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NARRATOR: Sacred places tied to otherworldly visitation.

Mysterious doorways said to access other realms.

And infamous locations marked by strange disappearances.

For nearly two decades, Ancient Aliens has traveled

the globe exploring towering megalithic structures,

mysterious artifacts,

and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest

for evidence that might reveal the truth

of our extraterrestrial origins.

There are some people who believe that there are

portals or stargates hidden away somewhere in remote places.

NARRATOR: Now, we take a look back

through the Ancient Aliens archives,

to the show's very origins,

to examine the evidence that we are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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All over the world there are places that people

consider sacred, and it's fascinating to think

that the reason these places are sacred

is because of some otherworldly encounter.

Oh, absolutely.

I've always said that the reason why these sacred places exist

is because something significant happened there.

In my opinion, it was an extraterrestrial visitation

and then the place became sacred after the visitation.

Yeah, and many of these sacred places

have an energetic quality to them.

They're considered to be gateways

to places not of this Earth.

You have to wonder if there's really

something bigger going on here.

We covered this in a 2011 episode called

"Aliens and Sacred Places."

NARRATOR: It is perhaps the most sacred site

in all of humanity.

The place where three of the world's

most prominent religions--

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--

all converge.

It is the heart and soul of what is called the Holy Land.

Temple Mount, Old City, Jerusalem.

And this 35-acre plateau, surrounded by ancient walls,

has been considered sacred for thousands of years.

The Temple Mount is sacred to Jews and Christians

because it's at this spot

that Abraham bound Isaac

and prepared to sacrifice him in Genesis 22.

For Muslims, this site is sacred because it's from the rock--

where the Dome of the Rock today stands--

that Mohammed ascended into Heaven.

PHILIP COPPENS: What we have on the Temple Mount

really is a mixture of three religions,

and each one of them has got an aspect to it

which makes the place even more important.

But in origin, really what we have

is a place where God touched down on planet Earth.

And ever after, this is the place where communications

with the afterlife or the divine realm is to be made.

NARRATOR: Each year, millions of pilgrims come to Temple Mount

to worship God and celebrate holy occasions.

But why?

In the 10th century BC, King David and the Israelites

chose this rocky high ground to build a great temple.

MICHAEL COOGAN: According to the Bible, King David,

who had just made Jerusalem his capital,

wanted to build in it a house for the Lord.

But for reasons that aren't entirely clear,

he didn't do so, and it was his son Solomon

who built the first Jewish temple.

NARRATOR: Completed in 957 BC by David's son, King Solomon,

the temple was said to house the Ark of the Covenant.

It was very highly advanced architecturally,

catching certain kinds of light,

being very precise in its astronomical alignment.

And the question for modern scholars and architects is

what was the level of technology

available to King Solomon that allowed him to design

and lay out the temple according to these principles?

MARVIN MEYER: There's a text, as a matter of fact,

called the Testament of Solomon,

that suggests that Solomon didn't only use

mortal builders and architects, but he brought in demons.

He forced them to do some of the labor

because demons are especially strong.

NARRATOR: After King Solomon's Temple was destroyed

in the 6th century BC by the Babylonians,

a second temple was built on the same site

in the 1st century BC by King Herod the Great.

According to the New Testament,

it was this second temple that played

a significant role in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Because it was here that Jesus chased out the moneylenders,

an event which led to his crucifixion and death

at the hands of both the Jews and the Romans.

And it was also nearby, on the Mount of Olives,

that Jesus reportedly rose from the dead

and ascended bodily into heaven.

REV. BARRY H. DOWNING: When we get to the story of Jesus,

we find that his disciples believe that he ascended

into Heaven and then some day he would return.

So this idea of the extraterrestrial reality

of which Jesus is part, is something that

the biblical tradition says,

"Yes, you can, you can buy that."

NARRATOR: But might Jesus, like King Solomon before him,

really have been connected to an otherworldly reality,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: The topic of ascension

when dealing with, um, extraterrestrial contacts

is a common one because we have Jesus ascending

in the New Testament.

These stories give credence to the fact that

there is some type of technology that is lifting up human beings

into a craft, into a-a waiting ship.

NARRATOR: Nearly six centuries after the second Hebrew temple

was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD,

Persian invaders built yet another holy shrine on the site:

the Dome of the Rock,

known to Muslims as "the Noble Sanctuary."

COOGAN: This magnificent 7th-century

architectural monument of Islam

was built over a huge outcrop of bedrock,

which, according to Muslim tradition,

was the site from which Mohammed

had been taken up into Heaven by God.

In fact, there is a hole in the rock

showing the exact route that Mohammed took

when he ascended into Heaven, uh,

to Allah, to have a vision of the divine,

and to return back once again to this very site.

So, for Muslims, the Dome of the Rock

is a very significant and a very sacred place.

NARRATOR: According to the Islamic Quran,

the rock from which Muhammad ascended

is called the Foundation Stone.

This rock is believed by religious scholars

to have also been the very stone beneath the Ark of the Covenant

and the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple.

COPPENS: This is where God came down to Earth

and where certain people actually are said

to have made contact with God.

So, this is a piece of rock which is of such importance

because of the fact that something of the divine

manifested itself there.

That stone signifies the coming together

of the kingdoms of Heaven and Earth.

The problem is we've forgotten that whoever visited us

in the past wasn't God, but it was extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists believe that Temple Mount

was one of the earliest intergalactic gateways.

But could space travelers really have landed here

tens of thousands of years ago?

It seems that the reverence for the site of Jerusalem may stem

from it early on being, uh, some kind of a spaceport

for extraterrestrials.

And that's why King Solomon built his temple there,

and then later, uh, the Muslims built the Dome of the Rock.

NARRATOR: Might Temple Mount really be the place where ancient aliens

first made contact with early humans?

And if so, could certain sites on Earth

function as gateways to other worlds?

Perhaps further evidence can be found 500 miles away

from Jerusalem at a place long known as the portal to hell.

Everyone knows Temple Mount,

but there are so many other sacred sites around the world

where people reported strange encounters

with celestial beings.

Yeah, one of them's in Turkey, they call it Pluto's Gate.

It's this cave entrance that the ancients called

the gateway to hell because they said they watched

people walk into it and disappear into another realm.

Yeah, like an extraterrestrial doorway.

And there are places like this, too, in Peru,

-and in Mexico, even in the American Southwest. -Right.

NARRATOR: Pamukkale, Turkey.

Here, 200 miles south of Istanbul,

lie the ruins of Hierapolis,

an ancient city that served as a sacred site

to the Phrygians in the 3rd century BC.

In March 2013, Italian archaeologists announced

that they had unearthed

something the ancient Greeks described as a gateway to hell.

The ancients in Greece and Roman civilizations had a fascination

with the underworld, the realm of Hades and Pluto.

There were many stories of travelers who were able

to transit into these unseen realms.

To go to the land of the dead and survive

was a great miracle showing great heroism.

NARRATOR: According to the accounts of Greek geographer Strabo,

this cave, now partially bricked up,

was known as a ploutonion or Pluto's Gate,

for the god of the underworld.

It was considered so sacred

that only cult priests were allowed near it.

These priests worshipped

a powerful goddess known as Cybele.

Cybele started out as a goddess that was important

in Asia Minor and then spread west into Greece and Rome.

She is known as the guardian of the gateways.

You would have to get Cybele's permission

to move through time and space.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Iconographically, she is often portrayed

as standing next to the gate to the other world.

I think the realm of the gods has always

fascinated humans because it is imagined

as being very different from our own realm.

And so, humans have always sought a way to enter the realm

of the gods, to have those ecstatic experiences

that happen when you are in communication with a deity.

NARRATOR: Legends from around the world describe sacred entryways

similar to Pluto's Gate that led to the land of the gods.

In many cases, these gates not only provided instant passage

outside the confines of Earth, but even beyond space and time.

And according to some myths,

they were traversed by otherworldly beings.

Throughout the ancient world, we're presented with stories

of advanced beings who came from the stars, star beings.

In many of these instances,

they are described as passing through portals or star doors.

The term we use today is stargate.

A stargate is a place that allows transportation

to another planet or somewhere out in the stars.

There have been a number of locations

across the planet where it's been felt

that the ancients built stargates.

NARRATOR: Are such passages, or stargates,

just the product of our ancestors' imaginations?

Or might this kind of interstellar travel

have actually existed in the ancient world?

If so, who or what created such advanced technology

thousands of years ago?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues can be found

in the descriptions of the elaborate rituals

that took place at the Turkish ploutonion.

YOUNG: It was a great spectacle, when the priests of Cybele

would do their ceremonial sacrifice.

They'd lead a bull into the cave,

and the bull would die of the gases in this cave,

and the people were gathered, watching this whole thing.

And everyone would notice the priests were alive,

showing they had some great power

or direct connection to the divine source

to be able to survive the rituals themselves.

NARRATOR: Excavations have revealed that, in fact,

there are vapors rising from the ground at the site

that contain poisonous levels of carbon dioxide and other gases

capable of killing anyone or anything that breathes them in.

ANDREW COLLINS: The ancient story said that animals

that came anywhere near this would drop down dead.

The same still occurs today.

Any birds going near it fall down dead.

NARRATOR: If the toxins within the cave

were potent enough to kill a bull,

how did the priests survive this ritual?

Is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe,

that the priests had received secret knowledge,

and perhaps even access to a stargate,

from an otherworldly being known as Cybele?

In Pamukkale, Turkey, this does appear to be

a preserved record of a possible

stargate technology that is being used.

As these special priests were able to go into this area,

they may have been traveling through some sort of

energetic portal that gave them the ability

to reach some other location that was completely different

from where people normally were going

if they walked into this area.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if there was something secret

in this cave that they were hiding,

perhaps some kind of

interdimensional stargate technology.

And that they would put on this show to basically frighten them,

make sure that they realize this cave was a forbidden place

to go into, and, in fact, was some kind of repository

for alien technology and possibly stargates.

NARRATOR: Could the ploutonion really be an extraterrestrial stargate,

one that was protected by priests

in order to dissuade others from approaching it?

And if so, why?

Perhaps the answer can be found at another ancient site

more than 7,000 miles away.

Machu Picchu, Peru.

Approximately 50 miles northwest of Cusco,

nestled high up in the Andes Mountains,

these ancient Inca ruins--

believed to have been a palace complex--

date back to the 15th century.

Located in the southwestern corner

of what archaeologists contend was the site's main plaza

is the Temple of Three Windows,

a stone hall 35 feet long and 14 feet wide

containing three trapezoidal windows along one wall.

Textbooks say that

the windows of the Temple of the Three Windows

are aligned perfectly to let June solstice sunrise

come right in at a perfect angle,

that the entire building is oriented to receive

the first light as it comes over the mountains

through those three windows at summer solstice.

NARRATOR: Some scholars believe, the three windows symbolize

the Incan creation myth.

According to legend,

the children of the Sun god Viracocha

stepped into the world

through three mysterious openings in a mountain...

...and gave rise to the Incan civilization.

In the creation story of the Incan people,

the children of the Sun, the Ayar brothers, came down

through three portals, three windows

to begin the Incan people.

The temple at Machu Picchu with three windows

is said to represent this miraculous event.

COLLINS: These brothers were the offspring of the god Viracocha

that seemed to have brought the first wisdom and knowledge,

um, and rudiments of civilization

to the peoples of South America.

And by simply looking through these three windows,

the mind could reach out and connect once more

with these gods and communicate with them.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the Incan creation story

may be more than simply mythology.

They believe it could be a description of stargate travel

taking place thousands of years ago.

When you read this story, you're instantly thinking

that this is some kind of a stargate they're describing,

and that these children of the Sun,

these advanced solar beings,

possessed some kind of stargate technology

that enabled them to open these gateways.

And maybe the Inca story is a recollection

of their utilization of this stargate technology.

WILCOCK: The Ayar brothers could be very real beings who came in,

visited the Incans, gave them the basis of their science,

their technology, their spoken language,

all of the aspects of civilization,

and used a stargate portal technology

on the side of a mountain to get there.

NARRATOR: Was the great Inca Empire actually created

by extraterrestrials that traveled to Earth

through a so-called stargate?

And might that explain why ancient sites,

like the ploutonion, were so highly guarded?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by investigating yet another sacred gateway,

one reported to still connect to other realms, even today.

NARRATOR: Princeton, New Jersey.

July 1935.

While collaborating at the Institute for Advanced Study,

physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen

publish a groundbreaking idea.

They come to the conclusion that the theory of relativity

actually allows for shortcuts across the space-time continuum.

These paths, called Einstein-Rosen bridges,

more commonly known as wormholes,

connect two distant locations,

making travel to the most remote stars in the universe

a possibility.

What you're talking about is a structure in space

that involves very, very strong bending of space

and the connecting of two different parts of space.

So, if you think of a piece of paper curved around and then

punched out and connected from one place to the other,

that's your basic wormhole.

NICK REDFERN: If we look at the distance from our planet

to the nearest star system, it's 4.2 light-years away.

That means you would have to travel for 4.2 years

at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles

a second, just to get there.

The only way, really, to do that would be

by something like a wormhole.

NARRATOR: While the idea of wormhole travel

offers incredible possibilities,

realizing this technology poses immense challenges.

Scientists estimate that creating

a traversable wormhole would require

a far greater amount of energy

than anything we can produce today.

But there is a theory that so-called "exotic matter"

may provide the key to unlocking wormhole travel.

DENNIN: What you need is matter with negative mass.

And we're only aware of matter with positive mass,

so we call this exotic matter.

Not that it couldn't exist, we're just not aware of it yet.

But the bottom line is it takes huge amounts

of energy to create these.

Imagine taking all of Jupiter now,

its entire mass and converting that to energy.

You know, you're talking millions and millions

of times more energy than you have in a nuclear bomb.

NARRATOR: Although most scientists say that we're a long way

from developing the technology to create wormholes--

if such a thing is even possible at all--

there are those who believe

these celestial shortcuts already exist.

In 1991, scientists at Vanderbilt University proposed

that the chaos of the big bang not only created the universe,

but also may have caused the formation

of mini wormholes billions of years ago.

During the big bang, space-time itself

was being mashed together, expanded, contracted.

And one theory says that, if you had something

like the size of the Himalayan mountains,

the space-time around it could've been so badly stressed

that it would mash this matter inside its own event horizon.

In the same way, you can imagine space-time

being mashed together and forming a mini wormhole.

NARRATOR: The possible result, according to researchers,

would be a wormhole about the size of an atom.

Once located, these mini wormholes

could possibly be stretched to create a traversable wormhole.

DENNIN: One of the things we know is that, since the big bang,

the universe has been expanding,

which means space-time overall has been stretching.

So, if when the universe is quite small

you make a teeny little wormhole,

as that whole structure stretches,

that whole wormhole stretches and grows big as well.

So, you could end up with a very large wormhole now.

NARRATOR: If wormholes were created in the earliest stages

of the universe, is it possible,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that celestial beings have already used them

to travel to Earth in the distant past?

It's very possible that wormholes are stargates opening,

and beings coming through them

are a way to explain how man was interacting with ancient gods.

NARRATOR: Chihuahua, Mexico.

Just 125 miles from the Texas border.

This vast archaeological site, situated near the base

of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range,

dates back to 1200 AD.

Known as both Paquimé and Casas Grandes,

only part of the extensive remains--

estimated to contain more than 2,000 clay rooms--

have been excavated,

revealing a well-planned city containing plazas, stores,

workshops, and multi-story residential buildings

with an advanced water and sewage system.

BARNHART: Paquimé or Casas Grandes

is larger than any other site

for hundreds of miles in any direction.

And there's an interesting melding of different cultures.

In some aspects, it's a very Mesoamerican or Aztec city.

In other regards, it's a very Pueblo

or Southwest culture city.

NARRATOR: At its height, Paquimé is believed to have had

a population of more than 10,000.

But this thriving pre-Columbian civilization

declined and mysteriously disappeared by the 16th century.

While no one knows exactly

who the inhabitants of Paquimé were,

it is believed that their descendants

may be the indigenous people of the region,

known as the Tarahumara.

The Tarahumara now live high up in the canyons

of the Sierra Madre,

and much of what is known

about the ancient city of Paquimé comes from

the stories passed down to them from their ancestors.

According to their legends, Paquimé is a sacred place

where star people have appeared for centuries.

Described as light, tall and blond,

the Tarahumara say these mysterious beings

emerged from doorways in the ruins.

HAWKES: The Tarahumara truly believe that the star people

exist still today in the Chihuahua Desert.

They believe that these tall, blond people

represent maybe the heirs of the star people

that first brought them to this world.

They believe that there is a portal

and that these star people use this portal today

to transport to various places on the Earth

and off-world as well.

NARRATOR: Throughout the architecture of Paquimé

are hundreds of uniquely T-shaped openings,

openings that closely resemble an ancient doorway

more than 4,000 miles away in southern Peru.

Here, perched high in the Andes Mountains,

this shallow T-shaped opening

called the doorway of Amaru Muru,

is surrounded by many legends describing it

as an active portal

that transports beings both into and out of this world.

This could be a coincidence if it weren't for the fact

that at Paquimé, there are strange stories

of the appearance of these Caucasian-like beings.

And there are very similar stories to do with

this gate of the gods in Peru.

It's possible that this does represent a stargate location

in which extraterrestrial humans are seen as coming and going

during certain opportune points in the year

when the stargate becomes active.

NARRATOR: Considering the similar doorways and legends

of otherworldly beings at Paquimé and Amaru Muru,

is it possible that extraterrestrials

once accessed these ancient sites through stargates?

Some ancient astronaut theorists say that not only

were stargates present at places like Paquimé, and Amaru Muru,

but traces of similar portals can also be found

at mysteriously abandoned ruins in the American Southwest.

You know, what's remarkable about these T-shaped doorways

is, you not only find them in Mexico and Peru, but also

at a ancient Native American site

called Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.

Right. And I always wonder

why did our ancestors create these T-shaped doors?

And so, the question is, could it be because

they wanted to mimic something they saw?

Maybe they saw a portal,

or they saw the door to a spaceship.

Yeah, and when you're talking about Chaco Canyon,

it gets even more mysterious

because people say that the occupants there

suddenly disappeared.

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NARRATOR: Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. 2014.

In the desolate high desert of the American Southwest,

mysterious ruins stand as a testament

to a great civilization that once flourished here.

The ancient Pueblo peoples, or Anasazi.

With a population estimated at well over 100,000,

the Anasazi settled nearly 50,000 square miles

of the Four Corners region of Arizona,

Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico.

The highly sophisticated culture

built hundreds of miles of ancient roads,

many converging from all directions to Chaco Canyon,

a ceremonial site believed to be one of their most important.

ROGER MOORE: People that built this site

somehow came onto the engineering principles

to be able to build multi-story buildings,

such as Pueblo Bonito behind me here.

They developed a culture here that integrated

the alignments of the buildings

with celestial objects and events

such as the rising of the Pleiades.

The Anasazi were a very successful civilization

up until about the 12th century,

and something very strange happened.

And there's a great deal of argument

as to what that event may have been.

NARRATOR: According to archaeologists,

sometime around 1130 AD, all construction ceased at Chaco.

The buildings were sealed,

and roofs of the ceremonial structures-- called kivas--

were burned.

It's fair to say that there were groups that did move,

migrate to other areas.

Those then became the Pueblos and the Hopis.

What is confusing is what happened

to the central part of the civilization?

The ones that were the astronomers

that built the observatories, where did they go?

It appears as though they simply disappeared.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists,

like author David Childress, propose that there is, in fact,

more to the disappearance of the Anasazi elders

than a simple migration.

And they claim clues can be found

throughout the ancient site.

On this cliff behind me here at Chaco Canyon,

we have about a dozen unusual spirals carved into the cliff.

Archeologists believe that they represent the sun.

But some of these spirals are very unusual.

One even has little spirals coming off of it.

So, you have to ask yourself, are these spirals

in fact representations of some kind of portal,

some door to another dimension?

Both the Hopi and the Zuni Indians say

they came from the stars.

That their knowledge came from the star people,

the star ancestors.

And the Hopi say portals are marked

with the spiral petroglyph,

portals to a different dimension,

portals to another world.

There are some that believe that that may represent the portals

by which the Anasazi and other southwestern cultures

crossed from this world into their point of origin.

I think there's a possibility at least

that there is a connection between

the alignments of certain celestial events

and the opening and closings of these portals.

Is it possible that the Anasazi themselves

vanished en masse from this site,

and did they go into another dimension?

NARRATOR: Could it be that the spiral-shaped petroglyphs

left behind by the Anasazi actually represent portals?

If so, did the Anasazi have knowledge of when and how

to access these other worlds?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe further evidence of an otherworldly connection

can be found in the oral stories about this lost civilization

that have survived through other tribes.

The Anasazi is actually not a name

that they gave themselves, it was a name

that was given to them by the Navajo.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: The Anasazi-- the name meant

"stranger from afar" or "strange enemy"--

something that was separate,

apart.

It is possible that the Anasazi

are in a another dimension, in another timeline,

another planet.

All of these various disappearances

of people over time,

whether it is the Mayans, whether it is the Anasazi.

You can look through history,

and you can begin to see these rhythms.

Advanced intelligences that are behind all of this

are using the planet like a laboratory.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Anasazi elders

were an alien hybrid race, as their Navajo name would imply?

And could extraterrestrials have used ancient portals

to remove entire groups of people off the planet?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that such portals still exist on Earth today,

and that the evidence can be found by examining

recent disappearances.

In some places, we have features that people

-have identified as gateways to other worlds. -Mm-hmm.

But there could be some stargates that we can't see,

and that's because they're underwater.

-TSOUKALOS: Right. -Absolutely.

We have so many accounts of ships that just

vanish at sea in certain areas.

It's as if they disappeared

through a portal into another realm.

Right, like in the Bermuda Triangle.

In fact, we covered this in a 2014 episode called

"Aliens and Stargates."

NARRATOR: The Sargasso Sea.

Stretching 700 miles wide and 2,000 miles long,

this strange body of water is completely isolated

in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

It is a sea without shores,

surrounded by some of the strongest currents in the world,

and due to a number of unexplained incidents

that have occurred here,

it has earned the nicknames Sea of Lost Ships,

The Calms of Death,

and The Sea of Fear.

And curiously, although the waters around it are violent,

the Sargasso Sea itself is calm.

The water is unusually blue, mysterious as if the currents

don't affect this one area.

As if the winds stopped, or as if time stands still.

Back in the time of sailing ships,

if sailing ships went into this area,

they could not necessarily get out.

And they were seen as sort of being trapped

by the Sargasso Sea.

TSOUKALOS: Boats will be found perfectly intact there,

but the crew will have disappeared without a trace.

Now why would that be?

Because it's strange, since the Sargasso Sea

is known for its calm waters.

NARRATOR: Perhaps the oldest known and most famous disappearance

reported from the Sargasso Sea occurred in August 1840,

when a merchant ship called the Rosalie

was traveling from Germany to Cuba.

According to The London Times,

when it was discovered drifting aimlessly,

the vessel was completely abandoned,

although perfectly intact, with the sails still set.

What happened to the Rosalie remains a mystery,

but similar occurrences have continued

to plague the Sargasso Sea for centuries.

MIKE BARA: In 1881, a ship by the name of the Ellen Austin

found a derelict schooner in the Sargasso Sea.

They put a crew aboard it and sailed in tandem

back towards London for several days.

About two days later,

the schooner was found to be sailing erratically,

and when it was boarded again,

that crew had also disappeared,

absolutely into thin air.

It was as if the people were simply beamed out of it.

It is also interesting to note that the Sargasso Sea

is directly in contact with the area

we call the Bermuda Triangle.

There may be some type of stargate

or portal activation in this area.

NARRATOR: Could the reports of strange disappearances occurring

in the Sargasso Sea and also in the Bermuda Triangle

that overlaps this body of water

be explained by the presence of a stargate?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence

can be found deep within one of North America's largest lakes.

Lake Michigan.

Stretching across this 22,300 square mile body of water,

from Manitowoc, Wisconsin

to Ludington and Benton Harbor, Michigan

is another mysterious area

known as the Michigan Triangle.

Like the Sargasso Sea,

this portion of the massive freshwater lake

has been associated with bizarre and puzzling disappearances.

BARA: In 1937, there was a freighter, named the McFarland,

which passed through the Michigan Triangle.

The captain of the ship went to his cabin to get some sleep,

told his second mate to come and awaken him at a specific time.

When the second mate knocked on the door, there was no answer.

The door was locked from the inside.

They broke in, and the captain had simply disappeared.

None of the portholes were open. None of the windows were open.

There was no way for the captain to have gotten out of the ship.

NOORY: They never could find the guy.

Did he jump off the ship? Who knows?

But the ship was exactly in this triangle in Lake Michigan.

NARRATOR: But ships aren't the only crafts affected

by this area of Lake Michigan.

There are accounts of as many as 40 planes

that have disappeared in the Michigan Triangle.

In 1950, 13 years after the captain

of the McFarland went missing,

Northwest Airlines Flight 2501--

carrying 55 passengers and three crew--

disappeared as it passed over the Michigan Triangle.

The wreckage has never been discovered,

and investigations continue to this day.

BARA: No wreckage was ever found.

The families have been despondent over it.

They continue to look for the wreckage.

There's a monument to them on the shores of Lake Michigan,

but not a trace, not a belt buckle,

not a wallet, not a chair,

nothing from the aircraft has ever been found.

And the area was searched for six days afterwards.

It's been searched extensively by salvagers

in the decades since,

and no one has ever found a thing.

Ships have been there, they've disappeared.

Airplanes have flown into the region, they've disappeared.

REDFERN: These aircraft and ships are just gone.

Now, for me, the very fact that they are totally vanished,

that makes me think that possibly

they've been sucked into some form of wormhole

and unfortunately get trapped on the other side.

NARRATOR: Could the murky waters of Lake Michigan actually be hiding

the entrance to a wormhole, as some researchers suggest?

Might that explain why there has been such

peculiar phenomenon here,

including countless sightings

of strange unidentified flying objects,

both overhead and coming from below the surface?

BARA: There have been witnesses that have actually seen

green glowing disks fly up out of the lake.

They have seen blue spherical objects fly into the lake.

WILCOCK: Gateways through space and time will have a luminous quality.

They will appear as spherical formations of plasma.

It seems that certain areas of water

are often where these portals are naturally forming.

It's possible that extraterrestrials

may have been accessing that area and, in fact,

it may still be active today.

Thus accounting for these UFO sightings

and all the bizarre disappearances.

CHILDRESS: These areas are very inaccessible.

The whole concept of some of these stargates and portals

being actually underwater makes a lot of sense.

HENRY: It's possible that there's a network of underwater portals

spread throughout the world.

These portals could be accessed by extraterrestrial beings

who use them to come and go from the stars.

NARRATOR: Could there be stargates hidden deep within our lakes and oceans

that extraterrestrials might still be using even to this day?

And if so, might humans one day be able to access

these stargates as well?

According to some ancient astronaut theorists,

not only do such gateways exist,

we could be on the brink of discovering them.

You know, we have these sinkholes that are really common

in the Yucatán Peninsula called cenotes,

and what's interesting is that local stories

connect these sinkholes to gateways to other realms.

Yeah, like, for example,

Cenote Angelita in ancient Tulum.

David, I think you went diving there, right?

Yeah, that's right, and it was absolutely stunning,

because at the bottom of this cenote,

fresh water meets with salt water,

and it seems like an underwater river.

And the locals there claim that the cenote is

a gateway to the spirit world.

NARRATOR: Tulum, Mexico.

Here, on the eastern edge of the Yucatán Peninsula,

lie the ruins of one of the last cities built by the Maya...

...an advanced ancient civilization that thrived

throughout Mesoamerica from the 8th century BC

to the 15th century AD.

Situated on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean Sea,

this site honors the mysterious diving god

that can be found depicted on several buildings.

Behind me is the Temple of the Diving God.

On the western doorway is a stucco relief

of a winged being who is either diving down from the sky

or he's diving down into the water.

His real identity is not known.

NARRATOR: In addition to the Diving God, it has been documented

that the interior of the temple once contained a mural

portraying the Aztec water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue.

While the Aztecs did not occupy the Yucatán Peninsula,

their ancestors the Olmecs did,

and some believe there may be a profound connection

between this area of Mexico and the Aztec water gods,

who ruled over a paradise-like world called Tlalocan.

Descriptions of Tlalocan come from the Aztec shamans,

spiritual guides who could access this otherworldly realm

through whirlpools while in a dream state.

And according to ancient astronaut theorists,

deep in the jungle just south of Tulum

is a location that is a perfect match

for the descriptions of the east region of Tlalocan.

There's an intriguing site

right here off the coast of the Caribbean Sea,

and it may have a connection to the Aztec Tlalocan.

And its name is Cenote Angelita, and it's right here.

NARRATOR: A cenote is a sinkhole where limestone bedrock has collapsed,

exposing the fresh water underneath it.

Many of the cenotes in this part of the Yucatán

are believed to have been formed by the meteor strike

that wiped out the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.

As a result of this extreme impact,

they contain high amounts of shocked quartz.

Shocked quartz is a particular type of quartz

that really needs very, very high pressure to form.

Quartz is a crystal, but every crystal

is not completely uniform.

It's comprised of smaller little pieces

that have to align along defects.

And high pressure changes

the internal structure of the quartz.

NARRATOR: Scientists have long known that quartz is able

to convert the Earth's natural electrical vibrations

into a form of energy.

And some have even suggested

that it could be used in the formation of wormholes,

through an electromagnetic reaction

called the Casimir effect.

DENNIN: The idea is, if I take two metal plates

and stick them in the vacuum of space,

it turns out, because of quantum fluctuations,

this creates an effective,

attractive force between the plates.

One can think of this as a negative energy.

Now, an intriguing idea that we get

is that this is exactly the principle we need

to understand perhaps how to stabilize a wormhole.

NARRATOR: Although there are a number of cenotes in the Yucatán,

Cenote Angelita is very unique.

About 100 feet below its surface,

the fresh water meets up with the salt water

coming from the ocean beneath it,

creating a mysterious underwater river.

Where we are right now in the Yucatán is just about

as far east as you can go in Mexico.

And the description of Tlalocan

was that the very eastern side

was where the waters of the underworld

met with the waters of the surface world.

And that is exactly what we have here.

It was said that souls passed through here,

and the Aztecs believed very strongly

that this was a portal to another dimension.

WILCOCK: The Aztecs had the legend of the Tlalocan

they entered into

through whirlpools in the water.

So, you can start to connect the dots here

and see that those areas could, in fact,

be traversable wormholes that will take us somewhere else.

NARRATOR: Could the highly pressurized quartz found in Cenote Angelita

have made it the perfect location

for advanced alien beings to create a wormhole?

And might this explain the stories

from the Aztec shamans who claimed

they were shown an entrance to paradise?

David Childress has enlisted diver Spencer Stander

to help him explore the cenote.

We'll see the-the river, um, around an island.

And, uh, you'll see these bizarre trees.

It's like a decrepit forest. It's so cool.

It looks like a moving river. You're gonna be blown away.

This is gonna be unique.

NARRATOR: Just south of Tulum, Mexico,

diver Spencer Stander

and ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

are about to explore the Cenote Angelita.

For ancient astronaut theorists, Cenote Angelita

has an eerie similarity to both the legends and illustrations

of the Aztec paradise Tlalocan,

where it was believed souls could pass through a portal

to another realm.

So, um, we're just gonna check...

All right, I'm gonna jump in then.

Nice.

NARRATOR: Although the waters of the cenote

are extremely murky on the surface,

at 15 feet down, everything becomes crystal clear.

But once they descend to 100 feet,

it turns as black as the darkest reaches of space.

CHILDRESS: And even though we had lights with us,

it was still like we were floating within the cosmos.

But then, as we got down, at 100 feet,

suddenly, we could start to see the sides of the cenote.

And then, this strange layer began to emerge.

NARRATOR: Here, the fresh water of the cenote

meets the salt water of the ocean,

forming one of nature's most mysterious anomalies...

...an underwater river.

CHILDRESS: And these dead trees coming out of the sides,

and-and this artificial sort of mound at the bottom.

And it was really like the meeting of-of two worlds.

One of the fresh water of the upper world,

and then that of this lower world of the seawater,

and this murky layer of hydrogen sulfide

that we had to then penetrate.

NARRATOR: The meeting of waters from above with waters from below

is exactly how the Aztecs described the east region

of Tlalocan, a place where souls would pass

from one dimension to another,

as though passing through a portal.

It is here that some ancient astronaut theorists

believe there may really exist a portal

to another world.

Could it be true?

Might extraterrestrials have considered this

the perfect location to create a stargate...

...hidden in the thick layer of poisonous hydrogen sulfide

that obscures all that lies beneath from view?

The whole thing was-was very spooky.

And, uh, something I'll remember for the rest of my life.

NARRATOR: After 30 minutes underwater,

David and Spencer return to the surface.

CHILDRESS: Oh, man, that was so fantastic and strange.

Man, uh, wow. (laughs)

It strikes me just how much this does fit the Aztec legend

of the-the underworld of-of Tlalocan.

What is so mysterious, though, is even if the Aztecs

had come here and knew about this place

or-or learned about it from the Olmecs,

how would they have known

what is 100 feet down in this cenote?

That's right, 'cause you can't see it from the surface.

I mean, I suppose the, you know, the shamans could just

go down there in a, in a trance state,

or if someone actually dove down into this thing.

-Wow. -It's incredible.

You have to ask yourself, could the shocked quartz

here at the Cenote Angelita

create wormholes that extraterrestrials

might have used for inter-dimensional travel?

It can't be a coincidence that both Mayan and Aztec

beliefs incorporated a swirling pool of water,

where they were able to travel to some other sacred paradise.

Maybe we're talking about a form of technological travel

that isn't understood in modern form,

but through the ancient astronaut lens,

we have to understand that ancient man

went to great lengths to depict and explain

how this form of travel was taking place.

And it might be that this is something that was

extraterrestrial in nature.

NARRATOR: Could there really be a gateway to another world

hidden at the bottom of Cenote Angelita?

And if so, might it be part of a much larger system

of interdimensional portals spread across the planet?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that tracking Earth's electromagnetic energy

could guide us to other anomalies.

The idea of gateways to other realms

isn't something found in ancient times.

There are some people who believe that, to this day,

there are portals or stargates

hidden away somewhere in remote places.

Yeah, like the Zone of Silence in Mexico.

And there are so many strange stories about events there.

There have been disappearances, magnetic anomalies,

and people also report that their electronics

stop working when they enter the area.

Pilots report having problems with their planes there, too.

So could there be a stargate in this area that's

causing all these anomalies?

We covered this all the way back in 2010

-in an episode called "Mysterious Places." -Yeah.

NARRATOR: 400 miles south of El Paso, Texas,

in northern Mexico,

stretches a remote and rugged section of high desert.

This area, near the town of Ceballos,

is referred to by the locals as the Zona del Silencio,

or the Zone of Silence.

It's an epicenter for some of the strangest phenomena

ever experienced on Earth.

TSOUKALOS: Nothing works there.

If you go there with your cell phone, the cell phone stops.

If you go with a radio, it stops.

If you go there with a compass, the needle just keeps spinning.

CHILDRESS: It's completely bizarre.

There's strange rocks everywhere.

You have strange mutated animals,

uh, living in the desert in this area.

You feel a strange tingling when you're there.

NARRATOR: The Zone of Silence was first identified

in the 1930s by Francisco Sarabia,

a Mexican pilot who claimed that his radio

had mysteriously failed to function

while flying over the area.

They call it Mexico's Bermuda Triangle.

It's located practically on the same parallel,

of 28th and 26th parallel,

and as a result of that, it goes and connects

with the Egyptian pyramids,

so all around that whole sector,

there seems to be some connection between

the anomalies that are occurring

through these different parts of the world.

SARA SEAGER: As a scientist, you're trained to be skeptical,

or maybe you were born that way.

But we really don't believe anything.

You know, nothing is proven until

you actually have evidence.

But I can say that Earth's magnetic field does vary

across the surface by up to a few percent.

NARRATOR: One of the strangest cases involving the Zone of Silence

took place on July 11, 1970,

when the U.S. Air Force launched an Athena missile...

...from its military facility in Green River, Utah.

The missile was programmed to land 700 miles away

at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

But for some unexplained reason,

the Athena missile flew hundreds of miles past

the White Sands Range towards the Zone of Silence.

BARA: Not only did it go off course, it way overshot,

as if it had been picked up or yanked

or dragged or pulled into it.

There was a NASA spokesman who even said it was weird.

It was like the-the thing just got pulled into this area.

And it ended up crashing there and breaking up into bits.

NARRATOR: But some claim this missile is not the only thing

that's been mysteriously pulled into the Zone of Silence.

Ancient alien theorists believe an unusually large number

of meteorites have crashed here.

The evidence seems to be indicating

that the Zone of Silence is some powerful

energy vortex area that's literally

sucking meteorites and other space debris

right into this small area of northern Mexico.

HAWKES: There's a high level of magnetism in the area,

that's been proven by science.

We know there's a magnetic signature,

uh, to the entire area.

Is it strong enough to attract, uh,

large objects like meteorites?

I think we need more research,

but I-I-I don't think that research

is being done right now.

NARRATOR: Starting 3,000 years ago,

the Anasazi culture inhabited

the region to the north,

in today's American Southwest.

And they paid great attention to the stars.

Scientists have determined that, in 1054 AD,

a supernova explosion was visible from Earth.

Many believe the first known drawing of this event

was found inside an Anasazi cave dwelling.

South of the Zone of Silence,

other cultures, including the Maya,

also reportedly possessed a surprisingly

detailed knowledge of similar celestial events.

Is it possible that both of these cultures

were somehow exchanging information?

HAWKES: They're separated by thousands of miles,

but both the Anasazi of the north

and the Mesoamericans of the south

found the Zone of Silence and used it as a meeting place

between their two cultures.

You could imagine if you studied the stars at night

and plotted the constellations, obviously one of the things

you're going to see are these meteorites

streaking across the sky.

If your answers come from the sky,

you probably would follow those streaking meteorites

and find out where they ended up.

And the theory is that they may have found

what they were looking for in the Zone of Silence.

NARRATOR: But what other connections exist between these cultures?

And are they of a celestial origin?

HAWKES: If we look back into the ancient beliefs of the Anasazi

and the Mesoamericans to the south,

we know that there was great belief in sky people,

visitors from the sky.

If these visitors came from the sky, who were they?

And there's a similarity to the beings

being reported as tall, pale skin, white hair,

which is not indigenous

to the dark-skinned, dark-haired people

found in that region, but does match

many of the South American descriptions of their gods.

NARRATOR: According to legend, these so-called visitors from the sky

made themselves known to an ancient people.

Is it possible that they are still

making themselves known today?

There are a number of reports of UFOs, um,

in the Zone of Silence.

Probably the most prominent and most popular report

came out of the town of Ceballos.

It was on a late summer afternoon

when a number of townspeople saw an object hovering

in the sky on the outskirts of town.

They described it as being about 100 meters wide.

It had multi-colored lights flashing.

Wasn't doing anything. It was just hovering in the desert.

After a while, it simply took off

and headed out into the Zone of Silence.

URIARTE: I think, too, that, as what's going on today,

the high activity of UFO sightings,

the anomalous reports that are still going on today,

perhaps there is a connection. Maybe it's a vortex.

Maybe it's a dimensional port.

We can't explain it, but something unusual

is going on in that area.

NARRATOR: Might extraterrestrials be able to detect

these magnetic differences?

And would they have been of any use to ancient visitors?

TSOUKALOS: If I was an alien coming here 10,000 years ago,

obviously there weren't any roadmaps at the time.

However, I could use the anomalous magnetic spots

on planet Earth as signposts of sorts.

And so that, when I come back,

those signposts would be my guides

to find my way around planet Earth.

There are spots on planet Earth that are highly magnetic.

NARRATOR: But are the magnetic levels,

the sky god legends,

and recent sightings of UFOs

proof that a portal exists here?

And are there other places

that might offer the key to gaining access?

NARRATOR: 800 miles southeast of Lima, Peru,

near the shores of Lake Titicaca,

is a site that has mystified visitors from around the world.

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Shamans still come to perform rituals

and offer prayers at the rock wall on this high plateau,

as they have done for generation after generation.

It is known as Puerta de Hayu Marca,

the Doorway of Amaru Muru, or Gate of the Gods.

CHILDRESS: When you see it, it's quite baffling.

Here is this giant doorway

carved into solid rock.

And it appears to be a gateway,

but it doesn't go anywhere.

TSOUKALOS: It's literally in the middle of nowhere at 14,000 feet.

Yet, that rock, as clear as you can see,

has a gigantic rectangle

carved out of it, cut out of it.

And in the center of that rectangle,

at the bottom,

there is something that looks like a door.

BARA: The Peruvian natives actually refer to this as

the Gate of the Gods.

But why would you make a doorway

to basically rocks that didn't let you go anywhere?

There has to be some way to get through that doorway.

NARRATOR: According to Inca legend, the first priest king,

Amaru Muru, is said to have traveled through this portal

using a special object to activate the doorway,

turning this solid rock into what's known as a stargate.

TSOUKALOS: According to legend,

this stargate was activated by the help

of a golden disc.

And this golden disc fell from the sky.

BARA: The story goes that the first priest king of the Incas

took a golden disk up to this Gate of the Gods,

stuck it in a special recessed area,

and this inter-dimensional doorway actually opened up,

and he passed through it, never to be seen again.

The shaman that were there that watched it,

that witnessed the whole thing and reported on it,

basically told that that was exactly what happened.

NARRATOR: Archeologists who have examined the Gate of the Gods

have discovered a small circular depression

in the center of the doorway.

Some people have speculated that this depression

was perhaps where the golden disc was placed.

COPPENS: It really is out of the movies.

This device is said to have been made of gold

and of various sort of precious objects.

And whoever had it could come near this site

and somehow be able to operate it,

and then there would either be contact with the gods,

or the gods would come to them.

TSOUKALOS: And we're all lead to believe, oh, it's all coincidence,

it's all just fantasy. Rubbish.

Something happened,

and in the case of the stargate,

it is possible that this sun disc

had some type of an extraterrestrial connection,

and that this was a technological device

with which to travel.

And that may mean, physically taking a person

and taking them into another hidden dimension

and taking them back.

Or it may mean traveling between Earth,

going through that stargate and going to another place

somewhere in the universe.

NARRATOR: According to the local legend,

these priest kings, known as space brothers,

reportedly came from other worlds.

Might they have traveled here through the Gate of the Gods?

JORGE LUIS DELGADO MAMANI: They came from the other constellations,

from other planets.

In our language, we have a word called, uh, "chakana,"

which is some of the constellations,

like the Southern Cross, Orion Belt, or Pleiades.

One of the elders said this is the bridge to home.

So, in essence, all these manifestations

has to do with the space brothers.

NARRATOR: But could a device to activate this door actually exist?

And if so, where would the doorway lead?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the Gate of the Gods is one end of a wormhole...

...a type of portal that connects

either to another part of the universe or another dimension.

THOMAS VALONE: A wormhole is a theoretical construct

through general relativity.

The concept is really that there's

a possibility of space-time being connected,

various parts of space-time being connected

through a small channel.

And if such a construct was made,

then you'd have a short cut

between very distant parts of the universe.

NARRATOR: Wormholes are an accepted element of theoretical physics.

But have they actually existed

in some of the world's most mysterious places?

The idea that there are stargates

or that they could've existed in ancient times,

we do see many artifacts and representations of

someone passing through a doorway or going through

some type of energy source,

and ancient man did not understand technology

just as we're trying to understand

is a wormhole possible.

That it's some kind of doorway

between our dimension and another.

And what I maintain is that

these aliens who are coming here

are coming here in inter-dimensional type of craft.

They're able to jump through hyperspace,

come here to our planet in no time at all,

but they have to enter through certain doorways

and portals into our planet.

SEAGER: Dimensions aren't really

considered something to travel along.

But dimensions are directions, and if you could somehow

travel along these other dimensions,

it would take you somewhere else entirely.

NARRATOR: What if one end of a portal exists here

at Puerta de Hayu Marca?

Might that be part of the reason many consider Peru

to be a focal point of UFO and extraterrestrial activity?

CHILDRESS: Lake Titicaca has all kinds of strange lights

associated with it, and a number of witnesses

claim they see UFOs coming out of the lake.

MARTELL: The locals always describe seeing

large blue balls of light or glowing discs

and sometimes even beings reported around these sightings.

These beings are always reported as tall, pale skin,

completely non-indigenous

to the people that are dark-skinned,

dark-haired in these South American regions.

NARRATOR: Another theory to how extraterrestrials

may have traveled across the universe

involves the scientific concept of teleportation.

But is it really possible to have something

disappear from one spot and suddenly appear somewhere else?

SEREDA: At the Max Planck Institute,

scientists have already

dematerialized subatomic particles

and made them reappear somewhere else.

So, science is just on the precipice

of being able to do this.

To move it from one place to another.

So, I believe that that is a, is a secret

that the ancient stone builders knew.

You can't have a discussion about stargates

and portals without talking about ancient Egypt.

-Right. -And this is a place where there were many stories of

gateways to the underworld or gateways to the stars.

Right, and we have stories of the so-called solar barges,

which were known to travel from this world to the other.

Now, to me, this describes some sort of a spacecraft.

But you, William, you proposed that some of these barges

depict portal technology?

Absolutely, I mean, there's a depiction of a solar barge

at Abydos that to me looks

exactly like an Einstein-Rosen Bridge,

which is the scientific name for a wormhole.

-Right. -HENRY: And you even see

what appears to be the Pharaoh Seti

traveling through it.

NARRATOR: Abydos, Egypt.

300 miles south of Cairo,

this 5,000-year-old archaeological site

near the Nile River

was a burial place for the first kings of Egypt.

The ancient city was a major center of religious pilgrimage,

where Osiris, the god of the underworld, was revered.

COLLINS: Osiris was the god that was said to have brought wisdom

and knowledge to those who preceded the dynastic Egyptians.

Abydos was a place that people came to communicate with Osiris.

ROBERT BAUVAL: It was considered the place where the god Osiris

had been buried.

Osiris had been the originator of the pharaonic civilization.

He was the first pharaoh, if you like.

The myth is that Osiris was cut in several pieces

by his evil brother.

And the head was found and kept at Abydos.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: Abydos was said to have been the burial place of Osiris.

That this is where he was supposed to physically

stand guard between this world and the next.

NARRATOR: Construction on the largest of the temples at Abydos

was started in the 13th century BC

by the Pharaoh Seti,

and is dedicated to Osiris.

Depicted on the wall of the temple's Osiris chapel

is a mysterious hieroglyph that some researchers believe

represents the vessel that held the head of the powerful god.

BAUVAL: The relic of Abydos,

it is, uh, this, uh, sort of bell-shaped, uh, object.

And on top of it is usually two plumes.

HENRY: When we look at the hieroglyphs of the head of Osiris,

what we see is something that appears

to be very technological or mechanical.

It looks like some kind of an ancient

antenna type of a device.

NARRATOR: Might this depiction of Osiris

really represent an ancient technological device?

One so important that the Egyptians memorialized it here,

on the walls of this sacred temple?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe more clues

can be found on the opposite wall of the chapel,

where Pharaoh Seti is shown transforming into this

Osiris device while traveling on a solar barge.

COLLINS: The solar barge was a vehicle

that was able to make that journey

from this world to the next.

So, in other words, in many ways, it was actually

a-a boat of the stars.

WILCOCK: But the shape of the solar barge

bears a curious similarity to the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

So, the solar barge could be a primitive depiction

of people watching a luminous stargate appearing,

and then it being used as a teleportation device.

VINCENZO MACRINO: On the depiction of the solar barge,

the head of Pharaoh Seti

appears to be emerging from that portal.

Perhaps Seti was a time traveler

utilizing just such technology

given to him by the ancient gods.

HENRY: It suggests that Seti utilized this ancient technology

to turn himself into a star being so that

he could travel the stargates and wormholes for eternity.

CHILDRESS: Maybe gods like Osiris were actually extraterrestrials

using this stargate technology

to come to Earth and teach mankind.

NARRATOR: Could these hieroglyphs really be depicting a device

that allowed Pharaoh Seti to travel across time and space?

Is it possible that the Egyptians,

and other ancient cultures around the world,

really encountered extraterrestrials

who came to Earth through stargates?

Just because our scientists of today

haven't quite figured it out yet

doesn't mean that some other civilization

thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands

of years older, hasn't figured it out, either.

Remember, the universe is infinite,

which means that there are infinite possibilities.

CHILDRESS: We may have known in the past what was going on

and about these portals and wormholes.

And that is why stories like astral travel

and stargates and inter-dimensional voyages

are something that we've been hearing about

for thousands of years.

And we're just now rediscovering it for ourselves--

this knowledge given to us by the extraterrestrials.

HENRY: It's possible that this is the next step

in human evolution.

It will represent a new beginning for humankind,

and perhaps this was always the plan

from the ancient times.

We were created by these ancient gods

who came here in stargates and wormholes,

and they intended for us to one day join them in the stars.

NARRATOR: Could Earth really be home to stargates

that link us to distant points throughout the universe?

Pathways that extraterrestrials

have used for thousands of years,

and that we are only beginning to rediscover?

And if we ever do unlock the key to stargate travel,

will we discover that we've been connected

to alien civilizations all along?

We could be entering a time where

traveling through stargates and wormholes becomes the norm.

And even... It's possible that the military itself

is already trying to develop this technology.

I mean, if we're trying to make these things today

and we succeed, then we'll be able to

understand how portals and stargates were operating

in ancient times.

Yeah, and wouldn't it be amazing that the only places

that you can reach via a portal

is the Pleiades, Sirius, and Orion?

Wouldn't that be amazing?

We're gonna have to go back and reevaluate

every single portal or gateway story

from the ancient world up into the modern times.

And it may even be that we'll be able to

re-open those portals and follow those ancient travelers.

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