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NARRATOR:
Enormous man-made caves.
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PAUL BAHN: Nobody knows what
on earth these things are.
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Unexplainable structures.
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LOGAN HAWKES: You ask them,
"How did you build these?"
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And they'll say,
"We didn't build this."
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And underwater discoveries
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that challenge everything
we know about the past.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
That's amazing.
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I'm convinced.
Something's going on down there.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that an advanced civilization
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inhabited the earth thousands of years ago?
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And if so, were they human
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or something out of this world?
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Extraterrestrials
colonized Planet Earth
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thousands of years ago.
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The more we uncover, it will
all point in one direction.
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We are not the first.
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Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited its origins to gods
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and other visitors from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help to shape our history?
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And if so...
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what might we learn
from the study of aliens BC?
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NARRATOR:
Traverse City, Michigan.
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May 22, 2015.
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At an undisclosed location
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in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan,
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author and explorer David Childress
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has teamed up with
sonar technician Brian Abbott
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and underwater photographer Chris Doyal
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to investigate a series of strange
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underwater rock alignments
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they first discovered in 2007.
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So you don't bring very many
people out here, do you?
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No, you're one of the first
we've brought out to this site.
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We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret.
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Chris has been out here a few times.
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Well, it's a pretty sensitive site, so
we try to keep traffic to a minimum.
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Well, how did you find this site, anyway?
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Uh, we were actually
out looking for shipwrecks
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and we put our sonar down off the side
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and I started to see stones
line up on my rose compass.
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Okay, and then you deploy this
sonar and take a picture, huh?
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Yeah, we, uh, we can get
that done here real quick,
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we can deploy the sonar off the side
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and, uh, start getting some images
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and show you what we've got on the screen.
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All right, great, let's do it.
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Excellent.
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When I first found these
on the computer screen,
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I started to laugh, because it was like,
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this can't be true, and I jokingly said,
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"Hey, we have our own
Stonehenge underwater,"
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and everyone, "Ha, ha, ha,"
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and I started looking at it
farther and I'm going, "Wow.
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We might have something here."
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Set the cable here, we'll be all set.
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So we'll take a look at the computer screen.
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Okay?
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All right.
So the sonar's spinning around.
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So as you can see in this,
uh, deployment location,
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we have, we've got one, two,
three, four, five, six stones.
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And what's really interesting about this
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is, these stones all measure
the same distance across.
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CHILDRESS: Yeah, this does look
like an artificial alignment...
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this stone circle and then
this line of stones there.
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Yeah, that was unique to me,
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because as an engineer, when I look at stuff
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that's square or rectangular
or circle in nature,
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it-it kind of makes it jump out,
because Mother Nature
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generally doesn't do things like that.
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What I saw on the sonar
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looked a lot like stone circles
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and stone alignments
that I've seen in England,
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or Carnac in France,
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and it makes me wonder what's going on here
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in Ancient North America.
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So have you actually, uh, been down here
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in scuba equipment?
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No, I haven't, but Chris has.
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Yeah, we went down and I actually
took some still photographs of it
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and we noticed on one of the stones
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there's some really interesting
carvings on the surface of it.
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Some people have even said
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that it appears to resemble a mastodon.
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Really?
- Really.
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Wow. Can we go down there now and see it?
- Yeah, absolutely.
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NARRATOR:
Taking an underwater camera
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down to the mastodon rock,
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Chris Doyal will send up a live feed
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to a monitor on the boat.
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As he descends, he's gonna pick
out the stone here.
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CHILDRESS:
Okay.
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What's that?
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CHILDRESS: Is-is this the stone
that has the carvings on it?
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Yes, it is.
So he's moving slowly in on it.
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So you can see the head,
right through there.
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There's a tusk.
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So we have one leg coming down.
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CHILDRESS: It does look like the
stone has been carved, and...
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ABBOTT: Yeah.
- Yeah, you can see the legs and a trunk on it.
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Wow! That's amazing.
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I'm...
- Yeah, it truly is.
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Yeah, I-I'm convinced.
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Uh, something's going on down there.
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ABBOTT: Between 10,000
and 12,000 years ago,
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mastodons went extinct.
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So we've got a carving on a rock formation
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at, you know, a depth of water
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that, uh, you know, probably
shouldn't be here, but is here.
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This rock is probably made out of granite,
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which is very, very hard,
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and if you look up close at these markings,
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you can see that these were made
by percussion marks.
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These weren't just scratched
into the surface,
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that each line was individually pecked out.
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That rock looks like it has
a carving of a mastodon on it.
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And that would mean that
that carving was made
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before the extinction of these mastodons.
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So you have to wonder
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what was going on here in North America
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at the time of the last ice age.
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The carved image of a mastodon?
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An animal that has been extinct
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for over 10,000 years?
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But what is it doing
at the bottom of Lake Michigan?
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Could it really be part
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of an artificially created rock formation,
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like Stonehenge in England?
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If so, it would have to have been created
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before the end of the last ice
age, when the lake bed was dry...
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over 12,000 years ago...
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and that would contradict
the currently held belief
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that early humans were not capable
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of erecting monumental
structures in North America,
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or anywhere else, at that time.
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You never know when something's
going to pop up
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that's going to totally change
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your whole view of a, of a period
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or even of human development.
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One of the main trends
that I've noticed in archaeology
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is that the dates for things
tend to go back all the time;
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the earliest pottery in a place,
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the earliest arrival of people in a place.
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They always turn out to be earlier
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than we traditionally thought.
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ANDREW COLLINS: Today we know
that there was a monument
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on the site of Stonehenge
at least 10,000 years ago.
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And this is not speculation.
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The archaeologists are saying this today.
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And the same thing seems to be going on
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in other parts of the world.
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CHILDRESS:
New dating techniques
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done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza
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indicate that it was carved
before 10,000 BC.
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So more and more, as we make
new discoveries in archaeology,
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it's pushing mankind and civilization
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back farther and farther.
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TSOUKALOS:
Earth has a much deeper
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prehistory than what we read
about in textbooks today.
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You can read that Puma Punku
or Tiahuanaco, for example,
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was built between 500 and 800 AD.
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Some archaeologists have suggested
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that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco
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might date back as far as 12,000 years BC,
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so around 14,000 years ago.
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NARRATOR:
Could it be
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that a sophisticated culture
existed on Earth
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thousands and even tens
of thousands of years ago?
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But if so, who built it?
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What happened to it?
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And might there still be remnants of it,
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standing boldly, right before our eyes?
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According to ancient astronaut theorists,
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many of the answers can be found
by looking no further
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than the Old Testament of the Bible.
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NARRATOR: Throughout the world, there
are incredible man-made structures
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that have been found to date
back thousands of years earlier
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than archaeologists initially thought.
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Is it possible that an advanced
civilization really existed
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on Earth in mankind's prehistory?
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A close examination
of the so-called "Old Testament"
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of the Judeo-Christian
Bible suggests
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that although Adam and Eve are
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presumably the first humans created by God,
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their son Cain later went on to marry
and join a thriving community.
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REVEREND LIONEL FANTHORPE: There
are a number of biblical stories
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which make us suspect
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that perhaps Homo sapiens were
not the only species on Earth
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or even the first ones.
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Although Adam and Eve are recorded
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in the Garden of Eden
as the first human parents
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that when Cain went on his way
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after murdering his brother, Abel,
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he comes to another city
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Now, who are they?
What are they?
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NARRATOR: According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
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several ancient texts can be
found that describe beings
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that dwelled upon the earth
before the time of Adam and Eve.
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These are often referred to
as the "pre-Adamites."
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There is a long and ancient history
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of what today
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Now, who are they and what are they?
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This is a subject, of course,
of many legends.
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Those legends tell us
tremendous amount of things.
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People's lives extended
for thousands of years.
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They allegedly reached
high levels of technology,
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even traveling to the stars,
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and yet somehow something went
wrong in their civilization.
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The pre-Adamic
civilization fell,
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but some went to the stars,
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and they were told, ordered by God,
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to watch and to observe.
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Well, let's assume for a moment
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that we had this incredible
planet, and, all of a sudden,
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the extraterrestrials,
other beings, came here,
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and they had their own
facilities, their own monuments,
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their own communities
for at least some time.
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And then, somewhere along
the line, they took off.
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NARRATOR:
Stories of a time
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when otherworldly beings
occupied the planet can be found
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in nearly all world mythologies.
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For the ancient Egyptians,
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the dawn of life on Earth is referred to
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as "Zep Tepi," "the first time,"
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when the god Osiris served
as an earthly ruler.
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The ancient Greeks called
this period the "Golden Age,"
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when the Titans and
the Olympians dwelled on Earth.
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And the ancient Sumerian
accounts detail a time
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before the creation of man
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when the gods were the sole
occupants of the planet.
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The basic suggestion is
that extraterrestrials colonized
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Planet Earth thousands of years ago,
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and we're talking not 10,000
or 15,000 years ago,
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but hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR: But if an advanced,
possibly extraterrestrial,
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civilization really did exist here on Earth,
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why is there no record of it?
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No apparent archaeological
or architectural evidence?
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BAHN: For most of the cultures
studied by archaeology,
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we are bereft
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of probably the vast majority
of what they produced.
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This is particularly true the
further back in time you go,
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simply because anything organic
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TSOUKALOS: The reason why most
of the ancient monuments
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were built by using stone
is because stone lasts forever.
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That's it.
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And the reason why we have
these monuments today
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is because they were calling cards.
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They were calling cards
of a pre-civilization.
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NARRATOR: Mechanical engineers,
like Nikhil Kar, study
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the deterioration, corrosion
and decomposition
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of various materials to
determine the approximate rate
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of decay and structural failure.
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By applying these principles to a cityscape,
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scientists are able to determine
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roughly how long it would take the hallmarks
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of a sophisticated civilization
to disappear.
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If civilization was abandoned,
after 50 years,
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you would start to see, um,
material degradation processes
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take over for a skyscraper, for example,
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would see parts of the external
facade crumbling to the ground.
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For steel material, you're gonna
start to see little pits form
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in that steel structure.
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After a thousand years, the soil
may begin to absorb the material
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and erode the material itself.
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Eventually, you're gonna get to a point
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where only stone materials,
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natural stones are gonna be
around, such as Mount Rushmore.
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NARRATOR:
Quito, Ecuador.
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Here in the grasslands of South America
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are the remnants of the Great Incan Road.
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The sophisticated network
of pathways and trails covers
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over 25,000 miles though Ecuador, Peru,
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Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.
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The Inca built this vast roadway
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without the use of the wheel,
draft animals, metal tools
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or even a written language.
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Yet modern engineers have noted
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that the roadway incorporates
advanced engineering principles.
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ED BARNHART: The Inca road
system was really one
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of the most magnificent ancient
architectural feats ever made.
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One of the things that made
the Inca roads so incredible
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is that they traversed the Andes,
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these incredibly tall, steep mountains.
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They had to bore tunnels through mountains.
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They cut narrow paths
along sheer cliff faces.
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BRIEN FOERSTER: One
of the most intriguing things
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about the Inca road system
is that there is a major artery
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that goes from the northwest
to the southeast.
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And along that,
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we find almost every major
megalithic construction,
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including Tiahuanaco, Puma Punku,
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Cuzco, Machu Picchu,
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Ollantaytambo and Saksaywaman.
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Many are starting to believe
that these megalithic structures
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are thousands of years older than the Inca,
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and therefore parts of the Inca
road system are, as well,
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thousands of years older
than that civilization.
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The Incas, so many of their great structures
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Cuzco and their royal highway
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you ask them, "Who built these?
How did you build these?"
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And they'll say,
"We didn't build this."
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Well, who did build it?
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CHILDRESS:
The Incas had elaborate legends
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of coming through
tunnel systems in the earth,
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appearing on an island in Lake Titicaca,
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and then coming to Cuzco
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and finding already a-a system
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of tunnels and-and ancient mines
and structures.
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It was home of the gods.
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It's where they lived before they left.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the foundations
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of the Inca superhighway
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and the megalithic sites
along it are remnants
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of an extraterrestrial civilization
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that once colonized Earth?
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According to ancient astronaut theorists,
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the answer is a profound yes.
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And to prove it, they point to a series
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of stone carvings said to depict mankind's
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ancient ancestors.
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NARRATOR:
Southeastern Turkey.
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Buried beneath 20 feet of sand,
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archaeologists unearth
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the world's oldest temple complex...
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Gobekli Tepe.
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Radiocarbon dating suggests
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that the site dates back
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to at least the tenth century BC,
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a time before the end of the last ice age
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and 6,000 years before prehistoric man
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was said to have developed language.
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BAHN:
Gobekli Tepe is really one
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of the greatest archaeological
discoveries of all time.
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There are very few finds in archaeology
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that really changed the whole
way we look at the past.
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And that is essentially what has happened,
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because our view
of hunter-gatherers,
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uh, has changed enormously.
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We now know they were capable
of coming together
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in large numbers with...
under presumably
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some kind of authority
to cooperate on massive projects
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such as Gobekli Tepe, which
involved bringing huge pieces
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of stone from quite some distance away,
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carving it beautifully,
setting these pillars upright,
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and doing this on a massive scale.
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The very first temples in
the world are at Gobekli Tepe.
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And-and this in many ways
changes everything,
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because here we have the smoking gun
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of a lost civilization.
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It confirms to us absolutely
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that at the end of the last ice age,
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there was high culture
existing in the world.
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There's no doubt in my mind
that there are question marks
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all around the ancient world.
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And Gobekli Tepe offers
such a giant question mark,
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because according to mainstream science,
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we were sitting in caves,
munching on bananas.
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And clearly that isn't the case.
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NARRATOR: Although,
to date, archaeologists
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have only excavated less than one acre
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of this 22-acre site,
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what they have found is astounding.
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The remains of a complex of buildings,
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massive walls
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and T-shaped stone formations,
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some nine to ten feet tall
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and weighing up to 50 tons.
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Many of the stone pillars are covered
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with relief carvings of animals,
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reptiles and insects.
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Archaeologists have also found
figures at the site
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that appear to represent humans
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with strangely stylized clothing.
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BAHN: We have no idea
what these humans represent.
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We suspect that these
are not just simple statues
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commemorating people.
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T-They could be gods.
They could be spirits.
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They could be ancestors,
something of that kind.
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NARRATOR: But perhaps most
intriguing is a life-size statue
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found just six miles away
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that has been dated to the same period...
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the Urfa Man.
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DAVID WILCOCK:
This looks like a person
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who has come from an advanced civilization,
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who's wearing something that has
much more of a defined collar,
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possibly even some sort
of advanced space suit.
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What the heck is he doing there?
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His face looks strange, he's bald,
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his head, his eyes look weird.
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There's something unusual about this guy,
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and that could be a clue
that leads us into the mystery
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of an antediluvian,
or pre-flood, civilization.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the strange humanoid figure
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found near Gobekli Tepe
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actually represents an extraterrestrial?
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A being from a lost civilization
that existed on Earth
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sometime before the last ice age?
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If so, does it give credence
to other ancient stories
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describing otherworldly civilizations
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that once existed here on Earth?
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There is this recessed courtyard
in Tiahuanaco
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that has all these different faces.
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These stones were found underneath the soil,
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meaning that at some point,
some type of event happened
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that buried these particular stones.
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Some have actually surmised
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that they represent some type
of a pre-flood civilization,
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that what we have here is, in fact,
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a remnant that depicts that society.
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All over the world, we have giant statues
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and-and carvings
of people's faces and heads.
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Some of them are giant colossal heads
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like the Olmec colossal heads.
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Others are the Easter Island
type statues, which are huge
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and depict people who have elongated heads.
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They're cone heads, essentially.
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They were giants of yore
with godlike powers.
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In my mind, we would
call them extraterrestrials.
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In all of these places,
the locals are saying,
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"Yes, these are our ancestors.
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These are the people
who came before us."
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NARRATOR: Might our planet
really have been inhabited
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by alien visitors
tens of thousands of years ago?
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And might they have brought
with them advanced knowledge,
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incredible architecture
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and technology that virtually
vanished, without a trace...
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save for a few stone carvings and monuments?
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But why?
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What catastrophic event
might have happened on Earth
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that would have wiped out everything
that wasn't made of stone?
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Perhaps further evidence
can be found by examining
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a number of massive
man-made caves
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recently discovered in China.
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NARRATOR:
Zhejiang Province, China.
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June 1992.
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A local villager pumping water
out of a pond in Phoenix Hill
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uncovers a man-made cavern
with stairs...
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hallways...
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and massive
ten-story-tall pillars.
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The grotto is one in a series
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of 24 separate caverns,
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each with similar proportions
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and intricately carved walls,
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floors and ceilings.
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BAHN: Nobody really knows what
on earth these things are.
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There's no trace
of them having been occupied
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or being used for storage.
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Uh, certainly not for burials.
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There's no trace of anything like that.
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TSOUKALOS: There's a Swiss
author by the name of Luc Burgin
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who was the first to take
this story outside of China
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in his book China's
Mysterious Cave Labyrinth.
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And what he showed me
convinced me that some kind
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of advanced technology was used here.
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It's one of the most
amazing things I've ever seen,
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where you enter this subterranean world
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that clearly has been
hewn out of the bedrock
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with artificial means.
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It's almost as if there was some
sort of artificial mechanism
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that was grinding and drilling
all of the stone out,
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and this suggests the possibility
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that they may have had
some sort of technology.
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NARRATOR:
Archaeologists estimate
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that the material excavated from the site
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would amount to nearly
one million cubic meters...
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approximately the volume
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of 400 Olympic-sized pools.
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Yet there is no evidence
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of where this material would have gone.
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And Chinese officials have calculated
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that an endeavor of this
magnitude would take a minimum
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of 1,000 men working day and night
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for at least five years.
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There is no historical record, uh,
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of these caverns having been excavated.
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So there's no document explaining
what they were used for,
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who excavated them.
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And this remains a very, very, uh,
frustrating detail for historians.
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COLLINS:
We know that in China
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there are written records that go back
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at least 3,000 years.
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They make absolutely
no mention of these caves.
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So we must look much further back in time
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for their origin.
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But exactly how old are they?
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Are they 4,000 years, 5,000 years?
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Are they even 10,000 years?
We just don't know at this time.
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TSOUKALOS:
Some have suggested
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that they're up to 15,000 years old.
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In fact, Chinese scholars
are the ones who have proposed
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that this cave system dates back
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to one of China's first emperors, Huang Di.
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And Huang Di, as we all know,
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descended from the sky in nothing
else but a fiery dragon.
501
00:27:23,081 --> 00:27:26,018
WILCOCK: Somebody went to an
extreme amount of trouble
502
00:27:26,043 --> 00:27:28,987
to build an underground civilization.
503
00:27:29,065 --> 00:27:30,698
Why would they do that?
504
00:27:31,666 --> 00:27:35,631
Is it possible that something was
happening on the surface of the Earth?
505
00:27:37,330 --> 00:27:40,048
When we go back to the Icelandic legends,
506
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,084
we see this cataclysm
507
00:27:42,126 --> 00:27:45,432
that is described as a cataclysm
of fire called the Ragnarok
508
00:27:45,744 --> 00:27:49,601
in which you have flames
in the air and rocks and gravel
509
00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:51,656
raining down from the sky.
510
00:27:53,372 --> 00:27:55,798
NARRATOR: In the Icelandic
Ragnarok legend,
511
00:27:55,829 --> 00:27:58,146
the world is turned upside down.
512
00:28:00,622 --> 00:28:03,404
A great fire is followed by a submersion
513
00:28:03,439 --> 00:28:04,799
of the world in water,
514
00:28:05,168 --> 00:28:08,876
resulting in the death of the
Nordic gods and their offspring.
515
00:28:10,903 --> 00:28:14,503
Only two humans are left
to repopulate the earth.
516
00:28:15,246 --> 00:28:18,553
It is a tale much like
that of the Great Flood found
517
00:28:18,691 --> 00:28:21,109
in the Judeo-Christian Bible.
518
00:28:21,455 --> 00:28:24,183
And similar stories of a great deluge...
519
00:28:24,491 --> 00:28:26,740
one that marks the end of an old world
520
00:28:26,904 --> 00:28:30,097
and the start of a new one...
can be found in the histories
521
00:28:30,132 --> 00:28:32,567
of virtually every ancient civilization
522
00:28:32,888 --> 00:28:34,257
on our planet.
523
00:28:36,404 --> 00:28:39,450
ROBERT SCHOCH: Virtually every
culture, every ancient culture
524
00:28:39,475 --> 00:28:41,966
talks about floods and ancient floods.
525
00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:44,616
Some people dismiss this as, you know,
526
00:28:44,878 --> 00:28:47,582
myth without explanation.
527
00:28:47,615 --> 00:28:50,922
But what we find geologically is, in fact,
528
00:28:51,140 --> 00:28:53,577
we would expect flood legends.
529
00:28:55,579 --> 00:28:59,188
NARRATOR: In 2007,
a consortium of geologists
530
00:28:59,454 --> 00:29:03,131
publishes its collective
findings indicating evidence
531
00:29:03,163 --> 00:29:05,108
of a major meteor event.
532
00:29:07,213 --> 00:29:10,005
What they discover
is a carbon-rich layer
533
00:29:10,038 --> 00:29:12,875
in the geological record at various sites
534
00:29:12,906 --> 00:29:15,144
across the globe dating back
535
00:29:15,175 --> 00:29:18,779
to around 10,900 BC.
536
00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:22,870
A separate study conducted by scientists
537
00:29:23,116 --> 00:29:26,621
studying Arctic ice core samples
finds evidence
538
00:29:26,775 --> 00:29:29,064
suggesting a rapid glacial melt
539
00:29:29,089 --> 00:29:31,734
at nearly the same time period.
540
00:29:33,212 --> 00:29:35,064
SCHOCH:
The Ice Age ends very,
541
00:29:35,096 --> 00:29:38,320
very dramatically,
almost literally overnight.
542
00:29:38,345 --> 00:29:40,501
You see this in the ice cores.
543
00:29:40,536 --> 00:29:43,322
All of a sudden, there are dramatic changes,
544
00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:45,141
temperatures rising,
545
00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:47,910
torrential rains,
546
00:29:47,942 --> 00:29:49,231
flooding.
547
00:29:51,077 --> 00:29:53,511
NARRATOR: Could
the geological record suggest
548
00:29:53,536 --> 00:29:57,341
that the stories
of a global cataclysm are true?
549
00:30:00,189 --> 00:30:03,741
If so, might the stories
of a cleansing of the earth
550
00:30:03,766 --> 00:30:06,801
of otherworldly beings, leaving only humans
551
00:30:06,826 --> 00:30:10,197
to repopulate the planet, also be true?
552
00:30:12,874 --> 00:30:15,955
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
553
00:30:16,570 --> 00:30:20,368
and suggest further evidence
exists in the tales
554
00:30:20,509 --> 00:30:23,111
of a long lost continent.
555
00:30:30,514 --> 00:30:32,836
NARRATOR:
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
556
00:30:34,538 --> 00:30:37,820
Here at the Minnesota Historical Society
557
00:30:38,142 --> 00:30:40,747
are housed boxes upon boxes
558
00:30:40,772 --> 00:30:42,792
of notes, letters
559
00:30:42,847 --> 00:30:46,349
and research material detailing evidence
560
00:30:46,374 --> 00:30:50,368
of an antediluvian,
or pre-flood, civilization.
561
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,789
The collection is the culmination
562
00:30:53,824 --> 00:30:56,130
of an exhaustive search for proof
563
00:30:56,231 --> 00:30:58,422
of a prehistoric civilization,
564
00:30:58,654 --> 00:31:02,046
conducted by
the 19th century U.S. senator.
565
00:31:02,116 --> 00:31:03,782
Ignatius Donnelly.
566
00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:08,634
COLLINS: Ignatius Donnelly
was a very interesting person.
567
00:31:09,605 --> 00:31:11,219
He was a U.S. congressman.
568
00:31:11,509 --> 00:31:13,341
Um, he was a writer.
569
00:31:13,411 --> 00:31:15,489
He was a-a cryptologist.
570
00:31:16,064 --> 00:31:20,659
And in 1882 he came out
with his most famous book...
571
00:31:21,104 --> 00:31:23,927
_
572
00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:28,759
What he did was to propose the existence
573
00:31:28,791 --> 00:31:30,838
of a mother civilization,
574
00:31:30,926 --> 00:31:33,586
a-a lost civilization
that existed
575
00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:36,339
at the time of the last ice age.
576
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,075
CHILDRESS: Ignatius Donnelly was
fascinated by the story
577
00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:42,807
of a lost civilization that was destroyed
578
00:31:43,671 --> 00:31:45,423
over 10,000 years ago.
579
00:31:46,789 --> 00:31:51,188
He looked into all kinds of
scientific anomalies at the time,
580
00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:55,107
including the extinction
of mammoths and other animals.
581
00:31:56,086 --> 00:31:59,690
Stories of a civilization
within the Americas
582
00:31:59,721 --> 00:32:01,164
and in the Atlantic.
583
00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:07,039
NARRATOR: In his writings,
Donnelly concluded
584
00:32:07,064 --> 00:32:10,542
that not only did a lost
civilization actually exist,
585
00:32:11,182 --> 00:32:14,808
but that it was destroyed
due to a meteoric-type event
586
00:32:14,886 --> 00:32:18,271
that shifted the earth's axis
in the distant past.
587
00:32:21,527 --> 00:32:24,648
Donnelly believed that remnants
of this civilization
588
00:32:24,886 --> 00:32:26,892
could be found in the Americas...
589
00:32:29,045 --> 00:32:31,303
and the ultimate evidence would be located
590
00:32:31,328 --> 00:32:33,420
underwater in the Caribbean.
591
00:32:35,717 --> 00:32:39,224
He was convinced that when
Christopher Columbus sailed west
592
00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:41,585
from Spain in 1492,
593
00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:43,589
he knew this as well.
594
00:32:45,831 --> 00:32:48,145
COLLINS: The explorer
Christopher Columbus,
595
00:32:48,247 --> 00:32:50,849
before his epic journey to the New World,
596
00:32:51,157 --> 00:32:55,661
was very much aware of the
stories of a lost civilization.
597
00:32:56,527 --> 00:32:58,480
It was something that was discussed
598
00:32:58,550 --> 00:33:01,359
in the various European cults at this time.
599
00:33:02,449 --> 00:33:05,784
Ancient mariners, the voyagers of the past,
600
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,488
had maps which showed
different areas of the earth,
601
00:33:10,701 --> 00:33:14,232
which they could not know
anything possibly about
602
00:33:14,288 --> 00:33:17,153
because they hadn't been
discovered at that time,
603
00:33:17,259 --> 00:33:19,002
and were probably accessible
604
00:33:19,036 --> 00:33:21,031
to people like Christopher Columbus,
605
00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:23,457
before his journey to the New World.
606
00:33:25,482 --> 00:33:27,428
There were legends in the Middle Ages
607
00:33:27,453 --> 00:33:29,554
that there was a land
608
00:33:29,579 --> 00:33:32,475
and a continent across the Atlantic.
609
00:33:33,748 --> 00:33:36,369
And early maps started showing...
610
00:33:36,394 --> 00:33:38,230
before Columbus, even...
611
00:33:38,290 --> 00:33:40,184
a large island in the Atlantic,
612
00:33:40,209 --> 00:33:42,137
which they called Antillia.
613
00:33:43,672 --> 00:33:47,203
Columbus, on his first journey
to the New World,
614
00:33:47,282 --> 00:33:49,253
as he neared the Caribbean,
615
00:33:49,324 --> 00:33:53,161
he started seeing weird lights in the sky.
616
00:33:54,963 --> 00:33:57,050
So you have to wonder:
617
00:33:57,075 --> 00:33:59,277
were extraterrestrials
618
00:33:59,302 --> 00:34:03,039
purposely trying to help Columbus?
619
00:34:03,337 --> 00:34:07,342
Perhaps some of the knowledge
that he had of maps,
620
00:34:07,375 --> 00:34:11,713
and that he was really going
to find land across this ocean,
621
00:34:11,871 --> 00:34:13,914
had been assured to him.
622
00:34:17,046 --> 00:34:20,447
NARRATOR: Could Columbus have been
purposely guided to this area
623
00:34:20,722 --> 00:34:23,944
not only by ancient maps of unknown origin,
624
00:34:24,147 --> 00:34:27,638
but also by extraterrestrial beings?
625
00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:31,231
Although the secret maps and charts
626
00:34:31,266 --> 00:34:33,626
of Christopher Columbus have been lost,
627
00:34:34,723 --> 00:34:38,096
scholars attribute them
as having been a key source
628
00:34:38,121 --> 00:34:42,482
in the creation of one of
history's most enigmatic maps.
629
00:34:44,796 --> 00:34:49,389
The Piri Reis map has been dated to 1513 AD,
630
00:34:49,788 --> 00:34:53,155
but what it illustrates
suggests geological knowledge
631
00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:56,684
that was unknown until our modern age.
632
00:34:57,577 --> 00:34:59,716
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
A Turkish seaman,
633
00:34:59,741 --> 00:35:02,142
an admiral, painted the map.
634
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,600
His name was Piri Reis.
635
00:35:05,225 --> 00:35:10,221
Now, if you see the map, you see the
coastline of the southern part of France.
636
00:35:10,908 --> 00:35:12,684
Then you see Spain.
637
00:35:12,709 --> 00:35:14,678
Then you see what is today's Gibraltar.
638
00:35:14,858 --> 00:35:17,166
Then you see a part of Africa.
639
00:35:17,329 --> 00:35:20,885
On the other side, you see
a coastline of South America,
640
00:35:20,999 --> 00:35:22,505
but what is important,
641
00:35:22,867 --> 00:35:25,814
on the bottom of the map of Piri Reis
642
00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,988
you see the coastline of Antarctica.
643
00:35:29,575 --> 00:35:34,118
Now, this coastline is covered
today with ice and snow.
644
00:35:34,445 --> 00:35:38,476
So somebody must have mapped
this before the Ice Age.
645
00:35:41,204 --> 00:35:44,966
NARRATOR: The continent of
Antarctica was discovered in 1820,
646
00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:49,118
over 300 years after Piri Reis drew his map.
647
00:35:51,148 --> 00:35:54,499
And scientists have proposed
that the Antarctic coastline
648
00:35:54,532 --> 00:35:56,535
has been obscured by ice
649
00:35:56,957 --> 00:35:59,223
for at least 6,000 years.
650
00:36:01,282 --> 00:36:05,000
Could it be that the original
source for the maps of Columbus
651
00:36:05,088 --> 00:36:09,213
and the Piri Reis map
predates our recorded history?
652
00:36:10,344 --> 00:36:13,574
If so, has evidence
been left behind on Earth
653
00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:16,642
to assure that we can piece
together the truth
654
00:36:16,862 --> 00:36:19,317
about a lost civilization?
655
00:36:19,690 --> 00:36:23,350
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and claim
656
00:36:23,375 --> 00:36:26,114
further proof may be found underwater
657
00:36:26,798 --> 00:36:28,506
in the Bahamas.
658
00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:39,450
NARRATOR: Andros Island, the Bahamas.
2003.
659
00:36:41,403 --> 00:36:42,905
Members of the Association
660
00:36:42,938 --> 00:36:44,794
for Research and Enlightenment
661
00:36:45,263 --> 00:36:48,506
conduct aerial searches
for underwater structures
662
00:36:48,584 --> 00:36:52,012
that might reveal evidence
of a lost civilization.
663
00:36:53,616 --> 00:36:57,052
Off of the coast of Andros,
664
00:36:58,725 --> 00:36:59,994
they discovered
665
00:37:00,019 --> 00:37:04,158
an incredible platform of rectangular
666
00:37:04,226 --> 00:37:06,528
and square stones that stretched
667
00:37:06,854 --> 00:37:08,877
for several hundred yards.
668
00:37:09,838 --> 00:37:11,813
And all the indications are
669
00:37:11,838 --> 00:37:14,752
that it goes back
to the end of the last ice age
670
00:37:14,783 --> 00:37:18,372
and is probably around
11,000 to 12,000 years old.
671
00:37:20,801 --> 00:37:23,697
NARRATOR: The search is part of
a long-term project
672
00:37:23,722 --> 00:37:26,729
working in conjunction
with the Cayce Foundation.
673
00:37:27,808 --> 00:37:30,385
Their quest is to locate remnants
674
00:37:30,410 --> 00:37:32,845
of the lost continent of Atlantis,
675
00:37:33,447 --> 00:37:35,947
which healer and psychic Edgar Cayce
676
00:37:36,010 --> 00:37:38,514
said would be located in the area.
677
00:37:41,517 --> 00:37:45,211
WILCOCK: Edgar Cayce is arguably
America's greatest psychic.
678
00:37:45,236 --> 00:37:48,872
He was born in 1877, died in 1945,
679
00:37:49,439 --> 00:37:54,124
and he has documented
over 14,000 psychic readings.
680
00:37:56,716 --> 00:38:01,497
What's interesting is that Cayce also
got into things like reincarnation.
681
00:38:03,708 --> 00:38:06,983
Some of Cayce's clients were
told that they had lifetimes
682
00:38:07,008 --> 00:38:10,975
in the so-called mythical
civilization of Atlantis.
683
00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:16,164
In fact, Cayce's reading said
684
00:38:16,197 --> 00:38:18,720
that the people of Atlantis, as a whole,
685
00:38:18,745 --> 00:38:22,692
had mass reincarnated
as the people of America
686
00:38:24,253 --> 00:38:26,120
and that America was, in a sense,
687
00:38:26,331 --> 00:38:29,304
a future-life carryover
of Atlantis.
688
00:38:34,196 --> 00:38:36,813
NARRATOR: Cayce revealed
in his psychic readings
689
00:38:37,243 --> 00:38:40,490
that the truth about the nature
of this lost civilization
690
00:38:40,927 --> 00:38:43,263
exists in a hidden hall of records
691
00:38:43,443 --> 00:38:45,934
at three locations across the globe:
692
00:38:47,787 --> 00:38:49,698
in Egypt near the Sphinx,
693
00:38:50,521 --> 00:38:52,453
underwater in the Bahamas,
694
00:38:52,968 --> 00:38:55,396
and in the Yucat�n Peninsula.
695
00:38:56,943 --> 00:38:59,756
Any three of these areas
apparently would have
696
00:39:00,076 --> 00:39:01,972
all of the records that we would need
697
00:39:01,997 --> 00:39:05,575
to completely rebuild our history
698
00:39:05,903 --> 00:39:08,450
and understand how there may have been
699
00:39:08,483 --> 00:39:10,598
much more widespread
700
00:39:10,623 --> 00:39:13,092
extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.
701
00:39:17,493 --> 00:39:19,729
NARRATOR: Could recent
archaeological finds
702
00:39:19,762 --> 00:39:23,556
in the Bahamas confirm
that Edgar Cayce was right
703
00:39:23,665 --> 00:39:27,963
about the existence of a lost
extraterrestrial civilization?
704
00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:31,910
And if so, should we be concerned
705
00:39:31,935 --> 00:39:35,663
about his predictions
for the future of humanity?
706
00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:39,602
Cayce was a cataclysmist,
707
00:39:39,907 --> 00:39:43,461
and in his readings,
he was constantly talking
708
00:39:43,486 --> 00:39:47,290
about Earth changes and pole shifts
709
00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:51,476
that caused civilizations to be destroyed
710
00:39:51,501 --> 00:39:52,829
in ancient times.
711
00:39:53,399 --> 00:39:57,124
And Cayce said that we were
gonna have another pole shift
712
00:39:57,149 --> 00:39:59,746
around the time of the millennium.
713
00:40:01,338 --> 00:40:03,104
Even a relatively small asteroid,
714
00:40:03,139 --> 00:40:05,453
coming in at the right angle...
715
00:40:06,572 --> 00:40:09,634
not necessarily hitting Earth,
but sort of grazing the earth...
716
00:40:10,025 --> 00:40:13,616
could, theoretically, change the tilt axis
717
00:40:13,641 --> 00:40:15,110
of the earth significantly.
718
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:17,400
Now, if that occurred,
719
00:40:17,743 --> 00:40:21,480
land and ocean would
redistribute on the earth.
720
00:40:23,394 --> 00:40:26,111
WILLIAM HENRY: It seems
as if history repeats itself.
721
00:40:27,045 --> 00:40:28,865
And it may be that at this moment,
722
00:40:28,890 --> 00:40:30,914
we are exactly in the same situation
723
00:40:30,939 --> 00:40:33,493
that the citizens of Atlantis were in.
724
00:40:35,662 --> 00:40:39,162
COLLINS: Perhaps we will find
out exactly what had happened
725
00:40:39,187 --> 00:40:41,119
to this lost civilization
726
00:40:41,546 --> 00:40:43,937
and learn from their mistakes
727
00:40:44,155 --> 00:40:47,499
and not sink into oblivion ourselves.
728
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,547
TSOUKALOS: The more we uncover, it
will all point in one direction.
729
00:40:53,734 --> 00:40:56,857
We are not the first and we never have been.
730
00:40:58,977 --> 00:41:02,264
An extraterrestrial
pre-civilization existed
731
00:41:02,289 --> 00:41:04,371
before our recorded history,
732
00:41:05,703 --> 00:41:08,171
and this truth will be revealed
733
00:41:08,509 --> 00:41:10,436
within our lifetime.
734
00:41:12,788 --> 00:41:14,709
NARRATOR:
Could the stories of a time
735
00:41:14,734 --> 00:41:17,419
when gods and otherworldly beings
736
00:41:17,444 --> 00:41:21,216
inhabited the earth
be more than just mythology?
737
00:41:22,178 --> 00:41:25,188
And might the discovery
of unexplainable remnants
738
00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:28,815
from this lost civilization reveal the truth
739
00:41:28,948 --> 00:41:31,776
about our extraterrestrial origins,
740
00:41:31,923 --> 00:41:34,879
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
741
00:41:36,546 --> 00:41:39,382
Perhaps we are on the verge of uncovering
742
00:41:39,407 --> 00:41:41,827
the final piece of the puzzle
743
00:41:42,085 --> 00:41:44,475
that will change our understanding
744
00:41:44,577 --> 00:41:47,053
of Earth's history forever.
745
00:41:47,162 --> 00:41:48,878
But will we uncover it
746
00:41:49,351 --> 00:41:51,992
before it's too late?
747
00:41:53,305 --> 00:41:57,905
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00:41:58,305 --> 00:42:04,262
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