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People have been reporting strange 9 00:00:42,810 --> 00:00:46,970 encounters with very bizarre creatures for decades. 10 00:00:47,470 --> 00:00:53,849 Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens' archives to the show's 11 00:00:53,850 --> 00:00:58,430 origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone. 12 00:00:58,770 --> 00:01:00,730 We have never been. 13 00:01:05,161 --> 00:01:13,089 It's fascinating that there are stories from all over the world of what we call 14 00:01:13,090 --> 00:01:17,469 cryptids. And these strange creatures are unlike anything else in the animal 15 00:01:17,470 --> 00:01:21,390 kingdom. And we have reports that they even have supernatural abilities. 16 00:01:22,190 --> 00:01:26,769 Right, and often these cryptids, for example, in ancient times, are referred 17 00:01:26,770 --> 00:01:30,370 as hybrid beings, like the minotaur in ancient Greece. 18 00:01:30,990 --> 00:01:36,109 Half human, half bull. And according to legend, this being was allegedly created 19 00:01:36,110 --> 00:01:37,430 inside of a container. 20 00:01:37,850 --> 00:01:40,770 That, to me, speaks of genetic experimentation. 21 00:01:40,771 --> 00:01:44,849 Yeah, and these stories aren't just isolated to the ancient world. Cryptids 22 00:01:44,850 --> 00:01:47,929 been recorded right up through to the present day. We featured these strange 23 00:01:47,930 --> 00:01:51,250 creatures in a 2011 episode called Aliens and Monsters. 24 00:01:57,570 --> 00:01:58,620 Surfside Beach. 25 00:01:59,350 --> 00:02:00,810 Montauk, New York. 26 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:08,388 On July 13, 2008, a 26 -year -old woman and three of her friends 27 00:02:08,389 --> 00:02:13,549 discovered the carcass of a strange -looking creature that had washed onto 28 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:14,600 shore. 29 00:02:19,210 --> 00:02:22,850 It actually looked like a hybrid creature. 30 00:02:23,370 --> 00:02:29,010 that had the claws of a raccoon and possibly the beak of a bird and the 31 00:02:29,070 --> 00:02:32,370 perhaps, of a dog. A very unusual creature. 32 00:02:33,070 --> 00:02:37,949 A photograph was taken and circulated. It started popping up all over the 33 00:02:37,950 --> 00:02:39,790 Internet. It went viral. 34 00:02:40,210 --> 00:02:44,830 The people couldn't identify the animal because it didn't look like anything. 35 00:02:45,070 --> 00:02:47,490 It looked like a mixture of different animals. 36 00:02:51,470 --> 00:02:55,350 And because it looks so strange, you know, it's provoked a lot of theories. 37 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:57,170 Is it just an unknown animal? 38 00:02:57,171 --> 00:03:02,649 Could it be some sort of hybrid -type creature, something, you know, that had 39 00:03:02,650 --> 00:03:04,690 been genetically tinkered with in a lab? 40 00:03:09,770 --> 00:03:15,389 Some believe the mysterious creature is a hybrid beast, perhaps created at a 41 00:03:15,390 --> 00:03:20,010 nearby government testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. 42 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,520 Cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman labels the creature the Montauk Monster. 43 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:30,480 This is a replica of the Montauk Monster. 44 00:03:30,481 --> 00:03:35,159 One of the things that we noticed about this creature was these strange features 45 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,639 around its mouth. It looked like a beak. It actually looked like we didn't know 46 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,219 what was going on here. Was it a griffin? Was it a creature? Was it a 47 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:49,800 turtle? But indeed, that was decaying flesh that had come away from the skull. 48 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,720 Other features were the strange -looking feet. 49 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:57,959 And the body, indeed, because the picture had no scale in it, we thought, 50 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,010 enormous. 51 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:05,379 On the body, these white objects here really define the size of flies on the 52 00:04:05,380 --> 00:04:09,420 creature, which then determined the scale of this creature was very small. 53 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,519 Unfortunately, someone grabbed the carcass and supposedly took it to his 54 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,299 yard, and then it ultimately vanished. 55 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:20,120 So the only evidence we have of this creature is the photo. 56 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:31,289 But while some researchers theorized, that the so -called Montauk monster was 57 00:04:31,290 --> 00:04:32,970 the product of modern science. 58 00:04:34,550 --> 00:04:40,409 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the animal could be part of a long line of 59 00:04:40,410 --> 00:04:44,810 genetically modified creatures that have appeared throughout human history. 60 00:04:45,330 --> 00:04:51,709 If the Montauk monster is in fact a reality, then that 61 00:04:51,710 --> 00:04:55,270 could mean that if we are able today 62 00:04:56,010 --> 00:05:01,509 to create some very bizarre creatures behind closed doors in labs all around 63 00:05:01,510 --> 00:05:07,209 world, it is possible that our ancestors, especially the 64 00:05:07,210 --> 00:05:13,630 ancestors, had the same capability. Because in ancient texts, 65 00:05:13,690 --> 00:05:20,449 we have numerous references to monsters, bizarre beings 66 00:05:20,450 --> 00:05:23,610 that have been described in great detail. 67 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:31,460 Ancient Greek artifacts depict terrifying beasts, such as the Gorgon, 68 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,540 the Hydra, 69 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:42,520 and the ferocious Cerberus. 70 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:51,839 And in Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, the Greek author describes a battle in 71 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:56,950 which the hero, Bellerophon, slays a monster called the chimera. 72 00:05:59,030 --> 00:06:03,489 The chimera was a dreaded beast that wreaked havoc and terrorized the people 73 00:06:03,490 --> 00:06:04,540 Asia Minor. 74 00:06:04,570 --> 00:06:09,069 Homer described the chimera as an immortal beast with a lion -like head, a 75 00:06:09,070 --> 00:06:12,490 tail, and a third goat head in the middle that snorted bright fire. 76 00:06:12,810 --> 00:06:17,509 The notion of chimeras and hybrids is one that has been part of the human 77 00:06:17,510 --> 00:06:21,330 for millennia. I mean, when you think about things such as the minotaur, 78 00:06:21,530 --> 00:06:22,670 pegasus, 79 00:06:23,470 --> 00:06:29,489 Anubis, this is something that either we have imagined or have been created at 80 00:06:29,490 --> 00:06:30,540 one time. 81 00:06:33,890 --> 00:06:39,430 But did mythic monsters merely spring from the imagination of our ancestors? 82 00:06:39,950 --> 00:06:42,950 Or might they have actually existed? 83 00:06:45,870 --> 00:06:50,949 Ancient alien theorists believe in their existence and that evidence can be 84 00:06:50,950 --> 00:06:53,230 found in the relics of the past. 85 00:06:55,650 --> 00:07:01,829 To suggest that all of these creatures were nothing else but fantasy, in my 86 00:07:01,830 --> 00:07:07,489 opinion, doesn't really hold water because our ancestors weren't stupid. 87 00:07:07,490 --> 00:07:09,790 depicted what they saw. 88 00:07:12,610 --> 00:07:19,130 We find these mixed... hybrid beings all throughout Egypt as sphinxes, 89 00:07:19,350 --> 00:07:26,050 as griffins, as bizarre creatures that, according to the ancient Egyptian texts, 90 00:07:26,290 --> 00:07:28,350 they did exist. 91 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:32,510 They were not a fantasy of our ancestors' imagination. 92 00:07:33,850 --> 00:07:39,989 Just imagine there is a mother spaceship traveling in the universe for centuries 93 00:07:39,990 --> 00:07:41,040 and centuries. 94 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:47,559 Then they find a solar system with the planet with the possibility of life like 95 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:53,759 the earth And they observe on the Nile a crocodile a living creature 96 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:59,460 which obviously is resistant to the heat They observe a lion 97 00:08:00,190 --> 00:08:06,889 with his power, his muscles. And now they start to think we could use a 98 00:08:06,890 --> 00:08:13,489 of this creature on another planet. And now, by genetical design, they start 99 00:08:13,490 --> 00:08:16,250 to create mixed creatures. 100 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:20,650 Some of these mixed creatures did exist in the past. 101 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:26,389 The griffon was a mythological creature that had the body of a lion with the 102 00:08:26,390 --> 00:08:27,850 head and wings of an eagle. 103 00:08:29,770 --> 00:08:34,349 Well, now the lion is the king of beasts, the eagle is the king of birds, 104 00:08:34,350 --> 00:08:36,610 griffon was the king of all creatures. 105 00:08:37,450 --> 00:08:43,668 The creature is somehow two creatures put together in a way that defies normal 106 00:08:43,669 --> 00:08:45,650 sense, defies normal explanation. 107 00:08:46,050 --> 00:08:48,400 So the question then is, how does that happen? 108 00:08:48,670 --> 00:08:54,489 By the mid -19th century, scientists began to look at fossil records around 109 00:08:54,490 --> 00:08:57,950 planet to study how organisms changed over time. 110 00:09:00,970 --> 00:09:06,289 Naturalist Charles Darwin theorized that all life forms share a common origin 111 00:09:06,290 --> 00:09:11,530 and have evolved over the centuries through a process called natural 112 00:09:14,610 --> 00:09:19,489 Might the hybrid monsters of ancient religion and myth really have been the 113 00:09:19,490 --> 00:09:20,730 result of evolution? 114 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:28,189 Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is a mechanism by which life 115 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:30,130 forms can change from one into another. 116 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:36,729 It relies on the principle that organisms that have certain traits, 117 00:09:36,730 --> 00:09:41,669 mutations, may be advantageous in the struggle for existence and the struggle 118 00:09:41,670 --> 00:09:42,720 for reproduction. 119 00:09:42,721 --> 00:09:48,429 And those traits are the ones that will be perpetuated over time, over many, 120 00:09:48,430 --> 00:09:49,480 many generations. 121 00:09:50,510 --> 00:09:55,809 Certain different species can breed if they are genetically close, like the 122 00:09:55,810 --> 00:10:01,430 donkey and the horse, like the wolf and the dog. 123 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:08,670 However, cats and dogs will not mate because, first of all, they're not... 124 00:10:08,990 --> 00:10:13,489 They don't have the biochemical signatures to mate with each other. And 125 00:10:13,490 --> 00:10:18,829 their genes are so different that the chromosomes just won't line up properly 126 00:10:18,830 --> 00:10:20,390 reproduce. It's impossible. 127 00:10:23,110 --> 00:10:29,169 But if Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection cannot explain the 128 00:10:29,170 --> 00:10:35,310 origins of ancient beasts and monsters, then where might they have come from? 129 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:43,699 Perhaps the answer cannot be found on Earth, but in a place much farther 130 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:44,750 away. 131 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,460 Southern Pakistan. 132 00:10:57,100 --> 00:11:02,400 In the middle of the Indus River Valley lie the ruins of Mohenjo -daro. 133 00:11:05,420 --> 00:11:11,059 Ancient city, whose name means mound of the dead, was one of the largest urban 134 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:14,300 settlements in the world in 2600 BC. 135 00:11:15,020 --> 00:11:21,859 The ancient city of Mohenjo -daro had what appeared to be streets 136 00:11:21,860 --> 00:11:25,420 that were made up parallel and perpendicular to each other like a 137 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:31,839 The homes actually had their own toilets and they had a very sophisticated sewer 138 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,800 system. So it looks like a very advanced city. 139 00:11:36,910 --> 00:11:42,349 Ancient astronaut theorists have long thought this site was also the epicenter 140 00:11:42,350 --> 00:11:47,210 of a nuclear explosion that occurred more than 4 ,000 years ago. 141 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:54,369 Skeletons were found in dead positions as though there was an instantaneous 142 00:11:54,370 --> 00:11:59,509 death. And some of those skeletons, as measured by Soviet scientists, had 50 143 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:01,750 times the normal radioactivity. 144 00:12:03,090 --> 00:12:04,630 They found pottery. 145 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,499 that had been fused. Then walls were heated to such an extent they became 146 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:15,019 vitrified or glass -like, suggesting some sort of ancient nuclear weapon 147 00:12:15,020 --> 00:12:16,070 involved. 148 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:23,979 According to the Mahabharata, the ancient holy text of the Hindus, white 149 00:12:23,980 --> 00:12:28,940 smoke rose in infinite brilliance and reduced the city to ashes. 150 00:12:29,980 --> 00:12:32,080 Horses were burned by the thousands. 151 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,320 and corpses were vaporized by intense heat. 152 00:12:36,780 --> 00:12:43,739 And afterwards, a big silence came over the entire land, and people started to 153 00:12:43,740 --> 00:12:48,500 have boils on their skin. Their hair started to fall out, and their nails. 154 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:55,499 There's only one thing that causes this, and that is radiation poisoning. It's 155 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:56,700 radiation fallout. 156 00:12:59,220 --> 00:13:04,539 So the question then becomes, When events happen in a place where there is 157 00:13:04,540 --> 00:13:09,439 extreme radiation, what impact does that have on human life or on other life 158 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:10,490 present there? 159 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:15,099 Could it explain, for example, why creatures were born with more than one 160 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:19,360 more than one leg, which then somehow became deified? Because even to this 161 00:13:19,380 --> 00:13:24,259 we know that in civilizations where anomalous human beings are born, somehow 162 00:13:24,260 --> 00:13:27,320 touch of God seems to be part of this creation. 163 00:13:30,570 --> 00:13:36,669 According to the ancient Hindu texts, after the carnage at Mohenjo -daro, a 164 00:13:36,670 --> 00:13:39,330 fearsome flying monster appeared in the sky. 165 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:41,630 It was called Garuda. 166 00:13:43,110 --> 00:13:48,109 In the Mahabharata, the Garuda is a massive bird -like creature. It's a red 167 00:13:48,110 --> 00:13:52,370 face, red wings, talon. It's so huge it would block out the sun. 168 00:13:52,590 --> 00:13:56,489 There are stories that it would let a certain god, Vishnu, ride on him on 169 00:13:56,490 --> 00:13:57,540 occasion. 170 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,199 Each and every time he would show up descending from the sky, he would create 171 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:04,250 hurricane winds. 172 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:10,619 And upon his descent, the earth would shake, dust would flap in the air, and 173 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:13,510 everyone in the vicinity would be absolutely terrified. 174 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,300 Now, here we have a carving of Garuda. 175 00:14:19,850 --> 00:14:24,090 And if we look at the top, yes, they look like feathers, but at the same 176 00:14:24,130 --> 00:14:27,650 they could be interpreted as big, gigantic flame. 177 00:14:29,390 --> 00:14:36,190 According to Hindu mythology, the root is born out of this cosmic event, 178 00:14:36,330 --> 00:14:40,870 this war and destruction that happens at the end of every age. 179 00:14:42,070 --> 00:14:44,190 Could it have been somehow connected? 180 00:14:44,780 --> 00:14:50,260 to exposure or to radiation, being born within a zone of high radiation. 181 00:14:51,060 --> 00:14:55,520 We cannot know the answer, but we do know that within India and within 182 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,020 there are known zones of higher radiation than there are normal. 183 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:06,719 The logic dictates that somehow genetic abominations will have been born within 184 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:07,770 those places. 185 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:16,439 If Mohenjo -daro was in fact the site of an ancient nuclear attack, could it be 186 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:22,099 possible that Garuda was a mutant beast created as a byproduct of intense 187 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:23,400 radioactivity? 188 00:15:23,401 --> 00:15:29,279 We tend to have a science fiction view of what mutation is. We think of 189 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:34,099 mutations being caused by radiation and they cause outlandish features and 190 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:38,660 gigantic sized insects and so forth. But in fact, mutations happen all the time. 191 00:15:39,950 --> 00:15:46,249 There's no recorded evidence of any radiation causing a mutation which 192 00:15:46,250 --> 00:15:48,230 some species into a different species. 193 00:15:48,990 --> 00:15:51,550 Most of the radiation mutations are lethal. 194 00:15:53,670 --> 00:16:00,209 But if, as modern scientists believe, Garuda was not likely the result of 195 00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:04,690 genetic mutation, then what could explain its existence? 196 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:16,319 To the east of India, near the village of Wushang, in the Sichuan province of 197 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:22,300 China, similar tales of flying beasts have also been found in ancient texts. 198 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:32,219 In the 4th century, historian Zhang Ku reported the discovery of what were 199 00:16:32,220 --> 00:16:34,000 then called dragon bones. 200 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,480 A question... 201 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,559 occurs as to whether dragons might actually have been actual dinosaurs that 202 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:42,610 wings. 203 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,240 I should point out that the wings would have been lost to the fossil record. 204 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,259 We're just recently talking about dinosaurs having feathers and having 205 00:16:52,260 --> 00:16:57,179 into birds. Well, it's possible that some dinosaurs actually did have wings 206 00:16:57,180 --> 00:16:58,680 could be described as dragons. 207 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,459 But while most mainstream scientists believe, the remains found were most 208 00:17:04,460 --> 00:17:10,159 dinosaur fossils, like those of the flying pterosaur, ancient astronaut 209 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:14,319 theorists have another, more provocative explanation. 210 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:20,200 Now, a creature which somehow is able to spit fire obviously is not... 211 00:17:20,410 --> 00:17:22,490 any place in the animal kingdom of today. 212 00:17:22,810 --> 00:17:27,249 So what we have here is either an invention which did indeed spit fire, in 213 00:17:27,250 --> 00:17:31,509 case we're not confronting a creature here, but somehow a creation, something 214 00:17:31,510 --> 00:17:34,989 which was either engineered by mankind or which was engineered by 215 00:17:34,990 --> 00:17:36,040 extraterrestrials. 216 00:17:37,250 --> 00:17:43,089 While accounts of strange creatures, commonly referred to as cryptids, are 217 00:17:43,090 --> 00:17:48,730 scientifically validated, is it possible that some of them truly exist? 218 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:54,400 And if so, might these beings have an otherworldly connection? 219 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:01,099 Perhaps further evidence can be found by exploring accounts of an aquatic beast 220 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:06,340 said to reside in the deep water of Loch Ness. 221 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:15,840 We have so many stories that describe cryptids inhabiting bodies of water, 222 00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:17,640 whether oceans, lakes. 223 00:18:17,641 --> 00:18:18,979 even rivers. 224 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:23,620 Right. We have stories of the Kraken and the Hydra and the Leviathan. 225 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:28,559 And in modern times, we have stories of the Loch Ness Monster, this long -necked 226 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,419 creature that hundreds of people have claimed to have seen and even 227 00:18:32,420 --> 00:18:37,239 photographed. Yeah, and there really is no better hiding place than deep 228 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,720 underwater. And we keep making these new discoveries of species in our oceans, 229 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:44,840 so who knows what else might be lurking down there. 230 00:18:49,130 --> 00:18:55,949 In March 2010, a panel of 41 international experts concluded that the 231 00:18:55,950 --> 00:19:02,029 impact of an asteroid that smashed into Earth at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65 232 00:19:02,030 --> 00:19:08,409 million years ago probably triggered the global climate change that resulted in 233 00:19:08,410 --> 00:19:11,070 the mass extinction of the Earth's dinosaurs. 234 00:19:11,970 --> 00:19:17,670 But is there also evidence that some dinosaur species survived? 235 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:22,260 And if so, might they also have evolved? 236 00:19:23,380 --> 00:19:27,519 Paleontologists tell us that, oh, these things have been extinct for 65 million 237 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:33,860 years, yet they still crop up. And they appear to be prehistoric animals, 238 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,819 dinosaurs literally, that have survived right down to today. Much like the 239 00:19:38,820 --> 00:19:44,619 coelacanth and alligators and sharks and turtles also have survived from those 240 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:46,540 same prehistoric times. 241 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:53,139 I believe that ancient prehistoric monsters are still living in remote 242 00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:57,640 the world, either in oceans and lakes or jungle areas today. 243 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,219 In the highlands of Scotland, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster has long been 244 00:20:07,220 --> 00:20:09,380 part of Celtic and Norse folklore. 245 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,320 Recorded accounts of sightings can be traced to the year 565. 246 00:20:16,270 --> 00:20:22,309 to the Irish monk, St. Columba, a powerful leader who founded monasteries 247 00:20:22,310 --> 00:20:23,750 both Ireland and Scotland. 248 00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:29,909 During his travels, Columba is said to have encountered locals burying a man 249 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:33,090 near the shores of the now fabled Loch Ness. 250 00:20:33,091 --> 00:20:40,289 They explained to Father Columba that the man who had died had been swimming 251 00:20:40,290 --> 00:20:44,309 the lake and was attacked by the water beast. Upon hearing this, Father Columba 252 00:20:44,310 --> 00:20:48,449 sent his own follower into the lake. When the beast came after this man, 253 00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:52,490 Columba made the sign of a cross and commanded the beast not to harm the man. 254 00:20:52,690 --> 00:20:56,210 The beast fled and was never seen harming another man again. 255 00:21:01,420 --> 00:21:06,659 A lot of people don't realise how big Loch Ness is. It's 23 miles long, a mile 256 00:21:06,660 --> 00:21:09,500 wide, and at its deepest point, about 800 feet. 257 00:21:09,820 --> 00:21:15,039 And the water is very, very dark and dense. And so it is the prime location 258 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,639 where, conceivably, if they didn't need to surface that often, they would sort 259 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:20,720 of bypass detection. 260 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:27,139 When we're confronted with the Loch Ness monster or any kind of anomalous 261 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:30,540 creature, the question really is, where does it come from? 262 00:21:31,690 --> 00:21:36,949 Is it a remnant of the dinosaur age, or is it something which is out of this 263 00:21:36,950 --> 00:21:39,510 world? We know that, for example, St. 264 00:21:39,511 --> 00:21:43,509 Columba definitely felt that the lake was sacred, and that there was something 265 00:21:43,510 --> 00:21:48,069 present there which had a religious connotation, which is why he went to 266 00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:49,370 place to begin with. 267 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:54,199 The intriguing thing is that there actually have been a significant number 268 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,299 UFO sightings over the Loch itself of strange, brightly lit objects hovering 269 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:03,219 over the water late at night, which clearly aren't helicopters or aircraft 270 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:05,240 meteorites or anything like that at all. 271 00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:09,060 So, in other words, Loch Ness is a weird and spooky place. 272 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,060 Could the so -called sea monsters of Loch Ness... 273 00:22:16,410 --> 00:22:19,170 possibly be descendants of ancient dinosaurs? 274 00:22:21,790 --> 00:22:28,609 Or might it be of another perhaps extraterrestrial origin? And if so, what 275 00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:33,569 might this say about other mythical sea beasts, like the seven -headed Sumerian 276 00:22:33,570 --> 00:22:36,970 sea monster, the Leviathan? The Leviathan is... 277 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:42,679 sometimes described as a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon, but it lurks. It 278 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,479 the gatekeeper to a portal to hell. And this gateway to hell is apparently deep 279 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,220 in the ocean, and the Leviathan is there forever lurking. 280 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:00,479 In Greek myths, the Hydra was described as an ancient sea serpent with many 281 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,519 heads. 282 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,480 It was said to be a descendant of the earth goddess, Gaia. 283 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,000 Hercules was sent to kill the Hydra. 284 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,219 But it was terribly difficult. He would slice off the head and two heads would 285 00:23:16,220 --> 00:23:18,580 form. He had to ask help from his nephew. 286 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,060 And his nephew had a brilliant idea. 287 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,290 Bring a torch. 288 00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:27,159 Fire might keep the heads from forming. So Hercules would bash off one of the 289 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,939 heads and his nephew would essentially cauterize the next so that another one 290 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:34,070 wouldn't form. And in this way, the Hydra was finally defeated. 291 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,759 In the case of a Hydra, we have something which has several heads, which 292 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,460 again a category of a creature which you would expect not to see. 293 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,539 So we are either confronted here with something which was genetically 294 00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:53,359 or which genetically went wrong, but clearly it was of such importance that 295 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:58,999 was adhered to in mythology, where it attained a status over the years, over 296 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,300 centuries, up until this moment in time. 297 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:11,279 According to Scandinavian legend, the Kraken are legendary sea monsters of 298 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:17,079 gargantuan size and are said to have roamed the seas off the coast of Norway 299 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,130 Iceland. 300 00:24:18,220 --> 00:24:22,900 This fearsome beast was infamous for its attacks on sailing ships. 301 00:24:23,850 --> 00:24:28,529 The danger was not only being attacked by the Kraken. They would come up to the 302 00:24:28,530 --> 00:24:32,529 surface and were enormous, the size of small islands, so you could have a 303 00:24:32,530 --> 00:24:37,089 collision with a Kraken that wasn't even out to attack you. Another great danger 304 00:24:37,090 --> 00:24:41,149 was that if it submerged suddenly, it formed such a great whirlpool that it 305 00:24:41,150 --> 00:24:42,490 could pull a ship under. 306 00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:50,090 Could such legendary sea monsters have actually existed? 307 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,760 Might they have escaped extinction in the safety of cold, deep waters? 308 00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:01,420 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 309 00:25:02,180 --> 00:25:08,179 And they suggest that in addition to oceans and lakes, there is evidence that 310 00:25:08,180 --> 00:25:13,900 many cryptids find refuge in the world's densest forests and highest mountains. 311 00:25:18,410 --> 00:25:23,329 You can't really talk about cryptids without mentioning Bigfoot. And I spent 312 00:25:23,330 --> 00:25:28,010 lot of time with Bigfoot hunters back in 2014 for my show In Search of Aliens. 313 00:25:28,110 --> 00:25:33,469 And I'll tell you, those people were convinced that they did encounter this 314 00:25:33,470 --> 00:25:36,809 creature. You know what's intriguing is that people that report witnessing 315 00:25:36,810 --> 00:25:42,390 Bigfoot often see him right after a UFO sighting or even at the exact same time. 316 00:25:42,590 --> 00:25:47,330 Right. And there are reports of Bigfoot disappearing in a sudden flash of light. 317 00:25:48,250 --> 00:25:52,100 So, you know, you have to wonder, is there an extraterrestrial connection? 318 00:25:58,370 --> 00:26:02,910 Mount Everest, November 9th, 1951. 319 00:26:04,630 --> 00:26:11,289 On the Menlung Glacier, at an altitude of 18 ,000 feet, British explorers 320 00:26:11,290 --> 00:26:16,529 Eric Shipton and Michael Ward came across a mile -long trail of unusual 321 00:26:16,530 --> 00:26:17,580 footprint. 322 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:26,819 Not expecting to find humans in this remote corner of the mountain, the 323 00:26:26,820 --> 00:26:29,800 examined the prints to determine what made them. 324 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,739 To their surprise, the footprints were in the shape of a large, human -like 325 00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:39,660 foot, one roughly twice the normal size. 326 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,479 The footprints suggest that, in fact, we're dealing with a large primate, one 327 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,499 that shares with us not only the habit of walking on two legs, but has some 328 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:55,380 superficial resemblance in its foot to our footprints, only much larger scale, 329 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,620 but differ from the other great apes in the lack of a divergent big toe, 330 00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:04,899 suggesting they're adapted to a wholly terrestrial environment, living on the 331 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:05,950 ground. 332 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:13,939 Photographs brought back from the expedition, launched a media sensation 333 00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:16,350 marked the beginning of the Bigfoot phenomena. 334 00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:22,200 But where do these giant footprints come from? 335 00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:24,200 Could they be a hoax? 336 00:27:24,740 --> 00:27:29,780 Or is there some mysterious unknown creature living in the remote 337 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,859 According to the histories and myths of the Himalayan region, one such ape -like 338 00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:44,759 creature, is the yeti more commonly known as the abominable snowman 339 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:51,659 the notorious himalayan yeti it's often described as being 340 00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:58,539 less than six feet in height much more aggressive when encountered all of these 341 00:27:58,540 --> 00:28:03,759 sightings really make for a creature which seems to be hiding from us with 342 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,619 creature which is hiding in plain sight and obviously the direct evidence comes 343 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:11,930 in the form of its footprint hence why it's quite often referred to as Bigfoot. 344 00:28:13,310 --> 00:28:15,950 People often ask, why don't we catch Bigfoot? 345 00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:19,720 Bigfoot could be some sort of supernatural creature, like a phantom. 346 00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:24,789 If Bigfoot is, however, a flesh -and -blood animal, then I would have to say 347 00:28:24,790 --> 00:28:27,320 their numbers would have to be few and far between. 348 00:28:29,290 --> 00:28:33,630 Since the Mount Everest discovery, there have been numerous sightings of large, 349 00:28:33,730 --> 00:28:35,730 ape -like creatures on every continent. 350 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,619 Many clustered in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States, including 351 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:43,920 Mount Shasta in Northern California. 352 00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:52,619 In 1979, I was up on the side of Mount Shasta on the foothills, trying to get 353 00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:53,820 the base of the mountain. 354 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,400 It was so dense and so tough. 355 00:28:56,740 --> 00:29:00,400 As we're standing there, we heard this crashing sound. 356 00:29:03,380 --> 00:29:04,940 Simultaneously, we smelled it. 357 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,960 Awful smell. I mean, it was foul. 358 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:11,819 But what was horrifying was whatever it was was coming at us through this 359 00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:12,870 impenetrable hedge. 360 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:19,099 And then we heard the most blood -curdling combination of an elephant 361 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:22,600 trumpeting, a lion roaring. 362 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,940 And it was so loud it bounced off the foothills two miles away. 363 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:37,039 That was probably the most terrified I've ever been in my life. And the next 364 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,830 thing I knew, we were headed down the mountain, almost getting off corners. 365 00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:49,379 I had heard from sheriffs about a rancher in Montana who had gone out to 366 00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:56,079 hunting, comes around a ridge, has an eight -foot -tall, reddish -brown, 367 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,660 -looking, long -haired creature standing right in front of him. 368 00:30:01,070 --> 00:30:04,310 picks up a .30 -06 and just fires. 369 00:30:06,330 --> 00:30:09,170 And the creature disappeared in a flash of light. 370 00:30:10,030 --> 00:30:16,750 If the Sasquatch, when a bullet is shot at it, disappears in a flash of light, 371 00:30:17,010 --> 00:30:20,410 then what in the world are we dealing with and what do they want? 372 00:30:22,690 --> 00:30:27,350 Why is the creature known as Bigfoot so difficult to capture or kill? 373 00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:28,920 Could it be? 374 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,619 as ancient astronaut theorists contend, that the creature's ghost -like 375 00:30:33,620 --> 00:30:37,280 abilities are the result of its otherworldly origin. 376 00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:45,019 Many Sasquatch researchers have noted that there's a connection between UFO 377 00:30:45,020 --> 00:30:47,920 activity and Bigfoot activity. 378 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:54,880 In fact, Bigfoot has been seen coming out of some UFO flying saucer craft. 379 00:30:56,490 --> 00:31:01,709 You have to wonder if somehow Bigfoot himself isn't some kind of 380 00:31:01,710 --> 00:31:02,760 extraterrestrial. 381 00:31:06,110 --> 00:31:10,849 Many of the North American Indian tribes have legends and mythological tales 382 00:31:10,850 --> 00:31:15,869 about these Sasquatch, the Anasazi, and various other Indian cultures. Look at 383 00:31:15,870 --> 00:31:21,389 these as a ghost creature, something that it's impossible to capture, close 384 00:31:21,390 --> 00:31:24,330 impossible to see, but they do know that they exist. 385 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,559 Although mainstream scientists consider the mysterious beast as no more than a 386 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,610 modern -day myth, 387 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:41,439 the number of Bigfoot sightings reported and photographed continues to steadily 388 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,490 increase. 389 00:31:44,420 --> 00:31:49,119 Specifically what you get is obviously big feet. You get a hairy creature. You 390 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:55,359 get a very specific smell, very harsh smell. And it's also said that the sound 391 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,640 which Bigfoot makes is kind of whistling. 392 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,459 So all of these components really make for a typical big switch fighting, and 393 00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:07,140 they are concise across the board. 394 00:32:08,020 --> 00:32:14,179 They seem to be very elusive, very retiring and retreating. Aggressive 395 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:15,780 are very rarely reported. 396 00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:21,399 The witness sees the creature and both go in opposite directions with no 397 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,660 interaction whatsoever. 398 00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:29,360 They range in size from perhaps 6 feet to 10 feet tall. 399 00:32:30,590 --> 00:32:35,010 Coloration, the most common description is of a dark brown fur. 400 00:32:35,270 --> 00:32:41,510 Their names vary from location, but you have, of course, in America, Bigfoot, 401 00:32:41,550 --> 00:32:44,440 otherwise known as Sasquatch, in the Pacific Northwest. 402 00:32:44,770 --> 00:32:47,210 Down in Florida, he's known as the Skunk Ape. 403 00:32:47,810 --> 00:32:50,410 Down in Australia, we have the Yowie. 404 00:32:53,290 --> 00:32:59,110 But if a Bigfoot creature really does exist, how has it remained so elusive? 405 00:33:02,860 --> 00:33:07,779 Researchers point out that accounts of giant, human -like beasts date back 406 00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:08,940 thousands of years. 407 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:14,479 Throughout ancient history, we have a number of legends about giants, about 408 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,920 men, about hairy beasts that live at the edge of civilization. 409 00:33:18,620 --> 00:33:21,120 These were humans, you know, people. 410 00:33:21,550 --> 00:33:25,429 who were, however, wild. They were hairy, they didn't wear clothes, they 411 00:33:25,430 --> 00:33:29,790 in the wood, and yet, in other ways, they had special powers. 412 00:33:31,690 --> 00:33:37,329 Is it possible that the supernatural creatures of Native American myths are, 413 00:33:37,330 --> 00:33:41,750 fact, descriptions of encounters with Bigfoot in the remote past? 414 00:33:42,350 --> 00:33:46,270 And are such creatures extraterrestrial in nature? 415 00:33:47,730 --> 00:33:53,139 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found in numerous ancient 416 00:33:53,140 --> 00:33:58,059 texts. In the book of Enoch, we have a category called the Nephilim or the 417 00:33:58,060 --> 00:34:04,419 Watchers, people who set to come down from heaven to earth and basically lived 418 00:34:04,420 --> 00:34:06,140 ever after amongst us. 419 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,480 Now, the Bible gives very little discussion as to really what they looked 420 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,420 except the fact that they were giants. 421 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,079 that they were big, and clearly they are deemed to be less worthy. And I think 422 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,919 this is of interest because when you start looking on the Bigfoot, you really 423 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,539 are confronted with a creature which even we today would classify more as an 424 00:34:26,540 --> 00:34:28,780 animal rather than as a human being. 425 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:35,678 What they witnessed had absolutely nothing to do with the divine or with 426 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:39,460 spiritual because those gods were not gods at all. 427 00:34:39,860 --> 00:34:41,960 They were misinterpreted. 428 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,940 flesh and blood, extraterrestrials. 429 00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:57,699 Might Bigfoot and the Himalayan Yeti really be creatures of alien origin, as 430 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:00,120 some ancient astronaut theorists contend? 431 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:07,299 Perhaps further evidence can be found in ancient tales of giant beings with 432 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:08,740 supernatural powers. 433 00:35:12,650 --> 00:35:16,969 You know, we often think of Bigfoot as a modern phenomenon, but there's actually 434 00:35:16,970 --> 00:35:21,809 reports of a Bigfoot -like creature in the Sumerian texts called the Epic of 435 00:35:21,810 --> 00:35:25,470 Gilgamesh, which is the oldest story ever written. 436 00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:30,389 Yeah, and that text goes back about 5 ,000 years ago, and in it there is a 437 00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:36,030 character named Enkidu, who is this wild, hairy beast of giant proportions. 438 00:35:36,031 --> 00:35:40,389 Yeah, it's really amazing to think that the creature we call Bigfoot has been 439 00:35:40,390 --> 00:35:43,369 hiding out in the wilderness since the time of the Sumerians. 440 00:35:43,370 --> 00:35:47,689 And you have to wonder, maybe the reason why it's so elusive is because it 441 00:35:47,690 --> 00:35:49,370 really is of otherworldly origin. 442 00:35:53,030 --> 00:35:54,080 Iraq. 443 00:35:55,630 --> 00:35:59,690 Site of ancient Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization. 444 00:36:02,530 --> 00:36:08,349 In the remains of the ancient city of Nineveh, Sumerian tablets dating back to 445 00:36:08,350 --> 00:36:13,270 as early as 1800 BC tell the story of King Gilgamesh. 446 00:36:16,690 --> 00:36:22,330 In this epic poem, Gilgamesh has a companion named Enkidu. 447 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,640 who is described as a hairy wild man living outside human society. 448 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:37,099 What is fascinating about the Epic of Gilgamesh is the fact that it relates to 449 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:43,579 us a story of Enkidu, who allegedly was a 450 00:36:43,580 --> 00:36:49,979 giant. It is possible that Enkidu, this wild, hairy 451 00:36:49,980 --> 00:36:56,130 beast, this giant, could have been of extraterrestrial origin, 452 00:36:56,330 --> 00:37:00,290 because that is what the ancient Sumerian texts are saying. 453 00:37:01,450 --> 00:37:08,429 Enkidu is described in the Epic of Gilgamesh as being a hairy, man 454 00:37:08,430 --> 00:37:11,890 -like monster with great strength. 455 00:37:12,690 --> 00:37:18,989 And when you read that story, you have to think that Enkidu is some kind of 456 00:37:18,990 --> 00:37:20,930 Bigfoot Sasquatch. 457 00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:28,959 This is the actual first -fashioned being by the gods, where they put their 458 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,739 genetic marker on it to make a new being that would be their slave, and they 459 00:37:33,740 --> 00:37:35,360 called this being the Enkidu. 460 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:42,799 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the Epic of 461 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:48,579 Gilgamesh actually describes a hominid creature created by extraterrestrial 462 00:37:48,580 --> 00:37:49,630 beings? 463 00:37:50,310 --> 00:37:55,949 Sumerian texts also describe ancient sky gods who came to Earth, called the 464 00:37:55,950 --> 00:37:57,000 Anunnaki. 465 00:37:58,370 --> 00:38:02,669 The ancient astronaut theory explains how these gods were probably 466 00:38:02,670 --> 00:38:09,189 extraterrestrials and put their genetic marker on this beast, but that beast 467 00:38:09,190 --> 00:38:13,309 would still exist and probably went on its own evolutionary path to be the 468 00:38:13,310 --> 00:38:15,600 Bigfoot and the Sasquatch that we have today. 469 00:38:16,150 --> 00:38:21,709 Do ancient accounts of such human -like beasts, provide further evidence that 470 00:38:21,710 --> 00:38:26,290 this otherworldly being may have really existed throughout our history. 471 00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:32,349 All cultures across the world, whether it's South America, Native American 472 00:38:32,350 --> 00:38:39,129 Indians, Europe, Russia, China, Tibet, Australia, all these nations have 473 00:38:39,130 --> 00:38:42,170 legends and tales of giant hairy wild men. 474 00:38:42,410 --> 00:38:45,450 Now, you know, people say, well, legends are just legends. 475 00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:50,499 But when you have cultures and countries separated by oceans, all talking about 476 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:55,459 very similar things. To me, this does suggest that in times past, these things 477 00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:58,660 were very, very prevalent and widespread across the world. 478 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,960 Legends of giants were common in the ancient world. 479 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:12,179 But similar stories emerged much later with Viking explorer Leif Erikson, who 480 00:39:12,180 --> 00:39:18,420 the 10th century AD wrote of horrible, ugly, hairy creatures with dark eyes. 481 00:39:18,421 --> 00:39:24,499 Leif Erikson was familiar with the different types of tribes and indigenous 482 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:29,799 people. Now, he spoke very specifically about these large, hairy creatures with 483 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,539 dark eyes and a very specific scent that they had that stood out from all the 484 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:38,450 other cultures that they interacted with on their travels into the New World. 485 00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:43,939 Could these have been the Sasquatch or Yeti that we speak of today? Very 486 00:39:43,940 --> 00:39:44,990 possibly. 487 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,379 But could all these similar accounts found throughout history and around the 488 00:39:51,380 --> 00:39:56,480 world be proof that Bigfoot is more than just myth? 489 00:39:59,420 --> 00:40:05,120 And is there any evidence that its origins lie not on Earth, but in the 490 00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:11,979 There are a number of cases on record where Bigfoot has been seen in the same 491 00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:15,780 precise time frame as UFO activity has been reported. 492 00:40:19,210 --> 00:40:24,429 For example, there was a big wave of UFO activity in Pennsylvania in the early 493 00:40:24,430 --> 00:40:29,769 1970s, and people were actually reporting these large, shadowy, 494 00:40:29,770 --> 00:40:31,880 -like creatures walking out of the woods. 495 00:40:34,590 --> 00:40:39,549 In Texas, there's a road known locally as Ghost Light Road, and it's called 496 00:40:39,550 --> 00:40:43,369 Ghost Light Road because people see these weird balls of light flying 497 00:40:43,370 --> 00:40:44,420 the woods. 498 00:40:46,170 --> 00:40:51,289 Coincidentally, people also have reported huge numbers of Bigfoot -type 499 00:40:51,290 --> 00:40:53,010 in these very same woods. 500 00:40:58,870 --> 00:41:00,490 Bigfoot are intelligent. 501 00:41:00,850 --> 00:41:04,609 They're very, very secretive and very, very hidden. They're able to skirt 502 00:41:04,610 --> 00:41:10,649 civilization. Perhaps they do have some sort of extra ability that allow them to 503 00:41:10,650 --> 00:41:13,430 do this. And if so, where do those abilities come from? 504 00:41:15,630 --> 00:41:20,589 We can't factor out that possibly Bigfoot are somehow an extraterrestrial 505 00:41:20,590 --> 00:41:21,640 species. 506 00:41:24,170 --> 00:41:31,049 Back in 1980, I had been investigating a lot of animal mutilations, and I get a 507 00:41:31,050 --> 00:41:36,969 letter from a man up in Snohomish, Washington, famous for the Sasquatch or 508 00:41:36,970 --> 00:41:43,690 Bigfoot sightings, who said, I was out at my father's place. 509 00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:50,250 And I hear a sound in the trees as if wind has come in. 510 00:41:50,530 --> 00:41:54,970 With the trees starting to move comes the silver disc. 511 00:41:56,570 --> 00:42:00,930 And then he sees a beam come down to the ground. 512 00:42:01,210 --> 00:42:08,030 In the beam is a tall, shaggy primate looking. He said it looked like a 513 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:12,850 Comes down to the bottom and the tall creature. 514 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,620 walks by as if he doesn't exist. 515 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:22,300 The next thing, animal mutilations are reported within a few days. 516 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:34,919 If Bigfoot creatures are aligned with extraterrestrial beings, as ancient 517 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:40,499 astronaut theorists believe, what might be the purpose of their presence on this 518 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:41,550 planet? 519 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,939 And might the worldwide sightings be part of a clandestine program that has 520 00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:48,960 going on for thousands of years? 521 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,099 Bigfoot could have been brought here, you know, to sort of, let's put it in 522 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:56,840 alongside the natives and see what happens. 523 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:02,459 There are stories of the star people coming down and releasing these Bigfoot 524 00:43:02,460 --> 00:43:04,320 -type creatures into the wilderness. 525 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,699 Of course, you have to wonder what prompted those stories. And that's why 526 00:43:08,700 --> 00:43:12,799 are researchers out there who do believe that Bigfoot is, if you like, an animal 527 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,020 born on another world. 528 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:21,659 One idea is that these are entities that have been dropped down here as part of 529 00:43:21,660 --> 00:43:22,710 a research project. 530 00:43:24,860 --> 00:43:30,839 Another idea is that the Bigfoot creatures perhaps were criminals or some 531 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,950 type of undesirable from an alien planet. 532 00:43:33,260 --> 00:43:34,980 that have been left on our world. 533 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:45,199 If extraterrestrials did create a race of Bigfoot creatures thousands of years 534 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:50,959 in the past, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, might they have had a 535 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,340 reason for keeping them hidden from us? 536 00:43:55,020 --> 00:44:00,739 Perhaps further clues can be uncovered by examining another elusive and even 537 00:44:00,740 --> 00:44:02,580 more sinister cryptid race. 538 00:44:03,260 --> 00:44:05,500 known as the reptilians. 539 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,319 One group of cryptids that are reported a lot in modern times are the 540 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,819 reptilians. But they're usually not thought of as monsters. They're thought 541 00:44:16,820 --> 00:44:20,010 as an intelligent alien species, like the Nordics or the Greys. 542 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,620 Dozens of alleged alien abductees have reported encountering reptilians. 543 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:29,739 Yeah, and in fact, in ancient India, in the Vedic texts, they describe beings 544 00:44:29,740 --> 00:44:34,379 like that called the Nagas. But that is not the only culture that talks about 545 00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:38,779 these creatures. Right, and there are some reports that the reptilians are 546 00:44:38,780 --> 00:44:40,820 to disguise themselves as humans. 547 00:44:41,180 --> 00:44:46,420 We talked about all this in a 2014 episode called The Reptilians. 548 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,080 Bishop Bill, South Carolina. 549 00:44:53,870 --> 00:44:55,270 June 1988, 550 00:44:55,990 --> 00:44:57,070 2 a .m. 551 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:04,509 17 -year -old Christopher Davis had pulled over on a deserted road near 552 00:45:04,510 --> 00:45:06,630 Ore Swamp to fix a flat tire. 553 00:45:07,170 --> 00:45:10,490 Just as he finished, he heard a noise behind him. 554 00:45:10,970 --> 00:45:16,569 He saw a strange 7 -foot -tall creature with red glowing eyes running towards 555 00:45:16,570 --> 00:45:17,620 him. 556 00:45:18,830 --> 00:45:22,970 Davis started to drive away, but the creature caught up with him. 557 00:45:23,450 --> 00:45:25,210 and jumped on the roof of the car. 558 00:45:27,290 --> 00:45:32,329 Swerving hard to throw the creature off, he saw it had three fingers and green 559 00:45:32,330 --> 00:45:33,380 skin. 560 00:45:35,130 --> 00:45:39,310 Finally, it fell from the car, and Davis sped away. 561 00:45:39,750 --> 00:45:43,550 And he ended up getting out of where he was, and he went immediately home. 562 00:45:44,750 --> 00:45:48,470 He was so upset that his parents called the police department. 563 00:45:48,471 --> 00:45:52,699 Sheriff Liston Truesdale actually went out there and interviewed him. He asked 564 00:45:52,700 --> 00:45:56,139 him to take a lie detector test, and this young boy passed the lie detector 565 00:45:56,140 --> 00:45:57,190 with flying colors. 566 00:45:57,940 --> 00:46:02,600 What Christopher Davis told the detective he saw was a lizard man. 567 00:46:03,780 --> 00:46:08,280 And what's interesting is that the police took the story very, very 568 00:46:09,620 --> 00:46:13,719 Although Christopher Davis' sighting of the lizard man was certainly the most 569 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,940 famous and infamous one, it's not the only one. 570 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:22,679 They tracked down a number of other witnesses who both previously and after 571 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:23,730 seen the lizard man. 572 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:33,839 In the spring of 1988, a crop duster named Frank Mitchell reported seeing 573 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:39,819 he said was a lizard man cross his grassy runway one morning as he was 574 00:46:39,820 --> 00:46:40,870 take off. 575 00:46:42,220 --> 00:46:45,120 And two years later, in 1990... 576 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:50,659 Bertha Blythers and her five children claimed they nearly hit a lizard -like 577 00:46:50,660 --> 00:46:52,880 while driving near the same swamp. 578 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:59,240 Could these incidents all be related? 579 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:04,999 Is it merely coincidence that three separate people on three separate 580 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,860 reported seeing a lizard man near the skateboard swamp? 581 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,000 Could there possibly be... 582 00:47:12,350 --> 00:47:16,489 another species of life down here, something we're not aware of, and 583 00:47:16,490 --> 00:47:17,750 interacting with people. 584 00:47:19,090 --> 00:47:24,409 Further sightings of a so -called lizard man have been reported not only in this 585 00:47:24,410 --> 00:47:29,150 area, but also in Tennessee, Illinois, and Austria. 586 00:47:30,670 --> 00:47:36,929 In fact, alleged encounters with these creatures have become so widespread, 587 00:47:36,930 --> 00:47:39,330 are now collectively known by one name. 588 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:41,920 The reptilians. 589 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:48,659 But could accounts of the reptilians be more than just the product of overactive 590 00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:49,710 imaginations? 591 00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:53,440 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 592 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:59,399 And as evidence, they point to the legends of serpent gods that can be 593 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,800 throughout the world. 594 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,260 In South America, Quetzalcoatl... 595 00:48:05,820 --> 00:48:08,800 Kukulkan, they're always referenced as serpent gods. 596 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:14,240 Even in Japan or ancient China, we have these dragon emperors and dragon gods. 597 00:48:14,620 --> 00:48:19,099 It's very possible that there was a time in the past that ancient man was 598 00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:24,200 interacting with what appear to be living serpent beings, a lost reptilian 599 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:30,060 We can find these stories of serpent gods all around the world. 600 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,899 I don't mean just, you know, particular geographic regions, but on every 601 00:48:34,900 --> 00:48:38,000 continent, on virtually every ancient culture. 602 00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:45,099 You have them in India, you have them in China, in Greece, in England, in 603 00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:50,959 South and North America, in Africa. I mean, it doesn't matter where you go in 604 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:57,959 the world. There are the direct references to these serpent -like beings 605 00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,010 descend from the sky. 606 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:06,700 To me, this is not a figment of the imagination and certainly not 607 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:16,279 In addition to myths and legends passed down through oral history, early written 608 00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:21,000 texts also speak of serpent beings that were once present on earth. 609 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,779 The Bible speaks of a reptilian race, the Seraphim. We read about them in the 610 00:49:26,780 --> 00:49:27,830 book of Isaiah. 611 00:49:27,831 --> 00:49:31,659 Some will interpret them as being the fiery ones, but the correct 612 00:49:31,660 --> 00:49:33,340 is reptilian. 613 00:49:35,980 --> 00:49:40,480 There's always been knowledge of the reptilians. 614 00:49:41,260 --> 00:49:44,720 Some are good, others bad. 615 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:53,179 Religious texts tell of reptilian beings whose existence is inexorably linked to 616 00:49:53,180 --> 00:49:55,360 that of the earth and humankind. 617 00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:02,019 So, for example, in the Bible, the book of Genesis has a story about a serpent 618 00:50:02,020 --> 00:50:07,839 who tempts. Eve, the first woman, by offering her the forbidden fruit from 619 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:08,819 tree of knowledge. 620 00:50:08,820 --> 00:50:14,719 Eve falls for the snake blandishments and she eats of that apple and forever 621 00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:19,359 changes human history, causing Adam and Eve to be expelled from the Garden of 622 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:25,439 Eden and causing the serpent too to be punished in that he is doomed to slither 623 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:30,060 upon the ground as a punishment for his disobeying God's will. 624 00:50:32,170 --> 00:50:37,869 It is understood in ancient legend that prior to God punishing the serpent, the 625 00:50:37,870 --> 00:50:43,669 serpent was completely humanoid in character. And that this serpent, this 626 00:50:43,670 --> 00:50:50,169 Nahash, was only one of a race of reptilian beings 627 00:50:50,170 --> 00:50:51,690 who served God. 628 00:50:52,730 --> 00:50:58,049 When you hear that story from a modern perspective, it sounds an awful lot like 629 00:50:58,050 --> 00:51:00,410 what people describe as the reptilians. 630 00:51:00,970 --> 00:51:06,690 lizard -like beings or beings with the faces or visage of a viper. 631 00:51:11,130 --> 00:51:16,849 But if the serpent in the Garden of Eden really was a reptilian alien, as 632 00:51:16,850 --> 00:51:22,249 ancient astronaut theorists suggest, could there be similar stories recorded 633 00:51:22,250 --> 00:51:24,890 the ancient texts of other cultures as well? 634 00:51:25,390 --> 00:51:28,050 In the Quran, there's a fascinating category. 635 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,520 of creatures known as the jinn. 636 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,020 The jinn are ancient. They were here before humans. 637 00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:39,260 They're a category unto themselves, not unlike angels. 638 00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:45,959 And at one point, Iblis, the leader of the jinn, offended God, crossed him, was 639 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:51,099 rebellious, and was cursed like the serpents in the Garden of Eden and 640 00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:54,780 earthbound, trapped on earth for eternity, and they are here with us. 641 00:51:54,781 --> 00:52:00,319 Throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East, there is a very strong belief 642 00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,260 linking snakes, 643 00:52:03,220 --> 00:52:10,159 skinks, lizards, and other reptiles to supernatural or magical creatures, and 644 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,100 some cases to the souls of ancestors. 645 00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:18,619 So it can be considered bad luck to kill one of these beings if you find it in 646 00:52:18,620 --> 00:52:23,479 the home, because it might be a djinn or another kind of supernatural creature 647 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:24,560 that is visiting you. 648 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:32,620 The Djinn, Kukulkan, the serpent in the Garden of Eden. 649 00:52:33,220 --> 00:52:38,359 Could all of these stories about otherworldly serpent beings able to 650 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,760 humanity be based on fact? 651 00:52:42,980 --> 00:52:48,559 And if they have been part of human history for thousands of years, where do 652 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:49,610 they come from? 653 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,840 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found. 654 00:52:55,370 --> 00:52:58,990 by looking back not thousands of years, but millions. 655 00:53:03,230 --> 00:53:06,050 Ottawa, Ontario, 1982. 656 00:53:08,190 --> 00:53:13,789 At the National Museum of Canada, paleontologist and curator of vertebrate 657 00:53:13,790 --> 00:53:19,829 fossils, Dale Russell, publishes a thought experiment based on the trend 658 00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:23,390 larger brain sizes and the upright posture of dinosaurs. 659 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:31,079 He proposes a theory about what one species of dinosaur would have evolved 660 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:35,840 if it had survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago. 661 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,619 What he did is take the dinosaur known as Truodon. They noticed the 662 00:53:41,620 --> 00:53:46,499 morphological changes in the skeletal structure of the dinosaur. And based on 663 00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:49,720 over time where it was going, they extrapolated it out further. 664 00:53:49,721 --> 00:53:54,719 Strangely enough, or wonderfully enough, they actually came up with a model that 665 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:59,939 resembled a humanoid reptilian being, which actually matched that of the 666 00:53:59,940 --> 00:54:03,260 that we were hearing now, as well as reports from ancient history. 667 00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:07,379 So for me, this was one of the most compelling pieces of information where 668 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:09,660 science actually says it is possible. 669 00:54:11,380 --> 00:54:15,339 The dinos hadn't died out. This would have become what he called the 670 00:54:15,340 --> 00:54:17,960 dinosauroid, an upright standing... 671 00:54:18,220 --> 00:54:22,919 semi -humanoid, semi -reptilian entity, what we might call a reptoid. He thought 672 00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,199 it might stand four to five feet high, weigh about 90 pounds, and have a fairly 673 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,250 advanced brain. 674 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,640 Now, did this entity ever come into existence? 675 00:54:32,820 --> 00:54:36,260 What if some of the dinosaurs didn't become extinct? 676 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:41,559 What if they managed to survive the global extinction or presumed extinction 677 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:46,919 million years ago and over time some of them developed through natural selection 678 00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:53,239 and they grew smaller, they became more intelligent, they became more adept and 679 00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:57,320 adaptive and took on a humanoid form. 680 00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:02,820 We necessarily shouldn't think that the reptilians are extraterrestrials. 681 00:55:03,310 --> 00:55:07,229 Perhaps in some strange way there are forefathers, albeit from millions and 682 00:55:07,230 --> 00:55:08,750 millions of years in the past. 683 00:55:10,630 --> 00:55:16,369 If the reptilians do exist, could they be the descendants of dinosaurs that 684 00:55:16,370 --> 00:55:18,690 walked the Earth millions of years ago? 685 00:55:22,050 --> 00:55:27,089 Our concept of dinosaurs is changing all the time, of course, and nowadays we're 686 00:55:27,090 --> 00:55:31,889 making so many new discoveries every year that we're reinterpreting them in 687 00:55:31,890 --> 00:55:32,940 ways. 688 00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:38,139 Certainly, if you look 20, 30 years back, there were so many things that 689 00:55:38,140 --> 00:55:41,640 been found and so many other things we know now. 690 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,199 Particularly, I think it's been very important and that nowadays is 691 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:51,639 very well accepted, the idea that dinosaurs are not extinct, that 692 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:56,200 essentially evolved into birds and that they're alive today. 693 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,000 And now that we know... 694 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,199 that not all the dinosaurs died out and as a matter of fact some survived to 695 00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:08,999 become birds warm -blooded birds mind you from a dinosaur which is considered 696 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:14,899 reptile and cold -blooded we're recognizing that even if these are birds 697 00:56:14,900 --> 00:56:19,119 didn't recognize them now as being part of the dinosaur family what could these 698 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:24,379 other pockets that have survived the devastation 65 million years ago could 699 00:56:24,380 --> 00:56:29,979 have evolved parallel to mankind and in hidden cavern systems, and could they be 700 00:56:29,980 --> 00:56:34,939 actually the beings that we think are extraterrestrial, but are actually our 701 00:56:34,940 --> 00:56:36,200 terrestrial neighbors? 702 00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:42,199 Paleontologists generally argue that the dinosaurs died out totally 65 million 703 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,479 years ago. I think it's certainly within the realm of feasibility that some 704 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:51,040 found an ecological niche to survive in, and may even exist today. 705 00:56:52,780 --> 00:56:58,099 And I point out that while we hear UFO abductees talking about little greys and 706 00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:03,279 tall humanoids, a minority of them do report encounters with what we would 707 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:09,980 reptoids. So it's possible that on some planet, if not Earth, somewhere else, 708 00:57:10,060 --> 00:57:12,120 they evolved from dinosaurs. 709 00:57:13,620 --> 00:57:19,539 To find another place in the universe that was so rich with resources and so 710 00:57:19,540 --> 00:57:25,049 capable of supporting life, was probably a very exciting discovery for 711 00:57:25,050 --> 00:57:28,590 extraterrestrial visitors to Earth in our prehistory. 712 00:57:29,150 --> 00:57:36,029 In their eyes, this could have been the place they could colonize or perhaps act 713 00:57:36,030 --> 00:57:40,749 as a working environment for experiments they were doing with new species they 714 00:57:40,750 --> 00:57:41,950 were trying to engineer. 715 00:57:44,310 --> 00:57:50,170 Maybe they manipulated dinosaur DNA to favor certain mutations. 716 00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:56,319 by playing with certain mutations in the genes of dinosaurs, highly advanced 717 00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:01,759 extraterrestrials, through genetic modification, may have been able to 718 00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:05,980 course of dinosaur evolution to favor the rise of mammals. 719 00:58:06,380 --> 00:58:12,579 Is it possible celestial travelers manipulated the DNA of reptiles and 720 00:58:12,580 --> 00:58:15,660 on Earth as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 721 00:58:16,980 --> 00:58:22,159 And could one of their experiments have resulted in a reptilian -human hybrid 722 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:23,210 species. 723 00:58:24,660 --> 00:58:29,620 It's very possible that the reptilian agenda extends well into our history. 724 00:58:29,820 --> 00:58:34,779 We really don't know the full record of dinosaurs on our planet, since dinosaurs 725 00:58:34,780 --> 00:58:36,340 were here for millions of years. 726 00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:42,439 Many of these references to a current reptilian race or an ancient serpent 727 00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:47,099 that was worshipped by various cultures could be an offshoot, a genetic 728 00:58:47,100 --> 00:58:50,460 variation of dinosaurs that naturally evolved here on Earth. 729 00:58:54,060 --> 00:58:59,339 Could Earth really be home to human -like reptiles that are an evolutionary 730 00:58:59,340 --> 00:59:01,020 offshoot of dinosaurs? 731 00:59:02,940 --> 00:59:09,049 Some researchers suggest there might be an even more profound explanation behind 732 00:59:09,050 --> 00:59:10,630 the so -called reptilians. 733 00:59:12,030 --> 00:59:18,029 One that may be revealed by exploring encounters with strange entities at a 734 00:59:18,030 --> 00:59:23,770 mysterious site in the American Southwest known as Skinwalker Ranch. 735 00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:32,019 If you're looking for evidence of cryptids, look no further than 736 00:59:32,020 --> 00:59:33,300 Ranch in Utah. 737 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,480 I mean, that place is famous for modern UFO activity. 738 00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:42,019 However, people have been reporting strange encounters with very bizarre 739 00:59:42,020 --> 00:59:43,740 creatures for decades. 740 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:48,639 Right. And our own Dr. Travis Taylor has been investigating the bizarre 741 00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,500 phenomenon there since 2019. 742 00:59:50,501 --> 00:59:54,599 And William, you had a chance to visit the ranch recently yourself. 743 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,300 I did. It is a powerfully strange place. 744 00:59:57,580 --> 01:00:01,559 And one of the theories about why there's so much anomalous activity there 745 01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:05,170 because it's thought to be the location of an interdimensional portal. 746 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,180 Uintah County, Utah. 747 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:17,759 Nestled in a deep valley, surrounded by some of the highest mountain peaks in 748 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:18,810 North America. 749 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:24,180 is an infamous 512 -acre patch of land known as Skinwalker Ranch. 750 01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:31,999 The native Utes warn of a dark presence that exists in this area, where strange 751 01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:38,240 sightings in the sky, encounters with terrifying creatures, animal 752 01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:43,160 and numerous other paranormal activities have been reported for centuries. 753 01:00:44,340 --> 01:00:48,200 Skinwalker Ranch has become this nexus of activity. 754 01:00:48,830 --> 01:00:51,060 where people are reporting strange things. 755 01:00:52,270 --> 01:00:58,629 It's in an area in Utah that's very much like a desert terrain, and what's there 756 01:00:58,630 --> 01:01:01,230 now is high desert prairie kind of area. 757 01:01:02,690 --> 01:01:07,210 Now, what it actually is and what's going on there is a whole other 758 01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:13,759 It's a very unique place in the world where the phenomenon expresses itself in 759 01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:18,819 dramatic form. It's also the most scientifically studied UFO or paranormal 760 01:01:18,820 --> 01:01:20,480 hotspot in history. 761 01:01:23,100 --> 01:01:27,799 Native American legends say that there has been an otherworldly presence at 762 01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:32,480 Skinwalker Ranch for as long as humans have existed in the area, which, 763 01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:36,520 according to archaeological evidence, is at least 10 ,000 years. 764 01:01:37,740 --> 01:01:43,319 And the very first European settlers to pass through this land in the late 1700s 765 01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:48,560 had their own bizarre experiences, which they recorded in their journals. 766 01:01:49,100 --> 01:01:54,879 The first Europeans to cross the Uinta Basin, the Franciscan monks, reported 767 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,519 seeing things over their campfires at night, really weird objects that we 768 01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:02,519 call UFOs. The Native Americans, the indigenous tribes have been there, have 769 01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:04,320 these experiences for generations. 770 01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:09,139 It has... For as long as humans have lived there, it's been the site of 771 01:02:09,140 --> 01:02:12,960 paranormal activity, strange things in the sky, UFOs. 772 01:02:13,860 --> 01:02:18,779 There are so many stories about Skinwalker Ranch that range from cattle 773 01:02:18,780 --> 01:02:20,300 mutilations going on. 774 01:02:20,580 --> 01:02:24,120 There are stories that if you dig on the property, you'll get sick. 775 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:29,820 Even strange stories of cloaked beasts running out of the woods. 776 01:02:31,470 --> 01:02:37,509 You've seen UFOs. They have seen different creatures. They have seen 777 01:02:37,510 --> 01:02:42,729 things happening up in the sky. So you have all these different phenomena that 778 01:02:42,730 --> 01:02:47,629 happen on that ranch. So some have referred to it as a veritable Disneyland 779 01:02:47,630 --> 01:02:48,680 the paranormal. 780 01:02:49,830 --> 01:02:54,849 The most notorious of the paranormal phenomena associated with Skinwalker 781 01:02:54,850 --> 01:02:57,790 is the creature for which the property is named. 782 01:02:58,570 --> 01:03:03,329 the association of the skinwalker with this mysterious plot of land can be 783 01:03:03,330 --> 01:03:05,730 traced back to the mid -19th century. 784 01:03:09,550 --> 01:03:16,529 In January of 1864, land disputes between Navajos, Utes, and the 785 01:03:16,530 --> 01:03:21,470 United States military in Utah and Arizona reached a fateful tipping point. 786 01:03:22,410 --> 01:03:27,970 After decades of conflict, the military removed the Navajo people from the area. 787 01:03:28,570 --> 01:03:32,870 forcing them to make what became known as the Long Walk to New Mexico. 788 01:03:33,950 --> 01:03:38,090 The Navajos blamed the Utes for helping the military. 789 01:03:39,290 --> 01:03:45,229 And so they cursed the land that the Utes lived on up there. And it must have 790 01:03:45,230 --> 01:03:49,509 been a pretty strong curse, because even today there are really interesting 791 01:03:49,510 --> 01:03:51,010 things that happen up there. 792 01:03:52,390 --> 01:03:56,889 Cursing the land, the Navajo witch doctors attempted to conjure an entity 793 01:03:56,890 --> 01:03:57,940 called... 794 01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:06,959 The skinwalkers, they're sort of typically six to seven feet tall, very 795 01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,010 dangerous. 796 01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:13,900 It's described as being wolf -like, but walking on two limbs. 797 01:04:14,180 --> 01:04:18,560 So inevitably, it sort of provokes imagery of a werewolf. 798 01:04:19,940 --> 01:04:23,880 The subject of skinwalkers is as serious as a heart attack. 799 01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:26,520 This is not something to trifle with. 800 01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,900 Even talking about them puts me in some danger. 801 01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,380 The skinwalker is somebody who is evil. 802 01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:43,199 They want to control people, communities, regions, and have that 803 01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:46,180 people. And they do this by fear. 804 01:04:47,020 --> 01:04:49,700 The youths to this day are very respectful. 805 01:04:49,900 --> 01:04:54,219 They're very mindful. Matter of fact, they stand at arm's length from the 806 01:04:54,220 --> 01:04:55,270 skinwalker ranch. 807 01:04:55,610 --> 01:05:00,389 They firmly believe that this ground is cursed and that not only are you in a 808 01:05:00,390 --> 01:05:04,929 basin, but this concentration of this phenomenon, this host, is on the 809 01:05:04,930 --> 01:05:05,980 Skinwalker Ranch. 810 01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:12,769 Could a monster known as the Skinwalker really stalk the grounds of Skinwalker 811 01:05:12,770 --> 01:05:13,820 Ranch? 812 01:05:14,230 --> 01:05:18,330 And if so, was it conjured up by Navajo witch doctors? 813 01:05:19,130 --> 01:05:24,650 Or is it connected to the paranormal and perhaps otherworldly activity? 814 01:05:25,530 --> 01:05:28,240 that has been reported on the property for centuries. 815 01:05:30,390 --> 01:05:34,929 Investigative journalist George Knapp was one of the first reporters to expose 816 01:05:34,930 --> 01:05:40,509 the strange stories at Skinwalker Ranch back in the mid -1990s when he conducted 817 01:05:40,510 --> 01:05:45,049 extensive interviews with the Shermans, the family of ranchers that owned the 818 01:05:45,050 --> 01:05:46,100 property. 819 01:05:47,010 --> 01:05:51,309 This guy shows up one day while the ranching family is still there. He's 820 01:05:51,310 --> 01:05:53,750 like Grizzly Adams, big burly guy with a beard. 821 01:05:53,751 --> 01:05:59,039 He said he'd been drawn to the property, and he talks to the rancher and says, I 822 01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:02,319 just need to meditate for a couple of minutes. I'm drawn here. I need to do 823 01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,160 this. Can you let me on the property? 824 01:06:06,140 --> 01:06:10,719 The rancher kind of bemusedly says, okay, come on in. He lets the guy in. 825 01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:14,419 rancher and his son escort him to the middle homestead, and the rancher and 826 01:06:14,420 --> 01:06:17,730 son are watching the guy and just kind of chuckling to themselves. 827 01:06:17,731 --> 01:06:21,379 They hear this thing in the brush, and then they look over, and there's 828 01:06:21,380 --> 01:06:22,430 something moving. 829 01:06:24,460 --> 01:06:27,520 And it comes out of the brush, right up to where this guy is. 830 01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:32,999 And it looked like the creature in Predator, with the camouflage, the 831 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,360 camouflage, the invisibility technology. 832 01:06:35,740 --> 01:06:38,380 This thing comes right up to this guy and roars. 833 01:06:41,300 --> 01:06:45,640 Scares the hell out of this guy. Opens his eyes, flies back, lands on his back. 834 01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:48,090 The rancher and his son go rushing over to him. 835 01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:50,760 He's petrified. Grabbing him won't let go. 836 01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:55,410 They escort him off the property and he swears that the devil, it's Satan, 837 01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,650 you're going to burn for this kind of stuff. 838 01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:03,859 Is it possible that the terrifying creature witnessed by both the ranchers 839 01:07:03,860 --> 01:07:07,920 their mysterious visitor was what the Navajo call a skinwalker? 840 01:07:09,260 --> 01:07:11,360 Was it a being from another world? 841 01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:14,640 Even another dimension? 842 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:21,019 Such stories have inspired countless curiosity seekers to make pilgrimages to 843 01:07:21,020 --> 01:07:22,070 the ranch. 844 01:07:23,220 --> 01:07:27,419 But for those who have lived and worked there, like current ranch superintendent 845 01:07:27,420 --> 01:07:32,840 Tom Winterton, Skinwalker Ranch is not a place to be taken lightly. 846 01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:38,879 I had been warned not to dig on this ranch, which I thought was absolutely 847 01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:39,930 ridiculous. 848 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,480 It's a ranch, for crying out loud. 849 01:07:42,740 --> 01:07:45,520 That's what you do. You dig fence holes. You dig ditches. 850 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:52,079 And so I paid zero attention to it. And whether it's related or not, I ended up 851 01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:59,019 getting the severe head injury that causes my head to swell up. I had fluid 852 01:07:59,020 --> 01:08:03,379 that separated the fatty tissue from my skull. And to this day, my doctors still 853 01:08:03,380 --> 01:08:06,460 haven't come up with an explanation of what happened. 854 01:08:07,180 --> 01:08:11,760 What they did say was that what happened to me just was not medically possible. 855 01:08:11,761 --> 01:08:15,579 But I'd be lying if I didn't say that there are things that have happened here 856 01:08:15,580 --> 01:08:17,020 that have shaken me to my core. 857 01:08:18,819 --> 01:08:23,540 When we patrol the perimeter of the place, both on foot and with our 858 01:08:23,859 --> 01:08:26,220 we are heavily armed. 859 01:08:27,620 --> 01:08:33,799 And that's not necessarily because we're looking to hurt anybody. It's more 860 01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:38,020 of... We don't know what we're dealing with, and it's a dangerous place. 861 01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,080 Morning. Hey, Caleb. How you doing, man? 862 01:08:40,300 --> 01:08:44,560 Between the natural things that are here and then also the unknown. 863 01:08:45,979 --> 01:08:51,659 What could possibly explain so many incredible encounters being reported on 864 01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:58,499 single 512 -acre stretch of land and by multiple groups of people over a 865 01:08:58,500 --> 01:09:00,240 span of hundreds of years? 866 01:09:01,500 --> 01:09:06,210 To the many accounts of UFOs, point to an extraterrestrial connection. 867 01:09:07,649 --> 01:09:12,869 Perhaps further clues can be found by more closely examining the stories of 868 01:09:12,870 --> 01:09:18,549 Skinwalker and its connection to a supernatural creature thought to have 869 01:09:18,550 --> 01:09:20,770 vanished from the Earth long ago. 870 01:09:26,510 --> 01:09:28,189 Fort Duchesne, Utah. 871 01:09:30,370 --> 01:09:31,420 1968. 872 01:09:33,129 --> 01:09:38,568 17 -year -old Larry Sespooch is with his friends, driving along an infamous 873 01:09:38,569 --> 01:09:40,830 stretch of road near Skinwalker Ranch. 874 01:09:42,529 --> 01:09:47,829 As they approach a spot known as Dead Man's Curve, named for the high number 875 01:09:47,830 --> 01:09:51,930 car crashes that have occurred there, they spot a bright object in the sky. 876 01:09:53,410 --> 01:09:58,850 We were driving around with a bunch of us, and we come around Dead Man's Curve, 877 01:10:01,230 --> 01:10:06,350 The driver looked in his rearview mirror and said, oh, what the heck is that? 878 01:10:07,250 --> 01:10:13,969 It was a fireball, and that fireball was coming up behind us. And so we told 879 01:10:13,970 --> 01:10:18,570 him to go faster, and this thing just flew over our head. 880 01:10:20,490 --> 01:10:26,149 When I told my mother, she had talked about a similar incident when she was 881 01:10:26,150 --> 01:10:27,200 younger. 882 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:31,020 and other tribal members have seen that fireball. 883 01:10:32,460 --> 01:10:37,419 Other reports indicate that the local residents have been regularly witnessing 884 01:10:37,420 --> 01:10:42,720 similar strange events, both in and around Skinwalker Ranch, for decades. 885 01:10:44,060 --> 01:10:50,260 The various accounts describe flashing lights, floating orbs, and UFOs. 886 01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:57,259 In this entire area, and there have been hundreds of reports of UFOs, you know, 887 01:10:57,260 --> 01:10:59,080 multiple people seeing the same one. 888 01:10:59,380 --> 01:11:03,639 This particular part of the area has kind of gotten the nickname of UFO Alley 889 01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:07,520 because of the number of those sightings that have been reported. 890 01:11:08,780 --> 01:11:14,020 We did see tears. We had openings in the sky, voices, craft coming through, 891 01:11:14,140 --> 01:11:17,820 orbs. Is that E .T.? Hard to say. 892 01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:20,880 Reality of the events is absolute. 893 01:11:22,470 --> 01:11:27,929 I have personally watched as portions of the mesa as large as 500 to 600 feet 894 01:11:27,930 --> 01:11:29,670 appear to glow. 895 01:11:30,530 --> 01:11:35,149 We may be looking at a terrestrial light source, or we may be looking at 896 01:11:35,150 --> 01:11:36,850 something far more interesting. 897 01:11:38,550 --> 01:11:44,449 In the 1990s, the owners of Skinwalker Ranch also witnessed strange orbs in the 898 01:11:44,450 --> 01:11:45,500 sky. 899 01:11:46,330 --> 01:11:51,490 When they relayed their experiences to George Knapp, he found that the UFOs, 900 01:11:51,710 --> 01:11:55,390 were tied to the other paranormal activity taking place on the property. 901 01:11:58,050 --> 01:12:02,490 They start hearing heavy footsteps outside their bedroom window at night. 902 01:12:02,890 --> 01:12:06,620 Then they start seeing these dark humanoid shapes in the windows at night. 903 01:12:07,750 --> 01:12:10,580 Then they start hearing the footsteps inside the house. 904 01:12:13,230 --> 01:12:16,900 Then they wake up at night and there's the thing at the bottom of their bed. 905 01:12:18,251 --> 01:12:25,959 They would go out at night, they walk around, they start hearing disembodied 906 01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:31,499 voices in the sky above their heads, speaking some strange language, almost 907 01:12:31,500 --> 01:12:35,079 mocking them. They start seeing little orbs floating around, seemingly 908 01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,030 intelligently controlled, floating around in the trees. 909 01:12:38,900 --> 01:12:44,419 Is it possible that reports of floating orbs, poltergeist activity, and the 910 01:12:44,420 --> 01:12:47,820 creature known as the skinwalker are not separate phenomena? 911 01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:55,820 Might they be better understood by considering them all together? 912 01:12:57,460 --> 01:13:02,679 Another story told to George Knapp by the Shermans may reveal yet another 913 01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,780 to the Skinwalker Ranch mystery. 914 01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:11,219 The first day they're on the property, they see an animal of some sort over on 915 01:13:11,220 --> 01:13:13,690 the brush line, and it starts coming toward them. 916 01:13:14,580 --> 01:13:16,400 And then you realize, that's a wolf. 917 01:13:16,401 --> 01:13:17,679 It's huge. 918 01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,330 The back of the wolf came up to the middle of his chest. 919 01:13:21,740 --> 01:13:24,510 They petted this thing. It was a real physical creature. 920 01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:29,740 Now, the calves are in the corral. They're all backed up against one side, 921 01:13:29,900 --> 01:13:34,599 scared of this wolf, except one calf makes the mistake of sticking his snout 922 01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:36,200 between the bars of the corral. 923 01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:43,939 The wolf sees it, leaps in the air like 20 feet, chomps down on the head of this 924 01:13:43,940 --> 01:13:46,290 calf, and is trying to drag it out of the corral. 925 01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:49,320 His son grabs a .357 out of the truck. 926 01:13:49,900 --> 01:13:52,540 And brings it over. Dad pops a shot into this wolf. 927 01:13:53,860 --> 01:13:57,600 No yelp, no blood, no anything. Shoots it a second and third time. 928 01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:03,059 Now this is a fourth shot they put into this wolf. And then a fifth shot goes 929 01:14:03,060 --> 01:14:07,599 right into the chest. A chunk of flesh and fur comes popping off the side and 930 01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:08,639 falls on the ground. 931 01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,759 And this wolf just casually turns around and starts walking away. He's had 932 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:13,810 enough. 933 01:14:13,980 --> 01:14:16,300 Five shots in this thing and didn't kill it. 934 01:14:16,810 --> 01:14:21,689 The Shermans say they pursued the wolf into the brush, following its tracks on 935 01:14:21,690 --> 01:14:22,740 the wet ground. 936 01:14:22,910 --> 01:14:26,590 They get to a clearing beyond the brush, a muddy area. 937 01:14:27,050 --> 01:14:30,670 The tracks go all the way out into the middle of the muddy field and stop. 938 01:14:32,270 --> 01:14:33,320 It's gone. 939 01:14:33,650 --> 01:14:35,820 It's as if it had been sucked up into the sky. 940 01:14:37,570 --> 01:14:42,069 Later, when the Shermans told this story to a group of scientists that had come 941 01:14:42,070 --> 01:14:45,610 to investigate the ranch, they were shown a series of photographs. 942 01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:49,470 and asked if any of them resembled the animal they encountered. 943 01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:55,239 They have a lineup of different types of wolves to ask each of the family 944 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:59,059 members, show us what this looked like. And the one that they all identified is 945 01:14:59,060 --> 01:15:00,380 what's known as a dire wolf. 946 01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:03,950 Dire wolf, of course, has been extinct for 10 ,000 years. 947 01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:10,039 If a dire wolf is, in fact, what the Shermans witnessed, could it present 948 01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:13,700 another clue as to what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch? 949 01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,920 Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is simple. 950 01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:25,039 According to them, the ranch most likely contained some kind of interdimensional 951 01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:30,739 portal, one that would allow not only travel from one dimension to another, 952 01:15:30,740 --> 01:15:33,220 to various points in time and space. 953 01:15:33,740 --> 01:15:39,239 And they also suggest that this otherworldly connection could account 954 01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:43,880 various cryptid life forms, such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot. 955 01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:51,039 reptilian beings, and other elusive entities that regularly appear and 956 01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:52,960 from our reality. 957 01:15:56,660 --> 01:16:01,979 A lot of times when we imagine alien life forms, we think of them as looking 958 01:16:01,980 --> 01:16:07,940 lot like us. I mean, not exactly like us, but as an upright humanoid form. 959 01:16:08,380 --> 01:16:12,739 Then again, they may look nothing like us. Their planet's atmosphere could be 960 01:16:12,740 --> 01:16:16,320 different than ours, the geology, the gravitational forces. 961 01:16:16,321 --> 01:16:20,279 Yeah, and if you take into consideration all the cryptids that have been 962 01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:25,599 reported since ancient times, it's quite possible that some of them were of 963 01:16:25,600 --> 01:16:26,920 extraterrestrial origin. 964 01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:31,620 In fact, we covered this in a 2015 episode called Alien Evolution. 965 01:16:34,940 --> 01:16:36,780 West Virginia, September. 966 01:16:39,870 --> 01:16:46,009 1952. Multiple witnesses report seeing a strange ball of light shooting across 967 01:16:46,010 --> 01:16:50,070 the night sky and landing in a nearby wooded area. 968 01:16:55,110 --> 01:17:01,869 Those who investigate the crash site describe seeing a 10 -foot tall bird 969 01:17:01,870 --> 01:17:04,210 creature with glowing red eyes. 970 01:17:04,780 --> 01:17:10,019 It was this huge humanoid type figure anywhere from about 10 feet to 12 feet 971 01:17:10,020 --> 01:17:11,070 high. 972 01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:18,259 It had these fiery blazing eyes and was emitting these sparks and flashes 973 01:17:18,260 --> 01:17:19,310 of light. 974 01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:26,419 It was described as having a cowl -like head not unlike an ace of spades card in 975 01:17:26,420 --> 01:17:27,470 a deck of cards. 976 01:17:28,580 --> 01:17:35,359 The entire group was unanimous in their belief that the object or the creature 977 01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:41,379 was utterly real, that it was connected with the overflight of the strange 978 01:17:41,380 --> 01:17:46,920 light, and it was also connected with this red pulsating light that they saw. 979 01:17:50,740 --> 01:17:57,060 Curiously, Native American mythology also describes a similar half -bird, 980 01:17:57,300 --> 01:18:01,040 half -human creature that shared the planet with mankind. 981 01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:03,260 thousands of years ago. 982 01:18:05,180 --> 01:18:11,459 The Apache had a demonic figure in their mythology, the giant owl man, who could 983 01:18:11,460 --> 01:18:13,300 petrify you through its gaze. 984 01:18:13,860 --> 01:18:19,819 It was truly a terrifying presence that could come at any time, particularly in 985 01:18:19,820 --> 01:18:21,820 the night sky when owls fly. 986 01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,450 This is a pretty common theme in a lot of Native American mythology. 987 01:18:26,940 --> 01:18:33,209 There was a time in the past when the Earth was overrun by pretty scary 988 01:18:33,210 --> 01:18:34,310 of various forms. 989 01:18:35,770 --> 01:18:39,320 And the big owl, or the Owlman, is one of these sort of representatives. 990 01:18:45,090 --> 01:18:50,969 Might the stories of Owlman and other strange creatures describe beings that 991 01:18:50,970 --> 01:18:53,070 Native Americans actually encountered? 992 01:18:54,730 --> 01:18:57,410 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 993 01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:03,179 and point to similar creation myths from across the world of gods that resemble 994 01:19:03,180 --> 01:19:09,120 not just anthropomorphic birds, but also reptiles, 995 01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:13,800 insects, and sea creatures. 996 01:19:19,340 --> 01:19:25,199 All around the world, we have figurines and carvings and paintings, rock 997 01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:31,309 paintings. of these very bizarre creatures that can be found not only on 998 01:19:31,310 --> 01:19:36,430 continent, but once you compare them, they're also incredibly similar. 999 01:19:37,170 --> 01:19:43,349 So one has to wonder if these figurines and these statues of these different 1000 01:19:43,350 --> 01:19:49,229 depictions of what they refer to as the gods, if they're actually rooted in some 1001 01:19:49,230 --> 01:19:50,330 type of reality. 1002 01:19:52,910 --> 01:19:58,169 Did our ancestors really encounter these intelligent life forms thousands of 1003 01:19:58,170 --> 01:19:59,220 years ago? 1004 01:19:59,290 --> 01:20:02,670 And if so, just what were they? 1005 01:20:08,230 --> 01:20:12,850 Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2013. 1006 01:20:15,170 --> 01:20:18,890 Analyzing data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. 1007 01:20:19,470 --> 01:20:25,549 astronomers at the Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that 6 1008 01:20:25,550 --> 01:20:30,050 % of all red dwarf stars have habitable Earth -like planets. 1009 01:20:31,850 --> 01:20:37,409 Because red dwarf stars burn much longer than our sun, the discovery raises the 1010 01:20:37,410 --> 01:20:42,529 possibility that life on these planets could be much older and much different 1011 01:20:42,530 --> 01:20:43,750 than life on Earth. 1012 01:20:44,910 --> 01:20:49,109 The environment plays a really pivotal role in sort of the direction that 1013 01:20:49,110 --> 01:20:50,160 organisms evolve. 1014 01:20:50,161 --> 01:20:53,809 And so you can imagine that evolution played out on a different planet. 1015 01:20:53,810 --> 01:20:57,709 It might follow the same types of rules but have completely different end 1016 01:20:57,710 --> 01:21:00,230 products. So it would look completely different. 1017 01:21:00,850 --> 01:21:05,050 Let's go to any other star with planets around it. 1018 01:21:05,051 --> 01:21:08,889 Intelligence, it's going to happen because of crises. It's going to happen 1019 01:21:08,890 --> 01:21:11,930 because you can only survive with that intelligence. 1020 01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:17,099 But it could be from a reptile that we are a reptile equivalent. It could be 1021 01:21:17,100 --> 01:21:18,150 from a quadruped. 1022 01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,739 It might be from a mollusk -like creature. The causes probably could be 1023 01:21:22,740 --> 01:21:25,780 same. The end result, anatomically, totally different. 1024 01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:33,739 There could be a myriad of different forms that intelligent life takes 1025 01:21:33,740 --> 01:21:34,880 throughout the cosmos. 1026 01:21:35,020 --> 01:21:39,079 When we look to the earthly record of otherworldly beings that have visited 1027 01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:40,130 Earth, 1028 01:21:41,610 --> 01:21:43,830 They exhibit different characteristics. 1029 01:21:44,350 --> 01:21:48,970 They have bird heads, dog heads, reptilian -type forms. 1030 01:21:48,971 --> 01:21:53,409 It's possible that these are the forms that these beings take on their home 1031 01:21:53,410 --> 01:21:57,349 planet, and they might even coexist with beings that are even different from 1032 01:21:57,350 --> 01:21:58,400 them. 1033 01:22:00,150 --> 01:22:06,070 I think it's unscientific to flat -out say that any and all cryptids are... 1034 01:22:06,620 --> 01:22:11,619 non -existent because they said the same thing about the coelacanth extinct does 1035 01:22:11,620 --> 01:22:15,979 not exist and then they found the coelacanth again Just because you take a 1036 01:22:15,980 --> 01:22:20,639 out of the ocean with water and there is no shark in the spoon doesn't mean 1037 01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:22,320 there is no sharks in the water. 1038 01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:27,899 Well, right. And the oceans are so vast and deep. I mean, that is really the 1039 01:22:27,900 --> 01:22:30,340 unexplored territory on our planet. 1040 01:22:30,580 --> 01:22:35,159 Absolutely. And, you know, we're only just beginning to discover, you know, 1041 01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:39,879 the creatures and cryptids all over the world. Well, and then you multiply that 1042 01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:43,790 by the possibility that there's beings perhaps that are beyond the physical. 1043 01:22:43,791 --> 01:22:47,759 Life beings, for example, are beings living in a different density or a 1044 01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:50,329 different frequency that are still intelligent life. 1045 01:22:50,330 --> 01:22:54,880 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 102825

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