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NARRATOR: Certain places around the globe

have baffled scientists and scholars for decades--

locations with names like the Zone of Silence,

the Gate of the Gods, and the Bermuda Triangle.

Visitors to these mysterious sites

report a variety of strange energies,

unexplained disappearances, and supernatural phenomena.

Numerous legends describe star beings,

traveling in and out of these places from other worlds.

Might these myths be describing real events?

Have the strange energies in these locations

been attracting visitors from other worlds

for thousands of years?

MALE SPEAKER: An alien, coming here 10,000 years ago,

could use the magnetic spots on earth as signposts.

MALE SPEAKER: You have to enter through certain doorways--

portals into our planet.

NARRATOR: And is there a pattern to where

these spots are located?

-Somebody told them, use the word, "star" for your village,

for eternity.

Don't change it.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the globe

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our world?

And, if so, did they concentrate around specific locations?

Could a better understanding of ancient alien visitation

unlock the secrets behind some of the world's most

mysterious places?

[theme music]

NARRATOR: Perhaps the most famous, or infamous,

of all the world's mysterious places is the Bermuda Triangle.

For decades, this stretch of ocean-- covering over

500,000 square miles, located between Miami, Puerto Rico,

and Bermuda-- has baffled scientists,

experienced sailors, and even military investigators.

PHILIP COPPENS: Planes disappearing,

various kinds of strange lights being

seen-- a whole bunch of weirdness all conglomerated

into this very tight corner of the Atlantic.

MICHAEL BARA: Ships that have shown up absolutely

empty-- no sign of any struggle, and yet the crew

was just vanished.

GIAN J. QUASAR: This is something that's very real.

It exists in records.

And now that they're all gone, in fair weather,

that is not supernatural phenomenon to me.

That is something not explained.

NARRATOR: What caused ships and planes

to disappear without a trace?

Why has aeronautical and navigational equipment

stopped working, or changed course, by itself?

Historical shipping records show that the mysteries

of the Bermuda Triangle are much older than many people realize.

Ever since the earliest days of oceanic exploration,

sailors have witnessed strange sights.

JASON MARTELL: Really, the awareness

of the Bermuda Triangle started with Christopher Columbus being

such an esoteric navigator and a well-respected sailor.

His log traversing to the new world is very accurate.

And it turns out, just as Columbus

got into the area known as the Bermuda Triangle,

he recorded having compass malfunctions.

The following night, he saw a large fireball hit the ocean.

-He saw strange lights.

He saw strange weather phenomena happening there.

So, it's definitely a case that the story of the Bermuda

Triangle is not just some modern or some urban myth

at the threshold of the 21st century.

It is as old as there are accounts

of people going into that area.

NARRATOR: About 450 years after Columbus, on December 15, 1945,

US Military experienced the Bermuda Triangle's

most perplexing mystery.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, five US Navy torpedo bombers

flew from the Naval base in Fort Lauderdale,

Florida on a routine training exercise.

But not long into the two hour mission,

all five planes were suddenly gone.

The mystery was compounded when the Navy sent out a rescue

plane, and it, too, disappeared.

Six planes, all flown by skilled pilots,

had vanished into oblivion.

GIAN J. QUASAR: That struck everybody as very odd.

This was now the modern era.

We have radar.

We have radio.

Still, five aircraft vanished.

PHILIP COPPENS: Now the question is, where have all of them

gone?

It really is as if they have been snapped out of our reality

into something else.

And, of course, what that something else

is-- that's the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

NARRATOR: Over the years, few have

lived to tell of any strange anomalies that have occurred

to them in the Bermuda Triangle.

But American pilot Bruce Gernon is an exception.

In 1970, Gernon, his father, and a business associate

were flying from the Bahamas to Florida,

when Gernon reported seeing a strange cloud directly

out in front of their plane.

Then, as he approached, Gernon claims

the cloud formed a donut-shaped hole, or vortex.

BRUCE GERNON: That tunnel was huge, at first.

But then, it started getting smaller, rapidly.

And when I penetrated into the tunnel,

an incredible thing happened.

These lines instantly formed.

It was like looking down a rifle barrel,

because the lines were swirling slowly counter clockwise.

I encountered some intense electricity,

that were like flashes going on and off.

And all I could see was this strange, grayish, yellowish

fog.

I call it, "electronic fog."

I noticed that my instruments were malfunctioning.

And, at the same time, I'm feeling

this unbelievable sensation.

NARRATOR: Gernon says when he finally exited the tunnel,

he radioed Miami Air Traffic Control,

but they couldn't find his plane on their radar screen.

BRUCE GERNON: And then, about three minutes later,

the radar controller came back on the radio,

and he's all excited.

He had identified me over Miami.

And I couldn't believe it, because I'd

only been flying for 33 minutes.

It should have been more like an hour and 3 minutes.

NARRATOR: Could such a discrepancy in

time and location really happen?

And could extraterrestrials be using this kind of gateway

to travel to earth?

According to Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity,

it is possible.

JASON MARTELL: Through Einstein's principles

of being able to bend space using a gravitational pull,

it's very possible that extraterrestrial craft could

somehow get a higher charge of energy

from these locations like the Bermuda Triangle, which

would allow them to do a burst of energy-- if you will,

a warp speed-- and harness some type of extra particles

or energies from these locations,

to get them where they're trying to go.

MICHAEL BARA: What

that any time you have energy generated at all-- especially

from a higher plane, a higher dimension-- it's

going to come out by spin, it's going

to be rotation and spin that allows

that energy to get through.

So, by definition, such energy emissions

are going to be vortexes.

So, a vortex and a gateway are the same thing.

NARRATOR: Since wormholes are theoretically

located throughout the universe, could these same types

of gateways exist in smaller areas on earth?

If so, are strange electromagnetic levels the key

to discovering them?

GIAN J. QUASAR: Completely unconnected people report

the same thing.

And it always has something to do

with electromagnetic phenomenon, usually

involving an unexplained vapor or cloud.

This phenomenon indicated UFOs materializing

or dematerializing in our dimension.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's quite possible

that the Bermuda Triangle is exactly

one such inter-dimensional doorway that's

used by these aliens.

NARRATOR: With reports of UFOs appearing,

and ships and planes disappearing,

some claim the Bermuda Triangle is

a portal that works in both directions.

So if, as ancient astronaut theorists claim,

otherworldly visitors have been using them to come here

since ancient times, might we someday use

this shortcut to visit them?

And if there really is a portal in the open waters

of the Bermuda Triangle, might there be others on land?

400 miles south of El Paso, Texas, in northern Mexico,

stretches a remote and rugged section of high desert.

This area, near the town of Ceballos,

is referred to by the locals as the Zona del Silencio,

or, the Zone of Silence.

It's an epicenter for some of the strangest phenomenon ever

experienced on earth.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:

If you go there with your cell phone, the cell phone stops.

If you go with a radio, it stops.

If you go there with a compass, the needle just keep spinning.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's completely bizarre.

There's strange rocks everywhere.

You have strange, mutated animals, uh,

living in the desert in this area.

You feel a strange tingling when you're there.

NARRATOR: The Zone of Silence was first

identified in the 1930s by Francisco Sarabia,

a Mexican pilot who claimed that his radio had mysteriously

failed to function while flying over the area.

RUBEN URIARTE: We call it Mexico's Bermuda Triangle.

It's located practically on the same parallel-- 28th

and the 26th parallel.

And, as a result of that, it goes

and it connects with the Egyptian pyramids.

So around that whole sector, there

seems to be some connection between the anomalies that

are occurring through these different parts of the world.

SARA SEAGER: As a scientist, you're trained to be skeptical.

Or maybe you were born that way.

But we really don't believe anything.

You know, nothing is actually proven

until you actually have evidence.

But, I can say that earth's magnetic field does

vary across the surface by up to a few percent.

NARRATOR: One of the strangest cases involving

the Zone of Silence took place on July 11, 1970,

when the US Air Force launched an Athena missile

[rocket launching]

NARRATOR: from it's military facility in Green River, Utah.

The missile was programmed to land 700 miles away,

at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

But for some unexplained reason, the Athena missile

flew hundreds of miles past the White Sands Range,

towards the Zone of Silence.

MICHAEL BARA: Not only did it go off course, it way overshot,

as if it had been picked up or yanked

or dragged or pulled into it.

There was a NASA spokesman who even said, it was weird.

It was like the thing just got pulled into this area.

And it ended up crashing there and breaking up into bits.

NARRATOR: But some claim this missile is not

the only thing that's been mysteriously pulled

into the Zone of Silence.

Ancient alien theorists believed an unusually large number

of meteorites have crashed here.

-The evidence seems to be indicating

that the Zone of Silence is some powerful energy vortex

area that's literally sucking meteorites and other space

debris right into this small area of northern Mexico.

LOGAN HAWKES: There's a high level of magnetism in the area.

That's been proven by science.

We know there's a magnetic signature to the entire area.

Is it strong enough to attract a large objects like meteorites?

I think we need more research, but I--I don't think that

research is being done right now.

NARRATOR: Starting 3,000 years ago,

the Anasazi culture inhabited the region to the north,

in today's American Southwest.

Anasazi means, "Ancient Ones," and they paid great attention

to the stars.

Scientists have determined that in 1054 A.D.,

a supernova explosion was visible from earth.

Many believe the first known drawing of this event

was found inside an Anasazi cave dwelling.

South of the Zone of Silence, other cultures,

including the Maya, also reportedly possessed

a surprisingly detailed knowledge

of similar celestial events.

Is it possible that both of these cultures

were somehow exchanging information?

LOGAN HAWKES: They're separated by thousands of miles,

but both the Anasazi of the north and the Mesoamericans

of the south found the Zone of Silence,

and used it as a meeting place between their two cultures.

You could imagine-- if you studied the stars at night

and plotted the constellations, obviously

one of things you're going to see

are these meteorites streaking across the sky.

If your answers come from the sky,

you probably would follow those streaking meteorites

and find out where they ended up.

And the theory is that they may have

found what they were looking for the Zone of Silence.

NARRATOR: But what other connections

exist between these cultures?

And are they of celestial origin?

LOGAN HAWKES: If we look back into the ancient beliefs

of the Anasazi and the Mesoamericans to the south,

we know that there was great belief in sky people-- visitors

from the sky.

If these visitors came from the sky, who were they?

JASON MARTELL: And there's a similarity

to the beings being reported as tall, pale skin, white hair--

which is not indigenous to the dark skin, dark haired people

found in that region, but does match many of the South

American descriptions of their gods.

NARRATOR: According to legend, these so-called visitors

from the sky made themselves known to an ancient people.

Is it possible that they are still

making themselves known today?

-There are a number of reports of UFOs,

uh, in the Zone of Silence.

-Probably the most prominent and most popular

report came out of the town of Caballos.

It was on a late summer afternoon

when a number of townspeople saw an object hovering

in the sky on the outskirts of town.

They described as being about 100 meters wide.

It had multicolored lights flashing.

It wasn't doing anything.

It was just hovering in the desert.

After a while, it simply took off

and headed out into the Zone of Silence.

RUBEN URIARTE: I think, too, that, as what's

going on today-- the high activity UFO sightings,

the anomalous reports that are still going on today-- perhaps

there is a connection.

Maybe it's a vortex.

Maybe it's a dimensional port.

We can't explain it.

But something unusual is going on in that area.

NARRATOR: Might extraterrestrials

be able to detect these magnetic differences?

And would they have been of any used to ancient visitors?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: If I was an alien coming here

10,000 years ago, obviously there

weren't any road maps at the time.

However, I could use the anomalous magnetic spots

on planet Earth as signposts of sorts.

And so that, when I come back, those signposts

would be my guides to find my way around planet Earth There

are spots, on planet Earth, that are highly magnetic.

NARRATOR: But are the magnetic levels, the sky god legends,

and recent sightings of UFOs proof

that a portal exists here?

And are there other places that might

offer more direct physical evidence?

800 miles southeast of Lima, Peru,

near the shores of Lake Titicaca,

is a site that has mystified visitors from around the world.

[sound of prayer bowls] [praying]

Shamans still come to perform rituals,

and offer prayers at the rock wall on this high plateau

[prayer]

NARRATOR: as they have done for generation after generation.

It is known at Puerta de Hayu Marca, or, Gate of the Gods.

DAVID CHILDRESS: And when you see it, it's quite baffling.

Here is this giant doorway, carved into solid rock,

and it appears to be a gateway, but it doesn't go anywhere.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It's literally

in the middle of nowhere at 14,000 feet.

Yet, that rock, as clear as you can see,

has a gigantic rectangle carved out of it, cut out of it.

And in the center of that rectangle, at the bottom,

there is something that looks like a door.

MICHAEL BARA: The Peruvian natives actually referred

to this as the Gate of the Gods.

But why would you make a doorway to, basically,

rocks that didn't let you go anywhere.

There has to be some way to get through that door way.

NARRATOR: According to Inca legend,

the first priest king, Amaru Muru,

is said to have traveled through this portal using

a special object to activate the doorway,

turning this solid rock into what's known as a stargate.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: According to legend,

this stargate was activated by the help of a golden disk.

And this golden disk fell from the sky.

MICHAEL BARA: Well, the story goes that the first priest

king of the Incas is took a golden disc up

to this Gate of the Gods, stuck it in a special recessed area.

And this inner dimensional doorway actually opened up.

And he passed through it, never be seen again.

The shaman that were there, that watched it,

that witness the whole thing and reported on it

basically told that that was exactly what happened.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists who have examined

the Gate of the Gods have discovered

a small circular depression in the center of the doorway.

Some people have speculated that this depression was perhaps

where the golden disk was placed.

PHILIP COPPENS: It really is out of the movies.

This device is said to have been made

of gold and of various other precious objects,

And whoever had it could come near the site,

and somehow be able to operate it.

And then, there would either be contact with the gods,

or the gods would come to them.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:

led to believe, oh, it's all coincidence.

It's all just fantasy.

Rubbish.

Something happened.

And in the case of the stargate, it

is possible that this sun disk had

some type of an extraterrestrial connection,

and that this was a technological device

with which to travel.

DAVID SEREDA: And that may mean physically taking a person

and taking them into another hidden dimension,

and taking them back.

Or, it may mean traveling between earth,

going through that stargate, and going

to another place somewhere in the universe.

NARRATOR: According to the local legend,

these priests kings, known space brothers,

reportedly came from other worlds.

Might they have traveled here through the Gate of the Gods?

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI: They came

from the other constellations, from other planets.

In our language, we have a word called, uh,

[non-english speech], which is some of the constellations,

like the Southern Cross, Orion's Belt, Pleiades.

One of the elders said, this is the bridge to home.

So, in essence, all these manifestations

have to do with the space brothers.

NARRATOR: But could a device to activate this door actually

exist?

And, if so, where would the doorway lead?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the Gate of the Gods

is one end of a wormhole, a type of portal

that connects either to another part of the universe,

or another dimension.

THOMAS VALONE: A wormhole is a theoretical construct

through general relativity.

The concept is really that there's

a possibility of spacetime being connected--

various parts of spacetime being connected

through a small channel.

And if such a construct was made,

then you'd have a shortcut between very

distant parts of the universe.

NARRATOR: Wormholes are an accepted

element of theoretical physics.

But have they actually existed in some

of the world's most mysterious places?

-The idea that there are stargates,

or that they could have existed in ancient times--

we do see many artifacts and representations of someone

passing through a doorway or going

through some type of energy source.

And ancient man did not understand technology

just as we're trying to understand,

is a wormhole possible?

-That it's some kind of doorway between our dimension

and another.

And what I maintain is that these aliens who

are coming here are coming here in inter-dimensional type

of craft.

They're able to jump through hyperspace, come here

to our planet in no time at all, but they

have to enter through certain doorways and portals

into our plant.

SARA SEAGER: Dimensions aren't really

considered something to travel along.

But, dimensions are directions.

And if you could somehow travel along these other dimensions,

it would take you somewhere else entirely.

NARRATOR: What if one end of a portal

exists here at Puerta de Hayu Marca?

Might that be part of the reason many

consider Peru to be a focal point

of UFO and extraterrestrial activity?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Lake Titicaca has

all kinds of strange lights associated with it,

and a number of witnesses claim they

see UFOs coming out of the lake.

JASON MARTELL: And the locals always

describe seeing large blue balls of light or glowing disks,

and sometimes even beings reported around the sightings.

These beings are always reported as tall, pale skin,

completely non-indigenous to the people that are dark

skin, dark haired in these South American regions.

NARRATOR: Another theory to how extraterrestrials

may have traveled across the universe

involves the scientific concept of teleportation.

But is it really possible to have something

disappear from one spot and suddenly appear somewhere else?

DAVID SEREDA: At the Max Planck Institute,

scientists have already dematerialized

subatomic particles, and made them reappear somewhere else.

So science is just on the precipice

of being able to do this-- to move it

from one place to another.

So I believe that that is a, is a secret that the ancient stone

builders knew.

MICHAEL BARA: Even though the gate might be closed right now,

the reality is, you can still access the energy, because it's

still flowing around the area.

It's the area itself that seems to hold the energy

and put it out and draw people to it.

NARRATOR: But is Puerta de Hayu Marca

the only strange sight in Peru?

Are there are other mysterious places here?

Some believer there are.

High up in the mountains of Peru, 850 miles north

of the Gate of the gods is a breathtaking, two mile long

plateau-- another area of reported high magnetic energy.

For centuries, it has been considered

a powerful, sacred place among the Incan people.

It's called Markawasi.

PHILIP COPPENS: Markawasi is a very beautiful region in Peru.

Markawasi is said to have had very bizarre energy.

People go there and they experience bizarre energy

patterns.

KATHY DOORE: local people say it is a place of the wizards

and gods and genies of old, and, um, they treat it

with a great deal of veneration.

When people go there, they report a special kind

of frequency and energy-- a euphoria, in fact.

NARRATOR: Most geologists consider

the many stone formations on the plateau

to be naturally formed-- born of millions

of years of erosion and other natural processes.

But is there more here than first meets the eye?

Some consider Markawasi to be a massive sculpture

garden, filled with carvings left behind

by an ancient civilization.

PHILIP COPPENS: This is a region whereby

stones are not just stones.

What we have here is almost like a Disneyland of the gods.

The question then is, is this a purely natural phenomenon,

or is this something more?

NARRATOR: Could this be not just a collection of rocks,

but a sanctuary of stone monuments made

by people tens, or even hundreds of thousands of years ago?

Researcher Daniel Ruzo was the first to make

this claim in 1952.

KATHY DOORE: Daniel Ruzo was shown

a photograph of a huge, colossal stone head

up in the high mountains above Lima.

And he made an expedition there, just to see this stone head.

But he was astonished to find that, on this tiny mesa

were hundreds of carved stones.

NARRATOR: There are those who believe

the rock formations depict animals and people not

indigenous to South America.

They see in them figures such as an African queen,

the Egyptian god of fertility, Taweret,

depicted as an upright hippopotamus, a camel,

and many others.

One formation, known as the Monument to Humanity,

features what appears to be a Western face on one side

and a Middle Eastern one on the other.

Is it really possible that so many formations which

appear to depict figures from around the world

could coincidentally be found on a single plateau?

Or, if they are man-made, who may have carved them?

KATHY DOORE: The local legends say

that it is a place of the ancient giant gods--

that the gods created this.

In fact, when the Spanish chroniclers came to Peru

and investigated the ancient shamanic religions of Peru,

they told a story of Tici Viracocha, the creator-god,

who arrived in the guise of a man

to walk and inspect his lands.

And, he had given them different orders.

And there were some rebel nations

that were not doing what they were supposed to do.

And he probably turned them to stone.

NARRATOR: The name Markawasi provides a clue

to its origins and mystery.

The word itself predates the Incan empire.

Markawasi scholar and researcher Daniel Ruzo believed the name

meant, "two-story house," and referred to the strange complex

of buildings located on the site.

JASON MARTELL: really raises the question

that scholars and theologians have been trying to figure out

for many years-- is there an Atlantian, or some lost

civilization?

So, Markawasi puts that question back on the map.

Could this be possible?

Were there trans-oceanic cultures visiting thousands

of years ago off the books of recorded history?

NARRATOR: According to Daniel Ruzo, the ancient civilization

that created Markawasi were a people known as the Masma.

An supposedly, Peru was not their only home.

ROBERT M. SCHOCH: The Masma was this very, very ancient,

advanced civilization, advanced culture--

if we want to call it that-- seems to have been global,

seems to have traveled worldwide at a very early period.

And, Ruzo spent much of his time looking

around the world for evidence of this advanced civilization.

And he thought he'd found it at Markawasi.

He actually saw Markawasi, in many ways,

as being like a huge sculpture garden

that the Masma had built there.

NARRATOR: If such a worldwide community existed,

what happened to it?

Was it, as some believe, wiped out

in the great flood described in the Bible?

MICHAEL BARA: It's very interesting

that these carvings are found that 12,000 feet, because that

kind of implies that civilization started at the top

and then worked its way back down as the waters of the flood

receded.

It's almost as if the first thing

they did when Noah's Ark descended and landed-- maybe

landed at Markawasi-- was to record all the animals they

collected, if you buy the whole concept

of a story of saving what was left of humanity,

and saving what they could of the animal kingdom.

ROBERT M. SCHOCH: If these are real sculptures-- or even

natural formations that were touched up--

they are so old, geologically, that all we can really do

is fall back to some of the speculations of people

like Daniel Ruzo-- that this was some kind of very

ancient civilization.

KATHY DOORE: Perhaps, indeed, there were ancient gods.

Perhaps there was a race of beings of a very high minded

nature that came here in the early, early times that

helped mankind, and there have been

overseeing their handiwork.

ROBERT M. SCHOCH: I suspect that they

were trying to record something about their beliefs,

their civilization-- something that

could be passed on to future generations.

They may have realized that they were not going to last forever,

and they want to leave some kind of mark, some kind of record,

maybe even some kind of warning for future generations.

NARRATOR: If this advanced, globe-traveling race

existed in early history, where did they come from?

According to author George Hunt Williamson,

who first popularized Markawasi with his 1959 book, "Road

in the Sky," Markawasi was a sacred forest,

where extraterrestrial beings met to plan the future.

And many UFO researchers believe they're

still returning to this day.

KATHY DOORE: The mesa has a plethora

of UFO sightings, ultra-dimensional visitors.

It's is an extraordinary place.

DAVID CHILDRESS: What is probably Peru's most famous UFO

photo was taken near Markawasi in the 1970s

by a businessman who himself was going up

the trail to the plateau of Markawasi.

When he looked back down the valley,

and there was a silvery disk in broad daylight flying up

the valley.

NARRATOR: But are there really special types of energy flowing

around Markawasi that we are just beginning to understand?

And, if so, have they been attracting visitors

for thousands of years, as reported

at some of the world's other mysterious places?

MICHAEL BARA: My suspicion is that extraterrestrials

would be more inclined to come to these energetic places,

not just because it would make their technology work better,

but because their bodies are going

to vibrate at a frequency that's more

appropriate for the universe or the world that they inhabit.

ROBERT M. SCHOCH: As I've looked at studies,

and study it myself, I think that maybe something

inherent to those spots-- ah, maybe electromagnetic, maybe

geomagnetic anomaly.

You have, in some cases, different types

of rocks, different types of crystalline structures,

maybe underground flowing water that

will carry electric currents.

So, I think there are a lot of possibilities.

We really don't understand exactly what's going on.

NARRATOR: Is there a reason why these so-called

inter-dimensional space portals allegedly

appear at certain spots on our planet?

Is there, are some suggest, a pattern to their locations?

And what evidence exists that shows

our ancestors knew the code?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the mysterious energy field sites around the world

are not randomly located.

They are connected by what is referred to as, "the World

Grid," a geometric pattern of energy that

crisscrosses the globe.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Our planet is covered

with this network of very subtle, invisible energies

that are all around us.

But at certain places on the planet,

these energies come together and they

create a powerful vortex area.

And that energy is, is stronger and more useful, in a sense,

than some other part of the earth.

MICHAEL BARA: The World Grid Theory

is-- it's a concept that all of these sacred sites,

all around the world, are actually

connected in some sort of mathematical, geometric grid

that it came from a time when we really understood

the harmony between nature and geometry

and science and mathematics.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's well known that Australian Aboriginals

follow these dreaming tracks as they go on their walkabout

through the desert.

They can see these lines on the ground, they claim.

The Chinese also believe that they

can see and track these dragon lines.

And, in fact, the very popular Chinese practice of feng shui

is to use these energy lines that

are coming and going throughout the land.

NARRATOR: The unique relationship

between geometric shapes and certain locations around earth

stretches back in history to the Pythagorean school of thought

the ancient Greece.

DAVID CHILDRESS: One of the famous Pythagorean philosophers

of ancient Greece, Plato, talks about the Earth as, um,

a geometric dodecahedron-- that it's

like a ball sewn in various geometric shapes.

And the Pythagorean school is basically

saying that geometry, and the various forms of geometry,

are what makes up all mater, including the Earth.

NARRATOR: Another strange mystery

surrounds the apparent concentration of UFO sitings

along the World Grid.

Before his death in 1992, French UFO researcher Aimee Michelle

mapped every alleged extraterrestrial report

since the Roswell incident in 1947.

PHILIP COPPENS: So when he mapped them,

he found that there they were very specific-- namely,

in lines.

And he began to map these lines.

And found that these lines were not just random,

but were actually linked to degrees of latitude,

and that there was really a science

behind where UFOs were sighted.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

believed that the concentration of energy levels and UFO

sightings is not a coincidence.

They claim that otherworldly beings visited our ancestors,

and told them of the special powers in these locations.

Then, they say, the ancient people

were shown how to build incredible structures

to magnify these natural powers.

It's a theory known as Geomancy.

DAVID CHILDRESS: So, in fact, by building pyramids and standing

stones-- obelisks and things like

that-- we can work with this natural energy

field around the Earth.

And, in a similar way to acupuncture on a human body,

we can do that to the Earth, too.

And by putting a certain structures, or a needle

in a certain place in the Earth, we can accentuate the energies.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: In Europe, lines--

sometimes 1,000 kilometers of long-- exist from antiquity.

In Europe, they are called, "ley lines."

All of the antique places are linked together.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: These ley lines extend all the way

from England, all the way through France,

down across through Italy, and just in a straight line.

And the fascinating aspect is that many of those towns that

are that line, the root of the town's name

is represented across 20, 30 town names.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Every point is on one line.

It's an archaeological point.

At every point has the same core of the word.

The word is always, "star."

It's absolutely fascinating, and it's not coincidence.

Our Stone Age people did not, by coincidence,

just put their holy places in the Stone Age in one line.

Somebody ordered it.

And somebody told them, use the word, "star" for your village,

for eternity. Don't change it.

MICHAEL BARA: So, the question is,

are those guys the extraterrestrials,

or is it possible that we, in fact, are

extraterrestrial-- we did not come from here.

And it's simply an older version of humanity

taking care of the younger version

that they're going to leave the planet to.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: It idea was that, generations

in the far future, they must struggle over these artifacts

and over these indications.

And they must start to ask questions.

That's the situation we have today.

MICHAEL BARA: The main thing that these mysterious places

can tell us about our past is that it's

a lot more complex than they teach us in school.

NARRATOR: Until future scientists

solve the strange issues surrounding certain spots

on Earth, we'll be left with lingering questions.

Might these locations really be portals, or entrances,

to wormholes?

Did extraterrestrial beings transport themselves

to Earth using special electromagnetic fields

in these mysterious places?

And were these secrets known by ancient civilizations, now lost

to history?