All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S02E01

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?