All language subtitles for Starożytni kosmici (2022) S18E02 Mystery of the Standing Stones - Tajemnica Stojących Kamieni (ENSUB)

NARRATOR: Throughout the world,
enormous stone monoliths

have stood
for thousands of years.

Many were built
to align with the stars.

The monolith
has religious implications.

It's pointing to the heavens.

NARRATOR:
Some are said
to have strange powers.

People get electric shocks.

They have altered states,
experiences.

NARRATOR:
And there are clues
that they may have had

a technological function.

These stones are standing
in just the right locations

where you could create
a release of energy.

NARRATOR:
Are the ancient standing stones

simply the earliest monuments
of prehistoric humans?

Or might they have
a far more profound purpose?

The standing
stones are a calling card.

They are a message that
somebody was here in the past,

and they were our teachers.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR:
Biologists, from the Utah
Division of Wildlife Resources,

surveying a nearby canyon,

spot a strange,
rectangular-shaped object

from their helicopter.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
They saw this metallic slab

down in the canyon.

It was a vertical slab
about 10 to 12 feet tall.

And they were astonished
because this...

this remote canyon is almost
only accessible by a helicopter.

NARRATOR:
Satellite imaging reveals

that the triangular column,
dubbed the "Utah monolith,"

has stood undetected
for over four years,

and its discovery quickly
becomes international news.

There was terrific speculation

when the Utah monolith
was first discovered...

...as to the provenance
of the monolith, you know,

was this
communication from E.T.s?

And I think people were
really excited by this idea,

because it's drawing on

the monolith
in 2001: A Space Odyssey,

which was
a science-fiction book

written in 1968
by Arthur C. Clarke.

And in the same year,

Stanley Kubrick
directed the movie.

And together, they captured
the imagination of the world.

2001 begins with this
monolith appearing on Earth.

And through that monolith,
as we all know from the movie,

this is
how our evolution begins.

The appearance
of a similar monolith

in a remote location in Utah

gives us the sense
of a connection

with alien intelligence,

the idea of a point of contact.

NARRATOR:
While it is still not known
for certain

just who
erected the Utah monolith,

it is believed
to have been nothing more

than an art installation

and was removed
shortly after its discovery

by a group of conservationists.

During the following weeks,

similar monoliths
started popping up

on nearly every continent.

TIM BRENNAN:
So between December and January,

you had hundreds of monoliths
appearing around the world.

And there were nine monoliths in
the U.K. alone within a month.

NARRATOR:
But why did the Utah monolith

spark this
worldwide fascination?

Was it all because of
a science-fiction movie?

Or is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists
believe,

that these monoliths resonate
on a much more profound level...

and trigger deep-seated
memories of standing stones

erected thousands of years ago?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: People
have always been fascinated

with monoliths,

and I think it goes
even deeper into our past,

because we have standing stones
around the world.

Standing stones
have been an integral part

of our human development
over thousands of years.

BRENNAN:
Monoliths are a part of our DNA,
part of our psyche.

Stone has a great resonance
within the landscape.

It has a presence of permanence

that outlives the human frame.

NARRATOR: There are more than
50,000 ancient standing stones,

also known as
monoliths or menhirs,

scattered across Europe,

Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Most date back
more than 5,000 years,

and the largest weigh over
300 tons--

more than double the weight
of the Statue of Liberty.

When you look at
these standing stones,

we're looking back
at the Stone Age,

and we're thinking,
are these Stone Age people

moving all of these
huge megaliths around?

The largest standing stone
in all of Europe

is called Le Grand Menhir Brisé,
the Great Broken Menhir.

It's located
in French Brittany,

and when it was one solid piece,

it was over 60 feet tall.

They have estimated for that
stone, when it was one piece,

to be 330 tons.

Now explain to me
how you transport 330 tons.

We have a hard time
doing this today.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
It's a huge undertaking.

And there could have been
some knowledge that they had

to move heavy things that,
for some reason,

we don't understand today in our
modern technological society.

Have we forgotten some
ancient physics that they knew?

Or did they have help?

NARRATOR:
While not all monoliths
are of such enormous size,

for ancient astronaut theorists,
the question still remains:

why would prehistoric people,
struggling just to survive,

have expended so much time and
energy erecting standing stones?

CHILDRESS:
When you try to speculate
about the standing stones

and what their purpose is,
we have to wonder,

does it have to do with
extraterrestrials

and something technological
that we do not understand?

NARRATOR:
On the northwest coast of France

lies the most famous
and mysterious collection

of ancient standing stones
found anywhere in the world.

Stretching across two miles
of rolling countryside,

the more than
3,000 giant menhirs

are known as the Carnac stones.

French archeologists
have been able to give a date

to these standing stones,
and it's 5,000 BC.

So, they're saying
that these stones

were erected 7,000 years ago,

but they don't know
who erected them.

They don't know
why they were erected.

They don't know how
they moved all these stones

and erected them.

Some of these stones
are as much as ten feet tall.

And they are
arranged in huge alignments.

Some of them
are in parallel lines.

Some of them are fan-like.

The Carnac alignments

refer to rows of stones

that run in precise
lines for long distances

through the landscape.

HUGH NEWMAN:
This is long before Stonehenge,

and Avebury
and other such sites.

So who were these people?

And how were they able to move
up to 70-ton blocks

over huge distances

and lay them out into these
geometric configurations?

NARRATOR:
Some mainstream scholars suggest

that the stones
are simply grave markers,

while others claim
they track astronomical events

like the solstice and equinox.

But neither theory can
explain the precise placement

of the stones
in geometric alignments.

One of the most interesting
of the Carnac alignments

is the alignment of Ménec.

When viewed from above,

we can see these
11 almost perfect parallel lines

that stretch out
for almost a mile.

So the Ménec alignment
is so pristine

and created with such perfection

we can't even imagine

how it would've been done
in ancient times.

Now, we have to wonder
what these lines were for.

We have to wonder why

they're so beautifully viewed
from above.

NARRATOR:
In 1970, Alexander Thom,
a Scottish engineer

who spent most of his life
studying megaliths,

performed a survey of Carnac

and found that
the stones appeared to be

purposely arranged to
form geometric designs.

Of particular interest was
an egg-shaped stone formation

at the west end of the Ménec
alignment,

whose stones
were precisely positioned

to form
perfect Pythagorean triangles.

Thom's finding
astonished archaeologists,

due to the fact that
Pythagoras introduced

this geometrical concept
in the sixth century BC,

more than 4,000 years after
the Carnac stones were erected.

TSOUKALOS:
One of the arrangements we have

is a representation
of the Pythagorean theorem,

which is A squared plus
B squared equals C squared.

How do we have
that mathematical message

in a archaeological site
that's at least 7,000 years old?

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
The constructions in Carnac

is thousands of years
older than Pythagoras,

the Greek mathematician.

So somebody must have
teached our ancestors

to put these stones in a certain
line, in geometrical forms.

Now the question is simply, why?

I am absolutely sure, some
thousands of years in the past,

the extraterrestrials
who visited our planet

left a proof behind.

TSOUKALOS: It's a message
that somebody was here

in the past who instructed
our Stone Age people

to put this stone here,
put that stone there.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the positioning

of the Carnac stones

was directed
by extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

But if so, was the intent

simply to leave clues
that they were here?

Or might these standing stones,

and the thousands of others
that exist across the world,

have served another purpose?

One that can be found

not by looking at the stones
from above

but by understanding
what lies beneath.

Pierre Mereaux, a French
engineer in thermodynamics,

performs a study
of the Carnac stones,

which produces some
highly intriguing results.

CHILDRESS:
What he found was that

the stones were aligned
and placed over areas

that had quartz fissures.

The standing stones, themselves,
are also made of quartz.

Now these stones,
as I understand it,

have a fair amount of quartz,

and quartz
is an interesting material...

...because we do connect
it with piezoelectricity.

NARRATOR:
Piezoelectricity is the process
of generating electricity

from crystals, like quartz,

when they are placed
under pressure.

This technology
is used today in watches,

speakers
and computer storage systems.

But in order for the stones

found in the Carnac region
to generate a charge,

they would need to be stimulated
by a tremendous amount of force.

NEWMAN: When studying
the landscape of Carnac,

Pierre Mereaux found fault zones

which the stone avenues
appeared to be aligned to.

TAYLOR: It's really interesting,
if there was tectonic movement,

the quartz could be stimulated

to create a release of energy,
using the piezoelectric effect.

And these stones are standing
in just the right locations

where you could create
a phenomena like this.

You can store and create
electromagnetic energy

in these types of stones.

NARRATOR:
In addition to being placed
over a fault line,

there is also the presence

of a strong and measurable
"Earth energy"

that lies beneath the stones.

So, one of the cool things
about the Earth

is the currents that exist.

And it's something
we don't think about a lot

is that underneath the earth,

and the crust, and the mantle

and in the oceans and the water

there's constant
electric current flowing.

Some of it very reproduceable
and very steady.

It seems as if the Carnac stones
somehow were reflecting

the presence of these electrical
currents beneath the earth,

almost as if the prehistoric
peoples that created them

were aware of the subtle
energies of the earth.

TAYLOR:
Somebody understood something
about the quartz in the ground,

the standing stones
and the fault line.

It's too big of a coincidence

for them not
to have understood that.

TSOUKALOS: I think in Carnac,
our ancestors

did not know
what they were creating.

The entire region
has over 4,000 stones.

And, of course, it was our human
ancestors who moved that stone.

It was not aliens
who moved the stone.

But somebody told our ancestors
why to move it there,

and above all,
how to move it there.

Carnac, at some point, was
an extraterrestrial hot spot.

NARRATOR:
Were the stones at Carnac
part of an electrical grid?

One that was created
by extraterrestrial visitors

to tap into the natural energy
produced by the earth?

But if so, to what end?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
some of the strange events

that have occurred
near ancient standing stones.

Rudston, England.

This ancient village
in Yorkshire

has been inhabited
for more than 5,000 years,

and several of its Neolithic
structures are still standing...

...as well as
a number of monoliths.

But one towers above the rest.

The Rudston Monolith

is the tallest standing stone
in Britain.

Currently,
it is 25 feet in height,

and it weighs 40 tons.

Some researchers say
that the monolith was found

at Cayton Bay, which is
about 10 miles from Rudston,

and was carried up
onto the hill.

So the effort involved
to try to lift the stone

in an upright position
is beyond imagination.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists believe
the Rudston Monolith

dates back to at least 2,500 BC.

But some point to evidence
that it could be far older.

BRENNAN: Well, we know that
people have lived nearby Rudston

for over 11,000 years, uh,

in the Mesolithic era.

Because there have been
some fantastic excavations

which have revealed the oldest
house dwelling in the U.K.

So the Rudston Monolith
could be as old as that.

NARRATOR:
If the Rudston Monolith
really is 11,000 years old,

that would mean
it was transported and erected

some 6,000 years before
the invention of the wheel.

And according
to local historians,

just as mysterious
as the origins

of the giant standing stone,
is the strange phenomena

that have been observed
in the area for centuries.

This particular area
of the world is known

as the Bermuda Triangle
of East Yorkshire,

and there's a multitude
of strange phenomena

that people report.

Strange lights
and odd occurrences

in the sky and on the ground.

BRENNAN:
We have reports of
high strangeness in the region

dating back
to the tenth century.

We have accounts
of lights in the sky.

Intelligent light forms
that seem to have a purpose

and a will of their own.

People get electric shocks
off the Rudston Monolith.

They have altered states,
experiences.

ERIN KAVANAGH:
People claim to have seen
green-skinned fairy-like folk

scuttling around the Rudston.

TSOUKALOS:
Aerial phenomena are
reported in that region.

Lights in the sky,

weird things that happen
to electronic equipment,

weird magnetic anomalies.

So clearly, there is
something going on there.

CHILDRESS:
So you have to wonder,
is the Rudston Monolith there

because of all these
strange effects?

Or perhaps,
the Rudston Monolith itself

is helping create
some of these effects.

NARRATOR:
But how could
an ancient standing stone

be the source of
such unusual phenomena?

Are earth energies
being amplified

by the monolith
just like at Carnac?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest

there is far more to the Rudston
Monolith than meets the eye.

NARRATOR: In the early 1700s,
English scholar William Stukeley

conducted an excavation
at the site

of the Rudston Monolith,

and discovered that the rock
was twice as large

as previously thought, with
half of it lodged in the earth.

HUTCHINSON: What's interesting
about Rudston Monolith,

they discovered this extension
of the stone went 25 feet

below the surface, as well
as 25 feet above the surface.

This is what makes this monolith

the largest standing stone
in Britain.

CHILDRESS:
What was the purpose?

I mean, it's a lot of effort

that they're doing
for no real reason

that we can gather.

It seems that they're
tapping into certain places

where this energy
from the earth can

be gathered,
and then somehow emitted.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that
the ancient people embedded

this 50-foot-tall stone a full
25 feet deep in the ground

as an attempt to
tap into earth energies?

Curiously, the Rudston Monolith,

like the Carnac stones
in France, is composed

primarily of highly
conductive quartz crystal.

HUTCHINSON:
The monolith is gritstone.

And gritstone is
a conglomerate of sandstone,

with large grains of
quartz-like sand.

Gritstone has a high
degree of conductivity

because of
the electromagnetic frequencies

that quartz
can contain in some stones.

So, it is a conductor of energy.

NARRATOR:
And also like Carnac,
Rudston is a location where

there are strong earth energies.

Some suspect this is due,
in part,

to the presence
of the Gypsy Race River

that runs
beneath the earth here.

The Gypsy Race is a type of
river that flows above ground,

then underground,
then above ground again,

weaving in and out of the earth
rather like a giant worm.

The Gypsy Race River is
known as the Waters of Woe,

because it's said to flood
before calamity strikes,

such as a war, famine or plague.

One of the times in which
the Rudston Gypsy Race flooded

was just before
a meteorite struck.

It's hardly surprising that
people think the Gypsy Race

leads rise to
energy vortices in the earth.

NARRATOR:
Rudston is also believed to be
at a convergence point

of what are known as ley lines.

In the 1920s,
English landscape photographer

Alfred Watkins
made the curious discovery

that many of the
prehistoric standing stones

and significant
ancient sites of England

and France line up in
perfectly straight lines.

Other researchers have
since theorized

that the ancient people
placed standing stones

and structures along these lines

because they were somehow aware
of underlying energy currents.

I think the ancients
followed a line of energy...

...and placed certain
monuments and monolith stones

that could activate
those lines of energy.

CHILDRESS: The Rudston
Monolith apparently is at

a junction of three ley lines.

And there's an energy
associated with these.

It's a subtle energy,
but it's there and it can be

amplified by
these standing stones.

Was the Rudston Monolith erected
by ancient people who were aware

that this is a place
of powerful earth energy?

Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

that they were directed
by otherworldly visitors?

NEWMAN: The ancients
knew what they were doing.

They would place these stones
in specific spots.

And it would affect the energy.

But were they working
with other beings to do this?

We have to ask
these kind of questions

because why would they do it?

There's so much energy that
is being recorded at these sites

that we have to look
at this seriously.

COLLINS: It seems as if it was
the result of some kind of

contact with entities,
perhaps even extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
point out that although no

written records exist
to document the origins of

the prehistoric standing
stones found around the world,

many of the ancient
cultures attributed them

to otherworldly beings.

In Wiltshire, England,
legend says that the monoliths

of Stonehenge were
erected by the magician

Merlin,
who was not of this Earth.

McGOWAN: The great
20th-century French philosopher

and historian, Jean Marcel,

wrote over 40 books
on the Celtic traditions.

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-And was adamant that Merlin was

an incredibly powerful
otherworldly being.

And in a number of
the legends Merlin brought

the understanding of
how to utilize these stones

in some extraordinary way
in terms of technology,

communications, energy.

Now also in
the Breton legends of Carnac,

Michael the Archangel
comes down to Earth incarnate

and brings this
extraordinary information

to this very
powerful place to build

these alignments that occur
at Carnac to create the energy,

to harness the energy,
to utilize it in some way.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

the most compelling account
of all comes from Ireland.

According to Celtic legend,

the Lia Fáil--

a sacred stone used
in the coronation of kings--

was placed on the Hill of Tara
by mysterious beings

known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.

KAVANAGH:
They were said to appear

on mountaintops
amidst dark clouds

floating down in ships
from the sky.

And they brought great knowledge

of the architecture,
metalworking

and medicine to Ireland.

In Irish tradition,
the Tuatha Dé Danann possessed

godlike powers,
but they were mortals.

And so you wonder, what
are they talking about here?

NEWMAN:
Lia Fáil arrived
with the Tuatha Dé Danann.

So it has this mystical
kind of history

that goes way, way back,
potentially thousands of years.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that these stories

of otherworldly visitations

are not merely mythology
but are based on actual events?

And were standing stones
carefully placed

for some energetic purpose?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining

our own modern-day efforts to
harness the power of the earth.

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NARRATOR:
Long Island, New York.

March 1901.

After years of experimentation,

famed engineer and inventor,
Nikola Tesla,

begins construction
on the Wardenclyffe Tower

outside the town of Shoreham.

The project is an attempt

to wirelessly transmit
electricity through the ground.

TAYLOR:
Tesla invented almost everything
that brought forward

our modern society
with electrical power.

And his idea was
to power the world wirelessly,

without having to have
this big infrastructure.

All they would need was towers
around the world.

His biggest test was
at Wardenclyffe in Long Island,

and it was a large tower
that has a strange ray conductor

on top of it, and then
a large conducting pipe

that went way deep into
the granite basin underneath it.

What he was really doing was
grounding his system

into the earth, electrically
connecting it to the earth

-and transmitting power
around the Earth.
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And there are minerals and salts
and things in the ground

that are conductive.

And you can actually pass
electromagnetic energy--

electrical current--
through the ground.

His plan was to send wireless
power through the earth,

uh, over vast distances.

NARRATOR:
Tesla's dream of harnessing
the natural electricity

of the earth to broadcast
wireless power was cut short

when he lost funding in 1904
and abandoned the project.

But another experiment
he secretly conducted

in Colorado Springs
five years earlier

allegedly proved
the technology could work.

During the test,
Tesla placed light bulbs

attached to metal conductors
into the ground

as much as 26 miles

from the power source
in his laboratory.

He then signaled his assistant
to turn on the wireless system

and watched as the light bulbs
became illuminated.

He actually lit light bulbs
many miles away

with his experiment in Colorado.

And this was implementing

the electrical conductivity
of the earth in a way that

nobody else has really been able
to do efficiently since then.

NARRATOR:
More than a century later,

scientists are still
attempting to replicate

what Tesla was able to achieve
in Colorado.

But is it possible
that he was not the first

to conceive of drawing
electricity from the earth?

When we think about
what Tesla was doing

with his Wardenclyffe Tower,
and we compare that

with what we see
at standing stones like Carnac,

we have to wonder
if the ancients were

trying to create
some sort of electrical system

similar to
what Tesla was proposing.

NARRATOR:
When thermodynamics engineer
Pierre Mereaux

studied the Carnac stones
in France in 1992,

he concluded that they do,
in fact, store energy

by connecting to
an electric source

just below the surface
of the earth,

much like Tesla's
Wardenclyffe Tower.

But if the ancient people
were placing standing stones

in order to tap into
Earth's energy currents,

what exactly were they using
this energy for?

Energy can be amplified
by these standing stones.

And it can be emitted as well.

Much like we use antennas,
and towers,

radio towers
and things like that.

We have to wonder,
does it have to do

with extraterrestrials
and spacecraft?

Some have suggested that
these standing stones

may have been used
as a fuel device

for some type of craft.

And while at first
this sounds absolutely insane,

the more you think about it,
the more it makes sense.

A Soviet scientist
by the name of Kardashev

came up with a scale

where the advancement
of a society

is determined by its energy use.

So, what if somebody came here
who has been around

longer than us
and has figured out

how to harness
the energy of the planet

through use of standing stones?

TAYLOR:
Now just imagine that
you're on a long trip.

And you have
an electric vehicle.

And when you leave your house,
you plan your trip

around places that you know
you can recharge.

Well, now imagine that
you're an advanced civilization.

And you're going to
a new planet.

But you understand
planetary physics

and that planets will generate
certain locations

that have more electromagnetic
anomalies than others.

That might be a fueling station.

Would they leave
a marker that says,

"Fuel here"?
Maybe they would.

CHILDRESS: It's interesting
that flying saucers are

very commonly seen around
power lines and power plants.

But in ancient times
they didn't have

those power lines running
all over the world.

But what they did have were
these standing stones.

So, extraterrestrials can take
the stored energy

that's in these standing stones,

recharge their own craft
and then fly on

to an-another one of
these standing stones somewhere.

NARRATOR:
Could this be the answer
to the mystery

of the standing stones?

Did alien visitors instruct
our ancestors

on where to place them
so that they could tap

into the Earth's natural energy
to charge their craft?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is a resounding yes.

But they suggest
this technology was used

for far greater purposes

and claim the proof can be found
in ancient Egypt.

NARRATOR:
Cairo, Egypt

20 miles northeast of
the iconic Giza Pyramid Complex

stands the world's
oldest surviving obelisk,

dating to roughly 1900 BC.

Originating from
the Greek obeliskos,

meaning "pointed pillar,"
an obelisk is

a tall, four-sided,
narrow tapering monument

which ends in a pyramidion
at the top.

In Egypt,
hieroglyphs were carved

into all four sides,
and they often recorded battles,

special events,
or the history of the region.

CHILDRESS:
The obelisks of Egypt
were erected maybe centuries

after standing stones like
the ones in Carnac in Brittany.

But they're monoliths, too--
one solid piece of stone.

The obelisks of Egypt, too,
are made of red granite,

and red granite is
a very special kind of granite.

It's infused
with tiny quartz crystals.

And this gives the obelisk
a certain type of energy,

and the ancient peoples were
aware of this energy

that was coming out
of the obelisk.

They actually thought
the obelisk was alive.

And this is very reminiscent

of the ancient standing stones
that are even older.

NARRATOR:
Is it more than mere coincidence

that the Egyptians erected
monolithic stones

that were rich
in quartz crystal,

just like ancient cultures
in other parts of the world did

thousands of years earlier?

Had they discovered the secret
of the ancient standing stones,

and their power to harness
the energy of the Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and point out that
the Egyptians believed

the obelisks provided a profound
connection to the gods.

The obelisk itself,
like a cathedral,

lifts up into the heavens.

It is pointing to the heavens.

It is a connection to the gods.

And at the top of an obelisk
in ancient Egypt,

there was a special stone,
the capstone, the pyramidion.

It was the shape of a pyramid.

It was made of
specially fine granite,

polished with
some, uh, hieroglyphics,

but the main detail was it was
brightly gilded in pure gold,

so that the sun would bounce off
that and beams would glow

for miles around it.

Must've been dazzling.

This was the point of contact
between humans and the gods.

This was how we communicated
with the gods

through that stone.

HENRY: You'll see
the top of the obelisk

reaching into the sky.

They think of it as a sort of,
uh, an axis mundi.

It's a way of connecting Earth
with the heavens.

Egypt was given,
according to ancient texts,

the powers of heaven.

Egypt became a mirror
of the heavens,

and that the powers
that are found in the heavens

are found on Earth, in Egypt.

As above, so below.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream scholars interpret

this connection to the heavens
as purely symbolic,

but ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that the obelisks were
recreating the technology

of another world, and that
these giant stone pillars

were part of
a vast wireless energy grid,

one that also incorporated
the power of the pyramids.

It's a fascinating idea that
like we would charge a phone

on a charging pad
just by placing it there,

these extraterrestrials can
recharge their own craft

off of these standing stones
and obelisks.

You have to wonder
whether pyramids had

exactly the same purpose.

Could there be even more
highly advanced technology

way beyond any technology
that we even know?

A lot of people don't
realize this,

but Tesla's original design
for the Wardenclyffe Tower

was actually to be
the same height

as is the pyramid
from the base to the tip of

where that conductor piece used
to be on top of the pyramids.

And at the time
that he was building it,

in the 1908-ish timeframe,

J.P. Morgan had
an expedition in the pyramids

and were sending information
to Tesla

while he was working
on the Wardenclyffe Tower.

Nobody knows why and what
the results of that was

and to what end.

But it seems suspect
that Tesla wanted to do

something with wireless
transmission of power

from a system that's
the same height as the pyramids.

Did they believe that that's
what the pyramids were for?

NARRATOR:
The walls of the Great Pyramid--
like the obelisks--

contain a high concentration
of quartz crystal.

Could it be that this massive
monument,

in conjunction
with the obelisks,

made up a global
wireless energy network?

By placing some of these
obelisks and standing stones

around the Earth,
in combination with pyramids,

if you have
the correct technology,

you can use that energy,

and these standing stones
become antennas

and power beacons
and all kinds of things.

And it seems that
this could have been

a worldwide system of power.

And that spacecraft, submarines,

other electric devices
could draw their power

from the atmosphere
because it was being put out

by these pyramids
and by these obelisks.

NARRATOR:
Might the world that
Nikola Tesla envisioned

at the beginning
of the 20 century

have actually existed
right here on Earth

thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest there is
even evidence

that parts of
this wireless energy system

may still be in use today.

NARRATOR:
Tara, Ireland.

Continuing
a 6,000-year-old tradition,

thousands congregate
on the Hill of Tara every June

to celebrate
the summer solstice,

and gather around the sacred
stone called Lia Fáil.

In Axum, Ethiopia,

the ancient granite obelisks
attract

more than 20,000 tourists
every year.

And more than 800,000 tourists
will visit Wiltshire, England

this year, to gaze upon the
iconic monoliths of Stonehenge.

After thousands of years,
humankind remains mesmerized

by the ancient standing stones.

There's just some energy
and mystery

that's associated with them
that really grabs humans

to the point where all of
these places today are now

major sacred places
and tourist spots.

Was it something that
the extraterrestrials had set up

and has now, uh, fallen
into disuse?

A giant matrix
and grid around the Earth

that was functioning
in ancient times,

and now all we have is just
sort of remnants

of this ancient power grid

that was once
completely around the Earth?

It's a fantastic thought.

NARRATOR:
But considering the geological
makeup of these ancient stones

and their potential
for transmitting energy,

is it possible
that they are more

than just majestic monuments
to the past?

Could otherworldly visitors
be drawing power

-from them even today?
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COLLINS: What is so interesting
is that monoliths are

very strongly associated
with UFO sightings.

Mysterious lights have been
seen at the Rudston Monolith.

People witness
these strange lights and UFOs

above the Carnac stones
in France.

Near Stonehenge in England,
each year,

strange crop circles appear.

And in the very same locality,

you have mysterious lights,
UFO abductions,

disappearances, time slips,
things like this taking place.

Plasma UFOs, have been seen
and reported.

And these continue to this day.

CHILDRESS:
Perhaps these standing stones
are storing energy,

they're emitting energy
and with the right technology

and instruments,
you can pick these stones up--

these standing stones--
from hundreds of miles away.

TSOUKALOS: The point is that
the standing stone formations

that we find
all around the world

are pieces of the puzzle
of the ancient astronaut theory,

that long ago we received
visits from outer space

and we were visited
by none other

than our first teachers
on planet Earth.

NARRATOR:
Do the standing stones
found across the world represent

the remains of a sophisticated
global electrical grid?

One that exceeds
the most advanced technology

we possess today?

And if so, could Earth be part
of a universal network

of space ports built
for interplanetary travel?

Perhaps with further examination
of the ancient monoliths

we will learn to harness
their power ourselves

and continue the legacy
of our alien ancestors.

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