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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,693 --> 00:00:03,420 NARRATOR: The Dome of the Rock. 2 00:00:03,625 --> 00:00:05,931 The Temple of Jupiter. 3 00:00:06,016 --> 00:00:07,442 Puma Punku. 4 00:00:08,082 --> 00:00:11,180 They are sites sacred to millions of people, 5 00:00:11,265 --> 00:00:14,727 and they are all built atop the ruins of structures 6 00:00:14,812 --> 00:00:16,718 that are far more ancient. 7 00:00:17,015 --> 00:00:19,852 WILLIAM HENRY: Some of the most iconic temples sites around the world 8 00:00:19,936 --> 00:00:24,180 are built on the exact same location as former temples. 9 00:00:24,272 --> 00:00:25,695 And the question is, why? 10 00:00:26,358 --> 00:00:30,250 NARRATOR: What compelled early humans to build and rebuild 11 00:00:30,335 --> 00:00:34,273 in the same place, again and again? 12 00:00:34,421 --> 00:00:35,992 HUGH NEWMAN: It seems they were not only 13 00:00:36,077 --> 00:00:37,485 doing it for practical purposes 14 00:00:37,570 --> 00:00:40,563 but also for religious and spiritual reasons. 15 00:00:40,648 --> 00:00:42,242 NARRATOR: Are there locations on Earth 16 00:00:42,398 --> 00:00:44,625 that hold special power? 17 00:00:44,710 --> 00:00:46,922 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The local population say, 18 00:00:47,007 --> 00:00:51,117 "It was not us who built this. It was the gods." 19 00:00:51,398 --> 00:00:54,579 NARRATOR: And might we find that they were once occupied 20 00:00:54,672 --> 00:00:56,992 by extraterrestrials? 21 00:00:57,343 --> 00:00:59,492 GEORGE NOORY: There is no question in my mind 22 00:00:59,609 --> 00:01:02,076 that these are much older sites than we think, 23 00:01:02,161 --> 00:01:05,423 and that they were spots for extraterrestrial communication 24 00:01:05,516 --> 00:01:07,434 a long, long time ago. 25 00:01:09,936 --> 00:01:12,104 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 26 00:01:12,190 --> 00:01:15,016 in the universe. 27 00:01:15,109 --> 00:01:17,861 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 28 00:01:19,614 --> 00:01:21,615 It demands we question everything 29 00:01:21,774 --> 00:01:23,950 we have ever been taught. 30 00:01:24,035 --> 00:01:28,288 The evidence is all around us. 31 00:01:28,443 --> 00:01:31,913 The future is right before our eyes. 32 00:01:31,998 --> 00:01:34,779 We are not alone. *ANCIENT ALIENS* 33 00:01:34,997 --> 00:01:38,341 We have never been alone. Season 18 Episode 03 34 00:01:39,245 --> 00:01:42,271 Episode Title: "Beneath the Sacred Temples" 35 00:01:42,355 --> 00:01:44,631 Aired on: January 21, 2022. 36 00:01:48,518 --> 00:01:50,802 NARRATOR: Cuzco, Peru. 37 00:01:50,895 --> 00:01:54,291 Nestled in a high river valley of the Andes Mountains, 38 00:01:54,502 --> 00:01:58,299 among peaks towering over 20,000 feet, 39 00:01:58,705 --> 00:02:01,479 this once great city served as the capital 40 00:02:01,572 --> 00:02:02,971 of the Inca Empire 41 00:02:03,056 --> 00:02:06,596 from the 13th to 16th centuries AD. 42 00:02:07,221 --> 00:02:12,386 In 1533, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Cuzco 43 00:02:12,471 --> 00:02:15,493 and were astonished by the incredible stonework 44 00:02:15,577 --> 00:02:20,555 found at a site just north of the city called Sacsayhuamán. 45 00:02:21,906 --> 00:02:23,335 BRIEN FOERSTER: Above the city of Cuzco 46 00:02:23,419 --> 00:02:25,150 we find the megalithic site 47 00:02:25,261 --> 00:02:29,072 and huge ceremonial Inca complex called Sacsayhuamán. 48 00:02:30,342 --> 00:02:34,521 Its most prominent feature is a zigzag wall of three levels. 49 00:02:34,807 --> 00:02:39,350 Some of the stones there weigh as much as 125 tons 50 00:02:39,502 --> 00:02:43,688 and were moved from the quarry at least three miles away. 51 00:02:43,779 --> 00:02:45,089 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Sacsayhuamán 52 00:02:45,173 --> 00:02:47,636 is one of the most beautiful ancient structures 53 00:02:47,721 --> 00:02:50,018 you will ever see in your life. 54 00:02:50,252 --> 00:02:54,378 There are massive, gigantic megalithic blocks, 55 00:02:54,463 --> 00:02:58,462 and you find the most amazing of masonry style 56 00:02:58,546 --> 00:03:01,308 where you can't even fit a dollar bill 57 00:03:01,393 --> 00:03:05,460 in between the fittings of any of the blocks. 58 00:03:06,213 --> 00:03:09,055 NARRATOR: Sacsayhuamán served both as a fortress 59 00:03:09,277 --> 00:03:11,391 and a ceremonial center. 60 00:03:11,978 --> 00:03:15,637 A circular structure that lies within the megalithic walls, 61 00:03:15,721 --> 00:03:18,815 called Muyuq Marka, was the base of a tower 62 00:03:18,974 --> 00:03:22,111 where the Inca worshipped the sun god Inti. 63 00:03:22,549 --> 00:03:26,230 However, many experts suggest that while the Inca 64 00:03:26,315 --> 00:03:28,983 certainly utilized this megalithic structure, 65 00:03:29,083 --> 00:03:31,775 they were not the ones to build it. 66 00:03:32,174 --> 00:03:34,097 BRIEN FOERSTER: Standard belief is that the Inca 67 00:03:34,181 --> 00:03:35,992 constructed Sacsayhuamán 68 00:03:36,077 --> 00:03:38,254 less than a thousand years ago. 69 00:03:39,744 --> 00:03:42,672 But in some of the earliest Spanish chronicles 70 00:03:42,757 --> 00:03:47,346 it is said that the Spanish were completely astounded 71 00:03:47,432 --> 00:03:50,514 by seeing this site, and they asked the local Inca, 72 00:03:50,673 --> 00:03:53,323 "Did you build this?" And the Inca replied, 73 00:03:53,408 --> 00:03:58,752 "No. This was here when we arrived 500 years ago." 74 00:03:59,988 --> 00:04:03,596 NARRATOR: Many experts believe Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca 75 00:04:03,694 --> 00:04:05,529 by thousands of years, 76 00:04:05,613 --> 00:04:09,941 and that the Inca built on top of what came before. 77 00:04:10,521 --> 00:04:13,150 BRIEN FOERSTER: The Inca were a Bronze Age civilization, 78 00:04:13,235 --> 00:04:18,291 and the stones at Sacsayhuamán are metamorphosed limestone, 79 00:04:18,376 --> 00:04:21,049 which is much harder than bronze 80 00:04:21,313 --> 00:04:25,603 and could not be cut or shaped using bronze tools. 81 00:04:25,696 --> 00:04:29,487 Inca built on top 'cause you can tell a major difference 82 00:04:29,572 --> 00:04:32,057 between megalithic construction, 83 00:04:32,251 --> 00:04:34,314 where the stones fit perfectly together, 84 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:37,401 and the Inca, which is stones piled on top of stones 85 00:04:37,486 --> 00:04:40,283 with mortar as filler. 86 00:04:41,510 --> 00:04:45,214 NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamán really does predate the Inca... 87 00:04:45,299 --> 00:04:48,071 As the Inca themselves claimed... 88 00:04:48,377 --> 00:04:52,150 How could an even earlier civilization have possessed 89 00:04:52,243 --> 00:04:54,307 far superior technology? 90 00:04:54,392 --> 00:04:56,267 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The ancient Inca talk 91 00:04:56,352 --> 00:04:58,655 about celestial beings 92 00:04:58,740 --> 00:05:01,992 who descended from the sky a long time ago 93 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:05,470 and imparted the first knowledge of anything 94 00:05:05,861 --> 00:05:08,508 toward people of Earth. 95 00:05:08,667 --> 00:05:10,677 The ancient astronaut theory suggests 96 00:05:10,775 --> 00:05:14,264 it was human beings who built Sacsayhuamán 97 00:05:14,376 --> 00:05:18,580 but under the tutelage of the extraterrestrials. 98 00:05:20,025 --> 00:05:23,667 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the astonishing megalithic stonework 99 00:05:23,752 --> 00:05:26,517 at Sacsayhuamán was achieved with the help of 100 00:05:26,602 --> 00:05:31,252 alien technology, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 101 00:05:31,869 --> 00:05:35,452 And if so, might the Inca have built on top of it... 102 00:05:35,611 --> 00:05:38,112 and established it as a place of worship... 103 00:05:38,197 --> 00:05:41,010 Because they were somehow aware of this? 104 00:05:42,174 --> 00:05:45,425 Sacsayhuamán is only one of many places 105 00:05:45,510 --> 00:05:48,289 where ancient civilizations have felt compelled 106 00:05:48,374 --> 00:05:51,525 to repeatedly build their most sacred sites. 107 00:05:51,845 --> 00:05:55,220 In fact, there are locations all around the world 108 00:05:55,392 --> 00:05:59,893 where successive cultures have rebuilt over and over again. 109 00:06:00,385 --> 00:06:02,424 ANDREW COLLINS: This has been going on 110 00:06:02,516 --> 00:06:04,814 since the end of the last ice age 111 00:06:04,899 --> 00:06:09,345 with places like Gobekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey, 112 00:06:09,791 --> 00:06:12,897 where the oldest and most sophisticated monuments 113 00:06:12,990 --> 00:06:15,742 were built first on the bedrock. 114 00:06:15,826 --> 00:06:19,237 And then, eventually, they would be covered over, 115 00:06:19,330 --> 00:06:23,361 and a new structure, new enclosure built on top of them. 116 00:06:23,668 --> 00:06:25,705 WILLIAM HENRY: Some of the most iconic temple sites 117 00:06:25,790 --> 00:06:28,004 around the world, from Baalbek in Lebanon 118 00:06:28,089 --> 00:06:30,572 to the Temple of Horus at Edfu in Egypt, 119 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,684 are built on the exact same location 120 00:06:33,836 --> 00:06:36,763 as former temples that were reputed to be there. 121 00:06:37,798 --> 00:06:39,736 And the question is, why? 122 00:06:40,674 --> 00:06:44,526 NARRATOR: It is not uncommon for people to repurpose an old structure 123 00:06:44,611 --> 00:06:48,431 or rebuild on its foundation for practical purposes. 124 00:06:49,330 --> 00:06:52,445 But what ancient astronaut theorists find intriguing 125 00:06:52,604 --> 00:06:54,549 is how the most sacred sites 126 00:06:54,634 --> 00:06:58,628 tend to remain sacred over thousands of years. 127 00:06:58,786 --> 00:07:01,877 And of all the places in the world 128 00:07:01,962 --> 00:07:04,174 where this phenomenon is found, 129 00:07:04,259 --> 00:07:07,322 perhaps there is none more universally revered 130 00:07:07,536 --> 00:07:12,822 than the 35-acre platform in Jerusalem known as Temple Mount. 131 00:07:13,135 --> 00:07:14,995 KATHLEEN McGOWAN: The Temple Mount is arguably 132 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,322 the most important spiritual site in the world. 133 00:07:17,407 --> 00:07:21,462 All three of the primary monotheistic religions have 134 00:07:21,559 --> 00:07:25,111 a connection to the events of history that occurred 135 00:07:25,196 --> 00:07:27,530 - on top of the Temple Mount. - (praying in Arabic) 136 00:07:28,197 --> 00:07:30,745 AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D. It's believed that, "Is this the stone 137 00:07:30,861 --> 00:07:33,500 from which the world originates?" 138 00:07:34,141 --> 00:07:37,649 It's a crucial element in the Jewish tradition. 139 00:07:37,734 --> 00:07:41,486 When Isaac is offered up for sacrifice by Abraham, 140 00:07:41,579 --> 00:07:45,399 this happens on the exposed surface of Mount Moriah. 141 00:07:45,484 --> 00:07:47,118 That's the Temple Mount. 142 00:07:47,203 --> 00:07:50,203 For Muslims, this is where the Prophet Muhammad 143 00:07:50,288 --> 00:07:51,766 ascends up to heaven. 144 00:07:51,922 --> 00:07:55,337 That stone is now covered over by the Dome of the Rock, 145 00:07:55,422 --> 00:07:57,867 this very important Islamic monument. 146 00:07:58,012 --> 00:08:00,727 NARRATOR: The Dome of the Rock 147 00:08:00,812 --> 00:08:04,842 has stood at Temple Mount for more than 1,300 years, 148 00:08:04,935 --> 00:08:08,406 but the very first temple to occupy this sacred space 149 00:08:08,516 --> 00:08:10,875 was the legendary Solomon's Temple, 150 00:08:11,641 --> 00:08:14,586 constructed upon order of the Israelite king 151 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,226 in the tenth century BC. 152 00:08:17,336 --> 00:08:21,485 According to the Hebrew Bible, King Solomon received a message 153 00:08:21,570 --> 00:08:24,945 from the heavens to build his temple on this spot. 154 00:08:25,197 --> 00:08:28,533 Its primary purpose was to house the Ark of the Covenant, 155 00:08:28,828 --> 00:08:31,970 the golden box which carried the two stone tablets 156 00:08:32,055 --> 00:08:34,367 inscribed with the Ten Commandments, 157 00:08:34,452 --> 00:08:37,875 and which was said to be God's earthly throne. 158 00:08:38,877 --> 00:08:40,996 AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D. Solomon has a communication 159 00:08:41,088 --> 00:08:42,887 with the angel Michael, 160 00:08:43,150 --> 00:08:48,158 who comes and helps Solomon to build this. 161 00:08:48,744 --> 00:08:53,399 And so, not only is this the presence of God on this spot, 162 00:08:53,484 --> 00:08:57,112 it's God who's helping in the building of this. 163 00:08:57,197 --> 00:09:00,729 And so that's part of what makes that place so special. 164 00:09:00,814 --> 00:09:02,984 So literally divine. 165 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:09,406 NARRATOR: Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. 166 00:09:09,575 --> 00:09:14,322 But 70 years later, Jewish exiles returning to Jerusalem 167 00:09:14,431 --> 00:09:17,841 built a new temple on the exact same location. 168 00:09:17,925 --> 00:09:20,221 AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D. That's what we call the Second Temple. 169 00:09:20,306 --> 00:09:23,557 And that temple survives until the year 70 AD, 170 00:09:23,673 --> 00:09:26,103 when it's destroyed by the Romans. 171 00:09:26,337 --> 00:09:30,040 Then, in the seventh century, Muslims conquered Jerusalem. 172 00:09:30,125 --> 00:09:31,845 They build the Dome of the Rock there. 173 00:09:31,930 --> 00:09:34,791 And, so, there's been a long history 174 00:09:34,876 --> 00:09:37,527 of different people coming in, 175 00:09:37,701 --> 00:09:41,626 taking control, building, rebuilding, uh, places there. 176 00:09:41,962 --> 00:09:44,838 McGOWAN: Solomon was instructed to build the temple 177 00:09:44,923 --> 00:09:47,318 on this incredibly important space. 178 00:09:47,446 --> 00:09:49,196 So why is this space important? 179 00:09:49,290 --> 00:09:51,958 Is it an energetic space? Is it a portal? 180 00:09:52,117 --> 00:09:54,392 What we see over and over again 181 00:09:54,603 --> 00:09:57,854 with these profound religious sites all over the world 182 00:09:57,939 --> 00:10:02,969 is, we see this reverence for power places endures. 183 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:06,304 From the earliest human history to today, 184 00:10:06,390 --> 00:10:10,087 we're constantly building on top of these places. 185 00:10:11,545 --> 00:10:14,377 NARRATOR: If a higher power instructed King Solomon 186 00:10:14,470 --> 00:10:17,975 to build on Temple Mount, could there be something special 187 00:10:18,111 --> 00:10:21,822 about this particular location on Earth? 188 00:10:21,939 --> 00:10:23,462 And could the same be true 189 00:10:23,673 --> 00:10:25,579 for other places around the world 190 00:10:25,664 --> 00:10:29,008 where successive cultures built again and again? 191 00:10:29,430 --> 00:10:32,587 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining 192 00:10:32,750 --> 00:10:36,077 one of the most astonishing megalithic sites in the world, 193 00:10:36,170 --> 00:10:40,590 and stories about its connection to the stars. 194 00:10:50,421 --> 00:10:53,224 NARRATOR: Baalbek, Lebanon. 195 00:10:54,962 --> 00:10:58,010 Here, in the fertile Bekaa Valley, 196 00:10:58,095 --> 00:10:59,767 stands what many consider 197 00:10:59,858 --> 00:11:03,368 to be the greatest ruin of Roman antiquity... 198 00:11:04,114 --> 00:11:07,329 the colossal Temple of Jupiter. 199 00:11:08,705 --> 00:11:12,470 But the imposing remains that tower over the site today 200 00:11:12,564 --> 00:11:15,737 are only the latest in a long line of structures 201 00:11:15,822 --> 00:11:17,837 erected on this spot. 202 00:11:18,602 --> 00:11:22,478 Archaeologists say the area has been continually inhabited 203 00:11:22,579 --> 00:11:25,165 for at least 10,000 years, 204 00:11:25,301 --> 00:11:29,638 and no one knows who built the first place of worship here. 205 00:11:30,603 --> 00:11:32,133 But according to legend, 206 00:11:32,226 --> 00:11:34,948 both Egyptian and Assyrian conquerors 207 00:11:35,033 --> 00:11:37,563 erected sanctuaries on the site, 208 00:11:37,947 --> 00:11:40,799 followed by the Canaanites and Phoenicians, 209 00:11:40,884 --> 00:11:46,744 who built a great temple here to their god Baal around 2500 BC. 210 00:11:48,763 --> 00:11:51,009 AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D. Baalbek is one of those places 211 00:11:51,095 --> 00:11:54,596 where you have different people over millennia 212 00:11:54,681 --> 00:11:57,830 building their shrines, their temples, 213 00:11:57,915 --> 00:12:00,503 to their particular, you know, gods or goddesses. 214 00:12:00,587 --> 00:12:03,634 You've got this temple that's built by the Phoenicians 215 00:12:03,814 --> 00:12:07,093 for one of their deities Baal. 216 00:12:07,494 --> 00:12:09,837 Then Alexander the Great conquers this area 217 00:12:10,079 --> 00:12:11,764 and... surprise, surprise... 218 00:12:11,939 --> 00:12:15,509 Builds a temple to the Greek gods. 219 00:12:15,836 --> 00:12:18,178 NARRATOR: In the first century BC, 220 00:12:18,263 --> 00:12:21,607 roughly 300 years after Alexander the Great, 221 00:12:21,767 --> 00:12:25,893 the Romans conquer Lebanon and decide to erect a temple here 222 00:12:25,978 --> 00:12:28,329 to their chief god Jupiter. 223 00:12:28,986 --> 00:12:32,893 The main Roman temple once boasted 54 columns, 224 00:12:32,978 --> 00:12:36,030 each a staggering 65 feet in height. 225 00:12:36,689 --> 00:12:39,627 But while visitors to the ruins may first notice 226 00:12:39,712 --> 00:12:41,702 the towering Roman columns, 227 00:12:41,787 --> 00:12:43,845 the most impressive feature at Baalbek 228 00:12:44,016 --> 00:12:45,872 is its massive foundation. 229 00:12:45,957 --> 00:12:47,300 TSOUKALOS: To this day, 230 00:12:47,384 --> 00:12:49,460 Baalbek, Lebanon has remained 231 00:12:49,553 --> 00:12:53,697 one of the most enduring mysteries on planet Earth, 232 00:12:54,197 --> 00:12:57,205 because the masonry that we find there 233 00:12:57,290 --> 00:13:00,721 is unparalleled compared to the rest of the world. 234 00:13:00,806 --> 00:13:05,760 In fact, there are three stone blocks called the trilithons, 235 00:13:05,845 --> 00:13:10,479 each weighing approximately 800 metric tons, 236 00:13:10,564 --> 00:13:13,837 which is 1.6 million pounds. 237 00:13:14,430 --> 00:13:19,369 ANDREW COLLINS: Each of these blocks is approximately 62 feet in length 238 00:13:19,540 --> 00:13:24,689 by about 14 feet in depth and 12 feet in breadth. 239 00:13:24,813 --> 00:13:27,306 And they're not even on the ground. 240 00:13:27,582 --> 00:13:32,501 So whoever placed them there in ancient times 241 00:13:32,744 --> 00:13:34,171 would have had to have raised them 242 00:13:34,264 --> 00:13:37,298 up to a height of about 20 feet. 243 00:13:37,525 --> 00:13:40,102 WILLIAM HENRY: Each of the stones were quarried two miles away 244 00:13:40,203 --> 00:13:42,196 and put perfectly into place 245 00:13:42,430 --> 00:13:44,432 with such precision that you can't even put a credit card 246 00:13:44,516 --> 00:13:48,202 or a needle in between those massive blocks. 247 00:13:48,951 --> 00:13:51,113 NARRATOR: How ancient people carved and moved 248 00:13:51,198 --> 00:13:53,777 such massive stones is a question 249 00:13:53,862 --> 00:13:56,443 that baffles archaeologists to this day. 250 00:13:56,528 --> 00:14:00,957 And equally as mysterious is who placed them there. 251 00:14:01,042 --> 00:14:03,193 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The giant blocks in the foundation 252 00:14:03,277 --> 00:14:06,045 are clearly of a different building style 253 00:14:06,130 --> 00:14:08,455 than the temples that sit above. 254 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:12,114 And in my opinion, that platform is not just ancient, 255 00:14:12,199 --> 00:14:14,387 it is prehistoric. 256 00:14:15,628 --> 00:14:18,935 NARRATOR: But if the platform at Baalbek was constructed 257 00:14:19,020 --> 00:14:21,747 thousands of years before the Romans arrived 258 00:14:21,832 --> 00:14:23,302 in the Bekaa Valley, 259 00:14:23,387 --> 00:14:25,716 why did they choose this as the site 260 00:14:25,801 --> 00:14:28,726 to build their most magnificent temple? 261 00:14:29,105 --> 00:14:32,599 One pioneering Russian scholar has proposed 262 00:14:32,684 --> 00:14:35,741 that humans may have been drawn to this location 263 00:14:35,826 --> 00:14:38,272 because it was the site of one of Earth's 264 00:14:38,357 --> 00:14:41,359 earliest extraterrestrial events. 265 00:14:44,617 --> 00:14:45,894 NARRATOR: Leningrad 266 00:14:45,979 --> 00:14:49,090 USSR 1961 267 00:14:49,191 --> 00:14:53,000 Scientist and mathematician Dr. Matest Agrest 268 00:14:53,301 --> 00:14:56,413 sends shockwaves through the world of academia 269 00:14:56,582 --> 00:14:58,383 with an article in which he poses a new theory 270 00:14:58,639 --> 00:15:01,710 called "paleocontact," a precursor 271 00:15:01,795 --> 00:15:05,372 to what is known today as the ancient astronaut theory, 272 00:15:06,273 --> 00:15:08,691 suggesting that certain biblical texts 273 00:15:08,857 --> 00:15:13,444 could be interpreted as evidence of alien visitation. 274 00:15:13,530 --> 00:15:15,698 And according to Agrest, 275 00:15:15,789 --> 00:15:19,626 one place where such visitations occurred was Baalbek. 276 00:15:19,754 --> 00:15:21,587 WILLIAM HENRY: Dr. Matest Agrest 277 00:15:21,696 --> 00:15:23,888 went into the ancient record, the Book of Enoch 278 00:15:23,973 --> 00:15:26,876 and other Hebrew texts, and noticed that there were beings 279 00:15:26,961 --> 00:15:30,705 coming from the sky or the stars that came to Earth, 280 00:15:30,790 --> 00:15:33,209 and he came up with a theory that they 281 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:36,043 were extraterrestrial beings who came to Earth 282 00:15:36,127 --> 00:15:38,963 to assist humanity in developing advanced technology 283 00:15:39,047 --> 00:15:40,640 to build stone constructions 284 00:15:40,724 --> 00:15:44,129 such as what we see at Baalbek in Lebanon. 285 00:15:44,418 --> 00:15:46,887 NARRATOR: Agrest wrote about the watchers, 286 00:15:47,121 --> 00:15:48,708 a group of fallen angels 287 00:15:48,793 --> 00:15:50,650 who, according to the biblical account, 288 00:15:50,734 --> 00:15:52,977 descended to Earth at Mount Hermon, 289 00:15:53,230 --> 00:15:55,863 very near the site of Baalbek. 290 00:15:56,270 --> 00:15:59,388 Agrest suggested that the watchers were, in fact, 291 00:15:59,473 --> 00:16:01,402 visitors from another planet, 292 00:16:01,486 --> 00:16:03,934 who built the megalithic platform at Baalbek 293 00:16:04,019 --> 00:16:06,191 as a launchpad. 294 00:16:06,362 --> 00:16:09,159 DAVID CHILDRESS: He thought it was a giant stone platform 295 00:16:09,244 --> 00:16:13,673 that spaceships could land on and take off from. 296 00:16:14,066 --> 00:16:15,481 And this makes a lot of sense, 297 00:16:15,566 --> 00:16:19,011 because it's so incredibly solid, 298 00:16:19,170 --> 00:16:22,014 with these huge stone blocks in it, 299 00:16:22,230 --> 00:16:25,601 that even huge vehicles, such as rockets, 300 00:16:25,819 --> 00:16:29,738 could land and take off from this huge platform. 301 00:16:31,488 --> 00:16:33,770 NARRATOR: Two decades after the publication 302 00:16:33,855 --> 00:16:36,224 of Agrest's controversial article, 303 00:16:36,309 --> 00:16:39,022 author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin 304 00:16:39,107 --> 00:16:41,275 came to the same conclusion about Baalbek 305 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:45,195 based on a 5,000-year-old Sumerian text. 306 00:16:45,363 --> 00:16:49,616 The Epic of Gilgamesh tells of a hero of superhuman strength 307 00:16:49,809 --> 00:16:52,895 who embarks on an impossible quest. 308 00:16:53,463 --> 00:16:57,239 In the course of his journeys, Gilgamesh arrives at a site 309 00:16:57,324 --> 00:16:59,880 where he encounters otherworldly gods, 310 00:16:59,965 --> 00:17:04,512 a site that sounds suspiciously like Baalbek. 311 00:17:05,097 --> 00:17:07,293 KATHLEEN McGOWAN: In the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, 312 00:17:07,410 --> 00:17:10,888 which is one of the great and important legends, 313 00:17:10,972 --> 00:17:14,400 um, of human history, we have the hero arriving 314 00:17:14,484 --> 00:17:17,486 in a place known as the Landing Place. 315 00:17:18,980 --> 00:17:23,409 A space which allows the ascent and the descent of beings 316 00:17:23,493 --> 00:17:26,329 from the heavens to the Earth. 317 00:17:26,792 --> 00:17:29,684 WILLIAM HENRY: Zecharia Sitchin in the 1970s proposed, 318 00:17:29,769 --> 00:17:32,918 based on his reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 319 00:17:33,003 --> 00:17:36,997 that Gilgamesh himself had seen some sort of a spacecraft 320 00:17:37,082 --> 00:17:42,669 take off from a landing site and pinpointed that site as Baalbek. 321 00:17:42,901 --> 00:17:44,879 NARRATOR: Is it possible that Baalbek 322 00:17:44,972 --> 00:17:47,524 was a landing pad for alien visitors? 323 00:17:47,675 --> 00:17:52,271 And that it remained so for thousands of years? 324 00:17:52,542 --> 00:17:55,015 Could that be why so many ancient peoples, 325 00:17:55,100 --> 00:17:57,933 such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, Canaanites, 326 00:17:58,041 --> 00:18:04,316 Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, all chose to build and rebuild 327 00:18:04,401 --> 00:18:07,440 some of their greatest temples on this spot? 328 00:18:08,446 --> 00:18:10,355 Perhaps further clues can be found 329 00:18:10,448 --> 00:18:12,375 by examining new discoveries 330 00:18:12,459 --> 00:18:14,952 made at a mysterious ancient site 331 00:18:15,044 --> 00:18:18,222 on the other side of the world. 332 00:18:23,196 --> 00:18:25,791 NARRATOR: BOLIVIA 1549 333 00:18:26,744 --> 00:18:28,632 NARRATOR: While searching for the southern capital 334 00:18:28,716 --> 00:18:33,387 of the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León 335 00:18:33,663 --> 00:18:36,698 comes upon something far stranger... 336 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:40,539 A vast, abandoned city near the shore of Lake Titicaca 337 00:18:40,977 --> 00:18:43,406 that the locals call Tiahuanaco. 338 00:18:43,490 --> 00:18:46,992 The ruined city contains temples, 339 00:18:47,077 --> 00:18:51,655 huge megalithic structures, and vast ceremonial buildings. 340 00:18:52,025 --> 00:18:54,182 ED BARNHART: Tiahuanaco was huge. 341 00:18:54,267 --> 00:18:56,327 It spanned for miles and miles, 342 00:18:56,412 --> 00:19:00,689 and had a population of perhaps as many as 20,000 people. 343 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:04,358 NARRATOR: Among Tiahuanaco's most impressive ruins 344 00:19:04,486 --> 00:19:08,111 is a carved monolith called the Gateway to the Sun 345 00:19:08,196 --> 00:19:11,189 and a terraced mound called Puma Punku, 346 00:19:11,601 --> 00:19:15,855 containing stone blocks cut with extraordinary precision. 347 00:19:15,939 --> 00:19:19,850 According to archaeologists, the Tiahuanaco complex 348 00:19:19,934 --> 00:19:22,936 once served as the capital of a sprawling empire 349 00:19:23,021 --> 00:19:26,881 that rose and fell centuries before the Inca. 350 00:19:27,265 --> 00:19:31,352 TSOUKALOS: This is why we have the term called the pre-Inca. 351 00:19:31,538 --> 00:19:33,956 But who were the pre-Inca? 352 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,498 And this is where it gets interesting, 353 00:19:36,662 --> 00:19:39,912 because pre-Inca construction 354 00:19:40,046 --> 00:19:44,100 is more sophisticated than Inca construction. 355 00:19:44,411 --> 00:19:48,569 NARRATOR: While some mainstream historians say the site dates back 356 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:53,467 only to the Bronze Age, others maintain it is far older. 357 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,288 TSOUKALOS: Arthur Posnanski spent an exorbitant amount of time 358 00:19:57,373 --> 00:20:00,757 at Tiahuanaco, and he calculated 359 00:20:00,842 --> 00:20:04,153 an actual origin date of Tiahuanaco, 360 00:20:04,482 --> 00:20:09,662 which he based to be around 12,500 BC, 361 00:20:09,826 --> 00:20:13,913 which is an incredible time, because at that time, 362 00:20:14,072 --> 00:20:15,739 according to mainstream archaeology, 363 00:20:15,830 --> 00:20:17,757 we were munching on bananas. 364 00:20:18,462 --> 00:20:21,169 HENRY: So, it opens up the possibility that this site 365 00:20:21,254 --> 00:20:25,508 is vastly more ancient than we're led to believe. 366 00:20:25,592 --> 00:20:28,260 And we're only just now beginning to discover 367 00:20:28,345 --> 00:20:30,262 the complete history of that site. 368 00:20:32,514 --> 00:20:35,886 NARRATOR: Some experts believe that the builders of Tiahuanaco 369 00:20:35,971 --> 00:20:38,762 were the ancestors of the local Aymara people 370 00:20:38,846 --> 00:20:41,265 who still live in the area today. 371 00:20:41,358 --> 00:20:45,010 But many of the Aymara themselves disagree. 372 00:20:46,283 --> 00:20:50,107 TSOUKALOS: The local population, the ancient Aymara culture, say, 373 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,442 "It was not us who built this. 374 00:20:52,536 --> 00:20:55,955 It was the gods. Los dioses." 375 00:20:56,114 --> 00:20:59,124 NARRATOR: Recently, the mystery of who built Tiahuanaco 376 00:20:59,311 --> 00:21:01,976 only deepened with a staggering discovery 377 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,464 not within the city but beneath it. 378 00:21:07,490 --> 00:21:09,600 NARRATOR: 2017. 379 00:21:09,788 --> 00:21:11,628 Researchers from UNESCO, 380 00:21:11,780 --> 00:21:14,890 working with local archaeologists at Tiahuanaco, 381 00:21:14,975 --> 00:21:17,719 announce findings that send shockwaves 382 00:21:17,804 --> 00:21:20,085 through the world of archaeology. 383 00:21:20,390 --> 00:21:22,982 While analyzing satellite imagery 384 00:21:23,093 --> 00:21:26,521 and ground-penetrating radar of the Tiahuanaco site, 385 00:21:26,728 --> 00:21:29,955 they find dozens of previously unknown structures 386 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,383 buried virtually everywhere they look. 387 00:21:34,097 --> 00:21:36,602 ANDREW GOUGH: What this aerial technology has found 388 00:21:36,687 --> 00:21:41,325 is 34 acres of terraced mounds, 389 00:21:41,608 --> 00:21:43,569 underground platforms, 390 00:21:43,753 --> 00:21:47,124 and elements of a pyramid complex. 391 00:21:47,226 --> 00:21:51,641 Undated constructions reveal that temples 392 00:21:51,726 --> 00:21:56,932 may have taken the form of industrial-strength platforms, 393 00:21:57,101 --> 00:22:00,609 and this begs the question, why are the bases, 394 00:22:00,694 --> 00:22:04,352 these platforms, so industrial-strength? 395 00:22:04,437 --> 00:22:09,562 It's as though they were built to support extreme weight. 396 00:22:09,702 --> 00:22:11,279 HUGH NEWMAN: So, originally, there could have 397 00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:13,106 been one large mega-platform, 398 00:22:13,468 --> 00:22:16,312 similar to what we find at Baalbek. 399 00:22:16,694 --> 00:22:20,039 This could have belonged to a much earlier civilization. 400 00:22:22,366 --> 00:22:25,430 NARRATOR: If Tiahuanaco is yet another sacred site 401 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:28,622 where successive cultures built temples atop the ruins 402 00:22:28,715 --> 00:22:30,858 of far earlier structures, 403 00:22:31,125 --> 00:22:33,460 is it possible that there is a connection 404 00:22:33,544 --> 00:22:36,296 to extraterrestrial visitation? 405 00:22:36,381 --> 00:22:40,550 As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 406 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:43,303 Tiahuanaco's most mysterious ruins, 407 00:22:43,388 --> 00:22:46,306 at Puma Punku, provide the best evidence 408 00:22:46,483 --> 00:22:48,672 that the site was not only significant 409 00:22:48,757 --> 00:22:50,319 to the native people 410 00:22:50,404 --> 00:22:54,574 but also to otherworldly visitors. 411 00:22:54,731 --> 00:22:56,507 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Puma Punku is, to me, 412 00:22:56,592 --> 00:22:59,000 the most important place on Earth 413 00:22:59,085 --> 00:23:03,820 as far as an extraterrestrial visitation would be concerned. 414 00:23:04,075 --> 00:23:06,993 The construction style at Puma Punku 415 00:23:07,078 --> 00:23:11,773 does not exist anywhere else on Earth. 416 00:23:12,016 --> 00:23:14,585 WILLIAM HENRY: These stones, some of them weighing a hundred tons, 417 00:23:14,669 --> 00:23:18,338 are made of andesite and other hard materials 418 00:23:18,423 --> 00:23:21,508 that today we would use a diamond-tip drill 419 00:23:21,601 --> 00:23:24,186 in order to shape or mold such stones. 420 00:23:24,345 --> 00:23:27,648 How did they do it with hammers and chisels? 421 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:31,351 NARRATOR: Like the foundation stones beneath Baalbek 422 00:23:31,444 --> 00:23:34,187 and the megalithic blocks of Sacsayhuamán, 423 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,773 the buried platforms beneath Puma Punku 424 00:23:36,866 --> 00:23:39,680 raise a provocative question: 425 00:23:40,203 --> 00:23:42,392 Why were the largest, heaviest 426 00:23:42,477 --> 00:23:45,328 and most sophisticated parts of these sites 427 00:23:45,453 --> 00:23:48,922 those that date back farthest in time? 428 00:23:49,961 --> 00:23:52,681 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 429 00:23:52,766 --> 00:23:55,017 more than 12,000 years ago, 430 00:23:55,102 --> 00:23:57,302 human civilizations existed on Earth 431 00:23:57,462 --> 00:24:00,196 that possessed incredible technology 432 00:24:00,281 --> 00:24:04,383 given to them by extraterrestrial beings. 433 00:24:05,218 --> 00:24:07,374 WILLIAM HENRY: The ancient Egyptians referred to 434 00:24:07,625 --> 00:24:10,570 a-a time called the "First Time," 435 00:24:11,023 --> 00:24:15,479 when the gods, extraterrestrial beings, walked among men. 436 00:24:15,572 --> 00:24:17,740 Pre-10,000 BC. 437 00:24:17,898 --> 00:24:20,900 DAVID CHILDRESS: We have authentic legends 438 00:24:20,985 --> 00:24:23,453 about these lost lands and lost worlds. 439 00:24:23,648 --> 00:24:27,016 And that extraterrestrials were here at the same time. 440 00:24:27,101 --> 00:24:28,446 We have these all over the world. 441 00:24:28,531 --> 00:24:31,244 We have the stories of Atlantis and Lemuria. 442 00:24:31,329 --> 00:24:35,148 Many cultures around the world have, also, these same legends 443 00:24:35,233 --> 00:24:37,509 and lores and myths of cataclysms. 444 00:24:37,594 --> 00:24:39,836 The Scandinavians have this. 445 00:24:39,929 --> 00:24:43,006 Also, we have the flood of Noah. 446 00:24:43,344 --> 00:24:47,695 We have... the Greeks also have tales of a flood. 447 00:24:48,521 --> 00:24:49,938 ANDREW COLLINS: What we now know 448 00:24:50,023 --> 00:24:53,099 from incredible amount of evidence 449 00:24:53,184 --> 00:24:56,609 coming from every part of the world, 450 00:24:56,828 --> 00:25:00,476 is around 10,800 BC, 451 00:25:00,632 --> 00:25:05,313 the Earth suffered a terrible, uh, catastrophe 452 00:25:05,398 --> 00:25:07,539 in the form of a comet impact 453 00:25:07,698 --> 00:25:10,793 known as the Younger Dryas event. 454 00:25:11,812 --> 00:25:15,872 And this devastated every continent of the world 455 00:25:15,957 --> 00:25:18,469 with fires and floods. 456 00:25:19,198 --> 00:25:22,720 DAVID CHILDRESS: So, now it looks like we're looking at a-a secret history 457 00:25:22,805 --> 00:25:23,972 of planet Earth, 458 00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:28,126 one where there's extraterrestrial intervention. 459 00:25:28,211 --> 00:25:32,648 And there were civilizations and activities going on then, 460 00:25:32,814 --> 00:25:36,319 and they were destroyed in a cataclysmic flood. 461 00:25:36,765 --> 00:25:41,397 WILLIAM HENRY: From Baalbek in Lebanon to the Temple Mount to Puma Punku, 462 00:25:41,482 --> 00:25:44,150 some of these sites are thought to be the locations 463 00:25:44,244 --> 00:25:46,328 where pre-flood temples once existed. 464 00:25:46,487 --> 00:25:50,249 So, after the cataclysm, people are regaining civilization, 465 00:25:50,367 --> 00:25:52,835 and they go back to the exact same location 466 00:25:52,919 --> 00:25:55,754 as previous temples and-and rebuild the temple there. 467 00:25:56,875 --> 00:25:59,446 NARRATOR: Could it be that the most ancient structures 468 00:25:59,531 --> 00:26:02,260 found at sacred sites all over the world 469 00:26:02,345 --> 00:26:06,125 belonged to civilizations that have been lost to history? 470 00:26:06,375 --> 00:26:09,274 Civilizations where extraterrestrials 471 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,368 once lived among humans 472 00:26:11,453 --> 00:26:15,265 before falling victim to a cataclysmic event? 473 00:26:15,358 --> 00:26:18,443 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining 474 00:26:18,528 --> 00:26:21,573 a site in Peru where the Inca claimed to have had 475 00:26:21,658 --> 00:26:25,420 a direct line of communication with the gods. 476 00:26:32,234 --> 00:26:34,219 NARRATOR: Cuzco, Peru. 477 00:26:36,458 --> 00:26:39,032 In the heart of the ancient Incan capital 478 00:26:39,117 --> 00:26:41,791 stands the Convent of Santo Domingo, 479 00:26:41,885 --> 00:26:46,391 a Spanish church constructed roughly 400 years ago. 480 00:26:46,806 --> 00:26:49,790 But still visible beneath the church are the remnants 481 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:53,219 of an older and far more impressive structure: 482 00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:57,156 The Incan temple of Coricancha. 483 00:26:57,391 --> 00:27:00,043 TOK THOMPSON: Coricancha is probably the premier site 484 00:27:00,128 --> 00:27:02,054 for the ancient Incan civilization. 485 00:27:03,147 --> 00:27:06,000 This was the crowning jewel of their empire. 486 00:27:06,141 --> 00:27:09,828 Um, it, uh, reflected the Incan, uh, political power. 487 00:27:09,952 --> 00:27:12,444 As well as the religious power. 488 00:27:12,897 --> 00:27:18,258 BARNHART: It had gold plating all along its walls, inside and out. 489 00:27:18,562 --> 00:27:20,747 So it glowed in the Sun. 490 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,516 And it was a very imposing structure. 491 00:27:24,758 --> 00:27:28,013 It had a base that was a curved wall 492 00:27:28,097 --> 00:27:31,266 with a big garden at the bottom. 493 00:27:31,425 --> 00:27:34,242 And inside, it had a number of temples. 494 00:27:36,191 --> 00:27:38,192 (men yelling, swords clanging) 495 00:27:38,358 --> 00:27:40,517 NARRATOR: After the Spanish conquistadors 496 00:27:40,695 --> 00:27:44,219 sacked Cuzco in November of 1533, 497 00:27:44,311 --> 00:27:48,259 they demolished the Coricancha and built a convent and church 498 00:27:48,344 --> 00:27:50,944 on its monumental foundation. 499 00:27:51,430 --> 00:27:54,204 All that's left of the original structure 500 00:27:54,289 --> 00:27:56,618 is the impressive stonework of the base 501 00:27:56,703 --> 00:27:59,119 and some underground rooms. 502 00:28:00,016 --> 00:28:03,243 But some experts believe the surviving stonework 503 00:28:03,328 --> 00:28:06,625 of the Coricancha is too monumental and sophisticated 504 00:28:06,710 --> 00:28:10,388 to have been achieved with the Bronze Age tools of the Inca, 505 00:28:10,546 --> 00:28:14,960 and was built instead by an earlier, unknown civilization. 506 00:28:16,721 --> 00:28:18,773 NEWMAN: So, with the Coricancha, we have 507 00:28:18,858 --> 00:28:21,860 good evidence that when the Inca arrived in this area, 508 00:28:21,945 --> 00:28:24,486 there was already an earlier megalithic temple there. 509 00:28:24,645 --> 00:28:26,041 They were actually building on something 510 00:28:26,125 --> 00:28:27,239 that was already there, 511 00:28:27,323 --> 00:28:29,047 like, possibly an ancient platform, 512 00:28:29,141 --> 00:28:30,774 possibly an underground temple, 513 00:28:30,867 --> 00:28:33,594 because there's evidence of tunnels in this area. 514 00:28:34,424 --> 00:28:36,416 NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists, 515 00:28:36,501 --> 00:28:40,689 this raises the same question posed by Baalbek and Tiahuanaco: 516 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,456 Why did ancient people repeatedly build 517 00:28:43,541 --> 00:28:46,940 temple after temple on the same sacred spot? 518 00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:50,762 And some believe that in the case of the Coricancha, 519 00:28:50,847 --> 00:28:54,314 Inca legends may provide a pivotal clue. 520 00:28:54,939 --> 00:28:57,978 Because tradition states that a special spot 521 00:28:58,072 --> 00:29:00,595 within the Coricancha allowed communication 522 00:29:00,735 --> 00:29:03,104 directly with the heavens, 523 00:29:03,189 --> 00:29:06,307 but only when it was activated by the most sacred relic 524 00:29:06,392 --> 00:29:10,112 in the Inca world, a mysterious golden disc 525 00:29:10,197 --> 00:29:12,931 called the Inti Punchaco. 526 00:29:13,699 --> 00:29:15,659 ANDREW GOUGH: The most legendary relic 527 00:29:15,744 --> 00:29:18,195 of any Peruvian era 528 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,752 was said to have been kept in the original Coricancha. 529 00:29:22,064 --> 00:29:25,205 This was the Inti Punchaco. 530 00:29:26,252 --> 00:29:30,206 This sun disc, this golden artifact, 531 00:29:30,291 --> 00:29:33,173 allowed whoever possessed it 532 00:29:33,345 --> 00:29:37,244 to commune directly with the gods. 533 00:29:37,978 --> 00:29:41,054 NARRATOR: According to the Inca, within the Coricancha, 534 00:29:41,138 --> 00:29:44,232 the Inti Punchaco disc allowed direct contact 535 00:29:44,391 --> 00:29:47,540 with their creator god Viracocha. 536 00:29:47,642 --> 00:29:50,072 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 537 00:29:50,156 --> 00:29:51,900 that the specific placement of it 538 00:29:52,008 --> 00:29:54,846 was important because it may have been receiving a signal 539 00:29:54,931 --> 00:29:56,993 from beyond Earth. 540 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,749 And they believe the exact spot where it was activated 541 00:30:00,845 --> 00:30:03,869 still exists in a chamber of the Coricancha 542 00:30:03,954 --> 00:30:08,009 that was spared destruction by the Spanish. 543 00:30:08,094 --> 00:30:09,454 DAVID CHILDRESS: In the Coricancha 544 00:30:09,539 --> 00:30:12,017 is this special niche, 545 00:30:12,282 --> 00:30:15,931 and today they've covered it with a Plexiglas sheet, 546 00:30:16,090 --> 00:30:19,101 but it has blocks that are perfectly cut 547 00:30:19,185 --> 00:30:23,392 and articulated in unusual ways, little notches and things, 548 00:30:23,525 --> 00:30:26,182 plus drilled holes that go through it, 549 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:30,028 which seem to be for electric cables or something. 550 00:30:30,282 --> 00:30:34,095 So it would appear that some device 551 00:30:34,283 --> 00:30:38,845 was placed into this niche in the wall 552 00:30:39,181 --> 00:30:42,798 that was like a monitor of some kind. 553 00:30:43,117 --> 00:30:45,961 And they've chosen this spot. 554 00:30:46,045 --> 00:30:49,165 And all for reasons that we do not understand. 555 00:30:50,407 --> 00:30:52,442 NEWMAN: So, could it be that at the Coricancha, 556 00:30:52,543 --> 00:30:56,296 there was a sacred kind of part of the site there 557 00:30:56,380 --> 00:30:58,829 where they were connecting with the gods? 558 00:30:58,914 --> 00:31:03,080 Actually something in the land, like a-a magnetic hot spot 559 00:31:03,165 --> 00:31:06,104 or a vortex that the Inca 560 00:31:06,189 --> 00:31:09,212 and then later the Spanish became aware of. 561 00:31:09,853 --> 00:31:13,730 NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient Peruvians possessed a device 562 00:31:13,823 --> 00:31:18,134 that allowed them to communicate with beings from beyond Earth? 563 00:31:19,470 --> 00:31:21,905 And that the location of the Coricancha 564 00:31:22,103 --> 00:31:25,658 was essential to activating this technology? 565 00:31:26,704 --> 00:31:29,412 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 566 00:31:29,505 --> 00:31:33,596 and suggest that clues as to just how such a technology 567 00:31:33,681 --> 00:31:36,393 might have worked can be found by examining 568 00:31:36,478 --> 00:31:39,237 mysterious magnetic anomalies detected 569 00:31:39,322 --> 00:31:43,659 at one of the most remote ancient sites in the world. 570 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,557 NARRATOR: In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 571 00:31:50,641 --> 00:31:53,922 roughly 2,500 miles northeast of Australia, 572 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:59,545 lie the ruins of a once great ancient city Nan Madol. 573 00:31:59,818 --> 00:32:02,266 Consisting of hundreds of man-made islets 574 00:32:02,351 --> 00:32:05,010 off the eastern coast of Micronesia, 575 00:32:05,617 --> 00:32:10,297 it has been dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World." 576 00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:11,971 WILLIAM HENRY: The site of Nan Madol 577 00:32:12,056 --> 00:32:13,767 on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia 578 00:32:13,852 --> 00:32:16,984 is one of the strangest places on the planet. 579 00:32:17,626 --> 00:32:20,547 It's an 11-square-mile complex 580 00:32:20,642 --> 00:32:25,516 composed of over 250 million tons of basalt logs... 581 00:32:26,625 --> 00:32:30,870 floating on a submerged coral reef. 582 00:32:31,172 --> 00:32:34,259 They are 18 feet long, four feet in diameter, 583 00:32:34,344 --> 00:32:37,867 and are stacked 40 feet up in the air. 584 00:32:39,225 --> 00:32:42,312 Why did they do this? And how did they do this? 585 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:47,922 NARRATOR: Today, the site lies abandoned and shunned 586 00:32:48,007 --> 00:32:51,469 by the local Micronesians, who consider it haunted. 587 00:32:51,623 --> 00:32:55,376 TOK THOMPSON: Nan Madol is one of these disappeared civilizations. 588 00:32:55,652 --> 00:32:57,695 It's fascinatingly interesting. 589 00:32:57,780 --> 00:32:59,859 This seemed to have been the center of power 590 00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:02,212 of a, uh, major civilization. 591 00:33:02,578 --> 00:33:04,937 And yet it also seems that it might have been built 592 00:33:05,022 --> 00:33:09,550 on earlier civilizations that are lost in time. 593 00:33:10,453 --> 00:33:13,891 NARRATOR: Since stone is difficult to accurately date, 594 00:33:13,975 --> 00:33:16,318 no one knows for certain when it was constructed 595 00:33:16,478 --> 00:33:18,237 or how it was built. 596 00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:21,076 TSOUKALOS: When you ask the local population, 597 00:33:21,161 --> 00:33:24,580 "Where were these blocks quarried?" 598 00:33:24,770 --> 00:33:28,240 In unison, they will tell you, from across the island 599 00:33:28,415 --> 00:33:32,638 and that they were flown across the island. 600 00:33:32,967 --> 00:33:34,943 ANDREW GOUGH: According to legend, 601 00:33:35,057 --> 00:33:38,310 twin sorcerers of giant proportions 602 00:33:38,395 --> 00:33:42,481 came down from the sky and floated above the site 603 00:33:42,566 --> 00:33:46,974 and positioned the basalt columns as they desired, 604 00:33:47,352 --> 00:33:52,189 a legend that's very similar to the same story at Puma Punku. 605 00:33:53,263 --> 00:33:55,490 TSOUKALOS: But when I hear stories like that, 606 00:33:55,575 --> 00:33:58,872 I wonder, well, perhaps we have another example 607 00:33:58,957 --> 00:34:03,461 of what I refer to as misunderstood technology. 608 00:34:04,737 --> 00:34:07,246 NARRATOR: As with other sites like Puma Punku, 609 00:34:07,331 --> 00:34:10,258 Baalbek and the Coricancha, legend says 610 00:34:10,343 --> 00:34:13,521 that these structures were not the first to exist here, 611 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,332 but instead were built above a much older city. 612 00:34:17,782 --> 00:34:19,778 GOUGH: The mystery of Nan Madol 613 00:34:19,863 --> 00:34:24,450 is even more intriguing when we factor in the local legend 614 00:34:24,535 --> 00:34:29,262 that states that it was built on an earlier civilization 615 00:34:29,392 --> 00:34:31,895 called the Kanamwayso, 616 00:34:31,996 --> 00:34:35,254 which is submerged below water 617 00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:39,675 but still has those same basalt megaliths. 618 00:34:39,790 --> 00:34:42,283 NARRATOR: Objects that appear to be basalt columns 619 00:34:42,531 --> 00:34:46,534 have in fact been found beneath the ocean at Nan Madol, 620 00:34:46,743 --> 00:34:48,809 and those who have studied the columns 621 00:34:48,894 --> 00:34:50,856 both above and below the water 622 00:34:50,941 --> 00:34:54,934 have discovered a curious electromagnetic anomaly. 623 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,650 CHILDRESS: There's a strong magnetic field in every single one 624 00:34:59,992 --> 00:35:03,426 of the 250 million tons of basalt there. 625 00:35:03,511 --> 00:35:08,676 You can take a compass and run it along these basalt blocks, 626 00:35:09,047 --> 00:35:13,481 and your compass will just spin as you move it along the blocks. 627 00:35:13,566 --> 00:35:19,071 Also, it's thought that the site itself is a special power spot 628 00:35:19,187 --> 00:35:25,254 and an energy vortex, and that's why Nan Madol is built there. 629 00:35:25,339 --> 00:35:30,348 And this legendary sunken city called Kanamwayso as well. 630 00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:35,630 TSOUKALOS: The local population also reports many, many sightings 631 00:35:35,715 --> 00:35:38,168 of orbs and lights 632 00:35:38,253 --> 00:35:42,534 that have been seen hovering around Nan Madol. 633 00:35:42,619 --> 00:35:46,121 Is it because of the magnetic spectrum of Earth? 634 00:35:46,386 --> 00:35:49,971 And you have to wonder if, through magnetism, 635 00:35:50,056 --> 00:35:52,200 the stones were transported in the first place, 636 00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:54,231 'cause they were transported through the air. 637 00:35:55,220 --> 00:35:58,075 NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest 638 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,246 that elevated electromagnetic energy present at Nan Madol 639 00:36:02,490 --> 00:36:04,575 was not only a powerful tool 640 00:36:04,660 --> 00:36:07,579 used to move the giant basalt columns, 641 00:36:07,987 --> 00:36:10,184 but that it may also have been the reason 642 00:36:10,269 --> 00:36:12,613 that extraterrestrials helped the locals 643 00:36:12,698 --> 00:36:14,949 to build here in the first place. 644 00:36:15,034 --> 00:36:16,609 NEWMAN: Could it be that there was 645 00:36:16,711 --> 00:36:19,889 a sacred kind of part of the site there, 646 00:36:19,974 --> 00:36:22,106 where they were connecting with the gods? 647 00:36:22,330 --> 00:36:24,996 You know, not just through visionary experiences, 648 00:36:25,081 --> 00:36:26,749 but actually something in the land, 649 00:36:26,834 --> 00:36:30,754 like a-a magnetic hot spot or a vortex? 650 00:36:31,449 --> 00:36:34,314 TRAVIS TAYLOR: We hear the word "vortex" in science fiction, 651 00:36:34,399 --> 00:36:36,593 popular culture all the time. 652 00:36:36,686 --> 00:36:40,772 And a vortex is just a mathematical thing 653 00:36:40,857 --> 00:36:42,770 that describes a swirling motion. 654 00:36:43,021 --> 00:36:46,551 An electromagnetic field can be formed in a vortex. 655 00:36:47,207 --> 00:36:50,366 You could create a vortex that would enable 656 00:36:50,450 --> 00:36:53,059 transporting information from somewhere else to here 657 00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:55,559 at the speed of light or faster than the speed of light. 658 00:36:55,644 --> 00:36:57,661 And if there are places on the Earth 659 00:36:57,746 --> 00:37:00,406 where these types of vortexes may be stronger than others, 660 00:37:00,491 --> 00:37:03,989 you could see people going there to build structures 661 00:37:04,128 --> 00:37:06,207 that maybe altered 662 00:37:06,292 --> 00:37:08,676 the electromagnetic field of the local environment. 663 00:37:09,586 --> 00:37:13,934 NEWMAN: Was there even some kind of portal or vortex present 664 00:37:14,019 --> 00:37:16,187 in some of these sacred places? 665 00:37:16,486 --> 00:37:19,387 If that's the case, we have to question 666 00:37:19,512 --> 00:37:25,434 these principles of oracle sites, megalithic temples. 667 00:37:25,691 --> 00:37:27,989 Were they built to harness this, 668 00:37:28,074 --> 00:37:30,133 to be these communication portals 669 00:37:30,233 --> 00:37:32,371 between these different places? 670 00:37:32,456 --> 00:37:34,520 GEORGE NOORY: There is no question in my mind 671 00:37:34,605 --> 00:37:37,137 that these are much older sites than we think, 672 00:37:37,222 --> 00:37:40,559 and that they were spots for extraterrestrial communication 673 00:37:40,651 --> 00:37:43,012 a long, long time ago. 674 00:37:44,605 --> 00:37:48,239 NARRATOR: Is it possible that certain locations around the world 675 00:37:48,324 --> 00:37:51,942 act as vortexes of electromagnetic energy? 676 00:37:52,027 --> 00:37:55,005 And that ancient people built their most sacred sites 677 00:37:55,090 --> 00:37:56,661 in these very spots 678 00:37:56,947 --> 00:38:00,699 in order to communicate with otherworldly beings? 679 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,707 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 680 00:38:03,792 --> 00:38:07,137 that although this notion may sound far-fetched, 681 00:38:07,253 --> 00:38:10,219 scientists at NASA recently found evidence 682 00:38:10,304 --> 00:38:13,514 that such portals really do exist. 683 00:38:19,829 --> 00:38:21,567 NARRATOR: Huntsville, ALBAMA 684 00:38:21,652 --> 00:38:24,231 October 30, 2008. 685 00:38:24,619 --> 00:38:27,520 NARRATOR: NASA makes a groundbreaking announcement, 686 00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:30,611 that there is indisputable evidence of magnetic portals 687 00:38:30,696 --> 00:38:33,270 connecting the Earth and the Sun. 688 00:38:33,481 --> 00:38:35,864 These portals open every eight minutes 689 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,645 and allow the transfer of high-energy particles 690 00:38:38,761 --> 00:38:41,237 between the two celestial bodies. 691 00:38:41,394 --> 00:38:43,487 TAYLOR: So, you have these two really powerful magnets, 692 00:38:43,571 --> 00:38:44,762 the Earth and the Sun, 693 00:38:44,847 --> 00:38:47,181 and their field lines are crossing each other. 694 00:38:47,266 --> 00:38:49,700 But every now and then, for whatever reason, 695 00:38:49,785 --> 00:38:52,746 we have these flux transfer events where the field lines 696 00:38:52,831 --> 00:38:54,801 will actually connect to each other 697 00:38:55,034 --> 00:38:58,370 and they create a pathway for the magnetic field of the Sun 698 00:38:58,455 --> 00:39:01,049 to literally be connected to the magnetic field of the Earth. 699 00:39:01,134 --> 00:39:03,989 And it's even been referred to in the scientific literature 700 00:39:04,074 --> 00:39:05,731 as magnetic portals. 701 00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:09,943 We actually have a connection that could be a transit 702 00:39:10,028 --> 00:39:13,927 to or a pathway for information to travel from the Sun 703 00:39:14,012 --> 00:39:15,981 to the Earth or vice versa. 704 00:39:16,316 --> 00:39:19,614 NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have long been intrigued 705 00:39:19,699 --> 00:39:22,403 by the concept of electromagnetic portals, 706 00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:24,669 since in theory they could provide 707 00:39:24,754 --> 00:39:28,223 a means of communicating, or even traveling rapidly, 708 00:39:28,308 --> 00:39:31,418 across the vast distances of space. 709 00:39:33,101 --> 00:39:36,848 The NASA discovery poses an intriguing question: 710 00:39:36,933 --> 00:39:40,583 Could sites around the world, where successive cultures 711 00:39:40,668 --> 00:39:44,911 built their most sacred temples, be locations that facilitate 712 00:39:44,996 --> 00:39:47,918 the creation of magnetic portals? 713 00:39:50,433 --> 00:39:53,826 TAYLOR: Could a civilization with a more advanced knowledge 714 00:39:53,911 --> 00:39:56,070 of physics than we have currently 715 00:39:56,155 --> 00:40:00,645 make use of this flux transfer, of these magnetic field lines 716 00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:04,004 connecting between their star and other planets? 717 00:40:04,183 --> 00:40:08,153 Could it create a means of traveling quickly 718 00:40:08,238 --> 00:40:10,147 from one point to the other between them? 719 00:40:10,232 --> 00:40:12,141 Or maybe even something else 720 00:40:12,226 --> 00:40:14,153 that we just haven't discovered yet. 721 00:40:15,053 --> 00:40:16,386 NEWMAN: Maybe these sites 722 00:40:16,471 --> 00:40:18,426 were kind of manipulating the energies 723 00:40:18,511 --> 00:40:22,485 of the cosmos and the Earth to open these portals up 724 00:40:22,570 --> 00:40:24,504 for this kind of purpose. 725 00:40:24,664 --> 00:40:27,934 And what or who were they really communicating with? 726 00:40:28,090 --> 00:40:31,286 Was it really the gods? Was it the ancestors? 727 00:40:31,504 --> 00:40:33,887 Or was it otherworldly beings? 728 00:40:35,496 --> 00:40:37,895 NARRATOR: Could Baalbek, Temple Mount, 729 00:40:37,980 --> 00:40:40,309 Puma Punku, the Coricancha, 730 00:40:40,394 --> 00:40:43,839 and other sites around the world where sacred structures 731 00:40:43,924 --> 00:40:46,017 have been built again and again 732 00:40:46,348 --> 00:40:50,481 have electromagnetic properties similar to Nan Madol? 733 00:40:50,750 --> 00:40:54,410 Properties that could be harnessed to create gateways 734 00:40:54,495 --> 00:40:57,356 to connect with otherworldly beings? 735 00:40:57,989 --> 00:40:59,864 McGOWAN: Over and over, around the world, 736 00:40:59,949 --> 00:41:01,783 from the beginning of time to now, 737 00:41:01,868 --> 00:41:05,454 we see that sacred sites and power points 738 00:41:05,587 --> 00:41:08,506 have been marked by humankind. 739 00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:11,731 Temples have been built to communicate 740 00:41:11,961 --> 00:41:13,887 from Earth to heaven. 741 00:41:14,426 --> 00:41:15,887 ANDREW COLLINS: Quite clearly, 742 00:41:15,972 --> 00:41:19,137 these places are somewhere 743 00:41:19,222 --> 00:41:21,012 that we keep coming back to. 744 00:41:21,097 --> 00:41:24,606 We call them portals, we call them vortexes. 745 00:41:24,848 --> 00:41:27,403 They are gateways onto another world, 746 00:41:27,488 --> 00:41:29,573 and they are very, very important 747 00:41:29,658 --> 00:41:34,278 not just for human experience but for evolution itself. 748 00:41:36,003 --> 00:41:39,067 NARRATOR: Are humans drawn to certain locations on Earth 749 00:41:39,395 --> 00:41:41,731 by a magnetic force? 750 00:41:42,379 --> 00:41:44,770 Do we build our most sacred temples 751 00:41:44,855 --> 00:41:47,293 on the same sites again and again 752 00:41:47,378 --> 00:41:51,548 because these locations connect us to the cosmos? 753 00:41:52,019 --> 00:41:56,075 Perhaps, as we continue to unearth even more ancient ruins, 754 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,207 we will come to better understand 755 00:41:58,317 --> 00:42:01,317 our connection to the universe 756 00:42:01,485 --> 00:42:05,879 and the truth about our extraterrestrial past. 757 00:42:05,963 --> 00:42:07,963 Sync corrections by srjanapala 68493

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