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>> NARRATOR: Ancient stone
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fingers reaching for the sky,
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and stretching out over several
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miles.
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>> DAVID CHILDRESS: People who
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were basically one step removed
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from cavemen were quarrying
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these giant stones, some of them
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weighing 100, 200 tons-- even up
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to 350 tons.
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>> NARRATOR: A complex of stone
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structures dating back more than
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10,000 years.
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>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: It just
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stands there, asking us to go
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figure, "How was this done?"
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"What's the background to this?"
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>> JASON MARTELL: Were they
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meant to be seen by people in
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the sky?
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Who could have been flying at
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that time other than
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extraterrestrials?
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>> NARRATOR: And the remains of
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an Incan temple, reported to
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have otherworldly origins.
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>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: They
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wanted that in the far future, a
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question comes up: "Have you
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been visited by outer space?"
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>> NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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And if so, is there an
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extraterrestrial explanation for
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the earth's most mysterious,
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the earth's most mysterious,
unexplained structures?
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unexplained structures?
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>> NARRATOR: Located more than
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500 miles away from the crowded
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streets of Istanbul is Sanliurfa
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in Southeastern Turkey.
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There, in 1994, on a dusty
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hilltop, a local shepherd
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noticed the tip of a stone
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sticking out of his field.
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He began to dig, eventually
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unearthing a 19-foot pillar.
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Its edges were precise, and
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rising from its center was a
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relief carving of a strange
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animal.
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Upon closer examination, it
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appeared that the
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finely-chiseled stone had been
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fashioned by talented
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stonemasons, working with
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advanced tools.
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When word of the discovery
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reached the scientific
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community, one fact became
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obvious.
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A Kurdish shepherd had stumbled
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upon what is perhaps the most
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astonishing archeological
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discovery in modern times,
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a site known as Gobekli Tepe.
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>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: For 13
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years, a German archeology team
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has been meticulously going into
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a hill, and they have been doing
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carbon dating as deep as they
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go.
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And it has taken them 13 years
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to uncover only five percent of
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a gigantic civilization.
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They know what's under the
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ground.
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Circles upon circles upon
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circles.
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Perfect circles in stone.
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And rising up out of those
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stone circles are huge, sculpted
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columns, 19 feet high, 15 tons
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per column.
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>> NARRATOR: Test results have
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supported the idea that Gobekli
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Tepe is nearly 12,000 years old,
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almost 7,000 years older than
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Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent,
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long heralded as the cradle of
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civilization.
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>> HOWE: Gobekli Tepe, the
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oldest advanced site now on our
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planet.
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We know of no other site that is
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this advanced.
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It has now doubled the history
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of humanity.
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>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: And right
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there is this gigantic site with
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huge, megalithic, circular
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structures.
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It just stands there, a mystery,
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asking us to go figure, "How
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was this done?"
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"What's the background to this?"
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We don't know who made them.
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They just come out of the
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darkness of the last Ice Age,
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where we know nothing, and enter
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the stage of history, already
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fully formed.
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And to my mind, this is
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indicative of a major forgotten
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episode in human history.
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>> NARRATOR: Could the discovery
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of Gobekli Tepe radically change
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our understanding of human
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history?
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And might proof of an ancient
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civilization provide evidence
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that mankind's most puzzling
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myths might actually be based in
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fact?
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>> ROBERT M. SCHOCH: A lot of
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myths, a lot of legends suggest
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that there were past
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civilizations of astounding
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sophistication at incredibly
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early periods.
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I think we have little glimmers,
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little suggestions around the
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world that there was something
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going on, much higher, much more
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sophisticated at a much earlier
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period of time.
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>> ANDREW COLLINS: To put things
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into perspective, Gobekli Tepe
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is 12,000 years old.
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That is several thousand years
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earlier in age than Stonehenge
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and the Great Pyramid.
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And indeed, according to
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biblical tradition, the world
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really began in 4000 B.C.
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And yet, that is 8,000 years
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later than the foundation of
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Gobekli Tepe.
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So, clearly, we have here
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something that contradicts our
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normal understanding of the
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evolution of civilization.
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>> NARRATOR: Curiously, after 13
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years of digging, archeologists
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investigating the ancient site
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have failed to recover a single
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stonecutting tool.
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Nor have they found any
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agricultural implements.
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>> HOWE: How in the world can
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you contemplate 19-foot-tall,
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perfectly-sculpted columns that
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are 11,000 to 12,000 years old,
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and no tools?
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>> NARRATOR: The mystery of
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Gobekli Tepe is further
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compounded by the ancient stone
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carvings found throughout the
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site.
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They depict creatures like
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armadillos, wild boars and
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geese-- animals not indigenous
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to the region.
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>> COLLINS: We see various types
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of creatures, different animals,
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birds, insects, and even
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abstract human forms that seem
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to come together to create this
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very weird menagerie which has
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totally baffled the
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archeologists who have uncovered
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this site.
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Now what they represent is a
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matter of speculation, but it's
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my intuition that they may even
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represent an ark in stone.
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>> NARRATOR: Located less than
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350 miles from Mount Ararat, the
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site many biblical scholars
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believe to be the resting place
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of Noah's Ark, the animal
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carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest
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a time in the region's history
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when the indigenous animal
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population may have been of a
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totally different
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anthropological origin.
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But do these carvings actually
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provide historical proof of the
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great flood that was described
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in the Bible?
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>> HANCOCK: Archeologists are
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aware that there are more than
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2,000 myths of a great flood
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which destroyed an earlier
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civilization.
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>> NARRATOR: Some researchers
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theorize that the events of a
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cataclysmic flood and a story
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similar to that told of Noah's
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Ark was recorded on the stone
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pillars of Gobekli Tepe.
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If true, that would push the
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date of the great flood back to
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the end of the last Ice Age, far
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earlier than the biblical
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period.
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>> COLLINS: There is evidence
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that this may have ended quite
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catastrophically.
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There was a lot of things
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happening.
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Um, a lot of migrations.
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Possibly waters rising up very
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quickly.
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A lot of rapid changes in
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lifestyles.
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>> NARRATOR: But another,
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perhaps even more profound,
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question remains.
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Who built Gobekli Tepe?
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For what purpose?
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And how did such an ancient site
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remain in nearly pristine
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condition for more than 10,000
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years?
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>> PHILIP COPPENS: In the case
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of Gobekli Tepe, we find that
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the site was carefully placed
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underneath sand.
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This site was buried.
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It appears as if somehow the
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usage of Gobekli Tepe was no
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longer there, and that people
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moved on, but had such a
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reverence to this important site
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that rather than destroy it,
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they put it to peace by burying
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it.
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>> NARRATOR: But why would the
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area's inhabitants carefully
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bury their monuments under 20
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feet of sand?
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Is it possible that Gobekli Tepe
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was deliberately buried in
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order to protect it from
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invaders?
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Or might the intention have
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been to preserve it, in hope,
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someday, to return?
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>> CHILDRESS: You have to ask
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yourself, why is someone
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building these massive
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structures all over the world?
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And many of them are very
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similar.
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It leaves us to think that there
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is some connection between all
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these ancient sites...
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that the builders were all doing
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it for a similar purpose.
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>> MARTELL: I do see a
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similarity across the globe
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from megalithic sites where
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these past cultures explain that
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they were built by the gods.
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But were they really gods?
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Or could they have been
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extraterrestrials?
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>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the answers
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can be found by examining
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another ancient site, one
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located half a world away in
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located half a world away in
the mountains of Peru.
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the mountains of Peru.
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>> NARRATOR: Peru, home of the
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world's longest mountain range,
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the Andes, the spine of
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South America.
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Here in a high river valley,
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among peaks towering over 20,000
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feet, the Inca established their
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capital city of Cuzco, which
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thrived for over 300 years...
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until Spanish conquistadors
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arrived in the 16th century.
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Above Cuzco, at an elevation of
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more than 12,000 feet, looms the
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ancient fortress of
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Sacsayhuamán, whose immense
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stone walls may hold secrets
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which predate the Inca
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themselves.
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>> HANCOCK: My feeling, very
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strong feeling, is that we're
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looking at a two-phase
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construction site in many of the
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so-called Inca stone monuments.
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And that the Inca structures sit
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on top of much more ancient
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rock-cut structures and
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megalithic structures that we
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just don't know who built them.
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And this actually fits with the
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And this actually fits with the
Incas' own view.
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Incas' own view.
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>> NARRATOR: Like many Inca
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sites, Sacsayhuamán features
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astonishing stonework...
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but not all of it credited to
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the Inca.
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According to conventional
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archeology, the Killke
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culture built the older sections
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of the site approximately 1,000
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years ago.
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But the Inca themselves believed
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the site was constructed by an
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earlier unnamed race of
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people, led by a powerful god
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who descended from the skies.
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>> MARTELL: Throughout time
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there has been witness to a god
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named Virococha that visited the
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South American people and
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blessed them and gave them all
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types of technology.
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And some of his physical
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characteristics make him stand
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out from the indigenous
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population, because he was a
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very tall, pale-skinned,
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white-haired being.
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>> NARRATOR: But did this god
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Virococha actually exist?
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Could he have been, as ancient
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astronaut theorists suggest, a
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visitor from an alien world?
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If so, it might help to explain
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just how the ancient site was
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constructed.
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>> JOHN BRANDENBURG: This rock
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weighs about 20 tons.
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This is miniscule compared to
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many of the rocks at
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Sacsayhuamán.
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Today we have heavy machinery to
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move such stones.
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But in the ancient times,
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especially the Inca, they would
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have used massive human
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workforces working for massive
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amounts of time.
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A rule of thumb is it takes
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about ten to 20 men to move a
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one-ton rock.
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So when you're talking hundreds
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of tons, you're talking
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of tons, you're talking
thousands of men.
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thousands of men.
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>> CHILDRESS: What we see is a
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culture who have got the
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technology to quarry giant
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blocks of stone-- move them to
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the site where they want to
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build and then to stack and cut
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and articulate these massive
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blocks into, in some cases,
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almost indestructible structure.
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>> CHRISTOPHER DUNN: You talk
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about granite, you're talking
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about a composition of feldspar,
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mica and quartz.
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So you'd need diamond to
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actually abrade it or cut it.
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We would use diamond today to
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cut granite.
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Those are the kind of
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discoveries that lead one to
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question whether they were
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really using the tools in the
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ancient toolbox, or whether
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there was something else at
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there was something else at
work.
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work.
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>> NARRATOR: Shaman Jorge
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Delgado has spent most of his
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life studying the mysterious
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structures of Peru...
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many built prior to the rise of
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many built prior to the rise of
the Inca Empire.
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the Inca Empire.
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>> JORGE DELGADO MAMANI: It's
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amazing-- all the weight of the
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stones.
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You know, it's difficult,
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definitely, for any human to
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move, even in groups.
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And the other aspect is how it's
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put together.
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In some stones, we will see,
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still now there is like some
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marks that it seems that it
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was dissolved.
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>> HANCOCK: The walls are put
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together with blocks of stone
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weighing 50 or 100 tons, cut
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and shaped like the pieces
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of a jigsaw puzzle, so that they
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lock together so tightly that
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you can't even get a sheet of
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paper between them.
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>> MARTELL: There are signs in
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many of these stones that show
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very large amounts of thermal
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heat have been applied to mold
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the stones in such a way that
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they fit perfectly.
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And so it really does raise a
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lot of questions.
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>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: If you
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look at the style the
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Sacsayhuamán wall was built,
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the blocks look as if they've
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been molded like putty.
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If you can mold stone into
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place, then all of a sudden, as
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crazy as this sounds, it makes
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more sense because there is no
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more sense because there is no
mortar that has been used.
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mortar that has been used.
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>> NARRATOR: According to local
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legend, a bird was responsible
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00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:31,642
for the seamless construction.
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Legends say the winged creature
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carried a powerful chemical in
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its beak-- a substance capable
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of melting stone.
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>> MAMANI: Sacsayhuamán means
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"the head of the falcon,"
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falcon's head.
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But maybe it was some falcons or
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00:16:51,184 --> 00:16:53,882
maybe some bird people who could
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00:16:53,882 --> 00:16:57,103
connect with the place.
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>> NARRATOR: But is it possible,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
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00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:03,109
suggest, that the mythical bird
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00:17:03,109 --> 00:17:04,893
might actually have been a
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spacecraft piloted by alien
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00:17:07,591 --> 00:17:09,767
visitors known to the locals as
466
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space brothers?
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>> MAMANI: I believe that it's a
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combination of the space
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brothers' technology with other
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kind of possibilities.
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Nowadays we know, well,
472
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different kind of tools.
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We didn't have before these
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00:17:27,089 --> 00:17:28,308
kind of tools.
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Or maybe we had more
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sophisticated.
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So the thing is that this place,
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Sacsayhuamán, it continues as a
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mystery.
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>> MARTELL: So looking at all
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these sites with these perfectly
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stacked stones, we're looking at
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a type of technology that's not
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used anywhere else on Earth.
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I don't discount human
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ingenuity, but that type of
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engineering that we still can't
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duplicate today must raise a
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flag for further consideration.
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It's almost extraterrestrial,
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in a sense.
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Someone had to have taught them
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these techniques.
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>> NARRATOR: But whether the
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process of forming the large
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megalithic stones involve the
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use of thermal energy or a
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mysterious chemical, one thing
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is certain: the ancient builders
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used the technique on
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a vast scale.
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But why?
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What was the intended purpose
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of creating such intricately
505
00:18:25,713 --> 00:18:30,152
built stone structures?
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>> MARTELL: So we can't really
507
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give an answer as to what they
508
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were being used for other than
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we know that the
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extraterrestrials more than
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likely are the source of what
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they call "gods."
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How did they get here?
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More than likely in some type
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of craft, and very possibly,
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they could have been using these
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large megaliths as platforms
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to land on.
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>> NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamán
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was in fact constructed by alien
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visitors, might there be
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additional evidence of their
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time on Earth at other
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ancient sites around the world?
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Perhaps there is.
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And the path to that evidence
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And the path to that evidence
is clearly marked in stones.
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is clearly marked in stones.
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>> NARRATOR: Few sites on Earth
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00:19:18,722 --> 00:19:20,507
are as majestic or as
531
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treacherous as the jagged region
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of Brittany located on the
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northwest coastline of France.
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Here can be found the legendary
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Carnac stones-- a collection of
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over 3,000 massive rocks
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arranged in rows and other
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shapes and spreading across
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more than two miles of French
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countryside.
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>> SCHOCH: You're talking
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thousands of stones that are
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00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:53,017
aligned in straight rows,
544
00:19:53,017 --> 00:19:55,194
aligned in circles, aligned in
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squares and rectangles.
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Why are people doing this?
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Why are they putting so much
548
00:20:01,591 --> 00:20:03,767
time and energy into something?
549
00:20:03,767 --> 00:20:06,640
And the short answer, I believe,
550
00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,643
is that we really don't know.
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00:20:09,643 --> 00:20:10,470
>> NARRATOR: According to local
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00:20:10,470 --> 00:20:12,863
legend, the megaliths were
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00:20:12,863 --> 00:20:14,256
originally invading Roman
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00:20:14,256 --> 00:20:16,432
soldiers turned to stone by
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00:20:16,432 --> 00:20:19,000
Merlin the magician.
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00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,394
But if it wasn't magic that
557
00:20:21,394 --> 00:20:23,918
created this forest of stones,
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who or what did?
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>> CHILDRESS: Modern
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archaeologists would say that
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people who were one step removed
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00:20:32,753 --> 00:20:34,755
from cavemen were quarrying
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these giant stones, some of
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them weighing 100, 200 tons--
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even up to 350 tons-- and then
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somehow moving them into place.
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When you first look at the
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stones here at Carnac, they seem
569
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to be in haphazard shapes, but
570
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on closer examination we can see
571
00:20:57,386 --> 00:20:59,649
that most of the stones have
572
00:20:59,649 --> 00:21:02,565
been cut on one side or another.
573
00:21:02,565 --> 00:21:05,873
And in fact, these granite
574
00:21:05,873 --> 00:21:07,875
megaliths are magnetized with
575
00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:10,094
the Earth, and nearly all of
576
00:21:10,094 --> 00:21:12,619
them come to a point.
577
00:21:12,619 --> 00:21:14,403
>> NARRATOR: Stone magnets?
578
00:21:14,403 --> 00:21:16,666
Is it possible that these stones
579
00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:19,539
were really cut in position in
580
00:21:19,539 --> 00:21:21,280
such a way as to create some
581
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,239
sort of geomagnetic field?
582
00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:26,023
But why?
583
00:21:26,023 --> 00:21:27,155
>> CHILDRESS: Carnac as a
584
00:21:27,155 --> 00:21:28,591
place is highly charged with
585
00:21:28,591 --> 00:21:29,897
energy.
586
00:21:29,897 --> 00:21:31,812
As you walk down these stone
587
00:21:31,812 --> 00:21:33,727
corridors, you can feel
588
00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:35,946
this charge.
589
00:21:35,946 --> 00:21:37,861
Many tourists who come here also
590
00:21:37,861 --> 00:21:40,429
like to touch the stones and
591
00:21:40,429 --> 00:21:41,474
feel the energy coming
592
00:21:41,474 --> 00:21:43,911
off of it.
593
00:21:43,911 --> 00:21:46,174
The people who built Carnac must
594
00:21:46,174 --> 00:21:48,263
have been highly knowledgeable
595
00:21:48,263 --> 00:21:50,439
of the Earth's energy fields.
596
00:21:50,439 --> 00:21:51,527
>> NARRATOR: According to a
597
00:21:51,527 --> 00:21:53,660
concept known as the "World Grid
598
00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:55,575
Theory," certain places on our
599
00:21:55,575 --> 00:21:57,620
planet contain higher magnetic
600
00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,666
forces than others.
601
00:21:59,666 --> 00:22:01,102
>> MARTELL: An interesting
602
00:22:01,102 --> 00:22:02,408
coincidence for all the
603
00:22:02,408 --> 00:22:03,757
megalithic structures we have
604
00:22:03,757 --> 00:22:05,019
around the Earth is that they're
605
00:22:05,019 --> 00:22:06,760
placed at specific points that
606
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,066
could be harnessing an ancient
607
00:22:09,066 --> 00:22:10,851
world energy grid.
608
00:22:10,851 --> 00:22:12,026
>> SCHOCH: There are certain
609
00:22:12,026 --> 00:22:13,723
spots around the world which
610
00:22:13,723 --> 00:22:15,334
have traditionally been
611
00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:18,728
sacred, hallowed, vortexes.
612
00:22:18,728 --> 00:22:24,081
Energy feels different there.
613
00:22:24,081 --> 00:22:25,648
>> WILCOCK: The ancient stone
614
00:22:25,648 --> 00:22:27,433
monuments were built to harness
615
00:22:27,433 --> 00:22:29,652
that force and that potential to
616
00:22:29,652 --> 00:22:32,873
create a funnel-like vortex.
617
00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:34,440
>> MARTELL: When we look at
618
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,833
things like the Giza Pyramids or
619
00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:39,270
Machu Picchu or Baalbek in
620
00:22:39,270 --> 00:22:40,620
Lebanon, all of these are placed
621
00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:42,883
at specific geo-coded locations
622
00:22:42,883 --> 00:22:44,363
which relate to this World
623
00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,060
Energy Grid.
624
00:22:46,060 --> 00:22:49,106
>> NARRATOR: Could Carnac be one
625
00:22:49,106 --> 00:22:52,109
of these locations?
626
00:22:52,109 --> 00:22:53,720
And might the combination of
627
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,288
geomagnetic properties and the
628
00:22:57,288 --> 00:22:58,464
unique shapes of the stones
629
00:22:58,464 --> 00:23:01,467
themselves have allowed ancient
630
00:23:01,467 --> 00:23:02,598
builders to actually
631
00:23:02,598 --> 00:23:04,600
manipulate gravity?
632
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,908
If so, where did this knowledge
633
00:23:07,908 --> 00:23:09,866
come from?
634
00:23:09,866 --> 00:23:11,738
And what ultimate purpose did
635
00:23:11,738 --> 00:23:13,696
it serve?
636
00:23:13,696 --> 00:23:14,828
>> CHILDRESS: It wasn't until we
637
00:23:14,828 --> 00:23:16,699
were able to see these stones
638
00:23:16,699 --> 00:23:19,485
from above, in a helicopter,
639
00:23:19,485 --> 00:23:21,835
that we realized that Carnac was
640
00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:25,099
meant to be seen from the sky
641
00:23:25,099 --> 00:23:28,145
above us.
642
00:23:28,145 --> 00:23:30,670
>> TSOUKALOS: And that is one of
643
00:23:30,670 --> 00:23:32,498
only three things that you can
644
00:23:32,498 --> 00:23:34,587
see from outer space.
645
00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:36,632
That's Nazca, the Great Wall in
646
00:23:36,632 --> 00:23:40,767
China and Carnac.
647
00:23:40,767 --> 00:23:42,464
>> MARTELL: Were they meant to
648
00:23:42,464 --> 00:23:43,987
be seen by people in the sky?
649
00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:45,554
And who could've been flying at
650
00:23:45,554 --> 00:23:46,599
that time other than
651
00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:50,341
extraterrestrials?
652
00:23:50,341 --> 00:23:52,561
>> NARRATOR: At one end of the
653
00:23:52,561 --> 00:23:54,084
Carnac alignment, aerial
654
00:23:54,084 --> 00:23:56,304
researchers identified a stone
655
00:23:56,304 --> 00:23:58,349
circle similar to the one
656
00:23:58,349 --> 00:24:00,874
found at Stonehenge.
657
00:24:00,874 --> 00:24:03,311
At the other end, investigators
658
00:24:03,311 --> 00:24:04,878
on the ground discovered a
659
00:24:04,878 --> 00:24:07,837
rectangle of stones, one that
660
00:24:07,837 --> 00:24:10,492
had been buried for centuries.
661
00:24:10,492 --> 00:24:12,320
Both groupings appeared
662
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,540
precisely placed to predict
663
00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:15,845
both the summer and the
664
00:24:15,845 --> 00:24:17,499
winter solstice.
665
00:24:17,499 --> 00:24:19,240
And when even more closely
666
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,111
examined from above, the
667
00:24:21,111 --> 00:24:23,200
solstice points and the
668
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,811
alignment of Carnac's many rows
669
00:24:24,811 --> 00:24:27,248
of stones reveal yet another
670
00:24:27,248 --> 00:24:30,817
geometric phenomenon: the shape
671
00:24:30,817 --> 00:24:32,993
of a Pythagorean, or right
672
00:24:32,993 --> 00:24:36,387
triangle, covering many square
673
00:24:36,387 --> 00:24:38,868
miles.
674
00:24:38,868 --> 00:24:41,218
But how could the builders of
675
00:24:41,218 --> 00:24:43,177
Carnac have had knowledge of a
676
00:24:43,177 --> 00:24:44,526
sophisticated mathematical
677
00:24:44,526 --> 00:24:47,181
theorem approximately 2,000
678
00:24:47,181 --> 00:24:48,791
years before its
679
00:24:48,791 --> 00:24:50,184
discovery by the Greek
680
00:24:50,184 --> 00:24:53,622
mathematician Pythagoras?
681
00:24:53,622 --> 00:24:55,319
>> TSOUKALOS: These conclusions
682
00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:56,712
about the Pythagorean Theorem
683
00:24:56,712 --> 00:24:58,888
doesn't come from me; it
684
00:24:58,888 --> 00:25:01,021
actually comes from quite
685
00:25:01,021 --> 00:25:02,892
advanced mathematicians who have
686
00:25:02,892 --> 00:25:04,720
looked at these alignments and
687
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,244
made the calculations.
688
00:25:07,244 --> 00:25:11,553
We're talking Stone Age time,
689
00:25:11,553 --> 00:25:13,424
and they knew about A squared
690
00:25:13,424 --> 00:25:16,166
plus B squared equals C squared?
691
00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:17,646
They knew about it,
692
00:25:17,646 --> 00:25:20,867
yes, but why?
693
00:25:20,867 --> 00:25:23,870
Who told them this?
694
00:25:23,870 --> 00:25:26,960
At the time, extraterrestrials
695
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,049
told our ancestors, "Put this
696
00:25:29,049 --> 00:25:30,920
stone here, put this stone
697
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,749
there," with the idea that a
698
00:25:33,749 --> 00:25:35,925
future generation would have to
699
00:25:35,925 --> 00:25:37,797
stumble across this
700
00:25:37,797 --> 00:25:40,190
mathematical riddle, that
701
00:25:40,190 --> 00:25:42,758
somebody would say,
702
00:25:42,758 --> 00:25:43,759
"Hold on a second.
703
00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:45,631
This was erected during the
704
00:25:45,631 --> 00:25:48,068
Stone Age, yet here we have
705
00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:49,896
advanced mathematics.
706
00:25:49,896 --> 00:25:52,507
How is this possible?"
707
00:25:52,507 --> 00:25:53,769
>> VON DANIKEN: Now these
708
00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:54,944
extraterrestrials, they ask
709
00:25:54,944 --> 00:25:56,598
themself, "How could we give
710
00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:58,687
them a sign?"
711
00:25:58,687 --> 00:26:00,776
And there was a suggestion made
712
00:26:00,776 --> 00:26:03,170
in French Brittany-- kilometers
713
00:26:03,170 --> 00:26:04,867
of stone lines in the form
714
00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:06,434
of a triangle.
715
00:26:06,434 --> 00:26:07,870
Gigantic triangle.
716
00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:09,393
So we have the sign.
717
00:26:09,393 --> 00:26:10,873
We have the information.
718
00:26:10,873 --> 00:26:12,962
But nobody looks at it.
719
00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:14,834
It's time to change our attitude
720
00:26:14,834 --> 00:26:18,751
to these things.
721
00:26:18,751 --> 00:26:20,013
>> CHILDRESS: I think that these
722
00:26:20,013 --> 00:26:22,972
stones are transmitting energy
723
00:26:22,972 --> 00:26:25,888
that extraterrestrials or others
724
00:26:25,888 --> 00:26:28,369
in airships could pick up this
725
00:26:28,369 --> 00:26:30,850
energy like a GPS system or
726
00:26:30,850 --> 00:26:34,157
some kind of airport beacon
727
00:26:34,157 --> 00:26:36,856
and use it for navigating
728
00:26:36,856 --> 00:26:39,772
the entire planet.
729
00:26:39,772 --> 00:26:41,861
>> NARRATOR: Gigantic triangles
730
00:26:41,861 --> 00:26:44,515
made of stone.
731
00:26:44,515 --> 00:26:47,475
Geomagnetic phenomenon.
732
00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:49,695
The possibility of an
733
00:26:49,695 --> 00:26:51,827
extraterrestrial encounter with
734
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:55,004
humans thousands of years ago.
735
00:26:55,004 --> 00:26:57,616
But if alien visitors did touch
736
00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:01,010
down at Carnac, where else did
737
00:27:01,010 --> 00:27:02,969
they land?
738
00:27:02,969 --> 00:27:05,624
And where did they come from?
739
00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:07,626
Perhaps a recently discovered
740
00:27:07,626 --> 00:27:09,802
archaeological site in Armenia
741
00:27:09,802 --> 00:27:12,718
archaeological site in Armenia
will provide the answer.
742
00:27:12,718 --> 00:27:25,034
will provide the answer.
743
00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:26,645
>> NARRATOR: The Syunik
744
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:29,648
province, southern Armenia.
745
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:32,128
Approximately 140 miles
746
00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:34,043
southeast of the nation's
747
00:27:34,043 --> 00:27:36,219
capital, Yerevan, lies the
748
00:27:36,219 --> 00:27:40,049
city of Sisian.
749
00:27:40,049 --> 00:27:43,226
Nearby sits a high plateau where
750
00:27:43,226 --> 00:27:45,751
hundreds of ancient stones, some
751
00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:48,101
weighing more than 50 tons,
752
00:27:48,101 --> 00:27:51,800
stretch over a third of a mile.
753
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,238
This is Carahunge, also known as
754
00:27:55,238 --> 00:27:58,328
This is Carahunge, also known as
the Armenian Stonehenge.
755
00:27:58,328 --> 00:28:01,288
the Armenian Stonehenge.
756
00:28:01,288 --> 00:28:04,073
Estimated to be approximately
757
00:28:04,073 --> 00:28:07,555
7,500 years old, Carahunge
758
00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:09,818
predates the British Stonehenge
759
00:28:09,818 --> 00:28:13,822
by more than 4,500 years.
760
00:28:13,822 --> 00:28:17,304
The site is made of 203 slabs
761
00:28:17,304 --> 00:28:20,133
of basalt.
762
00:28:20,133 --> 00:28:22,918
At the structure's center stands
763
00:28:22,918 --> 00:28:27,575
the stone circle, or henge.
764
00:28:27,575 --> 00:28:29,533
>> NICHOLAS HOWARTH: When most
765
00:28:29,533 --> 00:28:30,926
people hear of stone henges,
766
00:28:30,926 --> 00:28:32,711
they think of theStonehenge
767
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:33,712
in England.
768
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,017
But there are hundreds of these,
769
00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:37,454
uh, henges, or stone circles,
770
00:28:37,454 --> 00:28:40,240
scattered all across Europe.
771
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,722
What they were and how they
772
00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:47,247
were used is still a mystery.
773
00:28:47,247 --> 00:28:48,944
>> TSOUKALOS: Mainstream
774
00:28:48,944 --> 00:28:51,730
archaeology still doesn't agree
775
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,863
on who lived there or who the
776
00:28:54,863 --> 00:28:58,867
builders were of that site.
777
00:28:58,867 --> 00:29:02,131
What we do know, though, is that
778
00:29:02,131 --> 00:29:04,351
the entire site is definitely
779
00:29:04,351 --> 00:29:06,483
a part of some type of an
780
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:08,529
astronomical model.
781
00:29:08,529 --> 00:29:10,487
>> NARRATOR: But how could this
782
00:29:10,487 --> 00:29:12,489
simple circular array of stones
783
00:29:12,489 --> 00:29:14,970
have given early man information
784
00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:17,320
about the stars?
785
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,453
Is it possible that Carahunge
786
00:29:19,453 --> 00:29:21,324
might be the world's oldest
787
00:29:21,324 --> 00:29:23,457
observatory?
788
00:29:23,457 --> 00:29:26,982
In September of 2010, England's
789
00:29:26,982 --> 00:29:29,593
Oxford University sent an
790
00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:33,119
expedition to investigate.
791
00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:35,121
>> HOWARTH: What makes this
792
00:29:35,121 --> 00:29:36,949
exceptional megalithic monument
793
00:29:36,949 --> 00:29:39,690
unique are the small holes,
794
00:29:39,690 --> 00:29:41,780
which have been bored into the
795
00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:46,349
rock at different angles.
796
00:29:46,349 --> 00:29:50,179
There are 85 stones with holes.
797
00:29:50,179 --> 00:29:53,530
They're like telescopes.
798
00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,098
What we see with these holes is
799
00:29:56,098 --> 00:29:58,100
that they are pointed at
800
00:29:58,100 --> 00:29:59,798
different alignments to
801
00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:03,105
positions, uh, on the horizon or
802
00:30:03,105 --> 00:30:05,238
into the night sky.
803
00:30:05,238 --> 00:30:07,066
Uh, what they're pointing at is
804
00:30:07,066 --> 00:30:09,982
Uh, what they're pointing at is
still a mystery to us.
805
00:30:09,982 --> 00:30:12,723
still a mystery to us.
806
00:30:12,723 --> 00:30:15,901
But we can say with certainty
807
00:30:15,901 --> 00:30:17,250
from the archaeological
808
00:30:17,250 --> 00:30:18,817
evidence that they were some
809
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:20,775
sort of way to connect man and
810
00:30:20,775 --> 00:30:23,299
his life on Earth to the
811
00:30:23,299 --> 00:30:26,302
heavens above.
812
00:30:26,302 --> 00:30:29,001
And this would be the first time
813
00:30:29,001 --> 00:30:31,612
that we can say that people were
814
00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:33,744
systematically trying to
815
00:30:33,744 --> 00:30:35,398
understand their place in the
816
00:30:35,398 --> 00:30:37,966
solar system.
817
00:30:37,966 --> 00:30:39,925
>> WILCOCK: This site is also
818
00:30:39,925 --> 00:30:41,840
called the Zorats Karer, which
819
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,189
means "The Stones of the
820
00:30:43,189 --> 00:30:44,494
Powerful."
821
00:30:44,494 --> 00:30:46,061
And what has been determined is
822
00:30:46,061 --> 00:30:48,107
that the outline of these stones
823
00:30:48,107 --> 00:30:50,065
actually does correspond to the
824
00:30:50,065 --> 00:30:52,154
constellation known as Cygnus,
825
00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:55,114
or the Swan...
826
00:30:55,114 --> 00:30:57,420
which, in certain cultures, is
827
00:30:57,420 --> 00:31:01,294
also referred to as the Vulture.
828
00:31:01,294 --> 00:31:03,383
>> COLLINS: Cygnus has always
829
00:31:03,383 --> 00:31:05,211
been seen among cultures around
830
00:31:05,211 --> 00:31:07,213
the world for many, many
831
00:31:07,213 --> 00:31:08,910
thousands of years as a point
832
00:31:08,910 --> 00:31:12,174
of entry and exit into the
833
00:31:12,174 --> 00:31:14,524
sky world-- this belief in a
834
00:31:14,524 --> 00:31:16,787
power in the stars, the idea
835
00:31:16,787 --> 00:31:18,789
that we come from the stars and
836
00:31:18,789 --> 00:31:21,880
that we come from the stars and
actually return there in death.
837
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,533
actually return there in death.
838
00:31:23,533 --> 00:31:24,926
>> NARRATOR: The early Greeks,
839
00:31:24,926 --> 00:31:27,320
Chinese and others also believed
840
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,670
that Cygnus had a special power
841
00:31:29,670 --> 00:31:31,890
or unique significance.
842
00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,152
But why?
843
00:31:33,152 --> 00:31:34,675
Why would so many ancient
844
00:31:34,675 --> 00:31:36,416
cultures around the world have
845
00:31:36,416 --> 00:31:38,070
similar myths about the same
846
00:31:38,070 --> 00:31:39,854
constellation?
847
00:31:39,854 --> 00:31:41,290
>> TSOUKALOS: The only reason
848
00:31:41,290 --> 00:31:42,944
why I would do this, if I were
849
00:31:42,944 --> 00:31:45,555
on a foreign planet, is to give
850
00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:47,993
a message to future generations
851
00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:51,257
to say, "Hey. Nudge, nudge.
852
00:31:51,257 --> 00:31:55,261
This is where we came from."
853
00:31:55,261 --> 00:31:57,263
>> NARRATOR: Although, today, it
854
00:31:57,263 --> 00:31:58,917
is no longer possible to see
855
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:00,353
Cygnus through the notches of
856
00:32:00,353 --> 00:32:02,833
Carahunge, many theories exist
857
00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,879
as to why the position of the
858
00:32:04,879 --> 00:32:06,707
constellation has changed so
859
00:32:06,707 --> 00:32:08,578
drastically.
860
00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:10,754
>> WILCOCK: This site dates back
861
00:32:10,754 --> 00:32:12,756
to antiquity, where the Earth's
862
00:32:12,756 --> 00:32:13,932
axis was in a different
863
00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:15,194
position.
864
00:32:15,194 --> 00:32:17,544
And you had the constellation
865
00:32:17,544 --> 00:32:19,198
visible in the sky at that time
866
00:32:19,198 --> 00:32:21,156
because of the fact that the
867
00:32:21,156 --> 00:32:24,203
Earth was on a different tilt of
868
00:32:24,203 --> 00:32:26,248
its axis entirely.
869
00:32:26,248 --> 00:32:27,597
>> NARRATOR: Mainstream
870
00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:29,686
scientists have calculated that
871
00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:32,385
the Earth's axis slowly changes,
872
00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:34,691
or wobbles, over a 26,000-year
873
00:32:34,691 --> 00:32:36,041
period.
874
00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:38,043
But there are other researchers
875
00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:39,827
who believe these shifts happen
876
00:32:39,827 --> 00:32:43,178
more suddenly and dramatically.
877
00:32:43,178 --> 00:32:45,224
They claim that when these
878
00:32:45,224 --> 00:32:47,313
events occur, they cause major
879
00:32:47,313 --> 00:32:50,577
climate changes...
880
00:32:50,577 --> 00:32:51,970
flooding of biblical
881
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,234
proportion... and the widespread
882
00:32:55,234 --> 00:32:58,280
proportion... and the widespread
destruction of life.
883
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,197
destruction of life.
884
00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:04,373
But if these rapid shifts did
885
00:33:04,373 --> 00:33:07,333
occur, might Carahunge have been
886
00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:08,899
designed to provide something
887
00:33:08,899 --> 00:33:10,379
of a warning?
888
00:33:10,379 --> 00:33:11,467
>> WILCOCK: It's possible that
889
00:33:11,467 --> 00:33:13,600
the Armenian Stonehenge was one
890
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,211
of the initial sites where ETs
891
00:33:16,211 --> 00:33:17,517
came to visit.
892
00:33:17,517 --> 00:33:19,388
And if there had been some sort
893
00:33:19,388 --> 00:33:21,608
of shift on the Earth's axis
894
00:33:21,608 --> 00:33:23,218
before, if there were periodic
895
00:33:23,218 --> 00:33:25,655
cataclysms, then maybe there is
896
00:33:25,655 --> 00:33:27,266
a time cycle in which those
897
00:33:27,266 --> 00:33:29,050
cataclysms happen.
898
00:33:29,050 --> 00:33:30,660
And maybe these ancients were
899
00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:32,271
very concerned about watching
900
00:33:32,271 --> 00:33:33,402
the astronomical alignments
901
00:33:33,402 --> 00:33:34,969
because they wanted to make
902
00:33:34,969 --> 00:33:37,015
sure that this wasn't going to
903
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:40,453
happen again.
904
00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:42,629
>> NARRATOR: But could alien
905
00:33:42,629 --> 00:33:44,587
visitors from other worlds have
906
00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:47,112
come to this spot even before
907
00:33:47,112 --> 00:33:50,463
Carahunge was built?
908
00:33:50,463 --> 00:33:52,508
Perhaps petroglyphs in the
909
00:33:52,508 --> 00:33:54,815
area-- much older than the
910
00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:56,686
standing stones-- offer even
911
00:33:56,686 --> 00:33:58,427
more clues.
912
00:33:58,427 --> 00:34:00,038
>> HOWARTH: The petroglyphs go
913
00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:01,865
back to a much earlier time,
914
00:34:01,865 --> 00:34:03,476
so I think my first point is
915
00:34:03,476 --> 00:34:05,521
not to confuse the petroglyphs,
916
00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:08,220
which are from 10,000 years
917
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:09,612
before Christ, with
918
00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:11,440
Carahunge itself.
919
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,051
When the stones went up, it was
920
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,487
probably 3,000 to 2,000 years
921
00:34:14,487 --> 00:34:16,358
before Christ.
922
00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:18,404
There are thousands, if not
923
00:34:18,404 --> 00:34:21,233
hundreds of thousands, of images
924
00:34:21,233 --> 00:34:24,453
of humanoid figures on the site.
925
00:34:24,453 --> 00:34:25,889
Some of them are quite distorted
926
00:34:25,889 --> 00:34:27,630
and difficult to understand
927
00:34:27,630 --> 00:34:30,068
and interpret.
928
00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:32,070
>> MARTELL: The Armenian
929
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,462
Stonehenge also has some
930
00:34:33,462 --> 00:34:35,116
interesting carved wall reliefs
931
00:34:35,116 --> 00:34:36,639
that show humanoid-looking
932
00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:37,988
beings.
933
00:34:37,988 --> 00:34:39,512
Now, many people have speculated
934
00:34:39,512 --> 00:34:40,991
that these could be possibly
935
00:34:40,991 --> 00:34:43,037
extraterrestrial.
936
00:34:43,037 --> 00:34:44,995
We look at the very bulbous
937
00:34:44,995 --> 00:34:50,088
shaped heads, slanted eyes.
938
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:51,350
Very similar to what we see in
939
00:34:51,350 --> 00:34:53,265
Very similar to what we see in
a modern-day gray alien.
940
00:34:53,265 --> 00:34:55,658
a modern-day gray alien.
941
00:34:55,658 --> 00:34:57,965
>> TSOUKALOS: Look at the eyes,
942
00:34:57,965 --> 00:35:00,402
>> TSOUKALOS: Look at the eyes,
look at the shape of the head.
943
00:35:00,402 --> 00:35:02,491
look at the shape of the head.
944
00:35:02,491 --> 00:35:03,362
What's interesting in this
945
00:35:03,362 --> 00:35:05,625
carving right here, those
946
00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:07,235
extraterrestrials are holding
947
00:35:07,235 --> 00:35:10,543
some type of a disc.
948
00:35:10,543 --> 00:35:13,633
You've got this sphere that's
949
00:35:13,633 --> 00:35:15,113
sort of just floating there in
950
00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:18,246
midair.
951
00:35:18,246 --> 00:35:20,335
Is it possible that these here
952
00:35:20,335 --> 00:35:21,858
represent flying discs?
953
00:35:21,858 --> 00:35:23,860
And the answer is yes, because
954
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:27,125
again, this is a human rendering
955
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:28,909
of something that they
956
00:35:28,909 --> 00:35:31,999
witnessed a long time ago.
957
00:35:31,999 --> 00:35:33,305
And it had to have been
958
00:35:33,305 --> 00:35:36,134
compelling enough for them to
959
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:39,398
compelling enough for them to
carve this into stone.
960
00:35:39,398 --> 00:35:42,357
carve this into stone.
961
00:35:42,357 --> 00:35:43,706
>> NARRATOR: Could these
962
00:35:43,706 --> 00:35:46,100
ancient stone carvings actually
963
00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:47,667
be primitive portraits of
964
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:49,582
be primitive portraits of
visitors from the sky?
965
00:35:49,582 --> 00:35:52,106
visitors from the sky?
966
00:35:52,106 --> 00:35:54,152
Did ancient astronauts really
967
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:56,328
use Carahunge as some sort of
968
00:35:56,328 --> 00:36:00,332
landing site or early portal?
969
00:36:00,332 --> 00:36:03,552
If so, what secrets did they
970
00:36:03,552 --> 00:36:06,686
leave behind?
971
00:36:06,686 --> 00:36:08,601
And could they still be helping
972
00:36:08,601 --> 00:36:12,170
to create stone monoliths, even
973
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,476
to create stone monoliths, even
in our own time?
974
00:36:14,476 --> 00:36:16,696
in our own time?
975
00:36:16,696 --> 00:36:19,351
>> NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida,
976
00:36:19,351 --> 00:36:21,701
>> NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida,
30 miles south of Miami.
977
00:36:21,701 --> 00:36:23,485
30 miles south of Miami.
978
00:36:23,485 --> 00:36:25,705
This former agricultural town
979
00:36:25,705 --> 00:36:27,489
is home to one of the most
980
00:36:27,489 --> 00:36:29,274
mysterious structures in North
981
00:36:29,274 --> 00:36:32,886
America: a stone garden made of
982
00:36:32,886 --> 00:36:34,496
sculpted blocks of ancient
983
00:36:34,496 --> 00:36:38,457
coral, some weighing 30 tons.
984
00:36:38,457 --> 00:36:41,764
coral, some weighing 30 tons.
It's called the Coral Castle.
985
00:36:41,764 --> 00:36:44,071
It's called the Coral Castle.
986
00:36:44,071 --> 00:36:46,856
Spread over several acres, the
987
00:36:46,856 --> 00:36:48,554
complex formations and
988
00:36:48,554 --> 00:36:50,208
intricate designs of the stone
989
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:52,253
walls and sculptures marvel
990
00:36:52,253 --> 00:36:53,646
tourists.
991
00:36:53,646 --> 00:36:55,082
But unlike other great
992
00:36:55,082 --> 00:36:57,258
structures around the world,
993
00:36:57,258 --> 00:37:00,305
this site is not ancient.
994
00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:01,393
>> CHILDRESS: Coral Castle in
995
00:37:01,393 --> 00:37:03,525
Florida is often said to be,
996
00:37:03,525 --> 00:37:07,181
uh, the only modern megalithic
997
00:37:07,181 --> 00:37:10,532
structure ever built.
998
00:37:10,532 --> 00:37:12,665
>> NARRATOR: In 1923, Ed
999
00:37:12,665 --> 00:37:14,449
Leedskalnin, a Latvian
1000
00:37:14,449 --> 00:37:15,885
immigrant, began building what
1001
00:37:15,885 --> 00:37:17,757
he originally called Rock Gate
1002
00:37:17,757 --> 00:37:18,801
Park.
1003
00:37:18,801 --> 00:37:20,455
But believe it or not,
1004
00:37:20,455 --> 00:37:22,544
Leedskalnin insisted that he
1005
00:37:22,544 --> 00:37:24,546
was not using modern machinery
1006
00:37:24,546 --> 00:37:25,808
to build the impressive
1007
00:37:25,808 --> 00:37:26,896
structure.
1008
00:37:26,896 --> 00:37:28,507
He also claimed that he was
1009
00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:29,899
working alone.
1010
00:37:29,899 --> 00:37:30,987
>> RUSTY McCLURE: Well, Ed was a
1011
00:37:30,987 --> 00:37:34,382
hermit, and Ed was a loner.
1012
00:37:34,382 --> 00:37:36,428
And he was a foreigner.
1013
00:37:36,428 --> 00:37:38,430
And he was a recluse.
1014
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:40,432
And a scientist.
1015
00:37:40,432 --> 00:37:41,911
>> GEORGE NOORY: He was in love
1016
00:37:41,911 --> 00:37:43,478
with a woman and he wanted to
1017
00:37:43,478 --> 00:37:45,306
build this facility in memory of
1018
00:37:45,306 --> 00:37:46,307
her.
1019
00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:47,917
And he waited for her to come
1020
00:37:47,917 --> 00:37:49,789
from Europe, and he waited and
1021
00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:52,487
he waited, and she never did.
1022
00:37:52,487 --> 00:37:54,794
But the big question is, is how
1023
00:37:54,794 --> 00:37:58,493
did this frail little man move
1024
00:37:58,493 --> 00:38:00,887
these thousands of pounds of
1025
00:38:00,887 --> 00:38:04,760
block by himself?
1026
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,022
>> NARRATOR: Barely over five
1027
00:38:06,022 --> 00:38:07,981
feet tall and weighing just
1028
00:38:07,981 --> 00:38:11,245
100 pounds, Leedskalnin is said
1029
00:38:11,245 --> 00:38:12,942
to have carved, moved and
1030
00:38:12,942 --> 00:38:15,684
hoisted huge multi-ton stones
1031
00:38:15,684 --> 00:38:18,731
using only a makeshift tripod.
1032
00:38:18,731 --> 00:38:20,515
>> McCLURE: He has a tripod--
1033
00:38:20,515 --> 00:38:22,561
three pieces of Florida pine--
1034
00:38:22,561 --> 00:38:24,432
and he's got some chains.
1035
00:38:24,432 --> 00:38:27,392
And he's now gonna lift 30 tons,
1036
00:38:27,392 --> 00:38:29,568
ten tons of rock.
1037
00:38:29,568 --> 00:38:30,569
Can't be done.
1038
00:38:30,569 --> 00:38:31,700
No one could do that.
1039
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:32,571
>> NOORY: He would work at
1040
00:38:32,571 --> 00:38:33,572
night.
1041
00:38:33,572 --> 00:38:34,747
He wouldn't let anybody watch
1042
00:38:34,747 --> 00:38:35,530
him.
1043
00:38:35,530 --> 00:38:37,793
And he said that he knew the
1044
00:38:37,793 --> 00:38:40,927
secrets of the pyramids.
1045
00:38:40,927 --> 00:38:42,320
>> NARRATOR: But what exactly
1046
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,931
was Leedskalnin referring to?
1047
00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:46,976
Had he rediscovered the same
1048
00:38:46,976 --> 00:38:49,196
advanced technology used to
1049
00:38:49,196 --> 00:38:50,937
build megalithic structures
1050
00:38:50,937 --> 00:38:54,419
like Carnac and Sacsayhuamán?
1051
00:38:54,419 --> 00:38:55,637
>> McCLURE: Ed over and over
1052
00:38:55,637 --> 00:38:57,813
again would tell people that he
1053
00:38:57,813 --> 00:38:59,946
knew the secrets that helped
1054
00:38:59,946 --> 00:39:01,164
the Egyptians build the
1055
00:39:01,164 --> 00:39:01,774
pyramids.
1056
00:39:01,774 --> 00:39:02,862
What was he talking about?
1057
00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:04,820
Why was he constantly harking
1058
00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:06,169
back to the Egyptians?
1059
00:39:06,169 --> 00:39:07,954
We don't know.
1060
00:39:07,954 --> 00:39:08,998
>> NARRATOR: Leedskalnin
1061
00:39:08,998 --> 00:39:10,609
continued work on the Coral
1062
00:39:10,609 --> 00:39:14,569
Castle until his death in 1951.
1063
00:39:14,569 --> 00:39:17,572
In the journals he left behind,
1064
00:39:17,572 --> 00:39:19,618
the builder explained that he
1065
00:39:19,618 --> 00:39:21,315
had discovered the ancient
1066
00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:23,622
secret of transforming stones
1067
00:39:23,622 --> 00:39:26,973
into weightless objects.
1068
00:39:26,973 --> 00:39:28,191
>> McCLURE: Ed says this in his
1069
00:39:28,191 --> 00:39:29,715
pamphlet "Magnetic Current,"
1070
00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:32,631
that real gravity is actually
1071
00:39:32,631 --> 00:39:34,676
real magnet.
1072
00:39:34,676 --> 00:39:36,548
So if you reverse the magnet
1073
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:38,985
forces with a force of some
1074
00:39:38,985 --> 00:39:42,423
kind of electromagnetic radio,
1075
00:39:42,423 --> 00:39:45,165
perhaps, frequency, you can then
1076
00:39:45,165 --> 00:39:48,429
make these rocks not as heavy
1077
00:39:48,429 --> 00:39:49,735
as they seem otherwise.
1078
00:39:49,735 --> 00:39:53,391
And therefore you can lift them.
1079
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:54,827
>> NARRATOR: But if Leedskalnin
1080
00:39:54,827 --> 00:39:56,655
had developed a device that
1081
00:39:56,655 --> 00:39:59,788
could modify gravity, what was
1082
00:39:59,788 --> 00:40:01,311
his secret?
1083
00:40:01,311 --> 00:40:03,618
Some suggest the answer lies in
1084
00:40:03,618 --> 00:40:05,751
a mysterious black box that can
1085
00:40:05,751 --> 00:40:08,101
a mysterious black box that can
be seen in various photographs.
1086
00:40:08,101 --> 00:40:10,408
be seen in various photographs.
1087
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,192
A box that has since
1088
00:40:12,192 --> 00:40:14,586
A box that has since
disappeared.
1089
00:40:14,586 --> 00:40:17,197
disappeared.
1090
00:40:17,197 --> 00:40:18,198
>> McCLURE: The black box
1091
00:40:18,198 --> 00:40:20,461
sitting on top is the element
1092
00:40:20,461 --> 00:40:22,768
that no one has ever seen,
1093
00:40:22,768 --> 00:40:25,205
except in those pictures, and no
1094
00:40:25,205 --> 00:40:26,424
one has today.
1095
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:28,730
We believe that black box has
1096
00:40:28,730 --> 00:40:30,863
something to do with how he got
1097
00:40:30,863 --> 00:40:34,780
these massive, heavy, brittle
1098
00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:37,739
pieces of rock up in the air in
1099
00:40:37,739 --> 00:40:40,046
a way that no one can duplicate.
1100
00:40:40,046 --> 00:40:42,004
>> NOORY: He had some kind of
1101
00:40:42,004 --> 00:40:43,789
magnetic machine down in one of
1102
00:40:43,789 --> 00:40:45,791
his other house areas that
1103
00:40:45,791 --> 00:40:47,619
has since been dismantled.
1104
00:40:47,619 --> 00:40:49,838
But it had a revolving ability.
1105
00:40:49,838 --> 00:40:51,144
He may have been having that
1106
00:40:51,144 --> 00:40:51,797
thing spin.
1107
00:40:51,797 --> 00:40:53,015
The whole place could have been
1108
00:40:53,015 --> 00:40:54,843
anti-gravity.
1109
00:40:54,843 --> 00:40:56,410
Probably just pushed these
1110
00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:58,412
into place.
1111
00:40:58,412 --> 00:40:59,892
>> SARA SEAGER: Levitation is
1112
00:40:59,892 --> 00:41:01,023
the only way that I know of to
1113
00:41:01,023 --> 00:41:02,851
hold up very heavy objects.
1114
00:41:02,851 --> 00:41:04,810
Very, very high-speed trains
1115
00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:06,986
are magnetically levitated.
1116
00:41:06,986 --> 00:41:09,641
[train whistle blows]
1117
00:41:09,641 --> 00:41:11,469
These high-speed trains don't
1118
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:12,426
have wheels that touch any
1119
00:41:12,426 --> 00:41:12,905
tracks.
1120
00:41:12,905 --> 00:41:14,210
They're literally suspended
1121
00:41:14,210 --> 00:41:16,430
above the track using magnetic
1122
00:41:16,430 --> 00:41:18,432
forces.
1123
00:41:18,432 --> 00:41:19,433
>> BRANDENBURG: We can
1124
00:41:19,433 --> 00:41:21,783
speculate at this time that
1125
00:41:21,783 --> 00:41:24,612
there are techniques for using
1126
00:41:24,612 --> 00:41:26,527
electromagnetism to nullify
1127
00:41:26,527 --> 00:41:28,486
gravity.
1128
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:29,704
This was the great quest of
1129
00:41:29,704 --> 00:41:31,750
Einstein.
1130
00:41:31,750 --> 00:41:33,447
The motivation for such
1131
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:34,535
technologies, of course, is to
1132
00:41:34,535 --> 00:41:36,145
lift a large spaceship out into
1133
00:41:36,145 --> 00:41:38,844
space and across space.
1134
00:41:38,844 --> 00:41:40,802
space and across space.
[indistinct radio chatter]
1135
00:41:40,802 --> 00:41:44,893
[indistinct radio chatter]
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>> NARRATOR: Could it be that
1137
00:41:45,938 --> 00:41:47,809
Ed Leedskalnin utilized
1138
00:41:47,809 --> 00:41:50,290
anti-gravity to levitate and
1139
00:41:50,290 --> 00:41:52,118
distribute the enormous rocks
1140
00:41:52,118 --> 00:41:54,903
used to build Coral Castle?
1141
00:41:54,903 --> 00:41:57,471
If so, where did this incredible
1142
00:41:57,471 --> 00:42:00,169
knowledge come from?
1143
00:42:00,169 --> 00:42:01,867
>> COPPENS: And he died, taking
1144
00:42:01,867 --> 00:42:03,390
this secret to his grave.
1145
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:04,870
The question is: did he invent
1146
00:42:04,870 --> 00:42:07,525
it, or did he himself somehow
1147
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:09,483
inherit it or learn it from a
1148
00:42:09,483 --> 00:42:11,485
tradition, or maybe from some
1149
00:42:11,485 --> 00:42:14,532
visitor from another realm?
1150
00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:15,794
>> McCLURE: The only thing that
1151
00:42:15,794 --> 00:42:18,840
is explainable is that someone
1152
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,452
with a higher form of physics
1153
00:42:22,452 --> 00:42:24,759
and understanding of gravity
1154
00:42:24,759 --> 00:42:26,718
has created the ability of one
1155
00:42:26,718 --> 00:42:28,937
person to lift stones that
1156
00:42:28,937 --> 00:42:31,853
modern technology could not do
1157
00:42:31,853 --> 00:42:32,898
the way he did it.
1158
00:42:32,898 --> 00:42:34,726
It had to come from a different
1159
00:42:34,726 --> 00:42:37,250
It had to come from a different
place in this galaxy.
1160
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:44,866
place in this galaxy.
1161
00:42:44,866 --> 00:42:46,346
>> TSOUKALOS: The fact that one
1162
00:42:46,346 --> 00:42:49,567
guy created these massive
1163
00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:52,091
structures is absolutely
1164
00:42:52,091 --> 00:42:53,309
fascinating.
1165
00:42:53,309 --> 00:42:55,877
Am I suggesting that he did
1166
00:42:55,877 --> 00:42:56,835
this with extraterrestrial
1167
00:42:56,835 --> 00:42:58,663
technology?
1168
00:42:58,663 --> 00:43:01,274
No, because I don't know.
1169
00:43:01,274 --> 00:43:03,972
Am I excluding that possibility?
1170
00:43:03,972 --> 00:43:05,887
No.
1171
00:43:05,887 --> 00:43:07,106
>> NARRATOR: If aliens visited
1172
00:43:07,106 --> 00:43:10,196
Earth in ancient times, perhaps
1173
00:43:10,196 --> 00:43:11,589
the world's unexplained
1174
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:13,895
structures provide clues to
1175
00:43:13,895 --> 00:43:16,289
unlocking not only the secrets
1176
00:43:16,289 --> 00:43:19,292
of our past...
1177
00:43:19,292 --> 00:43:21,990
but a glimpse into our future.
1178
00:43:21,990 --> 00:43:23,296
>> VON DANIKEN: I think that
1179
00:43:23,296 --> 00:43:24,427
extraterrestrials would not
1180
00:43:24,427 --> 00:43:26,908
have left our solar system some
1181
00:43:26,908 --> 00:43:28,344
thousands of years ago without
1182
00:43:28,344 --> 00:43:29,563
any proof.
1183
00:43:29,563 --> 00:43:31,347
They wanted that in the far
1184
00:43:31,347 --> 00:43:33,959
future we start to reflect--
1185
00:43:33,959 --> 00:43:35,177
have we been visited by outer
1186
00:43:35,177 --> 00:43:37,527
space?
1187
00:43:37,527 --> 00:43:38,790
>> NARRATOR: Perhaps additional
1188
00:43:38,790 --> 00:43:41,706
clues still lie hidden, etched
1189
00:43:41,706 --> 00:43:45,623
on even more massive stones...
1190
00:43:45,623 --> 00:43:48,103
and waiting to be discovered,
1191
00:43:48,103 --> 00:43:49,801
and waiting to be discovered,
right before our eyes.
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