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>> NARRATOR: Ancient cities‐‐

lost for centuries.

>> Dozens of people have risked

their lives trying to find

where Paititi is.

>> NARRATOR: Treasures...

hidden deep underwater.

>> The local people have told me

not simply that the ships fly

over the lake, but they

actually enter the lake.

>> NARRATOR: And secret

chambers...

buried under the

great Egyptian Sphinx.

>> Gold was the flesh of the

gods.

Egypt had probably the best

supply of gold anywhere in the

ancient world.

>> NARRATOR: Since the dawn of

time, humans have been obsessed

with legends of hidden gold.

But what if our desire for this

precious metal is about

something more than riches?

>> It almost seems as if we're

genetically programmed to

love gold.

>> Ultimately, gold represents

our connection with the stars.

>> A number of researchers have

suggested that ancient aliens

have come to Earth primarily to

mine gold.

>> 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 help

to shape our history?

And if so, might they have come

here in search of gold?

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>> NARRATOR: Lake Guatavita,

Colombia.

Believed to be the site of an

ancient meteor crater, this

circular‐shaped mountain lake is

at the center of one of

mankind's greatest searches...

the search for El Dorado,

the Lost City of Gold.

Since the 16th century, El

Dorado has been the "holy grail"

for fortune hunters.

Legends abound about a place

full of untold riches somewhere

in South America.

Yet to this day, the mythical

city remains undiscovered.

But if such a magnificent place

does exist, how has it eluded

explorers for centuries?

Some believe the answer lies

within this mysterious lake.

>> GREGORY DEYERMENJIAN: The

story of El Dorado developed

from the Lake Guatavita that

was within the territory of the

Muisca, or the Chibcha, people,

which was a chiefdom... not

quite as high a civilization as

the Incas or as the Aztecs, but

a chiefdom with civilization

itself that had a lot of gold.

The ruler in the southern half

of the Muisca territory was

known as the Zipa, but the

Conquistadores who arrived there

in the 16th century called him

El Dorado, Spanish for

"The Golden One."

They gave him this name after

observing the Muisca's most

sacred ritual‐‐ the Zipa would

float out on a royal barge to

the middle of Lake Guatavita to

make offerings of gold to a god

believed to live at the bottom

of the lake.

>> DEYERMENJIAN: It was said

that the chief, adorned with

resin and then adorned with

gold dust, would jump into the

water in order to wash the gold

dust off, and then this gold

would accumulate in that lake,

and that golden objects as

sacrifices would be thrown into

that particular lake.

And from that came the belief of

El Dorado around Colombia.

>> NARRATOR: In 1912, an

excavation of Lake Guatavita was

led by British engineer Hartley

Knowles.

Knowles reported that he had

recovered around $20,000 worth

of treasure...

including golden artifacts.

But he also believed much more

lay beneath the hardened

lake bed.

Could Knowles' find be evidence

that the story of the Muisca

chief is based on truth?

If so, just who‐‐ or what‐‐

was the so‐called god who

dwelled at the bottom of the

lake?

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: A number of

researchers have suggested that

ancient aliens have come to

Earth primarily to mine gold.

Zecharia Sitchin suggested

that these extraterrestrials

needed gold to suspend in their

atmosphere and preserve their

planet.

>> DERRICK PITTS: Is gold

something that's really

important to space exploration

and to astronomy?

Well, it actually is‐‐ very

important‐‐ and the reason why

is because gold is an

inert material.

It doesn't react with anything.

The other thing that's very

important about it is that it is

a wonderful conductor of

electricity.

And last but not least is the

fact that gold is a perfect

reflector of infrared energy.

You can use gold blankets to

protect spacecraft against the

intense heat of a star or any

sort of heat source.

>> CHILDRESS: Gold is a very

rare and valuable element

throughout the universe.

(whooshing)

>> NARRATOR: Aliens‐‐ coming to

Earth searching for gold.

Could such a thing be possible?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, it is not only

possible, but they claim the

proof exists in the numerous

texts and legends of the ancient

world.

Like that of the legendary Incan

city of Paititi, thought to be

located near the southeastern

area of Peru.

>> CHILDRESS: The Conquistadors

became obsessed with finding

this mysterious city of gold

that they heard was in the

jungles of Eastern Peru

somewhere.

They called it Paititi, the

Golden City.

Stories of Paititi and El Dorado

ultimately led to the

exploration of the Amazon

jungle.

>> DEYERMENJIAN: El Dorado

and Paititi are frequently

confused.

I see El Dorado as being that

particular gold‐producing site

that was in northern South

America, and Paititi having

been another civilization

contemporaneous with the Incas

in the area of Peru, Bolivia,

that has yet to be definitively

found.

And that's what part of my quest

has been over these last 25

years.

>> NARRATOR: Since 1984,

American explorer Gregory

Deyermenjian, and his Peruvian

counterpart Paulino Mamani, have

staged more than 15

expeditions in search of this

mythical city of gold.

>> DEYERMENJIAN: There was an

Incan road of stone leading

towards what is supposed to be,

as legend would have it,

Paititi‐‐ that's what

we've been following.

They say that Pachamama,

the earth goddess, covers

these areas with such

difficulty‐‐ the moss, the

jungle, the rivers‐‐ that some

things could be hidden there

forever.

>> NARRATOR: Their search began

in Cusco at the Incan holy

place of Coricancha, which means

"Golden Courtyard."

In 1559, Spanish Conquistadors

tore down Coricancha to

construct the Cathedral of Santo

Domingo, and it still sits in

the center of Cusco today,

surrounded by the ruins of the

ancient Incan temple.

The cathedral features an

enormous altar covered in gold.

But according to the records of

the Conquistadors, it pales in

comparison to the magnificent

Coricancha, which was not only

filled with gold statues but

was also covered in sheets of

solid gold.

>> FOERSTER: Gold was important

to the Inca because it was the

sweat of the sun.

The sun was the highest deity of

the Inca, and therefore the

sweat of the sun represented the

most sacred possession

imaginable.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists believe a golden sun

idol called the Punchau that

once resided in Coricancha may

provide evidence that

extraterrestrials had contact

with the Inca.

>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The

Coricancha was famous for its

gigantic golden disc that the

ancient Inca worshipped, that

was a symbol of a giant golden

disc that allegedly landed from

the sky in front of the Inca

ruler Atahuallpa, and he had

direct contact, according to the

legends, with the sky gods.

>> NARRATOR: Could the giant

golden disc that once resided

inside Coricancha have been made

to honor an alien visitor?

And if extraterrestrials did

come to mine gold, might this

also provide evidence that

Paititi is nearby?

In 1533 the Spanish overtook the

city of Cusco and plundered the

temple of Coricancha in search

of Incan gold.

But according to local legend,

the gold had already been moved

20 miles northwest of the city

and deposited at the bottom

of a nearby lake.

>> FOERSTER: Before the entire

group of Spanish were able to

get into Cusco, the priests

found out about it and they had

all of the gold from all of the

temples brought up to Lake Puray

and thrown into the center.

None of it has been found,

to this day.

The amount of gold at today's

prices would be in the billions.

>> NARRATOR: Perhaps even more

mysterious are the frequent

reports of unusual sightings in

the skies over the area‐‐

sightings that have been

reported for hundreds of years.

>> FOERSTER: The local people of

this area have told me not

simply that the ships fly over

the lake, but they actually

enter the lake.

The stories go that there's a

little vortex that opens up just

about the size of the spaceship,

perhaps 20 feet across.

The spaceship enters the lake,

the vortex closes.

Later, the vortex opens and the

ship leaves again.

>> NARRATOR: If, as the local

inhabitants claim, strange‐‐

possibly alien‐‐ spacecraft

really do come to this area,

might there be a connection

between the visitations and the

legends of gold hidden at the

bottom of Lake Puray?

>> COPPENS: Dozens of people

have risked their lives, in some

cases actually have died, trying

to find where Paititi is.

You have the standard treasure

hunter who just goes to it for

the monetary value, you have

certain people who go to it

because they know that their

name will be immortalized

forever after, but you also have

people who go in search of this

because they know that if you

find the treasure, you will

literally prove that a legend is

factual.

>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the greater

mystery is not if or where the

mythical cities of El Dorado and

Paititi may be discovered...

but what might be revealed once

they are located.

>> NARRATOR: Tokyo Imperial

University, March 1924.

In an early experiment with

nuclear energy, Professor

Hantaro Nagaoka directs 150,000

volts of electricity at a

mercury isotope under a

dielectric layer of paraffin oil

for four hours.

The purpose‐‐ to strike out a

hydrogen proton from the nucleus

of the mercury and produce

a new element...

gold.

The experiment is a success.

Professor Nagaoka has solved a

mystery that has eluded

scientists for centuries‐‐ the

mystery of the philosopher's

stone.

>> A. J. SHAKA: The philosopher's

stone was an idea that you could

have a magic kind of material

that would turn lead or some

very inexpensive metal into

gold.

The thought that one could do

that is attractive in and

of itself.

>> NARRATOR: For thousands of

years, kings sought out this

mythical device‐‐ one that could

create gold out of common metal.

Scientists and alchemists spent

centuries trying to invent one.

Even Sir Isaac Newton obsessed

over the mystery of the

philosopher's stone in the 17th

century, although the English

Crown, fearing the potential

devaluation of gold, had made

the practice of alchemy

punishable by death.

By the time of Professor

Nagaoka's experiment in 1924,

most of the scientific community

had declared the process of

producing gold from another

metal impossible.

But that quickly changed once

they knew where to look.

The secret of alchemy lies in

the stars.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: When you

think about how gold is made

naturally, gold is formed,

basically, in the nuclear

reactions in a sun and then it's

spread throughout the universe

when a supernova occurs and the

sun explodes and sends all of

the products out.

Because we now can do controlled

nuclear reactions, we have the

ability, finally, to essentially

manufacture gold from other

elements.

>> NARRATOR: Here, at the

University of California,

Irvine, Dr. A. J. Shaka conducts

experiments in alchemy nearly

every day.

>> SHAKA: We put mercury into

one of these tubes, and mercury

has a minor isotope of .15%‐‐

mercury 196 it's called‐‐ and

that isotope will actually pick

up a neutron and, in about

23 hours, turn into gold.

>> NARRATOR: To bring the

reactor to full capacity, Dr.

Shaka removes the control rods

that absorb neutrons and keep

them from reacting with other

atoms.

This generates power at a

staggering rate.

>> SHAKA: In terms of the amount

of power, including electrical

energy, that you can generate

from a given mass of material,

nuclear is about ten to 20

million times better than

anything else.

>> NARRATOR: After 24 hours, the

experiment has been a success

and yields gold, a real‐life

philosopher's stone at work in

the basement of a small

university building.

The discovery of alchemy has

been invaluable to science, but

ironically it has not produced

untold riches.

>> SHAKA: If you irradiate for

about a day in our reactor, you

make three‐tenths of a cent

worth of gold.

Since we charge $200 an hour to

operate the reactor, you're

pretty far in the hole.

>> NARRATOR: But while modern‐

day alchemy is considered far

too inefficient to create vast

new caches of gold, ancient

astronaut theorists believe a

much greater technology than our

own may have been at work

thousands of years ago,

in ancient Egypt‐‐ another place

where gold was linked to

the gods.

>> ROBERT BAUVAL: The idea of

gold being some sort of divine

metal, divine element, is very

much ingrained in the ancient

Egyptian systems of belief.

>> AIDAN DODSON: Gold was the

flesh of the gods‐‐

so, therefore, of very great

significance.

Egypt had probably the best

supply of gold anywhere in the

ancient world.

And we find that in some of the

letters which survived between

kings of Babylon, Assyria and

others and Egypt, a lot of them

are begging letters, basically

saying to the Egyptian king, you

know, "Oh, my brother, the

pharaoh, please send me gold,

lots of gold, because gold is

as dust in the land of my

brother, the pharaoh."

>> NARRATOR: But just how did

gold come to be so much more

abundant in ancient Egypt than

in neighboring lands?

And why did the Egyptians view

the metal as something not of

this world?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, it is entirely

possible that the Egyptians

were capable of actually

manufacturing gold...

and may have received

otherworldly help to do so.

If alchemical transmutations can

be performed in a modest

facility like the one at the

University of California,

Irvine, what might be possible

with a larger reactor?

A reactor, perhaps, the size of

the Great Pyramid at Giza.

>> CHILDRESS: Christopher Dunne

has suggested that the Giza

Pyramid is some kind of giant

machine, and that some kind of

chemical reaction was taking

place inside the pyramid.

It's possible that the Giza

Pyramid was actually being used

to transmute other elements into

gold.

>> DUNN: Looking into the

blueprints of the internal

arrangement of passageways,

chambers and shafts, the

appearance of it, to me, did not

resemble anything that would be

used as a tomb.

The precision with which it was

built, the precision of the

stones that go into building

the queen's chamber,

the grand gallery,

and then, also, thousands and

thousands of tons of granite

that were brought down the Nile

500 miles to build the king's

chamber.

These are the features that

really shout out and say:

There's something going on here,

there's something different.

It was built like a machine,

perhaps it functioned like

a machine.

>> NARRATOR: Could it be that

the Great Pyramid was the

original philosopher's stone?

If so, how could an ancient

civilization have constructed

the equivalent of a nuclear

reactor?

Might the centuries‐old search

for the philosopher's stone

represent more than just a

desire for gold and riches?

Could it represent‐‐ as ancient

astronaut theorists suggest‐‐

the search for lost technology?

Perhaps the key to that

knowledge still lies hidden

somewhere here on Earth and

can be found in areas still

containing vast amounts of

hidden treasure.

>> NARRATOR: 1936.

The Giza Plateau, Egypt.

For more than 3,000 years, the

body of the Great Sphinx had

been buried beneath the sand.

But after 11 years of work,

Egyptian archaeologists uncover

the entire monument for the

first time since antiquity.

At 241 feet long and 66 feet

high, it is the largest‐‐ and

oldest‐‐ monolithic statue in

the world.

Even more incredible is its

shape.

The Sphinx has the head of a man

and the body of a lion.

Although Egyptologists date the

construction of The Great Sphinx

to the reign of the Pharaoh

Khafra, in approximately

2500 B. C.

Others claim its construction

could be much, much older.

>> BAUVAL: The orthodox date

of about 2500 B. C. tagged on

these monuments has been

challenged by a group of

researchers, including myself,

who have argued that the erosion

of the Sphinx suggests a much,

much older Sphinx. hough

Egyptologists have found no

agreement as to when‐‐ or why‐‐

this strange monument was built,

ancient astronaut theorists

believe it may offer proof of

extraterrestrials being

present in ancient Egypt.

>> JASON MARTELL: We see in many

ancient Sumerian and Egyptian

inscriptions of sphinxes, half

man, uh, half animal of some

kind, and a variance to a degree

of different combinations of

animals and human beings.

We have to wonder, why would

they be doing this?

And, logically, it starts to

make more sense when we realize

a lot of these ancient texts

explain that extraterrestrials

came here and created us in

their image and after their

likeness.

>> GEORGE NOORY: If you believe

the work of the late

Zecharia Sitchin, where he

believes that the Annunaki came

from a planet that is somewhere

out in our solar system, and

that they came here to mine for

gold, but they figured they're

not gonna do the work

themselves, so they decided to

take what creatures were on this

planet at the time, genetically

alter them, and make mankind.

>> NARRATOR: Could the Great

Sphinx be evidence of genetic

engineering by ancient aliens?

And if, as Zecharia Sitchin

proposed, extraterrestrials were

genetically altering humans and

animals for the purpose of

mining gold, might this enormous

structure have, at one point,

been a repository for that gold?

Is it possible that when

Egyptian archaeologists began

excavating the Great Sphinx,

what they were really searching

for was gold?

Over the centuries, secret

chambers, shafts and elaborate

tunnel systems have indeed been

discovered all around the Giza

Plateau.

>> BAUVAL: A shaft was

discovered called the Ozerian

Shaft, which led under the Giza

Plateau behind the Sphinx.

Now, in that shaft are various

passageways that lead seemingly

nowhere.

>> NARRATOR: In recent years,

Ground Penetrating Radar‐‐ or

GPR scans‐‐ have been conducted,

which reveal evidence of

numerous underground cavities

located not only around the

Sphinx but underneath it as

well.

>> BAUVAL: From a scientific

point of view‐‐ I'm not talking

about speculation and theories

and legends and so forth‐‐

that was the very first time

that some strong indication

that there might be these hidden

tunnels and chambers under

the Sphinx.

And according to this, they

found very strong evidence

of what looked like

artificial chambers.

>> NARRATOR: If the alleged

cavities under the Sphinx

contain not only gold, but gold

mined by ancient alien beings,

might they also contain

something more than just

material treasure?

>> NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorists believe an elaborate

secret repository is located

under the Sphinx's paws‐‐ known

as the Hall of Records.

The Hall of Records dates back

to the fall of Atlantis, which,

according to ancient texts, is

said to have occurred nearly

12,000 years ago.

They also claim that there were

extraterrestrials living in

Atlantis and that they needed a

repository to house all of their

accumulated knowledge.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: The Hall

of Records‐‐ it was made by us

but with the tools and the

knowledge of extraterrestrials.

>> BAUVAL: It is speculated that

a group of survivors of Atlantis

came to Egypt at about 10,500

B.C., brought along with them

their records, their knowledge,

and built this storeroom

somewhere at Giza.

>> NARRATOR: If archaeologists

do someday unearth secret

chambers below the Sphinx, what

will they find‐‐ gold, a library

of ancient extraterrestrial

knowledge, or might they perhaps

find both?

>> HENRY: My personal view isHaf

Records really does exist, is it

possible that it contains

extraterrestrial knowledge not

on ancient scrolls but stored...

on gold?

>> DENNIN: Gold is a pretty

amazing metal.

Gold is one of the best

conductors of electricity we

have, which is obviously very

important in electronic

application.

Not only do you need a really

good conductor, but you need one

that won't corrode, and so

gold‐‐ when you really, really

need high‐quality, long‐lasting,

good electronics, it's really

the choice that you would make.

>> NARRATOR: Is ancient

knowledge‐‐ not only stored with

gold but stored on gold‐‐ really

the mysterious secret of this

precious metal?

Perhaps the answer lies hidden

1,800 miles away, deep beneath a

church in Rennes‐le‐Château,

France.

>> NARRATOR: The village of

Rennes‐le‐Château, France.

January 29, 1953.

Marie Dénarnaud, a frail 85‐

year‐old woman, lies on her

deathbed, promising to divulge

a long‐held secret about a vast

treasure.

But a recent stroke has left her

unable to speak or write, and

her secret dies with her.

>> KATHLEEN McGOWAN: Before

Marie's death, she had promised

to tell someone the secret.

"I will tell you the secret and

you will be rich beyond your

wildest dreams."

And what she said was, the

people of this village walk on

enough gold to make them wealthy

for 100 years, and they have no

idea.

And the secret‐‐ she was never

able to speak it after she had

her stroke.

So what was Marie talking

about?

>> NARRATOR: Legends of a vast

gold treasure hidden at

Rennes‐le‐Château date all the

way back to the fifth century...

...when, after sacking Rome in

410 A. D., Germanic warriors

known as the Visigoths made

their way to the area with all

the stolen treasure they could

carry.

But when they abandoned

the region some 200 years later,

they reportedly left some of

their ill‐gotten wealth behind.

>> McGOWAN: The Visigoths were

known to have buried treasure

with their dead, so

Rennes‐le‐Château became

significant because of this idea

that there might be gold buried

there.

>> NARRATOR: For hundreds of

years, the rumors of buried

treasure persisted, although no

tangible evidence of it was

ever found.

But then, in 1891, a young

parish priest named Bérenger

Saunière was restoring the local

church when, according to

popular legend, he discovered

something that turned him into

an extremely wealthy man almost

overnight.

>> CHILDRESS: This wealth that

he had was part of a vast golden

treasure that was kept

underground in this church

in a weird series of catacombs.

These catacombs at

Rennes‐le‐Château were ancient.

They had been there long before

the church had been built, and

here is an area that's known to

have these caves that were used

by the Visigoths.

>> JOSEF DOBLER: I lived here

16 years, and we know here is a

tunnel under this garden.

It comes along this way from the

castle, uh, until to the church

and it runs this‐‐ in this way.

>> COPPENS: There have been

people who have been coming here

since the 1950s in search of

gold, and some have found it.

The question is whether finding

gold is everything there is to

this mystery or whether it's

just the first step along many

steps to go before we actually

uncover the real mystery of

Rennes‐le‐Château.

>> NARRATOR: Although Father

Saunière claimed to have come

upon this vast wealth by chance,

many believe he actively

searched for the Visigoth gold

and that much more still lies

hidden in the catacombs beneath

the church.

But even more mysterious than

the priest's possible discovery

of gold was his strange behavior

afterwards, a behavior that

became reflected in the design

of the church itself.

>> COPPENS: Bérenger Saunière is

a guy who goes in search of

ancient documents, who goes in

search of certain specific

knowledge in alchemical circles.

So what we have found in an

awful lot of alchemical

processes is the importance

of gold.

What happens next is that he

begins to build a church.

He builds it according to a

plan.

This plan is to make contact

with the divine, and so I think

Saunière realized that certain

metals could be transformed into

something which truly made it a

spiritual experience.

>> NARRATOR: Might the golden

treasure Father Saunière

supposedly unearthed have

contained more than just

monetary value?

Could it have held some

otherworldly knowledge?

The priest confided in only one

other person as to the origin of

this mysterious wealth‐‐ his

housekeeper Marie Dénarnaud.

But what was the secret that

they shared?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe a clue may lie in the

inscription found over the door

of the church.

>> MCGOWAN: Bérenger Saunière

placed an inscription over the

door that people have been

talking about for 100 years.

The inscription says "Terribilis

est locus iste."

It's mistakenly translated most

often as "This place is

terrible," but, in fact, the

inscription comes from the Old

Testament, from the Book of

Genesis.

Jacob has a dream about a ladder

that connects Heaven to Earth,

where humans could connect to

the divine.

So when you look at the Old

Testament translation, what it

really says is "This place is

awesome."

>> NARRATOR: Is this inscription

from the Old Testament of the

Hebrew Bible a reference to

something divine, or might it

point to an extraterrestrial

connection?

>> HENRY: I believe

Rennes‐le‐Château could be a

star gate or another world.

This is based on the inscription

placed above the entrance to the

church by Bérenger Saunière.

Why would this priest put this

inscription there unless he's

indicating that this awesome and

tremendously powerful place,

Rennes‐le‐Château, is a gateway

to the stars?

>> HENRY: Rennes‐le‐Château, to

me, is one of the spookiest

and most powerful places I've

ever been.

The ground there is

oozing mystery.

>> COPPENS: We know that people

have said that Rennes‐le‐Château

is a place for UFOs.

We know people have reported

time slips.

And people have said that they

have had encounters with the

Devil.

So there is definitely something

about that area which suggests

that, for centuries, very

strange and bizarre things

happened.

>> NARRATOR: Could this tiny

village be a gateway to an

extraterrestrial past...

or even another dimension?

Perhaps the answer lies buried

with Marie Denarnaud.

Or, as some believe, the secrets

of Rennes‐le‐Château might

still be revealed...

and the answer may lie not

in France...

but just to the north,

in Scotland.

>> NARRATOR: Rosslyn Chapel,

Scotland.

Perched atop a hill overlooking

the village of Roslin, seven

miles south of Edinburgh, sits

this medieval 15th century

church.

Some say that, hidden on the

grounds, in secret chambers

within the church, are some of

the world's greatest lost

relics...

including the treasure of the

Knights Templar.

This elite band of warrior

monks...

(sword slashes)

...had been based at the Temple

Mount in Jerusalem during the

Christian Crusades.

They were also rumored to have

been in possession of many

valuable religious artifacts...

including the most valuable

golden relic of all‐‐

the Holy Grail...

the cup used by Jesus during

the Last Supper.

>> CHILDRESS: When the

Knights Templar began excavating

at Solomon's Temple, it is said

that they discovered secret

caverns which held a huge horde

of gold artifacts.

At the time of the sacking of

Solomon's Temple, the treasure

there suddenly vanished.

They then took this treasure

to Scotland and buried it at

Rosslyn Chapel.

>> HENRY: Rosslyn Chapel is

one of the most fascinating

possible recreations of

Solomon's Temple.

It literally is a Holy Grail

temple that was constructed by

William St. Clair and is

designed to be a repository of

Holy Grail secrets.

When it was created, it had the

most wonderful and fantastic

symbolism perhaps anywhere in

the world.

>> NARRATOR: Could Rosslyn

Chapel really have been built

to house the Holy Grail?

Some believe the architecture of

the chapel is adorned with

mysterious messages and symbols

that reveal the secret

whereabouts of the Cup of

Christ.

>> RITCHIE: And here we are‐‐

this is Rosslyn Chapel.

William St. Clair was

responsible for building the

chapel.

He was a very rich individual.

He was the Chancellor of

Scotland at the time.

>> McGOWAN: We see this

extraordinary, gifted,

brilliant man collecting the

wisdom traditions from around

the world and instilling all of

those into Rosslyn Chapel.

>> NARRATOR: Among the many

carvings found in the walls of

Rosslyn Chapel are faces called

"The Green Men"‐‐ pagan deities

that represent growth and

rebirth.

Some believe these strange faces

provide a clue that the chapel

truly does hold the Holy Grail.

>> RITCHIE: The carvings

themselves have a dual meaning;

they always have had a dual

meaning.

>> McGOWAN: The Green Man

appears in over 110 different

locations.

As you watch the progression of

the Green Man from east to west,

that progression represents the

passing of time.

>> JOHN RITCHIE: So all the

youngest of all the Green Man

carvings are on the eastern

wall, and towards the west

they become older.

>> HENRY: This symbolizes

the ultimate secrets of nature,

and it makes one wonder if,

in fact, the Grail is connected

with these secrets and the

presence of the Green Man in

this Holy Grail chapel.

(Gregorian chanting)

>> NARRATOR: But if the Holy

Grail truly does reside in

Rosslyn Chapel, where might it

be hidden?

Some believe it lies within an

ornate pillar called the

Apprentice Pillar‐‐ and at least

one person has actually

attempted to retrieve it.

>> COPPENS: We actually have

a story, which is known to

be factual.

A person came into the chapel

with an ax, who was going to be

intent on hacking down the

Apprentice Pillar because he was

convinced that the Grail was

actually inside.

>> RITCHIE: What is the Grail?

What if I was to say the Grail

is your DNA, because it is your

past and it is your future?

And the very interesting thing

is, when you look at that

pillar, you see there is

actually the DNA column.

>> NARRATOR: Might all these

mysterious carvings that have

been linked to the Holy Grail

indicate that the chalice used

by Jesus at the Last Supper was

something more than just

a drinking vessel?

>> TSOUKALOS: The whole story

is very fascinating to the

ancient astronaut theory.

Wolfram von Eschenbach, for

example, suggests that the

Holy Grail arrived from the

stars.

And the question is, what did he

mean by that?

It is often described as this

vessel that had blinking red

lights.

Were the Templar in possession

of some technological device?

>> NARRATOR: Could the Holy

Grail really be an ancient link

between Jesus and some spiritual

or otherworldly power?

And might finding it provide

proof of a link between

ourselves and an

extraterrestrial origin?

If so, might this mysterious

church, like other so‐called

"temples of gold" in Peru...

Egypt...

and France...

contain treasure far more

valuable than mere

monetary wealth?

>> COPPENS: Whether we are

in Rosslyn Chapel, whether we

are in Rennes‐le‐Château,

we always go back underneath

the earth, where there might not

just be spiritual treasure to be

found, but also

physical treasure.

>> HENRY: Gold has been one of

the most important quests of all

ancient and sacred traditions.

Gold symbolizes wealth.

It symbolizes power.

But ultimately, gold represents

our connection with the stars.

>> CHILDRESS: Cultures all over

the world value gold more than

anything else, and it seems that

they knew something about gold

that we are yet to discover.

>> NARRATOR: Could gold actually

be the ultimate link between

humans and otherworldly beings,

a tangible connection to

extraterrestrial ancestors that

came to Earth thousands of

years ago?

Perhaps.

But if the search for gold

really is one of the reasons why

ancient aliens traveled to the

third planet from the sun,

one more question remains:

Will they return for more?

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