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A mysterious cloth
bearing a divine image.

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It represents the
supernatural transformation of a human.

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Gold hats worn by
strange, mystical beings.

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The wearing of a golden
hat would tend to amplify

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the signal that you were
getting from higher-up beings.

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And powerful stones
believed to have otherworldly origins.

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It is said that every
wish was granted.

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Could these mysterious
objects simply be the

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targets of human imagination?
Or are they evidence of

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something even more profound?

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We have to wonder if
possibly all of these metallic books...

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aren't part of some
extraterrestrial library.

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Millions of people around
the world believe we have

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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help

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to shape our history?
And if so, might the evidence be

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found in the world's most
mysterious relics?

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The White House,
February 11, 2013.

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President Barack Obama presents
a Medal of Honor to Army Staff

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Sergeant Clinton Romesha for his
courageous actions during the

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deadly battle of Kamdesh
in Afghanistan.

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These 53 Americans were surrounded
by more than 300 Taliban fighters.

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If you seek a measure of that
day, you need to look no further

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than the medals and ribbons
that grace their chests.

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This tradition of honoring
brave soldiers by

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decorating their chest with
medals dates back to at least

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the second century B.C., when
the ancient Roman military used

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sculpted discs of metal to
reward superior acts of service.

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But why?
What is it about the properties

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of metal that make them chosen objects
of adornment and commemoration?

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The tradition
of adorning people

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with metal really goes
back thousands of years.

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In the case of the Bible, we
have stories about how the

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priests actually had to wear
certain metals before they were

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able to enter the Holy of Holies
and make contact with the divine.

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Today, we are confronted
with symbolism.

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Our heroes are given pins and
medals because somehow we set

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them apart as great people who
somehow have superseded the

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human race, but in the past,
this was to be taken literally.

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Do certain metals
actually enhance mankind's

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ability to connect with divine,
or some would say,

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extraterrestrial forces?
And is this the reason why gold,

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platinum and silver jewelry,
along with other metal

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adornments and relics, have been
so prized throughout human history?

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Definitely the belief is that

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we hold the relic there,
because the relic is

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linked either to a deity
or to something magical.

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Relics can be any number of things.

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Pieces of wood, bits of statues,
literally anything can

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be a relic if it has been kind
of invested with a divine power.

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And that means you have a piece
of the god, and therefore a

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piece of the god's power with you.

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It seems to have always
been the case with human

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beings that they've wanted
to possess items which they

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thought were, uh, either from
the gods, to do with the gods,

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or in some way associated
with the gods.

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Berlin, Germany, 1996.

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The Museum of Prehistory and
Early History acquires a

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glittering artifact from an
anonymous Swiss collector.

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A tall, cone-shaped hat crafted
from a thin sheet of pure gold,

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and embellished with dozens
of sun and moon symbols.

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It is one of four that have been
unearthed at various sites

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throughout Europe, and is
believed by historians to date

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back as far as 1000 B.C.

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What is so important
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they indicate that there
was a common culture.

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The images on them represent
astronomy, the study of the stars.

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They also have complicated
mathematical implications,

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suggesting a level of
philosophical development that's

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very advanced for what we thought
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German researchers carefully
studied the symbols on

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the golden hat, and concluded
they represent a complex

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mathematical table.
One that can accurately

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calculate the long-term cycles
of the sun and the moon.

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But how could such ancient
people have been able to make

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such advanced and highly sophisticated
astronomical predictions?

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The suggestion
is that they belonged

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to what might be referred to as
oracles, people that could fall

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into an altered state and prophesize.

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Could come up with statements
relating to the future or

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otherworldly situations.

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Though most mainstream
scholars believe

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these mysterious hats were worn
by king-priests during religious

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ceremonies, ancient astronaut
theorists have another, even

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more astounding theory.

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The golden hats are kind
of interesting, because if

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gold is something that actually
enhances your connection with

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energies and higher-up celestial
beings, then the wearing of a

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golden hat, especially in a
conical shape, would tend to

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amplify the signal that you
were getting from on high.

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So, it seems to me that ancient
cultures logically would build

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them to get connected with the
gods who had perhaps left them

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behind and gone back to
their celestial birthplace.

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In the case of the golden
hats, what we're seeing

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there is that all of this
technology seems to have been

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part of a larger framework,
whereby once again it seems this

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is a civilization which made
contact with the gods.

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But we just don't know who
would have made these

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or why, and they're so
incredibly unusual and tall.

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Perhaps the extraterrestrial
gods were wearing some kind of

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conical hat like this.

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Could the so-called king-priests
of the ancient past

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have been otherworldly visitors,
utilizing metal's unique

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properties? If so,
might additional evidence

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be found of other ancient
peoples using metal relics for

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advanced, even
metaphysical purposes?

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Khirbet Qumran, Israel, 1952.
Hidden deep in a cave on the

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desert cliffs, archaeologists
discover a mysterious

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2,000-year-old manuscript
written on a sheet of copper.

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Known as the Copper Scroll, this
mysterious relic was found at

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the same site as the ancient
religious writings known as the

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Dead Sea Scrolls.

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All the Dead Sea Scrolls
that have been found

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were written on either,
uh, leather or papyrus.

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The Copper Scroll is the
only one made of copper.

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You got to keep in mind, copper
was valuable, and to hammer out

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a whole scroll would take a lot
of time and a lot of technique,

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- so it has to be very important.
- Scholars examining

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the language on the Copper
Scroll agree it is unlike

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anything found in other
texts of the period.

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The script that's on it is-is a

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little different, but it's not
just in Hebrew; it's in...

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or Aramaic.

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It also has Greek, uh, letters on it.

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So it's quite peculiar.
The thing that makes the Copper

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Scroll so fascinating is that it
mentions hidden treasures.

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The Copper Scroll lists
64 locations in Jerusalem

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and around that area that
buried treasure is located.

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Maybe the key is, in the 64th
location, it says there's

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another copper scroll that will
help explain the rest of it.

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Because we haven't found the
treasure yet, I somehow suspect

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there could be another code within this
treasure map, a code within a code.

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What is the origin of the
mysterious Copper Scroll?

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And at is its true purpose?

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Mainstream scholars and
archaeologists have been puzzled

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by these questions for
more than half a century.

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Maybe the Copper Scroll
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Many times with treasure maps,
you need a second piece in order

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to complete the entire map, so
who knows if there's a piece missing?

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It seems to be an
oddball... artifact.

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And it's written in metal.

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And you have now the stories of
other ancient books supposedly

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written in sheets of gold.
Joseph Smith, Jr., who began

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the-the Mormon Church, he
claimed also to have been shown

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gold-plated books.
So we have to wonder if possibly

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all of these metallic books
written in copper or gold plates

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aren't part of some
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Could the mysterious
Copper Scroll have

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extraterrestrial origins?
And is the fact that it is made

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of copper evidence of a
connection between metal objects

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and otherworldly beings?
yes and believe further proofsay

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can be found by examining the
similarly strange properties

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attributed to other mysterious
relics found all over the world.

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Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast.

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July 2010.
Here, in the ruins of a medieval

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church on St. Ivan Island, six
small human bone fragments are

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discovered inside a marble hagus.

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Through radiocarbon dating and
DNA testing of one knucklebone,

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scientists conclude that the
bones are from the first

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century A.D. But what
is even more incredible

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is the belief by many that the
bones are actually those of

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St. John the Baptist.

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In Christianity, John the Baptist

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is specifically important
because he is known as the

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forerunner, the precursor, the one
who comes before the Messiah.

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And in the stories of John the
Baptist, he becomes extremely

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important for Christians because
he announces that a greater

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messiah is coming after him.
And the legends around John's

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bones were always legends
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John was a prophet.

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Now on tour in churches
throughout Bulgaria,

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tens of thousands of the
faithful come to visit, pray

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and even worship these tiny
bone fragments. But why?

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What is it about ancient bones...
even those thought to have

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belonged to a saint... that
compel people to come and visit them?

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Could it be they possess some
mystical or otherworldly power?

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The idea of saints'

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bones and relics having power is
something that goes back to the

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very early days of Christianity.
And certainly in the latter part

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of the Dark Ages and the Middle
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business.
If you had saints' relics in

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your church or in your cathedral,
you could bring in a

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lot of pilgrims who would also
There was a strong belief by the

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nobility and the royalty that
the bones of these saints

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actually did contain
some kind of power.

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Humans always want to worship
their celebrities, their kings.

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Whatever was linked with
mysteries, humans worshipped it.

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So, in antiquity, it entered
already into altars.

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When a high priest died, part of
his body, part of his bones, was

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sometimes separated, brought
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And everyone worshipped
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That's still happening in
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Kushinagar, India.
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Siddhartha Gautama, the great
spiritual teacher upon whom

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Buddhism is founded, dies.
According to legend, after

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Buddha was cremated, several
small pieces of his body

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remained intact and were
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After his cremation, the
ashes were fought over by a

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lot of his disciples.

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And finally, they resolved to
the problem by dividing, um,

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them into eight different parts.

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When the Buddha's ashes were
divided... and there's a claim

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that there's a tooth found
there... it was considered...

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it was very valuable.
Right away, when the tooth was

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given to a king, the relic...
the tooth relic itself... became

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associated with the
power of kingship.

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And it is believed that the
king who possesses the tooth

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will be able to rule properly
and there will be peace and

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prosperity in his kingdom.

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Could such a tiny but tangible

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relic from the mouth of
the dead Buddha really

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have such power?
Is a physical link to a holy and

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venerated leader really a means
of connecting to the afterlife

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and, even more profoundly,
some divine life force?

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The worship of relics,
actually, is as old as the

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Buddhist religion itself and
many other religions, too.

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The Buddha himself approves of
the worship of relics because

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he believes that his followers
need something very concrete to

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remind them of his presence
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The relics are supposed to be
actually the essence of the

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saints. So, in a way,
the relics are the

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saints themselves, so they have
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The importance here is why
is it that objects like

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this can gain such an
incredible spiritual value?

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And, quite clearly, it's to do
with the-the psychology of the

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importance of-of individuals
like the Buddha, who is seen to

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be personifications of God or
the gods themselves and that

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just to own this or to have some
part of it imbues you with the

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same power as the gods themselves.

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So you have to wonder
just why these relics

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are so important.

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We give them power, these
bones and these teeth.

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But what they are...at least
in a scientific manner... is a piece

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of DNA from the Buddha himself.

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I think they knew that in
a far future, the gods,

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the extraterrestrials,
would return again.

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And some of these gods may have
said to one of his darlings on

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planet Earth, "If we find your
body or your cells are still

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existing, then we are able to
reconstruct your body."

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Cloning dead saints using
DNA from their relics?

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Could this incredible notion be
one of the reasons why bone

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fragments and other human
remains have been so prized

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throughout the centuries?
And might this now very real

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scientific possibility be
connected to ancient religious

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notions of rebirth and
resurrection?

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Perhaps the answers can be found
in another mysterious relic that

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some believe depicts the greatest
religious figure of all time.

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The Cathedral of Turin,
Northern Italy.

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Here lies the sacred relic known
as the Shroud of Turin, a large

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piece of linen which, when
photographed, bears the eerie

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image of what appears
to be a crucified man.

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The Shroud of Turin
is a piece of ancient linen

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cloth, measures about 14 feet
long by three and a half feet

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wide, and what's so important
about this cloth is, there's a

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very faint imprint of a human
being on the cloth who appears

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to have been crucified,
which matches the biblical

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descriptions of Jesus Christ.

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So, many believe that this
shroud, this relic, is the

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actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ,
and bears the wounds of crucifixion.

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The Shroud of Turin has
such a fascinating history,

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Is it authentic?

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Those who are against it say,
no, this could easily have been

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a fake, and a body would never
have left such an image and so on.

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The chemicals of an embalmed body
would not have done such a thing.

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But the people who say that are
not able to explain how the

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figure did get there.
It's not painted.

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It doesn't seem to be a pigment
that's applied to the cloth.

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The shroud has been
studied, actually, by some of

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the top scientists and
researchers in the world.

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And with all the scientific
knowledge and equipment, we

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still do not know how the image
of the shroud was produced.

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And this is what I think continues
to fascinate us about it.

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Regardless of what you believe,
whether you are a Christian and

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a believer and bieve that this
is the image of the resurrected

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Christ, or if you just believe
that there is some other

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extraordinary metaphysical event
that causes this, you have to be

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fascinated by the fact that this
extraordinary relic could not

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have been created by any means that
in the 21st century we can identify.

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Could the Shroud of Turin
really be a divine relic?

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Tangible evidence of the
existence of an almighty power?

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And in 2011, Italian
scientists were able to prove

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that the Shroud of Turin was
created by a supernatural

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flash of light, an
unearthly flash of light.

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In my opinion, the Shroud of
Turin is proof that Jesus

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transformed himself into a being
of light, and projected himself

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through the Shroud of Turin.

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Does the Shroud of Turin
actually contain an image

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of the crucified Jesus?
Or could this sacred object be

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something else?
Might it, in fact, be evidence

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of an incredibly advanced,
otherworldly technology?

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Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining another, even more

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perplexing, ancient artifact.
One found on a land known as the

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Emerald Isle.

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Southern Ireland.
Here, approximately five miles

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northwest of the small city of
Cork, lies the Blarney Castle.

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Built more than 500 years ago,
this nearly 90-foot-tall

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fortress houses the world-famous
Blarney Stone, a relic that more

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than 300,000 people
come to kiss each year.

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It is not in a
convenient location.

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It's in the castle wall
high up on the outside.

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So, to kiss it, you've got to
dangle over or sneak around so

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that you're really at some peril
of falling a very great distance.

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According to legend,
it grants whoever

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kisses it the power to speak in
an articulate and charismatic

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way and to flatter and
blandish in any circumstance.

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Here you have a stone
that has been kissed and

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revered by probably
millions of people.

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Blarney is the gift of gab, and
so the idea is that somehow

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kissing this stone gives you the
ability to talk better or to

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somehow amplify
your verbal prowess.

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Composed of a single
block of bluestone...

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the same material used
at Stonehenge...this stone relic's

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magical powers are widely renowned.

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But could a stone
really have such power?

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One that could actually affect
an individual's power of speech?

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And the story is, in
the 15th century, Cormac

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MacCarthy had a court case
coming up, and he was concerned

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about this and called upon the
goddess Cliodhna, the Queen of

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the Banshees, to help him find
the right words and present a

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good case.
She did.

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She said, "Listen, on your way
to court, kiss the first stone

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you see, and you'll be eloquent,
you'll find the words."

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And he did this.
He went to court, he was very

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persuasive, and won his case.
On his way home, he picked up

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that rock and carried it back,
and had his workman fashion it

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into a stone and set it
into the wall of his castle

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where it is still to be found.

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When you look at
Irish mythology as a whole,

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it starts to become
pretty obvious

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that these people such as
Cliodhna were not ordinary

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earthborn humans, but were,
in fact, most likely

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extraterrestrial humans, who
came to the earth and shared

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their technology.
And Blarney being the gift of

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gab, the gift of talking more
eloquently, is something that

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may have been impregnated into
the stone by an extraterrestrial

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technology using energetic means
that we're not now aware of.

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Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists

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suggest, that the Blarney Stone
is actually evidence of some

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ancient and otherworldly power?
Technology that helps to prove

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that ancient man was in direct
contact with highly-developed

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beings from another
part of the galaxy?

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If so, might the character known
in Irish folklore as the goddess

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Cliodhna, actually have
been a celestial traveler?

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Perhaps more clues can be found
by investigating another

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mysterious stone relic,
located just 160 miles away.

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County Meath, Ireland.
On top of this mound, known as

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the Hill of Tara, lies the Lia
Fáil, or Stone of Destiny...

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one of four magical treasures said
to have been brought to Ireland

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by mythical deities called
the Tuatha De Danann.

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The Lia Fáil was a stone
that was considered

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magical. All of the
kings of Ireland, up

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until the fifth century of the
common era, were said to have

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been crowned on this.
It seemed to know who the true

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king was. They say,
if the true king put

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his feet up on it, it
would roar with delight.

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It also had the power to give
strength to the leader, to help

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him solidify his rule, and, in some
cases, to heal, if that was necessary.

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To mainstream scientists
and archaeologists,

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this stone relic represents nothing
more than the coronation stone

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of Ireland's ancient kings.

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But according to Irish mythology,

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the Hill of Tara was also a sacred
dwelling place for the gods.

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The Hill of Tara is a mound and,

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like many mounds in Ireland,
like many of these

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sá­dhe mounds, it is allegedly
the entrance to the realm of the

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sá­dhe, or these
otherworldly people.

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The word sá­dhe means both
the people themselves, the

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otherworldly people, and the mounds
in which they are said to dwell.

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And the Hill of Tara is allegedly
an entrance to the other world.

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The Hill of Tara is considered
the sacred center of Ireland.

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The kings ruled from there for

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many centuries in ancient and
in, uh, early history.

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And this was considered a sacred
portal to another dimension, to

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the other world, so it had more
than the authority of kingship.

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It had the authority of the
supernatural.

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In Irish mythology,
the Tuatha De Danaan

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were gods who had magical powers.

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They arrived from the landof
the west, these mythical lands

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of the gods.
They were said to come in these

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dark clouds, which then landed
in the mountains of Ireland.

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And when they came, there were
three nights and three days of

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darkness. So you have
to ask yourself what

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kind of power they had, and were
they some kind of celestial

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visitors arriving in UFOs?

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Maybe the
extraterrestrials found

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a way to help society
make advancements,

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including the selection
of a virtuous leader.

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It's entirely possible that this
stone is not just something that

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was coming out of a mythology,
that the Lia Fáil was an

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engineered device, that those
leaders were able to be

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assessed by the stone and even
maybe see into their destiny,

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see into their future.

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Might the Lia Fáil,
a stone relic imbued with power

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like the Blarney Stone, really
be evidence of highly advanced

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knowledge brought to mankind
by the so-called gods?

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And do these sacred objects
provide proof of ancient man's

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extraterrestrial connections?
Perhaps the answers can be

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found by examining strange and
unusual relics fallen from the sky.

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Valley of the Kings, Egypt.

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November 1922.
Archaeologist Howard Carter

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discovers King Tutankhamun's
tomb, containing a treasure

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trove of artifacts.
Among them is King Tut's

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magnificent breastplate with a
yellow jewel as its centerpiece,

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a jewel created as the result
of a meteorite impact.

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In Egyptian culture,
there was a fascination

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with Libyan desert glass.

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And while it's not actually a
meteorite, Libyan desert glass

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is the product of a meteorite impact.

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Millions of years ago, an
enormous meteorite crashed into

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what is today the Egyptian
desert, and the heat and

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pressure of that impact melted
the sand in the desert, forming

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a beautiful yellow impact glass.

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And it crystallizes
the sand; it forms glass.

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And you get these wonderful,
almost like jewel stones you get.

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And they clearly imagined these
stones to be celestial, to have

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been created by the impact of a star.

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And therefore they were
given cosmic meaning.

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Humans have long
had a fascination with

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meteorites and have fashioned many
tools and spiritual objects from them.

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But why?

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There are many magical
stories of meteors,

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meteorites and meteor showers.

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Aeschylus in Prometheus Unbound

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talks about an angry Zeus
throwing rocks down at the Earth.

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In the Aeneid, Virgil
speaks of meteors.

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He describes a meteor shower as
indicating Troy is about to fall.

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Such folk liefs about meteors,
shooting stars, meteorites were

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common in the ancient world,
where, clearly, a piece of stone

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from the heavens is
worshipped as a divine item.

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The reason why they
were so important was

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because they inherently had
the power of the gods in them

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because they were already
forged in the universe and they

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descended from the sky.

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Meteoric gemstones
like Libyan desert glass have

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been venerated throughout history.

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But one particularly mysterious
green gemstone could be the

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most sought-after relic of all time.

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Moldavite is the name
given to a green impact

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glass of extraordinary beauty
and rarity that's only found in

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one small region of
the Czech Republic.

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It's very old.

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Metaphysically, moldavite
creates thistrange

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pulsating energy field that amplifies
human thoughts or intention.

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If you're a loving or
compassionate person, it will

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amplify that, or it can bring
chaos if your thoughts and

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energy and emotions are chaotic.

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According to some legends,
the Holy Grail, the

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cup from which Jesus and his
apostles drank during the Last

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Supper, was carved from a green
gemstone that had fallen to

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Earth from the heavens.

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It is said that there

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was discord in the heavens
involving Lucifer, and a stone

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dropped. It was a
stone that at one time

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had been the center of Lucifer's
crown when he was an important angel.

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It dropped to Earth.

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It was then a piece of Heaven on
Earth and had great power and

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was greatly venerated.
It was carved into the Holy

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Grail, which was not made of
metal but of this beautiful

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emerald, a precious
stone from Heaven.

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Could the green gemstone
that supposedly fell

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00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:17,521
from Lucifer's crown have been
made not of emerald but of

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00:33:17,523 --> 00:33:21,258
moldavite?
Perhaps more evidence can be

465
00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:25,729
found in the legends of another
sacred stone that fell from the

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00:33:25,731 --> 00:33:30,317
sky more than 4,000 miles away.

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00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:40,244
Yumbulakang Palace, Southern Tibet.

468
00:33:40,246 --> 00:33:45,282
Here, according to legend,
the 28th king, Lha Thothori

469
00:33:45,284 --> 00:33:50,053
Nyantsen, obtains a magical
jewel called Cintamani.

470
00:33:50,055 --> 00:33:52,756
It is said to be one of four
revered relics that fell from

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00:33:52,758 --> 00:33:54,929
the sky in a chest.

472
00:33:57,930 --> 00:33:59,230
The Cintamani Stone

473
00:33:59,231 --> 00:34:02,733
is a fascinating myth that
could well have meteorite

474
00:34:02,735 --> 00:34:06,770
associations.
It describes a jewel that's

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00:34:06,772 --> 00:34:10,640
meant to have enormous
properties that it can bestow

476
00:34:10,642 --> 00:34:14,477
upon its owner, and there are
legends that some of the

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00:34:14,479 --> 00:34:18,332
greatest warriors and leaders in
all of history, including King

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00:34:18,334 --> 00:34:22,286
Solomon, owned this jewel, that
it was passed from one great

479
00:34:22,288 --> 00:34:25,655
ruler or leader to another.

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00:34:25,657 --> 00:34:29,593
In both Hindu and Buddhist
tradition, um, there

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00:34:29,595 --> 00:34:35,182
are stories relating to a
so-called wishing jewel.

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00:34:35,184 --> 00:34:40,137
And it wielded great power.
It had a-a connection between

483
00:34:40,139 --> 00:34:46,443
this world and the next, that it
could be used to interact, uh,

484
00:34:46,445 --> 00:34:51,147
not just with other worlds but
the center of the universe itself.

485
00:34:51,549 --> 00:34:56,286
It is said that whoever possessed the
Cintamani stone was able to control

486
00:34:56,288 --> 00:35:00,390
destiny, that every wish was granted.

487
00:35:00,392 --> 00:35:04,962
Now, a stone or an object which
is able to change reality, truly

488
00:35:04,964 --> 00:35:09,532
that is something which is a
piece of technology, and how our

489
00:35:09,534 --> 00:35:13,303
ancestors got this is a gigantic
question mark, which fortunately

490
00:35:13,305 --> 00:35:16,139
our ancestors have answered for us.

491
00:35:16,141 --> 00:35:19,009
Their answer is that this came
from the sky, that it was given

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00:35:19,011 --> 00:35:23,847
to us by the gods, and that it
played a role in this exchange

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00:35:23,849 --> 00:35:26,516
between us and the divine.

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00:35:26,518 --> 00:35:30,020
Could the legends of the
Cintamani stone be based

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00:35:30,022 --> 00:35:34,024
on fact? If so,
might this otherworldly

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00:35:34,026 --> 00:35:38,495
stone, as well as other sacred
and mysterious relics, hp

497
00:35:38,497 --> 00:35:41,731
forge a connection between
mankind and extraterrestrial

498
00:35:41,733 --> 00:35:45,752
forces? Ancient astronaut
theorists say

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00:35:45,754 --> 00:35:50,173
yes, and believe the ultimate
proof can be found in one of the

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00:35:50,175 --> 00:35:54,461
most sacred objects in the world.

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00:35:54,463 --> 00:35:57,463
Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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00:36:04,273 --> 00:36:09,860
50 miles from the Red Sea,
this is Islam's holiest city.

503
00:36:09,862 --> 00:36:15,399
It was here in 2000 B.C.
that Muslims believe the prophet

504
00:36:15,401 --> 00:36:18,969
Abraham built the Kaaba, a
cube-shaped structure that draws

505
00:36:18,971 --> 00:36:24,941
millions of pilgrims each year.
But just what is it about this

506
00:36:24,943 --> 00:36:28,578
building that is so sacred?
And why do so many people line

507
00:36:28,580 --> 00:36:30,964
up to touch it?

508
00:36:30,966 --> 00:36:35,252
On the eastern
side of the Kaaba is a

509
00:36:35,254 --> 00:36:42,476
meteorite stone which is embedded
in the corner of the Kaaba.

510
00:36:42,478 --> 00:36:46,129
Now, according to Muslim belief,
this meteorite stone was sent

511
00:36:46,131 --> 00:36:50,984
from heaven to Adam and Eve.
And that stone was used to build

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00:36:50,986 --> 00:36:53,803
the first temple.

513
00:36:53,805 --> 00:36:59,409
And this really makes Mecca the
most holy place to Muslims.

514
00:36:59,411 --> 00:37:05,832
Muhammad himself threw
out all of the other gods,

515
00:37:05,834 --> 00:37:10,320
the deities and statues.

516
00:37:10,322 --> 00:37:16,159
But he retained the
one strange the black

517
00:37:16,161 --> 00:37:20,681
stone, the extraterrestrial
object that's still worshipped

518
00:37:20,683 --> 00:37:24,434
today at Mecca.
So, you have to wonder why

519
00:37:24,436 --> 00:37:31,858
Muhammad specifically chose that
object as part of his religion

520
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:35,195
that would remain, as
part of the Muslim faith.

521
00:37:35,197 --> 00:37:41,151
It would have to be some memory
of an extraterrestrial event.

522
00:37:41,153 --> 00:37:46,022
Might the black stone of
Mecca and other sacred

523
00:37:46,024 --> 00:37:49,543
relics really possess great power?

524
00:37:49,545 --> 00:37:53,463
Could they be gateways, not only
to ancient knowledge, but to

525
00:37:53,465 --> 00:37:57,834
other worlds and even
other dimensions?

526
00:37:57,836 --> 00:38:03,056
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining what many believe

527
00:38:03,058 --> 00:38:07,010
to be the most sacred and
powerful of all the Earth's

528
00:38:07,012 --> 00:38:12,933
the cross of Jesus Christ.

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00:38:16,134 --> 00:38:21,090
Jerusalem.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

530
00:38:23,992 --> 00:38:25,446
According to some researchers,

531
00:38:25,448 --> 00:38:29,450
this sacred site is the place
where the crucified Jesus was

532
00:38:29,452 --> 00:38:36,573
buried, and after three days,
rose from the dead.

533
00:38:36,575 --> 00:38:41,194
And it was near here, in 326
A.D., that the remains

534
00:38:41,196 --> 00:38:48,702
of a relic thought to be Jesus's cross
were discovered by a Roman empress.

535
00:38:48,704 --> 00:38:51,805
Empress Helena was
the mother of the emperor

536
00:38:51,807 --> 00:38:55,309
Constantine, and she was an
early convert to Christianity.

537
00:38:55,311 --> 00:38:58,712
According to legend, she
journeyed to the holy land to

538
00:38:58,714 --> 00:39:01,482
found a number of churches
there, and when she was there

539
00:39:01,484 --> 00:39:05,986
she was drawn to the-the Hill of
Calvary, where Jesus was

540
00:39:05,988 --> 00:39:10,491
allegedly executed.
And she had the pagan temple

541
00:39:10,493 --> 00:39:14,111
which she found there torn down,
and in the rubble of that

542
00:39:14,113 --> 00:39:17,731
temple, she allegedly discovered
the true cross, the cross where

543
00:39:17,733 --> 00:39:19,918
Jesus was crucified.

544
00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:25,339
She found three crosses.
Well, Christ was crucified with

545
00:39:25,341 --> 00:39:29,126
two thieves, so three crosses
might be the right artifacts.

546
00:39:29,128 --> 00:39:32,579
But to test them, she brought a
woman with terminal disease,

547
00:39:32,581 --> 00:39:36,266
very near death,
to touch the crosses.

548
00:39:36,268 --> 00:39:39,937
She touched the first two and
her condition was unchanged.

549
00:39:39,939 --> 00:39:43,190
When she touched the third
cross, she was miraculously

550
00:39:43,192 --> 00:39:50,263
healed, and Helena declared that to be
the true cross upon which Christ died.

551
00:39:50,265 --> 00:39:54,034
The true cross, it's sacred.

552
00:39:54,036 --> 00:39:57,037
Sacred to many, many, many people.

553
00:39:57,039 --> 00:40:01,158
And people collect these, or
like to say that they... they

554
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:05,212
may have pieces of this cross,
because it brings them closer to

555
00:40:05,214 --> 00:40:10,050
the one they love, or their Lord
and Savior, call it what you will.

556
00:40:10,052 --> 00:40:12,803
Literally hundreds of Christian
churches lay claim to the fact

557
00:40:12,805 --> 00:40:17,174
that they have pieces of the
actual cross that Jesus died on.

558
00:40:17,176 --> 00:40:21,562
Like many relics or pieces
of saints' bodies, the

559
00:40:21,564 --> 00:40:25,182
true cross where Jesus was
crucified was believed to have

560
00:40:25,184 --> 00:40:28,969
all kinds of miraculous powers,
including healing powers and the

561
00:40:28,971 --> 00:40:33,690
power to grant, um, salvation.
So if you were to touch or own a

562
00:40:33,692 --> 00:40:37,194
relic of the true cross, a piece
of the true cross, some of that

563
00:40:37,196 --> 00:40:41,314
power that Christ had would
transfer itself to you through

564
00:40:41,316 --> 00:40:43,316
the power of touch.

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00:40:43,318 --> 00:40:46,703
It's a fascinating thought
that relics like the

566
00:40:46,705 --> 00:40:52,843
true cross could contain some
divine energy that will heal

567
00:40:52,845 --> 00:40:57,497
people, even raise
them from the dead.

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00:40:57,499 --> 00:41:01,568
So is it possible that they are
some kind of extraterrestrial

569
00:41:01,570 --> 00:41:07,840
artifacts with some kind of power
in them that we don't understand?

570
00:41:08,342 --> 00:41:11,044
Could fragments of
Jesus's cross,

571
00:41:11,046 --> 00:41:14,565
like other ancient stones and relics,

572
00:41:14,567 --> 00:41:18,702
really have harnessed strange
extraterrestrial energy?

573
00:41:18,704 --> 00:41:24,239
Could legends concerning mysterious
healing powers really be true?

574
00:41:25,041 --> 00:41:27,410
It's very human for people
to want to possess,

575
00:41:27,412 --> 00:41:31,713
whether it's a piece of cloth,
a stone, uh, a follicle of hair...

576
00:41:31,715 --> 00:41:34,784
to posses an object that
means something to them,

577
00:41:34,786 --> 00:41:38,203
an object that can perhaps
help them in their life.

578
00:41:38,405 --> 00:41:42,923
Could these relics assist us
in-in invoking otherworldly power?

579
00:41:43,429 --> 00:41:46,563
I think we need to be open.
We need to be open to that

580
00:41:46,565 --> 00:41:51,384
possibility. Clearly,
our ancestors thought so.

581
00:41:51,386 --> 00:41:55,388
Well, ancient relics
were very important to many

582
00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:59,893
different ancient cultures, um, just
as they still are today to religions.

583
00:41:59,895 --> 00:42:03,113
And the reason for this is that
it was believed that they were

584
00:42:03,115 --> 00:42:08,452
access points to otherworldly
environments wherein the gods,

585
00:42:08,454 --> 00:42:13,240
the spirits, the immortals dwelled.

586
00:42:13,242 --> 00:42:17,678
Throughout history, we
find that some of our most

587
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:23,183
powerful figures, our most powerful
leaders, have gone on relic quests.

588
00:42:23,185 --> 00:42:29,456
They're looking for the Holy Grail, the
Spear of Destiny, the Key of Life.

589
00:42:29,458 --> 00:42:33,443
And the belief is that if we can
acquire these relics, we will

590
00:42:33,445 --> 00:42:37,531
acquire powers beyond
human comprehension.

591
00:42:37,533 --> 00:42:40,984
Powers that originally came from
the gods that will make us more

592
00:42:40,986 --> 00:42:44,872
godlike if we can get
our hands on them.

593
00:42:44,874 --> 00:42:49,293
The relic tradition, this
tooth from a-a deity, the

594
00:42:49,295 --> 00:42:52,546
bone from a saint, all of these
aspects really tie in that

595
00:42:52,548 --> 00:42:57,450
somehow, this deity, this saint
is able to link us mere mortals

596
00:42:57,452 --> 00:43:00,120
to the realm of the divine.

597
00:43:04,008 --> 00:43:09,980
Sacred bones...
golden hats...

598
00:43:09,982 --> 00:43:13,984
and fragments of sacred objects
thought to possess healing

599
00:43:13,986 --> 00:43:18,021
properties.
Is it possible that these

600
00:43:18,023 --> 00:43:21,191
ancient and mysterious relics
help to prove that

601
00:43:21,193 --> 00:43:25,078
extraterrestrials not only
visited Earth in the ancient

602
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:30,033
past, but remain strangely
connected to us throughout space

603
00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:34,671
and time? Perhaps
the truth of mankind's

604
00:43:34,673 --> 00:43:39,092
origins has been right before
our eyes for hundreds and

605
00:43:39,094 --> 00:43:46,183
thousands of years, in fabric,
metal and stone, and in the DNA

606
00:43:46,185 --> 00:43:51,355
of holy saints and martyrs, who
someday, thanks to modern

607
00:43:51,357 --> 00:43:54,988
science, may even rise again.

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