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NARRATOR:
Remote mountain locations

-linked to elusive creatures.
-(growling)

-(dripping)
-Vast cavern systems

said to shelter
the supernatural.

And hidden recesses
of the planet

rumored to serve
as alien outposts.

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.

It's so amazing to think about
these extraterrestrial lairs

hidden away
in these remote places-

mountains, caves, islands.

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.

? ?

In many ancient cultures,

people wrote about sacred

and mysterious places
where otherworldly beings

-were believed to dwell.
-GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Yeah.

And these beings are often said

to hide out
in very remote locations,

like, for example,
deep inside a cave

or high on top of a mountain.

And what's so interesting
is that these stories

-happened globally.
-DAVID CHILDRESS: Yeah.

So are these accounts
of real beings

that have been encountered
by ancient people?

And are these dwellings

some kind
of extraterrestrial lairs?

We explored all this

in a 2014 episode
of Ancient Aliens

called "Forbidden Caves."

(birds singing)

NARRATOR:
Central India.

July 2014.

While exploring caves
in the region of Charama,

which are known to contain
prehistoric artwork

dating as far back
as 10,000 years,

an Indian archaeologist,
J.R. Bhagat,

makes a stunning discovery.

The Indian government

and-and Times of India
had a major story

about rock paintings
found recently in Central India

that seem to show
these tall beings.

And they do not seem to have
a-a nose or a mouth.

And nearby is
this three-legged disc.

The Times of India
actually proposed the idea,

what if what
we have depicted here

are some type
of extraterrestrials

or at least some type
of flying craft?

Because it's the basis for much
of the Hindu pantheon of gods.

NARRATOR: Ancient Hindu texts
like the Vedas and the Puranas

record stories
about extraterrestrials

existing on other planets.

And the Mahabharata,

one of ancient India's
two major Sanskrit epics,

contains stories
about gods coming to Earth

in flying machines.

Even the legends
specific to this region

tell of a mysterious race
of beings

known as the Rohela...

...who descended from the sky

and abducted local villagers.

Could the newly unearthed
cave art be a visual record

that extraterrestrials
really visited here?

There was an obsession
of ancient human beings

to depict things

that they saw.

And I think they did it
with carvings on caves

because that's what they saw.

NARRATOR:
But what is it about caves

that made them
the ideal canvases

for ancient peoples
to chronicle their experiences?

HENRY:
Caves are hugely significant

in ancient mythology
and-and legends,

especially about the gods.

They seem to be
kind of a liminal point,

a boundary place where the gods
and humans can meet.

CHILDRESS:
There is a whole hidden underground world

of planet Earth that we're only
just now beginning to discover.

We don't know what's there.

We could be discovering
all kinds of amazing things.

And it's possible that there are
entire cities under the earth.

Whole cavern metropolises

that are talked about
in legends.

NARRATOR:
But while ancient cave art often reveals

the type of animals our earliest
ancestors encountered

and their means
for hunting them,

there is a surprising number
of depictions

of strange-looking figures
and objects

that defy
any conventional explanation.

In Australia,
the Wandjina people,

they painted images
on their caves

which eerily looks like
the so-called Greys

of alien abduction lore today.

You have the strange petroglyphs

in the Hoggar Mountains
of southern Algeria.

Uh, you've got strange rock art,
too, in the American Southwest.

And when you look at it

and even have the natives
explain it to you,

they say things like,
"Oh, yes, he's the Martian god"

or "These are the star people
coming from the sky."

NARRATOR: How do we explain
so many different cultures

across thousands of years
and thousands of miles

producing such consistent
visual representations?

TSOUKALOS:
The ones

that were discovered
in some of the African caves,

it's too similar
to what has been discovered

on every continent for it
to be complete coincidence.

So it's this whole idea of the
spark of initial inspiration.

What is it that they witnessed?

And could it be that they
witnessed extraterrestrials?

One of the more intriguing
aspects of the cave paintings

that seem to show aliens
is why are they inside caves.

This has sort of given rise
to the theory

that maybe these aliens
perhaps have permanent bases

on the planet underground.

Maybe ancient man saw them

coming out of some
of these caves and caverns

and then realized
there was a relationship

between the aliens
and the caves.

NARRATOR:
In ancient times,

caves were places of shelter.

But is it possible our ancestors
were also using caves

to record
and protect information

about extraterrestrial beings

who played a role
in our existence?

Perhaps the answer can be found
halfway around the world

in the American Southwest.

(wind blowing)

The Grand Canyon.

This epic 277-mile-long,
one-mile-deep fissure

exposes millions of years
of geologic strata.

Imprinted onto this dramatic
landscape are petroglyphs

that depict everyday life
as experienced

by the first inhabitants
of the region.

But in one of the most remote
corners of the canyon

is a small cave covered with
artwork that mystifies experts.

Some refer to it
as the Shaman's Panel,

because it appears to depict
scenes of the supernatural.

All around the Grand Canyon are
unusual sites and sacred sites.

And then you have the Shaman's
Panel there in the Grand Canyon,

which seems to show
these long, tall,

extraterrestrial-type figures.

NARRATOR:
Like the strange-looking beings

found in the cave
in Charama, India,

the figures depicted
on the Shaman's Panel

are oddly elongated
and are also thought

to have been created
as many as 10,000 years ago.

And just as in Charama,

the native Hopi people here
also have detailed accounts

of extraterrestrials
who came down to Earth.

CHILDRESS:
In the Southwest, the Pueblo Indians,

such as the Zuni
and-and the Hopi,

believe that there is
an entrance

into an underground world

and it is located
in the Grand Canyon.

And it's this
mythological underworld,

uh, of caves

and extraterrestrials,

the ant people.

The Hopi have this concept
of the ant people.

Uh, the ant people
are, um, very thin.

They have elongated heads.

And the ancestral Hopi people
did make pictures

of these ant people,

which still survive today.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible the rock art found here

and elsewhere around the world

is evidence that
the Earth's first inhabitants

had contact
with otherworldly beings?

If so, might there be
some significance to the fact

that many
of these strange petroglyphs

are found in and around caves?

And could hidden corners
of the Earth

serve
as extraterrestrial hideouts,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining sacred offerings

left thousands of feet
above sea level

in the Andes.

One thing that you can find
in many cultures

is the idea of spirits living
in remote mountain areas.

But in a lot of cases,
they don't sound like spirits.

They have physical bodies, and
they come from specific stars.

TSOUKALOS:
Right.

Like, for example, in Peru,

where the indigenous people
claim

that there are mountain spirits
called the Apu

whom they associate
with the Pleiadian star cluster.

HENRY:
Right. So,

are we talking about spirits?

Or are the Apu

extraterrestrials living
in the mountains of Peru?

NARRATOR:
The Peruvian Andes.

2009.

Tens of thousands of people
from all over the region

journey to the Sinakara Valley

near Ausangate Mountain...

-(drumming)
-(chanting)

...for the Quyllurit'i
or Snow Star Festival.

? ?

Historical records show
that local Catholics adopted

this annual celebration
back in 1780.

But most experts agree

it likely dates back hundreds

and possibly thousands
of years earlier.

And although no one
knows exactly when

or why the Snow Star Festival
was started,

oral traditions maintain

that it has always been tied
to a star cluster

the native Quechua people
call Qullqa,

or, as it's known
to many other cultures,

the Pleiades.

(music playing)

The Quechua people,

descendants
of the ancient Incas,

return to this location
every year

to be surrounded
by four sacred mountains.

In hopes
of gaining good fortune,

they spend several days
dressed in traditional costumes,

dancing, and making ceremonial
offerings to the Apu...

...the spirits of the mountains.

YOUNG:
In the ancient civilization of the Incas,

there is a belief that there are
spirits in the mountains.

They're called Apu.

And ceremonial leaders,
chieftains, priests

can make connection, can get
some wisdom and guidance.

They are benevolent spirits.

BARNHART:
Each mountain has its own Apu spirit.

The Apus are

supernatural things,
but they are not deities.

So people are not
necessarily praying to them.

Rather, they are
in a relationship with them,

asking them for the favor
that they can provide.

The Incans were very specific
in believing

that the Apu actually existed

as tangible entities
who they were interacting with

and who they were, in fact,
very much beholden to

for their technology,

for their civilization.

CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder if these Apus

were in fact extraterrestrials

that the Incas
were in contact with.

And today the people
return to these mountains

to have some kind of contact

and-and perhaps advice
from the Apus.

NARRATOR:
Might the Apu have been extraterrestrial beings?

Beings who came to Earth
from the Pleiades star cluster

and interacted with the Incans
in ancient times?

Perhaps the answers can be found

in the culmination
of the festival itself.

(indistinct chatter)

At the close of the celebration,

select members
of the Quechua community

prepare to make the treacherous
journey up the mountain glacier.

They go in search of ice they
refer to as "the snow star."

BARNHART:
The pilgrims go up to the top of the mountain

and they ask the Apu

if they can have
some of this ice.

It's intentionally something
that's supposed to be grueling.

Some people have even been known
to die along the way.

That particular ice is supposed
to have healing properties.

And those that take the journey

have good health
for the rest of their life.

Throughout the ancient world,
we learn of extraterrestrials

depositing treasures and
knowledge in sacred mountains.

It's possible that that's
what we're seeing here

with the snow star ritual.

Its very name tells us that it
comes from beyond the Earth.

NARRATOR: Did extraterrestrials
really visit the mountains of Peru?

If so, might there be evidence
in other parts of the world

that mountains served
as points of connection

between humans
and otherworldly beings?

Shandong Province, China.

Referred to
as the cosmic peak of the East,

Mount Tai has been a site
of pilgrimage and worship

for 3,000 years.

DOMINIC STEAVU:
Mount Tai is considered

an extremely powerful place,

a place where people
can communicate with the divine.

In Chinese antiquity,

72 emperors were believed

to have made
the pilgrimage to Mount Tai.

(birds singing)

YOUNG:
They would do ceremonies there

that were crucial
to their reign.

If they did
the ceremonies correctly,

they gained
the approval of the gods

and the legitimacy
that stems from that.

If they made a mistake,

an entire dynasty
could be in trouble.

(bells clanging)

NARRATOR:
In 110 BC,

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty
made the first

of several journeys
to Mount Tai during his reign.

According to the historical
accounts of scribe Sima Qian,

mysterious sightings
were reported

during his time on the mountain.

There seems to have been
a beam of light

that appeared off
into the horizon.

And there was a mysterious
white cloud that emerged

from the mound where
the sacrifice is performed.

TSOUKALOS:
In a historical record,

a white cloud
and a beam of light appeared

as though he summoned them.

So what is
really being described here?

And why must his followers
stay behind?

It reads much more
like an encounter

with some type
of an extraterrestrial craft

that was misinterpreted
as some type of a divine event.

The Chinese believe
that the emperors

were actually communicating
with the gods.

So it's possible that, in fact,
the E.T.s were guiding

Chinese civilization
through their leaders.

NARRATOR:
Were the emperors of ancient China

in contact
with extraterrestrials?

And might this story suggest

that remote mountains
like Mount Tai

served as alien outposts
on Earth?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found

in otherworldly
and deadly encounters reported

in the rugged peaks of Siberia.

You know, many places
that are considered to be

hallowed ground have turned
into pilgrimage sites.

But with some places,

it is the exact opposite,
where locals

tell you, "Stay away.

This place is dangerous."

HENRY:
Right.

Like Mount Shasta.

The Native people say,

"Do not go above the tree line."

And people have disappeared
from that mountain.

So, what happened?

Did they come in contact

-with extraterrestrials?
-CHILDRESS: You know,

this reminds me
of that incident in Russia,

where a group of hikers
was found dead on this mountain

and their injuries
were unexplainable.

And the mountain that they
were on was literally called

Do Not Go There.

But they went there.

And they did not have
a good time.

(chuckles)

NARRATOR:
February 1959.

A group of nine mountaineers
embark on a winter trek

into Russia's Ural Mountains.

Their destination-

a mountain called Otorten...

...which in the local
Mansi language means

"Do Not Go There."

Among them were
three experienced engineers.

The rest were students.
They were all young.

I think the oldest was,
like, 37 years old.

They had conducted other
hard treks through the area.

They were all experienced,

strong-willed,
determined people.

NARRATOR:
On their fourth night out,

bad weather forces the hikers
to camp atop an area

called Kholat Syakhl,

which in Mansi translates
to "the Mountain of the Dead."

STONEHILL:
It was a very inhospitable,

very strange,
very, very hard place to be.

Snow, cold,

freezing winds,

and very few living things
around.

They decided
that they would spend the night

of February 1 in an open area

not too far away
from the top of the mountain.

They didn't want
to go back to the forest

one and a half kilometers,

because it would take them
too much time

and they would lose the day.

NARRATOR:
Ten days later,

when the nine adventurers fail
to show up at their destination,

military rescue teams
search the area.

(helicopter passing)

They find
the hikers' camp abandoned

and a tent
that is badly damaged.

The investigators determine
that the tent has been cut

and ripped open from the inside.

(ripping)

And the hikers appear
to have fled the area

in only socks or bare feet.

(Mikhail Gershtein
speaking Russian)

(translated): This tent
had been cut with knives

from the interior.

It was absolutely obvious
that neither animals nor people

had approached the tent
to break in,

meaning that nothing from
this Earth had approached them.

STONEHILL:
Something was pushing them

to run away without taking
any clothing with them,

without taking any supplies.

They were behaving like
they were in a daze, confused.

NARRATOR:
The investigators follow the trail

to the edge of the forest.

But what they eventually find...

...is beyond belief.

BILL BIRNES:
All nine hikers died.

They were discovered
by Soviet troops

in various stages
of what can only be described

as being mutilated.

Their bodies were burned.

Some suffered
radiation poisoning.

In one case,
a hiker's tongue was missing.

They had prematurely aged,

their skin was orange,
their hair had turned gray.

What could've explained this?

STONEHILL:
Three of them had injuries

that could be sustained

when somebody is hit
by a speeding car,

except the injuries were inside.

Their ribs were crushed
like eggshells.

Some of them
entered their hearts,

but there was no effect
on their skin.

It was like a force
was directed at all of them.

(speaking Russian)

(translated): An unknown force
had hit the hikers,

and it was very selective
in hitting only the hikers,

leaving untouched the snow,

the trees
and everything else around.

NARRATOR:
The official explanation

was that the nine died
from hypothermia.

But the chief investigator
refused to sign off

on the report and instead
resigned from the inquiry.

STONEHILL:
When the investigation was taking place

by the local officials,
one of the people in charge

was removed quite quickly

from the very investigation
because he was very thorough,

and local officials
didn't want this to come out.

(Gershtein speaking Russian)

(translated):
The authorities did their best

to cover the whole thing up.

It was practically forbidden
to mention it.

STONEHILL:
At the end, the bodies were buried

in zinc coffins, I believe,
so nobody would see.

But there was enough
of the investigation,

enough people had seen
what had been going on

and were amazed
at what they found,

including the coloration
of the corpses

when they were found, and other
things, that news broke out.

And this is one of the most
mysterious murder cases

in the former Soviet Union.

I am convinced it was a murder.

But they were not killed
by anything we know.

They were killed
by an unknown force.

NARRATOR: Years later, members
of the search party spoke out.

According to their testimony,
at the time of the incident,

strange orange spheres or orbs
were seen floating in the sky.

(translated):
These observations

are from local people

who saw some
unidentified flying objects

during the night
of the hikers' deaths.

I think there is
a clear connection.

BIRNES:
The orbs themselves could've been a life-form...

...the orbs themselves

could have been
extraterrestrial probes.

STONEHILL:
Based on my research

of different parts of Russia
in history,

fiery spheres
have been ever present,

including desolate areas
like this.

Locals know they exist.

It's like a part of life.

They don't put
too much attention to them,

and they hope and pray

that the fiery spheres
don't bother them.

Because throughout the ages,

most of the encounters
were peaceful everywhere,

but once in a while, like here,
something goes very bad.

NARRATOR: But what could have
compelled nine experienced mountaineers

to flee their camp
and run for their lives?

And what strange forces

could have caused
such violence and death?

Could the hikers
have been attacked

by something extraterrestrial,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

PHILIP IMBROGNO:
During my research in my 30-plus years

of investigating
UFO sightings in particular,

I've only come across
several cases

in which aliens
have actually attacked people

like wild animals.

And, uh, some of these creatures
had claws and teeth,

and, uh, they would jump
on people and scratch them,

and create claw marks in them.

But most of the time
these encounters,

the aliens or the creatures just
want to get away from humans.

There's no interaction
whatsoever.

It could've been inadvertent.

The orbs in probing the area
where the human beings were

created collateral damage.

Maybe they didn't mean
to harm human beings.

Maybe it wasn't an attack

as much as the power
of these orbs,

the energy was so intense

that human beings
were prematurely aged,

irradiated,

and suffered all kinds
of lethal biological symptoms.

It's not a coincidence
that UFOs were reported

by these hikers
in the Ural Mountains

in the Place of the Dead,
the "Do Not Go There," so on,

'cause I believe
that many UFO sightings

come in here
from a parallel reality,

and they come through portals.

And this area
may be a hot portal.

NARRATOR:
According to ancient Mansi legend,

the Mountain of the Dead,

where the nine hikers'
mutilated bodies were found,

was named
after a similar incident

in which nine Mansi men
were also found dead,

while seeking salvation from
a flood during ancient times.

But is it really possible
that the Mansi

and the doomed expedition

were attacked and killed
by otherworldly forces?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found deep underground.

Not in the Russian wilderness
but half a hemisphere away,

on an Australian mountaintop.

NARRATOR:
The continent of Australia.

16 miles south of Cooktown,

near the northeastern coastline,

sits one of the world's
most mysterious

and menacing
geologic features...

...Black Mountain.

Standing nearly 1,400 feet high,

the mountain consists of
enormous black granite boulders

piled precariously
one on top of the other.

Called Kalkajaka,
or "mountain of death"

by the local Aborigines,

Black Mountain,

with its numerous
dark passageways and caverns,

is considered
a cursed and evil place.

What the old people told us

when me and my brother Sam,
when we were growing up,

not to go into the mountains.

We wanted to go and have
a look into the mountains

to see if there was a cave
where you could walk in,

but they said no.

"If you do go in,
you-you won't come back."

(Ivan Mackerle speaking Czech)

(translated): Black Mountain
is the most fearful place

in the north Queensland area
of Australia.

The local residents
fear to go there

because many people
have disappeared,

as if the earth or the mountain
itself swallowed them up.

NARRATOR:
The first documented disappearance

involving European settlers
occurred in 1877,

when a rancher
searching for a lost bull

near the mountain
was reported missing.

Since then, there have been
numerous stories of people,

horses and even herds of cattle

disappearing into
the labyrinth of rocks,

never to be seen again.

Local police and trackers
looking for the missing

have also vanished.

And pilots flying
over the mountain

have reported
strange occurrences.

YOUNG:
Pilots flying over the Black Mountains

have, uh, commented that
there is unusual turbulence.

Of course,
they have magnetic problems,

they have navigational problems.

They've heard loud noises,

uh, cracking noises,
explosive noises.

They've heard, uh,
sort of mournful moaning sounds.

So, this is a very strange area.

(speaking Czech)

(translated):
Some ufologists in Australia

say that this is the entrance
to an underground empire,

inhabited by an unearthly race
of lizard creatures

and evil monsters.

The Aborigines
don't call them aliens,

they call them demons
or spirits.

YOUNG:
The tales of the Rainbow Serpent

are among the most important

of the Aboriginal lore
in Australia.

It can be a punisher
of those who are out of line.

Um, it sometimes
swallows people.

It can bring
chaos and destruction.

So, it's a very awesome force.

MARILYN WALLACE:
The Rainbow Serpent is a creator for us.

And it was told by our people

that the Rainbow Serpent
created everything for us.

It's a giver of life for us.

And this boulder rock here,
Kalkajaka,

is very important
because the Rainbow Serpent

lives in the mountains here.

The Rainbow Serpent,

I believe if you disturb her

or do something wrong
that you're not supposed to...

...I feel that's when
she turns against you.

NARRATOR:
To ward off any evil forces from the mountain,

the Aboriginal people

perform a sacred warming
and smoking ceremony.

The warming and smoking
is for us

to introduce people
on our country.

And it's also significant

to let the spirit know

that we're bringing somebody
to come and visit.

So, the Rainbow Serpent
that lives here,

he smells us and he knows
the tribal people from here.

(Mackerle speaking Czech)

(translated): We went there
to look for all the mysteries

connected to this area.

And because this was
a very abnormal place

where people are disappearing,

we wanted to find
an explanation.

So, we entered this mountain and
there was a labyrinth of holes.

So, we used rope
in order not to lose our way.

And when we came into
the middle of the mountain,

we could go up or down
or to the sides.

But each time our path
was blocked with sand and rocks,

and we could not continue.

It's difficult to say
if there are any chambers

or vaults with any monsters,

or a gateway
into a different time.

NARRATOR:
Although mainstream scientists

believe the strange
disappearances at Black Mountain

are most likely due
to the area's unique

and dangerous terrain,

ancient astronaut theorists
have another,

more otherworldly explanation.

The moment I hear about
giant snakes and serpents,

my mind immediately goes
to all the other cultures

around the world that talk
about similar imagery.

In the Hindu world, for example,

we have the stories
about flying serpents,

just like we have
the similar stories

in South America with
Kukulkan and Quetzalcoatl,

this winged serpent
flying around in the sky

which also were described
as having been enormous in size.

So, the Rainbow Serpent
at Black Mountain,

was that really
a biological entity?

Or was it some type

of an extraterrestrial
flying machine,

a machine that when people
came too close to it,

they fell ill or died because
of the fumes or radioactivity?

BIRNES: This could've been a
place where thousands of years ago,

ancient aliens
might have landed.

And the radiation deep
inside the Earth is so intense

that people are dying
from radiation poisoning.

And that might well explain
why the Black Mountain

in the Outback in Australia
is considered an evil place.

FRIDAY:
I really believe that

it should be really left alone.

Because they are real.

They do exist.

And I feel
that it should be left alone.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Black Mountains

functioned as a secret
extraterrestrial lair,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

If so, could this explain

not only the tales
of mysterious entities

said to inhabit the area
but also

the enduring local warnings
to stay away?

Perhaps clues can be found

by investigating
another dangerous creature

said to be living
in the dense jungle

of an isolated island
in the Pacific.

When talking about alien lairs,

one place that comes to mind
is the Solomon Islands.

All kinds of strange activity
has been reported there

-for decades.
-CHILDRESS: Yeah,

you have strange lights,
mysterious disappearances,

accounts of giants
and even Bigfoot sightings.

Right, and the Solomon Islands
are so remote,

they would be a perfect hideout

for any visiting E.T.s.

In fact, we talked about this
in a 2013 episode

of Ancient Aliens called,
"Aliens and Forbidden Islands."

NARRATOR:
The Solomon Islands.

800 miles east
of Papua New Guinea,

this group of nearly 1,000 isles
covers 11,000 square miles.

Though first discovered in 1568
by Spanish explorers,

many people identify this area
with World War II

due to the fierce fighting
that occurred

between the Japanese
and Americans

on the largest island here...

...Guadalcanal.

But Guadalcanal is also
infamous for something else:

the countless local legends
of giants.

There are mysterious legends
all over the Solomons, actually.

A lot of the stories
from Guadalcanal

tend to talk about giants,

the relationship
between people and giants.

Giants are often portrayed
in different ways.

Sometimes,
they are benevolent giants.

They help people,
they look after people.

But there are stories
about giants killing people

and taking over things.

So, giant is a major character

in a lot
of the Guadalcanal stories.

There are legends and stories
that go way back

that suggest that giants
actually still live

on the Solomon Islands.

Some say they're kind of
hairy beasts,

Sasquatch-like kind of beings.

Others say
they're more humanoid.

And some say they even relate

and kind of mate
with the human population.

TSOUKALOS:
According to local legends,

those giants were able to travel

the entire length of the island
without seeing the light of day

by utilizing
subterranean tunnels.

KABUTAULAKA:
People talk about it

that giants actually do exist.

They existed in the past.

Today, with all kinds
of developments taking place,

they shifted further
into the mountains.

They really do exist.

It's not just a mythology
to scare children.

NARRATOR:
According to one report,

in 1998, workers
during a gold-mining operation

witnessed what they believe
is proof of the existence

of the giants of Guadalcanal

when one of their bulldozers
broke down.

The workers say
they removed the ten-ton blade

from the machine
to make overnight repairs,

and when they returned to
the dig site the next morning,

they were shocked
by what they found.

The blade itself had
been moved quite a distance,

and they found

footprints of giants in the mud.

So, they could only assume

that these famous giants
of the Solomon Islands

had been there
and moved the bulldozer blade.

NARRATOR:
Could Guadalcanal really be home to giants?

If so, what are they

and where did they come from?

In the book
Solomon Islands Mysteries,

author Marius Boirayon,
a retired helicopter engineer

who lived on the Solomon Islands

for many years
interviewing locals,

unveils a groundbreaking theory.

CHILDRESS:
The Australian author Boirayon believed

that incidents of the giants
that he had been told about

by the natives
were related to UFO activity.

And from what
he could put together,

there was some kind of UFO base

deep in the mountains
of central Guadalcanal,

and it involved these giants.

And at the same time,
there was some kind of

underwater UFO base
there as well.

NARRATOR:
Eyewitness accounts of UFOs

have been documented on
the Solomon Islands for years,

and mysteriously,
details reveal that the UFOs

seem to rise out
of the surrounding ocean

where warships sank
in World War II...

...and vanish into a remote
mountain lake on the island.

People often talk about seeing
light not only in the sky

but in the ocean as well,

that you see lights in the ocean

and then you see lights
flying past,

uh, overhead as well.

And sometimes
crashing into the ocean...

...like a plane crashing.

MIKE BARA:
There have been sightings of flying saucers

appearing over the wreckage...

...flying into
and out of mountains

and volcanoes in the area.

So, the whole area
is really pretty interesting.

ANDREW COLLINS:
There have been reports that

objects, strange lights,

actually rise up
out of the waters

into the air,

and move about for a period
of time, uh, and then disappear.

And often, this is either
witnessed from the beach

or is experienced
at close hand by fishermen.

And it is said that sometimes
these objects come so close

that the fishermen can actually
feel the heat as they pass.

RICHARD DOLAN:
There was a lot of local people

who had said,
"Yes, for many years

we've seen these-these types
of things happening."

TIM SWARTZ:
There are numerous accounts

of abductions,

people who disappear
after coming into contact

with these UFOs...

...never to be seen again.

NARRATOR:
Could there be a connection

between the legends
of the giants of Guadalcanal

and the numerous UFO sightings

that have been reported here
over the years?

And might this be evidence

that Guadalcanal
really is the site

of an underwater alien base?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers can be found

by examining stories
of other strange creatures

said to inhabit the island.

Creatures like the Adaro.

YOUNG: The Adaro are
frightening-looking creatures;

half fish, half man.

They were said
to have come from the Sun

by way of rainbows.

They could be dangerous.

They could shoot, uh,
poisonous flying fish at you.

So, the notion of some creature

that was of danger
and mythological qualities

coming from far away seems alive
and well in the Solomon Islands.

Chua-Chua is the story

that a lot of people
on Guadalcanal know about,

that these are actually
human beings,

but at certain time,
they take different forms.

These are energies that can
shape-shift into any form.

These are not
just stories for entertainment

or for scaring the children,
these fears are great.

CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder if these famous giants

of the Solomon Islands
and these weird beings

were, in fact, extraterrestrials

that were there to protect
these secret bases.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the stories of giants,

sea monsters and other
strange beings on Guadalcanal

are really accounts
of extraterrestrials?

And if so, might these beings
inhabit a vast, concealed base

hidden deep beneath the islands?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer to both questions
is a resounding yes.

And they suggest further
evidence of alien lairs on Earth

can be found
by examining accounts

of towering, hairy giants

of towering, hairy giants

said to reside
in the vast cavern systems

of the Pacific Northwest.

NARRATOR:
The Siskiyou Mountains,

southwestern Oregon.

In 1874,

hunter Elijah Davidson
discovered a large cave

leading to a 500-acre network

of underground tunnels
and caverns.

Known as the Oregon Caves,

the ancient
subterranean structure

is one of the few marble caves
in the world.

Some believe
this underground world

is home
to the Sasquatch creatures

that have been reported
in this area by Native Americans

for hundreds of years.

REDFERN:
There are a number of sightings

of these creatures in caves.

A number of explorers hearing

very strange animalistic screams

coming, uh, from these caves

and seeing sort of shadowy
lumbering creatures within them.

You know, if you're a large
flesh-and-blood animal

seven to eight feet tall,

certainly you're gonna be out
hunting all day to-to feed.

But at night,
potentially, you know,

with Bigfoot hunters out there,
regular hunters,

other wild animals,
you need to be careful.

The ideal location to hide out
would be underground.

So, you know,
maybe that's another reason

we haven't found Bigfoot.

Instead of looking around us,

maybe we should be
looking below us.

These cavern systems
that exist, uh, worldwide

have not been fully explored.

In fact, probably
a very small percentage of them

have been even discovered.

There's the possibility

of a complete
potential infrastructure

for Bigfoot to survive on.

No one sees Sasquatches
going on highways,

paths and forests
moving back and forth.

If we're dealing
with nonhuman intelligence,

and nonhumans made them
to do work on this planet,

maybe there's a tunnel system.

And that might explain why
you could have them in Georgia,

Michigan, Pennsylvania,
California, all over.

One thing that's always
intrigued me as well

about Bigfoot
is this description

of a musky sulfurish-type smell

that's often associated
with close encounters.

You know, the Christian version
of the devil

and fire and brimstone
and that sulfur-type smell

tends to be associated with
the subterranean world, or Hell.

So, is there a connection
possibly between the idea

of subterranean devils,
if you will- or Lucifer-

and that sulfur smell and
that sulfur smell with Bigfoot?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
a race of subterranean creatures

has been living beneath
the Earth's surface

without our knowledge?

If so, might Bigfoot
have been interacting with us

for thousands of years?

In ancient Greek myths,

we find references
to the Troglodytes.

These hairy,
beastly-looking creatures

that lived underground

that sometimes
were extremely terrifying...

...but sometimes
they also were very wise

and taught mankind
in various disciplines.

Now, according
to the ancient legends,

the Troglodytes are believed
to have descended from the sky.

Obviously,
they were hiding out somewhere

that was inaccessible
to our ancestors.

They wanted to keep
their presence a secret.

There are multiple stories
that actually talk about

explorations into these tunnels

where sometimes
people never returned.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO:
People who have done research have found dens,

nests, collections of brush

that are put together
in particular patterns

that suggest very large
creatures are nesting in them.

And I find that
fairly persuasive evidence.

Something is making those dens
or nests out of brush.

Something is using those,
probably living underground.

CHILDRESS:
Throughout the world, there are many extensive

and mysterious, uh,
cavern systems

that are linked together.

In Tibet and in India.

Also, in North America.

Some of them also go
throughout the Pacific Northwest

like areas like Mount Shasta.

So, it's an interesting idea
that Bigfoot

is actually
traveling underground

through these tunnel systems,

and those underground bases
and tunnel systems

would have been made
by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Might extraterrestrials

really have built
caves and tunnel systems

to hide the legendary creature
known as Bigfoot,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

And if so, is it possible

that these otherworldly beings
still dwell there today?

Could Sasquatch- Bigfoot-

be something that lives here
on Earth, underground?

What is the relationship
between the Sasquatch,

the nonhuman phenomenon
and this planet?

FRANKLIN RUEHL:
There is also the possibility

that he is actually
an alien creature.

Now, we don't know
how intelligent he is,

but one theory is
that the Bigfoot is actually

a more intelligent creature,
and he's avoiding man,

hiding out in mountainous
regions that are cold,

waiting for man
to destroy himself,

at which time
he'll assume dominance.

And of course he, also, could be

the result
of genetic hybridization.

That aliens landed
on our planet,

and used DNA to create a hybrid
between man and the apes.

All bets are on,
but the evidence

that he exists somewhere
certainly is strong

based on all of the evidence
we've found

in terms of eyewitness
observations,

footprints, et cetera.

NARRATOR:
Is it really possible

that the creatures
we call Bigfoot

have otherworldly origins?

Might that explain
their elusiveness

and their rumored tendency

to vanish into
remote cave systems?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and for further evidence,

point to legends
of an ancient, advanced race

said to dwell in vast caverns
far beneath the Earth's surface.

Artificial intelligence
is proving to be

the most powerful new tool
for the ancient astronaut theory

because with AI, for example,
we can glean new information

from ancient cave art
that seems to be deteriorated.

Yeah, that's
incredibly important,

because cave art
is the only historical record

that we have for some of
our most ancient of ancestors.

And some of it
seems to indicate alien contact.

Right, and if these
extraterrestrial lairs

that we've been
talking about exist,

then it's very likely
that our ancestors

would have tried
to indicate this in some way.

And it may be that
we can only see it with AI

because that cave art
is so deteriorated.

NARRATOR:
Santa Monica, California, 2014.

Here at xRez Studio,

visualization artists
Greg Downing and Eric Hanson

are pioneering the use
of photogrammetry

and special effects software

to assist archaeologists
in the global effort

to decipher ancient cave art.

GREG DOWNING:
We use a combination of techniques

from the fields of computational
photography and graphics, uh,

in order to help
the archaeologists

reveal information
difficult to see

just with basic vision
when you're there.

NARRATOR:
The team recently traveled to the Grand Canyon

to compile a massive, in-depth
photographic compilation

of the collection
of strange petroglyphs

known as the Shaman's Panel.

ERIC HANSON:
We were drawn to the panel

for two primary aspects.

One was the rich layering

of the, uh,
anthropomorphic figures and two

is the kind of evocative, uh,
surreal nature

of their composition.

DOWNING:
This cave is maybe, like, five or six feet deep,

so by using
a photogrammetric technique,

we were able to get the detail
across the entire painting.

The nice thing about
this technique

is we can separate the different
dyes and minerals that are used.

And in this case,
now we can kind of see

the layering expressed,

we can see figures that are
simply lost by the naked eye.

DOWNING:
Yeah, that brings it out.

Yeah, that's
a complete difference.

NARRATOR:
Could modern techniques one day uncover

even more details about
what ancient people really saw

and hoped to communicate
with rock art?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe

one compelling clue
that modern researchers

might be on the right track
can be found, oddly enough,

in contemporary America.

March, 1945.

Amazing Stories magazine
publishes an article

entitled "I Remember Lemuria,"

but according to the author,
this is the first piece

to appear
in the science fiction magazine

that is not fiction at all...

...but an actual account
of his own alien abduction.

REDFERN:
Richard Shaver was a man who surfaced decades ago

with a story

of underground entities

that were very hostile
to the human race.

Terrible creatures
that would kidnap and kill

members of the human race.

SWARTZ:
They were the first inhabitants of planet Earth.

When the Sun became radioactive,

these people could no longer
live on the surface.

Some left in their spaceships.

Others went underground.

NARRATOR:
Could Richard Shaver's account

of underground extraterrestrials
abducting humans be true?

Shaver proposed
that the alien race

that once populated the Earth

had developed
highly specialized equipment

that allowed them
to embed multifaceted imagery

into stones.

TUCKER:
Richard Shaver believed that he had made

the greatest discovery
in the history of mankind

about the true nature
of intelligent life on Earth.

So, this is an original Shaver
photograph of a rock book.

And this multidimensional way
of making images

in the rock books was something
that Shaver saw as a real sign

of the superior intelligence
of the ancient races.

And Shaver believed
that these weren't mere rocks

with random patterns,
that these were actually

deliberately
manufactured artifacts

by the ancient races

who had been here

30,000, 100,000,
who knows how many years ago.

NARRATOR:
Might Richard Shaver have actually discovered

real physical evidence

that extraterrestrials
have been here on planet Earth

and might still be here today?

Whether or not Richard Shaver's
stories are true,

it does dovetail with legends
across this planet,

of a race of beings

that either created humankind

or were, at least, our ancestors

that had a superior technology.

REDFERN:
If we're looking for extraterrestrials,

ironically, the heavens above

might not be
the best place to look.

We should perhaps even
be looking deep below our feet.

CHILDRESS:
In some ways,

exploring the underground
cavern world

of planet Earth
is-is the final frontier.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that some of the world's

most mysterious caves

really are home
to extraterrestrial beings?

And if so,
could these alien hideouts

be far more advanced
than their crude,

unassuming entrances suggest?

Perhaps further clues
can be found in legends

of a mystical underground city

found half a world away,

in the mountains of Tibet.

You can't have
a conversation about

extraterrestrial lairs
without mentioning Shambhala.

For Hindus and Buddhists,
Shambhala is a hidden kingdom

where the gods live on Earth.

Right, and they point
to the Himalayas,

and they say that hidden
somewhere within these mountains

is an advanced subterranean city

populated by advanced beings
who are guiding humanity.

Right, and there's even
an ancient Himalayan kingdom

where people
mysteriously vanished,

and they had carved tunnels
that go deep into the ground.

NARRATOR:
Russian painter, philosopher

and archaeologist
Nicholas Roerich

embarks on
an unprecedented expedition

into the uncharted territory
of the Tibetan plateau

on a quest to find
the lost kingdom of Shambhala.

On August 5, 1927,

Roerich notes
a strange object in the skies

while traveling
through the mountains

along the northeastern border
of Tibet.

Roerich writes that they were
looking up at the sky

watching an eagle fly around,
and then suddenly, they saw

a sort of oval-shaped object

moving from north to south

at very fast speeds
pass over them.

NEWMAN: At one of
his later lectures in 1935,

Nicholas Roerich described
his sighting as

a spacecraft
or an aerial vehicle

that must have come
from Shambhala itself.

NARRATOR:
Did Nicholas Roerich witness an alien craft

in Tibet nearly a century ago,

decades before the era
of modern UFO sightings began?

And if so, is it possible
that the traditions

that have endured here
for centuries

reflect not only
a profound spirituality

but are tied
to an otherworldly presence?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
an early Buddhist civilization

that suddenly
and mysteriously disappeared.

Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, 2020.

Towering at over 12,000 feet,

these ancient ruins
are all that is left

of the mysterious
Buddhist kingdom of Guge.

Established
in the tenth century,

this civilization
flourished for 700 years.

But then,
according to local legend,

its inhabitants vanished.

The ruins of this early city
are truly amazing.

They're in the southwest
corner of Tibet,

and there are thousands of what
were temples and palaces,

mostly gone now.

This was a kingdom
of great influence in its time.

This magnificent capital
had artwork over all the walls,

images of the Buddha,
sacred carvings

and images of all kind.

It had power, it had glory,
and now it is nothing.

HENRY:
Guge was in continuous operation

until it mysteriously
virtually disappeared.

Nobody knows exactly
what happened there

or why people
stopped living there

or why they, where they went.

NARRATOR:
Guge was brought under the rule

of the Central Tibetan
government in 1680,

but remained largely isolated
and independent

for more than 200 years.

Then, in the early 20th century,

the Tibetan government
decided to finally start taxing

the residents of Guge,

but when soldiers
arrived to collect,

they were shocked to find
that the entire population,

an estimated 100,000 people,
had disappeared.

Where they went
remains a complete mystery,

and many Tibetans
believe the reason why

is because the people of Guge
traveled deep underground.

CHILDRESS:
The fortress of Guge

had all kinds of tunnels
and hidden staircases

that went underground
and went inside this mountain.

So, even though
it was, uh, ruins already,

when archaeologists went there,
they were astounded

that this city of Guge
apparently led inside the Earth.

What people seemed to believe
was that if you were to follow

these tunnels
far enough into the Earth,

you would eventually come to
that hidden city of Shambhala,

a-an active city
full of light and-and power.

NARRATOR:
Did the people of this ancient civilization

flee underground
on an epic pilgrimage

to the mythic kingdom
of Shambhala?

And if so,
where did their path lead?

Some researchers believe
the tunnels of Guge

lead to a holy mountain
to the east

that can be clearly seen
from these ruins...

...Mount Kailash.

Every year,
thousands of pilgrims make

the treacherous journey
to the base of this sacred peak.

DOMINIC STEAVU: Every year,
there are pilgrimages

around Mount Kailash in order
to gain the blessing and...

maybe even some
of the powers associated

with the residing gods
and-and Buddhas and deities,

of Mount Kailash.

It lasts up to four weeks
if it's done correctly,

with full prostrations
at every step.

And it's also
a very unforgiving landscape,

so many people end up giving up,

and some of them
also end up dying.

NARRATOR:
According to ancient Buddhist texts

known as the Kalachakra tantra,

the kingdom of Shambhala can
be found "behind" Mount Kailash,

or as some
interpret it, "within."

And many who have stared up
at this sacred peak

have observed
mysterious objects in the sky.

Mount Kailash is at the center
of all sorts of mysteries.

Uh, UFO sightings,
the hint that there might be

something hidden there,
but it's unknowable.

HENRY:
There are many myths and legends

and strange things that
have gone on at Mount Kailash.

People go there on pilgrimages,

but they're told
not to stay there long

because there's something
radioactive inside the mountain.

And we're told that people
live there both in physical form

and in nonphysical form.

It has to be

one of the strangest places
on the planet.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the mysterious phenomena

occurring at Mount Kailash,

and its association
with Shambhala,

is connected
to extraterrestrial activity?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest answers can be found

by studying the sacred Buddhist
monuments known as stupas,

found all throughout
Nepal, India and Tibet,

including at the ruins of Guge.

HENRY:
For centuries, people have been sighting UFOs

or unexplained craft coming
in and out of Mount Kailash.

It's very interesting,
when you compare the shape

of the stupas
that we find in Tibet,

with these dome shapes
and how they highly resemble

some kind of extraterrestrial
craft sitting on the ground.

So, perhaps
people saw these craft

entering into Kailash
and decided,

we're gonna build stupas
in remembrance of what they saw.

TSOUKALOS:
A stupa by definition

is a vehicle with which
to reach the realm of the gods.

That is the definition
of a stupa.

Well, just change
the wording of "vehicle"

with which to reach space.

These stupas can be seen,
for example, in the Ajanta Cave,

with smoke and fire
at the, at the bottom.

What more do you want?

It's no longer a symbol,
it is the truth.

NARRATOR:
Might the Buddhist stupas of Tibet

be monuments to alien craft

witnessed flying
in and around Mount Kailash,

a site believed by many
to be the kingdom of Shambhala?

And if so, how has it remained
hidden for millennia?

And could it be that somewhere
on the slopes of this mountain

is the entrance to a hidden
extraterrestrial realm?

While countless expeditions
have tried and failed

to find the legendary kingdom,
shocking discoveries

in remote cave systems
around the world

indicate that the myth
of alien lairs on Earth

may actually be grounded
in reality.

We have thousands
of modern-day reports

of encounters with what are
purported to be alien beings.

We tend to focus outwards

looking for extraterrestrials,

but maybe we should
really be focusing underneath

the surface of our Earth.

TSOUKALOS:
Right. There are people who believe

that reptilian-like beings

live in underground lairs
right here on Earth.

CHILDRESS:
Yeah, I traveled

to Sacsayhuam�n
with Hugh Newman back in 2019,

and we explored
an ancient tunnel

allegedly used
by these serpent beings.

NARRATOR:
Vietnam.

Phong Nha-Ke B�ng National Park.

Located deep within
the Southeast Asian jungles

is the world's
largest cave system,

the Son Do�ng Cave.

HENRY:
It's 3 million years old,

650 feet high, 550 feet wide...

...and extends in an astounding
three miles into the Earth.

It actually has its own
ecosystem with a jungle...

...and even a lake inside of it.

JOHN RHODES: When the cave
was first discovered,

there was a Vietnamese logger

who was doing
illegal logging in the area.

He discovered the cave...

...and then encountered
some sort of a creature

that looked like
a dragon-humanoid being.

NARRATOR:
Since the site was opened to the public in 2013,

there have been
multiple eyewitness accounts

of a reptile-like humanoid
in and around the area.

According to UFO investigators,

the Son Do�ng reports
are just the latest

in the increasing number
of reptoid sightings

in remote areas
with known cave systems.

There are many stories
of people encountering

lizard men or snake people

who might be in caves
or who might be near a cave

o-on the surface
just walking around,

and those unfortunate enough

to stumble across
these reptilians are terrified

because the reptilians
can be very aggressive.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Son Do�ng Caves

are home to a race of reptile
beings living beneath our feet?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

such a bizarre notion
is entirely possible.

In fact, encounters
with these creatures

have become so common
that the UFO community

now has a name for them:
the reptilians.

RHODES:
Reptilian humanoids, or reptoids,

are described as being beings

that are about
seven to eight feet tall,

they have a humanoid structure.

Their skin is either
beaded like a lizard

or either scaled like a snake.

NARRATOR:
In addition to Southeast Asia,

another location where reptilian
sightings have been reported

is the area of Cuzco, Peru,
high in the Andes Mountains.

According to the stories
of the Inca,

and the even more ancient
cultures that preceded them,

a race of reptilian beings
once inhabited this land.

They even built some
of the massive stone structures

that still exist here today.

In April 2019,
ancient astronaut theorist

David Hatcher Childress

and researcher Hugh Newman
traveled to Cuzco

to investigate
a possible connection

between the ancient stories
of reptilians

and sightings of these creatures

that have been reported
in the last few years.

Joining them as their guide
is Jorge Luis Delgado,

an expert on the native
Andean civilizations.

CHILDRESS: You know,
Peru in general is just

so full of mystery.

To me, it's really the land of
the unexplained and adventure.

I never get tired
of coming here, and I-I-

there's always something
new to see.

-Some new,
incredible mystery to find. -Yeah.

No, I agree. I mean,
you've got- not only,

you've got
the megalithic temple,

you've got Machu Picchu,

Cuzco and other sites,
you've got Nazca,

you've got all these mysterious
underground tunnels

that stretch across the country.

All these amazing myths
and legends

relating to these serpent gods.

So, there's something
really special about this place.

NARRATOR:
The sprawling fortress of Sacsayhuam�n

covers more than 11 square miles

and is filled with
some of the most perplexing

megalithic constructions
in the world.

CHILDRESS:
They're all unique, each one is unique,

but so perfectly cut
and fitted together.

It's always astonishing
to see it.

NARRATOR: Mainstream historians
date the megalithic fortress

to the 12th century AD,
and credit its construction

to a pre-Incan civilization
called the Killke.

However, a growing body
of evidence suggests

that the structures
may actually predate the Killke

and belong
to an even older civilization.

A civilization that, according
to ancient astronaut theorists,

may have been
not entirely human.

NEWMAN:
Oh, wow, look at this.

-All right, so...
-That's the one, isn't it?

Yeah. Is this the stone
you were talking about, then?

CHILDRESS: So, this is
a serpent, this is the head

-of the serpent here?
-DELGADO: It goes around.

NEWMAN:
And how far does it go?

NEWMAN:
And can you see the tail on it?

CHILDRESS:
So, you're saying that the builders

are purposely putting
a serpent into the walls here?

But is it the serpent people
who are building this?

Are they showing that
we are the serpent people

and we are the builders?

NARRATOR:
The stonework serpent

is just one
of many found embedded

within the constructions
of the walls around Cuzco.

Might these depictions
suggest a connection

at the megalithic site
with snake-like beings?

Throughout Peru and the Andes,

there are many, many legends

of tunnels,
underground chambers.

And the Peruvians
themselves believe

that this underground
tunnel system

has something to do
with these serpent deities,

which they call the Amaru there.

So, this is the entrance.

-Look...
-Oh, wow.

-Look at that.
-DELGADO: Beautiful carvings.

CHILDRESS:
Wow, look at these high ceilings here.

NEWMAN:
Yeah.

There's another shelf.
Watch your step right here.

Here's another
side tunnel right there.

NEWMAN: Oh, yeah. God, it must
be carved out as well, isn't it?

Looks like, yeah.
Do you think this

is one of the tunnels,
side tunnels that might lead

deeper into this
underground city of the Amarus?

Sometimes people are seen

coming out of
these tunnels, right?

And I mean, you're
saying spirits, but also,

people as well, right?

CHILDRESS:
Do they have a-a serpent-like

appearance?

Do they look,
do they look like serpents?

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that a race

of reptilian humanoids
still exists

somewhere deep underground?

But if so, why haven't
they made their presence known?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the story

of a government
mining contractor

who claims he came face-to-face

with these
otherworldly entities.

NARRATOR:
Dulce, New Mexico.

This unassuming town
has been home

to the Jicarilla Apache
Indian tribe

for over six centuries.

Jicarilla Apache folklore

is filled with stories of
interactions with star people,

including lizard and ant men

they describe
as living underground.

To them,
those star people are as active

and interactive with the planet
now as they ever have been.

It was Western civilization
that ran by

and buried the whole issue
of extraterrestrials

and reptiles as mythological.

But it is the Jicarilla Apaches
in Dulce

who will also tell you
that they know

that there are
some type of beings

that are underground in Dulce
and that the keys

are Mount Archuleta

and Archuleta Mesa.

And below those two,
there are deep underground bases

that have been operated
by some form

of reptilian-related being
for centuries.

NARRATOR: According
to government insiders,

located nearly two miles
beneath the surface

is indeed a secret
subterranean military base

known as the Dulce
Air Force Base.

The base is rumored to extend
seven levels underground

with the lowest levels occupied
by extraterrestrial species.

Whistleblower Phil Schneider

claimed to have worked
on the construction

of these deep underground
military bases

for the U.S. government.

Phil Schneider was
a very interesting geologist

used by the U.S. government
to do

excavations of large areas
under military contract

where they were essentially
going to be building

large caverns and connecting
underground passageways.

NARRATOR:
On May 8, 1995,

Schneider gave a presentation
in Post Falls, Idaho,

and claimed he was attacked
by extraterrestrials

deep underground.

NARRATOR:
According to Phil, at the time of his encounter,

his team had been contracted
to create an addition

to the existing
Dulce underground base.

They were drilling holes
deep into the ground

and using explosives
to create caverns...

...when they encountered
numerous Grey

and reptilian aliens.

NARRATOR:
Phil Schneider later described

learning about
genetic experiments

conducted by the same
extraterrestrial beings

he encountered
at Dulce Air Force Base.

But sadly,
he would never get the chance

to provide further information.

Just eight months after his
presentation in Post Falls...

...Philip Schneider
was found dead in his apartment

with rubber tubing
wrapped around his neck.

-(siren wailing)
-Those who knew him best were shocked

when his death
was ruled a suicide,

and many insisted
this was a cover story

for an assassination.

Part of what
I'm going to tell you

is going to be very shocking.

SALLA:
If people had learned of what Phil Schneider

was revealing,
they would have understood

that there had been
agreements reached

between the U.S. government

and some of these
extraterrestrial civilizations.

NARRATOR:
Did Phil Schneider encounter

the same reptilian
extraterrestrials

that the Inca credited
with creating underground cities

in the southern highlands
of Peru hundreds of years ago?

If so, could remote places
like mountains,

islands and caves
serve as hidden strongholds

for beings not entirely
of this world?

Perhaps, someday soon,

we will discover
that the alien intelligences

we've been desperately
searching the cosmos for

have been here on Earth
all along.

It's so amazing to think about

these extraterrestrial lairs

hidden away
in these remote places.

Mountains, caves, islands.

But it makes a lot of sense.

Oh, absolutely.

Because of course you would pick
the most remote of locations.

CHILDRESS: Yeah, uh,
we have these certain areas,

particularly around the world,

that are said to be inhabited
by extraterrestrials

or the gods.

Yeah, so we know these places
exist, they're there...

...but the question is, will
the extraterrestrials allow us

to discover these places
and even enter into them?

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