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NARRATOR: Mysterious
stone heads.
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GEORGE NOORY: How in the heck
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did they make these?
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Where did they come from?
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And how did they move them?
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NARRATOR: Ancient monuments
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containing 100-ton blocks.
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PHILIP COPPENS: Some of the
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stones are of such magnitude,
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modern machinery is incapable of
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putting them there.
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NARRATOR: And solid granite
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cut with incredible precision.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: We
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ourselves today could not
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replicate what our ancestors
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allegedly accomplished
with stonemasonry.
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NARRATOR: Throughout the
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world, there are giant
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structures that have baffled
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archaeologists.
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Could they really have been
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constructed using
primitive tools?
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Or might they be the product of
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alien technology?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
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Extraterrestrials would not have
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left without any proof.
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They wanted that in the far
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future we start to reflect,
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have we been visited
by outer space?
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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And if so, might they have a
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connection to the world's most
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mysterious structures?
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On the northwest coast of
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France, just south of Brittany,
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lies one of the most important
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prehistoric sites in Europe.
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At the seaside village of
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Carnac, over 3,000 megalithic
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stones are placed in rows over
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two miles long.
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The Carnac stones were hewn from
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local rock formations and
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erected between 4500 to 2500 BC,
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at the end of the Stone Age.
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They are the largest collection
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of standing stones in the world.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
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Archaeologists are baffled by
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the many megaliths
at Carnac here.
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It's clearly a massive
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construction project with blocks
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of granite weighing 50 to 100,
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to even up to 350 tons.
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Legends here say that
giants built Carnac.
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But you have to wonder, what is
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the real purpose of these giant
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megaliths, and why would
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prehistoric people have moved
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all of these massive stones and
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placed them in the many
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alignments here at Carnac?
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MICHAEL CREMO: Thousands
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of large stones have been
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arranged in very
interesting patterns.
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They're arranged in intersecting
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lines that form triangles that
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could only be visible
from above the earth.
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These arrangements of stones may
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have been a way of communicating
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with extraterrestrial beings.
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NARRATOR: The ancient Greek
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poet Pindar spoke of a mystical
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land called Hyperborea, far to
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the north, where the sun shined
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24 hours a day.
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Legends claim that Apollo
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visited Hyperborea, traveling in
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his chariot of fire every 20
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years.
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TSOUKALOS: Apollo would tell
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to the Greeks, okay, I'm gonna
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go see some other people, I've
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got to go and teach them.
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And they're like, well, where
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are you off to?
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And he's like, well, I'm
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actually going to a place that's
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beyond where the
north wind comes.
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It's the land of
the Hyperboreans.
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NARRATOR: Although mainstream
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archaeologists speculate that
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the Carnac stones are most
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likely tomb markers, ancient
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astronaut theorists believe
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these stones are intentionally
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laid out in a unique
geometric formation.
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VON DANIKEN: Many
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speculations existed
since centuries.
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And only a few years ago, in
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France, they started to
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photograph this whole French
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Brittany by helicopters.
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And when they put the pictures
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together, all of a sudden
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someone realized, hey, this is
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not coincidence.
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The distances of the lines are
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always the same- 2,860 meters,
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or exactly the half of 2,860
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meters.
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The angles are always the same.
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It's Pythagorean triangles.
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It's all a gigantic geometrical
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pattern from Stone Age, which is
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impossible.
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Our Stone Age people had no idea
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of Pythagoras' triangles.
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Pythagoras was about 420 BC.
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NARRATOR: Even though the
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geometric arrangement of the
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Carnac stones predates the
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Pythagorean theorem by more than
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2,000 years, one
question remains.
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Why were the stones arranged in
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such a precise pattern?
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CHILDRESS: The Carnac Stones
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are one of the few things on the
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planet that can actually be seen
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from space.
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And they're a perfect marker for
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any kind of aerial vehicle
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looking down on the earth.
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Many of the tourists who come
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here to Carnac claim that they
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can actually feel the energy
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emanating from these
granite megaliths.
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How did these ancient people
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know about this energy?
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And is it possible that they
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were able to use this energy to
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even move and erect
these giant stones?
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VON DANIKEN: I am of the
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opinion that they
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The extraterrestrials told our
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ancestor, do this, and this.
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It's not the extraterrestrials
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who made the stone lines.
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It's the humans who made it, but
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by the order of the
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NARRATOR: But were the Carnac
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stones a signpost for an ancient
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astronaut called Apollo as he
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flew his spacecraft
high above the land?
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CHILDRESS: If the Greek god
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Apollo was really some kind of
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ancient astronaut, it's possible
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that the stones here at Carnac
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were a directional finder
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pointing the way to the far
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north, to the Hyperborea of the
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ancient gods.
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NARRATOR: Over 1,000 miles
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north of Carnac lies
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Scandinavia, home to an ancient
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people called the Norse.
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The Norse were tribal Germanic
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people who lived in what is now
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known as Sweden, Denmark,
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Iceland and Norway.
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Norse legends record the
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triumphs of great warriors with
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advanced weaponry, sophisticated
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combat techniques, and
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navigational prowess.
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Like the Greeks, Norse mythology
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includes supernatural beings,
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other worlds and powerful gods.
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But like the Romans, could the
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Norse myths refer not to
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different gods, but the same
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gods as those depicted by the
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ancient Greeks?
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CHILDRESS: There are a
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number of similarities between
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Greek mythology and Norse
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mythology, and many of the gods
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are, uh, almost identical.
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And they do much the same thing.
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NARRATOR: Descriptions of the
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Viking god Odin- the god of
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war, death and knowledge- and
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the Greek god Zeus, bear
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striking similarities.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: Zeus and Odin
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are both sky father gods.
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They travel through the skies in
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chariots because they are akin
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to the solar, uh, divinities.
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The precursor to many, uh,
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religious beliefs
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The ancients knew that life came
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from the sun.
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So that is a great mystery and
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a source of great awe.
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COPPENS: What you're getting
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there is not just some minor
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deity, but you really are
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nailing it down to one of the
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chief deities.
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This is a very
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And so whoever is behind Odin or
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Zeus is obviously a person or a
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divine entity, which is shared
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by these cultures.
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And it's clear that whoever
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inspired the myth of-of Zeus or
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Odin is somehow somebody who had
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an extremely important
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contribution to make
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So this entity was definitely
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known throughout Europe.
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NARRATOR: Could the Norse and
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Greek gods really have been the
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same extraterrestrial beings?
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Did they use the megalithic
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stones at Carnac as a
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directional marker that could be
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seen from high above the earth?
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And if so, is it possible that
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this site- and other megalithic
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structures around the world-
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really were built with the help
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of otherworldly technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes, and claim further proof can
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be found by examining megalithic
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rocks in Bolivia cut with
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incredible precision.
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NARRATOR: Palm
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Master stonemason and sculptor
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Roger Hopkins uses a variety of
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advanced tools to cut and shape
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hard stones.
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Powered implements such as
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diamond-tipped wires and
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polishers enable him to fashion
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works of art out of huge granite
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blocks obtained from
nearby quarries.
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Yet even with these high-tech
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tools, Hopkins cannot replicate
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what ancient civilizations
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accomplished thousands
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Could these advanced engineering
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methods be the smoking gun that
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proves humans had help
from alien beings?
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ROGER HOPKINS: The precision
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on some of the work that I've
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seen is just incredible.
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It's possible to do by hand,
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but it'd take an
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Plus, you have to have years of
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experience to be
able to pull it off.
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TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, the
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most tangible pieces of evidence
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that we have regarding possible
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extraterrestrial technology is
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when we look at the ancient
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stonecutting techniques.
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Because, in some instances, we
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ourselves today could not
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replicate what our ancestors
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allegedly accomplished
with stonemasonry.
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NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a
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large temple complex located on
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a high plateau in Bolivia.
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Mainstream archaeologists date
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the site from
approximately 200 BC.
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The people who lived here had
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neither a written language nor
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the wheel, yet somehow they
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built one of the world's most
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complex structures.
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Ancient alien theorists view
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Puma Punku as clear proof of
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extraterrestrial influence.
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TSOUKALOS: The ruins we find
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at Puma Punku are
simply extraordinary.
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Puma Punku defies logic.
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COPPENS: The interest of Puma
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Punku is not so much that the
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individual stones sorted
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together perfectly but the fact
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that the stones, as such, are of
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such tremendous design that it
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requires concepts of mathematics
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which are far beyond anything we
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are actually using right now.
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Yet somehow in the past,
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somebody has made that for a
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specific purpose, and in a way
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which even computer programs
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today would kind of go,
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how is this possible?
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TSOUKALOS: In the highlands
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of Bolivia, Puma Punku.
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Some of these blocks are over 40
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to 50 tons each.
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What can you tell us about this?
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HOPKINS: Boy, they... they
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had their, uh, stonecutting
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abilities, you know, pretty well
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fine-tuned for 5,000 years old.
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I mean, uh, it's
almost unbelievable.
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But the... these cutting planes
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that they have on here
are very impressive.
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And some of the incise cuts.
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See like in-in here, all these
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interior cuts, very hard to do.
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I mean, it would be difficult
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for us- with the...
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our equipment- to get that kind
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of precision.
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TSOUKALOS: Let's
talk a little bit...
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HOPKINS: God.
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TSOUKALOS: ...about
inside boxes.
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HOPKINS: Ooh, I was afraid
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you were gonna pull something
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like this on me.
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That is a hell of
a piece of work.
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I mean, if we were to do
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something like that today, we'd
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use what they have these, uh,
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computer-driven CNC
machines which are...
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have diamond tips and, uh, you
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have a template that, you know,
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the computer follows.
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And even then, it may not come
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out as perfect.
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TSOUKALOS: Because, even
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though you can tell that
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obviously, this
piece broke off...
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HOPKINS: Mm-hmm.
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TSOUKALOS: ...nowhere in here
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can you see any imperfection.
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It's like... and by the way,
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when you're there, if you go
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with your finger over these
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edges and you put a little
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pressure on your fingertip, you
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can cut yourself.
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This is how sharp the edges are.
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NARRATOR: But where could the
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ancient peoples have developed
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such technology?
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Is it really possible that
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extraterrestrial visitors
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provided different construction
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methods and tools?
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MIKE DUNN: When I saw these
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blocks, I didn't really think
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that they were cut.
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The first thing really that I
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thought of was this appears very
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similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's
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textile block system of
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construction which he used in
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his California houses
in the early 1920s.
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Now, what he did was he took
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concrete, poured it into molds.
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TSOUKALOS: There actually are
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ancient Incan legends that
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suggest that they had the
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capability of
softening the stone.
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At Sacsayhuamç–£, for example, we
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find these gigantic stone
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blocks, gigantic stone walls
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where it looks as if those
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stones were molten, put into
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place, and then the
stone hardened again.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
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the precision-cut stones at Puma
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Punku are really the product of
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extraterrestrial technology?
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Perhaps further clues can be
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found halfway around the world,
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with an ancient civilization
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that was found buried
beneath the earth.
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NARRATOR: Located more than
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500 miles away from the crowded
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streets of Istanbul is
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Sanliurfa, in
southeastern Turkey.
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There, in 1994, on a dusty
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hilltop, a local shepherd
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noticed the tip of a stone
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sticking out of his field.
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He began to dig, eventually
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unearthing a 19-foot pillar.
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Its edges were precise, and
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rising from its center was a
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relief carving of
a strange animal.
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Upon closer examination, it
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appeared that the finely
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chiseled stone had been
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fashioned by talented
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stonemasons, working
with advanced tools.
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When word of the discovery
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reached the scientific
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community, one fact became
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obvious: a Kurdish shepherd had
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stumbled upon what is perhaps
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the most astonishing
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archaeological discovery in
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modern times- a site
known as Gobekli Tepe.
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LINDA HOWE: For 13 years, a
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German archaeology team has been
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meticulously going into a hill.
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And they have been doing carbon
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dating, as deep as they go.
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It has taken them 13 years
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to uncover only five percent of
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a gigantic civilization.
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They know what's
under the ground.
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Circles upon circles upon
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circles, perfect
circles in stone.
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And rising up out of those stone
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circles are huge sculpted
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columns- 19 feet high,
15 tons per column.
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NARRATOR: Test results have
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supported the idea that Gobekli
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Tepe is nearly 12,000 years old,
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almost 7,000 years older than
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Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent,
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long heralded as the cradle of
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civilization.
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HOWE: In Gobekli Tepe, the
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oldest advanced site
now on our planet.
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We know of no other site that is
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this advanced.
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And it has now doubled the
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history of humanity.
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GRAHAM HANCOCK: And right
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there is this gigantic site with
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huge megalithic
circular structures.
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It just stands there, a mystery,
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asking us to go figure-
how was this done?
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What's the background to this?
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We don't know who made them.
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They just come out of the
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darkness of the last ice age-
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where we know nothing- and
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enter the stage of history
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already fully formed.
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And to my mind, this is
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indicative of a major forgotten
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episode in human history.
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NARRATOR: Curiously, after 13
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years of digging, archaeologists
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investigating the ancient site
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have failed to recover a single
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stonecutting tool.
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Nor have they found any
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agricultural implements.
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HOWE: How in the world can
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you contemplate 19-foot-tall,
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perfectly sculpted columns that
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are 11,000 to 12,000 years old,
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and no tools.
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NARRATOR: The mystery of
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Gobekli Tepe is further
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compounded by the ancient stone
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carvings found
throughout the site.
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They depict creatures like wild
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boars and geese.
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ANDREW COLLINS: We see
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various types of creatures-
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different animals, birds,
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insects and even abstract human
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forms that seem to come together
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to create this very weird
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menagerie which has totally
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baffled the archaeologists who
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have uncovered this site.
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Now, what they represent is a
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matter of speculation, but it's
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my intuition that they may even
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represent a... ark in stone.
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NARRATOR: Located less than
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350 miles from Mount Ararat-
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the site many biblical scholars
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believe to be the resting place
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of Noah's Ark- the animal
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carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest
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a time in the region's history
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when the indigenous animal
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population may have been of a
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totally different origin.
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But do these carvings actually
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provide historical proof of the
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great flood that was described
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in the Bible?
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HANCOCK: Archaeologists are
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aware that there are more than
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2,000 myths of a-a great flood,
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which destroyed an
earlier civilization.
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NARRATOR: Some researchers
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theorize that the events of a
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cataclysmic flood and a story
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similar to that told of Noah's
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Ark was recorded on the stone
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pillars of Gobekli Tepe.
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If true, that would push the
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date of the great flood back to
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the end of the last ice age, far
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earlier than the
biblical period.
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COLLINS: There is evidence
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that this may have ended quite
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catastrophically.
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There was a lot of things
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happening, um, a lot of
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migrations, possibly waters
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rising up very quickly, uh, a
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lot of rapid changes
in lifestyles.
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NARRATOR: But another perhaps
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even more profound
question remains.
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Who built Gobekli Tepe?
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For what purpose?
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And how did such an ancient site
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remain in nearly pristine
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condition for more than 10,000
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years?
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COPPENS: In the case of
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Gobekli Tepe, we find that the
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site was carefully
placed underneath sand.
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This site was buried.
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It appears as if somehow the
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usage of Gobekli Tepe was no
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longer there and that people
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moved on but had such a
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reverence to this important site
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that rather than destroy it,
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they put it to peace
by burying it.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
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the people at Gobekli Tepe had
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such reverence for the site
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because it really was built with
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the help of alien technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes and claim further evidence
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that extraterrestrials were
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behind the construction of the
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world's most mysterious
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00:23:54,872 --> 00:23:57,306
structures can be found in
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00:23:57,307 --> 00:23:59,375
Lebanon, with a site that dates
564
00:23:59,376 --> 00:24:02,680
back nearly 9,000 years.
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NARRATOR: Eastern Lebanon,
566
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the Bekaa Valley.
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Here at this archaeological site
568
00:24:13,926 --> 00:24:17,128
stand the ruins of Heliopolis,
569
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built in the fourth century BC.
570
00:24:18,932 --> 00:24:22,635
by Alexander the
Great to honor Zeus.
571
00:24:22,636 --> 00:24:24,403
But beneath the Corinthian
572
00:24:24,404 --> 00:24:26,271
columns and remnants of both
573
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Greek and Roman architecture lie
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the ruins of a site that is
575
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much, much older.
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According to archaeologists, it
577
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dates back nearly 9,000 years:
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00:24:39,653 --> 00:24:43,289
the ancient city of Baalbek,
579
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named after the early Canaanite
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deity, Baal.
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HANAN CHARAF: Baal is the god
582
00:24:49,396 --> 00:24:50,562
of life, the god of the sky, the
583
00:24:50,563 --> 00:24:52,565
god of the sun.
584
00:24:52,566 --> 00:24:55,033
He was the god that was
585
00:24:55,034 --> 00:24:56,969
venerated on the site of Baalbek
586
00:24:56,970 --> 00:24:58,537
during the Canaanite and the
587
00:24:58,538 --> 00:25:01,307
Phoenician times.
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ROBERT MULLINS: And so,
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because it was already sacred to
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the god Baal, then later the
591
00:25:06,113 --> 00:25:08,580
Greeks and the Romans then would
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00:25:08,581 --> 00:25:14,386
build temples on
this very same spot.
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00:25:14,387 --> 00:25:16,388
NARRATOR: Archaeological
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surveys have revealed that the
595
00:25:18,058 --> 00:25:19,591
enormous stone foundation that
596
00:25:19,592 --> 00:25:21,426
lies at the base of the site
597
00:25:21,427 --> 00:25:26,065
dates back tens of
thousands of years.
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00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,465
CHARAF: Baalbek, as we know
599
00:25:27,466 --> 00:25:28,667
from the archaeological
600
00:25:28,668 --> 00:25:31,069
evidence, must have existed
601
00:25:31,070 --> 00:25:33,071
during the Neolithic Period,
602
00:25:33,072 --> 00:25:35,407
between 6000 to 8000 years or
603
00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:39,077
even 9000 years BC.
604
00:25:39,078 --> 00:25:40,346
NARRATOR: But even more
605
00:25:40,347 --> 00:25:42,080
significant to ancient astronaut
606
00:25:42,081 --> 00:25:45,084
theorists is their belief that
607
00:25:45,085 --> 00:25:47,619
the colossal stone platform may
608
00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:49,622
once have served as a landing
609
00:25:49,623 --> 00:25:53,227
pad for space travelers.
610
00:25:55,695 --> 00:25:58,230
CHILDRESS: We don't know why
611
00:25:58,231 --> 00:26:01,466
Baalbek was chosen as
this specific site.
612
00:26:01,467 --> 00:26:03,234
Uh, it may well be some kind of
613
00:26:03,235 --> 00:26:06,572
special power place.
614
00:26:11,310 --> 00:26:13,712
But what was originally there
615
00:26:13,713 --> 00:26:16,514
before the Roman temple was this
616
00:26:16,515 --> 00:26:20,051
spaceport platform that was
617
00:26:20,052 --> 00:26:22,654
apparently used for
618
00:26:22,655 --> 00:26:25,191
extraterrestrials coming and
619
00:26:25,192 --> 00:26:28,126
going on planet Earth.
620
00:26:28,127 --> 00:26:29,662
NARRATOR: As evidence,
621
00:26:29,663 --> 00:26:31,529
researchers point to the
622
00:26:31,530 --> 00:26:33,398
gigantic megalithic stones
623
00:26:33,399 --> 00:26:35,000
incorporated into the
624
00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:37,403
foundation, each weighing
625
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between 800 to 1,200 tons and
626
00:26:41,407 --> 00:26:46,011
perfectly fitted together.
627
00:26:46,012 --> 00:26:48,013
COPPENS: This is the real
628
00:26:48,014 --> 00:26:49,382
mystery of Baalbek, how these
629
00:26:49,383 --> 00:26:51,282
stones came to be there, why
630
00:26:51,283 --> 00:26:52,617
they were placed there and
631
00:26:52,618 --> 00:26:54,353
specifically how they were
632
00:26:54,354 --> 00:26:55,654
transported into place, because
633
00:26:55,655 --> 00:26:57,289
some of the stones are of such
634
00:26:57,290 --> 00:26:58,557
magnitude that modern machinery
635
00:26:58,558 --> 00:27:00,158
is incapable of putting them
636
00:27:00,159 --> 00:27:02,360
there, but somehow our ancestors
637
00:27:02,361 --> 00:27:04,629
were able to do this.
638
00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:06,031
TSOUKALOS: Some have
639
00:27:06,032 --> 00:27:09,402
suggested that this stone alone
640
00:27:09,403 --> 00:27:15,141
weighs in excess of 1,200 tons.
641
00:27:15,142 --> 00:27:17,175
How was it moved there?
642
00:27:17,176 --> 00:27:18,711
Because obviously it's situated
643
00:27:18,712 --> 00:27:22,114
on top of these stone rows that
644
00:27:22,115 --> 00:27:23,581
we can find down here, which
645
00:27:23,582 --> 00:27:26,719
means that this stone had to be
646
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,821
lifted and then set on top of
647
00:27:29,822 --> 00:27:34,793
these stones down here.
648
00:27:34,794 --> 00:27:37,128
CHARAF: And because these
649
00:27:37,129 --> 00:27:39,197
stones were gigantic, ancient
650
00:27:39,198 --> 00:27:40,732
people assumed that
651
00:27:40,733 --> 00:27:43,735
extraterrestrial or unknown
652
00:27:43,736 --> 00:27:48,742
forces brought them
to the site itself.
653
00:27:51,278 --> 00:27:53,345
BILL BIRNES: It is one of the
654
00:27:53,346 --> 00:27:54,547
oldest, oldest megalithic sites
655
00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:56,414
on the planet, and it has these
656
00:27:56,415 --> 00:27:57,849
huge stones laid out in a
657
00:27:57,850 --> 00:28:01,287
precise geometrical shape at a
658
00:28:01,288 --> 00:28:04,856
time when the prehistoric people
659
00:28:04,857 --> 00:28:06,224
who would have lived there, who
660
00:28:06,225 --> 00:28:07,460
would have gone to the Bekaa
661
00:28:07,461 --> 00:28:09,095
Valley in Lebanon, would have no
662
00:28:09,096 --> 00:28:11,430
concept of how to move stones of
663
00:28:11,431 --> 00:28:15,634
that nature.
664
00:28:15,635 --> 00:28:17,635
NARRATOR: But if the moving,
665
00:28:17,636 --> 00:28:19,571
hoisting and setting of such
666
00:28:19,572 --> 00:28:21,773
massive stones was so incredibly
667
00:28:21,774 --> 00:28:25,243
difficult, then who or what
668
00:28:25,244 --> 00:28:26,511
placed them there?
669
00:28:26,512 --> 00:28:28,247
And perhaps more importantly:
670
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:30,182
Why?
671
00:28:30,183 --> 00:28:31,383
COPPENS: We know that the
672
00:28:31,384 --> 00:28:32,718
ancients always went to power
673
00:28:32,719 --> 00:28:35,654
places, and Baalbek
clearly is one of them.
674
00:28:35,655 --> 00:28:37,256
It is a place where the gods
675
00:28:37,257 --> 00:28:38,523
were worshipped, where the gods
676
00:28:38,524 --> 00:28:40,225
were said to be present.
677
00:28:40,226 --> 00:28:41,460
And so when it comes to Baalbek,
678
00:28:41,461 --> 00:28:44,395
this platform was built
there for a reason.
679
00:28:44,396 --> 00:28:45,798
For what purpose it was used is
680
00:28:45,799 --> 00:28:47,232
a question we can't answer at
681
00:28:47,233 --> 00:28:48,800
this moment in time.
682
00:28:48,801 --> 00:28:50,402
But what we do know is that
683
00:28:50,403 --> 00:28:52,270
whatever was happening there had
684
00:28:52,271 --> 00:28:53,472
a great religious significance
685
00:28:53,473 --> 00:28:54,673
to them and was linked with
686
00:28:54,674 --> 00:28:56,808
worshipping deities, deities
687
00:28:56,809 --> 00:28:58,610
which clearly are of an
688
00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:02,248
otherworldly origin.
689
00:29:02,249 --> 00:29:03,883
NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
690
00:29:03,884 --> 00:29:05,651
ancient astronaut theorists
691
00:29:05,652 --> 00:29:08,420
believe, that Baalbek had been
692
00:29:08,421 --> 00:29:10,422
considered a sacred place for
693
00:29:10,423 --> 00:29:12,290
tens of thousands of years
694
00:29:12,291 --> 00:29:14,292
because it was where
695
00:29:14,293 --> 00:29:16,162
extraterrestrial beings first
696
00:29:16,163 --> 00:29:19,831
arrived on Earth?
697
00:29:19,832 --> 00:29:22,233
Perhaps the answer can be found
698
00:29:22,234 --> 00:29:24,569
by examining other megalithic
699
00:29:24,570 --> 00:29:28,241
stones on Easter Island.
700
00:29:29,173 --> 00:29:34,515
NARRATOR: The South
Pacific Ocean.
701
00:29:34,516 --> 00:29:37,351
2,300 miles west of South
702
00:29:37,352 --> 00:29:38,553
America, in one of the most
703
00:29:38,554 --> 00:29:41,421
remote places on Earth, giant
704
00:29:41,422 --> 00:29:43,791
stone figures stand with their
705
00:29:43,792 --> 00:29:47,428
backs to the sea.
706
00:29:47,429 --> 00:29:50,097
Called moai by the native
707
00:29:50,098 --> 00:29:51,798
inhabitants, they are the silent
708
00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:54,835
sentinels of Easter Island.
709
00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:56,237
CHRIS STEVENSON: The moais
710
00:29:56,238 --> 00:29:57,438
are scattered throughout the
711
00:29:57,439 --> 00:29:58,639
island, and they're positioned
712
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,176
on top of-of platforms,
for the most part.
713
00:30:02,177 --> 00:30:04,178
A moai is a... is a stone
714
00:30:04,179 --> 00:30:07,648
sculpture of a
deceased ancestor.
715
00:30:07,649 --> 00:30:09,650
They were once living
716
00:30:09,651 --> 00:30:11,185
individuals who ruled the
717
00:30:11,186 --> 00:30:12,786
society or led the society.
718
00:30:12,787 --> 00:30:14,188
They were chiefs, and then, upon
719
00:30:14,189 --> 00:30:16,457
their death, we believe that
720
00:30:16,458 --> 00:30:21,394
they've become
represented in stone.
721
00:30:21,395 --> 00:30:24,131
NARRATOR: Nearly 900 moai
722
00:30:24,132 --> 00:30:25,600
were carved between the 12th and
723
00:30:25,601 --> 00:30:27,400
18th centuries.
724
00:30:27,401 --> 00:30:29,269
Hewn with stone tools from
725
00:30:29,270 --> 00:30:31,339
volcanic rock, the tallest
726
00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:35,476
stands a towering 33 feet high
727
00:30:35,477 --> 00:30:40,347
and weighs a staggering 75 tons.
728
00:30:40,348 --> 00:30:41,582
STEVENSON: They were probably
729
00:30:41,583 --> 00:30:44,619
even more unique-looking,
uh, in the past.
730
00:30:44,620 --> 00:30:46,720
They may have been painted.
731
00:30:46,721 --> 00:30:47,889
And they also had large white
732
00:30:47,890 --> 00:30:50,858
coral eyes with obsidian pupils.
733
00:30:50,859 --> 00:30:52,727
So it's a very effective way of
734
00:30:52,728 --> 00:30:54,327
kind of telling people, not
735
00:30:54,328 --> 00:30:56,764
verbally but symbolically, that
736
00:30:56,765 --> 00:30:58,466
someone's watching you and you
737
00:30:58,467 --> 00:30:59,633
should toe the line.
738
00:30:59,634 --> 00:31:03,571
You should do what
you're supposed to do.
739
00:31:03,572 --> 00:31:04,772
NARRATOR: The people who
740
00:31:04,773 --> 00:31:06,641
created the moai called
741
00:31:06,642 --> 00:31:08,910
themselves the Rapa Nui, and
742
00:31:08,911 --> 00:31:10,878
mainstream historians believe
743
00:31:10,879 --> 00:31:12,913
their Polynesian ancestors came
744
00:31:12,914 --> 00:31:15,516
to the island in canoes from
745
00:31:15,517 --> 00:31:17,651
across the vast Pacific Ocean
746
00:31:17,652 --> 00:31:22,189
between 700 and 1100 A.D.
747
00:31:22,190 --> 00:31:24,391
But over several centuries, for
748
00:31:24,392 --> 00:31:26,861
reasons that are still unclear,
749
00:31:26,862 --> 00:31:28,929
what was once an island paradise
750
00:31:28,930 --> 00:31:31,532
withered into a treeless desert
751
00:31:31,533 --> 00:31:34,669
stalked by famine, violence and,
752
00:31:34,670 --> 00:31:38,805
some say, cannibalism.
753
00:31:38,806 --> 00:31:41,641
When the first Europeans arrived
754
00:31:41,642 --> 00:31:44,812
in 1722, the Rapa Nui culture
755
00:31:44,813 --> 00:31:46,479
had already been nearly wiped
756
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,550
out, and few could imagine how
757
00:31:49,551 --> 00:31:51,552
such primitive people could have
758
00:31:51,553 --> 00:31:54,487
created the moai.
759
00:31:54,488 --> 00:31:56,958
NOORY: How in the heck
did they make these?
760
00:31:56,959 --> 00:31:59,360
Where did they come from?
761
00:31:59,361 --> 00:32:01,696
And how did they move them?
762
00:32:01,697 --> 00:32:04,966
Nobody has the answer.
763
00:32:04,967 --> 00:32:06,968
NARRATOR: Modern scientists
764
00:32:06,969 --> 00:32:08,969
have tried and so far have
765
00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:11,505
failed to duplicate the feats of
766
00:32:11,506 --> 00:32:13,940
the ancient Rapa Nui.
767
00:32:13,941 --> 00:32:17,844
In 1987, anthropologist Charles
768
00:32:17,845 --> 00:32:20,814
Love used rollers to move a
769
00:32:20,815 --> 00:32:22,682
nine-ton moai replica at Western
770
00:32:22,683 --> 00:32:24,584
Wyoming Community College.
771
00:32:24,585 --> 00:32:26,853
Ready? On three.
772
00:32:26,854 --> 00:32:30,324
One, two, three.
773
00:32:30,325 --> 00:32:31,958
Come on. Come on.
774
00:32:31,959 --> 00:32:34,428
Good!
775
00:32:34,429 --> 00:32:36,330
Thank you. Whoa.
776
00:32:36,331 --> 00:32:39,333
Only able to budge it
about half an inch.
777
00:32:39,334 --> 00:32:40,700
NARRATOR: Other researchers
778
00:32:40,701 --> 00:32:43,970
have tried pulling
moai with sleds.
779
00:32:43,971 --> 00:32:46,006
But there is a unique problem
780
00:32:46,007 --> 00:32:48,342
with the idea of moving moai
781
00:32:48,343 --> 00:32:51,012
with sleds or rollers.
782
00:32:51,013 --> 00:32:52,446
CHARLES LOVE: When you go to
783
00:32:52,447 --> 00:32:53,814
Easter Island, you don't get the
784
00:32:53,815 --> 00:32:55,615
impression they had enough wood
785
00:32:55,616 --> 00:32:57,285
to have rollers.
786
00:32:57,286 --> 00:32:59,954
And, in fact, in the 1700s, the
787
00:32:59,955 --> 00:33:02,355
first four expeditions to Easter
788
00:33:02,356 --> 00:33:05,558
Island never really saw a tree.
789
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,561
And so that's the real mystery
790
00:33:07,562 --> 00:33:08,763
of Easter Island.
791
00:33:08,764 --> 00:33:11,032
How can you move a multi-ton
792
00:33:11,033 --> 00:33:15,269
statue if you have no
trees for rollers?
793
00:33:17,506 --> 00:33:19,506
NARRATOR: According to the
794
00:33:19,507 --> 00:33:21,441
oral history of the Rapa Nui,
795
00:33:21,442 --> 00:33:26,781
the moai were moved in
a very unusual way.
796
00:33:26,782 --> 00:33:28,381
LOVE: They all reply
797
00:33:28,382 --> 00:33:29,650
basically the same thing.
798
00:33:29,651 --> 00:33:32,585
The moai walked to the ahu, and
799
00:33:32,586 --> 00:33:35,656
that's the only explanation
that they give.
800
00:33:35,657 --> 00:33:37,525
NARRATOR: But who or what had
801
00:33:37,526 --> 00:33:39,927
the power to make multi-ton moai
802
00:33:39,928 --> 00:33:42,796
appear to walk to their ahu, or
803
00:33:42,797 --> 00:33:46,534
stone platforms?
804
00:33:46,535 --> 00:33:50,071
In 1919, British archaeologist
805
00:33:50,072 --> 00:33:52,406
Katherine Routledge, who lived
806
00:33:52,407 --> 00:33:54,808
on Easter Island for a year,
807
00:33:54,809 --> 00:33:56,610
recorded the legends and
808
00:33:56,611 --> 00:33:58,412
testimony of an old woman who
809
00:33:58,413 --> 00:34:00,914
said the moai were moved with a
810
00:34:00,915 --> 00:34:04,552
mystical energy called mana.
811
00:34:04,553 --> 00:34:06,487
And, according to the oral
812
00:34:06,488 --> 00:34:08,822
histories of the Rapa Nui, mana
813
00:34:08,823 --> 00:34:12,526
came from the gods.
814
00:34:12,527 --> 00:34:15,363
TSOUKALOS: Mana was a direct
815
00:34:15,364 --> 00:34:17,798
gift of the gods given to the
816
00:34:17,799 --> 00:34:20,834
Easter Islanders.
817
00:34:20,835 --> 00:34:23,070
Was this mana really a type of
818
00:34:23,071 --> 00:34:25,039
magical force?
819
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,807
Of course not.
820
00:34:26,808 --> 00:34:28,441
It was some type of
821
00:34:28,442 --> 00:34:30,110
misunderstood technology, some
822
00:34:30,111 --> 00:34:32,546
type of a device, an
823
00:34:32,547 --> 00:34:35,715
extraterrestrial tool with which
824
00:34:35,716 --> 00:34:37,717
you could move those massive
825
00:34:37,718 --> 00:34:42,923
Easter Island heads
rather easily.
826
00:34:42,924 --> 00:34:44,124
NARRATOR: Did early
827
00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:45,860
inhabitants of Easter Island
828
00:34:45,861 --> 00:34:47,827
really know how to unlock the
829
00:34:47,828 --> 00:34:50,664
secrets of gravity using mana?
830
00:34:50,665 --> 00:34:53,566
And, if so, where might such
831
00:34:53,567 --> 00:34:55,001
power over the physical world
832
00:34:55,002 --> 00:34:57,537
have come from?
833
00:34:57,538 --> 00:34:58,972
Might these astounding
834
00:34:58,973 --> 00:35:01,409
abilities, forever lost to time,
835
00:35:01,410 --> 00:35:02,742
have been made possible by
836
00:35:02,743 --> 00:35:05,613
extraterrestrial visitors?
837
00:35:05,614 --> 00:35:07,680
Perhaps further evidence can be
838
00:35:07,681 --> 00:35:09,550
found with a mysterious
839
00:35:09,551 --> 00:35:11,684
structure in southern Florida
840
00:35:11,685 --> 00:35:15,790
built from 30-ton coral blocks.
841
00:35:18,317 --> 00:35:20,452
NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida,
842
00:35:20,453 --> 00:35:24,323
30 miles south of Miami.
843
00:35:24,324 --> 00:35:26,991
This former agricultural town is
844
00:35:26,992 --> 00:35:28,859
home to one of the most
845
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:30,328
mysterious structures in North
846
00:35:30,329 --> 00:35:33,999
America, a stone garden made of
847
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,734
sculpted blocks of ancient
848
00:35:35,735 --> 00:35:39,838
coral, some weighing 30 tons.
849
00:35:39,839 --> 00:35:44,743
It's called the Coral Castle.
850
00:35:44,744 --> 00:35:47,713
Spread over several acres, the
851
00:35:47,714 --> 00:35:49,747
complex formations and intricate
852
00:35:49,748 --> 00:35:51,982
designs of the stone walls and
853
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:54,752
sculptures marvel tourists.
854
00:35:54,753 --> 00:35:56,555
But unlike other great
855
00:35:56,556 --> 00:35:58,756
structures around the world,
856
00:35:58,757 --> 00:36:01,493
this site is not ancient.
857
00:36:01,494 --> 00:36:03,495
CHILDRESS: Coral Castle in
858
00:36:03,496 --> 00:36:05,897
Florida is often said to be, uh,
859
00:36:05,898 --> 00:36:07,499
the only modern megalithic
860
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:11,102
structure ever built.
861
00:36:11,103 --> 00:36:14,039
NARRATOR: In 1923, Ed
862
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,040
Leedskalnin, a Latvian
863
00:36:16,041 --> 00:36:17,441
immigrant, began building what
864
00:36:17,442 --> 00:36:20,044
he originally called
Rock Gate Park.
865
00:36:20,045 --> 00:36:21,780
But believe it or not,
866
00:36:21,781 --> 00:36:24,048
Leedskalnin insisted that he was
867
00:36:24,049 --> 00:36:25,917
not using modern machinery to
868
00:36:25,918 --> 00:36:28,386
build the impressive structure.
869
00:36:28,387 --> 00:36:30,921
He also claimed that
he was working alone.
870
00:36:30,922 --> 00:36:32,124
RUSTY McCLURE: Well, Ed was a
871
00:36:32,125 --> 00:36:35,526
hermit and Ed was a loner and he
872
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:38,062
was a foreigner and he was a
873
00:36:38,063 --> 00:36:41,767
recluse and a scientist.
874
00:36:41,768 --> 00:36:43,068
NOORY: He was in love with a
875
00:36:43,069 --> 00:36:44,935
woman, and he wanted to build
876
00:36:44,936 --> 00:36:47,906
this facility in memory of her.
877
00:36:47,907 --> 00:36:49,073
And he waited for her to come
878
00:36:49,074 --> 00:36:50,941
from Europe, and he waited and
879
00:36:50,942 --> 00:36:54,912
he waited, and she never did.
880
00:36:54,913 --> 00:36:56,647
But the big question is, is how
881
00:36:56,648 --> 00:36:58,883
did this frail little man move
882
00:36:58,884 --> 00:37:02,086
these thousands of pounds of
883
00:37:02,087 --> 00:37:05,624
block by himself.
884
00:37:05,625 --> 00:37:07,626
NARRATOR: Barely over five
885
00:37:07,627 --> 00:37:09,528
feet tall and weighing just
886
00:37:09,529 --> 00:37:12,097
100 pounds, Leedskalnin is said
887
00:37:12,098 --> 00:37:14,098
to have carved, moved and
888
00:37:14,099 --> 00:37:16,901
hoisted huge multi-ton stones
889
00:37:16,902 --> 00:37:19,838
using only a makeshift tripod.
890
00:37:19,839 --> 00:37:21,573
McCLURE: He has a tripod,
891
00:37:21,574 --> 00:37:23,975
three pieces of Florida Pine
892
00:37:23,976 --> 00:37:25,709
and he's got some chains, and
893
00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:27,946
he's now gonna lift 30 tons,
894
00:37:27,947 --> 00:37:31,783
ten tons of rock- can't be done.
895
00:37:31,784 --> 00:37:32,984
No one could do that.
896
00:37:32,985 --> 00:37:34,185
NOORY: He would work at
897
00:37:34,186 --> 00:37:37,055
night- he wouldn't let
anybody watch him.
898
00:37:37,056 --> 00:37:39,691
And he said that he knew the
899
00:37:39,692 --> 00:37:41,859
secrets of the pyramids.
900
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:43,995
NARRATOR: But what exactly
901
00:37:43,996 --> 00:37:46,564
was Leedskalnin referring to?
902
00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:48,066
Had he rediscovered the same
903
00:37:48,067 --> 00:37:50,068
advanced technology used to
904
00:37:50,069 --> 00:37:52,470
build megalithic structures like
905
00:37:52,471 --> 00:37:55,874
Carnac and Gobekli Tepe?
906
00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:57,475
McCLURE: Ed over and over
907
00:37:57,476 --> 00:37:58,609
again would tell people that he
908
00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:01,213
knew the secrets that helped the
909
00:38:01,214 --> 00:38:03,147
Egyptians build the pyramids.
910
00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:04,615
What was he talking about?
911
00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:06,151
Why was he constantly harking
912
00:38:06,152 --> 00:38:07,685
back to the Egyptians?
913
00:38:07,686 --> 00:38:09,553
We don't know.
914
00:38:09,554 --> 00:38:10,754
NARRATOR: Leedskalnin
915
00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:12,022
continued work on the Coral
916
00:38:12,023 --> 00:38:16,160
Castle until his death in 1951.
917
00:38:16,161 --> 00:38:18,729
In the journals he left behind,
918
00:38:18,730 --> 00:38:20,631
the builder explained that he
919
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,167
had discovered the ancient
920
00:38:22,168 --> 00:38:24,903
secret of transforming stones
921
00:38:24,904 --> 00:38:27,906
into weightless objects.
922
00:38:27,907 --> 00:38:29,841
McCLURE: Ed says this in his
923
00:38:29,842 --> 00:38:31,510
pamphlet, Magnetic Current, that
924
00:38:31,511 --> 00:38:36,180
real gravity is
actually real magnet.
925
00:38:36,181 --> 00:38:37,749
So if you reverse the magnet
926
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:40,151
forces with a force of some kind
927
00:38:40,152 --> 00:38:44,055
of electromagnetic radio,
928
00:38:44,056 --> 00:38:46,057
perhaps, frequency, you can then
929
00:38:46,058 --> 00:38:48,526
make these rocks not as heavy as
930
00:38:48,527 --> 00:38:51,662
they seem otherwise and
931
00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:54,598
therefore you can lift them.
932
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:56,066
NARRATOR: But if Leedskalnin
933
00:38:56,067 --> 00:38:58,069
had developed a device that
934
00:38:58,070 --> 00:39:03,140
could modify gravity,
what was his secret?
935
00:39:03,141 --> 00:39:04,910
Some suggest the answer lies in
936
00:39:04,911 --> 00:39:07,011
a mysterious black box that can
937
00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:11,283
be seen in various photographs,
938
00:39:11,284 --> 00:39:17,689
a box that has
since disappeared.
939
00:39:17,690 --> 00:39:19,790
McCLURE: The black box
940
00:39:19,791 --> 00:39:21,225
sitting on top is the element
941
00:39:21,226 --> 00:39:24,229
that no one has ever seen except
942
00:39:24,230 --> 00:39:28,566
in those pictures, and
no one has today.
943
00:39:28,567 --> 00:39:29,834
We believe that black box has
944
00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:31,803
something to do with how he got
945
00:39:31,804 --> 00:39:35,707
these massive, heavy, brittle
946
00:39:35,708 --> 00:39:38,776
pieces of rock up in the air in
947
00:39:38,777 --> 00:39:42,080
a way that no one can duplicate.
948
00:39:42,081 --> 00:39:43,682
NOORY: He had some kind of
949
00:39:43,683 --> 00:39:45,716
magnetic machine down in one of
950
00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:46,984
his other house areas that has
951
00:39:46,985 --> 00:39:49,187
since been dismantled, but it
952
00:39:49,188 --> 00:39:51,122
had a revolving ability.
953
00:39:51,123 --> 00:39:53,725
He may have been having
that thing spin.
954
00:39:53,726 --> 00:39:54,926
The whole place could have been
955
00:39:54,927 --> 00:39:56,127
antigravity.
956
00:39:56,128 --> 00:39:59,830
He probably just pushed
these into place.
957
00:39:59,831 --> 00:40:00,999
SARA SEAGER: Levitation is
958
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,232
the only way that I know of to
959
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,234
hold up very heavy objects.
960
00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:07,004
Very, very high-speed trains are
961
00:40:07,005 --> 00:40:10,341
magnetically levitated.
962
00:40:10,342 --> 00:40:11,977
These high-speed trains don't
963
00:40:11,978 --> 00:40:14,613
have wheels that
touch any tracks.
964
00:40:14,614 --> 00:40:15,747
They're literally suspended
965
00:40:15,748 --> 00:40:19,618
above the track using
magnetic forces.
966
00:40:19,619 --> 00:40:20,819
JOHN BRANDENBURG: We can
967
00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:23,020
speculate at this time that
968
00:40:23,021 --> 00:40:25,156
there are techniques for using
969
00:40:25,157 --> 00:40:29,361
electromagnetism to
nullify gravity.
970
00:40:29,362 --> 00:40:32,997
Uh, this was the great
quest of Einstein.
971
00:40:32,998 --> 00:40:34,899
The motivation for such
972
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,301
technology is, of course, to
973
00:40:36,302 --> 00:40:38,169
lift a large spaceship out into
974
00:40:38,170 --> 00:40:40,772
space and across space.
975
00:40:40,773 --> 00:40:42,307
All right.
976
00:40:42,308 --> 00:40:45,644
(chuckles)
977
00:40:45,645 --> 00:40:47,711
NARRATOR: Could it be that Ed
978
00:40:47,712 --> 00:40:49,781
Leedskalnin utilized antigravity
979
00:40:49,782 --> 00:40:52,651
to levitate and distribute the
980
00:40:52,652 --> 00:40:56,153
enormous rocks used to
build Coral Castle?
981
00:40:56,154 --> 00:40:58,055
If so, where did this incredible
982
00:40:58,056 --> 00:41:01,158
knowledge come from?
983
00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:03,127
COPPENS: And he died, taking
984
00:41:03,128 --> 00:41:05,330
this secret to his grave.
985
00:41:05,331 --> 00:41:07,332
The question is, did he invent
986
00:41:07,333 --> 00:41:08,767
it, or did he himself somehow
987
00:41:08,768 --> 00:41:10,334
inherit it or learn it from a
988
00:41:10,335 --> 00:41:12,069
tradition or maybe from some
989
00:41:12,070 --> 00:41:15,406
visitor from another realm?
990
00:41:15,407 --> 00:41:18,042
McCLURE: The only thing that
991
00:41:18,043 --> 00:41:20,211
is explainable is that someone
992
00:41:20,212 --> 00:41:22,781
with a higher form of physics
993
00:41:22,782 --> 00:41:25,950
and understanding of gravity has
994
00:41:25,951 --> 00:41:28,019
created the ability of one
995
00:41:28,020 --> 00:41:30,220
person to lift stones that
996
00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:32,790
modern technology could not do,
997
00:41:32,791 --> 00:41:34,825
the way he did it.
998
00:41:34,826 --> 00:41:36,026
It had to come from a different
999
00:41:36,027 --> 00:41:39,598
place in this galaxy.
1000
00:41:45,770 --> 00:41:47,372
TSOUKALOS: The fact that one
1001
00:41:47,373 --> 00:41:50,207
guy created these massive
1002
00:41:50,208 --> 00:41:55,046
structures is
absolutely fascinating.
1003
00:41:55,047 --> 00:41:56,381
Am I suggesting that he did this
1004
00:41:56,382 --> 00:42:00,084
with extraterrestrial
technology?
1005
00:42:00,085 --> 00:42:03,088
No, because I don't know.
1006
00:42:03,089 --> 00:42:05,856
Am I excluding that possibility?
1007
00:42:05,857 --> 00:42:07,357
No.
1008
00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:09,060
NARRATOR: If aliens visited
1009
00:42:09,061 --> 00:42:11,129
Earth in ancient times, perhaps
1010
00:42:11,130 --> 00:42:13,064
the world's mysterious stone
1011
00:42:13,065 --> 00:42:15,866
structures can provide clues not
1012
00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:21,939
only to mankind's past
but to its future.
1013
00:42:21,940 --> 00:42:23,341
VON DANIKEN: I think that
1014
00:42:23,342 --> 00:42:24,975
extraterrestrials would not have
1015
00:42:24,976 --> 00:42:26,745
left our solar system some
1016
00:42:26,746 --> 00:42:29,848
thousands of years ago
without any proof.
1017
00:42:29,849 --> 00:42:31,415
They wanted that in the far
1018
00:42:31,416 --> 00:42:34,084
future we start to reflect,
1019
00:42:34,085 --> 00:42:37,988
"Have we been visited
by outer space?"
1020
00:42:37,989 --> 00:42:39,290
NARRATOR: Could additional
1021
00:42:39,291 --> 00:42:41,225
evidence still lie hidden right
1022
00:42:41,226 --> 00:42:45,863
before our eyes?
1023
00:42:45,864 --> 00:42:48,133
Evidence that, when found, will
1024
00:42:48,134 --> 00:42:49,299
prove once and for all that we
1025
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:50,769
are not alone?
1026
00:42:50,770 --> 00:42:51,903
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