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NARRATOR: Enormous man‐made caves.

PAUL BAHN: Nobody knows what on earth

these things are.

NARRATOR: Unexplainable structures.

LOGAN HAWKES: You ask them, "How did you build these?"

And they'll say, "We didn't build this."

NARRATOR: And underwater discoveries

that challenge everything we know about the past.

DAVID CHILDRESS: That's amazing.

I'm convinced. Something's going on down there.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that an advanced civilization

inhabited the earth thousands of years ago?

And if so, were they human

or something out of this world?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Extraterrestrials

colonized Planet Earth

thousands of years ago.

The more we uncover,

it will all point in one direction.

We are not the first.

NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited its origins to gods

and other visitors from the stars.

What if it were true?

Did extraterrestrial beings

really help to shape our history?

And if so...

what might we learn from the study of aliens BC?

NARRATOR: Traverse City, Michigan.

May 22, 2015.

At an undisclosed location

in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan,

author and explorer David Childress

has teamed up with sonar technician Brian Abbott

and underwater photographer Chris Doyal

to investigate a series of strange

underwater rock alignments

they first discovered in 2007.

So you don't bring very many people out here, do you?

No, you're one of the first we've brought out to this site.

We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret.

Chris has been out here a few times.

Well, it's a pretty sensitive site,

so we try to keep traffic to a minimum.

Well, how did you find this site, anyway?

Uh, we were actually out looking for shipwrecks

and we put our sonar down off the side

and I started to see stones line up on my rose compass.

Okay, and then you deploy this sonar and take a picture, huh?

Yeah, we, uh, we can get that done here real quick,

we can deploy the sonar off the side

and, uh, start getting some images

and show you what we've got on the screen.

All right, great, let's do it.

Excellent.

When I first found these on the computer screen,

I started to laugh, because it was like,

this can't be true,

and I jokingly said,

"Hey, we have our own Stonehenge underwater,"

and everyone, "Ha, ha, ha,"

and I started looking at it farther and I'm going, "Wow.

We might have something here."

Set the cable here, we'll be all set.

So we'll take a look at the computer screen.

Okay?

All right. So the sonar's spinning around.

So as you can see in this, uh, deployment location,

we have, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six stones.

And what's really interesting about this

is, these stones all measure the same distance across.

CHILDRESS: Yeah, this does look like an artificial alignment‐‐

this stone circle and then this line of stones there.

Yeah, that was unique to me,

because as an engineer, when I look at stuff

that's square or rectangular or circle in nature,

it‐it kind of makes it jump out, because Mother Nature

generally doesn't do things like that.

What I saw on the sonar

looked a lot like stone circles

and stone alignments that I've seen in England,

or Carnac in France,

and it makes me wonder what's going on here

in Ancient North America.

So have you actually, uh, been down here

in scuba equipment?

No, I haven't, but Chris has.

Yeah, we went down

and I actually took some still photographs of it

and we noticed on one of the stones

there's some really interesting carvings on the surface of it.

Some people have even said

that it appears to resemble a mastodon.

‐Really? ‐Really.

‐Wow. Can we go down there now and see it? ‐Yeah, absolutely.

NARRATOR: Taking an underwater camera

down to the mastodon rock,

Chris Doyal will send up a live feed

to a monitor on the boat.

As he descends, he's gonna pick out the stone here.

CHILDRESS: Okay.

What's that?

ABBOTT: That's the stone.

CHILDRESS: Is‐is this the stone that has the carvings on it?

Yes, it is. So he's moving slowly in on it.

So you can see the head, right through there.

There's a tusk.

So we have one leg coming down.

CHILDRESS: It does look like the stone has been carved, and...

‐ABBOTT: Yeah. ‐Yeah, you can see the legs and a trunk on it.

Wow! That's amazing.

‐I'm... ‐Yeah, it truly is.

Yeah, I‐I'm convinced.

Uh, something's going on down there.

ABBOTT: Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago,

mastodons went extinct.

So we've got a carving on a rock formation

at, you know, a depth of water

that, uh, you know, probably shouldn't be here, but is here.

This rock is probably made out of granite,

which is very, very hard,

and if you look up close at these markings,

you can see that these were made by percussion marks.

These weren't just scratched into the surface,

that each line was individually pecked out.

That rock looks like it has a carving of a mastodon on it.

And that would mean that that carving was made

before the extinction of these mastodons.

So you have to wonder

what was going on here in North America

at the time of the last ice age.

NARRATOR: The carved image of a mastodon?

An animal that has been extinct

for over 10,000 years?

But what is it doing at the bottom of Lake Michigan?

Could it really be part

of an artificially created rock formation,

like Stonehenge in England?

If so, it would have to have been created

before the end of the last ice age, when the lake bed was dry‐‐

over 12,000 years ago‐‐

and that would contradict the currently held belief

that early humans were not capable

of erecting monumental structures in North America,

or anywhere else, at that time.

You never know when something's going to pop up

that's going to totally change

your whole view of a, of a period

or even of human development.

One of the main trends that I've noticed in archaeology

is that the dates for things tend to go back all the time;

the earliest pottery in a place,

the earliest arrival of people in a place.

They always turn out to be earlier

than we traditionally thought.

ANDREW COLLINS: Today we know that there was a monument

on the site of Stonehenge at least 10,000 years ago.

And this is not speculation.

The archaeologists are saying this today.

And the same thing seems to be going on

in other parts of the world.

CHILDRESS: New dating techniques

done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza

indicate that it was carved before 10,000 BC.

So more and more, as we make new discoveries in archaeology,

it's pushing mankind and civilization

back farther and farther.

TSOUKALOS: Earth has a much deeper

prehistory than what we read about in textbooks today.

You can read that Puma Punku or Tiahuanaco, for example,

was built between 500 and 800 AD.

Some archaeologists have suggested

that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco

might date back as far as 12,000 years BC,

so around 14,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Could it be

that a sophisticated culture existed on Earth

thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago?

But if so, who built it?

What happened to it?

And might there still be remnants of it,

standing boldly, right before our eyes?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

many of the answers can be found by looking no further

than the Old Testament of the Bible.

BAHN: Most of the cultures studied by archaeology,

we are bereft of probably the vast majority

of what they produced.

HAWKES: You ask them, "Who built these?"

And they'll say, "We didn't build this."

NARRATOR: Throughout the world,

there are incredible man‐made structures

that have been found to date back thousands of years earlier

than archaeologists initially thought.

Is it possible that an advanced civilization really existed

on Earth in mankind's prehistory?

A close examination of the so‐called "Old Testament"

of the Judeo‐Christian Bible suggests

that although Adam and Eve are

presumably the first humans created by God,

their son Cain later went on

to marry and join a thriving community.

REVEREND LIONEL FANTHORPE: There are a number of biblical stories

which make us suspect

that perhaps Homo sapiens were not the only species on Earth

or even the first ones.

Although Adam and Eve are recorded

in the Garden of Eden as the first human parents

that when Cain went on his way

after murdering his brother, Abel,

he comes to another city with other beings living in it.

Now, who are they?

What are they?

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,

several ancient texts can be found that describe beings

that dwelled upon the earth before the time of Adam and Eve.

These are often referred to as the "pre‐Adamites."

There is a long and ancient history

of what today are called pre‐Adamites.

Now, who are they and what are they?

This is a subject, of course, of many legends.

Those legends tell us tremendous amount of things.

People's lives extended for thousands of years.

They allegedly reached high levels of technology,

even traveling to the stars,

and yet somehow something went wrong in their civilization.

The pre‐Adamic civilization fell,

but some went to the stars,

and they were told, ordered by God,

to watch and to observe.

Well, let's assume for a moment

that we had this incredible planet, and, all of a sudden,

the extraterrestrials, other beings, came here,

and they had their own facilities, their own monuments,

their own communities for at least some time.

And then, somewhere along the line, they took off.

NARRATOR: Stories of a time

when otherworldly beings occupied the planet can be found

in nearly all world mythologies.

For the ancient Egyptians,

the dawn of life on Earth is referred to

as "Zep Tepi," "the first time,"

when the god Osiris served as an earthly ruler.

The ancient Greeks called this period the "Golden Age,"

when the Titans and the Olympians dwelled on Earth.

And the ancient Sumerian accounts detail a time

before the creation of man

when the gods were the sole occupants of the planet.

The basic suggestion is that extraterrestrials colonized

Planet Earth thousands of years ago,

and we're talking not 10,000 or 15,000 years ago,

but hundreds of thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: But if an advanced, possibly extraterrestrial,

civilization really did exist here on Earth,

why is there no record of it?

No apparent archaeological or architectural evidence?

BAHN: For most of the cultures studied by archaeology,

we are bereft

of probably the vast majority of what they produced.

This is particularly true the further back in time you go,

simply because anything organic will‐will not survive.

TSOUKALOS: The reason why most of the ancient monuments

were built by using stone is because stone lasts forever.

That's it.

And the reason why we have these monuments today

is because they were calling cards.

They were calling cards of a pre‐civilization.

NARRATOR: Mechanical engineers, like Nikhil Kar, study

the deterioration, corrosion and decomposition

of various materials to determine the approximate rate

of decay and structural failure.

By applying these principles to a cityscape,

scientists are able to determine

roughly how long it would take the hallmarks

of a sophisticated civilization to disappear.

If civilization was abandoned, after 50 years,

you would start to see, um, material degradation processes

take over for a skyscraper, for example,

would see parts of the external facade crumbling to the ground.

For steel material, you're gonna start to see little pits form

in that steel structure.

After a thousand years, the soil may begin to absorb the material

and erode the material itself.

Eventually, you're gonna get to a point

where only stone materials,

natural stones are gonna be around, such as Mount Rushmore.

NARRATOR: Quito, Ecuador.

Here in the grasslands of South America

are the remnants of the Great Incan Road.

The sophisticated network of pathways and trails covers

over 25,000 miles though Ecuador, Peru,

Bolivia, Argentina and Chile.

The Inca built this vast roadway

without the use of the wheel, draft animals, metal tools

or even a written language.

Yet modern engineers have noted

that the roadway incorporates advanced engineering principles.

ED BARNHART: The Inca road system was really one

of the most magnificent ancient architectural feats ever made.

One of the things that made the Inca roads so incredible

is that they traversed the Andes,

these incredibly tall, steep mountains.

They had to bore tunnels through mountains.

They cut narrow paths along sheer cliff faces.

BRIEN FOERSTER: One of the most intriguing things

about the Inca road system is that there is a major artery

that goes from the northwest to the southeast.

And along that,

we find almost every major megalithic construction,

including Tiahuanaco, Puma Punku,

Cuzco, Machu Picchu,

Ollantaytambo and Saksaywaman.

Many are starting to believe that these megalithic structures

are thousands of years older than the Inca,

and therefore parts of the Inca road system are, as well,

thousands of years older than that civilization.

The Incas, so many of their great structures‐‐

Cuzco and their royal highway‐‐

you ask them, "Who built these? How did you build these?"

And they'll say, "We didn't build this."

Well, who did build it?

CHILDRESS: The Incas had elaborate legends

of coming through tunnel systems in the earth,

appearing on an island in Lake Titicaca,

and then coming to Cuzco

and finding already a‐a system

of tunnels and‐and ancient mines and structures.

It was home of the gods.

It's where they lived before they left.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the foundations

of the Inca superhighway

and the megalithic sites along it are remnants

of an extraterrestrial civilization

that once colonized Earth?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove it, they point to a series

of stone carvings said to depict mankind's

ancient ancestors.

COLLINS: Here we have the smoking gun

of a lost civilization.

CHILDRESS: In all of these places

the locals are saying, "Yes, these are our ancestors.

These are the people who came before us."

NARRATOR: Southeastern Turkey.

Buried beneath 20 feet of sand,

archaeologists unearth

the world's oldest temple complex‐‐

Gobekli Tepe.

Radiocarbon dating suggests

that the site dates back

to at least the tenth century BC,

a time before the end of the last ice age

and 6,000 years before prehistoric man

was said to have developed language.

BAHN: Gobekli Tepe is really one

of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.

There are very few finds in archaeology

that really changed the whole way we look at the past.

And that is essentially what has happened,

because our view of hunter‐gatherers,

uh, has changed enormously.

We now know they were capable of coming together

in large numbers with‐‐ under presumably

some kind of authority to cooperate on massive projects

such as Gobekli Tepe, which involved bringing huge pieces

of stone from quite some distance away,

carving it beautifully, setting these pillars upright,

and doing this on a massive scale.

The very first temples in the world are at Gobekli Tepe.

And‐and this in many ways changes everything,

because here we have the smoking gun

of a lost civilization.

It confirms to us absolutely

that at the end of the last ice age,

there was high culture existing in the world.

There's no doubt in my mind that there are question marks

all around the ancient world.

And Gobekli Tepe offers such a giant question mark,

because according to mainstream science,

we were sitting in caves, munching on bananas.

And clearly that isn't the case.

NARRATOR: Although, to date, archaeologists

have only excavated less than one acre

of this 22‐acre site,

what they have found is astounding.

The remains of a complex of buildings,

massive walls

and T‐shaped stone formations,

some nine to ten feet tall

and weighing up to 50 tons.

Many of the stone pillars are covered

with relief carvings of animals,

reptiles and insects.

Archaeologists have also found figures at the site

that appear to represent humans

with strangely stylized clothing.

BAHN: We have no idea what these humans represent.

We suspect that these are not just simple statues

commemorating people.

T‐They could be gods. They could be spirits.

They could be ancestors, something of that kind.

NARRATOR: But perhaps most intriguing

is a life‐size statue

found just six miles away

that has been dated to the same period‐‐

the Urfa Man.

DAVID WILCOCK: This looks like a person

who has come from an advanced civilization,

who's wearing something that has much more of a defined collar,

possibly even some sort of advanced space suit.

What the heck is he doing there?

His face looks strange, he's bald,

his head, his eyes look weird.

There's something unusual about this guy,

and that could be a clue that leads us into the mystery

of an antediluvian, or pre‐flood, civilization.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange humanoid figure

found near Gobekli Tepe

actually represents an extraterrestrial?

A being from a lost civilization that existed on Earth

sometime before the last ice age?

If so, does it give credence

to other ancient stories

describing otherworldly civilizations

that once existed here on Earth?

There is this recessed courtyard in Tiahuanaco

that has all these different faces.

These stones were found underneath the soil,

meaning that at some point, some type of event happened

that buried these particular stones.

Some have actually surmised

that they represent some type of a pre‐flood civilization,

that what we have here is, in fact,

a remnant that depicts that society.

All over the world, we have giant statues

and‐and carvings of people's faces and heads.

Some of them are giant colossal heads

like the Olmec colossal heads.

Others are the Easter Island type statues, which are huge

and depict people who have elongated heads.

They're cone heads, essentially.

They were giants of yore with godlike powers.

In my mind, we would call them extraterrestrials.

In all of these places, the locals are saying,

"Yes, these are our ancestors.

These are the people who came before us."

NARRATOR: Might our planet really have been inhabited

by alien visitors tens of thousands of years ago?

And might they have brought with them advanced knowledge,

incredible architecture

and technology that virtually vanished, without a trace‐‐

save for a few stone carvings and monuments?

But why?

What catastrophic event might have happened on Earth

that would have wiped out everything

that wasn't made of stone?

Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining

a number of massive man‐made caves

recently discovered in China.

BAHN: Nobody really knows what on earth these things are.

WILCOCK: It's almost as if there was some sort of artificial

mechanism that was grinding and drilling all of the stone out.

NARRATOR: Zhejiang Province, China.

June 1992.

A local villager pumping water out of a pond in Phoenix Hill

uncovers a man‐made cavern with stairs...

hallways...

and massive ten‐story‐tall pillars.

The grotto is one in a series

of 24 separate caverns,

each with similar proportions

and intricately carved walls,

floors and ceilings.

BAHN: Nobody really knows

what on earth these things are.

There's no trace of them having been occupied

or being used for storage.

Uh, certainly not for burials.

There's no trace of anything like that.

TSOUKALOS: There's a Swiss author by the name of Luc Burgin

who was the first to take this story outside of China

in his book China's Mysterious Cave Labyrinth.

And what he showed me convinced me that some kind

of advanced technology was used here.

It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen,

where you enter this subterranean world

that clearly has been hewn out of the bedrock

with artificial means.

It's almost as if there was some sort of artificial mechanism

that was grinding and drilling all of the stone out,

and this suggests the possibility

that they may have had

some sort of technology.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists estimate

that the material excavated from the site

would amount to nearly one million cubic meters‐‐

approximately the volume

of 400 Olympic‐sized pools.

Yet there is no evidence

of where this material would have gone.

And Chinese officials have calculated

that an endeavor of this magnitude would take a minimum

of 1,000 men working day and night

for at least five years.

There is no historical record, uh,

of these caverns having been excavated.

So there's no document explaining

what they were used for,

who excavated them.

And this remains a very, very, uh, frustrating detail

for historians.

COLLINS: We know that in China

there are written records that go back

at least 3,000 years.

They make absolutely no mention of these caves.

So we must look much further back in time

for their origin.

But exactly how old are they?

Are they 4,000 years, 5,000 years?

Are they even 10,000 years?

We just don't know at this time.

TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested

that they're up to 15,000 years old.

In fact, Chinese scholars are the ones who have proposed

that this cave system dates back

to one of China's first emperors, Huang Di.

And Huang Di, as we all know,

descended from the sky in nothing else

but a fiery dragon.

WILCOCK: Somebody went

to an extreme amount of trouble

to build an underground civilization.

Why would they do that?

Is it possible

that something was happening on the surface

of the Earth?

When we go back to the Icelandic legends,

we see this cataclysm

that is described as a cataclysm of fire called the Ragnarok

in which you have flames in the air and rocks and gravel

raining down from the sky.

NARRATOR: In the Icelandic Ragnarok legend,

the world is turned upside down.

A great fire is followed by a submersion

of the world in water,

resulting in the death of the Nordic gods

and their offspring.

Only two humans are left

to repopulate the earth.

It is a tale much like that of the Great Flood found

in the Judeo‐Christian Bible.

And similar stories of a great deluge‐‐

one that marks the end of an old world

and the start of a new one‐‐ can be found in the histories

of virtually every ancient civilization

on our planet.

ROBERT SCHOCH: Virtually every culture, every ancient culture

talks about floods and ancient floods.

Some people dismiss this as, you know,

myth without explanation.

But what we find geologically is, in fact,

we would expect flood legends.

NARRATOR: In 2007, a consortium of geologists

publishes its collective findings

indicating evidence

of a major meteor event.

What they discover is a carbon‐rich layer

in the geological record at various sites

across the globe dating back

to around 10,900 BC.

A separate study conducted by scientists

studying Arctic ice core samples finds evidence

suggesting a rapid glacial melt

at nearly the same time period.

SCHOCH: The Ice Age ends very,

very dramatically, almost literally overnight.

You see this in the ice cores.

All of a sudden, there are dramatic changes,

temperatures rising,

torrential rains,

flooding.

NARRATOR: Could the geological record suggest

that the stories of a global cataclysm are true?

If so, might the stories of a cleansing of the earth

of otherworldly beings, leaving only humans

to repopulate the planet, also be true?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest further evidence exists in the tales

of a long lost continent.

CHILDRESS: There were legends that there was

a land across the Atlantic.

COLLINS: When we discover these,

we will find out exactly

what had happened to this lost civilization.

NARRATOR: Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Here at the Minnesota Historical Society

are housed boxes upon boxes

of notes, letters

and research material detailing evidence

of an antediluvian, or pre‐flood, civilization.

The collection is the culmination

of an exhaustive search for proof

of a prehistoric civilization,

conducted by the 19th century U. S. senator

Ignatius Donnelly.

COLLINS: Ignatius Donnelly was a very interesting person.

He was a U. S. congressman.

Um, he was a writer.

He was a‐a cryptologist.

And in 1882 he came out

with his most famous book...

What he did was to propose the existence

of a mother civilization,

a‐a lost civilization that existed

at the time of the last ice age.

CHILDRESS: Ignatius Donnelly was fascinated by the story

of a lost civilization that was destroyed

over 10,000 years ago.

He looked into all kinds

of scientific anomalies at the time,

including the extinction of mammoths and other animals.

Stories of a civilization within the Americas

and in the Atlantic.

NARRATOR: In his writings, Donnelly concluded

that not only did a lost civilization actually exist,

but that it was destroyed due to a meteoric‐type event

that shifted the earth's axis

in the distant past.

Donnelly believed that remnants of this civilization

could be found in the Americas...

and the ultimate evidence would be located

underwater in the Caribbean.

He was convinced

that when Christopher Columbus sailed west

from Spain in 1492,

he knew this as well.

COLLINS: The explorer Christopher Columbus,

before his epic journey to the New World,

was very much aware of the stories of a lost civilization.

It was something that was discussed

in the various European cults at this time.

Ancient mariners, the voyagers of the past,

had maps which showed different areas of the earth,

which they could not know anything possibly about

because they hadn't been discovered at that time,

and were probably accessible

to people like Christopher Columbus,

before his journey to the New World.

There were legends in the Middle Ages

that there was a land

and a continent across the Atlantic.

And early maps started showing‐‐

before Columbus, even‐‐

a large island in the Atlantic,

which they called Antillia.

Columbus, on his first journey to the New World,

as he neared the Caribbean,

he started seeing weird lights in the sky.

So you have to wonder:

were extraterrestrials

purposely trying to help Columbus?

Perhaps some of the knowledge that he had of maps,

and that he was really going to find land across this ocean,

had been assured to him.

NARRATOR: Could Columbus have been

purposely guided to this area

not only by ancient maps of unknown origin,

but also by extraterrestrial beings?

Although the secret maps and charts

of Christopher Columbus have been lost,

scholars attribute them as having been a key source

in the creation of one of history's most enigmatic maps.

The Piri Reis map has been dated to 1513 AD,

but what it illustrates suggests geological knowledge

that was unknown until our modern age.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: A Turkish seaman,

an admiral, painted the map.

His name was Piri Reis.

Now, if you see the map,

you see the coastline of the southern part of France.

Then you see Spain.

Then you see what is today's Gibraltar.

Then you see a part of Africa.

On the other side, you see a coastline of South America,

but what is important,

on the bottom of the map of Piri Reis

you see the coastline of Antarctica.

Now, this coastline is covered today with ice and snow.

So somebody must have mapped this before the Ice Age.

NARRATOR: The continent of Antarctica

was discovered in 1820,

over 300 years after Piri Reis drew his map.

And scientists have proposed that the Antarctic coastline

has been obscured by ice

for at least 6,000 years.

Could it be that the original source for the maps of Columbus

and the Piri Reis map predates our recorded history?

If so, has evidence been left behind on Earth

to assure that we can piece together the truth

about a lost civilization?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim

further proof may be found underwater

in the Bahamas.

NARRATOR: Andros Island, the Bahamas.

2003.

Members of the Association

for Research and Enlightenment

conduct aerial searches for underwater structures

that might reveal evidence of a lost civilization.

Off of the coast of Andros,

they discovered

an incredible platform of rectangular

and square stones that stretched

for several hundred yards.

And all the indications are

that it goes back to the end of the last ice age

and is probably around 11,000 to 12,000 years old.

NARRATOR: The search is part of a long‐term project

working in conjunction with the Cayce Foundation.

Their quest is to locate remnants

of the lost continent of Atlantis,

which healer and psychic Edgar Cayce

said would be located in the area.

WILCOCK: Edgar Cayce is arguably America's greatest psychic.

He was born in 1877, died in 1945,

and he has documented

over 14,000 psychic readings.

What's interesting is that Cayce

also got into things like reincarnation.

Some of Cayce's clients were told that they had lifetimes

in the so‐called mythical civilization of Atlantis.

In fact, Cayce's reading said

that the people of Atlantis, as a whole,

had mass reincarnated as the people of America

and that America was, in a sense,

a future‐life carryover of Atlantis.

NARRATOR: Cayce revealed in his psychic readings

that the truth about the nature of this lost civilization

exists in a hidden hall of records

at three locations across the globe:

in Egypt near the Sphinx,

underwater in the Bahamas,

and in the Yucatรกn Peninsula.

Any three of these areas apparently would have

all of the records that we would need

to completely rebuild our history

and understand how there may have been

much more widespread

extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.

NARRATOR: Could recent archaeological finds

in the Bahamas confirm that Edgar Cayce was right

about the existence of a lost extraterrestrial civilization?

And if so, should we be concerned

about his predictions for the future of humanity?

Cayce was a cataclysmist,

and in his readings, he was constantly talking

about Earth changes and pole shifts

that caused civilizations to be destroyed

in ancient times.

And Cayce said that we were gonna have another pole shift

around the time of the millennium.

Even a relatively small asteroid,

coming in at the right angle‐‐

not necessarily hitting Earth, but sort of grazing the earth‐‐

could, theoretically, change the tilt axis

of the earth significantly.

Now, if that occurred,

land and ocean would redistribute on the earth.

WILLIAM HENRY: It seems as if history repeats itself.

And it may be that at this moment,

we are exactly in the same situation

that the citizens of Atlantis were in.

COLLINS: Perhaps we will find out exactly what had happened

to this lost civilization

and learn from their mistakes

and not sink into oblivion ourselves.

TSOUKALOS: The more we uncover,

it will all point in one direction.

We are not the first and we never have been.

An extraterrestrial pre‐civilization existed

before our recorded history,

and this truth will be revealed

within our lifetime.

NARRATOR: Could the stories of a time

when gods and otherworldly beings

inhabited the earth be more than just mythology?

And might the discovery of unexplainable remnants

from this lost civilization reveal the truth

about our extraterrestrial origins,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps we are on the verge of uncovering

the final piece of the puzzle

that will change our understanding

of Earth's history forever.

But will we uncover it

before it's too late?

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