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>> In 1997, Holley Moyes an archeologist at the University

of California, led an expedition to survey a large cave system

in Belize, known as Actun Tunichil Muknal.

As they followed a bizarre complex of chambers

three miles into the Earth, they discovered thousands

of offerings to ancient gods, including the skeletal remains

of thousands of human sacrifices,

and tools and ceramics made from the semiprecious stone,

obsidian.

What made this find even more unusual

was that, as Holley and her team followed the trail

deeper and deeper into the cave, it appeared to have no end.

Where would it ultimately lead to?

Descriptions of the caves in the Popol Vuh,

an ancient Maya creation myth, has

led many to believe these archeologists had uncovered

an opening to the ancient underworld known

as Xibalba, a much-feared threshold to the afterlife.

>> The Maya have an interesting and related legend about

an underworld called Xibalba.

Xibalba is basically their version of hell.

And these lords of the underworld in the Mayan story

cycle are basically reptilian-headed humanoids.

You have one guy who's got crocodile head, another

who's got an iguana head.

Chaac, the rain god, has a bird head,

which is somewhat reptilian.

And this is the theme, again, that we find

throughout underworld lore.

Stories about beings that rule these nether regions are often

reptilian yet humanoid.

>> Reptilian yet humanoid is not a new myth in the ancient

worlds.

But are these Mayan myths of an underground simply folklore,

or could there be some scientific evidence

that habitable places below the Earth could exist?

Hollow Earth theory has been around for several years,

and this is something that has now begun

to fascinate people again.

You know, the original theory goes back maybe 500 years,

and various very well-known historical figures

have talked about this.

Sir Isaac Newton was a proponent for the hollow Earth.

The Earth is not solid, by a long shot.

The Earth is-- there's always a lot of movement and motion

going on down deep inside the Earth.

So the idea that there could be large spaces inside the crust

of the Earth, even down as far as the crust mantle

boundary, that might be conducive to habitation

is not that impossible.

>> There's a lot of scientists today, planetary scientists,

credible planetary scientists, that will tell you that when

a planet evolves, when it comes into being,

it has to do so in such a way that the center is hollow.

And in fact, they dropped a bomb on the moon not too long ago

and a geologist, NASA geologist, wanted

to record the vibrations coming out

of it so they could tell something

about the inner structure.

And it rang for eight hours like a bell, like an empty bell.

And that kind of gives you a glimpse.

Now whether or not the Earth itself

is completely hollowed out inside or whether

or not they are just vast inner caverns that

might be the size of whole continents, I'm not sure.

But what I can tell you is that in ancient civilizations

all over the globe, they have these hollow Earth stories.

>> In my research I have discovered maps that show a lot

of these deep underground bases, also known as domes.

These bases are in locations where

there appear to have been other openings deep under the earth.

And how do I know this?

Well anybody can figure it out because we have access

to the ground penetrating radar data.

This data shows specific types of caverns and openings

deep, deep beneath the earth, sometimes a mile deep.

And what it appears when you look

at some of these overlaying military tunnels,

it seems as if they knew where they were at so they actually

tunneled to these actual locations,

these ancient locations, and kind of made them

into their path as they created their own grid.

>> When we look at the creation stories of our past,

as different as they are from one another,

there are common themes that weave them all together.

One of the most obvious of these common threads

is the theme of another world beneath this one.

A world, subterranean world, from which

our ancestors emerged.

The Mayan calendar, for example.

It's a circular calendar and it shows four boxes

with unique glyphs representing the four worlds of the past.

And the Maya say there have been four previous worlds.

We live in the fifth world that is represented

by the circle and the image that is staring right at us

from that circle.

Each of those four previous worlds was destroyed.

One was destroyed by wind, one was destroyed by fire,

one was destroyed by ice.

And when the ice melted, a great flood

destroyed the fourth world, and that flood story

is one of the common themes that we

find throughout these indigenous traditions.

So the question is, is that just mythology

or are there any physical links that

can help us relate to these in the real world?

>> Maybe the links in the physical world are

to our genetic existence, and how humans were able to survive

cataclysm after cataclysm.

>> All species tend to transcend into something else sooner

or later.

This is the process of evolution and natural selection, which

some people find very annoying.

But I see no mileage in saying evolution doesn't happen.

You need species to have the ability

to bounce back from assaults.

You know, for example, if you have a giant asteroid or comet

hit the Earth and make life on Earth

extremely fragile and tenuous, you

need to be able to bounce back from that.

In other words, you need to be able to duck and dive

and evolve to adapt to the new situations

and keep the project of life going.

The whole process of evolution is a process of unfolding.

Could we become very different from what we are now?

Yes, given enough time.

Given enough new situations to adapt to and develop with.

>> Could these new situations have included taking refuge

within the inner Earth?

>> We have the Biblical texts about this notion of giants

in the old days.

And certainly after the great floods

and the great cataclysmic events that may have sunk Atlantis,

we can only speculate to say that there

could be a breakaway civilization that

went underground at the end of the last cataclysm.

And these beings, some of whom could

be giants, others could look just

like us or some similar human to us,

could be living inside the Earth.

>> You get the Mayans who kind of disappeared.

There's speculation they may have ascended,

they maybe have gone to a deeper plane of existence

that we originally came out of.

And same with the Tuatha de Danann in Ireland.

Like they're said to be gods or fairies or ancestral spirits,

but they were originally people.

I also see a lot of legends where people coming out

of the sea and coming out of the Earth may explain,

may tie end of the Atlantis myth,

where we've come from deeper plains of ontology.

Because a lot of time the underworld

does represent a deeper plane of existence.

>> Anton Parks' research indicates that the underworld

can also be linked to creation.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH] In ancient texts, in Gnostic, Sumerian,

even Egyptian texts, the abyss is always linked to the process

of creation.

So we find this recurrent theme of the abyss,

and through the research that I have done,

I found out that Enki is the master of the abyss,

of the great deep, which also in some ways

corresponds to the underworld.

>> If you go back to the Mesopotamian creation stories,

they talked about gods from the sky basically bioengineering

a form of humanity that was already here,

creating a more modern form.

But they don't necessarily say that the engineering

was done in the sky.

For example, Enki was also the god of the underwater realms.

So there was a possibility that maybe there

was some realm under water or underground

where some of this activity was being conducted.

And so you have this possibility,

at least within the lore.

You don't necessarily exclude sky borne gods

from gods that lived underground because people had both ideas.

That the gods had realms underground,

underwater, and in the sky, and they

interacted with all of them.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH] Indeed, the further back you go in history,

the more you are faced with Giants,

just like prehistoric animals on Earth.

For example, the dinosaurs.

Roughly, I would say that if Enki is about six feet

five inches, closer to human.

An and the other Sumerian gods and goddesses,

by the way they were portrayed, I would say

are about 11 feet five inches.

Between 10 feet and 11 feet five inches.

Maybe even up to 14 feet.

>> If some of the Sumerian gods were suggested to be giant

in size, how would this relate to myths of an underworld

in South America?

Sonja Grace uses her alternative research

to connect the dots on the underground mythology

in Mesopotamia.

>> When I first spirit travelled to the Ziggurat of Ur,

I was really amazed because there was a very small

structure, like a temple, made out of stone.

And the ant people, who I call the [INAUDIBLE],,

were all over the land, they were everywhere.

And one of them came up to me, and these are ginormous ants.

These are not little ants or people

that look like-- they're ants.

And they came up to me and they said,

we created this place in the beginning.

And this is what we built for the people of Atlantis

so that when Atlantis fell, they had a place to go to.

We helped them to safety.

And they said, we want to take you and show you this place.

So we went through this little opening

and we started going down and down, and further and further

into this long tunnel.

It went on forever.

And then all of a sudden, it opened out

into this beautiful, huge cavern.

There were all kinds of rocks and crystals

and stones in the walls.

There was a lake, and it went on into further caverns.

It was enormous.

And they said, this is where we lead

the people who did survive and got out of Atlantis

before it fell.

And at the top of the cave were these roots

from a big tree that was coming down.

And they said that when the people were there,

they referred to this place as Eden.

It was the place that they had to--

that was their refuge, that saved them.

So they referred to it and called it Eden.

And when the world came back and life

was happening on the surface again,

in the roots of the tree that were coming down

from the top of the cave, they could

see greenery coming out and growing.

So they knew it was OK to come back up to the surface.

And when they came back up, they referred to this tree

as the tree of life.

>> If the underworld is not only a place of creation,

might it also have been a place to hide?

In the Hebrew Bible, the Nephilim

were the sons of gods, mingling with the daughters of Adam.

They were also known as giants and considered

to be the fallen ones.

Michael Mott's research suggests that they might

have retreated underground.

Are these the Giants described in ancient texts?

>> Some people will say that these giants are pre-Adamites,

which means they came about before Adam and Eve.

Some say that they are Nephilim, which

would mean they're part human and part fallen angel.

And this is a theme that does find reflection

in some of the Native American lore

because the Giants are described as having six fingers, six

toes, double rows of teeth, occasionally they have horns.

And this ties right in with the ancient description

of the Nephilim.

For instance, from the Book of Enoch and other sources,

and even from the Old Testament.

So is something that we see again and again.

They fled a cataclysm.

They fled something they fear.

So they go beneath the Earth and they

claim that they live much longer by living there.

There's plenty of water, there are strange areas

where there seems to be a lot of high pressure

which blow out a lot of breathable air.

That's not to say that you wouldn't

have to have a really advanced level of not just

civilization, but technology in order

to carve out a space inside the crust of the planet

and to make a sustainable environment there.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH] What became of the gods?

I'm not sure that I can give an answer to this question.

And maybe that the survivors, the ones that could still

be alive in our solar system, lived underground on Earth.

>> There are many reports that these giants moved inside

the Earth, into the inner Earth.

According to my information, it is a honeycomb

of caverns inside the Earth, and there

are many groups living inside.

Groups that are non-terrestrial, groups

that left the surface of the Earth many, many millennia

ago and just never came back out.

>> Has any evidence been discovered that can prove

the existence of a lost underground civilization?

Historians have been debating this for centuries.

Perhaps the answer to this question

lies deep in the Amazon jungle, two and a half

thousand miles south of Belize.

An indigenous tribe known as the Macushi

have lived here with little contact from the outside world

until the mid-18th century.

And yet, their mythology is almost

identical to beings who protect the hollow Earth described

by the Mayans.

>> You have that South American tradition,

which is very interesting, of the tribe that said that they

were guarding the entrance to the inner Earth.

And they said it would take maybe a couple of weeks

to finally get down far enough where they would meet

the inhabitants, and they were just

these gigantic people, anywhere between 10 and 11 and 1/2 feet

tall.

So of course, the common idea is that this is just

a bunch of mythology by a primitive people.

But what's interesting is they talked

about how when they got far enough down,

one of the things they saw was basically molten rock.

And that's exactly what modern science tells us

you should find underneath the Earth.

And how would a primitive people know that?

There are also areas where there's

all these lush plants, and food, and the people living down

there.

Can we take that seriously?

We're left with this very interesting myth

that has a few intriguing elements to it.

It's worth a look if we can get down there.

>> The Macushi Indians of Guyana and also of the northern Amazon

basin have a very interesting legend concerning an entrance

to the inner Earth.

And according to their legend, there is an entrance

to the underworld there.

And at one point, they were in charge

of security over the entrance to this location.

And according their legend, they could descend to this world

and come into contact with the very tall men who

were basically giants, 15 feet tall, 12 feet tall.

And they had been given this task

of guarding this location and the entrance,

and not let anyone else enter.

>> Traveling for 15 days down into this cavern until they

literally put down their torches because there's these balls

of light that will light you the rest of the way on steps that

are 33 inches long.

Eventually making it into caverns where food was growing,

lit by four large sun-like disks that they couldn't even

stare at they were so bright.

And they describe the food as being apples

the size of a human head, grapes the size of a human fist.

Interacting with giant beings that they

described as being three to four meters in height.

He would catch giant fish for them

and give it to him as a gift.

That kind of detail coming from a culture who

didn't have any access to libraries,

didn't have any access to television, satellite,

internet.

How is it that they come across or begin

to tell stories that are being duplicated

in all these other cultures?

There has to be some truth to it.

Now whether it's completely hollow inside,

or whether or not these vast caverns are just there--

I believe that they're there, and a lot of people

believe that they're inhabited by what we would describe

as being an alien species, an ultra-terrestrial species

rather than an extraterrestrial species.

>> Could these strange species be linked to the Sumerian gods?

Many of these stories about a lost civilization

under the Earth from indigenous cultures around the world

have strong similarities.

Is it possible that these giant creatures

were the sages described in ancient Sumerian texts

and others?

And did these beings bring back humanity after a cataclysm?

>> In Sumerian tradition and in the surviving texts that have

been passed down to us, there is a very strong and intriguing

reference to what is called the seven antediluvian sages.

Go over to India and we have the seven rishis.

So this number keeps on cropping up.

We can go further away, to Easter Island,

and there we discover an ancient tradition

that civilization was first brought to Easter Island

by seven initiated men.

Now how are we to take all of this?

How can we put it into some kind of context?

For me, what I think we're looking at

is more evidence that there was a high civilization

that we have lost track of.

That we truly are a species with amnesia,

and that we have forgotten a very important part

of our story.

And fragments of that story crop up all around the world.

What I think we are looking at is an outreach program.

An outreach program reaching out to the hunter

gatherers in what we would call the upper Paleolithic,

and beginning to teach certain of them

selected skills, giving them the gifts of civilization.

But to find this theme again and again

and again, the seven sages, the seven wise men,

teaching the gifts of civilization--

I would say we are looking at symbolic allusions

towards the outreach of a lost civilization.

>> But who are these beings we have lost touch with?

>> If we look back throughout all the historical cycles,

we find this interaction with supposed reptilian humanoids.

That goes as far as even the mythic cycles of Europe,

and the whole concept of like, for instance, frog princesses

and all these other strange things

that we find coming down to us in lore about these people who

aren't quite human, or they can pass as human sometimes

but they have a reptilian aspect.

The stories about them and their interacts with people,

it's often seen that like for instance

in the Mayan underworld, that even though these brothers

killed some of these beings, the Mayan royalty

traces their lineage to some of the same beings.

And this is a theme we'll see around the world,

whether it's China, Japan, wherever it is.

You have an elite group that believes

that they are descended from these mostly unseen beings who

live under the Earth.

The Anunnaki in the Sumerian text

are described as being reptilian to some extent,

or have birdlike heads, reptile like heads.

Even in contemporary accounts of Ufology,

people talk about the reptoids and these humanoid beings

with reptilian heads.

And this theme, again, is associated with the underworld

and with these unseen manipulators of the human race.

In the legend of Central Asia, there

are stories about subterranean civilizations.

One of these is called Agartha or Agharti.

The other one is called Patala.

And Patala is often associated with the Naga,

who are reptilian humanoids.

>> As described in the Mahabharata,

the Nagas are considered to be a subterranean half-human,

half-serpent race.

At some point in the ancient text,

they are important players in many of the events in the epic,

and frequently even on the side of good, given

the nature of their character.

They dwell in the city Potala, which

is said in the Vishnu Purana to have seven realms, which are

located one above the other.

Patala is a paradise, and the Naga

that live there are described as a very

advanced race or species, with a highly developed technology.

According to the legend, they wage war

on the Kingdom of Agartha.

>> The Agarthans are supposedly enlightened human beings,

and they have a ruler over them called the King of the World.

He has a capital called Shambhala, which is in Agartha.

And from this area, supposedly he

influences events on the surface world.

They also influence human civilization.

They either interfere with our civilization to slow it down

or they give us little things to help advance it

when it suits their purposes.

We get the idea.

We get the story that there is more than one group,

and that they have various agenda that they

conflict with each other.

>> Are these underground beings really manipulating us?

And if so, how?

Graham Cere believes the underworld

is a world that reaches out to us when we least expect it.

>> The entrances to the inner Earth describe portals

into the underworld, and the underworld is actually a plane

between spirit and nature.

It's the area of reality where spirit

becomes nature and nature turns back into spirit.

So it's an intermediary sort of paradoxical apparitional realm

which is closer to spirit than nature is because it's

where nature comes out of.

It's where the spirits initially start

to embody before they finally densify and kind of

fall into this frequency range.

You can look at it as the Christian purgatory,

or the Celtic Other World or the Egyptian Duat or the Kabalistic

Yetzira.

These are all different names that refer

to this intermediary plane.

It's also where prophetic imagination occurs

and all these things.

That's where revelation occurs.

>> We are drawn to caves.

Joseph Campbell said that all of the world's religions

probably started in some cave in Siberia

where the first shamans went and had a dream or a vision,

told a story, and the story was retold and retold.

Interesting that it might have been in a cave.

Well the shamans in Siberia lived in caves,

but caves reach down and down.

Spelunkers go and explore the depths

of unseen parts of the planet, this planet,

the planet we have known and studied so well.

There are all these unseen places.

There is more to be known.

Even as our technology advances, we

have to be humbled by how much close at hand we do not know.

The ancients, the people, the primal people

that live close to the Earth's all the gods

and spirits, the sacred energies as down in those places.

Whether we go down to explore physically-- personally

I'll let somebody else do the exploring.

But I want to explore mentally and spiritually.

I want to imagine what is below us,

what the Earth has to teach us.

It is a living thing, and our lives are tied to it.

So we don't have to be adherents of the ancient nature religions

to know this is important stuff.

But the stories can help us, that perhaps there

is some kind of personality that were in a relationship with.

Some god-- some goddess, more likely,

since the Earth is maternal; it feeds us--

that we need to be respectful of and to seek a deeper

relationship with.

>> Could there really be beings living inside of the Earth,

manipulating humans?

Is it possible we at one time were created or recreated

beneath the surface?

Or is the meaning behind the legends

a metaphor for the greatest secrets the Earth keeps

on our human existence?

Does this mean we are all searching

for our own personal Xibalba?

Andrew Collins suggests something

from beyond this planet might be trying to get in touch with us

on the surface.

He points to a discovery by astronomers at the Green Bank

Telescope that suggested light signals were emanating

from a star in the Cygnus constellation

1,200 light years away.

This fluctuating star was cataloged KIC8462852

and named Tabby's star.

>> Now what I have determined relating to this star is that

there are certain cycles associated with the Kepler

data.

They are all interlinked, and they all

reflect certain key numbers.

And those key numbers are the numbers 11, 121, and 1331.

Now all of them are multiples of 11.

>> Up next, is there something trying to help us figure out

this code to humanity?

And could they be using our own ancient sites on this planet?