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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,010 ATOR: The mass destruction of an ancient culture. 2 00:00:05,130 --> 00:00:08,430 JONATHAN YOUNG: Their art, their philosophy, 3 00:00:08,550 --> 00:00:11,510 their scientific findings... He burned the whole thing. 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,890 NARRATOR: Lost texts that could have offered evidence 5 00:00:15,020 --> 00:00:19,690 of extraterrestrial contact from across the globe. 6 00:00:19,810 --> 00:00:22,320 DAVID CHILDRESS: Literally, people were coming 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,440 from all over the world to Mexico at this time. 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,410 PRAVEEN MOHAN: Here we are in the middle 9 00:00:28,530 --> 00:00:31,120 of South America in a remote site 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,870 that looks exactly like Hindu carvings. 11 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:36,330 - How is that possible? - It's amazing. 12 00:00:36,460 --> 00:00:39,500 NARRATOR: Could the Vatican still be hiding proof 13 00:00:39,630 --> 00:00:43,590 of mankind's ancient alien origins? 14 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:45,460 GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: I predict thousands 15 00:00:45,590 --> 00:00:48,720 as-of-yet undiscovered sites 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,760 will finally show that our ancestors 17 00:00:52,890 --> 00:00:55,810 made contact with extraterrestrials. 18 00:00:58,730 --> 00:01:00,850 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 19 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:03,730 in the universe. 20 00:01:03,860 --> 00:01:06,650 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 21 00:01:08,030 --> 00:01:10,410 It demands we question everything 22 00:01:10,530 --> 00:01:12,740 we have ever been taught. 23 00:01:12,870 --> 00:01:16,500 The evidence is all around us. 24 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:20,500 The future is right before our eyes. 25 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:23,210 We are not alone. 26 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:26,340 We have never been alone. 27 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:39,310 NARRATOR: The Yucatán Peninsula. 28 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,730 1549. 29 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:45,270 A fleet of Spanish galleons arrive 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,190 on the coast of the New World. 31 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,410 And with them is a small army of Roman Catholic priests, 32 00:01:52,530 --> 00:01:55,030 who, during what is the height of the Inquisition, 33 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,750 are determined to rescue the pagan souls 34 00:01:57,870 --> 00:02:00,250 of the natives for Almighty God. 35 00:02:00,370 --> 00:02:03,420 And leading them... Direct from the Vatican... 36 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:07,880 Is the fanatical Franciscan friar Diego de Landa. 37 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:11,680 During the Spanish colonial period 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,800 in what we call Mexico Yucatán, 39 00:02:13,930 --> 00:02:15,760 the cradle of Mayan civilization, 40 00:02:15,890 --> 00:02:18,890 it was the priests who had a lot of power because the Vatican 41 00:02:19,020 --> 00:02:21,190 was one of the most powerful nations on the Earth. 42 00:02:21,310 --> 00:02:23,230 JASON MARTELL: Diego de Landa came over 43 00:02:23,350 --> 00:02:25,480 wanting to teach Christian understandings 44 00:02:25,610 --> 00:02:27,650 and principles to the Mayans, 45 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,200 but was probably intimidated by the vast wealth of knowledge 46 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,990 that he actually saw that they had tapped into. 47 00:02:34,110 --> 00:02:39,200 NARRATOR: The Mayan civilization that Friar Diego de Landa came upon 48 00:02:39,330 --> 00:02:41,580 had thrived in the rain-drenched jungles 49 00:02:41,710 --> 00:02:43,750 and fertile plains of Central America 50 00:02:43,870 --> 00:02:46,840 for more than 2,000 years. 51 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,550 ERICH VON DANIKEN: The Spanish conquerors found pyramids, 52 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:53,680 they found temples, they found paved roads 53 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,930 and they found thousands and thousands of Maya handwritings, 54 00:02:58,060 --> 00:02:59,930 thousands of it. 55 00:03:00,060 --> 00:03:02,480 MARTELL: We have a lot of very interesting information 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,940 that comes out of this culture we call the Maya. 57 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:08,650 They have been revered for many things in their knowledge base, 58 00:03:08,770 --> 00:03:13,400 especially around time and concepts of math and science, 59 00:03:13,530 --> 00:03:17,200 and the movements of the solar system. 60 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,580 NARRATOR: But while the Maya were in many ways culturally advanced, 61 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:25,870 their religious beliefs were notoriously bloodthirsty. 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,670 They believed in human sacrifice, 63 00:03:28,790 --> 00:03:31,840 and as far as Friar Diego de Landa was concerned, 64 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,930 did so at the expense of their eternal souls. 65 00:03:36,050 --> 00:03:38,260 It was a clash of cultures 66 00:03:38,390 --> 00:03:42,430 that would not end well for the Maya people. 67 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,810 Diego de Landa, later, when he was back in Spain again, 68 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:49,480 he wrote down, "We found thousands of handwritings 69 00:03:49,610 --> 00:03:51,230 "of the Indians. 70 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,280 But they all contained just a Devil's thing." 71 00:03:57,660 --> 00:04:00,870 YOUNG: A new teaching, a new religion comes into a place 72 00:04:00,990 --> 00:04:04,580 where there is a very strong adherence to a body of ideas. 73 00:04:04,710 --> 00:04:06,960 We have a competitive situation. 74 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,790 One maneuver is to destroy 75 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,340 as much evidence of the old way as you can, 76 00:04:12,460 --> 00:04:14,130 and that will help reduce its grip. 77 00:04:14,260 --> 00:04:17,180 "It's not sacred anymore, this is just stuff, 78 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:19,640 so we can burn it with impunity." 79 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,600 NARRATOR: On July 12, 1562, 80 00:04:24,730 --> 00:04:26,480 the Catholic priests, 81 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,980 with the armed assistance of the Spanish military, 82 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:32,360 executed what was known during the Inquisition 83 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,360 as an auto-da-fé, or "act of faith," 84 00:04:36,490 --> 00:04:38,860 whereby the Maya population 85 00:04:38,990 --> 00:04:41,280 was forced to declare their religious conversion 86 00:04:41,410 --> 00:04:45,450 to Christianity or be put to death. 87 00:04:45,580 --> 00:04:49,580 It was also a day that reportedly saw the destruction 88 00:04:49,710 --> 00:04:52,210 of all of the Maya sacred scrolls 89 00:04:52,340 --> 00:04:55,050 and more than 5,000 priceless images, 90 00:04:55,170 --> 00:04:58,930 an entire historical record. 91 00:04:59,050 --> 00:05:01,890 YOUNG: There were thousands of books called codices, 92 00:05:02,010 --> 00:05:04,260 probably scrolls, burned. 93 00:05:04,390 --> 00:05:08,890 All their art, their philosophy, their scientific findings, 94 00:05:09,020 --> 00:05:11,610 the accumulative knowledge of this great civilization, 95 00:05:11,730 --> 00:05:14,940 they burned the whole thing. 96 00:05:15,070 --> 00:05:16,820 NARRATOR: But by burning the vast knowledge accumulated 97 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:20,240 by the Maya, did Friar Diego de Landa 98 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,990 also destroy something of even greater historical value? 99 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,040 Might he have erased all traces 100 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,830 of the Maya's extraterrestrial ancestors? 101 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,210 There's very interesting information told to us 102 00:05:34,340 --> 00:05:36,920 by the Mayan elders that still exist today. 103 00:05:37,050 --> 00:05:39,880 They speak of a time that they were led to this land 104 00:05:40,010 --> 00:05:41,590 by the sky people. 105 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,560 Could they be referencing some type of lost race, 106 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,310 even possibly extraterrestrial in nature? 107 00:05:48,430 --> 00:05:51,690 They seemed to have knowledge of math and science, 108 00:05:51,810 --> 00:05:55,400 which we can't explain how they got this information. 109 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,360 When you ask them, "How did they gain 110 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,190 all of this amazing information?" 111 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,320 they always reference, "We learned it from the sky people." 112 00:06:02,450 --> 00:06:05,620 HUGH NEWMAN: There were traditions in ancient Mexico 113 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:09,870 of a great teacher arriving on the Gulf Coast. 114 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,790 And when he arrived, he brought with him 115 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,920 the arts of civilization. 116 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,670 We know the tradition may have originated 117 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,420 with a great civilization 118 00:06:18,550 --> 00:06:21,470 who were around long before the Maya, 119 00:06:21,590 --> 00:06:23,220 but no one knows who they really were, 120 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:24,800 or where they really came from. 121 00:06:27,390 --> 00:06:30,770 NARRATOR: Tres Zapotes, Mexico, 122 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:34,100 1938. 123 00:06:34,230 --> 00:06:37,480 Archeologist Matthew Stirling, 124 00:06:37,610 --> 00:06:41,240 chief of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, 125 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,240 follows up on a report that had gone unexamined 126 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,790 for more than 70 years, the discovery by a local farmer 127 00:06:48,910 --> 00:06:52,410 of an ancient megalithic sculpture. 128 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:57,090 Stirling's investigation results in a remarkable find: 129 00:06:57,210 --> 00:07:00,710 A giant stone head buried in the ground. 130 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:03,090 It was the first in what, to date, 131 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:06,140 has become a total of 17 such heads, 132 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:09,140 each weighing a staggering eight tons, 133 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:13,190 and all estimated to be some 3,000 years old. 134 00:07:13,310 --> 00:07:16,400 It is a date which suggests that the heads were carved 135 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,150 not by the Maya, 136 00:07:18,270 --> 00:07:22,820 but by an even older civilization, the Olmecs. 137 00:07:22,940 --> 00:07:24,570 STEPHEN JETT: The Olmecs, uh, 138 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:27,450 they're often called the mother culture of Mesoamerica. 139 00:07:27,570 --> 00:07:31,080 They are the first complex culture 140 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,210 of any size and significance in that part of the world. 141 00:07:35,330 --> 00:07:38,090 ANDREW COLLINS: The Olmec people come into existence 142 00:07:38,210 --> 00:07:41,340 probably about 1400 BC 143 00:07:41,460 --> 00:07:46,550 in the Tabasco region of what is today Mexico. 144 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,510 But then, very suddenly, you have the rise 145 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,730 of a full-blown society and civilization. 146 00:07:53,850 --> 00:07:58,360 And the question becomes "Where did the Olmec come from?" 147 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,190 The controversy is that many of the beautifully carved statues 148 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,860 and stelae seemed to show African men. 149 00:08:05,990 --> 00:08:10,830 JETT: They appear to be not native to the New World, 150 00:08:10,950 --> 00:08:13,660 but are native to sub-Saharan Africa. 151 00:08:13,790 --> 00:08:16,960 This is not scientific physical anthropology, 152 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,960 but just the appearance of these things is pretty suggestive. 153 00:08:21,090 --> 00:08:26,130 NEWMAN: And they also show Chinese, Vietnamese, possibly Polynesian 154 00:08:26,260 --> 00:08:31,050 and even Caucasian people carved into solid rock. 155 00:08:31,180 --> 00:08:33,600 So, there's big mystery about the Olmecs. 156 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,480 CHILDRESS: Where are all these people coming from? 157 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,020 Early archeologists were dumbfounded by all of these 158 00:08:41,150 --> 00:08:44,360 different racial characteristics 159 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,990 that we're seeing in the Olmec figurines and statues. 160 00:08:48,110 --> 00:08:52,030 Literally, people were coming from all over the world 161 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,660 to Mexico at this time. 162 00:08:54,790 --> 00:08:56,790 And how did they do that? 163 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,750 NARRATOR: Do the Olmec heads and artifacts 164 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,500 present evidence that this ancient civilization 165 00:09:03,630 --> 00:09:06,920 had its genetic origins not in South America, 166 00:09:07,050 --> 00:09:09,800 as many mainstream archaeologists believe, 167 00:09:09,930 --> 00:09:14,260 but thousands of miles away, and on the other side of the Earth? 168 00:09:14,390 --> 00:09:15,810 But how? 169 00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:18,480 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 170 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,100 the answer may be found after a careful examination 171 00:09:21,230 --> 00:09:24,190 of a number of extraordinary Olmec artifacts 172 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,070 found in La Venta, Mexico. 173 00:09:27,190 --> 00:09:30,780 TSOUKALOS: In La Venta, we have carvings 174 00:09:30,910 --> 00:09:35,120 that show the Olmecs in very bizarre scenes. 175 00:09:36,580 --> 00:09:40,040 One of them is this plumed serpent, 176 00:09:40,170 --> 00:09:43,340 this snake that appears to be floating in the sky, 177 00:09:43,460 --> 00:09:46,590 and then down below, you actually see a person 178 00:09:46,710 --> 00:09:51,130 sitting inside this flying snake. 179 00:09:51,260 --> 00:09:55,220 And so you have to wonder if somehow the Olmecs 180 00:09:55,350 --> 00:09:58,480 had access to aviation technology, 181 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,350 and I personally think they did, 182 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,820 because at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, 183 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:08,530 there is a Olmec figurine. 184 00:10:08,650 --> 00:10:11,990 He is clearly wearing some type of a pressurized suit. 185 00:10:12,110 --> 00:10:16,080 He has some type of controls with tubes on his chest. 186 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,500 On the side, you have six wings coming out of him. 187 00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:23,540 In my opinion, it is the smoking gun of our ancestors 188 00:10:23,670 --> 00:10:26,590 having access to aviation technology 189 00:10:26,710 --> 00:10:28,510 thousands of years ago. 190 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,090 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the ancestors of the Olmec people 191 00:10:34,220 --> 00:10:38,310 had come to South America from far across the ocean? 192 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:41,100 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 193 00:10:41,230 --> 00:10:43,440 and believe the way they got there 194 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:47,360 may not have been in ships, but across the skies, 195 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,860 in extraterrestrially-designed spacecraft. 196 00:10:56,740 --> 00:10:59,540 NARRATOR: San Agustín, Colombia. 197 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:04,710 March 27, 2019. 198 00:11:04,830 --> 00:11:08,420 Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress 199 00:11:08,550 --> 00:11:10,590 has come to this remote mountain town 200 00:11:10,710 --> 00:11:13,340 to explore and study a site that has baffled 201 00:11:13,470 --> 00:11:16,550 the scientific community for decades. 202 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,310 Joining him is Hindu historian 203 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:22,890 Praveen Mohan. 204 00:11:23,020 --> 00:11:25,190 - CHILDRESS: Hello, Praveen. - Hi, David. 205 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:27,190 - Welcome to Colombia. - I know. 206 00:11:27,310 --> 00:11:28,940 - CHILDRESS: Jump on in here. - Sure. 207 00:11:30,820 --> 00:11:32,740 CHILDRESS: You know, Praveen, 208 00:11:32,860 --> 00:11:34,570 I was here a number of years ago. 209 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:37,370 And I thought, "All right, there's a lot 210 00:11:37,490 --> 00:11:39,030 of Hindu influence here." 211 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,120 And, so, that's when I thought that I need some expert 212 00:11:42,250 --> 00:11:45,500 on Hinduism, like you, to come here to San Agustín 213 00:11:45,620 --> 00:11:47,380 and-and see it for themselves. 214 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:48,710 Yeah, when I got the call 215 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,420 about a place like this in Colombia, 216 00:11:51,550 --> 00:11:52,670 I was surprised. 217 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,180 A Hindu site in South America? 218 00:11:56,300 --> 00:11:57,890 My heart is actually pounding 219 00:11:58,010 --> 00:11:59,850 - to see the site. - (chuckles) 220 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:04,680 NARRATOR: Located deep within the Andean foothills 221 00:12:04,810 --> 00:12:06,600 of southern Colombia, 222 00:12:06,730 --> 00:12:09,900 the San Agustín Archaeological Park is home 223 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:12,320 to more than 500 megalithic stone statues 224 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,940 of unknown origin. 225 00:12:14,070 --> 00:12:16,530 First discovered by a Spanish monk 226 00:12:16,660 --> 00:12:18,660 in the mid-18th century, 227 00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:20,120 they appear to be the work 228 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,160 of the region's earliest civilizations 229 00:12:23,290 --> 00:12:27,080 and are thought to date back as many as 2,000 years. 230 00:12:30,380 --> 00:12:32,210 So, this is the main gate here. 231 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:36,130 We've got a bit of a walk through the jungle. 232 00:12:36,260 --> 00:12:40,100 And this is a very remote spot, even today. 233 00:12:40,220 --> 00:12:42,310 So high in the mountains. 234 00:12:42,430 --> 00:12:45,270 You wonder how people got to this site, 235 00:12:45,390 --> 00:12:48,400 why they would have even chosen this. 236 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,770 - Here it is. - Wow. 237 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:52,820 - Check it out. - Yeah, let's see. 238 00:12:54,030 --> 00:12:55,650 NARRATOR: David Childress 239 00:12:55,780 --> 00:12:58,820 has been researching this area for many years. 240 00:12:58,950 --> 00:13:01,700 He is convinced that many of the statues 241 00:13:01,830 --> 00:13:03,030 show strong connections 242 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,700 to the Olmec statues 243 00:13:04,830 --> 00:13:07,120 that were first discovered in Mexico 244 00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:09,830 more than 1,600 miles to the north 245 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,340 in the 1800s. 246 00:13:13,590 --> 00:13:15,210 CHILDRESS: We know that the Olmecs 247 00:13:15,340 --> 00:13:18,550 were in Mexico and also in Central America, 248 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:21,760 but evidence of the Olmecs in South America 249 00:13:21,890 --> 00:13:24,350 has been elusive until now. 250 00:13:24,470 --> 00:13:27,850 Here at San Agustín, we have that evidence. 251 00:13:27,980 --> 00:13:31,270 This would be one of the earliest Olmec sites 252 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:32,770 because it's thought 253 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:34,730 that San Agustín started 254 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:37,650 as early as 3000 BC, 255 00:13:37,780 --> 00:13:40,570 and other Olmec sites in Mexico 256 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:44,530 are only dated to around 1000 BC, 257 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:47,330 so this is an extremely important site. 258 00:13:47,450 --> 00:13:49,330 What I really wanted to show you is, 259 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:51,670 what I think is Hindu things, 260 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:53,920 - which are right over here. - Okay. 261 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,670 - Wow! - NARRATOR: It is David Childress' belief 262 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,380 that the stone sculptures 263 00:13:58,510 --> 00:14:00,510 of the San Agustín Archaeological Park 264 00:14:00,630 --> 00:14:03,010 not only show strong similarities 265 00:14:03,140 --> 00:14:05,720 to the Olmec carvings found in Mexico, 266 00:14:05,850 --> 00:14:08,640 but also show even more profound connections 267 00:14:08,770 --> 00:14:11,440 to Hindu carvings and artwork found in India 268 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:13,190 and Southeast Asia. 269 00:14:13,310 --> 00:14:15,690 I think you'll be interested in this. 270 00:14:15,820 --> 00:14:20,320 MOHAN: Oh, a figure holding a skull flanked by two other figures. 271 00:14:20,450 --> 00:14:22,070 That is so Hindu. 272 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,990 And these two doorkeepers... 273 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,120 see how they're holding weapons to protect the main deity? 274 00:14:31,250 --> 00:14:35,040 We can see a central deity holding a skull. 275 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:42,880 And two guardian doorkeepers holding tools. 276 00:14:43,010 --> 00:14:47,310 This is typical South Indian architecture. 277 00:14:47,430 --> 00:14:53,020 This is exactly what's portrayed in these temples. 278 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:57,440 This is amazing because I've never seen anything like this 279 00:14:57,570 --> 00:15:00,570 in South America. 280 00:15:00,690 --> 00:15:03,360 What's really interesting to me, 281 00:15:03,490 --> 00:15:07,030 is that the main deity is shown with fangs. 282 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,000 That's typical of South India; 283 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,580 In Tamil Nadu, Shiva is shown with fangs. 284 00:15:15,710 --> 00:15:17,000 CHILDRESS: You think that's maybe Shiva, 285 00:15:17,130 --> 00:15:19,500 - right there in the middle? - MOHAN: Yes. 286 00:15:19,630 --> 00:15:23,010 NARRATOR: Shiva? Also known as "The Destroyer"? 287 00:15:23,130 --> 00:15:27,180 Is it possible that evidence of this uniquely Hindu deity 288 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:30,140 has been found in South America... 289 00:15:30,270 --> 00:15:32,230 and on ancient megalithic stone carvings 290 00:15:32,350 --> 00:15:34,940 dating back some 2,000 years? 291 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:38,690 So how bout these right here, huh? 292 00:15:38,820 --> 00:15:40,730 Wow, yeah, these are, uh, lingams. 293 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:43,190 These are symbols of Shiva. 294 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,570 And we can see these lingams have more and more 295 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,120 details on them. 296 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,200 And look... here it even has a face. 297 00:15:53,330 --> 00:15:55,120 - CHILDRESS: Yeah, how bout that? - MOHAN: You see this... 298 00:15:55,250 --> 00:15:58,290 is a classic mukhalingam. 299 00:15:58,420 --> 00:16:03,010 It is a lingam with a face on top. 300 00:16:03,130 --> 00:16:04,720 - A mukhalingam? - Yeah. 301 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,590 The word mukha means face, and the lingam means 302 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,010 a cylindrical structure. 303 00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:13,220 And this is classic Hindu iconography, 304 00:16:13,350 --> 00:16:17,310 and you can see this in many ancient temples. 305 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:21,150 So here, have a look at this one here. 306 00:16:21,270 --> 00:16:22,820 I think you'll find this pretty interesting. 307 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:24,190 Wow! 308 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,490 An eagle holding a snake in its beaks, 309 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:31,990 and then it's also holding the snake 310 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,370 on its talons. I mean, this is 311 00:16:33,490 --> 00:16:35,660 classic Hindu iconography. 312 00:16:35,790 --> 00:16:39,080 This is Garuda holding the Naga. 313 00:16:39,210 --> 00:16:42,550 So Garuda is always depicted as a giant bird, 314 00:16:42,670 --> 00:16:44,210 and then typically, he's holding a snake... 315 00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:46,630 - Yeah. - In his beak and his talons. 316 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,510 I've seen something very similar to this in Vietnam, 317 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:51,890 in a place called Champa. 318 00:16:52,010 --> 00:16:54,930 I can show you a picture of this. 319 00:16:57,140 --> 00:17:00,190 CHILDRESS: So the snake that he's holding in his beak and talons 320 00:17:00,310 --> 00:17:02,730 - is a Naga snake, is that right? - Yes. Yes. 321 00:17:02,860 --> 00:17:07,150 In Hindu text, we don't see the Garuda as an animal 322 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,110 or the snake as an animal. 323 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,740 There are two different races; One is the Garuda, 324 00:17:13,870 --> 00:17:18,710 which actually comes from a planet up above the sky. 325 00:17:18,830 --> 00:17:23,960 The Nagas are reptilian, snake-like shape-shifting beings 326 00:17:24,090 --> 00:17:25,590 which live underground. 327 00:17:27,970 --> 00:17:30,340 CHILDRESS: Now that's an interesting story, because that's 328 00:17:30,470 --> 00:17:32,640 on the flag of Mexico today. 329 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,220 - MOHAN: Oh, really? - Yeah, how bout that? 330 00:17:34,350 --> 00:17:36,720 MOHAN: Oh, wow, wow! 331 00:17:36,850 --> 00:17:40,060 CHILDRESS: So the Garuda is in some ways a symbol of the airships, 332 00:17:40,190 --> 00:17:41,810 - the spaceships... - Absolutely. 333 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:43,730 - And the flight that they would use. - Yes. 334 00:17:43,860 --> 00:17:47,150 Here we are in the middle of South America, 335 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,820 in a remote site that looks exactly like Hindu carvings. 336 00:17:51,950 --> 00:17:55,410 I mean, without any connection, how is that possible? 337 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:56,830 Well, do you think, then, 338 00:17:56,950 --> 00:17:59,790 that these Hindu demigods 339 00:17:59,910 --> 00:18:02,670 are, are flying in-in spaceships, 340 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:05,210 even scouting, they're creating a place like this? 341 00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:08,880 It's all so strange, but it's, it's so obvious that 342 00:18:09,010 --> 00:18:13,260 some kind of high, technical civilization was here. 343 00:18:13,390 --> 00:18:16,350 - Yes. Mm-hmm. - It's... it's amazing. 344 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,310 NARRATOR: Ancient Hindus? 345 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,440 Traveling across the Pacific Ocean in flying aircraft? 346 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,150 But even if such an incredible feat 347 00:18:26,270 --> 00:18:29,070 was possible... where is the evidence? 348 00:18:29,190 --> 00:18:33,490 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 349 00:18:33,610 --> 00:18:37,240 the evidence not only exists, but has been tested. 350 00:18:37,370 --> 00:18:41,710 And it confirms the likelihood that extraterrestrial visitors 351 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:45,670 came here to Earth thousands of years ago. 352 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,630 NARRATOR: At the San Agustín In Archaeological Park 353 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:56,050 in Colombia, South America, 354 00:18:56,180 --> 00:18:59,180 ancient astronaut theorist David Childress 355 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:01,680 and Hindu expert Praveen Mohan 356 00:19:01,810 --> 00:19:04,690 are investigating what they believe to be 357 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:07,770 conclusive evidence that Hindu explorers 358 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:11,490 migrated to this area more than 2,000 years ago. 359 00:19:11,610 --> 00:19:15,200 So here, have a look at this dolmen here. 360 00:19:16,990 --> 00:19:19,540 - What do you see? - Wow, there's a, uh, 361 00:19:19,660 --> 00:19:23,920 central deity flanked by two doorkeepers. 362 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,880 But these doorkeepers are not human or even humanoid. 363 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,090 You can see the scales on the body, 364 00:19:31,210 --> 00:19:32,550 you know, see the lines. 365 00:19:32,670 --> 00:19:34,380 And what's even more interesting... 366 00:19:34,510 --> 00:19:36,640 I mean, it seems almost like they have a hood 367 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,430 on top of them, 368 00:19:38,550 --> 00:19:40,430 which is characteristic of cobras, 369 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,850 and cobras don't exist in Americas. 370 00:19:43,980 --> 00:19:46,020 How did this motif get here? 371 00:19:46,150 --> 00:19:47,560 And believe it or not, 372 00:19:47,690 --> 00:19:51,230 we still have this same depiction 373 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,400 in many Southeast Asian countries. 374 00:19:53,530 --> 00:19:55,110 In fact, I have pictures of it. 375 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,660 - CHILDRESS: Right. - MOHAN: Yeah, this is a temple. 376 00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:58,450 This is in Thailand. 377 00:19:58,570 --> 00:20:03,700 You can see that this is being guarded by two Nagas. 378 00:20:03,830 --> 00:20:05,870 CHILDRESS: I see that, and they have their ribs, uh, 379 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,460 on their stomach, just like this. 380 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:08,880 MOHAN: Yeah, the-the scales on the bodies. 381 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,290 CHILDRESS: Yeah, that's fascinating. 382 00:20:12,170 --> 00:20:13,590 MOHAN: And you know, there's yet 383 00:20:13,710 --> 00:20:15,340 another characteristic feature 384 00:20:15,470 --> 00:20:16,880 that you would really love. 385 00:20:17,010 --> 00:20:21,810 These are feathered serpents like Kukulkan. 386 00:20:21,930 --> 00:20:23,720 CHILDRESS: The feathered serpent of Kukulkan? - Yes. 387 00:20:23,850 --> 00:20:25,350 MOHAN: And flanking on the pyramid. 388 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,690 NARRATOR: Kukulkan? 389 00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:30,770 The Mayan god that is most famously depicted 390 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:33,650 on the temple of El Castillo in Chichen Itza? 391 00:20:33,780 --> 00:20:36,240 The one described as a feathered serpent 392 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,490 that descended to Earth from the sky? 393 00:20:39,620 --> 00:20:42,450 But as far as many ancient astronaut theorists 394 00:20:42,580 --> 00:20:45,460 are concerned, depictions of the god Kukulkan 395 00:20:45,580 --> 00:20:48,620 are not merely depictions of a flying serpent, 396 00:20:48,750 --> 00:20:51,540 as many mainstream archaeologists believe, 397 00:20:51,670 --> 00:20:53,500 but of a spaceman. 398 00:20:53,630 --> 00:20:57,970 And they cite the presence of a humanoid face, 399 00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:00,470 often seen emerging from the mouth of the serpent, 400 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,310 as really a depiction of a helmeted astronaut 401 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:06,020 piloting a large, flying spacecraft, 402 00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:08,690 similar to what is known as a "vimana" 403 00:21:08,810 --> 00:21:11,060 in the Hindu tradition. 404 00:21:13,610 --> 00:21:16,740 In the Mahbharata, we can see 405 00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:21,740 very advanced flying machines, which are called vimanas. 406 00:21:21,870 --> 00:21:24,370 It is clearly established 407 00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:28,750 that the gods come down from the sky using vimanas. 408 00:21:28,870 --> 00:21:32,210 It is also talked about 409 00:21:32,340 --> 00:21:35,550 in Mayan culture. 410 00:21:35,670 --> 00:21:37,880 There are several types of vimanas that 411 00:21:38,010 --> 00:21:39,930 - you yourself have published. - Uh-huh. 412 00:21:40,050 --> 00:21:43,600 And there is a type of vimana which has tail fins, correct? 413 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,010 Yeah, the Chicuna vimana 414 00:21:45,140 --> 00:21:46,810 - has wings... - Yeah, yeah. 415 00:21:46,930 --> 00:21:49,020 While other vimanas were discoid 416 00:21:49,140 --> 00:21:50,770 and other vimanas were, like, tubular, 417 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:54,400 - cigar-shaped ships. - Yes, yeah. 418 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,860 And what's really fascinating is that, 419 00:21:56,980 --> 00:21:59,990 in the Gold Museum in Bogotá, 420 00:22:00,110 --> 00:22:03,530 we have the same vimanas made of gold, 421 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:05,950 - correct? These discoid... - We have the-the gold airplanes there. 422 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,700 NARRATOR: In the early 1900s, 423 00:22:08,830 --> 00:22:11,040 tomb robbers came upon a grave site 424 00:22:11,170 --> 00:22:12,880 along Colombia's Magdalena River 425 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,420 dating back an estimated 1,500 years. 426 00:22:16,550 --> 00:22:21,180 Inside, they discovered hundreds of small gold figurines. 427 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:26,760 TSOUKALOS: Hundreds of these small, gold objects have been found, 428 00:22:26,890 --> 00:22:29,930 many of which are rooted in the animal kingdom. 429 00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:35,520 17 eerily look like modern-day airplanes. 430 00:22:35,650 --> 00:22:37,900 The wings are attached at the bottom. 431 00:22:38,030 --> 00:22:40,740 Birds, they have their wings attached 432 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:43,740 where we have our shoulders, like this. 433 00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:47,740 So no formation in the animal kingdom exists 434 00:22:47,870 --> 00:22:50,710 in the form of these Quimbaya artifacts. 435 00:22:50,830 --> 00:22:55,750 And, in 1996, two engineers 436 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,960 took a couple of these ancient artifacts, 437 00:22:59,090 --> 00:23:01,470 blew them up to this size, 438 00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:04,800 put a propeller inside, threw it up in the air, 439 00:23:04,930 --> 00:23:07,010 and it flew. 440 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,270 NARRATOR: Is it possible that among the Quimbaya figurines 441 00:23:13,390 --> 00:23:14,770 found in Colombia 442 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:17,650 are representations of what the Hindu people 443 00:23:17,770 --> 00:23:20,860 on the other side of the world described as vimanas? 444 00:23:20,990 --> 00:23:25,990 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer can be found 445 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:29,660 by examining a character from the ancient Hindu texts: 446 00:23:29,790 --> 00:23:34,500 A character who bears the name "Maya." 447 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:37,920 The word "Maya" itself is a Hindu word. 448 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,170 It means "illusion" or "god of illusion." 449 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:46,180 And this was the name given to the king of Asuras, 450 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:49,680 and he's known as Maya because he's able to create 451 00:23:49,810 --> 00:23:52,020 these magical illusions. 452 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:57,650 DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Maya, he was born of divine god Brahma. 453 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:02,030 He was a great architect, he was a great magician, 454 00:24:02,150 --> 00:24:05,820 and he invented the flying machine. 455 00:24:05,950 --> 00:24:08,370 He was not of the Earth because 456 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:11,040 he was not born on Earth, 457 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,540 so he was obviously extraterrestrial. 458 00:24:14,660 --> 00:24:18,500 MOHAN: Maya actually traveled out of India, 459 00:24:18,630 --> 00:24:20,460 and he might've gone to Mexico. 460 00:24:20,590 --> 00:24:22,550 Now, interestingly, 461 00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:25,840 Mayans have a book called Popul Vuh. 462 00:24:25,970 --> 00:24:29,010 In that book, they talk about how 463 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:32,810 a specific god came from the east, 464 00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:35,730 and I think this is the same god that 465 00:24:35,850 --> 00:24:37,730 both these cultures are talking about. 466 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,280 NARRATOR: If the divine King Maya was a real being, 467 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,780 as millions of Hindus believe, is it possible 468 00:24:47,910 --> 00:24:50,200 that the Mayan civilization of Central America 469 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,120 adopted his name? 470 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,290 According to ancient astronaut theorist David Childress, 471 00:24:56,410 --> 00:24:59,630 the answer is a resounding yes, 472 00:24:59,750 --> 00:25:03,250 and he believes that at San Agustín there is a sculpture 473 00:25:03,380 --> 00:25:05,340 that doesn't only support his theory, 474 00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:07,380 but may also be a depiction 475 00:25:07,510 --> 00:25:10,050 of an actual alien visitor. 476 00:25:10,180 --> 00:25:11,850 Would you like to see, perhaps, a spaceman? 477 00:25:11,970 --> 00:25:13,390 - (chuckling): A spaceman? - Yes. 478 00:25:13,510 --> 00:25:15,140 - There's one more site. - Yeah, absolutely! 479 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,690 NARRATOR: San Agustín Archaeological Park in Colombia 480 00:25:26,820 --> 00:25:28,820 is located along the west bank 481 00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:32,200 of the Magdalena River, near a place where it converges 482 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,660 with two other rivers. 483 00:25:34,790 --> 00:25:38,660 It is a location that ancient astronaut theorists believe 484 00:25:38,790 --> 00:25:42,630 has a startling and not accidental significance. 485 00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:44,670 MOHAN: They could've set up this site anywhere, 486 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,130 but why did they choose San Agustín in Colombia? 487 00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:52,510 In India, we have this place called Triveni Sangam 488 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,100 where three great rivers meet, 489 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:58,810 and that site is chosen as a sacred site. 490 00:25:58,930 --> 00:26:01,730 We have a lot of temples in this place. 491 00:26:01,850 --> 00:26:06,900 Whoever came from India to here 492 00:26:07,030 --> 00:26:09,740 chose this place because this is where 493 00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:12,280 all these three rivers meet. 494 00:26:12,410 --> 00:26:14,700 And to find a place like this, 495 00:26:14,830 --> 00:26:17,500 you needed to have aerial survey. 496 00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:22,080 They were using the vimanas, which is why 497 00:26:22,210 --> 00:26:25,170 they set up this ancient Shiva temple here. 498 00:26:25,290 --> 00:26:28,300 NARRATOR: Vimanas? 499 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,420 The extraterrestrial flying machines 500 00:26:30,550 --> 00:26:32,510 that are described in the Mahabharata, 501 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,260 the ancient Hindu text? 502 00:26:35,390 --> 00:26:37,470 Is it possible that Hindu explorers 503 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,520 made the journey from India to South America, 504 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,190 and then settled in this region centuries ago? 505 00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:46,230 And could they have made that journey, 506 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:50,690 a distance of some 12,000 miles, by means of a vimana? 507 00:26:56,580 --> 00:26:58,660 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 508 00:26:58,790 --> 00:27:00,700 and they believe that the answer 509 00:27:00,830 --> 00:27:02,460 to what compelled them to come there 510 00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:06,540 can be found by examining one of the ancient stone statues 511 00:27:06,670 --> 00:27:10,380 located in San Agustín Archeological Park. 512 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,260 This was the final statue that I wanted you to look at. 513 00:27:18,390 --> 00:27:20,350 - Pretty curious, huh? - Yeah. 514 00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:21,930 CHILDRESS: I-I don't know what to call this 515 00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:24,520 e-except a spaceman. 516 00:27:24,650 --> 00:27:28,150 You can see that he's wearing some kind of a helmet. 517 00:27:28,270 --> 00:27:29,980 It looks like he has a visor, he's got 518 00:27:30,110 --> 00:27:32,530 two rectangular eyes and a rectangular mouth, 519 00:27:32,650 --> 00:27:33,950 he has no nose. 520 00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:35,450 He's holding this, 521 00:27:35,570 --> 00:27:39,160 what they call a-a power staff. 522 00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:41,750 But what's really fascinating about that is 523 00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:45,370 he's holding that long cylinder, and, if you look carefully, 524 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,340 it's going even below his feet. 525 00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:50,130 He's using that cylinder 526 00:27:50,250 --> 00:27:53,840 to go into the ground. Now this is very interesting 527 00:27:53,970 --> 00:27:56,930 because, in Hindu culture, there's a god 528 00:27:57,050 --> 00:28:01,060 called Swarna Kala Bhairava, and he's the god of gold, 529 00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:04,140 and he uses a tool called keyla, 530 00:28:04,270 --> 00:28:08,770 and he uses it to go into the ground and mine gold. 531 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,860 It could be a special probe that you can put in the ground 532 00:28:11,980 --> 00:28:15,610 and detect gold and minerals, 533 00:28:15,740 --> 00:28:18,990 so perhaps he is the extraterrestrial 534 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,370 that is guiding them. 535 00:28:22,490 --> 00:28:25,540 He's a spaceman in a spacesuit with his 536 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,750 gold mining tools. 537 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,670 NARRATOR: A spaceman mining gold? 538 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:37,090 In 1976, author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin 539 00:28:37,220 --> 00:28:39,800 published a book called The 12th Planet, 540 00:28:39,930 --> 00:28:41,220 in which he translated 541 00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:42,930 and interpreted the writings 542 00:28:43,060 --> 00:28:45,480 of humanity's earliest known civilization, 543 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,190 the Sumerians. According to Sitchin, 544 00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:52,360 the beings described in the texts, the Anunnaki, 545 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,320 were, in fact, visitors from another planet. 546 00:28:56,450 --> 00:29:00,160 They created humankind as slaves that could be forced to mine 547 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,540 the gold the Anunnaki needed to power their spacecraft. 548 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:06,910 CHILDRESS: San Agustín is still 549 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,960 a remote mountain area today, 550 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,130 and coming here in ancient times 551 00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:15,050 would've been extremely difficult, 552 00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:18,010 but this was a gold-bearing area, 553 00:29:18,130 --> 00:29:21,010 and if you're looking for gold, this is the place to come. 554 00:29:23,310 --> 00:29:25,560 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange carvings 555 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,350 found in the area can be proof 556 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,150 that Sitchin's incredible theory is true? 557 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,230 And that an ancient race of people 558 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,230 traveled from Asia to South America 559 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,570 in pursuit of a metal 560 00:29:36,690 --> 00:29:38,400 they had been taught to consider 561 00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:41,910 not just essential, but sacred? 562 00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:45,950 When you talk about how this place was used for gold, 563 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,670 you know, how they were mining gold as offerings to gods, 564 00:29:49,790 --> 00:29:52,920 that's exactly what Hindus do, even today. 565 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,630 And Colombia, right here, 566 00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:58,130 in-in this remote spot, is land of gold. 567 00:29:58,260 --> 00:29:59,970 So much of the gold in South America 568 00:30:00,090 --> 00:30:01,890 - came from right here. - Mm-hmm. 569 00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:03,470 So this is what they were looking for, gold, 570 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,760 and they came here, and they found it. 571 00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:05,970 They're flying here, 572 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:06,930 they're creating a place like this, 573 00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:08,390 they're also sending ships 574 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,310 across the Pacific Ocean. 575 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,520 - They're bringing power tools. - Mm-hmm. 576 00:30:13,650 --> 00:30:15,770 And when they're not mining, 577 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:17,690 they're creating these amazing statues, that... 578 00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:19,610 And there are hundreds of them all over here. 579 00:30:19,740 --> 00:30:22,740 MOHAN: Your theory about people and Mayans 580 00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:25,330 moving from South India and-and coming here 581 00:30:25,450 --> 00:30:26,830 all the way to South America, 582 00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:29,160 this is all tying together. 583 00:30:29,290 --> 00:30:32,330 We have an extraterrestrial god 584 00:30:32,460 --> 00:30:35,750 who comes down and he mines for gold, 585 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,510 and he builds an entire civilization. 586 00:30:38,630 --> 00:30:40,050 I think that makes a lot of sense. 587 00:30:40,170 --> 00:30:43,720 CHILDRESS: When it comes to San Agustín, 588 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,140 the Spanish did not know about this ancient site, 589 00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:48,770 and if they had known about it, 590 00:30:48,890 --> 00:30:50,680 they probably would've destroyed it. 591 00:30:50,810 --> 00:30:54,270 So throughout Colombia and Mesoamerica, 592 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,980 we have ruins of ancient civilizations 593 00:30:58,110 --> 00:30:59,940 still undiscovered, 594 00:31:00,070 --> 00:31:02,320 and with the discoveries at San Agustín 595 00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:05,570 in the last hundred years, we now have a chance 596 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,490 to rewrite South American history. 597 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:11,710 NARRATOR: Do the stone statues at San Agustín 598 00:31:11,830 --> 00:31:14,500 provide compelling evidence, 599 00:31:14,630 --> 00:31:16,920 not only that there was interaction between the peoples 600 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,670 of Asia and those of South America 601 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,840 centuries ago, but also that this interaction 602 00:31:22,970 --> 00:31:24,890 was made possible as the result 603 00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:28,060 of extraterrestrial intervention? 604 00:31:28,180 --> 00:31:30,970 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 605 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,560 and they suggest further proof can be found 606 00:31:33,690 --> 00:31:37,020 locked away in the secret vaults 607 00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:38,980 of the Vatican Library. 608 00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:45,030 NARRATOR: Southeast Asia. 609 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,280 2000 BC. 610 00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:50,240 An ethnically diverse civilization 611 00:31:50,370 --> 00:31:52,910 of seafaring explorers emerges 612 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,580 in the area of modern-day Vietnam. 613 00:31:55,710 --> 00:31:57,630 At roughly the same time 614 00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:00,130 the Olmec appear in Mesoamerica. 615 00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:04,260 The Cham were an Austronesian 616 00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:06,340 and are an Austronesian-speaking group. 617 00:32:06,470 --> 00:32:10,760 In, uh, central Vietnam, Austronesian languages include 618 00:32:10,890 --> 00:32:13,100 Polynesian, Indonesian and so forth. 619 00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:18,400 And they are closely associated with highly maritime people. 620 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,020 The word "Cham" represents a race that extended 621 00:32:21,150 --> 00:32:24,110 from Egypt to India to Southeast Asia. 622 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,780 The ancient Cham were Hindu. 623 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,410 I believe there was a Cham migration 624 00:32:29,530 --> 00:32:31,410 to South and Central America. 625 00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:33,450 This was ultimately a partnership 626 00:32:33,580 --> 00:32:36,120 between advanced human civilizations 627 00:32:36,250 --> 00:32:37,880 and extraterrestrials. 628 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,670 That's why you see all of the the diversity 629 00:32:40,790 --> 00:32:44,090 in these artifacts and these giant structures 630 00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:45,720 that defy logic. 631 00:32:47,970 --> 00:32:49,510 NARRATOR: If the giant Olmec heads 632 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,510 and artifacts found in Mexico resemble 633 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,060 a community made up of multiple ethnicities... 634 00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:58,940 Ethnicities that were not previously believed 635 00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,610 to have been present in Central or South America 636 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,690 until the 15th century... 637 00:33:03,820 --> 00:33:06,450 Then is it possible that these people 638 00:33:06,570 --> 00:33:09,780 were among a wave of migrants who traveled to South America 639 00:33:09,910 --> 00:33:12,660 from various parts of Southern and Southeast Asia 640 00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:16,370 thousands of years ago? 641 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:17,870 JETT: It has occurred to me 642 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,920 that the Cham might conceivably have been 643 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,340 involved as the sort of middle persons 644 00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:26,420 in maritime transactions 645 00:33:26,550 --> 00:33:29,130 between Southeast Asia and the New World, 646 00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:32,800 particularly, perhaps, northwestern South America. 647 00:33:32,930 --> 00:33:34,890 Modern DNA mapping, 648 00:33:35,020 --> 00:33:38,060 what we call, uh, molecular DNA study, 649 00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:41,060 has been revolutionizing the understanding 650 00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:43,110 of human migrations over the globe. 651 00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:46,820 COLLINS: What this is very clearly 652 00:33:46,940 --> 00:33:48,990 stating again and again 653 00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:52,820 is there was a relationship between the peoples 654 00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:55,410 of Southern India, 655 00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:59,120 places like Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, 656 00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:02,420 Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, 657 00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:06,000 through Polynesia and particularly 658 00:34:06,130 --> 00:34:09,970 into South America and Mesoamerica. 659 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,260 NARRATOR: But if hundreds, 660 00:34:13,390 --> 00:34:16,060 perhaps thousands of people migrated from Southern 661 00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:18,640 and Southeast Asia to South America, 662 00:34:18,770 --> 00:34:20,310 how did they get there? 663 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,150 Was it by sailing ship? 664 00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:26,360 Or was it by means of an alien-inspired aircraft 665 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,110 known as vimana, 666 00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:31,740 as many ancient astronaut theorists believe? 667 00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:34,490 MOHAN: We hear this story 668 00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:37,790 time and time again in Mahabharata. 669 00:34:37,910 --> 00:34:40,210 Some vimanas have these huge wings 670 00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:45,790 and they have, like, a tail fin, like a modern-day aircraft. 671 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,800 Almost all these machines were mentioned 672 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,260 5,000 years ago in Mahabharata. 673 00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:54,510 NARRATOR: But if mass migration 674 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,890 on a large scale had been taking place 675 00:34:57,010 --> 00:35:01,390 centuries ago and with the help of extraterrestrial technology, 676 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,060 then why has no evidence been found 677 00:35:04,190 --> 00:35:06,980 to support this incredible theory? 678 00:35:07,110 --> 00:35:10,360 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 679 00:35:10,490 --> 00:35:13,030 the answer dates back to the bloody persecutions 680 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,870 of the Maya by the Spanish in the 16th century, 681 00:35:16,990 --> 00:35:20,040 and the deliberate destruction of hundreds of years 682 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,290 of the Maya's written history by Friar Diego de Landa. 683 00:35:23,420 --> 00:35:27,590 A destruction that many ancient astronaut theorists suggest 684 00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:30,380 was not as thorough as we were made to believe. 685 00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,260 CHILDRESS: Catholic Church was trying 686 00:35:34,380 --> 00:35:37,680 to destroy the old religion and they-they made a big show 687 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,310 of having huge bonfires of books 688 00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:43,520 and destroying them, 689 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,100 but at the same time, the Catholic Church 690 00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:47,900 was trying to accumulate knowledge. 691 00:35:50,030 --> 00:35:51,570 TSOUKALOS: It would also not surprise me 692 00:35:51,690 --> 00:35:56,450 if Diego de Landa did not burn everything. 693 00:35:56,570 --> 00:36:00,160 And maybe some of these texts 694 00:36:00,290 --> 00:36:03,080 did make it back to the Vatican. 695 00:36:03,210 --> 00:36:06,380 People often say, "Oh, but the Vatican just destroys stuff." 696 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,420 Actually... they don't, on the whole. 697 00:36:10,630 --> 00:36:13,970 What they do is they hide it. 698 00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,760 What kind of other organization in the world 699 00:36:16,890 --> 00:36:18,800 is known to have 700 00:36:18,930 --> 00:36:21,600 an archive that's actually called "the Secret Archive"? 701 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,270 It's quite possible that while, on the surface, 702 00:36:25,390 --> 00:36:27,980 the Catholic Church was trying to destroy everything, 703 00:36:28,110 --> 00:36:31,780 this knowledge that they're gathering in North 704 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,950 and South America can benefit the Catholic Church 705 00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:36,910 in the future and that's what they thought. 706 00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:38,740 PICKNETT: It might molder away, 707 00:36:38,870 --> 00:36:41,790 but at least they have control of it. 708 00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:44,000 That's the important thing. 709 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,210 The Vatican is always about control. 710 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,380 Knowledge is power. 711 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,550 The Vatican has always known this. 712 00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:53,710 The Vatican has always known secrets 713 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,300 it doesn't want the average person to know. 714 00:36:57,930 --> 00:36:59,680 NARRATOR: Did the Catholic Church appear 715 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,100 to destroy the Maya histories and sacred scrolls 716 00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:04,850 only to have hidden them away in the Vatican's 717 00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:07,190 notorious secret archive? 718 00:37:07,310 --> 00:37:10,730 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 719 00:37:10,860 --> 00:37:12,820 the answer... is yes. 720 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:15,280 And the Church's motives may not have been 721 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,900 to simply steal valuable ancient knowledge, 722 00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:20,870 but something far more profound. 723 00:37:20,990 --> 00:37:24,160 They believe the real reason was to hide the proof 724 00:37:24,290 --> 00:37:26,830 that the origins of the Maya civilization 725 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,960 and those that existed thousands of years earlier 726 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,210 couldn't only be traced to other continents, 727 00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:35,170 but to other planets. 728 00:37:41,090 --> 00:37:44,180 NARRATOR: Giant megalithic stone heads... 729 00:37:44,310 --> 00:37:48,270 figurines of what appear to be flying craft... 730 00:37:48,390 --> 00:37:50,940 and statues that evoke cultures 731 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,400 found on the other side of the world. 732 00:37:55,110 --> 00:37:57,030 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 733 00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:59,990 it is this information that the Catholic Church 734 00:38:00,110 --> 00:38:02,990 sought to suppress when they attempted to destroy 735 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,160 all traces of the Maya culture nearly 500 years ago. 736 00:38:07,290 --> 00:38:09,460 MARTELL: Now, what's interesting is, 737 00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:11,170 all these great ancient cultures, 738 00:38:11,290 --> 00:38:13,080 including the Mayan, seemed to have 739 00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:16,630 knowledge of math and science, which we can't explain 740 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,550 how they got this information. 741 00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:21,220 When you ask them, they always tell you 742 00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:23,890 it came from the gods. 743 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:26,970 NARRATOR: If the proof existed, 744 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,310 not only of cross-Pacific migration, 745 00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:32,310 but also extraterrestrial visitation, 746 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,810 many ancient astronaut theorists believe 747 00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:37,360 it would have posed a serious threat 748 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,440 to a Catholic hierarchy steeped in 749 00:38:39,570 --> 00:38:42,860 the bigotry and intolerance of the Inquisition. 750 00:38:42,990 --> 00:38:46,580 But if this incredible theory is true, 751 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,080 what then happened to the extraterrestrial visitors? 752 00:38:50,210 --> 00:38:54,080 Why did they come here only to leave or go into hiding? 753 00:38:57,130 --> 00:38:58,420 CHILDRESS: Because of various 754 00:38:58,550 --> 00:39:01,720 wars going on, cataclysms, 755 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,800 eventually, these civilizations began to collapse. 756 00:39:05,930 --> 00:39:07,760 As civilizations do. 757 00:39:07,890 --> 00:39:12,310 And what happened in the end was the, the airships, 758 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,150 they stopped coming. And then, 759 00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:18,400 the extraterrestrial demigods pulled their technology back. 760 00:39:18,530 --> 00:39:20,820 So we don't know what happened there 761 00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:22,280 with the extraterrestrials and where they went. 762 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,110 And so you have to wonder 763 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,280 if they don't want us to know that they are here. 764 00:39:27,410 --> 00:39:30,870 The extraterrestrials may have just decided, "Okay. 765 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,330 "Humans on planet Earth have, have got 766 00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:34,870 "the seeds of civilization. 767 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,880 "Let's just stand back 768 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,340 and see what they do." 769 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,880 NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 770 00:39:44,010 --> 00:39:47,600 the proof of extraterrestrial visitation is still out there, 771 00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:51,470 much of it buried beneath centuries of dirt and rocks. 772 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,100 But every day, the truth is being revealed. 773 00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,320 In February 2018 through March 2019, 774 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,200 archeologists made a number of incredible discoveries 775 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,870 just in the area of Mexico alone. 776 00:40:06,990 --> 00:40:10,740 Mayan artifacts were discovered in Teotihuacan, 777 00:40:10,870 --> 00:40:13,250 a location previously thought to have been 778 00:40:13,370 --> 00:40:16,120 inhabited only by the Aztecs. 779 00:40:16,250 --> 00:40:20,090 200 more artifacts were found in a hidden cave 780 00:40:20,210 --> 00:40:23,670 under the Mayan site of Chichen Itza. 781 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,640 And beneath dense jungles near Lake Pátzcuaro, 782 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,220 LiDAR scanning uncovered an ancient city 783 00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:31,180 the size of Manhattan. 784 00:40:33,430 --> 00:40:36,850 TSOUKALOS: In the early 1990s, 785 00:40:36,980 --> 00:40:39,310 there were these science fiction stories 786 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,480 that one day we'll be able to somehow look 787 00:40:42,610 --> 00:40:45,570 underneath the overgrown jungle. 788 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,570 And sure enough, here we are, 20, 25 years later, 789 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,410 and that technology now exists. 790 00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:56,210 Satellites are now able to look 791 00:40:56,330 --> 00:40:59,920 through the soil into the ground to see 792 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,710 if other structures exist. 793 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,260 And guess what? They do. 794 00:41:06,050 --> 00:41:09,390 We have only now begun a new era 795 00:41:09,510 --> 00:41:13,310 of discovery and I predict thousands as-of-yet 796 00:41:13,430 --> 00:41:17,270 undiscovered sites will finally 797 00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:19,230 see the light of day. 798 00:41:19,350 --> 00:41:23,020 If you have a puzzle with a thousand pieces, 799 00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:26,070 in order to see the final picture, 800 00:41:26,190 --> 00:41:29,860 you don't need to lay down all 1,000 pieces. 801 00:41:29,990 --> 00:41:34,660 If you lay down 980 pieces, I guarantee you, 802 00:41:34,790 --> 00:41:36,580 you will see the big picture. 803 00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:41,840 NARRATOR: Is mankind on an incredible threshold of discovery? 804 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,260 One that will confirm that extraterrestrial visitation 805 00:41:45,380 --> 00:41:49,510 has occurred all over the world and for centuries? 806 00:41:49,630 --> 00:41:53,890 Perhaps beneath the ruins of a newly discovered site in Mexico, 807 00:41:54,010 --> 00:41:57,270 archeologists will uncover the ultimate evidence 808 00:41:57,390 --> 00:42:00,520 of alien contact 809 00:42:00,650 --> 00:42:03,980 and proof of humanity's true origins. 64184

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