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A temple of the dead in the Yucat�n...

an underground city in Turkey...

And a South American cave said to contain a treasure from

beyond the stars.

For centuries, people have told tales of caves and tunnels deep

inside the Earth.

Subterranean passageways that

lead to lands of gods and monsters.

But is there a surprising truth behind these legends?

I have stood in front of drawings on the rocks

and wondered, "am I looking at a

extra-terrestrial biological "entity?"

Could there really be mysterious places far

beneath our feet?

Places whose origins might not be of this Earth?

There were certain aspects of the caves for

which geology could not provide an answer.

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, should we be looking for proof of their existence

not in the heavens above but in

mysterious worlds deep beneath the surface?

# Ancient Aliens 2x04 # Underground Aliens Original Air Date on November 18, 2010

Bordered on the north by the black sea, and by the Taurus

mountains to the South, lies Cappadocia in central Turkey.

Here, wind and water have sculpted strange shapes out of

the soft volcanic rock... rock which ancient peoples once

turned into small, primitive dwellings.

In more recent years, the site has seen the construction of

more modern structures.

But in 1963, a simple home renovation in the town of

Derinkuyu led to an extraordinary discovery when a

cave wall was opened, revealing a passageway to an underground

city thousands of years old and more than 280 feet deep.

I've been there on multiple occasions, and

it's incredible because there's 13 stories that go deep into

the ground, with ventilation shafts and 15,000 little shafts

that bring air to even the deepest of levels.

Incredibly, the number of rock rooms that were

found could hold an estimated 20,000 men, women and children.

There was even evidence of religious centers, storerooms,

winepresses and stables for livestock.

Oh,

Derinkuyu would've been a massive undertaking for anyone,

even in modern times with modern equipment.

But in those days, it would've been, um... stupendous.

Equal to the pyramids.

At Derinkuyu, because of the softness of the stone, you had

to be very careful that you provided enough pillar strength

to support the floors above, otherwise you'd have

catastrophic cave-ins.

Surprisingly, there's no evidence of any catastrophic

cave-ins, so they were apparently extremely clever and

knew their material.

We're talking deep antiquity.

It is mind boggling to understand how they could've

done this.

Perhaps they had help from some other civilization.

But just who built this massive underground city?

And what mysterious force drove them to live underground?

Why would people want to live deep

underground in these weird caverns like that?

It seems kind of scary, really.

According to many archaeologists and scholars,

Derinkuyu was most likely intended to serve as a

temporary shelter from invasion... built around 800 b.C.

By the Phrygians, a bronze age people related to the trojans.

Others believe it was built by the hittites, a warrior people

mentioned in the Bible who flourished hundreds of years earlier.

But could the underground city be even older?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, it is, perhaps by

many thousands of years.

The Cappadocia region of Turkey was part of the zoroastrian

empire, which was persian in nature.

And it's one of the oldest religious traditions on the face of the Earth.

The zoroastrian religion... an ancient faith

based on opposing forces of good and evil... is widely

believed to have influenced both hinduism and

judeo-christianity.

Founded sometime before the sixth century b.C.,

its chief God is the creator, Ahura Mazda.

And in the second chapter of the zoroastrian sacred text,

the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves mankind from a worldwide

environmental disaster... much like the story of Noah in the

Hebrew testament.

The great prophet Yima was instructed to build a

kind of underground refuge similar to Derinkuyu by the sky

God Ahura Mazda.

According to the sacred texts, Yima built a

multilevel underground city to protect a select group of

people and animals, not from a flood but from a global ice age.

The Vendidad calls this "the evil winters."

According to many mainstream climatologists, the last ice

age peaked around 18,000 years ago and ended around 10,000 b.C.

Is it possible that Derinkuyu was built as a refuge from a

devastating global winter?

Since you cannot carbon date stone, it's

anybody's guess how old Derinkuyu really is.

And my question is: If we have a zoroastrian story that's very

similar, could it be that both that place and Derinkuyu are

much, much older than what we've believed so far?

But if Derinkuyu is in fact the underground

city that Ahura Mazda told his followers to build, could there

be a stunning truth behind the legend?

If so, who or what was the God Ahura Mazda?

Ahura Mazda does appear to be responsible for

the management of whatever is happening here on Earth.

There are various ways to read this, one of which is that it

does represent some sort of higher universal form of consciousness.

But another is that it would represent an overseeing

extraterrestrial intelligence.

Several sacred texts from antiquity

speak of knowledge given to mankind from extraterrestrials,

but also known as gods from antiquity.

Could the sky God Ahura Mazda really have been an

advanced being from another world?

So, did he provide the technology needed for his

followers to build this complex labyrinth as protection from

environmental disaster?

Or is there possibly a more ominous reason for Derinkuyu's existence?

Some say a clue lies in the underground city's unusual

security system: 1,000-pound doors on rollers that allow

them to be moved by a single person, but only from one side.

The Derinkuyu doors... they're very cleverly constructed.

You can basically only open it and leverage it from the inside.

So obviously, whoever inhabited Derinkuyu was

hiding from someone or something.

According to the ancient zoroastrian texts,

Ahura Mazda soared through the sky in a divine chariot and

waged war against his eternal enemy, Angra Mainyu, the demon of destruction.

But could this really be-. As many ancient astronaut

theorists believe... a depiction of two extraterrestrial forces

battling over control of the Earth and its resources?

The aerial enemies were extraterrestrials,

because they were the ones who had the capability of flight.

They had access to those types of machines that we can read

about in every single ancient culture around the world.

When you look at the zoroastrian tradition, you

also see clear evidence that there was some sort of

extraterrestrial battle going on between warring factions.

Therefore, it is certainly possible that the original

caves may have been used as shelters against possible

aerial bombardment from extraterrestrials that were

warring with each other during that time.

Derinkuyu was built out of fear of an aerial

enemy, because if something flies over you very, very fast,

you can't see the ventilation shafts.

Some suggest 30,000 people used to live underground at Derinkuyu.

During recorded history, many different peoples

did in fact hide in the underground city of Derinkuyu

to escape everything from desert raiders to Roman legions.

But some experts wonder whether such conventional attacks can

really explain why Derinkuyu was built in the first place.

If it were an enemy that was on horseback,

it would be easy for them to just smother everyone inside by

just closing all the ventilation shafts.

We had the phrase in the defense

department studies that I participated in: "The cave is a

grave to a well-prepared "adversary."

Once you find it, it is highly vulnerable.

But did the people of Derinkuyu really go

underground to avoid becoming casualties in an

extraterrestrial battle in the skies?

And, if so, might there be other such cities from the distant past?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, there are.

And they can be found much nearer to home... deep in the

caves of the American southwest.

The majestic mesas and rugged mountains of the

American southwest are home to many native peoples, including

the navajo, zuni, pueblo, hopi and Apache.

These tribes have many different beliefs, but their

creation myths all share something quite remarkable.

When we talk about our origin, you know, you hear

the stories about us coming down from Alaska through the Bering strait.

But what we believe is we came up from the ground.

The Apaches and other pueblo Indians, such as

the Zunis and the hopi Indians, all have this legend that they

emerged from some underground world into today's world.

In some legends, the southwestern peoples went

back underground for safety.

The hopi of Arizona say their ancestors escaped a deadly

storm of falling stars with the help of the snake people, who

took them to shelters deep in the Earth.

Another hopi legend speaks of the ant people who protected

them from storms of fire and ice.

The hopi Indians survived cataclysms by living

in this underground world with the ant people for a certain

period of time, and then eventually they emerged from

the underground world back into the surface world.

Ant people?

Snake people?

Could these stories be based on ancestral tales of people

actually living underground... possibly during the last ice age?

Or could the ancestors of today's southwestern tribes

have taken refuge in sub-surface dwellings similar

to the underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey?

If so, over the centuries, might they have developed

physical traits... like large eyes and fingers... that made

them more closely resemble actual Earth-dwelling creatures?

The shamans, and the elders of native Americans,

they will tell you that before these people were able to

emerge out of planet Earth, they were brought here by the

star-people, the star-gods, which arrived from outer space.

I have stood in front of what are called the ant

people and some of the very strange, large-eyed drawings on

the rocks and wondered, "am I looking at native American

interpretation of what today is called a extraterrestrial "biological entity?"

If extraterrestrials were here in the remote past, there are

multiple species out there, is it possible that they might've

looked lizard-like and ant-like?

And the answer is yes.

Is it possible that these underground creatures of

native American legend were actually alien visitors?

If so, could some of them still be living beneath the surface

of the southwestern desert?

For decades, stories of encounters with UFOs and alien beings have been told among the

people of new Mexico's Jicarilla Apache reservation.

Some of the aliens in these stories bear a strange

resemblance to the ancient tales of the ant-like and

snake-like beings from the hopi legends.

There is things up here that no one can explain.

The Jicarilla Apache reservation is located

next to the small town of Dulce, nestled in the shadow of the

over 9,000-foot-high Archuleta mesa.

It is from this mesa and mountain that

people claim they have seen UFOs flying out of the mountain.

It was a spaceship we saw right there.

And it was big... like maybe the size of a football field.

And then we seen this dome on top that was all glassed in.

And then my husband was looking at it with the binoculars and

he saw two small people.

Well, we don't know what it is.

If we stayed here and they came down I don't know what they

would have done to us.

Could the native tales of spaceships and strange creatures be true?

Some ufo researchers and conspiracy theorists believe

that these eyewitness accounts are not only true, but are

evidence of a secret collaboration between

underground aliens and the U.S. Military.

The amount of military traffic over Dulce, the

unmarked helicopters, the black helicopters, the heavy-duty chinooks.

All these helicopters spend a lot more time in Dulce than

they should if nothing were going on here.

Among the stories that we've heard from the Jicarilla Apache

is that they discovered vents, actually right here on the mesa.

Awhile back, when my brother was still alive we

used to come up here in the back, and he sHowed us this

shaft and that thing was bigger than... bigger than me.

But we walked in, and I didn't want to go any further.

The vents were here maybe 25 years ago.

You'd hear strange noises.

Groans.

Sighs.

Human groans.

And this lent a lot of credence to stories that human beings

were being vivisected, experimented on.

And thus the legend of strange creatures and strange noises

coming out of this mesa grew and expanded.

Aliens living underground.

Strange, secret government cover-ups.

Could native American legends of underground beings help

unEarth the truth behind these incredible stories?

Some think the answer might be found deep beneath the surface

of north America, but others believe the truth lies hidden

in a mysterious cave...

thousands of Miles to the South.

A cave that hides proof of alien visitors who journeyed

beyond the stars.

South America.

The andes mountain range in Ecuador.

For thousands of years, this rain forest... high on the

eastern slopes... has been the land of the Shuar, headhunters

who are fiercely protective of their homeland, and its secrets.

And of all the Shuar's secrets, perhaps none has been so

carefully guarded as the location and entrance of the cave of Tayos.

But why?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the story of an Italian

catholic missionary named father Crespi, who lived in the

region in the middle of the last century.

Father Paolo Carlo Crespi.

He was loved by the Indians. He helped them without, uh,

asking for money.

And the Indians made him some presents.

But what was unique about the "presents" or gifts

given to father Crespi was that they often took the forms of

elaborately-carved artifacts...

some made of gold or other precious metals.

Often these objects featured elaborate carvings and

symbols... not known to be associated with the Shuar culture.

In his 1973 book, gold of the gods, ancient astronaut

theorist erich Von Daniken wrote of father Crespi's

incredible collection... which he believed to come from the

cave of Tayos and which were, in his opinion, treasures from

an unknown and highly-advanced culture.

The startling questions posed in Von Daniken's book soon

inspired Scottish explorer Stanley Hall to try and solve

the mystery himself.

In 1975, Hall traveled to Cuenca to see father Crespi's

collection with his own eyes.

I had for years been researching South America

as the missing page of pre-history.

I first heard of the Tayos caves in erich Von Daniken's

book and followed it through from there.

And one of the presents which the old

priest received is a tablet with 36 writings.

It's metallic tablet.

No one until today was able to translate these writings.

In 1976, Stanley Hall mounted an expedition

of more than 100 people to explore Tayos.

Among them was American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the

first man to walk on the moon.

Entering the cave through a jungle entrance known to the

Ecuadorian army, the explorers were fascinated by what they

encountered... especially large areas that appeared to have

been excavated by someone... Or something.

The head of the British geological group, Dr.

Brian Kelly, in 1976, he admitted that it was difficult

for him to explain the actual large doorways that you see in

these caves.

Although Stan Hall's expedition did find a

tomb chamber with items dating to 1500 bc...

A ring! A stone ring!

The expedition found no treasure and no trace

of anything that looked like the artifacts in father Crespi's collection.

But if Tayos was not the secret origin of father Crespi's

amazing collection, where did it come from?

Undaunted, Hall didn't give up his search.

15 years later, in 1991, the explorer tracked down an

Ecuadorian named Petronio Jaramillo who claimed to have

entered the cave of Tayos through a secret entrance back

in 1946.

And apparently, Petronio had visited this cave

for the very first time when he was very young.

When he was in his teens.

He said that he had to dive underwater, go in... in this

underwater tunnel, and then come up.

Jaramillo told Hall he wandered through chamber

after chamber of ancient relics, including a vast room of books

made from gold and other metals... books with

unrecognizable writing...

Possibly like that on one of the

metal tablets in father Crespi's collection.

The other things looked like formulas,

and so on, and so on.

So it was one spectacular statement after another.

Some argue whether or not an ancient civilization

had come down to Earth and had used this cave system to leave

certain artifacts of their civilization behind for us

to recover.

Unfortunately, before he could guide Stanley

Hall to the underwater cave entrance, Petronio jaramillo

died, taking the secret to his grave.

Stanley Hall himself died in 2008 before he was able to renew

his search for the so-called metal library.

Fortunately, Stanley Hall's daughter Eileen has decided to

continue her father's work.

Unless we find this treasure, unless we can

see, translate the writing, it's still a big question mark over

who wrote it, why they put it there and who put it there.

But when Eileen Hall began to look for the

location of father Crespi's original artifacts, she learned

that much of the priest's collection had mysteriously

vanished shortly before his death in 1982.

But why?

Had Crespi's artifacts fallen prey to thieves?

Or might the Shuar have taken their treasure back into the

cave where they found them?

Whatever the answer, Eileen Hall has continued to research

other artifacts from elsewhere in Ecuador.

And like father Crespi's objects, some seem to have

uncanny resemblances to other cultures that, according to

mainstream archeology, ancient Ecuadorians could not have had

any knowledge of.

This collection is made up of what my father

believed to be the formative cultures of Ecuador.

This is from the coastal culture from 600 bc to 1600 ad, and this

is very humanlike, but at the same time, some features have

been exaggerated.

Here, you've got the smaller face with the kind of bigger

ears, and the elongated skull shape on the head.

The top of this head looks like an elongated

cranium, an elongated skull, and it is identical to this

Egyptian statue that we find all over Egypt.

To see this picture right here and compare it to the Egyptian

bust we see right here, it's uncanny... the head shape is identical.

Do Stanley Hall's artifacts show evidence that

Egyptian cultures could have crossed the oceans to influence

South American culture?

Or is it possible that both were influenced by another culture...

one from beyond our world?

If so, were the strange writings inscribed on father Crespi's now

missing metal tablets actual messages from an alien world?

My father went as far as saying it was possibly

an advanced civilization, but we can't know for certain until

this library is found.

So this metallic library is still there in

Ecuador in a subterranean cave.

There are still Indian tribes living there.

They are still protecting the old treasure.

So it's going to push the boundaries of academia

once this cave system has been found.

And whether it is Inca or extraterrestrial, it doesn't

really matter at this moment in time.

Let's get to this cave and see what is in there.

Perhaps Tayos has yet to reveal all of its

secrets, but more than 700 Miles to the north, there is another

cave... one that may prove that the Mayan underworld and the

terrifying gods who ruled it were not only very real, but

thirsty for human blood.

The Yucat�n peninsula...

One of Mexico's premier tourist destinations.

Besides scenic beaches, the area is covered by thick jungle and

pockmarked by massive sinkholes known as Cenotes.

The ground beneath the jungle is also honeycombed with caves.

But here, in 2007, Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda

found a cave like no other.

Following clues in the records of 17th-century Spanish priests

that hinted at the existence of a mysterious underground Mayan

temple deep in the jungle, de Anda found a series of caves

near the village of Tahtzibichen...

Caves not seen for hundreds of years, and with entrances

submerged beneath centuries of floodwater.

Sometimes we have to dive into these caves.

Sometimes they go very deep.

The average depth of our research is about 140, 150 feet,

but we know of caves much deeper than that.

At first, de Anda and his team found carved stone

heads and broken pillars with 1,900-year-old Mayan inscriptions.

We have found columns under the water, and

these columns are amazing because some of them are five

feet high and at least ten feet wide.

But as de Anda surfaced in the dry areas of the

cave, he found what he believed to be the remains of a massive

underground temple complex, including a concrete road,

a crumbled pyramid and bones.

But why was it here?

The Mayans themselves have, uh, very

intriguing legends of an underground world called Xibalba.

And it's believed now by archaeologists that what they

found is what the Mayans thought was the entrance to this

legendary underground world that features prominently in the Popol Vuh.

Could this dark and mysterious cave really be the

underground world mentioned in the Mayan legends?

According to the Popol Vuh, the written record of Mayan

mythology, the underworld kingdom of Xibalba, meaning

"the place of fear," was ruled by the cruel lords of the dead,

who made those who entered their realm pass through a series

of torture chambers, involving blood, darkness, cold, knives,

bats and jaguars.

We see here in this one archaeological spot an

actual physical representation of what the Mayans felt the soul

had to go through.

Might, perhaps, this cave of stalactites, sharp

enough to pierce flesh, represent the "room of knives"

in the Popol Vuh?

There is also, arguably, a "room of bats," and a trench

that might once have been filled with blood, like the

river of blood in the story that Mayan pilgrims had to cross over.

There are places of cold and darkness... and even a room with carvings of jaguars.

These caves were littered with large patches of

spiders and reptiles and all types of tumultuous things that

a human really wouldn't want to be exposed to.

Although some archaeologists claim this

unique site was simply modeled after the description of

Xibalba in the Popol Vuh, de Anda insists that items from

the cave date back to a time centuries before the Mayan holy

book was written.

It's not that there was this document and

they, uh, tried to, uh, imitate what the document said.

I think it's all the other way around.

We believe that we have found the particular Xibalba of the

central part of the Yucat�n.

This is why we do believe it was a real place.

But if Xibalba is real, were the lords of the dead also real?

And if so, who or what were they?

According to the Chilam Balam book, which is the

book of the Jaguar priests, it says in there, that at that

time "the road to the stars descended from the sky, and the

"13 and nine gods came to Earth."

I'm sorry.

"Road to the stars," "descended from the sky."

Can it be more clear?

I don't think so.

Right there we have a direct reference to someone that has

arrived from outer space, and we have a written record about this.

Could the "lords of Xibalba" and other Mayan gods

really have been extraterrestrial travelers?

If so, why did they display such a thirst for blood and torture?

I do not believe human sacrifice was originally taught by the ets.

I believe it came in the aftermath of when the original

teachers of humankind had arrived.

The ancient gods, which were really just humans from

another world, withdrew from the area, and the people became distraught.

The more they became distraught, the more they took

the original mythology and interpreted it in a much more literal way.

So what might have started out as the myth about the sun dying

and being reborn when it sinks below the horizon, becomes

literally the idea of killing people to make sure that the

sun is gonna come back up.

As archaeologists and explorers continue to

ununcover sites where legend and reality meet, could there be

even more evidence that mankind's history on this planet

is much more profound than what we currently understand?

There are those who believe the secret lies even deeper within the Earth...

As deep as its very core.

The north pole... a seemingly endless wasteland of

arctic ice, shrouded in darkness for six months of every year.

Here, there is no food, no shelter, not even a cave to

hide from the slashing winds and temperatures that can dive

to 90 degrees below zero.

But according to mainstream geology, beneath the pole and

the arctic ocean lies the Earth's mostly rocky crust, up to 30 miles thick.

Below this is molten rock, heated by the planet's spinning

core, with a solid center of iron and nickel the size of the moon.

Scientists have deduced this information from measurements

of Earth's gravity, magnetism and seismic waves.

But no one has ever seen these areas.

Could the frozen surface of the pole be hiding a gateway to a

world within our surface world?

There are those who believe the answer is, "yes."

And what they believe is known as the hollow Earth theory.

The hollow Earth theory is that, this Earth is not molten inside.

It is actually hollow, and that suspended in the hollow of the

Earth is an inner sun.

Surprisingly, the notion of a hollow Earth was

first given scientific credence by one of the founders of

modern astronomy.

The idea that the Earth might be hollow, as a

scientific notion, dates back to the astronomer Edmund Halley

who is best known for his comet.

In 1691 he presented to the London royal society his

hypothesis that the Earth is hollow and contains several

little spheres inside.

Sort of like those Russian Matryoshska dolls.

He was hypothesizing this for a very practical reason.

The Earth's magnetic pole moved a little bit every year to the

west, and his idea was that our outer sphere had inner spheres

that turned independently of the outer one.

He also suggested that these interior spheres would also be

able to support life.

In 1818, former U.S. army Captain John Cleves

Symmes, Jr., announced that there were vast openings at each

pole where we could enter inner Earth.

With Symmes, the idea of a hollow Earth gets tied

into exploring for the pole.

At this point, nobody had actually seen Antarctica, for instance.

The hollow Earth theory again captured the

public's imagination in 1864 with the release of Jules

Verne's second novel, a journey to the center of the Earth.

The novel takes an Icelandic guide and a Professor

and a young man down into the center of the Earth.

Journey to the center of the Earth could really have been

called a journey to the center of geology.

Geology and paleontology were a very hot topic in the early

1860's and there's a lot of discussion of that in journey

to the center of the Earth.

Narrator but while Verne popularized the idea that

extinct life forms might still exist inside the Earth, others

envisioned that the Earth contained advanced underground civilizations.

Supposedly, they have advanced technology.

They've got ray guns and special weapons.

And even they have flying saucers, other craft like that.

But is there any evidence that such fantastic

claims could be true?

And has anyone actually been to the world within our Earth?

Proponents of the hollow Earth theory say, "yes," and that

one of the explorers was no less a luminary than famed

polar pioneer admiral Richard e. Byrd.

In the 1920s, byrd made world headlines by flying over the

north pole, and by becoming the first man to fly solo over the

South pole.

But hollow Earth theorists believe that the famous

explorer went even farther, and that, on February 19, 1947,

admiral byrd piloted a plane through a hole near the north

pole into the interior of the Earth.

A flying saucer type craft took control of his

airplane, with some kind of tractor beam... and they landed

him near an inner Earth city.

And the message that they had for us was that they consider

themselves the guardians of this planet, okay?

He says, "we don't approve of you people using nuclear weapons."

We had just blown up a couple of cities in Japan a couple of

years before, so this was the message that he was given.

But when he got to Washington, they put a lid of secrecy on

this, that this was not to go out.

Some say admiral Byrd's own account of this

flight into the hollow Earth is detailed in his secret diary,

published in the 1990s, almost four decades after his death.

But skeptics claim the diary is a forgery and point out that in

February 1947, at the time admiral Byrd was supposedly

visiting this other world underneath the north pole,

he was actually part of a vast 4,700-man naval exploration

called "operation high jump,"

12,000 Miles away, near the South pole.

But could Byrd's inclusion in this large military operation

at the South pole have been merely a cover story?

Some people claim it was, and this allowed him to slip away

to the other end of the planet, unnoticed by the media.

Admiral Byrd, the rumor was, found a

world of flying machines, and

people, and... more advanced than us...

And that they helped him, and then he left again.

It's a myth.

Nobody's really been able to prove it, but it's a great myth.

Could there really be vast, open spaces within the

Earth where advanced civilizations live?

Could extraterrestrial gods really have come to Earth,

centuries ago, and hidden the evidence of their journeys deep

within caves and tunnels?

Perhaps we have only just scratched the surface of our

planet's underground mysteries.

If so, what clues to our distant past might still be

waiting to be found, and hiding in the darkness?

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