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dead in the Yucat?... an
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underground city in Turkey...
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And a South American cave said
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to contain a treasure from
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beyond the stars.
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For centuries, people have told
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tales of caves and tunnels deep
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inside the earth.
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Subterranean passageways that
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lead to lands of gods and
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monsters.
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But is there a surprising truth
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behind these legends?
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I have stood in
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front of drawings on the rocks
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and wondered, "am I looking at a
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extra-terrestrial biological
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"entity?"
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Could there really
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be mysterious places far
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beneath our feet?
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Places whose origins might not
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be of this earth?
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There were
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certain aspects of the caves for
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which geology could not provide
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an answer.
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Millions of people
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around the world believe we
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have been visited in the past
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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And if so, should we be looking
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for proof of their existence
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not in the heavens above but in
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mysterious worlds deep beneath
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the surface?
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Sync by n17t01
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Bordered on the north by the
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black sea, and by the Taurus
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mountains to the South, lies
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Cappadocia in central Turkey.
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Here, wind and water have
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sculpted strange shapes out of
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the soft volcanic rock... rock
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which ancient peoples once
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turned into small, primitive
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dwellings.
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In more recent years, the site
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has seen the construction of
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more modern structures.
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But in 1963, a simple home
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renovation in the town of
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Derinkuyu led to an
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extraordinary discovery when a
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cave wall was opened, revealing
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a passageway to an underground
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city thousands of years old and
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more than 280 feet deep.
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I've been
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there on multiple occasions, and
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it's incredible because there's
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13 stories that go deep into
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the ground, with ventilation
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shafts and 15,000 little shafts
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that bring air to even the
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deepest of levels.
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Incredibly, the
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number of rock rooms that were
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found could hold an estimated
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20,000 men, women and children.
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There was even evidence of
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religious centers, storerooms,
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winepresses and stables for
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livestock.
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Derinkuyu would've been a
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massive undertaking for anyone,
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even in modern times with modern
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equipment.
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But in those days, it would've
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been, um... stupendous.
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Equal to the pyramids.
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At Derinkuyu, because of the
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softness of the stone, you had
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to be very careful that you
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provided enough pillar strength
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to support the floors above,
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otherwise you'd have
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catastrophic cave-ins.
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Surprisingly, there's no
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evidence of any catastrophic
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cave-ins, so they were
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apparently extremely clever and
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knew their material.
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We're talking deep antiquity.
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It is mind boggling to
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understand how they could've
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done this.
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Perhaps they had help from some
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other civilization.
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But just who built
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this massive underground city?
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And what mysterious force drove
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them to live underground?
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Why would
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people want to live deep
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underground in these weird
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caverns like that?
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It seems kind of scary, really.
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According to many
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archaeologists and scholars,
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Derinkuyu was most likely
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intended to serve as a
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temporary shelter from
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invasion... built around 800 b.C.
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By the Phrygians, a bronze age
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people related to the trojans.
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Others believe it was built by
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the hittites, a warrior people
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mentioned in the Bible who
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flourished hundreds of years
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earlier.
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But could the underground city
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be even older?
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According to ancient astronaut
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theorists, it is, perhaps by
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many thousands of years.
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The
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Cappadocia region of Turkey
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was part of the zoroastrian
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empire, which was persian in
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nature.
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And it's one of the oldest
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religious traditions on the face
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of the earth.
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The zoroastrian
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religion... an ancient faith
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based on opposing forces of
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good and evil... is widely
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believed to have influenced
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both hinduism and
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judeo-christianity.
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Founded sometime
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before the sixth century b.C.,
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its chief God is the creator,
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Ahura Mazda.
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And in the second chapter of
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the zoroastrian sacred text,
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the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves
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mankind from a worldwide
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environmental disaster... much
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like the story of Noah in the
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Hebrew testament.
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The great prophet
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Yima was instructed to build a
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kind of underground refuge
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similar to Derinkuyu by the sky
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God Ahura Mazda.
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According to the
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sacred texts, Yima built a
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multilevel underground city to
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protect a select group of
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people and animals, not from a
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flood but from a global ice age.
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The Vendidad calls this "the
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evil winters."
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According to many mainstream
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climatologists, the last ice
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age peaked around 18,000 years
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ago and ended around 10,000 b.C.
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Is it possible that Derinkuyu
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was built as a refuge from a
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devastating global winter?
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Since you cannot
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carbon date stone, it's
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anybody's guess how old
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Derinkuyu really is.
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And my question is: If we have
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a zoroastrian story that's very
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similar, could it be that both
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that place and Derinkuyu are
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much, much older than what
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we've believed so far?
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But if Derinkuyu
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is in fact the underground
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city that Ahura Mazda told his
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followers to build, could there
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be a stunning truth behind the
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legend?
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If so, who or what was the God
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Ahura Mazda?
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Ahura Mazda does
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appear to be responsible for
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the management of whatever is
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happening here on earth.
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There are various ways to read
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this, one of which is that it
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does represent some sort of
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higher universal form of
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consciousness.
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But another is that it would
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represent an overseeing
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extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Several
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sacred texts from antiquity
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speak of knowledge given to
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mankind from extraterrestrials,
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but also known as gods from
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antiquity.
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Could the sky God
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Ahura Mazda really have been an
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advanced being from another
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world?
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So, did he provide the
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technology needed for his
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followers to build this complex
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labyrinth as protection from
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environmental disaster?
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Or is there possibly a more
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ominous reason for Derinkuyu's
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existence?
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Some say a clue lies in the
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underground city's unusual
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security system: 1,000-pound
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doors on rollers that allow
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them to be moved by a single
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person, but only from one side.
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The Derinkuyu
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doors... they're very cleverly
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constructed.
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You can basically only open it
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and leverage it from the inside.
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whoever inhabited Derinkuyu was
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hiding from someone or
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something.
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ancient zoroastrian texts,
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Ahura Mazda soared through the
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sky in a divine chariot and
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waged war against his eternal
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enemy, Angra Mainyu, the demon
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of destruction.
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But could this really be-. As
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many ancient astronaut
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theorists believe... a depiction
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of two extraterrestrial forces
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battling over control of the
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earth and its resources?
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enemies were extraterrestrials,
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because they were the ones who
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had the capability of flight.
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of machines that we can read
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about in every single ancient
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culture around the world.
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When you look at
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the zoroastrian tradition, you
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also see clear evidence that
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there was some sort of
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extraterrestrial battle going
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on between warring factions.
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possible that the original
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caves may have been used as
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shelters against possible
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aerial bombardment from
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extraterrestrials that were
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warring with each other during
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that time.
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Derinkuyu was
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built out of fear of an aerial
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enemy, because if something
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flies over you very, very fast,
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shafts.
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Some suggest 30,000 people used
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to live underground at
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derinkuyu.
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history, many different peoples
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did in fact hide in the
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underground city of derinkuyu
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to escape everything from
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desert raiders to Roman legions.
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such conventional attacks can
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really explain why derinkuyu
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was built in the first place.
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If it were an
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enemy that was on horseback,
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it would be easy for them to
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just smother everyone inside by
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just closing all the
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ventilation shafts.
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We had the
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phrase in the defense
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department studies that I
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participated in: "The cave is a
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grave to a well-prepared
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"adversary."
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Once you find it, it is highly
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vulnerable.
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But did the people
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of derinkuyu really go
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underground to avoid becoming
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casualties in an
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extraterrestrial battle in the
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skies?
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And, if so, might there
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be other such cities from the
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distant past?
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According to ancient astronaut
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theorists, there are.
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And they can be found much
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nearer to home... deep in the
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caves of the American southwest.
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The majestic mesas
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and rugged mountains of the
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American southwest are home to
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many native peoples, including
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the navajo, zuni, pueblo, hopi
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and Apache.
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These tribes have many
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different beliefs, but their
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creation myths all share
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something quite remarkable.
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When we talk about
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our origin, you know, you hear
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the stories about us coming down
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from Alaska through the Bering
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strait.
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But what we believe is we
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came up from the ground.
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The Apaches and
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other pueblo Indians, such as
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the Zunis and the hopi Indians,
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all have this legend that they
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emerged from some underground
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world into today's world.
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In some legends,
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the southwestern peoples went
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back underground for safety.
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The hopi of Arizona say their
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ancestors escaped a deadly
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storm of falling stars with the
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help of the snake people, who
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took them to shelters deep in
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the earth.
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Another hopi legend speaks of
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the ant people who protected
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them from storms of fire and
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ice.
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The hopi Indians
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survived cataclysms by living
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in this underground world with
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the ant people for a certain
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period of time, and then
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eventually they emerged from
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the underground world back into
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the surface world.
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Ant people?
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Snake people?
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Could these stories be based on
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ancestral tales of people
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actually living underground...
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possibly during the last ice
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age?
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Or could the ancestors of
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today's southwestern tribes
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have taken refuge in
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sub-surface dwellings similar
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to the underground city of
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derinkuyu in Turkey?
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If so, over the centuries,
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might they have developed
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physical traits... like large
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eyes and fingers... that made
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them more closely resemble
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actual earth-dwelling creatures?
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The shamans, and
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the elders of native Americans,
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they will tell you that before
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these people were able to
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emerge out of planet earth,
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they were brought here by the
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star-people, the star-gods,
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which arrived from outer space.
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I have stood in front
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of what are called the ant
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people and some of the very
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strange, large-eyed drawings on
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the rocks and wondered, "am I
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looking at native American
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00:15:13,107 --> 00:15:15,942
interpretation of what today is
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called a extraterrestrial
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00:15:17,945 --> 00:15:20,781
"biological entity?"
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If
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extraterrestrials were here in
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the remote past, there are
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multiple species out there, is
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it possible that they might've
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00:15:32,862 --> 00:15:36,932
looked lizard-like and ant-like?
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And the answer is yes.
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Is it possible that
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these underground creatures of
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native American legend were
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00:15:45,842 --> 00:15:48,176
actually alien visitors?
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If so, could some of them still
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be living beneath the surface
416
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of the southwestern desert?
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For decades, stories of
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encounters with UFOs and alien
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00:16:00,524 --> 00:16:03,893
beings have been told among the
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people of new Mexico's
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00:16:06,163 --> 00:16:09,832
Jicarilla Apache reservation.
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Some of the aliens in these
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stories bear a strange
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resemblance to the ancient
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tales of the ant-like and
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snake-like beings from the hopi
427
00:16:18,874 --> 00:16:21,041
legends.
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There is
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00:16:22,210 --> 00:16:23,977
things up here that no one can
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00:16:24,012 --> 00:16:26,213
explain.
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00:16:26,214 --> 00:16:27,214
The Jicarilla
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Apache reservation is located
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next to the small town of Dulce,
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nestled in the shadow of the
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00:16:34,355 --> 00:16:36,089
over 9,000-foot-high Archuleta
436
00:16:36,123 --> 00:16:38,992
mesa.
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It is from
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this mesa and mountain that
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00:16:43,231 --> 00:16:45,533
people claim they have seen
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00:16:45,567 --> 00:16:49,905
UFOs flying out of the mountain.
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It was a
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00:16:52,443 --> 00:16:54,544
spaceship we saw right there.
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00:16:54,579 --> 00:16:59,550
And it was big... like maybe the
444
00:16:59,585 --> 00:17:01,919
size of a football field.
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00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,888
And then we seen this dome on
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00:17:03,922 --> 00:17:06,524
top that was all glassed in.
447
00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:09,061
And then my husband was looking
448
00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:11,397
at it with the binoculars and
449
00:17:11,431 --> 00:17:14,534
he saw two small people.
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Well, we don't know what it is.
451
00:17:16,937 --> 00:17:18,371
If we stayed here and they came
452
00:17:18,405 --> 00:17:19,972
down I don't know what they
453
00:17:20,007 --> 00:17:22,242
would have done to us.
454
00:17:24,946 --> 00:17:26,580
Could the native
455
00:17:26,614 --> 00:17:28,915
tales of spaceships and strange
456
00:17:28,950 --> 00:17:31,084
creatures be true?
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00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,053
Some ufo researchers and
458
00:17:33,087 --> 00:17:35,388
conspiracy theorists believe
459
00:17:35,423 --> 00:17:36,923
that these eyewitness accounts
460
00:17:36,957 --> 00:17:39,392
are not only true, but are
461
00:17:39,427 --> 00:17:40,927
evidence of a secret
462
00:17:40,962 --> 00:17:42,129
collaboration between
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00:17:42,163 --> 00:17:43,964
underground aliens and the U.S.
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00:17:43,998 --> 00:17:46,967
Military.
465
00:17:46,968 --> 00:17:48,068
The amount of
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00:17:48,103 --> 00:17:50,104
military traffic over Dulce, the
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00:17:50,139 --> 00:17:51,573
unmarked helicopters, the black
468
00:17:51,607 --> 00:17:52,941
helicopters, the heavy-duty
469
00:17:52,975 --> 00:17:55,143
chinooks.
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00:17:55,144 --> 00:17:56,444
All these helicopters spend a
471
00:17:56,479 --> 00:17:58,080
lot more time in Dulce than
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00:17:58,114 --> 00:17:59,481
they should if nothing were
473
00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:03,451
going on here.
474
00:18:03,485 --> 00:18:04,952
Among the stories that we've
475
00:18:04,987 --> 00:18:07,956
heard from the Jicarilla Apache
476
00:18:07,990 --> 00:18:09,958
is that they discovered vents,
477
00:18:09,992 --> 00:18:13,361
actually right here on the mesa.
478
00:18:15,998 --> 00:18:17,599
Awhile back, when
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00:18:17,634 --> 00:18:19,001
my brother was still alive we
480
00:18:19,035 --> 00:18:20,269
used to come up here in the
481
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back, and he sHowed us this
482
00:18:22,138 --> 00:18:23,606
shaft and that thing was bigger
483
00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:24,641
than... bigger than me.
484
00:18:24,675 --> 00:18:26,476
But we walked in, and I didn't
485
00:18:26,510 --> 00:18:29,646
want to go any further.
486
00:18:29,681 --> 00:18:31,015
The vents were here
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00:18:31,049 --> 00:18:32,449
maybe 25 years ago.
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00:18:32,484 --> 00:18:34,552
You'd hear strange noises.
489
00:18:34,586 --> 00:18:36,454
Groans.
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00:18:36,488 --> 00:18:38,623
Sighs.
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00:18:38,657 --> 00:18:41,025
Human groans.
492
00:18:41,059 --> 00:18:43,494
And this lent a lot of credence
493
00:18:43,529 --> 00:18:45,463
to stories that human beings
494
00:18:45,497 --> 00:18:47,131
were being vivisected,
495
00:18:47,166 --> 00:18:49,667
experimented on.
496
00:18:49,701 --> 00:18:51,369
And thus the legend of strange
497
00:18:51,403 --> 00:18:53,505
creatures and strange noises
498
00:18:53,539 --> 00:18:56,007
coming out of this mesa grew
499
00:18:56,042 --> 00:18:59,178
and expanded.
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00:18:59,212 --> 00:19:01,012
Aliens living
501
00:19:01,047 --> 00:19:03,081
underground.
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00:19:03,082 --> 00:19:05,016
Strange, secret government
503
00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:07,084
cover-ups.
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00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,087
Could native American legends
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00:19:09,121 --> 00:19:11,155
of underground beings help
506
00:19:11,190 --> 00:19:12,657
unearth the truth behind these
507
00:19:12,691 --> 00:19:15,093
incredible stories?
508
00:19:15,127 --> 00:19:17,662
Some think the answer might be
509
00:19:17,696 --> 00:19:19,497
found deep beneath the surface
510
00:19:19,531 --> 00:19:22,700
of north America, but others
511
00:19:22,734 --> 00:19:24,068
believe the truth lies hidden
512
00:19:24,102 --> 00:19:26,670
in a mysterious cave...
513
00:19:26,705 --> 00:19:29,573
thousands of Miles to the South.
514
00:19:29,608 --> 00:19:31,509
A cave that hides proof of
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00:19:31,543 --> 00:19:34,045
alien visitors who journeyed
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00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,348
beyond the stars.
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00:19:42,977 --> 00:19:45,144
South America.
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The andes mountain range in
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Ecuador.
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00:19:50,083 --> 00:19:52,551
For thousands of years, this
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rain forest... high on the
522
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eastern slopes... has been the
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land of the Shuar, headhunters
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00:20:00,525 --> 00:20:02,392
who are fiercely protective of
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00:20:02,427 --> 00:20:04,394
their homeland, and its
526
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secrets.
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00:20:08,967 --> 00:20:11,101
And of all the Shuar's secrets,
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00:20:11,136 --> 00:20:12,403
perhaps none has been so
529
00:20:12,437 --> 00:20:14,004
carefully guarded as the
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00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:15,601
location and entrance of the
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00:20:15,635 --> 00:20:18,009
cave of Tayos.
532
00:20:18,043 --> 00:20:20,411
But why?
533
00:20:24,116 --> 00:20:26,350
Perhaps the answer can be found
534
00:20:26,384 --> 00:20:27,951
in the story of an Italian
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00:20:27,985 --> 00:20:29,519
catholic missionary named
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00:20:29,553 --> 00:20:32,088
father Crespi, who lived in the
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00:20:32,123 --> 00:20:33,490
region in the middle of the
538
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last century.
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00:20:35,393 --> 00:20:36,593
Father
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00:20:36,627 --> 00:20:38,028
Paolo Carlo Crespi.
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He was loved by the Indians.
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00:20:40,131 --> 00:20:41,431
He helped them without, uh,
543
00:20:41,465 --> 00:20:43,299
asking for money.
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00:20:43,333 --> 00:20:44,600
And the Indians made him some
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00:20:44,634 --> 00:20:48,003
presents.
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00:20:48,004 --> 00:20:49,604
But what was unique
547
00:20:49,639 --> 00:20:51,006
about the "presents" or gifts
548
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,007
given to father r Crespi was that
549
00:20:53,042 --> 00:20:54,342
they often took the forms of
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00:20:54,376 --> 00:20:57,645
elaborately-carved artifacts...
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00:20:57,679 --> 00:20:59,647
some made of gold or other
552
00:20:59,681 --> 00:21:02,549
precious metals.
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00:21:02,584 --> 00:21:04,085
Often these objects featured
554
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:05,653
elaborate carvings and
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00:21:05,687 --> 00:21:07,422
symbols... not known to be
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00:21:07,457 --> 00:21:08,657
associated with the Shuar
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00:21:08,691 --> 00:21:11,327
culture.
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00:21:11,361 --> 00:21:14,597
In his 1973 book, gold of the
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00:21:14,632 --> 00:21:17,034
gods, ancient astronaut
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00:21:17,068 --> 00:21:18,669
theorist erich Von Daniken
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00:21:18,703 --> 00:21:20,037
wrote of father Crespi's
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00:21:20,071 --> 00:21:22,340
incredible collection... which
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00:21:22,374 --> 00:21:24,041
he believed to come from the
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00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:26,043
cave of Tayos and which were,
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00:21:26,077 --> 00:21:28,078
in his opinion, treasures from
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an unknown and highly-advanced
567
00:21:30,148 --> 00:21:33,349
culture.
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00:21:33,384 --> 00:21:35,084
The startling questions posed
569
00:21:35,118 --> 00:21:36,685
in Von Daniken's book soon
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00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,587
inspired Scottish explorer
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00:21:38,621 --> 00:21:40,388
Stanley Hall to try and solve
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00:21:40,423 --> 00:21:45,060
the mystery himself.
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00:21:45,094 --> 00:21:47,429
In 1975, Hall traveled to
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Cuenca to see father Crespi's
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00:21:49,098 --> 00:21:52,434
collection with his own eyes.
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00:21:52,469 --> 00:21:54,470
I had for years
577
00:21:54,504 --> 00:21:56,206
been researching South America
578
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,540
as the missing page of
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00:21:57,575 --> 00:21:59,576
pre-history.
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00:21:59,577 --> 00:22:01,645
I first heard of the Tayos
581
00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:03,113
caves in erich Von Daniken's
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00:22:03,148 --> 00:22:04,448
book and followed it through
583
00:22:04,482 --> 00:22:07,117
from there.
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And one of
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00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:09,385
the presents which the old
586
00:22:09,419 --> 00:22:11,287
priest received is a tablet
587
00:22:11,321 --> 00:22:13,656
with 36 writings.
588
00:22:13,657 --> 00:22:15,290
It's metallic tablet.
589
00:22:15,324 --> 00:22:17,092
No one until today was able to
590
00:22:17,126 --> 00:22:20,161
translate these writings.
591
00:22:22,597 --> 00:22:25,499
In 1976, Stanley
592
00:22:25,534 --> 00:22:28,236
Hall mounted an expedition
593
00:22:28,270 --> 00:22:30,105
of more than 100 people to
594
00:22:30,139 --> 00:22:34,310
explore Tayos.
595
00:22:34,344 --> 00:22:36,245
Among them was American
596
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,581
astronaut Neil Armstrong, the
597
00:22:38,616 --> 00:22:43,420
first man to walk on the moon.
598
00:22:43,454 --> 00:22:45,589
Entering the cave through a
599
00:22:45,623 --> 00:22:47,457
jungle entrance known to the
600
00:22:47,492 --> 00:22:51,161
Ecuadorian army, the explorers
601
00:22:51,195 --> 00:22:53,329
were fascinated by what they
602
00:22:53,364 --> 00:22:55,131
encountered... especially large
603
00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:56,632
areas that appeared to have
604
00:22:56,666 --> 00:22:59,367
been excavated by someone...
605
00:22:59,402 --> 00:23:02,437
Or something.
606
00:23:06,241 --> 00:23:07,442
The head of the
607
00:23:07,476 --> 00:23:09,276
British geological group, Dr.
608
00:23:09,311 --> 00:23:11,812
Brian Kelly, in 1976, he
609
00:23:11,846 --> 00:23:14,781
admitted that it was difficult
610
00:23:14,815 --> 00:23:16,817
for him to explain the actual
611
00:23:16,851 --> 00:23:19,152
large doorways that you see in
612
00:23:19,186 --> 00:23:22,456
these caves.
613
00:23:24,659 --> 00:23:26,159
Although Stan
614
00:23:26,193 --> 00:23:28,561
Hall's expedition did find a
615
00:23:28,596 --> 00:23:30,297
tomb chamber with items dating
616
00:23:30,331 --> 00:23:32,365
to 1500 bc...
617
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,335
A ring! A stone ring!
618
00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:36,637
The expedition
619
00:23:36,671 --> 00:23:38,739
found no treasure and no trace
620
00:23:38,774 --> 00:23:40,408
of anything that looked like
621
00:23:40,442 --> 00:23:41,810
the artifacts in father Crespi's
622
00:23:41,844 --> 00:23:44,479
collection.
623
00:23:44,514 --> 00:23:46,848
But if Tayos was not the secret
624
00:23:46,883 --> 00:23:48,717
origin of father Crespi's
625
00:23:48,752 --> 00:23:51,187
amazing collection, where did
626
00:23:51,221 --> 00:23:53,522
it come from?
627
00:23:53,557 --> 00:23:56,326
Undaunted, Hall didn't give up
628
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:58,328
his search.
629
00:23:58,363 --> 00:24:01,765
15 years later, in 1991, the
630
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,201
explorer tracked down an
631
00:24:04,236 --> 00:24:05,502
Ecuadorian named Petronio
632
00:24:05,537 --> 00:24:07,504
Jaramillo who claimed to have
633
00:24:07,539 --> 00:24:08,872
entered the cave of Tayos
634
00:24:08,907 --> 00:24:10,574
through a secret entrance back
635
00:24:10,608 --> 00:24:12,709
in 1946.
636
00:24:12,743 --> 00:24:14,210
And apparently,
637
00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:15,712
Petronio had visited this cave
638
00:24:15,746 --> 00:24:17,413
for the very first time when he
639
00:24:17,448 --> 00:24:18,714
was very young.
640
00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:20,716
When he was in his teens.
641
00:24:20,751 --> 00:24:23,352
He said that he had to dive
642
00:24:23,387 --> 00:24:26,223
underwater, go in... in this
643
00:24:26,257 --> 00:24:27,791
underwater tunnel, and then
644
00:24:27,825 --> 00:24:28,892
come up.
645
00:24:28,927 --> 00:24:30,728
Jaramillo told Hall
646
00:24:30,762 --> 00:24:32,530
he wandered through chamber
647
00:24:32,564 --> 00:24:34,599
after chamber of ancient relics,
648
00:24:34,633 --> 00:24:36,868
including a vast room of books
649
00:24:36,902 --> 00:24:38,537
made from gold and other
650
00:24:38,571 --> 00:24:41,240
metals... books with
651
00:24:41,275 --> 00:24:44,544
unrecognizable writing...
652
00:24:44,579 --> 00:24:46,713
Possibly like that on one of the
653
00:24:46,747 --> 00:24:48,548
metal tablets in father Crespi's
654
00:24:48,583 --> 00:24:49,883
collection.
655
00:24:49,917 --> 00:24:51,385
The other
656
00:24:51,419 --> 00:24:52,886
things looked like formulas,
657
00:24:52,921 --> 00:24:54,421
and so on, and so on.
658
00:24:54,456 --> 00:24:56,590
So it was one spectacular
659
00:24:56,624 --> 00:24:59,493
statement after another.
660
00:25:00,662 --> 00:25:02,729
Some argue whether
661
00:25:02,763 --> 00:25:04,564
or not an ancient civilization
662
00:25:04,598 --> 00:25:06,266
had come down to earth and had
663
00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,501
used this cave system to leave
664
00:25:08,536 --> 00:25:10,270
certain artifacts of their
665
00:25:10,304 --> 00:25:11,571
civilization behind for us
666
00:25:11,605 --> 00:25:13,940
to recover.
667
00:25:13,941 --> 00:25:16,275
Unfortunately,
668
00:25:16,310 --> 00:25:17,910
before he could guide Stanley
669
00:25:17,944 --> 00:25:19,578
Hall to the underwater cave
670
00:25:19,613 --> 00:25:21,680
entrance, Petronio jaramillo
671
00:25:21,714 --> 00:25:24,283
died, taking the secret to
672
00:25:24,317 --> 00:25:29,822
his grave.
673
00:25:29,857 --> 00:25:32,325
Stanley Hall himself died in
674
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,595
2008 before he was able to renew
675
00:25:34,629 --> 00:25:36,297
his search for the so-called
676
00:25:36,331 --> 00:25:40,368
metal library.
677
00:25:40,402 --> 00:25:42,637
Fortunately, Stanley Hall's
678
00:25:42,671 --> 00:25:44,639
daughter Eileen has decided to
679
00:25:44,673 --> 00:25:46,674
continue her father's work.
680
00:25:46,675 --> 00:25:48,643
Unless we find
681
00:25:48,677 --> 00:25:49,777
this treasure, unless we can
682
00:25:49,812 --> 00:25:51,613
see, translate the writing, it's
683
00:25:51,647 --> 00:25:53,448
still a big question mark over
684
00:25:53,482 --> 00:25:54,782
who wrote it, why they put it
685
00:25:54,816 --> 00:25:57,684
there and who put it there.
686
00:25:57,685 --> 00:25:59,453
But when Eileen
687
00:25:59,487 --> 00:26:00,821
Hall began to look for the
688
00:26:00,855 --> 00:26:02,522
location of father Crespi's
689
00:26:02,556 --> 00:26:04,625
original artifacts, she learned
690
00:26:04,659 --> 00:26:06,393
that much of the priest's
691
00:26:06,428 --> 00:26:08,329
collection had mysteriously
692
00:26:08,363 --> 00:26:10,332
vanished shortly before his
693
00:26:10,366 --> 00:26:13,569
death in 1982.
694
00:26:13,603 --> 00:26:15,338
But why?
695
00:26:15,372 --> 00:26:17,407
Had Crespi's artifacts fallen
696
00:26:17,441 --> 00:26:18,908
prey to thieves?
697
00:26:18,943 --> 00:26:20,844
Or might the Shuar have taken
698
00:26:20,878 --> 00:26:22,379
their treasure back into the
699
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:24,514
cave where they found them?
700
00:26:24,549 --> 00:26:26,916
Whatever the answer, Eileen
701
00:26:26,951 --> 00:26:29,352
Hall has continued to research
702
00:26:29,386 --> 00:26:31,353
other artifacts from elsewhere
703
00:26:31,387 --> 00:26:32,988
in Ecuador.
704
00:26:33,022 --> 00:26:34,823
And like father Crespi's
705
00:26:34,857 --> 00:26:36,991
objects, some seem to have
706
00:26:37,026 --> 00:26:38,760
uncanny resemblances to other
707
00:26:38,794 --> 00:26:41,362
cultures that, according to
708
00:26:41,396 --> 00:26:43,364
mainstream archeology, ancient
709
00:26:43,398 --> 00:26:45,367
Ecuadorians could not have had
710
00:26:45,401 --> 00:26:47,402
any knowledge of.
711
00:26:47,436 --> 00:26:49,437
This collection
712
00:26:49,471 --> 00:26:51,373
is made up of what my father
713
00:26:51,407 --> 00:26:52,874
believed to be the formative
714
00:26:52,909 --> 00:26:54,910
cultures of Ecuador.
715
00:26:54,945 --> 00:26:57,513
This is from the coastal culture
716
00:26:57,548 --> 00:27:01,418
from 600 bc to 1600 ad, and this
717
00:27:01,452 --> 00:27:03,553
is very humanlike, but at the
718
00:27:03,588 --> 00:27:04,855
same time, some features have
719
00:27:04,889 --> 00:27:05,922
been exaggerated.
720
00:27:05,957 --> 00:27:08,025
Here, you've got the smaller
721
00:27:08,059 --> 00:27:09,893
face with the kind of bigger
722
00:27:09,928 --> 00:27:12,396
ears, and the elongated skull
723
00:27:12,430 --> 00:27:14,498
shape on the head.
724
00:27:14,499 --> 00:27:16,533
The top of this
725
00:27:16,567 --> 00:27:18,701
head looks like an elongated
726
00:27:18,736 --> 00:27:21,704
cranium, an elongated skull,
727
00:27:21,739 --> 00:27:24,606
and it is identical to this
728
00:27:24,641 --> 00:27:27,810
Egyptian statue that we find
729
00:27:27,844 --> 00:27:29,878
all over Egypt.
730
00:27:29,913 --> 00:27:32,882
To see this picture right here
731
00:27:32,916 --> 00:27:35,550
and compare it to the Egyptian
732
00:27:35,585 --> 00:27:37,618
bust we see right here, it's
733
00:27:37,653 --> 00:27:39,887
uncanny... the head shape is
734
00:27:39,922 --> 00:27:43,090
identical.
735
00:27:43,091 --> 00:27:45,426
Do Stanley Hall's
736
00:27:45,460 --> 00:27:47,427
artifacts show evidence that
737
00:27:47,462 --> 00:27:49,496
Egyptian cultures could have
738
00:27:49,530 --> 00:27:51,431
crossed the oceans to influence
739
00:27:51,465 --> 00:27:54,901
South American culture?
740
00:27:54,935 --> 00:27:57,069
Or is it possible that both were
741
00:27:57,104 --> 00:28:00,439
influenced by another culture...
742
00:28:00,473 --> 00:28:03,442
one from beyond our world?
743
00:28:03,476 --> 00:28:06,645
If so, were the strange writings
744
00:28:06,679 --> 00:28:08,481
inscribed on father Crespi's now
745
00:28:08,515 --> 00:28:10,650
missing metal tablets actual
746
00:28:10,684 --> 00:28:15,455
messages from an alien world?
747
00:28:15,489 --> 00:28:17,491
My father went
748
00:28:17,525 --> 00:28:19,092
as far as saying it was possibly
749
00:28:19,126 --> 00:28:20,761
an advanced civilization, but
750
00:28:20,795 --> 00:28:23,130
we can't know for certain until
751
00:28:23,165 --> 00:28:26,934
this library is found.
752
00:28:26,968 --> 00:28:28,602
So this metallic
753
00:28:28,637 --> 00:28:30,971
library is still there in
754
00:28:31,006 --> 00:28:34,475
Ecuador in a subterranean cave.
755
00:28:34,510 --> 00:28:37,512
There are still Indian tribes
756
00:28:37,546 --> 00:28:38,947
living there.
757
00:28:38,981 --> 00:28:40,481
They are still protecting the
758
00:28:40,516 --> 00:28:43,952
old treasure.
759
00:28:43,986 --> 00:28:45,687
So it's going to
760
00:28:45,721 --> 00:28:47,522
push the boundaries of academia
761
00:28:47,557 --> 00:28:49,024
once this cave system has
762
00:28:49,058 --> 00:28:50,492
been found.
763
00:28:50,527 --> 00:28:52,494
And whether it is inca or
764
00:28:52,528 --> 00:28:53,963
extraterrestrial, it doesn't
765
00:28:53,997 --> 00:28:55,164
really matter at this moment
766
00:28:55,199 --> 00:28:56,499
in time.
767
00:28:56,533 --> 00:28:57,734
Let's get to this cave and see
768
00:28:57,768 --> 00:28:59,502
what is in there.
769
00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:01,538
Perhaps Tayos has
770
00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:03,073
yet to reveal all of its
771
00:29:03,108 --> 00:29:05,876
secrets, but more than 700 Miles
772
00:29:05,911 --> 00:29:07,844
to the north, there is another
773
00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:10,079
cave... one that may prove that
774
00:29:10,114 --> 00:29:12,515
the Mayan underworld and the
775
00:29:12,549 --> 00:29:13,983
terrifying gods who ruled it
776
00:29:14,017 --> 00:29:17,153
were not only very real, but
777
00:29:17,187 --> 00:29:20,055
thirsty for human blood.
778
00:29:27,328 --> 00:29:28,461
The Yucat�n
779
00:29:28,496 --> 00:29:30,964
peninsula...
780
00:29:30,998 --> 00:29:32,899
One of Mexico's premier
781
00:29:32,934 --> 00:29:37,137
tourist destinations.
782
00:29:37,172 --> 00:29:40,140
Besides scenic beaches, the area
783
00:29:40,174 --> 00:29:42,142
is covered by thick jungle and
784
00:29:42,176 --> 00:29:44,345
pockmarked by massive sinkholes
785
00:29:44,379 --> 00:29:48,215
known as Cenotes.
786
00:29:48,250 --> 00:29:50,851
The ground beneath the jungle is
787
00:29:50,885 --> 00:29:54,854
also honeycombed with caves.
788
00:29:54,888 --> 00:29:58,324
But here, in 2007, Mexican
789
00:29:58,358 --> 00:30:00,860
archaeologist Guillermo de Anda
790
00:30:00,894 --> 00:30:03,863
found a cave like no other.
791
00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:05,998
Following clues in the records
792
00:30:06,033 --> 00:30:08,200
of 17th-century Spanish priests
793
00:30:08,235 --> 00:30:10,269
that hinted at the existence of
794
00:30:10,303 --> 00:30:12,371
a mysterious underground Mayan
795
00:30:12,405 --> 00:30:16,876
temple deep in the jungle,
796
00:30:16,910 --> 00:30:19,245
de Anda found a series of caves
797
00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:20,546
near the village of
798
00:30:20,581 --> 00:30:23,883
Tahtzibichen...
799
00:30:23,918 --> 00:30:26,186
Caves not seen for hundreds of
800
00:30:26,221 --> 00:30:28,889
years, and with entrances
801
00:30:28,924 --> 00:30:30,458
submerged beneath centuries
802
00:30:30,492 --> 00:30:32,894
of floodwater.
803
00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:36,531
Sometimes
804
00:30:36,565 --> 00:30:37,899
we have to dive into these
805
00:30:37,933 --> 00:30:39,100
caves.
806
00:30:39,134 --> 00:30:42,203
Sometimes they go very deep.
807
00:30:42,238 --> 00:30:44,472
The average depth of our
808
00:30:44,507 --> 00:30:47,909
research is about 140, 150 feet,
809
00:30:47,943 --> 00:30:49,911
but we know of caves much deeper
810
00:30:49,945 --> 00:30:51,946
than that.
811
00:30:51,947 --> 00:30:53,914
At first, de Anda
812
00:30:53,949 --> 00:30:55,550
and his team found carved stone
813
00:30:55,584 --> 00:30:57,552
heads and broken pillars with
814
00:30:57,586 --> 00:30:59,387
1,900-year-old Mayan
815
00:30:59,422 --> 00:31:02,290
inscriptions.
816
00:31:02,325 --> 00:31:04,159
We have found
817
00:31:04,193 --> 00:31:06,395
columns under the water, and
818
00:31:06,429 --> 00:31:09,331
these columns are amazing
819
00:31:09,366 --> 00:31:10,933
because some of them are five
820
00:31:10,967 --> 00:31:13,069
feet high and at least ten
821
00:31:13,103 --> 00:31:16,472
feet wide.
822
00:31:16,506 --> 00:31:18,074
But as de Anda
823
00:31:18,108 --> 00:31:19,976
surfaced in the dry areas of the
824
00:31:20,010 --> 00:31:22,245
cave, he found what he believed
825
00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:23,946
to be the remains of a massive
826
00:31:23,981 --> 00:31:26,582
underground temple complex,
827
00:31:26,617 --> 00:31:29,986
including a concrete road,
828
00:31:30,020 --> 00:31:34,991
a crumbled pyramid and bones.
829
00:31:35,025 --> 00:31:38,027
But why was it here?
830
00:31:38,028 --> 00:31:39,996
The Mayans
831
00:31:40,030 --> 00:31:41,998
themselves have, uh, very
832
00:31:42,032 --> 00:31:43,600
intriguing legends of an
833
00:31:43,634 --> 00:31:45,635
underground world called
834
00:31:45,669 --> 00:31:48,204
Xibalba.
835
00:31:48,238 --> 00:31:49,539
And it's believed now by
836
00:31:49,573 --> 00:31:51,507
archaeologists that what they
837
00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:53,977
found is what the Mayans thought
838
00:31:54,011 --> 00:31:56,979
was the entrance to this
839
00:31:57,014 --> 00:31:59,616
legendary underground world
840
00:31:59,650 --> 00:32:01,618
that features prominently in
841
00:32:01,652 --> 00:32:03,653
the Popol Vuh.
842
00:32:03,654 --> 00:32:05,354
Could this dark and
843
00:32:05,389 --> 00:32:07,623
mysterious cave really be the
844
00:32:07,657 --> 00:32:09,291
underground world mentioned
845
00:32:09,325 --> 00:32:13,562
in the Mayan legends?
846
00:32:13,596 --> 00:32:16,165
According to the Popol Vuh, the
847
00:32:16,199 --> 00:32:17,632
written record of Mayan
848
00:32:17,667 --> 00:32:19,668
mythology, the underworld
849
00:32:19,702 --> 00:32:21,536
kingdom of Xibalba, meaning
850
00:32:21,571 --> 00:32:24,006
"the place of fear," was ruled
851
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,308
by the cruel lords of the dead,
852
00:32:26,342 --> 00:32:28,210
who made those who entered their
853
00:32:28,244 --> 00:32:30,078
realm pass through a series
854
00:32:30,113 --> 00:32:32,214
of torture chambers, involving
855
00:32:32,248 --> 00:32:36,252
blood, darkness, cold, knives,
856
00:32:36,286 --> 00:32:39,488
bats and jaguars.
857
00:32:42,592 --> 00:32:44,694
We see here in this
858
00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:46,563
one archaeological spot an
859
00:32:46,597 --> 00:32:48,665
actual physical representation
860
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,667
of what the Mayans felt the soul
861
00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:52,702
had to go through.
862
00:32:52,703 --> 00:32:54,203
Might, perhaps,
863
00:32:54,238 --> 00:32:56,038
this cave of stalactites, sharp
864
00:32:56,073 --> 00:32:57,673
enough to Pierce flesh,
865
00:32:57,708 --> 00:32:59,508
represent the "room of knives"
866
00:32:59,543 --> 00:33:01,576
in the Popol Vuh?
867
00:33:01,611 --> 00:33:03,411
There is also, arguably, a
868
00:33:03,446 --> 00:33:05,380
"room of bats," and a trench
869
00:33:05,414 --> 00:33:06,681
that might once have been
870
00:33:06,715 --> 00:33:08,516
filled with blood, like the
871
00:33:08,551 --> 00:33:10,084
river of blood in the story
872
00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:11,452
that Mayan pilgrims had to
873
00:33:11,487 --> 00:33:13,187
cross over.
874
00:33:13,222 --> 00:33:14,722
There are places of cold and
875
00:33:14,757 --> 00:33:17,526
darkness... and even a room with
876
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,062
carvings of jaguars.
877
00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:23,533
These caves were
878
00:33:23,567 --> 00:33:25,202
littered with large patches of
879
00:33:25,236 --> 00:33:26,737
spiders and reptiles and all
880
00:33:26,771 --> 00:33:29,106
types of tumultuous things that
881
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:30,441
a human really wouldn't want to
882
00:33:30,475 --> 00:33:32,610
be exposed to.
883
00:33:32,645 --> 00:33:34,446
Although some
884
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,080
archaeologists claim this
885
00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:37,716
unique site was simply modeled
886
00:33:37,750 --> 00:33:39,384
after the description of
887
00:33:39,418 --> 00:33:41,620
Xibalba in the Popol Vuh, de
888
00:33:41,654 --> 00:33:43,221
Anda insists that items from
889
00:33:43,254 --> 00:33:45,220
the cave date back to a time
890
00:33:45,255 --> 00:33:47,122
centuries before the Mayan holy
891
00:33:47,157 --> 00:33:50,091
book was written.
892
00:33:50,126 --> 00:33:51,493
It's not that there
893
00:33:51,527 --> 00:33:53,094
was this document and
894
00:33:53,129 --> 00:33:55,430
they, uh, tried to, uh, imitate
895
00:33:55,465 --> 00:33:57,099
what the document said.
896
00:33:57,133 --> 00:33:58,600
I think it's all the other way
897
00:33:58,635 --> 00:34:00,335
around.
898
00:34:00,370 --> 00:34:03,105
We believe that we have found
899
00:34:03,139 --> 00:34:04,406
the particular Xibalba of the
900
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,408
central part of the Yucat�n.
901
00:34:06,443 --> 00:34:08,177
This is why we do believe it was
902
00:34:08,211 --> 00:34:11,147
a real place.
903
00:34:11,181 --> 00:34:12,581
But if Xibalba is
904
00:34:12,615 --> 00:34:14,115
real, were the lords of the
905
00:34:14,150 --> 00:34:17,651
dead also real?
906
00:34:17,686 --> 00:34:19,452
And if so, who or what were
907
00:34:19,487 --> 00:34:22,188
they?
908
00:34:22,189 --> 00:34:24,523
According to the
909
00:34:24,557 --> 00:34:26,424
Chilam Balam book, which is the
910
00:34:26,459 --> 00:34:28,592
book of the Jaguar priests, it
911
00:34:28,627 --> 00:34:30,194
says in there, that at that
912
00:34:30,228 --> 00:34:34,431
time "the road to the stars
913
00:34:34,465 --> 00:34:37,134
descended from the sky, and the
914
00:34:37,168 --> 00:34:42,573
"13 and nine gods came to earth."
915
00:34:42,574 --> 00:34:43,641
I'm sorry.
916
00:34:43,675 --> 00:34:45,209
"Road to the stars," "descended
917
00:34:45,243 --> 00:34:46,210
from the sky."
918
00:34:46,244 --> 00:34:47,444
Can it be more clear?
919
00:34:47,479 --> 00:34:48,712
I don't think so.
920
00:34:48,747 --> 00:34:50,181
Right there we have a direct
921
00:34:50,215 --> 00:34:52,150
reference to someone that has
922
00:34:52,184 --> 00:34:54,818
arrived from outer space, and
923
00:34:54,853 --> 00:34:56,186
we have a written record about
924
00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:57,621
this.
925
00:34:57,655 --> 00:34:59,622
Could the "lords of
926
00:34:59,656 --> 00:35:02,324
Xibalba" and other Mayan gods
927
00:35:02,359 --> 00:35:03,625
really have been
928
00:35:03,660 --> 00:35:07,428
extraterrestrial travelers?
929
00:35:07,462 --> 00:35:10,164
If so, why did they display
930
00:35:10,198 --> 00:35:11,765
such a thirst for blood and
931
00:35:11,799 --> 00:35:14,167
torture?
932
00:35:14,168 --> 00:35:15,168
I do not believe
933
00:35:15,202 --> 00:35:16,202
human sacrifice was
934
00:35:16,237 --> 00:35:18,204
originally taught by the ets.
935
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,606
I believe it came in the
936
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,341
aftermath of when the original
937
00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:23,143
teachers of humankind had
938
00:35:23,177 --> 00:35:25,645
arrived.
939
00:35:25,646 --> 00:35:28,147
The ancient gods, which were
940
00:35:28,182 --> 00:35:29,382
really just humans from
941
00:35:29,416 --> 00:35:31,550
another world, withdrew from the
942
00:35:31,584 --> 00:35:33,552
area, and the people became
943
00:35:33,586 --> 00:35:35,153
distraught.
944
00:35:35,187 --> 00:35:36,487
The more they became
945
00:35:36,522 --> 00:35:39,157
distraught, the more they took
946
00:35:39,191 --> 00:35:40,792
the original mythology and
947
00:35:40,826 --> 00:35:42,360
interpreted it in a much more
948
00:35:42,394 --> 00:35:43,794
literal way.
949
00:35:43,829 --> 00:35:45,362
So what might have started out
950
00:35:45,397 --> 00:35:47,164
as the myth about the sun dying
951
00:35:47,198 --> 00:35:49,166
and being reborn when it sinks
952
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,801
below the horizon, becomes
953
00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:52,669
literally the idea of killing
954
00:35:52,703 --> 00:35:54,470
people to make sure that the
955
00:35:54,505 --> 00:35:57,640
sun is gonna come back up.
956
00:35:57,674 --> 00:35:59,174
As archaeologists
957
00:35:59,209 --> 00:36:00,809
and explorers continue to
958
00:36:00,843 --> 00:36:03,211
ununcover sites where legend and
959
00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:05,580
reality meet, could there be
960
00:36:05,614 --> 00:36:07,715
even more evidence that
961
00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:09,717
mankind's history on this planet
962
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:11,684
is much more profound than what
963
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,421
we currently understand?
964
00:36:14,455 --> 00:36:15,689
There are those who believe
965
00:36:15,723 --> 00:36:17,624
the secret lies even deeper
966
00:36:17,658 --> 00:36:19,559
within the earth...
967
00:36:19,593 --> 00:36:23,229
As deep as its very core.
968
00:36:31,583 --> 00:36:34,351
The north pole...
969
00:36:34,385 --> 00:36:35,819
a seemingly endless wasteland of
970
00:36:35,853 --> 00:36:38,589
arctic ice, shrouded in darkness
971
00:36:38,623 --> 00:36:41,925
for six months of every year.
972
00:36:41,959 --> 00:36:44,360
Here, there is no food, no
973
00:36:44,395 --> 00:36:46,529
shelter, not even a cave to
974
00:36:46,563 --> 00:36:48,364
hide from the slashing winds
975
00:36:48,398 --> 00:36:49,932
and temperatures that can dive
976
00:36:49,967 --> 00:36:53,569
to 90 degrees below zero.
977
00:36:53,570 --> 00:36:55,538
But according to mainstream
978
00:36:55,572 --> 00:36:57,774
geology, beneath the pole and
979
00:36:57,809 --> 00:36:59,576
the arctic ocean lies the
980
00:36:59,611 --> 00:37:02,079
earth's mostly rocky crust, up
981
00:37:02,114 --> 00:37:05,049
to 30 Miles thick.
982
00:37:05,084 --> 00:37:06,951
Below this is molten rock,
983
00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:08,586
heated by the planet's spinning
984
00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,788
core, with a solid center of
985
00:37:10,823 --> 00:37:12,557
iron and nickel the size of the
986
00:37:12,591 --> 00:37:14,860
moon.
987
00:37:14,861 --> 00:37:16,562
Scientists have deduced this
988
00:37:16,596 --> 00:37:17,829
information from measurements
989
00:37:17,863 --> 00:37:21,066
of earth's gravity, magnetism
990
00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:23,602
and seismic waves.
991
00:37:23,636 --> 00:37:26,004
But no one has ever seen these
992
00:37:26,038 --> 00:37:28,005
areas.
993
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,807
Could the frozen surface of the
994
00:37:29,842 --> 00:37:32,610
pole be hiding a gateway to a
995
00:37:32,644 --> 00:37:37,448
world within our surface world?
996
00:37:37,483 --> 00:37:40,084
There are those who believe the
997
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:42,520
answer is, "yes."
998
00:37:44,490 --> 00:37:46,758
And what they believe is known
999
00:37:46,792 --> 00:37:49,794
as the hollow earth theory.
1000
00:37:49,795 --> 00:37:51,596
The hollow
1001
00:37:51,630 --> 00:37:53,699
earth theory is that, this earth
1002
00:37:53,733 --> 00:37:56,869
is not molten inside.
1003
00:37:56,870 --> 00:37:59,037
It is actually hollow, and that
1004
00:37:59,072 --> 00:38:00,139
suspended in the hollow of the
1005
00:38:00,173 --> 00:38:02,775
earth is an inner sun.
1006
00:38:04,644 --> 00:38:05,945
Surprisingly, the
1007
00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:07,813
notion of a hollow earth was
1008
00:38:07,847 --> 00:38:10,116
first given scientific credence
1009
00:38:10,150 --> 00:38:11,617
by one of the founders of
1010
00:38:11,652 --> 00:38:14,020
modern astronomy.
1011
00:38:14,055 --> 00:38:15,622
The idea that
1012
00:38:15,656 --> 00:38:17,724
the earth might be hollow, as a
1013
00:38:17,758 --> 00:38:19,792
scientific notion, dates back
1014
00:38:19,827 --> 00:38:21,827
to the astronomer Edmund Halley
1015
00:38:21,862 --> 00:38:26,066
who is best known for his comet.
1016
00:38:26,067 --> 00:38:29,669
In 1691 he presented to the
1017
00:38:29,704 --> 00:38:31,872
London royal society his
1018
00:38:31,906 --> 00:38:34,641
hypothesis that the earth is
1019
00:38:34,676 --> 00:38:37,144
hollow and contains several
1020
00:38:37,178 --> 00:38:39,746
little spheres inside.
1021
00:38:39,747 --> 00:38:41,749
Sort of like those Russian
1022
00:38:41,784 --> 00:38:43,818
Matryoshska dolls.
1023
00:38:43,852 --> 00:38:45,820
He was hypothesizing this for a
1024
00:38:45,854 --> 00:38:48,056
very practical reason.
1025
00:38:48,090 --> 00:38:50,826
The earth's magnetic pole moved
1026
00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:52,761
a little bit every year to the
1027
00:38:52,795 --> 00:38:56,164
west, and his idea was that our
1028
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:59,000
outer sphere had inner spheres
1029
00:38:59,034 --> 00:39:00,735
that turned independently of
1030
00:39:00,769 --> 00:39:03,037
the outer one.
1031
00:39:03,071 --> 00:39:05,005
He also suggested that these
1032
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,840
interior spheres would also be
1033
00:39:06,874 --> 00:39:10,743
able to support life.
1034
00:39:10,778 --> 00:39:12,846
In 1818, former
1035
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,215
U.S. army Captain John Cleves
1036
00:39:15,249 --> 00:39:18,552
Symmes, Jr., announced that
1037
00:39:18,587 --> 00:39:19,854
there were vast openings at each
1038
00:39:19,888 --> 00:39:22,190
pole where we could enter
1039
00:39:22,224 --> 00:39:24,025
inner earth.
1040
00:39:24,060 --> 00:39:26,628
With Symmes, the
1041
00:39:26,663 --> 00:39:28,064
idea of a hollow earth gets tied
1042
00:39:28,098 --> 00:39:30,900
into exploring for the pole.
1043
00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:32,035
At this point, nobody had
1044
00:39:32,069 --> 00:39:33,203
actually seen Antarctica, for
1045
00:39:33,237 --> 00:39:34,871
instance.
1046
00:39:34,905 --> 00:39:37,707
The hollow earth
1047
00:39:37,741 --> 00:39:39,141
Theo again captured the
1048
00:39:39,176 --> 00:39:42,044
public's imagination in 1864
1049
00:39:42,078 --> 00:39:44,146
with the release of Jules
1050
00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:46,114
Verne's second novel, a journey
1051
00:39:46,148 --> 00:39:48,983
to the center of the earth.
1052
00:39:49,018 --> 00:39:50,985
The novel takes an
1053
00:39:51,019 --> 00:39:53,755
Icelandic guide and a Professor
1054
00:39:53,789 --> 00:39:55,991
and a young man down into the
1055
00:39:56,025 --> 00:39:58,093
center of the earth.
1056
00:39:58,128 --> 00:39:59,128
Journey to the center of the
1057
00:39:59,162 --> 00:40:00,596
earth could really have been
1058
00:40:00,630 --> 00:40:01,898
called a journey to the center
1059
00:40:01,932 --> 00:40:03,733
of geology.
1060
00:40:03,767 --> 00:40:05,168
Geology and paleontology were a
1061
00:40:05,202 --> 00:40:06,903
very hot topic in the early
1062
00:40:06,938 --> 00:40:09,239
1860's and there's a lot of
1063
00:40:09,274 --> 00:40:11,108
discussion of that in journey
1064
00:40:11,143 --> 00:40:13,778
to the center of the earth.
1065
00:40:13,812 --> 00:40:15,079
>> Narrator but while verne
1066
00:40:15,114 --> 00:40:16,647
popularized the idea that
1067
00:40:16,682 --> 00:40:17,915
extinct life forms might still
1068
00:40:17,950 --> 00:40:20,184
exist inside the earth, others
1069
00:40:20,218 --> 00:40:21,919
envisioned that the earth
1070
00:40:21,953 --> 00:40:23,854
contained advanced underground
1071
00:40:23,889 --> 00:40:25,789
civilizations.
1072
00:40:25,824 --> 00:40:27,257
Supposedly, they
1073
00:40:27,292 --> 00:40:30,126
have advanced technology.
1074
00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:31,861
They've got ray guns and
1075
00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:33,129
special weapons.
1076
00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:35,699
And even they have flying
1077
00:40:35,733 --> 00:40:38,668
saucers, other craft like that.
1078
00:40:38,669 --> 00:40:40,637
But is there any
1079
00:40:40,671 --> 00:40:42,639
evidence that such fantastic
1080
00:40:42,674 --> 00:40:44,275
claims could be true?
1081
00:40:44,309 --> 00:40:46,277
And has anyone actually been to
1082
00:40:46,312 --> 00:40:49,047
the world within our earth?
1083
00:40:49,081 --> 00:40:50,215
Proponents of the hollow earth
1084
00:40:50,249 --> 00:40:52,050
theory say, "yes," and that
1085
00:40:52,085 --> 00:40:53,785
one of the explorers was no
1086
00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:55,787
less a luminary than famed
1087
00:40:55,821 --> 00:40:57,889
polar pioneer admiral Richard e.
1088
00:40:57,923 --> 00:40:59,657
Byrd.
1089
00:40:59,691 --> 00:41:01,692
In the 1920s, byrd made world
1090
00:41:01,727 --> 00:41:03,728
headlines by flying over the
1091
00:41:03,762 --> 00:41:05,663
north pole, and by becoming the
1092
00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:07,899
first man to fly solo over the
1093
00:41:07,933 --> 00:41:10,134
South pole.
1094
00:41:10,169 --> 00:41:12,736
But hollow earth theorists
1095
00:41:12,771 --> 00:41:14,071
believe that the famous
1096
00:41:14,105 --> 00:41:16,907
explorer went even farther, and
1097
00:41:16,941 --> 00:41:21,144
that, on February 19, 1947,
1098
00:41:21,179 --> 00:41:23,046
admiral byrd piloted a plane
1099
00:41:23,081 --> 00:41:24,214
through a hole near the north
1100
00:41:24,248 --> 00:41:26,317
pole into the interior of the
1101
00:41:26,351 --> 00:41:28,185
earth.
1102
00:41:28,220 --> 00:41:29,753
A flying saucer type
1103
00:41:29,787 --> 00:41:31,321
craft took control of his
1104
00:41:31,356 --> 00:41:33,090
airplane, with some kind of
1105
00:41:33,124 --> 00:41:37,762
tractor beam... and they landed
1106
00:41:37,796 --> 00:41:39,830
him near an inner earth city.
1107
00:41:39,865 --> 00:41:41,199
And the message that they had
1108
00:41:41,233 --> 00:41:43,167
for us was that they consider
1109
00:41:43,202 --> 00:41:45,236
themselves the guardians of
1110
00:41:45,271 --> 00:41:47,739
this planet, okay?
1111
00:41:47,774 --> 00:41:49,241
He says, "we don't approve of
1112
00:41:49,275 --> 00:41:51,244
you people using nuclear
1113
00:41:51,278 --> 00:41:52,378
weapons."
1114
00:41:52,413 --> 00:41:53,746
We had just blown up a couple
1115
00:41:53,781 --> 00:41:56,282
of cities in Japan a couple of
1116
00:41:56,316 --> 00:41:59,852
years before, so this was the
1117
00:41:59,886 --> 00:42:02,354
message that he was given.
1118
00:42:02,389 --> 00:42:04,724
But when he got to Washington,
1119
00:42:04,758 --> 00:42:06,225
they put a lid of secrecy on
1120
00:42:06,259 --> 00:42:08,093
this, that this was not to go
1121
00:42:08,128 --> 00:42:10,796
out.
1122
00:42:10,830 --> 00:42:12,730
Some say admiral
1123
00:42:12,765 --> 00:42:14,132
Byrd's own account of this
1124
00:42:14,166 --> 00:42:16,367
flight into the hollow earth is
1125
00:42:16,402 --> 00:42:18,369
detailed in his secret diary,
1126
00:42:18,404 --> 00:42:21,105
published in the 1990s, almost
1127
00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:23,740
four decades after his death.
1128
00:42:23,775 --> 00:42:25,876
But skeptics claim the diary is
1129
00:42:25,910 --> 00:42:28,745
a forgery and point out that in
1130
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:31,247
February 1947, at the time
1131
00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:33,082
admiral byrd was supposedly
1132
00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:34,750
visiting this other world
1133
00:42:34,785 --> 00:42:37,286
underneath the north pole, he
1134
00:42:37,321 --> 00:42:39,155
was actually part of a vast
1135
00:42:39,190 --> 00:42:42,225
4,700-man naval exploration
1136
00:42:42,259 --> 00:42:44,427
called "operation high jump,"
1137
00:42:44,462 --> 00:42:46,830
12,000 Miles away, near the
1138
00:42:46,864 --> 00:42:49,399
South pole.
1139
00:42:49,434 --> 00:42:51,769
But could Byrd's inclusion in
1140
00:42:51,804 --> 00:42:53,404
this large military operation
1141
00:42:53,439 --> 00:42:55,841
at the South pole have been
1142
00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:58,143
merely a cover story?
1143
00:42:58,178 --> 00:43:00,913
Some people claim it was, and
1144
00:43:00,947 --> 00:43:02,916
this allowed him to slip away
1145
00:43:02,950 --> 00:43:04,918
to the other end of the planet,
1146
00:43:04,952 --> 00:43:07,821
unnoticed by the media.
1147
00:43:07,822 --> 00:43:08,789
Admiral
1148
00:43:08,824 --> 00:43:10,291
byrd, the rumor was, found a
1149
00:43:10,326 --> 00:43:12,293
rld of flying machines, and
1150
00:43:12,327 --> 00:43:14,095
people, and... more advanced
1151
00:43:14,129 --> 00:43:15,196
than us...
1152
00:43:15,230 --> 00:43:16,163
And that they helped him, and
1153
00:43:16,197 --> 00:43:18,466
then he left again.
1154
00:43:18,467 --> 00:43:20,301
It's a myth.
1155
00:43:20,335 --> 00:43:21,803
Nobody's really been able to
1156
00:43:21,837 --> 00:43:24,805
prove it, but it's a great myth.
1157
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,340
Could there really
1158
00:43:26,374 --> 00:43:28,175
be vast, open spaces within the
1159
00:43:28,209 --> 00:43:29,810
earth where advanced
1160
00:43:29,844 --> 00:43:32,446
civilizations live?
1161
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Could extraterrestrial gods
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really have come to earth,
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centuries ago, and hidden the
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00:43:39,221 --> 00:43:40,454
evidence of their journeys deep
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00:43:40,488 --> 00:43:43,224
within caves and tunnels?
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00:43:43,258 --> 00:43:44,825
Perhaps we have only just
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00:43:44,860 --> 00:43:46,193
scratched the surface of our
1168
00:43:46,228 --> 00:43:49,163
planet's underground mysteries.
1169
00:43:49,197 --> 00:43:51,466
If so, what clues to our
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00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:53,200
distant past might still be
1171
00:43:53,235 --> 00:43:54,969
waiting to be found, and
1172
00:43:55,003 --> 00:43:57,137
hiding in the darkness?