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>> NARRATOR: An enormous flying

creature born of a raging

inferno...

a vicious three‐headed dog

guarding the gates of hell

and mysterious sea serpents

terrorizing mankind.

But are such monsters just

mythical creatures; a fantasy?

Or did they actually exist in

the ancient past?

>> GEORGE NOORY: There was some

kind of experimentation

going on.

Let's take this animal and give

him two heads.

Let's take this dragon and give

him wings.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: These

creatures are direct products

of extraterrestrial genetic

experimentations in our past.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really shape

our history?

And if so, might the beasts and

monsters of ancient legend

really have been the product of

an advanced extraterrestrial

intelligence?

>> NARRATOR: Surfside Beach,

Montauk, New York.

On July 13, 2008, a 26‐year‐old

woman and three of her friends

discovered the carcass of a

strange looking creature that

had washed onto the shore.

>> RUEHL: It actually looked

like a hybrid creature that had

the claws of a raccoon and

possibly the beak of a bird and

the body, perhaps, of a dog.

A very unusual creature.

A photograph was taken

and circulated.

It started popping up all over

the Internet.

It went viral.

>> TSOUKALOS: The people

couldn't identify the animal

because it didn't look like

anything.

It looked like a mixture of

different animals.

>> REDFERN: And because it

looked so strange, you know,

it provoked a lot of theories.

Is it just an unknown animal?

Could it be some sort of hybrid‐

type creature?

Something, you know, that had

been genetically tinkered with

in a lab?

>> NARRATOR: Some believe the

mysterious creature is a hybrid

beast, perhaps created at a

nearby government testing

facility, the Plum Island Animal

Disease Center.

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman

labels the creature "The Montauk

Monster."

>> COLEMAN: This is a replica

of the Montauk Monster.

One of the things that we

noticed about this creature was

the strange features around

its mouth.

It looked like a beak.

It actually looked like we

didn't know what was going

on here.

Was it a griffon, was it a

creature, was it a giant turtle?

But indeed, that was decaying

flesh that had come away from

the skull.

Other features were the

strange looking feet, and the

body, indeed‐‐ because the

picture had no scale in it‐‐

we thought looked enormous.

But on the body, these white

objects here really define the

size of flies on the creature,

which then determined a scale.

This creature was very small.

>> RUEHL: Unfortunately, someone

grabbed the carcass and

supposedly took it to his front

yard, and it ultimately

vanished.

So the only evidence we have of

this creature is the photo.

>> NARRATOR: But while some

researchers theorized that the

so‐called Montauk Monster was

the product of modern science,

ancient astronaut theorists

believe the animal could be part

of a long line of genetically‐

modified creatures that have

appeared throughout human

history.

>> TSOUKALOS: If the Montauk

Monster is in fact a reality,

then that could mean that if

we're able today to create some

very bizarre creatures behind

closed doors in labs all around

the world, it is possible that

our ancestors, especially the

extraterrestrial ancestors, had

the same capability.

Because in ancient texts, we

have numerous references to

monsters, bizarre beings that

have been described

in great detail.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient Greek

artifacts depict terrifying

beasts such as the gorgon...

the Hydra...

and the ferocious Cerberus.

And in Homer's epic poem

the Iliad, the Greek author

describes a battle in which the

hero, Bellerophon, slays a

monster called the Chimera.

>> JASON MARTELL: The Chimera

was a dreaded beast that wreaked

havoc and terrorized the people

of Asia Minor.

Homer described the Chimera as

an immortal beast with a

lionlike head, a snake tail

and a third goat head inhe

middle that snorted bright fire.

>> GLENN: The notion of chimeras

and hybrids is one that has been

part of the human psyche

for millennia.

I mean, when you think about

things such as the Minotaur,

Pegasus, Anubis, this is

something that either we have

imagined or had been created

at one time.

>> RICHARD RADER: These beings,

these monsters, serve more of,

kind of an ethical purpose in

mythology than they are catalogs

of something literal because

storytelling and fiction are

just a part of what we are as

human beings.

>> NARRATOR: But did mythic

monsters merely spring from the

imagination of our ancestors?

Or might they have actually

existed?

Ancient alien theorists believe

in their existence and that

evidence can be found in the

relics of the past.

>> TSOUKALOS: To suggest that

all of these creatures were

nothing else but fantasy, in my

opinion, doesn't really hold

water because our ancestors

weren't stupid.

They depicted what they saw.

We find these mixed hybrid

beings all throughout Egypt as

sphinxes, as griffons, as

bizarre creatures that,

according to the the ancient

Egyptian texts, they did exist.

They were not a fantasy

of our ancestors' imagination.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Just

imagine there is a mother

spaceship traveling in the

universe for centuries and

centuries.

Then they find a solar system

with a planet with the

possibility of life like the

earth.

And they observe on the Nile a

crocodile, a living creature

which obviously is resistant

to the heat.

They observe a lion with his

power, his muscles.

And now they start to think, "We

could use a mixture of this

creature on another planet."

And now, by genetical design,

they start to create mixed

creatures.

Some of these mid creatures

did exist in the past.

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: The griffon

was a mythological creature

that had the body of a lion with

the head and wings of an eagle.

Now, the lion is the king of

beasts, the eagle is the king of

birds, so the griffon was the

king of all creatures.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: The creature

is somehow two creatures put

together in a way that defies

normal sense, defies normal

explanation.

So the question then is:

how does that happen?

>> NARRATOR: By the mid‐19th

century, scientists began to

look at fossil records around

the planet to study how

organisms changed over time.

Naturalist Charles Darwin

theorized that all life‐forms

share a common origin and have

evolved over the centuries

through a process called

natural selection.

Might the hybrid monsters of

ancient religion and myth really

have been the result of

evolution?

>> STANFORD: Darwin's theory of

evolution by natural selection

is a mechanism by which

life‐forms can change from one

into another.

It relies on the principle that

organisms that have certain

traits, permutations may be

advantageous in the struggle for

existence and the struggle

for reproduction.

And those traits are the ones

that will be perpetuated over

time, over many, many

generations.

>> IMBROGNO: Certain different

species can breed if they are

genetically close, like the...

like the donkey and the horse.

Like the wolf and the dog.

However, cats and dogs will not

mate because, first of all, they

don't have the biochemical

signatures to mate with each

other, and plus their genes are

so different that the

chromosomes just won't line up

properly to reproduce.

It's impossible.

>> NARRATOR: But if Darwin's

theories on evolution and

natural selection cannot explain

the origins of ancient beasts

and monsters, then where might

they have come from?

Perhaps the answer cannot be

found on Earth, but in a place

much father away.

>> NARRATOR: Southern Pakistan.

In the middle of the Indus River

Valley lie the ruins

of Mohenjo‐daro.

This ancient city, whose name

means "mound of the dead," was

one of the largest urban

settlements in the world

in 2600 B. C.

>> RUEHL: The ancient city of

Mohenjo‐daro had what appeared

to be streets that were laid out

parallel and perpendicular to

each other, like a modern city.

The homes actually had their own

toilets and they had a very

sophisticated sewer system.

So it looks like a very

advanced city.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists have long thought this

site was also the epicenter

of a nuclear explosion that

occurred more than 4,000 years

ago.

>> RUEHL: Skeletons were found

in dead positions as though

there's an instantaneous death,

and some of those skeletons, as

measured by Soviet scientists,

had 50 times the normal

radioactivity.

They found pottery that had been

fused, then walls were heated to

such an extent they became

vitrified or glasslike,

suggesting some sort of ancient

nuclear weapon involved.

>> NARRATOR: According to the

Mahabharata, the ancient holy

text of the Hindus, white‐hot

smoke rose in infinite

brilliance and reduced the city

to ashes.

Horses were burned by the

thousands and corpses were

vaporized by intense heat.

>> TSOUKALOS: And afterwards, a

big silence came over the entire

land and people start to have

boils on their skin.

Their hair start to fall out

and their nails.

There's only one thing that

causes this, and that is

radiation poisoning.

It's radiation fallout.

>> COPPENS: So the question then

becomes when events happen in

a place where there is

extreme radiation, what impact

does that have on human life or

on other life present there?

Could this explain, for example,

why creatures were born with

more than one arm or more than

one leg, which then somehow

became deified?

Because even to this day, we

know that in civilizations where

anomalous human beings are born,

somehow the touch of God is seen

to be part of this creation.

>> NARRATOR: According to the

ancient Hindu texts, after the

carnage at Mohenjo‐daro, a

fearsome flying monster appeared

in the sky.

It was called "Garuda."

>> YOUNG: In the Mahabharata,

the Garuda is a massive birdlike

creature; it's a red face,

red wings, talon.

It's so huge it would block

out the sun.

There are stories that it would

let a certain god, Vishnu, ride

on him on occasion.

>> TSOUKALOS: And each and every

time he would show up,

descending from the sky, he

would create hurricane winds.

And upon his descent, the Earth

would shake, dust would fly up

in the air and everyone in the

vicinity would be absolutely

terrified.

Now here we have a carving

of Garuda, and if we look at the

top, yes, they look like

feathers, but at the same time

they could be interpreted as big

gigantic flames.

>> CHILDRESS: According to Hindu

mythology, Garuda's born out of

this cosmic event, this war and

destruction that happens at the

end of every age.

>> COPPENS: Could this have been

somehow connected to exposures

or to radiation being borne

within a zone of high radiation?

We cannot know the answer, but

we do know that within India and

within Pakistan there are known

zones of higher radiation than

there are normal.

The logic dictates that somehow,

genetic abominations will have

been born within those places.

>> NARRATOR: If Mohenjo‐daro was

in fact the site of an ancient

nuclear attack, could it be

possible that Garuda was a

mutant beast created as a

by‐product of intense

radioactivity?

>> STANFORD: We tend to have a

science fiction view of what

mutation is.

We think of mutations being

caused by radiation and they

cause outlandish features and

gigantic‐sized insects and so

forth, but in fact, mutations

happen all the time.

>> BUSBY: There's no recorded

evidence of any radiation

causing a mutation which changes

some species into a different

species.

Most of the radiation mutations

are lethal.

>> NARRATOR: But if, as modern

scientists believe, Garuda was

not likely the result of genetic

mutation, then what could

explain its existence?

>> TSOUKALOS: The Mahabharata

states that Garuda was born from

this raging inferno.

And what's really intriguing is

the fact that in some text

passages, we can read that the

exterior of Garuda did not

consist of feathers, but of

metal.

Now what kind of a bird

is that?

No bird is made of metal, unless

it's a type of machine.

>> VON DANIKEN: Garuda was a

flying vehicle, and Garuda was

able to travel to the Moon and

around the Earth with very, very

high speed.

Garuda even was able to shock

mankind with lightning, which

fell from heaven.

>> TSOUKALOS: Garuda was

considered to be a snake killer.

In fact, Garuda needed to eat

snakes in order to survive.

Now compare an airplane at the

airport today hooked up to a

fuel line.

Isn't that airplane eating

a snake?

If you see modern fighter jets

take off in the middle of the

night, and there's smoke and

fire coming out of the exhaust,

it looks like a dragon.

It looks like some type of a

mythical creature, especially if

you don't know what you're

witnessing is nuts‐and‐bolts

technology.

So of course you're gonna liken

it to a living creature.

Those ancient aliens knew that

our ancestors would worship them

as gods because they knew that

our ancestors didn't know it

was technology.

They thought it was magic,

spirituality, divine

intervention, which it

never was.

>> NARRATOR: To the east of

India, near the village of

Wucheng in the Sichuan province

of China, similar tales of

flying beasts have also been

found in ancient texts.

In the fourth century, historian

Chang Qu reported the discovery

of what were then called

"dragon bones."

>> RUEHL: A question occurs as

to whether dragons might

actually have been actual

dinosaurs that had wings.

I should point out that the

wings would have been lost to

the fossil record.

We're just recently talking

about dinosaurs having feathers

and having evolved into birds.

Well, it's possible that some

dinosaurs actually did have

wings and could be described

as dragons.

>> NARRATOR: But while most

mainstream scientists believe

the remains found were most

likely dinosaur fossils, like

those of the flying pterosaur,

ancient astronaut theorists

have another, more provocative

explanation.

>> COPPENS: Now a creature which

somehow was able to spit fire

obviously is not anyplace in the

animal kingdom of today.

So what we have here is either

an invention which did indeed

spit fire, in which case we're

not confronting a creature here,

but somehow a creation.

Something which was either

engineered by mankind or which

was engineered by

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Machines that fly

through the air and spit fire

causing mass destruction,

thousands of casualties and

radioactive fallout.

Could the Garuda, and other

so‐called flying dragons, really

have been ancient versions of

today's high‐tech bomber planes?

Or perhaps something else?

Something even more out

of this world?

>> NARRATOR: In March 2010, a

panel of 41 international

experts concluded that the

impact of an asteroid that

smashed into Earth at Mexico's

Yucatan Peninsula 65 million

years ago probably triggered the

global climate change that

resulted in the mass extinction

of the Earth's dinosaurs.

But is there also evidence that

some dinosaur species survived?

And if so, might they also

have evolved?

>> CHILDRESS: Paleontologists

tell us that, "Oh, these things

have been extinct for 65 million

years," yet they still crop up.

And they appear to be

prehistoric animals, dinosaurs

literally, that have survived

right down to today.

Much like the coelacanth and

alligators and sharks and

turtles also have survived from

those same prehistoric times.

I believe that ancient

prehistoric monsters are still

living in remote areas of the

world, either in oceans and

lakes or jungle areas today.

>> NARRATOR: In the highlands of

Scotland, the legend of the Loch

Ness monster has long been part

of Celtic and Norse folklore.

Recorded accounts of sightings

can be traced to the year 565,

to the Irish monk St. Columba;

a powerful leader who founded

monasteries in both Ireland

and Scotland.

In his journals, Columba wrote

of an encounter with people

bearing a man near the shores of

the now‐fabled Loch Ness.

>> MARTELL: They explained to

Father Columba that the man who

had died had been swimming in

the lake and was attacked by the

water beast.

Upon hearing this, Father

Columba sent his own follower

into the lake.

When the beast came after this

man, Father Columba made the

sign of a cross and commanded

the beast not to harm the man.

The beast fled and was never

seen harming another man again.

>> REDFERN: A lot of people

don't realize how big

Loch Ness is.

It's 23 miles long, a mile wide

and at its deepest point, it's

about 800 feet.

And the water's very, very dark

and dense.

And so it is the prime location

where conceivably, if they

didn't need to surface that

often, they would sort of bypass

detection.

>> COPPENS: When we're

confronted with the Loch Ness

monster, or any kind of

anomalous creature, the question

really is: where does it come

from?

Is it a remnant of the dinosaur

age or is it something which is

out of this world?

We know that, for example, St.

Columba definitely felt that

lake was sacred and that there

was something present there

which had a religious

connotation, which is why he

went to that place to begin

with.

>> REDFERN: The intriguing

thing is that there actually

have been a significant number

of UFO sightings over the

Loch itself.

Of strange, brightly lit objects

hovering over the water late at

night, which clearly aren't

helicopters or aircraft or

meteorites or anything like

that at all.

So in other words, Loch Ness is

a weird and spooky place.

>> NARRATOR: Could the so‐called

sea monsters of Loch Ness

possibly be descendants of

ancient dinosaurs?

Or might it be of another,

perhaps, extraterrestrial

origin?

And if so, what might this say

about other mythical sea beasts,

like the seven‐headed Sumerian

sea monster the leviathan?

>> YOUNG: The leviathan is

sometimes described as a serpent

or a crocodile or a dragon, but

it lurks.

It is the gatekeeper to a portal

to hell.

And this gateway to hell is

apparently deep in the ocean,

and the leviathan is there

forever, lurking.

>> NARRATOR: In Greek myths, the

Hydra was described as an

ancient sea serpent with

many heads.

It was said to be a descendant

of the Earth goddess Gaia.

>> YOUNG: Hercules was sent to

kill the Hydra, but it was

terribly difficult.

He would slice off the head,

and two heads would form

And he had to ask help from

his nephew.

And his nephew had a brilliant

idea: bring a torch.

Fire might keep the heads

from forming.

So Hercules would bash off

one of the heads, and his nephew

would, essentially, cauterize

the neck so another one

wouldn't form.

And in this way, the Hydra

was finally defeated.

>> COPPENS: In the case of a

Hydra, we have something which

has several heads which is once

again a category of a creature

which you would expect

not so see.

So we're either confronted here

with something which was

genetically engineered or which

genetically went wrong, but

clearly it was of such

importance that it was adhered

to in mythology where it

attained a status over the

years, over the centuries, up

until this moment in time.

>> NARRATOR: According to

Scandinavian legend, the kraken

are legendary sea monsters

of gargantuan size and are said

to have roamed the seas off the

coasts of Norway and Iceland.

This fearsome beast was infamous

for its attacks on sailing

ships.

>> YOUNG: The danger was not

only being attacked by the

kraken, they would come up to

the surface, and were enormous;

the size of small islands.

So you could have a collision

with a kraken that wasn't even

out to attack you.

Another great danger was that if

it submerged suddenly, it formed

such a great whirlpool that it

could pull a ship under.

>> NARRATOR: Could such

legendary sea monsters have

actually existed?

Might they have escaped

extinction in the safety of cold

deep waters?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, there is evidence of

the origin of giant sea

creatures in the sacred texts of

the Hebrew Bible.

>> YOUNG: A very early account

of an encounter with some

kind of monstrous sea creature

is found in the Bible:

the story of Jonah.

Here Jonah was not fulfilling

his destiny, and his punishment

was to be thrown off a boat into

the ocean.

>> CHILDRESS: Jonah is swallowed

by this giant fish sent by God.

He spends three days and three

nights inside of this giant

fish, and then is spewed out.

>> RUEHL: If Jonah, a human

being, had been swallowed, he

first of all would have been

ripped up by the creature's

teeth, then been crushed as it

was swallowed, and perhaps

stomach acids would have

destroyed his skin and

internal organs.

So I propose there's no way

he could have survived being

swallowed by whatever this

entity was, if it was a fish

or whale.

>> TSOUKALOS: So the question I

have: is this truly a

description of Jonah being

swallowed up by a

biological animal?

Because in some references, we

can read that the ribs of that

whale were made out of gleaming

bronze.

Now, that, to me, is a

description of some type of

technological device that was

made of metal.

Jonah was, in fact, not

swallowed by a whale, but by a

USO: an unidentified submersible

object.

>> COPPENS: Jonah disappeared

into an object which was clearly

of a manmade or extraterrestrial

origin, and which was of such a

specific interest that he not

only related the story, but that

thousands of years after it

occurred, we're still talking

about it today.

>> REDFERN: I think we need to

look at stories like this at a

deeper level.

Not to rule them out just as

mythology, but to determine if

the people reporting these

things actually did have real

experiences, but they were just

trying to incorporate it into

the way they understood the

world at that time.

>> NARRATOR: Could alien beings

really have lurked beneath the

seas in submersible machines?

If so, why were they there?

Might they have come to share

advanced technology with humans?

Or did they come for another,

perhaps more sinister reason?

>> NARRATOR: Volgograd, State

Medical University, Russia,

1954.

Soviet scientist and organ

transplant pioneer Vladimir

Demikhov surgically produces

a fully functioning

two‐headed dog.

>> GLENN: What he did was he

took the upper torso of a dog

and grafted it onto the neck of

another dog.

And surprisingly, this creature

lived for a few weeks.

Demikhov brought it to medical

shows as evidence that he could

do this, that these sort of

hybrids, that these sort of

things could be done.

>> NARRATOR: Although, highly

controversial, the transplant

pioneer's audacious experiments

paved the way for the first

human heart transplant in 1967.

But while the image of

Demikhov's dog is disturbing,

ancient astronaut theorists

believe our early ancestors also

left behind evidence of equally

bizarre creatures.

>> TSOUKALOS: The great thing

about the ancient alien theory

is the fact that we can compare

modern achievements with stories

from our ancient past.

And so if today we're able to

create a two‐headed dog with six

legs, is it possible that a

similar creature existed

thousands of years ago?

And I say yes.

>> NARRATOR: In the Greek epic

poems of Homer's Odyssey and the

Iliad, a vicious three‐headed

dog named Cerberus guards the

gates of Hades.

According to the myths, Cerberus

was descended from the Greek

gods Typhon and Echidna.

But might the so‐called gods

that created the strange beast

really have been early Earth

visitors misinterpreted as gods,

as ancient alien theorists

believe?

>> RADER: The humans and gods

were kind of still living among

one another.

All of this interbreeding, this

fertility, like, produces, um,

all of these monsters.

And you do not want to meet

these monsters.

These are not the kind of things

you want to encounter.

And if one guard dog is

ferocious and terrifying, you

can imagine three of them, but

all on one body.

>> COPPENS: If Cerberus is a

factual creature, then really

what we're talking about here is

somebody with the knowledge and

the technology to create a

multiheaded animal.

And so we are dealing with

extraterrestrial technology.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

Cerberus and other hybrids, like

the griffon, the Egyptian ammit

or the Greek Chimera, were in

fact created through advanced

alien transplant procedures we

have yet to discover?

>> COPPENS: Any civilization

which has contacted us in the

past or which is contacting us

today, roughly needs to be at

our level of technological

advancement.

It's probably going to be a bit

beyond that.

And that also means that it's

not just the science of space

travel, but all sciences which

are going to be somewhat more

advanced.

So we know that the

extraterrestrial who comes to

Earth from a distant place will

have this medical knowledge.

>> NOORY: There was some kind of

experimentation going on.

Novelty, a zoo.

Let's see what we can do.

We'll play with these creatures.

Let's take this animal and give

him two heads.

Let's take this dragon and give

him wings.

Let's let him breathe fire.

Let's have some fun.

Maybe that's what they did.

>> NARRATOR: Depictions of

monsters that are half beast,

half human can be found dating

as far back as 5000 B. C.

The centaur, the Minotaur and

Medusa are all hybrid creatures

described as being created

by gods.

Researchers point to the origin

stories of these creatures as

further evidence of alien

contact.

>> YOUNG: In Greek mythology,

the centaur was half human,

half horse.

The torso of the human would be

joined to a horse at the

shoulders, and this would leave

them in perpetual tension

between the raw animal instinct

of the horse and the more

civilized morality of human

consciousness.

>> COPPENS: And interestingly

enough, when we start looking

towards mythology, we actually

find specifically in the case of

the minotaur, th is said

to have be been done

specifically by the gods.

>> NARRATOR: In India, the epic

text the Mahabharata details the

ancient account of the naga,

a half human, half snake deity.

>> MARTELL: The naga was a

serpent god in both Hindu and

Buddhist mythology.

It was known to have human and

serpentlike traits.

It was also known to be

persecutors of all creatures,

very poisonous and with

great strength.

>> RUEHL: A question arises as

to why ETs might create these

various hybrids.

Well, of course, first of all,

I point out scientific

curiosity.

Once you develop a technology,

you want to see where you can

take it.

We humans would do that.

I think any intelligent beings

would.

But they might have created

these various hybrid creatures

to actually intimidate the

existing human populace so that

they would give them no trouble.

Or perhaps to create these

creatures so they would be

thought of as gods and be

worshipped.

Even though they're advanced

aliens, they might crave

attention from humans.

>> IMBROGNO: Perhaps they

wanted some type of slave labor

that would not just be a dumb

animal by adding human

intelligence to, let's say, a

bull, they could create a

creature that would be able to

move quite a bit of weight

and work without exhaustion, but

still have the intelligence

to follow rules.

>> NARRATOR: In 1970, scientists

from Case Western Reserve

University School of Medicine,

lead by Dr. Robert Jay White,

performed a highly controversial

operation: transplanting the

head of one monkey onto the body

of another.

>> HAROLD F. YOUNG: He was an

excellent surgeon, superior

technician, and had come to

Cleveland from the Mayo ic

where I think he'd learned

really excellent neurosurgical

care in the operating room.

>> WHITE: When in this room,

there's a large amount of items

from my dad's original

laboratory.

This is a halo; a brain

transplant halo device.

It would clamp the brain in here

as such.

And then they could actually put

the patient in and complete the

transplant with the body here.

This would hold the brain, the

monkey's brain, and then the

transplant could occur here,

with the spinal connection and

the connection to the neck

right here.

>> GLENN: They transferred the

head.

It was essentially a brain

transplant by taking the

whole head.

He was able to restore

consciousness to the head of the

monkey who had been

transplanted.

And kept it alive for

approximately three days.

>> WHITE: The monkey was able to

open his eyes, he was able to

hear, see and smell.

And as a result, they could show

that this procedure could be

done, it could work.

>> RUEHL: Even at our stage on

Earth, we have the ability to

transplant one head onto

another creature.

Now that certainly argues for

the possibility that various

entities like the minotaur...

the hydra and even the griffon

could be created by advanced

transplantology.

>> NARRATOR: If

extraterrestrials visited

Earth in ancient times, might

the tales and depictions of

weird hybrid monsters

actually provide evidence

of alien contact?

Or do they provide clues to our

own future?

A future that may be closer

than we think.

>> NARRATOR: In 2003, Chinese

scientist Hui Zhen Sheng, at the

Shanghai Second Medical

University, successfully fused

human cells with rabbit eggs.

The embryos were the first

human‐animal hybrids created

through genetic engineering.

>> ARMSTRONG: She took rabbit

egg cells and removed all of the

nuclear material from them,

all of the instruction set that

tells them to develop into

a rabbit embryo.

She replaced it with a similar

instruction set, but from

a human cell.

So essentially, the embryo was

human with small elements of

rabbit.

>> GLENN: Why would researchers

want to combine rabbit DNA and

human DNA?

The first reason is for medical

research purposes, perhaps for

organ transplantation.

The second reason is to create

an enhanced human.

That is, give the human some

sort of quality they might not

have unless spliced with a

rabbit gene.

Although it's hard for me to

imagine... what that would be.

(chuckles)

>> NARRATOR: A year later, in

2004, researchers at Minnesota's

Mayo Clinic created pigs with

human blood flowing through

their bodies.

>> REDFERN: One of the animals

that's actually quite close to

us, surprisingly enough, in

terms of genetics, uh, is the

pig.

And one of the ideas that's been

put forward is the idea of

literally having almost, like,

pig factories to grow hearts for

people who need heart

transplants, and literally,

you know, you'd have a pig's

heart inserted into your body.

And, you know, with certain

drugs to prevent the organs

being rejected, you could live a

full and viable life.

>> COPPENS: At this moment in

time, medical technology is able

to create weird situations‐‐

genetic things which shouldn't

really happen and which do not

happen unless you start to make

genetic modification.

This is evidence of manipulation

of the genetically available

material.

We are creating hybrid monsters

as we speak.

>> TSOUKALOS: If modern science

today would be able to create a

hybrid being, a mixed being,

then that would in essence

corroborate the ancient alien

theory, because we're merely

saying that what today is being

discovered is a rediscovery of

what already took place

thousands of years ago...

meaning genetic experimentation.

>> NARRATOR: But is there any

actual evidence of DNA splicing

in the ancient past?

In 1849, in what is now Iraq,

British archaeologist Austen

Henry Layard uncovered numerous

Sumerian clay tablets inscribed

with cuneiform script dating to

4000 B. C.

Based on interpretations of the

tablets, ancient astronaut

theorists believe an advanced

race of intelligent beings

arrived on Earth 450,000 years

ago, during the age of

Neanderthals... and through

genetic engineering, they

created Homo sapiens‐‐

what is commonly referred to as

modern‐day human beings.

>> NOORY: The Sumerians talk

about a civilization that came

here from above, on another

planet called Nabiru, and they

called these creatures the

Annunaki‐‐ high‐level people

who came here to mine for gold.

And in order to do it, they

needed to genetically alter the

species that happened to be on

the planet at the time.

They created man according to

the Sumerian texts.

>> ARMSTRONG: It is not

impossible that we exist as the

result of gene manipulation

experiments.

There are so many stars and

galaxies out there in space that

it's impossible for a scientist

such as myself to say that there

are not alien species out there

who could have visited the Earth

at some point in the distant

past.

So it is entirely possible that

someone or something could have

come along and manipulated those

organisms.

>> TSOUKALOS: So this inherently

means that if extraterrestrials

tampered with our own DNA, they

could have also tampered with

animal DNA.

They could have used all sorts

of DNA from every single animal

on planet Earth.

>> GLENN: The creation of a

chimeric monster is certainly

something that will probably be

possible within the next 20 to

30 years.

We have the technology now to

create these kinds of chimeras,

something that might be

perceived as a monster, but what

we don't have right now is the

technology to bring such a

creature to term.

But that's only a matter of

time.

>> NARRATOR: If the mythical

monsters of the ancient past

really did exist, what were

they?

Messengers from alien gods?

Products of genetic

experimentation?

Biomechanical weapons?

And if they did exist, where is

the physical evidence?

Still buried miles beneath our

feet?

Or are they, in fact, still out

there, somewhere, waiting to

return?

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