts of the

world.

SARA SEAGER: As a scientist,

you're trained to be skeptical,

or maybe you were born that way.

But we really don't believe

anything.

You know, nothing is proven

until you actually have

evidence.

But I can say that Earth's

magnetic field does vary across

the surface by up to a few

percent.

NARRATOR: One of the

strangest cases involving the

Zone of Silence took place on

July 11, 1970, when the U.S.

Air Force launched an Athena

missile...

from its military facility in

Green River, Utah.

The missile was programmed to

land 700 miles away at the

White Sands Missile Range

in New Mexico.

But for some unexplained reason,

the Athena missile flew hundreds

of miles past the White Sands

Range towards the Zone of

Silence.

BARA: Not only did it go off

course, it way overshot, as if

it had been picked up or yanked

or dragged or pulled into it.

There was a NASA spokesman who

even said it was weird.

It was like the thing just

got pulled into this area.

And it ended up crashing there

and breaking up into bits.

NARRATOR: But some claim this

missile is not the only thing

that's been mysteriously pulled

into the Zone of Silence.

Ancient alien theorists believe

an unusually large number of

meteorites have crashed here.

CHILDRESS: The evidence seems

to be indicating that the Zone

of Silence is some powerful

energy vortex area that's

literally sucking meteorites and

other space debris right into

this small area of northern

Mexico.

LOGAN HAWKES: There's a high

level of magnetism in the area.

That's been proven by science.

We know there's a magnetic

signature to the entire area.

Is it strong enough to attract

large objects like meteorites?

I think we need more research.

But I-I don't think that

research is being done right

now.

NARRATOR: Starting 3,000

years ago, the Anasazi culture

inhabited the region to the

north, in today's American

Southwest.

Anasazi means "ancient ones,"

and they paid great attention

to the stars.

Scientists have determined that,

in 1054 AD, a supernova

explosion was visible from

Earth.

Many believe the first known

drawing of this event was found

inside an Anasazi cave dwelling.

South of the Zone of Silence,

other cultures, including the

Maya, also reportedly possessed

a surprisingly detailed

knowledge of similar celestial

events.

Is it possible that both of

these cultures were somehow

exchanging information?

HAWKES: They're separated by

thousands of miles, but both

the Anasazi of the north, and

the Mesoamericans of the south

found the Zone of Silence and

used it as a meeting place

between their two cultures.

You could imagine if you studied

the stars at night and plotted

the constellations, obviously,

one of the things you're

going to see are these

meteorites streaking across

the sky.

If your answers come from the

sky, you probably would follow

those streaking meteorites and

find out where they ended up.

And the theory is that they may

have found what they were

looking for in the Zone of

Silence.

NARRATOR: But what other

connections exist between these

cultures?

And are they of a celestial

origin?

HAWKES: If we look back into

the ancient beliefs of the

Anasazi and the Mesoamericans

to the south, we know that

there was great belief in sky

people; visitors from the sky.

If these visitors came from the

sky, who were they?

MARTELL: And there's a

similarity to the beings being

reported as tall, pale-skinned,

white hair, which is not

indigenous to the dark-skinned,

dark-haired people found in that

region, but does match many of

the South American descriptions

of their gods.

NARRATOR: According to

legend, these so-called

"Visitors from the Sky" made

themselves known to an ancient

people.

Is it possible that they

are still making themselves

known today?

URIARTE: There are a number

of reports of UFOs in the Zone

of Silence.

HAWKES: Probably the most

prominent and most popular

report came out of the town of

Ceballos.

It was on a late summer

afternoon when a number of

townspeople saw an object

hovering in the sky on the

outskirts of town.

They described it as being

about 100 meters wide.

It had multicolored lights

flashing.

It wasn't doing anything.

It was just hovering in the

desert.

After a while, it simply took

off and headed out into the

Zone of Silence.

URIARTE: I think, too, that,

as what's going on today... the

high activity UFO sightings, the

anomalous reports that are still

going on today... perhaps there

is a connection.

Maybe it's a vortex.

Maybe it's a dimensional port.

We can't explain it, but

something unusual is going on

in that area.

NARRATOR: Might

extraterrestrials be able to

detect these magnetic

differences?

And would they have been of

any use to ancient visitors?

TSOUKALOS: If I was an alien

coming here 10,000 years ago,

obviously, there weren't any

roadmaps at the time.

However, I could use the

anomalous magnetic spots on

planet Earth as signposts of

sorts.

And so that when I come back,

those signposts would be my

guides to find my way around

planet Earth.

There are spots on planet Earth

that are highly magnetic.

(whooshing)

NARRATOR: But are the

magnetic levels...

the sky-god legends...

and recent sightings of UFOs...

proof that a portal exists

here?

And are there other places

that might offer more direct

physical evidence?

(sheep bleating)

(bleating)

NARRATOR: 800 miles

southeast of Lima, Peru, near

the shores of Lake Titicaca, is

a site that has mystified

visitors from around the world.

(soft, ringing tones)

* Oh, ah...

NARRATOR: Shamans still come

to perform rituals and offer

prayers at the rock wall on this

high plateau, as they have done

for generation after generation.

It is known as Puerta de Hayu

Marca, or "Gate of the Gods."

CHILDRESS: When you see

it, it's quite baffling.

Here is this giant doorway

carved into solid rock.

And it appears to be a gateway,

but it doesn't go anywhere.

TSOUKALOS: It's literally

in the middle of nowhere at

14,000 feet.

Yet that rock, as clear as you

can see, has a gigantic

rectangle carved out of it;

cut out of it.

And in the center of that

rectangle, at the bottom, there

is something that looks like a

door.

BARA: The Peruvian natives

actually refer to this as the

Gate of the Gods.

But why would you make a

doorway to, basically, rocks

that didn't let you go anywhere?

There has to be some way to get

through that doorway.

NARRATOR: According to Inca

legend, the first priest king,

Amaru Muru, is said to have

traveled through this portal

using a special object to

activate the doorway, turning

this solid rock into what's

known as a "star gate."

TSOUKALOS: According to

legend, this star gate was

activated by the help of a

golden disc.

And this golden disc fell from

the sky.

BARA: The story goes that

the first priest king of the

Incas took a golden disk up to

this Gate of the Gods, stuck it

in a special recessed area,

and this interdimensional

doorway actually opened up and

he passed through it, never to

be seen again.

The shaman that were there that

watched it, that witnessed the

whole thing and reported on it,

basically told that that was

exactly what happened.

NARRATOR: Archeologists who

have examined the Gate of the

Gods have discovered a small,

circular depression in the

center of the doorway.

Some people have speculated

that this depression was

perhaps where the golden disc

was placed.

COPPENS: It really is out

of the movies.

This device is said to have

been made of gold and of

various sort of precious

objects, and whoever had it

could come near this site and

somehow be able to operate it,

and then there would either be

contact with the gods, or the

gods would come to them.

TSOUKALOS: And we're all

lead to believe, oh, it's all

coincidence, it's all just

fantasy.

Rubbish.

Something happened, and in the

case of the star gate, it is

possible that this sun disc had

some type of an extraterrestrial

connection, and that this was a

technological device with which

to travel.

DAVID SEREDA: And that may

mean physically taking a person

and taking them into another

hidden dimension and taking them

back.

Or it may mean traveling

between Earth, going through

that star gate and going to

another place somewhere in the

universe.

NARRATOR: According to the

local legend, these priest-

kings, known as "space

brothers," reportedly came from

other worlds.

Might they have traveled here

through the Gate of the Gods?

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI:

They came from the other

constellations, from other

planets.

In our language we have a word

called Chakana, which is some

of the constellations, like the

Southern Cross, Orion Belt, or

Pleiades.

One of the elders said, "This is

the bridge to home.

So, in essence, all these

manifestations has to do with

the space brothers.

NARRATOR: But could a device

to activate this door actually

exist?

And if so, where would the

doorway lead?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, the Gate of the Gods

is one end of a wormhole...

a type of portal that connects

either to another part of the

universe or another dimension.

THOMAS VALONE: A wormhole is

a theoretical construct through

General Relativity.

The concept is really that

there's a possibility of

space-time being connected;

various parts of space-time

being connected through a small

channel.

And if such a construct was

made, then you'd have a

shortcut between very distant

parts of the universe.

NARRATOR: Wormholes are an

accepted element of theoretical

physics.

But have they actually existed

in some of the world's most

mysterious places?

MARTELL: The idea that

there are star gates or that

they could have existed in

ancient times, we do see many

artifacts and representations

of someone passing through a

doorway or going through some

type of energy source, and

ancient man did not understand

technology, just as we're trying

to understand: Is a wormhole

possible?

CHILDRESS: That it's some

kind of doorway between our

dimension and another.

And what I maintain is that

these aliens who are coming

here are coming here in

interdimensional type of craft.

They're able to jump through

hyperspace, come here to our

planet in no time at all, but

they have to enter through

certain doorways and portals,

into our planet.

SARA SEAGER: Dimensions

aren't really considered

something to travel along.

But dimensions are directions,

and if you could somehow travel

along these other dimensions,

it would take you somewhere

else entirely.

NARRATOR: What if one end of

a portal exists here at Puerta

de Hayu Marca?

Might that be part of the

reason many consider Peru to be

a focal point of UFO and

extraterrestrial activity?

CHILDRESS: Lake Titicaca

has all kinds of strange lights

associated with it, and a

number of witnesses claim they

see UFOs coming out of the lake.

MARTELL: The locals always

describe seeing large blue

balls of light or glowing discs,

and sometimes even beings

reported around these sightings.

These beings are always

reported as tall, pale-skinned,

completely non-indigenous to

the people that are

dark-skinned, dark-haired in

these South American regions.

NARRATOR: Another theory to

how extraterrestrials may have

traveled across the universe

involves the scientific concept

of teleportation.

But is it really possible to

have something disappear from

one spot and suddenly appear

somewhere else?

SEREDA: At the Max Planck

Institute, scientists have

already dematerialized subatomic

particles and made them reappear

somewhere else, so science is

just on the precipice of being

able to do this... to move it

from one place to another.

So I believe that that is a, is

a secret that the ancient stone

builders knew.

BARA: Even though the gate

might be closed right now, the

reality is, you can still access

the energy because it's still

flowing around the area.

It's the area itself that seems

to hold the energy and put it

out and draw people to it.

NARRATOR: But is Puerta de

Hayu Marca the only strange site

in Peru?

Are there other mysterious

places here?

Some believe there are.

NARRATOR: High up in the

mountains of Peru, 850 miles

north of the Gate of the Gods,

is a breathtaking two-mile-long

plateau, another area of

reported high magnetic energy.

For centuries, it has been

considered a powerful, sacred

place among the Incan people.

It's called Markawasi.

COPPENS: Markawasi is a very

beautiful region in Peru.

Markawasi is said to have had

very bizarre energy.

People go there and they

experience bizarre energy

patterns.

KATHY DOORE: The local people

say it is a place of the wizards

and gods and genies of old and

they treat it with a great deal

of veneration.

When people go there, they

report a special kind of

frequency and energy...

a euphoria, in fact.

NARRATOR: Most geologists

consider the many stone

formations on the plateau to be

naturally formed, born of

millions of years of erosion and

other natural processes.

But is there more here than

first meets the eye?

Some consider Markawasi to be a

massive sculpture garden filled

with carvings left behind by an

ancient civilization.

COPPENS: This is a region

whereby stones are not just

stones.

What we have here is almost like

a Disneyland of the gods.

The question then is: is this a

purely natural phenomena or is

this something more?

NARRATOR: Could this be not

just a collection of rocks but

a sanctuary of stone monuments

made by people tens or even

hundreds of thousands of years

ago?

Researcher Daniel Ruzo was the

first to make this claim

in 1952.

DOORE: Daniel Ruzo was shown

a photograph of a huge colossal

stone head, up in the high

mountains above Lima, and he

made an expedition there just to

see the stone head, but he was

astonished to find that on this

tiny mesa were hundreds of

carved stones.

NARRATOR: There are those who

believe the rock formations

depict animals and people not

indigenous to South America.

They see in them figures such as

an African queen, the Egyptian

god of fertility, Taweret,

depicted as an upright

hippopotamus...

a camel...

and many others.

One formation, known as the

Monument to Humanity, features

what appears to be a Western

face on one side and a Middle

Eastern one on the other.

Is it really possible that so

many formations which appear to

depict figures from around the

world could coincidentally be

found on a single plateau?

Or if they are man-made, who may

have carved them?

DOORE: The local legends say

that it is a place of the

ancient giant gods, that the

gods created this.

In fact, when the Spanish

chroniclers came to Peru and

investigated the ancient

shamanic religions of Peru, they

told a story of Tici Viracocha,

the creator god, who arrived in

the guise of a man to walk and

inspect his lands.

And he had given them different

orders and there were some rebel

nations that were not doing what

they were supposed to do and he

promptly turned them to stone.

NARRATOR: The name Markawasi

provides a clue to its origins

and mystery.

The word itself predates the

Incan Empire.

Markawasi scholar and researcher

Daniel Ruzo believed the name

meant "two-story house" and

referred to the strange complex

of buildings located on the

site.

MARTELL: That really raises

the question that scholars and

theologians have been trying to

figure out for many years:

is there an Atlantean or some

lost civilization?

So Markawasi puts that question

back on the map.

Could this be possible?

Were there transoceanic cultures

visiting thousands of years ago,

off the books of recorded

history?

NARRATOR: According to Daniel

Ruzo, the ancient civilization

that created Markawasi were a

people known as the Masma...

and supposedly, Peru was not

their only home.

ROBERT SCHOCH: The Masma was

this very, very ancient advanced

civilization, advanced culture,

if we want to call it that, that

seems to have been global, seems

to have traveled worldwide at a

very early period, and Ruzo

spent much of his time looking

around the world for evidence of

this advanced civilization,

and he thought he found it

at Markawasi.

He actually saw Markawasi, in

many ways, as being like a huge

sculpture garden that the Masma

had built there.

NARRATOR: If such a worldwide

community existed, what happened

to it?

Was it, as some believe, wiped

out in the great flood described

in the Bible?

BARA: It's very interesting

that these carvings are found

at 12,000 feet because that kind

of implies that civilization

started at the top and then

worked its way back down as the

waters of the flood receded.

It's almost as if the first

thing they did when Noah's Ark

descended and landed, maybe

landed at Markawasi, was to

record all the animals that they

had collected, if you buy the

whole concept of a story of

saving what was left of humanity

and saving what they could of

the animal kingdom.

SCHOCH: If these are real

sculptures or even natural

formations that were touched up,

they are so old geologically

that all we can really do is

fall back to some of the

speculations of people like

Daniel Ruzo... that this was some

kind of very ancient

civilization.

DOORE: Perhaps, indeed, there

were ancient gods.

Perhaps there was a race of

beings of very high-minded

nature that came here in the

early, early times that helped

mankind and that have been

overseeing their handiwork.

SCHOCH: I suspect that they

were trying to record something

about their beliefs, their

civilization, something that

could be passed on to future

generations.

They may have realized that they

were not going to last forever

and they wanted to leave some

kind of mark, some kind of

record, maybe even some kind of

warning for future generations.

NARRATOR: If this advanced,

globe-traveling race existed in

early history, where did they

come from?

According to author George Hunt

Williamson, who first

popularized Markawasi with his

1959 book Road in the Sky,

Markawasi was a "sacred forest"

where extraterrestrial beings

met to plan the future.

And many UFO researchers

believe they're still returning

to this day.

DOORE: The mesa has a

plethora of UFO sightings,

ultra-dimensional visitors.

It's an extraordinary place.

CHILDRESS: What is probably

Peru's most famous UFO photo

was taken near Markawasi in the

1970s by a businessman, who

himself was going up the

trail to the plateau of

Markawasi, when he looked back

down the valley, and there was

a silvery disc in broad

daylight, flying up the valley.

NARRATOR: But are there

really special types of energy

flowing around Markawasi that

we are just beginning to

understand?

And if so, have they been

attracting visitors for

thousands of years, as reported

at some of the world's other

mysterious places?

BARA: My suspicion is that

extraterrestrials would be

more inclined to come to these

energetic places, not just

because it would make their

technology work better, but

because their bodies are going

to vibrate at a frequency that's

more appropriate for the

universe or the world that they

inhabit.

SCHOCH: As I have looked at

studies and studied it myself,

I think that maybe something

inherent to those spots... maybe

electromagnetic, maybe a

geomagnetic anomaly...

you have, in some cases,

different types of rocks,

different types of crystalline

structures; maybe underground

flowing water that will carry

electric currents... so I think

there are a lot of

possibilities.

But we really don't understand

exactly what's going on.

NARRATOR: Is there a reason

why these so-called

interdimensional space portals

allegedly appear at certain

spots on our planet?

Is there, as some suggest,

a pattern to their locations?

And what evidence exists that

shows our ancient ancestors

knew the code?

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NARRATOR: According to

ancient astronaut theorists,

the mysterious energy-filled

sites around the world are not

randomly located.

They are connected by what is

referred to as the World Grid...

a geometric pattern of energy

that crisscrosses the globe.

CHILDRESS: Our planet is

covered with this network of

very subtle, invisible energies

that are all around us.

But at certain places on the

planet, these energies come

together, and they create a

powerful vortex area.

And that energy is-is stronger

and more useful, in a sense,

than some other part of

the Earth.

BARA: The World Grid theory

is a concept that all of these

sacred sites, all around the

world, are actually connected in

some sort of mathematical,

geometric grid that came from

a time when we really understood

the harmony between nature and

geometry and science and

mathematics.

CHILDRESS: It's well known

that Australian aboriginals

follow these dreaming tracks as

they go on their walkabout

through the desert.

They can see these lines on the

ground, they claim.

The Chinese also believe that

they can see and track these

"dragon lines."

And in fact, the very popular

Chinese practice of feng shui

is to use these energy lines

that are coming and going

throughout the land.

NARRATOR: The unique

relationship between geometric

shapes and certain locations on

Earth stretches back in history

to the Pythagorean school of

thought in ancient Greece.

CHILDRESS: One of the famous

Pythagorean philosophers of

ancient Greece, Plato, talks

about the Earth as a geometric

dodecahedron.

That it's like a ball sewn in

various geometric shapes.

And the Pythagorean school is

basically saying that geometry,

and the various forms of

geometry, are what makes up all

matter, including the Earth.

NARRATOR: Another strange

mystery surrounds the apparent

concentration of UFO sightings

along the World Grid.

Before his death in 1992,

French UFO researcher Aimee

Michel mapped every alleged

extraterrestrial report since

the Roswell incident in 1947.

COPPENS: And when he mapped

them, he found that they were

very specific, namely in lines.

And he began to map these

lines, and he found that these

lines were not just random, but

were actually linked to degrees

of latitudes, and that there

was really a science behind

where UFOs were sighted.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists believe that the

concentration of energy levels

and UFO sightings is not a

coincidence.

They claim that otherworldly

beings visited our ancestors

and told them of the special

powers in these locations.

Then they say the ancient

people were shown how to build

incredible structures to

magnify these natural powers.

It's a theory known as geomancy.

CHILDRESS: So, in fact, by

building pyramids, and standing

stones, obelisks and things like

that, we can work with this

natural energy field around the

Earth, and, in a similar way to

acupuncture on a human body,

we can do that to the

Earth, too.

And by putting certain

structures, or a needle in a

certain place in the Earth, we

can accentuate these energies.

VON DANIKEN: In Europe,

lines, sometimes thousand

kilometers of long, exist from

antiquity.

In Europe they are called

ley lines.

All of the antique places are

linked together.

TSOUKALOS: These ley lines

extend all the way from

England, all the way through

France, down across through

Italy, and just in a straight

line.

And the fascinating aspect is

that many of those towns that

are on that line, the root of

the town's name is represented

across 20, 30 town names.

VON DANIKEN: Every point is

on one line.

It's an archeological point.

And every point has the same

core of the word.

The word is always "star."

It's absolutely fascinating,

and it's not coincidence.

Our Stone Age people did not by

coincidence just put their holy

places in Stone Age in one line.

Somebody ordered it, and

somebody told them, use the

word "star" for your village.

For eternity, don't change it.

BARA: So, the question is:

are those guys

extraterrestrials?

Or is it possible that we,

in fact, are extraterrestrial,

that we did not come from here?

And it's simply an older

version of humanity taking care

of the younger version that

they're going to leave the

planet to?

VON DANIKEN: The idea was

that generations in the far

future, they must struggle over

these artifacts, and over these

indications.

And they must start to ask

questions.

That's the situation we have

today.

BARA: The main thing that

these mysterious places can tell

us about our past is that it's

a lot more complex than they

teach us in school.

NARRATOR: Until future

scientists solve the strange

issues surrounding certain

spots on Earth, we'll be left

with lingering questions.

Might these locations really be

portals or entrances to

wormholes?

Did extraterrestrial beings

transport themselves to Earth,

using special electromagnetic

fields in these mysterious

places?

And were these secrets known by

ancient civilizations now

lost to history?

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