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>> NARRATOR: The Valley of

Death...

Suicide Forest...

the Mountain of the Dead...

For thousands of years, there

have been places on Earth

believed to be cursed and evil.

And those who chose to ignore

the warnings are said to have

mysteriously disappeared‐‐ or

died horrible deaths.

>> PAUL STONEHILL: The locals

are very reluctant to speak

about what's going on.

They don't want people to go

there.

>> GEORGE NOORY: There is an

area some people believe

possesses some form of

negative energy.

Almost as if there's a curse.

>> NARRATOR: But what is it

about these various sites

throughout the world that

makes them so perilous that only

a brave few have ever been

there, and fewer still have

lived to tell the tale of what

they've seen?

>> BILL BIRNES: This is a

warning to people, don't go to

the place where these

extraterrestrials come and

inhabit 'cause they will destroy

you.

>> 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 are they responsible for

creating some of the world's

most evil places?

>> NARRATOR: Yamanashi

Prefecture, Japan.

Here, 60 miles southwest of

Tokyo, at the base of Mount

Fuji, lies the Aokigahara

Forest.

Each year nearly 100

Japanese citizens come to these

lush woods not to hike or

explore, but to commit suicide.

>> SANTIAGO STELLEY: Just about

anywhere you are in the middle

of Japan you always see

Mount Fuji, it's always in

the distance.

So even when you're approaching

the region, when you're getting

there by train or by car it has

this kind of ominous feeling.

Then when you finally enter the

forest at the base of the

mountain, it's super silent.

It's really quiet.

It's so spooky.

>> NARRATOR: Known to locals as

"The Suicide Forest," officials

have long ago posted signs

warning those who enter to turn

back and seek help.

>> AZUSA HAYANO (translated):

There's a car that's been

abandoned for a few months.

I'm assuming the owner of the

car went in from here and never

came out.

I guess they went into the

forest with troubled thoughts.

>> STELLEY: The Japanese have a

very close‐knit relationship

with nature.

I think a lot of people go in

and they're undecided.

And they have the ribbons so

that they can find their way

back.

There's something about it

that's so like appealing and

visually it's such a strong

thing, but then you always know

that at the end of that there's

somebody's bag or there's

somebody's tent, or there's

somebody who spent a lot of time

trying to figure out what to do

with their lives.

They do an annual sweep and they

usually find between

70, 150 bodies.

They find a lot of bodies.

And the number has been

increasing over the years.

>> NARRATOR: Geologist and

environmental researcher Azusa

Hayano has been studying

this phenomenon for the past 20

years.

>> HAYANO: Locals don't come

here to commit suicide.

As children, they're told not to

come near here.

They're told it's a scary

forest.

Yes, we did find a skeleton

today.

I think it's about a year or two

old.

It makes me feel sorry for

them, seeing how humans

decompose.

I think it's impossible to die

heroically by committing

suicide.

The overwhelming majority

of suicides are by hanging.

Some people who decide to

kill themselves come here fast

and hang a rope from a tree

then commit suicide quickly.

This is a farewell note written

on May 18 about a year before.

His name is also written here.

He wrote "I came here, because

there is nothing except bad

things in my life until now.

Please do not search for me.

12:45 p. m."

He came in the afternoon.

Leaving a name is a little

bit creepy.

But the dead body should be

around here if the suicide was

only last year.

>> STELLEY: We actually spent

two days there walking through

the forest, and we did find

everything from places where

people had obviously attempted

to commit suicide or had

thought about committing

suicide.

>> HAYANO: We accidentally

found this, but it's not a

prank.

They nailed this character

upside down as a symbol of

contempt for society.

No, it's more like a curse.

The curse is nailed in.

I think this person was tortured

by society.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: There

is no question that according

to tradition, there are places

that over time have become

evil, that there is some

type of a mystique going on

there that is not good nature,

but rather evil.

>> NARRATOR: According to local

legends, people wishing to end

their lives have been drawn to

Aokigahara Forest for hundreds,

if not thousands, of years.

But why?

What is it about this particular

region of Japan that could

account for this strange, morbid

behavior?

>> PETER FIEBAG (translated):

Mount Fuji is so named for a

reason.

It is the holy mountain of the

goddess Fuji, who once came to

the Ainu‐‐ the original

inhabitants of Japan.

She visited them and brought

knowledge, so it's a place of

deep reverence.

>> BILL BIRNES: Mount Fuji in

Japan is called a world navel.

It is one of the many places on

planet Earth where according to

legend, the Earth meets the sky,

and where the Earth meets the

sky is known as a heaven's gate.

It is a place where human beings

pass from Earth to the heavens,

and a place where otherworldly

entities, extraterrestrials,

pass from the heavens to

Earth.

People go to Mount

Fuji for the express purpose of

committing suicide to release

themselves from this life to

pass through the axis mundi‐‐

the world navel‐‐ into the next

life, into a higher plane.

And that would explain the high

level of suicides at Mount Fuji.

>> NARRATOR: Like the Bermuda

Triangle off the coast of North

America, Aokigahara Forest is

also said to contain high levels

of electromagnetic energy.

If so, might numerous recent

sightings of UFOs near Mount

Fuji be an indication that some

sort of dimensional time‐space

portal might exist here‐‐ as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

>> PHILIP IMBROGNO: In many

areas where dimensional portals

may exist, we see magnetic

anomalies.

In various places around the

world, in ancient sacred places

they always show certain types

of magnetic anomalies, either

negative or positive.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: What we have

are mountains where somehow

the energy seems to be of such

a nature that it transforms

human consciousness and makes it

really impossible for us to

live there.

These are power places where

weird things happen.

And the suicides are not

necessarily related to the fact

that ancient aliens are

potentially there in the past or

that modern UFO phenomena are

happening there in the present.

But it goes to show that these

are powerful places where weird

things happen and where things

out of the ordinary happen in

the past and are happening

today.

>> NARRATOR: Could there really

be a portal or star gate

through which the souls of the

deceased can journey to a new

dimension?

And might this explain why

people seeking death have been

drawn to this forest for so many

years?

Some researchers and ancient

astronaut theorists believe

such an outrageous idea is

entirely possible.

But further evidence also

suggests that some humans are

not so willing to give up their

lives without a fight.

And that their journey to an

alien dimension may not be a

positive one, after all.

>> NARRATOR: February, 1959.

A group of nine mountaineers

embark on a winter trek

into Russia's Ural Mountains.

Their destination: a mountain

called Otorten, which in the

local Mansi language means,

"Do not go there."

>> STONEHILL: Among them were

three experienced engineers;

the rest were students.

They were all young.

I think the oldest was, like,

37 years old.

They had conducted other hard

treks to the area.

They were all experienced,

strong‐willed, determined

people.

(wind whistling)

>> NARRATOR: On their fourth

night out, bad weather forces

the hikers to camp atop an area

called Kholate Syakhal, which in

Mansi translates to

"The Mountain of the Dead."

>> STONEHILL: It was a very

inhospitable, very strange,

very, very hard place to be.

Snow, cold, freezing winds,

and very few living

things around.

They decided that they would

spend the night of February 1

in an open area not too far away

from the top of the mountain.

They didn't want to go back to

the forest, one and a half

kilometers, because it would

take them too much time, and

they would lose the day.

>> NARRATOR: Ten days later

when the nine adventurers fail

to show up at their destination,

military rescue teams search

the area.

They find the hikers' camp

abandoned and a tent that is

badly damaged.

The investigators determine that

the tent has been cut and ripped

open from the inside...

and the hikers appeared to have

fled the area in only socks

or bare feet.

>> MIKHAIL GERSHTEIN

(translated): This tent had been

cut with knives from the

interior.

It was absolutely obvious that

neither animals nor people had

approached the tent to break in,

meaning that nothing from this

Earth had approached them.

>> STONEHILL: Something was

pushing them to run away

without taking any clothing with

them, without taking

any supplies.

They were behaving like they

were in a daze, confused.

>> NARRATOR: The investigators

follow the trail to the edge

of the forest.

But what they eventually find...

is beyond belief.

>> BIRNES: All nine hikers died.

They were discovered by Soviet

troops in various stages of what

can only be described as being

mutilated.

Their bodies were burned.

Some suffered radiation

poisoning.

In one case, a hiker's tongue

was missing.

They had prematurely aged.

Their skin was orange, their

hair had turned gray.

What could've explained this?

>> STONEHILL: Three of them had

injuries that could be sustained

when somebody is hit by a

speeding car, except the

injuries were inside.

Their ribs were crushed, like

eggshells.

Some of them entered their

hearts, but there was no effect

on their skin.

It was like a force was

directed at all of them.

>> GERSHTEIN: An unknown force

had hit the hikers, and it was

very selective in hitting only

the hikers, leaving untouched

the snow, the trees and

everything else around.

>> NARRATOR: The official

explanation was that the nine

died from hypothermia.

But the chief investigator

refused to sign off on the

report, and instead resigned

from the inquiry.

>> STONEHILL: When the

>> GERSHTEIN: The authorities

did their best to cover

the whole thing up.

It was practically forbidden

to mention it.

>> STONEHILL: At the end, the

bodies were buried in zinc

coffins, I believe, so nobody

would see.

But there was enough of the

investigation, enough people

had seen what had been going on

and were amazed at what the

found, including the coloration

of the corpses when they were

found, and other things, that

news broke out.

And this is one of the most

mysterious murder cases in the

former Soviet Union.

I am convinced it was a murder.

But they were not killed by

anything we know.

They were killed by an

unknown force.

>> NARRATOR: Years later,

members of the search party

spoke out.

According to their testimony,

at the time of the incident,

strange orange spheres or orbs

were seen floating in the sky.

>> GERSHTEIN: These observations

are from local people who saw

some unidentified flying

objects during the night of the

hikers' deaths.

I think there is a clear

connection.

>> BIRNES: This is a red flag.

The orbs themselves could've

been a life form, the orbs

themselves could have been

extraterrestrial probes.

>> STONEHILL: Based on my

research of different parts of

Russia in history, fiery

spheres have been ever present,

including desolate areas

like this.

Locals know they exist.

It's like a part of life.

They don't put too much

attention to them, and they hope

and pray that the fiery spheres

don't bother them, because

throughout the ages, most of the

encounters were peaceful

everywhere.

But once in a while, like here,

something goes very bad.

>> NARRATOR: But what could have

compelled nine experienced

mountaineers to flee their camp

and run for their lives?

And what strange forces could

have caused such violence

and death?

Could the hikers have been

attacked by something

extraterrestrial, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

>> IMBROGNO: During my research

in my 30‐plus years of

investigating UFO sightings in

particular, I've only come

across several cases in which

aliens have actually attacked

people like wild animals.

And some of these creatures had

claws and teeth, and they would

jump on people and scratch 'em,

and create claw marks in them.

But most of the time these

encounters, the aliens or the

creatures just want to get away

from humans.

There's no interaction

whatsoever.

>> BIRNES: It could've been

inadvertent.

The orbs, in probing the area

where the human beings were,

created collateral damage.

Maybe they didn't mean to harm

human beings.

Maybe it wasn't an attack as

much as the power of these orbs,

the energy was so intense that

human beings were prematurely

aged, irradiated, and suffered

all kinds of lethal biological

symptoms.

>> IMBROGNO: It's not a

coincidence that UFOs were

reported by these hikers in the

Ural Mountains in the Place of

the Dead, "Do not go there," or

so on 'cause I believe that

many UFO sightings come in

here from a parallel reality,

and they come through portals.

And this area may be

a hot portal.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient Mansi legend, the

Mountain of the Dead, where the

nine hikers' mutilated bodies

were found, was named after a

similar incident in which nine

Mansi men were also found dead

while seeking salvation from a

flood during ancient times.

But is it really possible that

the Mansi‐‐ and the doomed

expedition‐‐ were attacked and

killed by otherworldly forces?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found deep underground...

not in the Russian wilderness,

but half a hemisphere away

on an Australian mountaintop.

>> NARRATOR: The continent of

Australia.

16 miles south of Cooktown

near the northeastern coastline

sits one of the world's most

mysterious and menacing geologic

features‐‐ Black Mountain.

Standing nearly 1,400 feet high,

the mountain consists of

enormous black granite boulders

piled precariously one on top of

the other.

Called, "Kalkajaka" or

"Mountain of Death" by the local

Aborigines, Black Mountain‐‐

with its numerous dark

passageways and caverns‐‐ is

considered a cursed and evil

place.

>> RACHEL FRIDAY: What the old

people told us when me and

my brother, Sam, when we were

growing up, not to go into the

mountains.

We wanted to go and have a look

into the mountains to see if

there was a cave where you could

walk in.

But they said no, if you do go

in, you‐you won't come back.

>> IVAN MACKERLE (translated):

Black Mountain is the most

fearful place in the north

Queensland area of Australia.

The local residents fear to go

there, because many people have

disappeared, as if the Earth

or the mountain itself swallowed

them up.

>> NARRATOR: The first

documented disappearance

involving European settlers

occurred in 1877, when a rancher

searching for a lost bull

near the mountain was reported

missing.

Since then, there have been

numerous stories of people,

horses and even herds of cattle

disappearing into the labyrinth

of rocks‐‐ never to be seen

again.

Local police and trackers

looking for the missing have

also vanished.

And pilots flying over the

mountain have reported strange

occurrences.

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: Pilots

flying over the Black

Mountains have commented that

there is unusual turbulence.

Of course they have magnetic

problems, they have navigational

problems.

They've heard loud noises,

cracking noises, explosive

noises.

They've heard sort of mournful

moaning sounds.

So this is a very strange area.

>> MACKERLE: Some UFO‐ologists

in Australia say that this is

the entrance to an underground

empire, inhabited by an

unearthly race of lizard

creatures and evil monsters.

The Aborigines don't call them

aliens, they call them demons

or spirits.

>> YOUNG: The Tales of the

Rainbow Serpent are among the

most important of the Aboriginal

lore in Australia.

It can be a punisher of those

who are out of line.

It sometimes swallows people.

It can bring chaos and

destruction.

So it's a very awesome force.

>> MARILYN WALLACE: The Rainbow

Serpent is a creator for us.

And it was told by our people

that the Rainbow Serpent

created everything for us.

It's a giver of life for us.

And this boulder rock here,

Kalkajaka, is very important

because the Rainbow Serpent

lives in the mountains here.

>> FRIDAY: The Rainbow Serpent‐‐

I believe if you disturb her or

do something wrong that you're

not supposed to, I feel that's

when she turns against you.

>> MACKERLE: We went there to

look for all the mysteries

connected to this area.

And because this was a very

abnormal place, where people

are disappearing, we wanted to

find an explanation.

So we entered this mountain and

there was a labyrinth of holes.

So we used rope in order not

to lose our way.

And when we came into the middle

of the mountain, we could go up,

or down, or to the sides, but

each time our path was blocked

with sand and rocks, and we

could not continue.

It's difficult to say if there

are any chambers or vaults with

any monsters, or a gateway into

a different time.

>> NARRATOR: Although mainstream

scientists believe the strange

disappearances at Black Mountain

are most likely due to the

area's unique and dangerous

terrain, ancient astronaut

theorists have another, more

otherworldly, explanation.

>> TSOUKALOS: The moment I

hear about giant snakes and

serpents, my mind immediately

goes to all the other

cultures around the world that

talk about similar imagery.

In the Hindu world, for example,

we have the stories about flying

serpents, just like we have the

similar stories in South America

with Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl,

this winged serpent flying

around in the sky which also

were described as having been

enormous in size.

So the Rainbow Serpent at Black

Mountain, was that really a

biological entity?

Or was it some type of an

extraterrestrial flying machine,

a machine that when people came

too close to it they fell ill or

died because of the fumes or

radioactivity?

>> NARRATOR: Might the

Australian Rainbow Serpent

really have been some sort of an

ancient alien spacecraft‐‐

guarding Black Mountain from

intruders?

If so, what might it have been

protecting?

In 1872, an expedition led by

William Hann discovered gold in

the nearby Palmer River.

Within 20 years, 55 tons of gold

had been removed.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Gold was

important to every society,

throughout centuries

until today.

Gold does not rust.

Gold cannot be disturbed, except

you melt it, etcetera.

Gold is very, very important.

Gold shines wonderful.

In antiquity, the

extraterrestrials, the gods,

they asked human for gold.

Humans had to produce in gold

mines, gold and make offerings

to the god.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

Black Mountain is not a natural

geologic formation, but was

constructed to hide debris from

an ancient mining operation?

>> BIRNES: This could have been

a place where thousands of years

ago, ancient aliens might've

landed.

And the radiation deep inside

the Earth is so intense, that

people are dying from

radiation poisoning.

And that might well explain why

the Black Mountain in the

Outback in Australia is

considered an evil place.

>> FRIDAY: I really believe that

it should be really left alone.

Because they are real.

They do exist.

And I feel that it should be

left alone.

>> NARRATOR: If extraterrestrial

visitors really did leave behind

high concentrations of alien

contaminants at Black

Mountain, wouldn't there be

other, presumably more

conclusive, examples?

Perhaps there are.

And one of them is believed to

be located deep inside Siberia,

in an area known as "The Valley

of Death."

>> NARRATOR: Yakutia, Russia.

This vast region in

north‐central Siberia is one of

the most remote and least

explored in the world.

Here, deep within the dense

forests and thick marshlands

along the Vilyuy River

is an area many refer to

as "The Valley of Death".

>> IMBROGNO: The Valley of Death

in Siberia is a place where

local people will not venture

because they say no one comes

out alive.

>> STONEHILL: The locals are

very reluctant to speak about

what's going on and

they don't want people

to go there.

>> BIRNES: It's an area of such

quote, unquote "evil" that the

people who live there, the

Yakutsk tribe, describe it as a

place that's almost

uninhabitable.

(eerie whispering voices)

>> NARRATOR: In 1854, geographer

and natural scientist Richard

Karl Maak was appointed by the

Russian Geographical Society to

lead a scientific expedition

into the dreaded Vilyuy River

basin.

In his journal, Maak wrote of

several large and mysterious

metallic objects that the local

hunters referred to as

"cauldrons."

>> MACKERLE (translated):

These pictures illustrate what

people claimed the cauldrons had

looked like.

The first picture shows a

cauldron upside down with an

open entrance where even a man

on his reindeer can enter it.

The second one shows another

cauldron with some side

supports.

>> NARRATOR: The existence of

the metal structures was

confirmed on three separate

occasions between 1933 and 1947

by Mikhail Koretsky of

Vladivostok who had traveled to

the Valley of Death to pan

for gold.

He claimed to have seen seven

dome‐shaped cauldrons, each

measuring 20 to 30 feet in

diameter, with odd and

unnatural vegetation growing

around them.

>> STONEHILL: Some of the

people later reported loss of

hair, strange sickness affecting

them, strange condition of the

skin that would never go away.

>> NARRATOR: But what could

explain such a toxic reaction?

And where might the dangerous

cauldrons have come from?

In search of answers, UFO

researcher Ivan Mackerle

and a team of scientists

traveled to the Valley

of Death to try and locate

the strange metal objects.

>> MACKERLE: I didn't know if

it was just a legend or if it

was real, so I wanted first of

all to find this place and

investigate it to make up my

own opinion.

>> NARRATOR: Using a

motor‐assisted parachute to

search the expansive valley, the

researchers eventually spotted

an odd circular pattern in a

marshland.

When the team explored on foot,

they found the ground under the

strange marsh area to be very

unusual.

(thudding)

>> MACKERLE: It sounded metallic

and hollow, so we thought that

we found the sunken cauldrons.

Then we found another

place like it...

and even a third that had

higher magnetic variations.

All seemed like evidence

of caldrons sunken into

the earth.

(speaking Russian)

>> NARRATOR: But before they

could explore the site any

further, members of the

exploration suddenly began to

complain of strange, even

bizarre, symptoms similar to

those described in local

legends.

>> MACKERLE: I felt very dizzy

all of a sudden, lost my

balance, threw up and had

a fever.

And I didn't know why.

I could not walk.

I was losing sight.

I could not drink or swallow,

and the pupils in my eyes were

dilating fast.

So I thought maybe I got some

poisoning.

When I came home, I had a

thorough checkup and the doctors

couldn't find any reason for

my illness.

>> NARRATOR: Had the explorers

actually found the location of

the metal cauldrons?

And what was the cause of

Mackerle's strange and sudden

symptoms?

Could it have been from some

sort of radiation deep beneath

the ground?

According to local Yakutia

legends, the metal cauldrons

were part of a powerful weapon

left behind after a great battle

between extraterrestrial beings.

>> MACKERLE: According to old

legends, there was an epic

battle between the forest demons

named Niurgun Bootur and

Tong Duurai.

During the battle, fireballs

were shooting up from the Earth.

There was a horrible sound, and

all the forest area was

destroyed, trees were upside

down and rocks smashed.

>> STONEHILL: And when

everything cleared out, the

locals found a vertical

structure that stayed there

for a while, until it sunk into

the permafrost.

The Valley of Death is said to

contain strange objects

embedded in the permafrost that

are activated through the ages,

through the centuries, and

basically shoot out fiery

objects that intercept incoming

objects that are out to harm

the planet.

>> CHILDRESS: The local people

there say it is some kind ofle

alien underground installation

that comes active, and will

shoot comets or meteors or

aerial craft that are in

the area.

And, in fact, this may

have been what caused the

Tunguska explosion.

>> COPPENS: Approximately a

century ago, relatively nearby

the Valley of Death, we had a

very enigmatic event happening,

the so‐called Tunguska

explosion.

An explosion of such

extraordinary mass and

extraordinary impact that it

wiped out almost an entire area

of Siberia.

>> TSOUKALOS: It was some type

of an explosion that happened in

midair above the ground

at Tunguska.

So is it possible that a weapon

was deployed, maybe?

The only way that such a thing

is in fact possible is if

extraterrestrials had their

hands in it.

Our ancestors could never have

built a defense system

like that.

So if such a defense system

really existed, then it would

have had to have been 100%

extraterrestrial in origin.

>> COPPENS: This is such an

extraordinary story, that really

we have to wonder whether it

could potentially be real.

If it is real, then we are

really confronted with evidence

that at some point in the past,

something was going on on this

planet which is really ancient

aliens in its most physical form

with ancient remains which could

still be seen there.

>> NARRATOR: Might the so‐called

"Valley of Death" really be the

site of an underground

radioactive defense system, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

And might this help to explain

the numerous accounts of

sickness and death arising from

that region of Siberia?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found deep underground, not in

the Russian wilderness, but

half a hemisphere away...

in the New Mexico desert.

>> NARRATOR: The Valley of

Death...

Black Mountain...

Suicide Forest...

The Mountain of the Dead...

Just what could be responsible

for the strange and deadly

occurrences at these and other

so‐called "evil places"?

>> NOORY: There are some

cursed places on this planet

that are very strange.

And when you go there, things

can happen to you.

Maybe it was always that way.

But there are just some areas

there that you just don't feel

right.

>> COPPENS: There's one specific

case in France whereby a very

powerful place which is actually

called Perilous, because it is a

perilous place to go.

It was said that this was a

place where God had been seen.

So what we have here is

something which happened for

generations, and really warned

off the next generation not to

go there.

>> NOORY: There is an area that

they talk about in Lebanon

called Baalbek.

It's reported to be a landing

site for extraterrestrials.

Some people also believe

it possesses some form of

negative energy.

Almost as if there's a curse.

You can feel it.

It looms over you if you're out

there.

There are some areas on this

planet that seem to have an

increase in radioactivity.

What caused that?

What happened?

Was there an explosion?

Was there something from outer

space?

Was there some kind of a craft

that landed that creates

radioactivity?

Who knows?

But these are areas that we

human beings ought not go.

>> CHILDRESS: There seem to be

certain areas around the world

where there have been some

kind of nuclear conflict, or

radiation weapons used,

or that are some kind of

dumping ground for radioactive

waste.

You have places like

Mohenjo‐Daro in Pakistan, where

certain skeletons are

radioactive.

You have got areas of

southwest Egypt that are sheets

of glass, as if from some

nuclear explosion.

>> VON DANIKEN: In ancient India

you have wars between gigantic

tribes, sometimes the gods‐‐ the

so‐called extraterrestrials‐‐

interfere.

And you can read definitely,

in the Mahabharata that

gigantic armies are killed.

You have some atomic bomb, or

something like atomic bomb,

because it is described that the

sun went up shining brighter

than the normal sun.

It was a gigantic lightning.

Then they describe in a circle

of about 20 kilometer everything

was dead.

And the ones who survived had

all kind of new sickness

which were never seen before.

Like the teeth falling out.

Today we call these kind of

sickness radiation sickness.

>> COPPENS: In a number of

occasions, you will probably

find that an evil place is a

very dangerous place because

what is happening there might be

the remnants of some kind of

ancient technology which was in

operation there.

We know that, for example, in

the mountains of Libya, there

are actually places where

uranium was mined 8,000 years

ago.

And in those places, clearly it

is an evil place.

It should be avoided at all

costs.

>> NARRATOR: Might

radioactivity, or some other

unknown type of energy left

behind by extraterrestrial

visitors, really be the cause

of Earth's existing "evil

places," as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

Eddy County, New Mexico.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Here, since 1999, the United

States Department of Energy has

been storing radioactive and

nuclear waste inside a salt mine

more than 2,000 feet

underground.

Computer projections estimate

that the walls and ceiling of

this "geologic lockbox" will

collapse and entomb the toxic

refuse in about 1,000 years.

>> CHRISTOPHER BUSBY: There

have been all sorts of

calculations about‐‐ well, it

can stay there forever and this

sort of rock strata is quite

safe and, you know, it's

geologically faultless and so

forth.

But over the kind of life span

of these substances, the

half‐life of uranium is 4.5

billion years, and

plutonium is 25,000 years.

So in 50,000 years still half of

the plutonium will be there.

And there's no way over that

period of time that this stuff

won't become a very, very

serious hazard for the human

race.

>> NARRATOR: But what if a

nuclear waste disposal site

becomes compromised hundreds if

not thousands of years from

now, and toxic radiation leaks

into the surrounding environment

causing serious illness and

even death?

Might future generations of

humans also consider these

deadly sites to be cursed or

evil as a result?

Are the Earth's so‐called "evil

places" really evidence of

extraterrestrial activity

thousands of years ago?

Could they be a type of

intergalactic "no trespassing"

sign, intended to protect us,

to frighten us, or to keep us

from discovering the truth

about our origins?

Or, perhaps, prepare us for our

future?

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