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NARRATOR: They're watching you.

More than 5,000 satellites circle the Earth.

Every day, they uncover new mysterious phenomena

that defy explanation.

Magic circles in the land of King Arthur.

Oh, wow. Wow!

NARRATOR: The secrets of NASA's alien dessert.

This is science fiction, except you're living it.

NARRATOR: And the mystery of Skull Island.

Who are these people?

How did they die?

NARRATOR: Baffling phenomena. Mysteries from space.

What on earth are they?

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Cornwall, on the southwesterly tip of Britain.

Karen Bellinger is traveling through this historic county

to investigate

a mystery captured from the skies on April 23, 2017.

The satellite image shows a really intriguing structure.

It's two gigantic concentric circles.

NARRATOR: The archaeologist believes the circles could be

the footprint of a giant ancient structure.

It will trigger an investigation that will

lead from ancient magicians through King Arthur

to the California Gold Rush.

I really want to get a close look at them, because this is

an area of Britain where there are thousands of ancient sites,

some of them literally pre-dating

the Egyptian pyramids.

NARRATOR: Bellinger's journey takes her

close to Cornwall's Atlantic coast,

a land of myth and folklore

and the birthplace,

according to legend, of King Arthur himself.

If I had the coordinates right,

it's got to be just up ahead.

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Oh! There it is!

Oh, wow.

Wow.

It's even bigger than I thought it would be.

NARRATOR: The structure is around 300 feet in diameter

and constructed from two giant rings of earth and stone.

They were not messing around when they built this thing.

So clearly this site is ancient.

I don't know how old, but it could be

thousands of years old.

NARRATOR: The site bears many of the hallmarks of a henge,

a Stone Age earthwork used for religious ceremonies.

But what puzzles the archaeologist

is that the giant wall

appears to have been added many centuries later.

BELLINGER: This is a much more recent structure.

This place has been reused,

it looks like a number of times.

Why is it here in the middle of this desolate plain?

NARRATOR: Exploring further, Bellinger finds

what looks like a giant, lopsided stone table.

BELLINGER: Okay. You know...

I think I know what this is.

I think this is an ancient burial tomb dating back to

around the Neolithic,

even, which could be 5,000 years old.

This is what Germans call a Hunenbett, or giant tomb,

a kind of ritualistic, ancient grave site.

BELLINGER: This site would be a community burial site

and probably been used for other ritual

ceremonial purposes.

NARRATOR: The tomb sits directly in line

with the entrance of the structure seen from space.

I think we can assume that there was some kind of

connection between what was going on in the circles

and the tomb.

NARRATOR: For reasons poorly understood,

many ancient peoples would carefully orient

structures with astronomical events or other monuments.

Some speculate that they wanted to create so-called

spirit paths to connect the living and the dead.

It suggests that people may have once gathered within

the circles to pay homage to those in the tomb.

BELLINGER: They're very carefully sited based on

a sophisticated understanding of topography,

of the relation between the ancestors and descendants.

NARRATOR: If this was the site of ancient pagan rituals,

the addition of the stone walls suggests

it was reused at a later date.

Historical records provide clues as to

what practices may have taken place there.

In the 16th and particularly the 17th century in Cornwall,

there was a massive revival in witchcraft activity.

NARRATOR: This resurgence attracts the attention

of the witch finders, who torture

and execute thousands of people accused of

occult practices.

Analysts speculate that during those tyrannical years,

these remote structures could have

concealed such rituals from the authorities.

HORTON: The conclusion is that because Cornwall

was kind of so remote from the rest of Britain,

these pagan practices were allowed to continue.

NARRATOR: Nearby, Bellinger finds more evidence connecting

the structure in the image to occultic ceremonies.

Oh, my gosh.

That is extraordinary.

It's like somebody punched a hole straight through it.

NARRATOR: For centuries, people in Cornwall would seek

the assistance of witches for help with childbirth.

Maybe the purpose of this one was to pass something through.

I don't know, but whatever it was,

it was a deeply ritualistic activity.

HORTON: The possibility is this is associated

with fertility rites and probably witchcraft

that we know at this time was very prevalent

in western Cornwall.

NARRATOR: The structure seen from space

is surrounded by evidence of black magic.

Yet to Bellinger, the addition of these

giant walls suggests it also served another purpose.

Gotta be 15 feet thick.

I can see that they were definitely taller in the past.

This has got to be some kind of fortification.

It's gotta be.

But what were they defending against?

NARRATOR: The wall commands 360-degree views

of vast expanses of hills and coastline.

What's that over there?

NARRATOR: Coming up...

the strange structures'

4,000-year-old secret.

Wow. Look at this.

NARRATOR: And something weird in the Amazon.

I can see aircraft etched onto the ground.

That's bizarre.

NARRATOR: Karen Bellinger is in Southwest Britain,

drawn here by an ancient structure seen from space.

It appears to have been used

for both ritualistic and military purposes.

She's discovered other strange monuments

lining the nearby cliff tops.

Look at this.

NARRATOR: Unlike the nearby fort,

these crumbling ruins appear to have been built to house

machines, not men.

None of these openings are really tall enough for a human

to move easily through, if at all.

All right. Huh.

You can see the little metal concretions and bits of rock.

This is slag.

This is the byproduct of metal processing.

This place is a mining facility.

NARRATOR: The cliffs are rich in a metal that could

explain why these mines are overlooked

by an ancient fortification.

The clue is right here in the landscape.

I mean, down in the cliff,

you can see clearly the silvery, dark

gray discoloration.

That's tin.

NARRATOR: In antiquity, tin was one of

the most valuable commodities in the world.

Its discovery in Cornwall in vast quantities around

4,000 years ago leads

to a boom in mining here and brings great wealth

to these shores.

Tin was such a valued commodity that it opened up

an incredibly lucrative trade between Britain

and the rest of the world.

NARRATOR: What makes tin so sought after is

that it could be used to make bronze.

People would come to Cornwall, because Cornwall was one of

the only sources of tin in the whole of Western Europe.

NARRATOR: Bronze is the metal that drags mankind

out of the Stone Age.

Using tin from Cornish mines,

crude tools and weapons made from stone are replaced with

ones fashioned from metal,

enabling great civilizations to rise.

Tin makes you powerful. It makes you strong.

The Bronze Age possibly would have been

very different had Cornwall's tin not been available.

NARRATOR: Cornwall's lucrative tin mines soon

attract warriors and pirates seeking plunder.

We think that the very reasons why the Romans

even invaded the British Isles in the first century A.D.

was in order to acquire supplies of tin from Cornwall.

NARRATOR: According to legend, King Arthur was of

Roman descent.

It is perhaps more than a coincidence that nearby

Tintagel, where Arthur is rumored

to have been conceived, was a tin mine before it was a castle.

And it appears the structure

in the image was similarly fortified

to protect the nearby mines from invaders and bandits.

HUNT: The place has been attacked so many times by sea,

so the tin mines and their proximity to the water means

this place needs to be defended.

NARRATOR: With the Industrial Revolution,

which began in England,

tin extraction here reaches new heights.

The mining industry is transformed by

pumping machinery,

so these mines got deeper and deeper.

They not only went across the land

but also went way under the sea.

NARRATOR: By the 19th century, Cornwall has more than

2,000 mines,

many of them perched on cliff tops.

To reach the rock face,

miners must work in tunnels, which stretch a mile and a half

beneath the sea.

Of course, this was an incredibly dangerous operation.

Mines often get flooded, because the engines failed,

and the miners would drown.

NARRATOR: In the early 20th century,

when cheaper tin is discovered overseas,

the Cornish mines begin to close.

The workers there whose mining instincts and skills had

been honed and passed on for thousands of years

seek other riches abroad.

They find it in America,

helping to turn California into the Golden State.

In the mid-19th century, Cornish miners came

to California and greatly helped the Gold Rush.

They knew how to work the stone better than anybody.

NARRATOR: Today, Cornwall's tin mines

are slowly falling to ruin.

The strange circles that once protected them are a reminder

of this region's extraordinary history,

one that transcends ancient pagan rituals,

mankind's rise out of the Stone Age, and the dawn of

the industrial world.

BELLINGER: The landscape around here is just so remarkable,

and the people have left markers of their passage

on this earth.

It's -- it's truly an otherworldly

and mystical place.

NARRATOR: Coming up, Arizona's extraterrestrial desert.

We've been training all these years, but still,

when you're there, it is a different world.

NARRATOR: And the weird jungle ciphers.

This is not the kind of thing that

I would expect to see in the Amazon.

NARRATOR: June 15, 2017,

an aerial survey above the southern

United States captures unusual marks in the baked earth below.

RUBEN: This image is from the middle of Arizona,

and you can see trees all around,

but then there's this clearing with no trees

and just a bunch of large circles.

MORAN: This is just a really weird landscape.

There's this completely barren area with,

like, scattershot craters all over the land.

NARRATOR: There are top-secret military bases

northwest of this area,

where experimental aircraft flew and nuclear testing

took place during the Cold War,

but not near these marks.

WALTERS: What we know about this area in Arizona

is it had nothing to do with military testing.

So if this isn't caused by shells,

what's this crater field caused by?

NARRATOR: NASA scientist Pascal Lee studies the image,

and the story takes a bizarre turn.

He has seen this exact pattern before, but not on Earth.

When I just saw this, I had to make a double take on it,

because it looked just like the impact crater pattern of

the Sea of Tranquility.

NARRATOR: The Sea of Tranquility is

a large pockmarked plain of basalt rock on the moon.

Somehow, and for some reason,

a 250,000-square-foot patch of Arizona desert

is a perfect match for a section of lunar landscape.

How is it possible that a random

spot in the wilderness in Arizona would happen

to line up so well with the craters on the moon?

NARRATOR: Lee reveals the crater field is the legacy of

an extraordinary yet little-remembered chapter

of the Apollo program.

This is a place where the future Apollo 11 landing

site was recreated to serve as

a training ground for the Apollo astronauts who were

going to make the first moon landing.

NARRATOR: At the dawn of the Apollo program

in 1961, NASA is trailing in the space race.

The Soviets have successfully launched the first satellite,

and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has

become the first person in space.

But the great prize was to land humans on the moon

and to bring them back again.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade

and do the other things,

not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

NARRATOR: Landing on another world was going to test

the space agency's capabilities to its limits.

Apollo scientists needed a surface of volcanic cinders

on Earth, where they could

perfectly recreate a lunar landing site.

They found it in Arizona.

The cinder material here

is a near perfect match of what scientists

thought the Sea of Tranquility is gonna be like.

NARRATOR: The only thing the Arizona location lacked

was a few billion years of crater hits.

To create them,

engineers used 426 precisely timed explosive charges

to replicate the layout and age of the Sea of Tranquility's

impact craters

and unleash hell.

[explosion blasts]

They deliberately had the blasts from newer craters

later than the blasts from older craters,

so that the debris from one would be on top of the other.

NARRATOR: Those working on Arizona's

lunar landing site are just some of around 400,000

NASA employees dedicated to the success of the mission,

a mission that swallows 5%

of total U.S. Government spending.

LEE: A lot of risks were taken.

A lot of cost was also committed, and this is why

so much minutia went into planning the mission,

including reconstructing this landscape of the first

landing site.

NARRATOR: In the run-up to the Apollo 11 launch,

NASA uses the crater field to run mission simulations and

prime the crew for mankind's first steps on another world.

WALTERS: You gotta remember that the job of

the lunar astronauts wasn't just to go to the moon.

They were there to work.

So obviously, in a very literally alien terrain,

you've got to prepare these guys.

ANNOUNCER: 3, 2, 1, 0 -- liftoff.

We have a liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour,

liftoff on Apollo 11.

NARRATOR: At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969,

the Apollo crew blasts off from Cape Canaveral.

It takes three days to reach lunar orbit.

But as the crew descends towards

the Sea of Tranquility's familiar craters...

OVER RADIO: 1201.

OVER RADIO: 1201 -- roger, 1201 alarm.

...an accidental boost in pressure

pushes them towards the surface too fast.

They have to do an emergency burn,

they have to thrust the craft

some distance away from where they intended to land.

OVER RADIO: Engine arm off.

413 is in.

Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed.

NARRATOR: Following the first moon landing, the lunar

landscape is used by subsequent Apollo astronauts.

Alan Bean was one of them.

We'd been training and simulating all these years,

but still,

when you're there, it is a different world.

And when you look up there, and the Earth is 239,000

miles away and this big,

you have a tough time believing it.

This is amazing.

This is science fiction, except you're living it.

To date, only 12 humans

have set foot on extraterrestrial soil

and all of them trained

on this strange echo of the moon captured from space.

LEE: Here we have on the Earth,

a patch of ground that was reshaped to recreate

the surface of another world.

To me, that's -- that's quite remarkable. It's a treasure.

[beeping noise]

NARRATOR: Coming up,

the FBI versus the Nazi monks.

These are not nice people.

They even have their cattle branded with swastikas.

NARRATOR: And the cliff top cave of horrors.

There are human bones, thousands of human bones.

NARRATOR: September 3, 2003.

Orbiting over Brazil, a satellite spies something

in the jungle that shouldn't be there.

I'm looking at a clearing -- in the middle of it,

I can see five or six aircraft

etched onto the grounds in some way.

That's bizarre.

MORAN: This is not the kind of thing

that I would expect to see in the Amazon.

NARRATOR: And there are other strange markings nearby.

Just to the southeast is

the remains of some sort of square structure.

CADDICK-ADAMS: It looks like a dilapidated old

building, and given its remote location,

I'm thinking it's military.

NARRATOR: The structure appears to be decades old.

MORGAN: It looks like it's an older facility, and,

quite frankly, almost as if

it belongs to maybe the era of the Second World War.

NARRATOR: Brazil is an ally in World War two,

and Brazilian troops form a division of the U.S. Fifth Army.

But there is no record of an Allied base here.

Yet Guy Walters has uncovered declassified FBI documents,

which could explain the remote jungle base.

In October 1941, J. Edgar Hoover,

who was director of the FBI,

wrote to the Assistant Secretary of State and stated

that there are, quote, rumors

current in Brazil as to a German airbase.

NARRATOR: A secret Nazi airbase close enough to hit U.S. assets

and the strategically vital Panama Canal buried deep inside

the Amazon.

That's a pretty devastating cable to read.

And that's gonna send alarm bells

ringing in the corridors of power.

NARRATOR: Two months later, Hoover receives yet

more worrying news from the Amazon.

A second intelligence report describes how there were

a series of abbeys populated by German monks,

and that this network could be stockpiling fuel in the Amazon.

It was not uncommon for World War II spies to leave symbols

or markings on the ground that could only be

visible from the air.

So perhaps these symbols of aircraft indicate

that this clearing is a remote jungle airstrip.

For my money, at least, this initially sounds really crazy.

But actually, it shouldn't.

Brazil has got this significant influx of

German immigrants during the early 20th century.

In fact, Brazil had the highest number

of National Socialist Party members outside of Germany.

NARRATOR: These Brazilian Nazi sympathizers are

called the Integralistas.

Now these Integralistas, these are

not nice people, Okay?

I mean, they set up slave farms for starters.

They kidnap orphan children, and they force them

to work under really brutal conditions.

They even have their cattle branded with swastikas.

NARRATOR: Such is the level of Nazi activity

in Brazil that Hitler establishes

a series of secret radio stations in the country,

as part of a spy network code-named Operation Bolivar.

U.S. intelligence officers, quite understandably, suspect

there's a German kind of

monastic network in the Amazon rainforest,

so I'm starting to wonder whether this could be

the missing Nazi airbase.

NARRATOR: After the war, Brazil gave refuge to Nazis

like Dr. Josef Mengele,

who tortured children and others in unspeakable ways

in Nazi extermination camps.

No Nazi airbase was ever found,

but historic newspaper reports reveal that the site has

a different but equally troubling origin.

In 1986, Brazil's biggest newspaper gets a scoop that

the government is building

a secret nuclear test site in the Cachimbo Mountains.

Well, this matches exactly the area that

we see in the satellite image.

NARRATOR: In the 1970s, Brazil's military dictator,

Ernesto Geisel, begins using

this remote jungle airbase and target range has a clandestine

site to develop and test atomic weapons.

Under the guise of research into nuclear energy,

he expands the site and starts producing

weapons-grade uranium.

Horrifyingly, reports suggest that Brazil

actually got within two years

of having a working nuclear weapon.

That would create a nuclear power

very close to the United States.

HYMEL: But the story doesn't end there.

What we find out is not only

was Brazil developing its own nuclear program,

it's helping other countries develop them also.

NARRATOR: Intelligence reports

suggest that when oil prices spike during the 1970s,

Brazil starts selling its nuclear secrets in exchange for

black gold.

It's then that Brazil makes a deal with the devil.

They agree with a Middle East leader to help them out,

and that's Saddam Hussein.

MORAN: This revelation is really a bombshell.

In the 1980s, everybody fears a nuclearized Iraq.

And here is Brazil basically

selling to Iraq under everybody's noses.

NARRATOR: Some sources claim the country's atomic scientists

continue working in Iraq until 1990,

when Brazil shuts down its secret jungle

nuclear program.

Fear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction

led the U.S. to invade the country in 2003,

including Special Forces veteran Klint Janulis.

JANULIS: When I was in the invasion of Iraq,

I do recall being ordered to take note of anything relating

to the Brazilian space agency.

Now, learning that Iraq and Brazil were

trading nuclear secrets and money and uranium --

it's kind of a spooky thought.

[shouting indistinctly]

NARRATOR: While the troops find no trace of Saddam's nukes,

the fate of atomic secrets and materials traded between

the dictator and the Brazilian government remains unclear.

Coming up -- brain surgery, cave man style.

Somebody has actually bored a hole in the top of

the skull on multiple occasions.

NARRATOR: And the kung fu mega egg.

This looks like one of the most intriguing buildings

I've ever seen.

[satellite beeps]

NARRATOR: July 2019.

As a drone scans the mountainous island of

Gran Canaria, 60 miles off the African coast,

the pilots spot something extraordinary.

So we're looking at the side of a cliff,

and there are a lot of white objects crowded together.

What it seems to show is a huge quantity

of bone -- looking at shapes of the bone,

one can see that they're human bones,

thousands of human bones lying on the surface.

NARRATOR: When archaeologists explore the macabre scene,

they discover the remains of around 100 people,

including children.

Who are these people?

How did they die?

Why are their bones all in the same spot?

NARRATOR: The team recovers bones for analysis.

Some of the skulls provide a possible clue.

Several of these skulls had holes in the back of them.

BELLINGER: Looking at these holes, which are very

neatly made, immediately makes me think of trepanation.

NARRATOR: Trepanation is the world's

oldest form of major surgery.

Trepanation is where somebody has actually bored

a small hole in the top of the skull,

and in some of the most gory cases, on multiple occasions.

For millennia,

patients would endure trepanation to create

a conduit to release evil spirits or treat

neurological pain.

5 to 10% of all skulls recovered

from the Neolithic period display evidence

of trepanation.

You know, it's like the cure-all,

the antibiotics of the ancient world.

NARRATOR: Carbon dating and bone analysis reveals the cave

skulls do not carry evidence of prehistoric surgery.

The studies do, however,

provide archaeologists with another clue.

So the radiocarbon dates are from

the 8th and the 10th centuries A.D.

This shows clearly that this is an indigenous Guanche site.

NARRATOR: The Guanches rule the Canary Islands

for six millennia,

until they disappear around 600 years ago.

Few clues to their time here exist

other than pyramid-like structures made out of

volcanic rock and accounts from traders in antiquity.

We have intriguing references from Greek and Roman

writers that they were fair-skinned and fair-haired.

NARRATOR: The Guanche tribes are known to have been

fierce warriors who worshiped a solar deity called Al-Karak.

The discovery of children's bodies in

the cave could provide a clue to their fate.

To mark sunrise on the summer solstice,

tribes are known to have hurled children from cliffs,

possibly in honor of their sun god.

So what's interesting about this bone deposit is that

it's in a secret and very remote location.

It's possible that it might be

associated with some form of sacrifice rituals.

NARRATOR: But trace evidence of resins

and pieces of animal skin

on the bones suggest the dead served a different

ritualistic purpose.

Examining these skeletons, archaeologists found that

a number of the individuals display evidence

for mummification.

When you see mummification, you see

a preservation and a respect for the dead.

NARRATOR: Historians speculate the Guanches likely learned how

to mummify their dead

from the ancient Egyptians with whom they traded.

It suggests the cave is a kind of cliff top cemetery,

reserved for warriors and other high-ranking members

of the tribes.

RUBEN: Mummification was a way to give honor to the dead,

so this is not just a burial site.

This is a special and sacred burial site.

NARRATOR: To the Guanches, caves

and mountaintops held deep spiritual significance.

Originally, they would have neatly stacked mummies

within this cave,

but then subsequently, the cave itself has collapsed,

making this deposit of scattered bones.

NARRATOR: Four centuries after they start

carrying their dead to this cave,

a devastating threat arrives on their shores,

one that this warrior race cannot resist...

...the Spanish Armada.

The Guanche, with their warlike practices,

were in a position to fight really hard against

the Spanish, and they did.

They held out for nearly 100 years.

We have reports that at least some of them

committed suicide rather than be taken prisoner

by their oppressors.

NARRATOR: By the 16th century, the Spanish have wiped

the Guanches from the face of the Earth.

Their cliffside mausoleum remained hidden from

the world until rediscovered by eyes in the sky.

Coming up,

crouching monk, hidden structure.

We know that their bodies

can be trained to do amazing things.

[satellite beeps]

NARRATOR: December 5, 2019.

Passing high over Henan Province in central China,

the GeoEye satellite captures this image.

SZULGIT: This looks like one of

the most intriguing buildings I've ever seen.

WALTERS: This one I find really mysterious, because

it's this great big sort of egg structure.

Concrete gray, and then on top of which

is another egg structure.

NARRATOR: End to end, the mega-sized egg

measures around 200 feet.

This is a big, high-tech structure that's

obviously expensive.

Somebody's investing a lot in this.

NARRATOR: Scientist Alistair Linsell thinks

he knows where this investment came from.

It looks like it might have a dish on it,

and we know that China has big ambitions for space,

so could it be related to that?

NARRATOR: In recent years, China has spent tens of billions

of dollars on expanding space facilities all over the world.

As part of its space exploration roadmap,

Beijing plans to complete its space station in

2022 and send a mission to Jupiter in 2030.

China is not particularly forthcoming with the details

of what it does in space or what it wants to achieve.

So I'm wondering if this is some

new secret of this Chinese space program.

NARRATOR: Yet scanning the structure

using Maxar's SecureWatch technology

reveals it serves a different, more bizarre purpose.

As I zoom in here,

I'm starting to see some things that make me

think that maybe this is not a research facility.

I'm actually seeing seating.

Looks like it might be an amphitheater.

NARRATOR: The weird structure appears to

be some kind of entertainment arena.

Scanning Northwest, Ken Joyce identifies what might

attract spectators to this mountainous region of China --

the Monks of Shaolin Temple.

So I wonder if this facility is

where the Shaolin monks put on their displays.

NARRATOR: The Shaolin Temple was founded by

a wandering Indian monk in 464 A.D.

In pursuit of Buddhist ideals,

the monks there meditate for what adds

up to 12 years during their lifetimes.

Good for the mind, not so good for the muscle.

So what they did was started to try to get

themselves in shape by practicing kind of martial

techniques and fighting.

Hi-yah!

NARRATOR: Over the following centuries,

through countless years of training,

the monks of Shaolin earn a reputation across China

for their lethal martial arts prowess.

They become warriors-for-hire,

tasked with defending the country from

overseas threats,

including the feared Wokou pirates from Japan.

There is a mystique built up around these monk warriors,

and you'll hear stories like that they could walk across

grass without bending it or run across water.

NARRATOR: Yet in the 17th century, as the Shaolins'

fame grows, jealous officials slaughter many of them

and strip the rest of their weapons.

So you've got this handful of surviving monks, and what they

start developing as a direct consequence

of this is weaponless fighting, how to make the human body into

the most deadly of weapons.

[indistinct exclamation]

NARRATOR: This highly disciplined,

unarmed form of combat evolves

into what is known today as Shaolin kung fu.

Novices as young as three dedicate their lives to

training their bodies to

perform extraordinary feats of strength,

agility, and endurance.

WALTERS: It is your vocation, your job,

your profession, your calling --

it is your life being a Shaolin monk.

You start young, and you end when you die.

We know that their bodies can be trained to do

amazing things.

One superhuman ability that many people actually believe in

is that Shaolin monks can reach a point where they can

actually levitate.

NARRATOR: For centuries, explorers including Marco Polo

claimed to have witnessed monks levitating.

Now some Shaolin monks say they can do this but that their

code of conduct forbids them from demonstrating it to

the outside world.

And that's where this structure comes into play.

NARRATOR: The funnel in the amphitheater is where

ancient mystical martial arts meets 21st century technology.

What you've got in the middle of

this structure is this wind tunnel,

and the monks can then float on the wind coming out of that

tunnel around the amphitheater,

to the delight of all the people watching.

NARRATOR: The structure from space proves

that the monks claims of superhero-like abilities really

are a load of hot air.

Until someone can figure out how to

levitate themselves with their mind,

this is about as close as you can actually get.

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