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NARRATOR: A mysterious cloth
bearing a divine image.
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WILLIAM HENRY: It represents the
supernatural transformation of a human.
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NARRATOR: Gold hats worn by
strange, mystical beings.
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MIKE BARA: The wearing of a
golden hat would tend to amplify
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the signal that you were
getting from higher-up beings.
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NARRATOR: And powerful stones
believed to have otherworldly origins.
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PHILIP COPPENS: It is said
that every wish was granted.
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NARRATOR: Could these mysterious
objects simply be the
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targets of human imagination?
Or are they evidence of
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something even more profound?
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DAVID CHILDRESS: We have to wonder if
possibly all of these metallic books...
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aren't part of some
extraterrestrial library.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
And if so, might the evidence be
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found in the world's most
mysterious relics?
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NARRATOR: The White House,
February 11, 2013.
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President Barack Obama presents
a Medal of Honor to Army Staff
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Sergeant Clinton Romesha for his
courageous actions during the
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deadly battle of Kamdesh
in Afghanistan.
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(applause)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: These
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53 Americans were surrounded by
more than 300 Taliban fighters.
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If you seek a measure of that
day, you need to look no further
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than the medals and ribbons
that grace their chests.
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NARRATOR: This tradition of
honoring brave soldiers by
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decorating their chest with
medals dates back to at least
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the second century B.C., when
the ancient Roman military used
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sculpted discs of metal to
reward superior acts of service.
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But why?
What is it about the properties
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of metal that make them chosen objects
of adornment and commemoration?
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COPPENS: The tradition
of adorning people
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with metal really goes
back thousands of years.
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In the case of the Bible, we
have stories about how the
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priests actually had to wear
certain metals before they were
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able to enter the Holy of Holies
and make contact with the divine.
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Today, we are confronted
with symbolism.
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Our heroes are given pins and
medals because somehow we set
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them apart as great people who
somehow have superseded the
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human race, but in the past,
this was to be taken literally.
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NARRATOR: Do certain metals
actually enhance mankind's
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ability to connect with divine,
or some would say,
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extraterrestrial forces?
And is this the reason why gold,
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platinum and silver jewelry,
along with other metal
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adornments and relics, have been
so prized throughout human history?
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COPPENS: Definitely
the belief is that
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we hold the relic there,
because the relic is
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linked either to a deity
or to something magical.
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RICHARD RADER: Relics can
be any number of things.
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Pieces of wood, bits of statues,
literally anything can
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be a relic if it has been kind
of invested with a divine power.
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And that means you have a piece
of the god, and therefore a
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piece of the god's power with you.
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ALAN BUTLER: It seems to have
always been the case with human
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beings that they've wanted
to possess items which they
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thought were, uh, either from
the gods, to do with the gods,
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or in some way associated
with the gods.
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NARRATOR:
Berlin, Germany, 1996.
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The Museum of Prehistory and
Early History acquires a
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glittering artifact from an
anonymous Swiss collector.
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A tall, cone-shaped hat crafted
from a thin sheet of pure gold,
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and embellished with dozens of
sun and moon symbols.
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It is one of four that have been
unearthed at various sites
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throughout Europe, and is
believed by historians to date
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back as far as 1000 B.C.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: What is so
important about them is that
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they indicate that there
was a common culture.
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The images on them represent
astronomy, the study of the stars.
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They also have complicated
mathematical implications,
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suggesting a level of
philosophical development that's
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very advanced for what we thought
was available at that time.
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NARRATOR: German researchers
carefully studied the symbols on
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the golden hat, and concluded
they represent a complex
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mathematical table.
One that can accurately
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calculate the long-term cycles
of the sun and the moon.
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But how could such ancient
people have been able to make
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such advanced and highly sophisticated
astronomical predictions?
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ANDREW COLLINS: The suggestion
is that they belonged
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to what might be referred to as
oracles, people that could fall
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into an altered state and prophesize.
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Could come up with statements
relating to the future or
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otherworldly situations.
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NARRATOR: Though most
mainstream scholars believe
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these mysterious hats were worn
by king-priests during religious
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ceremonies, ancient astronaut
theorists have another, even
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more astounding theory.
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BARA: The golden hats are kind
of interesting, because if
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gold is something that actually
enhances your connection with
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energies and higher-up celestial
beings, then the wearing of a
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golden hat, especially in a
conical shape, would tend to
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amplify the signal that you
were getting from on high.
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So, it seems to me that ancient
cultures logically would build
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them to get connected with the
gods who had perhaps left them
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behind and gone back to
their celestial birthplace.
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COPPENS: In the case of the
golden hats, what we're seeing
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there is that all of this
technology seems to have been
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part of a larger framework,
whereby once again it seems this
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is a civilization which made
contact with the gods.
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CHILDRESS: But we just don't
know who would have made these
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or why, and they're so
incredibly unusual and tall.
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Perhaps the extraterrestrial
gods were wearing some kind of
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conical hat like this.
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NARRATOR: Could the so-called
king-priests of the ancient past
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have been otherworldly visitors,
utilizing metal's unique
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properties? If so,
might additional evidence
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be found of other ancient
peoples using metal relics for
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advanced, even
metaphysical purposes?
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Khirbet Qumran, Israel, 1952.
Hidden deep in a cave on the
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desert cliffs, archaeologists
discover a mysterious
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2,000-year-old manuscript
written on a sheet of copper.
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Known as the Copper Scroll, this
mysterious relic was found at
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the same site as the ancient
religious writings known as the
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Dead Sea Scrolls.
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JOHN DESALVO: All the Dead Sea
Scrolls that have been found
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were written on either,
uh, leather or papyrus.
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The Copper Scroll is the only
one made of copper.
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You got to keep in mind, copper
was valuable, and to hammer out
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a whole scroll would take a lot
of time and a lot of technique,
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so it has to be very important.
NARRATOR: Scholars examining
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the language on the Copper
Scroll agree it is unlike
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anything found in other
texts of the period.
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FATHER WILLIAM FULCO:
The script that's on it is-is a
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little different, but it's not
just in Hebrew; it's in...
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or Aramaic.
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It also has Greek, uh, letters on it.
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So it's quite peculiar.
The thing that makes the Copper
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Scroll so fascinating is that it
mentions hidden treasures.
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DESALVO: The Copper Scroll
lists 64 locations in Jerusalem
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and around that area that
buried treasure is located.
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Maybe the key is, in the 64th
location, it says there's
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another copper scroll that will
help explain the rest of it.
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Because we haven't found the
treasure yet, I somehow suspect
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there could be another code within this
treasure map, a code within a code.
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NARRATOR: What is the origin
of the mysterious Copper Scroll?
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And at is its true purpose?
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Mainstream scholars and
archaeologists have been puzzled
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by these questions for more than
half a century.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Maybe the
Copper Scroll is missing a piece.
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Many times with treasure maps,
you need a second piece in order
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to complete the entire map, so
who knows if there's a piece missing?
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CHILDRESS: It seems to be an
oddball... artifact.
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And it's written in metal.
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And you have now the stories of
other ancient books supposedly
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written in sheets of gold.
Joseph Smith, Jr., who began
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the-the Mormon Church, he
claimed also to have been shown
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gold-plated books.
So we have to wonder if possibly
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all of these metallic books
written in copper or gold plates
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aren't part of some
extraterrestrial library.
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NARRATOR: Could the
mysterious Copper Scroll have
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extraterrestrial origins?
And is the fact that it is made
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of copper evidence of a
connection between metal objects
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and otherworldly beings?
yes and believe further proofsay
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can be found by examining the
similarly strange properties
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attributed to other mysterious
relics found all over the world.
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NARRATOR: Bulgaria's Black
Sea Coast.
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July 2010.
Here, in the ruins of a medieval
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church on St. Ivan Island, six
small human bone fragments are
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discovered inside a marble hagus.
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Through radiocarbon dating and
DNA testing of one knucklebone,
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scientists conclude that the
bones are from the first
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century A.D. But what
is even more incredible
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is the belief by many that the
bones are actually those of
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St. John the Baptist.
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KATHLEEN MCGOWAN:
In Christianity, John the Baptist
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is specifically important
because he is known as the
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forerunner, the precursor, the one
who comes before the Messiah.
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And in the stories of John the
Baptist, he becomes extremely
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important for Christians because
he announces that a greater
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messiah is coming after him.
And the legends around John's
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bones were always legends of
extreme power.
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John was a prophet.
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NARRATOR: Now on tour in
churches throughout Bulgaria,
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tens of thousands of the
faithful come to visit, pray
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and even worship these tiny
bone fragments. But why?
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What is it about ancient bones...
even those thought to have
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belonged to a saint... that
compel people to come and visit them?
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Could it be they possess some
mystical or otherworldly power?
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MCGOWAN: The idea of saints'
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bones and relics having power is
something that goes back to the
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very early days of Christianity.
And certainly in the latter part
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of the Dark Ages and the Middle
Ages, they became very big
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business.
If you had saints' relics in
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your church or in your
cathedral, you could bring in a
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lot of pilgrims who would also
There was a strong belief by the
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nobility and the royalty that
the bones of these saints
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actually did contain
some kind of power.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: Humans
always want to worship their
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celebrities, their kings.
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Whatever was linked with
mysteries, humans worshipped it.
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So, in antiquity, it entered
already into altars.
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When a high priest died, part of
his body, part of his bones, was
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sometimes separated, brought
to different countries.
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And everyone worshipped
the bone in an altar.
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That's still happening in
Christianity.
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NARRATOR: Kushinagar, India.
483 B.C.
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Siddhartha Gautama, the great
spiritual teacher upon whom
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Buddhism is founded, dies.
According to legend, after
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Buddha was cremated, several
small pieces of his body
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remained intact and were
retrieved from the ashes.
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JUDY HO: After his cremation,
the ashes were fought over by a
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lot of his disciples.
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And finally, they resolved to
the problem by dividing, um,
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them into eight different parts.
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When the Buddha's ashes were
divided... and there's a claim
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that there's a tooth found
there... it was considered...
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it was very valuable.
Right away, when the tooth was
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given to a king, the relic...
the tooth relic itself... became
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associated with the
power of kingship.
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And it is believed that the
king who possesses the tooth
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will be able to rule properly
and there will be peace and
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prosperity in his kingdom.
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NARRATOR: Could such
a tiny but tangible
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relic from the mouth of
the dead Buddha really
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have such power?
Is a physical link to a holy and
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venerated leader really a means
of connecting to the afterlife
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and, even more profoundly,
some divine life force?
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HO: The worship of relics,
actually, is as old as the
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Buddhist religion itself and
many other religions, too.
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The Buddha himself approves of
the worship of relics because
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he believes that his followers
need something very concrete to
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remind them of his presence
and his teachings.
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The relics are supposed to be
actually the essence of the
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saints. So, in a way,
the relics are the
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saints themselves, so they have
the powers of the saints.
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COLLINS: The importance here
is: Why is it that objects like
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this can gain such an
incredible spiritual value?
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And, quite clearly, it's to do
with the-the psychology of the
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importance of-of individuals
like the Buddha, who is seen to
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be personifications of God or
the gods themselves and that
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just to own this or to have some
part of it imbues you with the
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same power as the gods themselves.
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CHILDRESS: So you have to
wonder just why these relics
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are so important.
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We give them power, these
bones and these teeth.
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But what they are...at least
in a scientific manner... is a piece
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of DNA from the Buddha himself.
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DANIKEN: I think they knew
that in a far future, the gods,
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the extraterrestrials,
would return again.
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And some of these gods may have
said to one of his darlings on
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planet Earth, "If we find your
body or your cells are still
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existing, then we are able to
reconstruct your body."
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NARRATOR: Cloning dead saints
using DNA from their relics?
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Could this incredible notion be
one of the reasons why bone
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fragments and other human
remains have been so prized
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throughout the centuries?
And might this now very real
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scientific possibility be
connected to ancient religious
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notions of rebirth and
resurrection?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
in another mysterious relic that
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some believe depicts the greatest
religious figure of all time.
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The Cathedral of Turin,
Northern Italy.
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Here lies the sacred relic known
as the Shroud of Turin, a large
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piece of linen which, when
photographed, bears the eerie
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image of what appears
to be a crucified man.
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DESALVO: The Shroud of Turin
is a piece of ancient linen
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cloth, measures about 14 feet
long by three and a half feet
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wide, and what's so important
about this cloth is, there's a
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very faint imprint of a human
being on the cloth who appears
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to have been crucified,
which matches the biblical
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descriptions of Jesus Christ.
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So, many believe that this
shroud, this relic, is the
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actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ,
and bears the wounds of crucifixion.
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FULCO: The Shroud of Turin has
such a fascinating history,
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and the question is: Is it authentic?
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Those who are against it say,
no, this could easily have been
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a fake, and a body would never
have left such an image and so on.
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The chemicals of an embalmed body
would not have done such a thing.
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But the people who say that are
not able to explain how the
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figure did get there.
It's not painted.
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It doesn't seem to be a pigment
that's applied to the cloth.
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DESALVO: The shroud has been
studied, actually, by some of
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the top scientists and
researchers in the world.
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And with all the scientific
knowledge and equipment, we
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still do not know how the image
of the shroud was produced.
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McGOWAN: And this is what I think
continues to fascinate us about it.
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Regardless of what you believe,
whether you are a Christian and
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a believer and bieve that this
is the image of the resurrected
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Christ, or if you just believe
that there is some other
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extraordinary metaphysical event
that causes this, you have to be
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fascinated by the fact that this
extraordinary relic could not
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have been created by any means that
in the 21st century we can identify.
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NARRATOR: Could the Shroud of
Turin really be a divine relic?
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Tangible evidence of the
existence of an almighty power?
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HENRY: And in 2011, Italian
scientists were able to prove
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that the Shroud of Turin was
created by a supernatural
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flash of light, an
unearthly flash of light.
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In my opinion, the Shroud of
Turin is proof that Jesus
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transformed himself into a being
of light, and projected himself
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through the Shroud of Turin.
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NARRATOR: Does the Shroud of
Turin actually contain an image
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of the crucified Jesus?
Or could this sacred object be
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something else?
Might it, in fact, be evidence
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of an incredibly advanced,
otherworldly technology?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining another, even more
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perplexing, ancient artifact.
One found on a land known as the
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Emerald Isle.
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NARRATOR: Southern Ireland.
Here, approximately five miles
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northwest of the small city of
Cork, lies the Blarney Castle.
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Built more than 500 years ago,
this nearly 90-foot-tall
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fortress houses the world-famous
Blarney Stone, a relic that more
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than 300,000 people
come to kiss each year.
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YOUNG: It is not in a
convenient location.
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It's in the castle wall
high up on the outside.
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So, to kiss it, you've got to
dangle over or sneak around so
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that you're really at some peril
of falling a very great distance.
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SABINA MAGLIOCCO: According
to legend, it grants whoever
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kisses it the power to speak in
an articulate and charismatic
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way and to flatter and
blandish in any circumstance.
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DAVID WILCOCK: Here you have a
stone that has been kissed and
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revered by probably
millions of people.
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Blarney is the gift of gab, and
so the idea is that somehow
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kissing this stone gives you the
ability to talk better or to
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somehow amplify
your verbal prowess.
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NARRATOR: Composed of a
single block of bluestone...
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the same material used
at Stonehenge...this stone relic's
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magical powers are widely
renowned.
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But could a stone
really have such power?
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One that could actually affect
an individual's power of speech?
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YOUNG: And the story is, in
the 15th century, Cormac
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MacCarthy had a court case
coming up, and he was concerned
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about this and called upon the
goddess Cliodhna, the Queen of
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the Banshees, to help him find
the right words and present a
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good case.
She did.
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She said, "Listen, on your way
to court, kiss the first stone
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you see, and you'll be eloquent,
you'll find the words."
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And he did this.
He went to court, he was very
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persuasive, and won his case.
On his way home, he picked up
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that rock and carried it back,
and had his workman fashion it
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into a stone and set it
into the wall of his castle
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where it is still to be found.
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WILCOCK: When you look at
Irish mythology as a whole,
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it starts to become
pretty obvious
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that these people such as
Cliodhna were not ordinary
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earthborn humans, but were,
in fact, most likely
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extraterrestrial humans, who
came to the earth and shared
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their technology.
And Blarney being the gift of
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gab, the gift of talking more
eloquently, is something that
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may have been impregnated into
the stone by an extraterrestrial
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technology using energetic means
that we're not now aware of.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest, that the Blarney Stone
is actually evidence of some
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ancient and otherworldly power?
Technology that helps to prove
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that ancient man was in direct
contact with highly-developed
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beings from another
part of the galaxy?
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If so, might the character known
in Irish folklore as the goddess
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Cliodhna, actually have
been a celestial traveler?
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Perhaps more clues can be found
by investigating another
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mysterious stone relic,
located just 160 miles away.
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County Meath, Ireland.
On top of this mound, known as
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the Hill of Tara, lies the Lia
Fáil, or Stone of Destiny...
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one of four magical treasures said
to have been brought to Ireland
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by mythical deities called
the Tuatha De Danann.
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YOUNG: The Lia Fáil was a
stone that was considered
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magical. All of the
kings of Ireland, up
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until the fifth century of the
common era, were said to have
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been crowned on this.
It seemed to know who the true
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king was. They say,
if the true king put
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his feet up on it, it
would roar with delight.
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It also had the power to give
strength to the leader, to help
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him solidify his rule, and, in some
cases, to heal, if that was necessary.
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NARRATOR: To mainstream
scientists and archaeologists,
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this stone relic represents nothing
more than the coronation stone
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of Ireland's ancient kings.
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But according to Irish mythology,
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the Hill of Tara was also a sacred
dwelling place for the gods.
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MAGLIOCCO: The Hill of
Tara is a mound and,
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like many mounds in Ireland,
like many of these
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sádhe mounds, it is allegedly
the entrance to the realm of the
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sádhe, or these
otherworldly people.
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The word sádhe means both
the people themselves, the
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otherworldly people, and the mounds
in which they are said to dwell.
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And the Hill of Tara is allegedly
an entrance to the other world.
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YOUNG: The Hill of Tara is considered
the sacred center of Ireland.
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The kings ruled from there for
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many centuries in ancient and
in, uh, early history.
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And this was considered a sacred
portal to another dimension, to
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the other world, so it had more
than the authority of kingship.
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It had the authority of the
supernatural.
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CHILDRESS: In Irish mythology,
the Tuatha De Danaan
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were gods who had magical powers.
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They arrived from the landof
the west, these mythical lands
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of the gods.
They were said to come in these
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dark clouds, which then landed
in the mountains of Ireland.
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And when they came, there were
three nights and three days of
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darkness. So you have
to ask yourself what
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kind of power they had, and were
they some kind of celestial
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visitors arriving in UFOs?
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WILCOCK: Maybe the
extraterrestrials found
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a way to help society
make advancements,
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including the selection
of a virtuous leader.
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It's entirely possible that this
stone is not just something that
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was coming out of a mythology,
that the Lia Fáil was an
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engineered device, that those
leaders were able to be
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assessed by the stone and even
maybe see into their destiny,
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see into their future.
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NARRATOR: Might the Lia Fáil,
a stone relic imbued with power
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like the Blarney Stone, really
be evidence of highly advanced
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knowledge brought to mankind
by the so-called gods?
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And do these sacred objects
provide proof of ancient man's
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extraterrestrial connections?
Perhaps the answers can be
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found by examining strange and
unusual relics fallen from the sky.
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NARRATOR: Valley of the
Kings, Egypt.
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November 1922.
Archaeologist Howard Carter
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discovers King Tutankhamun's
tomb, containing a treasure
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trove of artifacts.
Among them is King Tut's
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magnificent breastplate with a
yellow jewel as its centerpiece,
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a jewel created as the result
of a meteorite impact.
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GEOFFREY NOTKIN: In Egyptian
culture, there was a fascination
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with Libyan desert glass.
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And while it's not actually a
meteorite, Libyan desert glass
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is the product of a meteorite impact.
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Millions of years ago, an
enormous meteorite crashed into
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what is today the Egyptian
desert, and the heat and
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pressure of that impact melted
the sand in the desert, forming
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a beautiful yellow impact glass.
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ROBERT BAUVAL: And it crystallizes
the sand; it forms glass.
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And you get these wonderful,
almost like jewel stones you get.
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And they clearly imagined these
stones to be celestial, to have
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been created by the impact of a star.
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And therefore they were
given cosmic meaning.
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NARRATOR: Humans have long
had a fascination with
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meteorites and have fashioned many
tools and spiritual objects from them.
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But why?
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YOUNG: There are many
magical stories of meteors,
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meteorites and meteor showers.
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Aeschylus in Prometheus Unbound
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talks about an angry Zeus
throwing rocks down at the Earth.
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In the Aeneid, Virgil
speaks of meteors.
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He describes a meteor shower as
indicating Troy is about to fall.
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Such folk liefs about meteors,
shooting stars, meteorites were
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common in the ancient world,
where, clearly, a piece of stone
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from the heavens is
worshipped as a divine item.
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TSOUKALOS: The reason why
they were so important was
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because they inherently had
the power of the gods in them
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because they were already
forged in the universe and they
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descended from the sky.
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NARRATOR: Meteoric gemstones
like Libyan desert glass have
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been venerated throughout history.
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But one particularly mysterious
green gemstone could be the
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most sought-after relic of all time.
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NOTKIN: Moldavite is the
name given to a green impact
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glass of extraordinary beauty
and rarity that's only found in
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one small region of
the Czech Republic.
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It's very old.
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HENRY: Metaphysically,
moldavite creates thistrange
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pulsating energy field that amplifies
human thoughts or intention.
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If you're a loving or
compassionate person, it will
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amplify that, or it can bring
chaos if your thoughts and
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energy and emotions are chaotic.
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NARRATOR: According to some
legends, the Holy Grail, the
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cup from which Jesus and his
apostles drank during the Last
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Supper, was carved from a green
gemstone that had fallen to
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Earth from the heavens.
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YOUNG: It is said that there
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was discord in the heavens
involving Lucifer, and a stone
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dropped. It was a
stone that at one time
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had been the center of Lucifer's
crown when he was an important angel.
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It dropped to Earth.
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It was then a piece of Heaven on
Earth and had great power and
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was greatly venerated.
It was carved into the Holy
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Grail, which was not made of
metal but of this beautiful
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emerald, a precious
stone from Heaven.
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NARRATOR: Could the green
gemstone that supposedly fell
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from Lucifer's crown have been
made not of emerald but of
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moldavite?
Perhaps more evidence can be
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found in the legends of another
sacred stone that fell from the
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sky more than 4,000 miles away.
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Yumbulakang Palace, Southern Tibet.
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Here, according to legend,
the 28th king, Lha Thothori
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Nyantsen, obtains a magical
jewel called Cintamani.
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It is said to be one of four
revered relics that fell from
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the sky in a chest.
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NOTKIN: The Cintamani Stone
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is a fascinating myth that could
well have meteorite
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associations.
It describes a jewel that's
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meant to have enormous
properties that it can bestow
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upon its owner, and there are
legends that some of the
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greatest warriors and leaders in
all of history, including King
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Solomon, owned this jewel, that
it was passed from one great
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ruler or leader to another.
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COLLINS: In both Hindu and
Buddhist tradition, um, there
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are stories relating to a
so-called wishing jewel.
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And it wielded great power.
It had a-a connection between
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this world and the next, that it
could be used to interact, uh,
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not just with other worlds but
the center of the universe itself.
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COPPENS: It is said that
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whoever possessed the Cintamani
stone was able to control
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destiny, that every wish was granted.
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00:35:00,392 --> 00:35:04,962
Now, a stone or an object which
is able to change reality, truly
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that is something which is a
piece of technology, and how our
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ancestors got this is a gigantic
question mark, which fortunately
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our ancestors have answered for us.
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Their answer is that this came
from the sky, that it was given
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to us by the gods, and that it
played a role in this exchange
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between us and the divine.
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NARRATOR: Could the legends
of the Cintamani stone be based
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on fact? If so,
might this otherworldly
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stone, as well as other sacred
and mysterious relics, hp
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forge a connection between
mankind and extraterrestrial
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00:35:41,733 --> 00:35:45,752
forces? Ancient astronaut
theorists say
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yes, and believe the ultimate
proof can be found in one of the
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most sacred objects in the world.
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NARRATOR: Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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50 miles from the Red Sea,
this is Islam's holiest city.
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It was here in 2000 B.C.
that Muslims believe the prophet
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Abraham built the Kaaba, a
cube-shaped structure that draws
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millions of pilgrims each year.
But just what is it about this
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building that is so sacred?
And why do so many people line
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up to touch it?
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ROBERT MULLINS: On the eastern
side of the Kaaba is a
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meteorite stone which is embedded
in the corner of the Kaaba.
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Now, according to Muslim belief,
this meteorite stone was sent
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from heaven to Adam and Eve.
And that stone was used to build
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the first temple.
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And this really makes Mecca the
most holy place to Muslims.
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CHILDRESS: Muhammad himself threw
out all of the other gods,
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the deities and statues.
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00:37:10,322 --> 00:37:16,159
But he retained the one strange
thing that was there: the black
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00:37:16,161 --> 00:37:20,681
stone, the extraterrestrial
object that's still worshipped
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00:37:20,683 --> 00:37:24,434
today at Mecca.
So, you have to wonder why
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Muhammad specifically chose that
object as part of his religion
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that would remain, as
part of the Muslim faith.
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It would have to be some memory
of an extraterrestrial event.
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NARRATOR: Might the black
stone of Mecca and other sacred
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relics really possess great power?
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Could they be gateways, not only
to ancient knowledge, but to
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other worlds and even
other dimensions?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining what many believe
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to be the most sacred and
powerful of all the Earth's
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mysterious relics: the
cross of Jesus Christ.
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NARRATOR: Jerusalem.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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According to some researchers,
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this sacred site is the place
where the crucified Jesus was
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buried, and after three days,
rose from the dead.
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And it was near here, in 326
A.D., that the remains
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of a relic thought to be Jesus's cross
were discovered by a Roman empress.
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MAGLIOCCO: Empress Helena was
the mother of the emperor
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Constantine, and she was an
early convert to Christianity.
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According to legend, she
journeyed to the holy land to
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found a number of churches
there, and when she was there
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she was drawn to the-the Hill of
Calvary, where Jesus was
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allegedly executed.
And she had the pagan temple
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00:39:10,493 --> 00:39:14,111
which she found there torn down,
and in the rubble of that
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temple, she allegedly discovered
the true cross, the cross where
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Jesus was crucified.
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YOUNG: She found three crosses.
Well, Christ was crucified with
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two thieves, so three crosses
might be the right artifacts.
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But to test them, she brought a
woman with terminal disease,
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very near death, to touch the crosses.
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She touched the first two and
her condition was unchanged.
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When she touched the third
cross, she was miraculously
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healed, and Helena declared that to be
the true cross upon which Christ died.
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REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER:
The true cross, it's sacred.
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Sacred to many, many, many people.
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And people collect these, or
like to say that they... they
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may have pieces of this cross,
because it brings them closer to
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the one they love, or their Lord
and Savior, call it what you will.
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Literally hundreds of Christian
churches lay claim to the fact
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that they have pieces of the
actual cross that Jesus died on.
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MAGLIOCCO: Like many relics
or pieces of saints' bodies, the
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true cross where Jesus was
crucified was believed to have
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all kinds of miraculous powers,
including healing powers and the
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power to grant, um, salvation.
So if you were to touch or own a
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relic of the true cross, a piece
of the true cross, some of that
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power that Christ had would
transfer itself to you through
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the power of touch.
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CHILDRESS: It's a fascinating
thought that relics like the
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true cross could contain some
divine energy that will heal
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people, even raise
them from the dead.
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So is it possible that they are
some kind of extraterrestrial
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artifacts with some kind of power
in them that we don't understand?
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NARRATOR: Could fragments of
Jesus's cross,
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like other ancient stones and relics,
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really have harnessed strange
extraterrestrial energy?
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Could legends concerning mysterious
healing powers really be true?
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CARTER: It's very human for
people to want to possess,
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whether it's a piece of cloth,
a stone, uh, a follicle of hair...
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00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:34,784
to posses an object that means
something to them,
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an object that can perhaps
help them in their life.
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Could these relics assist us
in-in invoking otherworldly power?
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I think we need to be open.
We need to be open to that
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possibility. Clearly,
our ancestors thought so.
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COLLINS: Well, ancient relics
were very important to many
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different ancient cultures, um, just
as they still are today to religions.
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And the reason for this is that
it was believed that they were
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access points to otherworldly
environments wherein the gods,
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the spirits, the immortals dwelled.
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HENRY: Throughout history, we
find that some of our most
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powerful figures, our most powerful
leaders, have gone on relic quests.
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They're looking for the Holy Grail, the
Spear of Destiny, the Key of Life.
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00:42:29,458 --> 00:42:33,443
And the belief is that if we can
acquire these relics, we will
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acquire powers beyond
human comprehension.
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00:42:37,533 --> 00:42:40,984
Powers that originally came from
the gods that will make us more
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godlike if we can get
our hands on them.
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COPPENS: The relic tradition,
this tooth from a-a deity, the
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00:42:49,295 --> 00:42:52,546
bone from a saint, all of these
aspects really tie in that
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00:42:52,548 --> 00:42:57,450
somehow, this deity, this saint
is able to link us mere mortals
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to the realm of the divine.
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00:43:04,008 --> 00:43:09,980
NARRATOR: Sacred bones...
golden hats...
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and fragments of sacred objects
thought to possess healing
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00:43:13,986 --> 00:43:18,021
properties.
Is it possible that these
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00:43:18,023 --> 00:43:21,191
ancient and mysterious relics
help to prove that
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00:43:21,193 --> 00:43:25,078
extraterrestrials not only
visited Earth in the ancient
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00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,033
past, but remain strangely
connected to us throughout space
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00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:34,671
and time? Perhaps
the truth of mankind's
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origins has been right before
our eyes for hundreds and
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thousands of years, in fabric,
metal and stone, and in the DNA
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00:43:46,185 --> 00:43:51,355
of holy saints and martyrs, who
someday, thanks to modern
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00:43:51,357 --> 00:43:54,988
science, may even rise again.
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