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A mysterious cloth
bearing a divine image.

It represents the supernatural
transformation of a human.

Gold hats worn by
strange, mystical beings.

The wearing of a golden
hat would tend to amplify

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

And powerful stones believed

to have otherworldly origins.

It is said that every wish was granted.

Could these mysterious objects simply

be the targets of human imagination,

or are they evidence of
something even more profound?

We have to wonder if possibly
all of these metallic books

aren't part of some
extraterrestrial library.

Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might the evidence
be found in the world's most

mysterious relics?

The White House, February 11, 2013.

President Barack Obama presents
a Medal of Honor to Army Staff.

Sergeant Clinton Romesha
for his courageous actions

during the deadly battle
of Kamdesh in Afghanistan.

These 53 Americans

were surrounded by more
than 300 Taliban fighters.

If you seek a measure of that day,

you need to look no further
than the medals and ribbons that

grace their chests.

This tradition of honoring brave soldiers

by decorating their chest with medals

dates back to at least the second century.

BC when the ancient Roman
military used sculpted disks

of medal to reward
superior acts of service.

But why?

What is it about the properties of metal

that make them chosen objects
of adornment and commemoration?

The tradition of
adoring people with metal

really goes back thousands of years.

In the case of the bible, we have stories

about how the priests actually
had to wear certain medals

before they were able to
enter the holy of holies

and make contact with the divine.

Today, we are confronted with symbolism.

Our heroes are given pins
and medals because somehow we

set them apart as great people
who somehow have superseded

the human race.

But in the past, this was
to be taken literally.

Do certain metals actually

enhance mankind's ability
to connect with divine,

or some would say
extraterrestrial forces?

And is this the reason why gold,
platinum, and silver jewelry,

along with other metal
adornments and relics,

have been so prized
throughout human history?

Definitely, the belief is
that we hold the relic dear

because the relic is
link either to a deity

or to something magical.

Relics can be any number of things...

Pieces of wood, bits of statues.

Literally anything can be a relic

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

And that means you have
a piece of the god,

and therefore, a piece of
the god's power, with you.

It seems to have always been
the case with human beings

that they've wanted to possess
items which they thought were

either from the gods,
to do with the gods,

or in some way associated with the gods.

Berlin, Germany, 1996.

The Museum of Prehistory
and Early History

acquires a glittering artifact
from an anonymous Swiss

collector.

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

and embellished with dozens
of sun and moon symbols.

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

throughout Europe, and is
believed by historians to date

back as far as 1000 BC.

What is so important about them

is that they indicate that
there was a common culture.

The images on them represent
astronomy, the study

of the stars.

They also have complicated
mathematical implications,

suggesting a level of
philosophical development

that's very advanced for what we thought

was available at that time.

German researchers
carefully studied the symbols

on the golden hat, and
concluded they represent

a complex mathematical table.

One that can accurately
calculate the long-term cycles

of the sun and the moon.

But how could such ancient people

have been able to make
such advanced and highly

sophisticated astronomical predictions?

The suggestion is that
they belong to what might

be referred to as oracles...

People that could fall into an
altered state and prophesize,

could come up with statements
relating to the future

or otherworldly situations.

Though most mainstream scholars believe

these mysterious hats
were worn by king-priests

during religious ceremonies,
ancient astronaut theorists

have another, even more
astounding, theory.

The golden hats are kind of interesting,

because if gold is something
that actually enhances

your connection with energies
and higher-up celestial beings,

then the wearing of a golden hat,

especially in a conical
shape, would tend to amplify

the signal that you were
getting from on high.

So it seems to me that
ancient cultures logically

would build them to get
connected with the gods who had

perhaps left them behind and gone back

to their celestial birthplace.

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

there is that all of this technology

seems to have been part of a
larger framework, whereby, once

again, it seems this is a
civilization which made contact

with the gods.

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

And they're so incredibly
unusual and tall.

Perhaps the extraterrestrial gods

were wearing some kind
of conical hat like this.

Could the so-called king-priests

of the ancient past have been
otherworldly visitors utilizing

metals' unique properties?

If so, might additional evidence be

found of other ancient
peoples using metal relics

for advanced, even
metaphysical, purposes?

Khirbet Qumran, Israel, 1952.

Hidden deep in a cave
on the desert cliffs,

archaeologists discover a
mysterious 2000-year-old

manuscript written on a sheet of copper.

Known as the Copper Scroll,
this mysterious relic

was found at the same site as
the ancient religious writings

known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

While the Dead Sea
Scrolls that have been found

were written on either
leather or papyrus,

the Copper Scroll is the
only one made of copper.

You got to keep in mind
copper was valuable,

and to hammer out a whole
scroll would take a lot of time

and a lot of technique.

So it has to be very important.

Scholars examining the language

on the Copper Scroll agree
it is unlike anything found

in other texts of the period.

The script that's on
it is a little different.

But it's not just in Hebrew,
it's in... or Aramaic.

It also has Greek letters on it.

So it's quite peculiar.

The thing that makes the
Copper Scroll so fascinating

is that it mentions hidden treasures.

The Copper Scroll lists 64 locations

in Jerusalem and around that area that

buried treasure is located.

Maybe the key is in the 64th location,

it says there is another copper
scroll that will help explain

the rest of it.

Because we haven't
found the treasure yet,

I somehow suspect there
could be another code

within this treasure map,
a code within a code.

What is the origin of
the mysterious Copper Scroll,

and what is its true purpose?

Mainstream scholars and archaeologists

have been puzzled by these
questions for more than half

a century.

Maybe the Copper Scroll
is missing a piece.

Many times with treasure
maps, you need a second piece

in order to complete the entire map.

So who knows if there's a piece missing?

It seems to be an oddball artifact,

and it's written in metal.

And you have, now, the
stories of other ancient books

supposedly written in sheets of gold.

Joseph Smith, Jr., who
began the Mormon Church,

he claimed also to have been
shown gold-plated books.

So I have to wonder if possibly
all of these metallic books

written in copper or gold plates aren't

part of some extraterrestrial library.

Could the mysterious Copper Scroll

have extraterrestrial origins?

And is the fact that it
is made of copper evidence

of a connection between metal
objects and otherworldly

beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe further proof

can be found by examining the
similarly strange properties

attributed to other
mysterious relics found

all over the world.

Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, July, 2010.

Here, in the ruins of a medieval
church on St. Ivan Island,

six small human bone fragments
are discovered inside a marble

sarcophagus.

Through radiocarbon dating
and DNA testing of one knuckle

bone, scientists conclude that the bones

are from the first century AD.

But what is even more incredible
is the belief by many that

the bones are actually those
of St. John the Baptist.

In Christianity, John the Baptist

is specifically important because he

is known as the forerunner,
the precursor, the one who

comes before the Messiah.

And in the stories of John the Baptist,

he becomes extremely
important for Christians

because he announces that
a greater Messiah is coming

after him.

And the legends around John's bones

were always legends of extreme power.

John was a prophet.

Now on tour in
churches throughout Bulgaria,

tens of thousands of the
faithful come to visit,

pray, and even worship
these tiny bone fragments.

But why?

What is it about ancient
bones, even those thought

to have belonged to a saint,
that compel people to come

and visit them?

Could it be they possess some
mystical or otherworldly power?

The idea of saints' bones
and relics having power

is something that goes
back to the very early days

of Christianity.

And certainly in the latter part
of the Dark Ages and the Middle.

Ages, they became very big business.

If you had saints' relics in your church

or in your cathedral, you could bring

in a lot of pilgrims, who would also

bring in a lot of donations.

There was a strong belief by
the nobility and the royalty

that the bones of these saints actually

did contain some kind of power.

Humans always want to worship
their celebrities, their kings.

Whatever was linked with
mysteries, humans worship it.

So in antiquity, it already into altars.

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

were sometimes separated,
brought to different countries,

and everyone worshipped
the bone in an altar.

That still happen in Christianity.

Kushinagar, India, 483 BC.

Siddhartha Gautama, the great
spiritual teacher upon whom.

Buddhism is founded, dies.

According to legend,
after Buddha was cremated,

several small pieces of
his body remained intact

and were retrieved from the ashes.

After his cremation,
the ashes were fought over

by a lot of his disciples.

And finally, they resolved the problem

by dividing them into
eight different pots.

When the Buddha's ashes were divided,

and there's a claim that
there's a tooth found there,

it was considered as very valuable.

Right away, when the
tooth was given to a king,

the relic, the tooth relic itself,

became associated with
the power of kingship.

And is believed that the
king who possesses the tooth

would be able to rule properly, and there

would be peace and
prosperity in his kingdom.

Could such a tiny but tangible relic

from the mouth of the dead
Buddha really have such power?

Is a physical link to a holy
and venerated leader really

a means of connecting to
the afterlife, and even more

profoundly some divine life force?

The worship of relics actually is

as old as the Buddha's religion itself,

and in many other religions, too.

The Buddha himself approves
of the worship of relics

because he believes that his
followers need something very

concrete to remind them of his
presence and his teachings.

The relics are supposed
to be actually the essence

of the saints, so in a way, the relics

are the saint themselves.

So they have the powers of the saint.

The importance here is, why
is it that objects like this

can gain such an
incredible spiritual value?

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

of the importance of
individuals like the Buddha

who are seen to be personification of God

or the gods themselves.

And just to own this or
to have some parts of it

imbued you with the same
power as the gods themself.

So you have to wonder just why
these relics are so important.

We give them power, these
bones and these teeth.

But what they are, at least
in a scientific manner,

is a piece of DNA from
the Buddha himself.

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

the extraterrestrials would return again.

And some of these gods may have
to say to one of his darlings

on the planet Earth if we find your body,

your cells are still existing, then

we are able to reconstruct your body.

Cloning dead saints
using DNA from their relics.

Could this incredible
notion be one of the reasons

why bone fragments and
other human remains

have been so prized
throughout the centuries?

And might this now very
real scientific possibility

be connected to ancient
religious notions of rebirth

and resurrection?

Perhaps the answers can be found
in another mysterious relic

that some believe depicts
the greatest religious figure

of all time.

The Cathedral of Turin, Northern Italy.

Here lies the sacred relic
known as the Shroud of Turin.

A large piece of linen,
which when photographed

bears the eerie image of what
appears to be a crucified man.

The Shroud of Turin is a piece
of ancient linen cloth measures

about 14 feet long by
3 and 1/2 feet wide.

And what's so important about this cloth

is there's a very faint imprint
of a human being on the cloth

who appears to have been crucified,

which matches the biblical
descriptions of Jesus Christ.

So many believe that
this shroud, this relic,

is the actual burial
cloth of Jesus Christ

and bears the wounds of crucifixion.

The Shroud of Turin has
such a fascinating history.

And the question is, is it authentic?

Those who are against it
say no, this could easily

have been a fake, and
a body would never have

left such an image, and so on.

The chemicals of an embalmed body

would not such a thing.

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

the figure did get there.

It's not painted.

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

The shroud has been studied actually

by some of the top scientists
and researchers in the world.

And with all of the scientific
knowledge and equipment,

we still do not know how
the image of the shroud

was produced.

And this is what I think
continues to fascinate us

about it, regardless of what you believe,

whether you are a
Christian and a believer,

and believe that this is
the image of the resurrected

Christ, or if you just believe that there

is some other extraordinary
metaphysical event

that causes this...

You have to be fascinated by the fact

that this extraordinary relic
could not have been created

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

Could the Shroud of Turin really

be a divine relic...

Tangible evidence of the
existence of an almighty power?

In 2011, Italian scientists were

able to prove that the Shroud of Turin

was created by a
supernatural flash of light,

an unearthly flash of light.

In my opinion, the Shroud of Turin

is proof that Jesus transformed
himself into a being of light

and projected himself
through the Shroud of Turin.

Does the Shroud of Turin

actually contain an image
of the crucified Jesus?

Or could this sacred
object be something else?

Might it, in fact, be evidence
of an incredibly advanced

otherworldly technology?

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

perplexing, ancient artifact...

One found on a land known
as the Emerald Isle.

Southern Ireland.

Here, approximately five miles
northwest of the small city

of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle.

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

fortress houses the
world-famous Blarney Stone,

a relic that more than 300,000
people come to kiss each year.

It is not in a convenient location.

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

So to kiss it, you've got to dangle over

or sneak around so that you're
really at some peril of falling

a very great distance.

According to legend, it grants
whoever kisses it the power

to speak in an articulate
and charismatic way

and to flatter and blandish
in any circumstance.

Here you have a stone that
has been kissed and revered

by probably millions of people.

Blarney is the gift of
gab, and so the idea

is that somehow kissing this stone

gives you the ability to talk better,

or to somehow amplify
your verbal prowess.

Composed of a single block of blue stone,

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

magical powers are widely renowned.

But could a stone
really have such power...

One that could actually
affect an individual's power

of speech?

And the story is in the 15th century,

Cormac McCarthy had a
court case coming up,

and he was concerned about this
and called upon the goddess.

Cliodhna, the Queen of the Banshees,

to help him find the right
words and present a good case.

She did.

She said, listen, on your way to court,

kiss the first stone you
see and you'll be eloquent,

you'll find the words.

And he did this.

He went to court, he was very
persuasive and won his case.

On his way home, he picked up that rock

and carried it back and had his
workmen fashion it into a stone

and set it into the wall of his castle,

where it is still to be found.

When you look at Irish
mythology as a whole,

it starts to become pretty
obvious that these people

such as Cliodhna, were not
ordinary, Earthborn humans,

but were in fact most likely
extraterrestrial humans who

came to the Earth and
shared their technology.

And Blarney being the gift of
gab, the gift of talking more

eloquently, is something that
may have been impregnated

into the stone by an
extraterrestial technology

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

Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the
Blarney Stone is actually

evidence of some ancient
and otherworldly power?

Technology that helps to
prove that ancient man

was in direct contact with
highly developed beings

from another part of the galaxy?

If so, might that character
known in Irish folklore

as the goddess Cliodhna actually
have been a celestial traveler?

Perhaps more clues can
be found by investigating

another mysterious stone relic
located just 160 miles away.

County Meath, Ireland.

On top of this mound
known as the Hill of Tara

lies the Lia Fail, or stone of destiny...

One of four magical treasures said

to have been brought to Ireland
by mythical deities called

the Tuatha De Danann.

The Lia Fail was a stone
that was considered magical.

All of the kings of Ireland
up until the fifth century

of the common era were said
to have been crowned on this.

It seemed to know who the true king was.

They say if the true king
put his feet up on it,

it would roar with delight.

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

to help him solidify his rule,
and in some cases, to heal,

if that was necessary.

To mainstream
scientists and archaeologists,

this stone relic represents nothing

more than the coronation stone
of Ireland's ancient kings.

But according to Irish
mythology, the Hill of Tara

was also a sacred dwelling
place for the gods.

The Hill of Tara is a mound,
and like many mounds in Ireland,

like many of these sheep mounds,
it is allegedly the entrance

to the realm of the Sidhe,
or these otherworldly people.

The word Sidhe means both the people

themselves, the otherworldly
people, and the mounds in which

they are said to dwell.

And the Hill of Tara is allegedly

an entrance to the other world.

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

The kings ruled from
there for many centuries

in ancient and early history.

And this was considered a sacred
portal to another dimension,

to the other world.

So it had more than the
authority of kingship.

It had the authority of the supernatural.

In Irish mythology, the Tuatha De Danann

were gods who had magical powers.

They arrived from the lands of
the west, these mythical lands

of the gods.

They were said to come in these
dark clouds, which then landed

in the mountains of Ireland.

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

of darkness.

So you have to ask
yourself what kind of power

they had, and were they some
kind of celestial visitors

arriving in UFOs.

Maybe the extraterrestrials found a way

to help society make
advancements, including

the selection of a virtuous leader.

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

that was coming out of a mythology,

that the Lia Fail was an engineered

device that those leaders
were able to be assessed

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

see into their future.

Might the Lia Fail,
a stone relic imbued with power

like the Blarney Stone, really
be evidence of highly advanced

knowledge brought to mankind
by the so-called gods?

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

extraterrestrial connections?

Perhaps the answers can
be found by examining

strange and unusual relics
fallen from the sky.

Valley of the Kings,
Egypt, November, 1922.

Archaeologist Howard Carter
discovers King Tutankhamun's

tomb containing a treasure
trove of artifacts.

Among them is King Tut's
magnificent breastplate

with a yellow jewel as its centerpiece.

A jewel created as the
result of a meteorite impact.

In Egyptian culture,
there was a fascination

with Libyan desert glass.

And while it's not actually a meteorite,

Libyan desert glass is the
product of a meteorite impacts.

Millions of years ago,
an enormous meteorite

crashed into what is
today the Egyptian desert.

And the heat and pressure of that impact

melted the sand in the desert, forming

a beautiful yellow impact glass.

And it crystallizes the
sand, formed the glass,

and you get these wonderful,
almost like jewel stones.

And they clearly imagine
these stones to be celestial,

to have been created by
the impact of a star.

And therefore, they were
given cosmic meaning.

Humans have long had
a fascination with meteorites,

and have fashioned many
tools and spiritual objects

from them, but why?

There are many magical
stories of meteors, meteorites,

and meteor showers.

Aeschylus in "Prometheus Unbound"

talks about an angry
Zeus throwing rocks down

at the Earth.

In the Aeneid, Virgil speaks of meteors.

He describes a meteor
shower as indicating

Troy is about to fall.

Such folk beliefs about
meteors, shooting stars,

meteorites were common in the
ancient world, where clearly,

a piece of stone from the heavens

is worshipped as a divine item.

The reason why they were so important

was because they inherently
had the power of the gods

in them, because they were
already forged in the universe,

and they descended from the sky.

Meteoric gemstones
like Libyan desert glass

have been venerated throughout history.

But one particularly
mysterious green gemstone

could be the most sought-after
relic of all time.

Moldavite is the name
given to a green impact

glass of extraordinary beauty and rarity.

That's only found in one small
region of the Czech Republic.

It's very old.

Metaphysically, moldavite creates

this strange pulsating
energy field that amplifies

human thoughts or intention.

If you're a loving or
compassionate person,

it will amplify that.

Or it can bring chaos if
your thoughts and energy

and emotions are chaotic.

According to some
legends, the Holy Grail,

the cup from which Jesus and his apostles

drank during the Last Supper, was

carved from a green gemstone
that had fallen to Earth

from the heavens.

It is said that there was discord

in the heavens involving
Lucifer, and a stone dropped.

It was a stone that at one time had

been the center of Lucifer's crown

when he was an important angel.

It dropped to Earth.

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

and was greatly venerated.

It was carved into the
Holy Grail, which was not

made of metal, but of
this beautiful emerald,

a precious stone from heaven.

Could the green
gemstone that supposedly fell

from Lucifer's crown have
been made not of emerald,

but of moldavite?

Perhaps more evidence can
be found in the legends

of another sacred stone
that fell from the sky

more than 4,000 miles away.

Yumbu Lakhang Palace, Southern Tibet.

Here, according to legend, the
28th king Lha Thothori Nyantsen

obtains a magical jewel called Cintamani.

It is said to be one of
four revered relics that

fell from the sky in a chest.

The Cintamani Stone is a fascinating myth

that could well have
meteorite associations.

It describes a jewel that's meant

to have enormous properties that
it can bestow upon its owner.

And there are legends that
some of the greatest warriors

and leaders in all of history,
including King Solomon,

owned this jewel, that it was
passed from one great ruler

or leader to another.

In both Hindu and Buddhist tradition,

there are stories relating
to a so-called wishing jewel.

And it wielded great power.

It had a connection between
this world and the next

that it could be used
to interact, not just

with the other world, but the
center of the universe itself.

It is said that whoever
possessed the Cintamani.

Stone was able to control destiny,

that every wish was granted.

Now, a stone or an object which
is able to change reality,

truly that is something which
is a piece of technology.

And how our ancestors got this
is a gigantic question mark,

which, fortunately, our
ancestors have answered for us.

Their answer is that
this came from the sky,

that it was given to us by the gods,

and that it played a role
in this exchange between us

and the divine.

Could the legends of the Cintamani stone

be based on fact?

If so, might this
otherworldly stone, as well as

other sacred and mysterious relics,

help forge a connection between
mankind and extraterrestial

forces?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe the ultimate proof
can be found in one of the most

sacred objects in the world.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Fifty miles from the Red Sea.

This is Islam's holiest city.

It was here in 2000 BC that
Muslims believe the prophet

Abraham built the Kaaba, a
cube-shaped structure that

draws millions of pilgrims each year.

But just what is it about this
building that is so sacred?

And why do so many people
line up to touch it?

On the eastern side of the Kaaba

is a meteorite stone which is embedded

in the corner of the Kaaba.

According to Muslim belief,
this meteorite stone

was sent from heaven to Adam and Eve.

And that stone was used
to build the first temple.

And this really makes Mecca
the most holy place to Muslims.

Mohammed himself threw out
all of the other gods, deities,

and statues, but he retained
the one strange thing that

was there, the black stone, the
extraterrestrial object that's

still worshipped today at Mecca.

So you have to wonder
why Mohammed specifically

chose that object as part of his religion

that would remain as
part of the Muslim faith.

It would have to be some memory
of an extraterrestrial event.

Might the black stone of Mecca

and other sacred relics
really possess great power?

Could they be gateways, not
only to ancient knowledge,

but to other worlds and
even other dimensions?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining what many believe

to be the most sacred and
powerful of all the Earth's

mysterious relics...

The cross of Jesus Christ.

Jerusalem, the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre.

According to some
researchers, this sacred site

is the place where the
crucified Jesus was buried,

and after three days, rose from the dead.

And it was near here in
326 AD that the remains

of a relic thought to be Jesus' cross

were discovered by a Roman Empress.

Empress Helena was the mother
of the emperor Constantine,

and she was an early
convert to Christianity.

According to legend, she
journeyed to the Holy Land

to found a number of churches there.

And when she was there, she was
drawn to the hill of Calvary,

where Jesus was allegedly executed.

And she had the pagan temple which

she found there torn down.

And in the rubble of that temple,

she allegedly discovered the
True Cross, the cross where

Jesus was crucified.

She found three crosses.

Well, Christ was crucified
with two thieves,

so three crosses might
be the right artifacts.

But to test them, she brought
a woman with terminal disease,

very near death, to touch the crosses.

She touched the first two
crosses and her condition

was unchanged.

When she touched the third cross,

she was miraculously healed, and Helena

declared that to be the True
Cross upon which Christ died.

The True Cross, it's
sacred, sacred to many,

many, many people.

And people collect these, or like

to say that they may have
pieces of this cross, because it

brings them closer to the one they love,

or their lord and savior,
call it what you will.

Literally, hundreds of Christian
churches lay claim to the fact

that they have pieces of the actual cross

that Jesus died on.

Like many relics or
pieces of saints' bodies,

the True Cross where Jesus was crucified

was believed to have all
kinds of miraculous powers,

including healing powers and
the power to grant salvation.

So if you were to touch or
own a relic of the True Cross,

a piece of the True Cross, some
of that power that Christ had

would transfer itself to you
through the power of touch.

It's a fascinating thought
that relics like the True Cross

could contain some divine energy
that will heal people, and even

perhaps raise them from the dead.

So is it possible that there is some kind

of extraterrestrial artifacts
with some kind of power in them

that we don't understand?

Could fragments of Jesus' cross,

like other ancient
stones and relics, really

have harnessed strange
extraterrestrial energy?

Could legends concerning
mysterious healing powers

really be true?

It's very human for
people to want to possess...

Whether it's a piece of cloth,
a stone, a follicle of hair...

To possess an object that
mean something to them,

an object that can perhaps
help them in their life.

Could these relics assist us
in invoking otherworldly power?

I think we need to be open.

We need to be open to that possibility.

Clearly, our ancestors thought so.

Well, ancient relics were very important

to many different ancient cultures,

just as they still are
today to religions.

And the reason for this is that
it was believed that they were

access points to
otherworldly environments

wherein the gods, the
spirits, the immortals dwell.

Throughout history, we find
that some of our most powerful

figures, our most powerful leaders,

have gone on relic quest.

They're looking for the Holy
Grail, the Spear of Destiny,

the Key of Life.

And the belief is that if
we can acquire these relics,

we will acquire powers
beyond human comprehension...

Powers that originally came from the gods

that will make us more godlike if we

can get our hands on them.

The relic tradition,
this tooth from a deity,

the bone from a saint,
all of these aspects

really tie in that somehow this deity,

this saint is able to link
us mere mortals to the realm

of the divine.

Sacred bones, golden hats,

and fragments of sacred objects thought

to possess healing properties.

Is it possible that these
ancient and mysterious relics

helped to prove that extraterrestrials

not only visited Earth
in the ancient past,

but remain strangely connected
to us throughout space

and time?

Perhaps the truth of mankind's origins

has been right before our eyes
for hundreds and thousands

of yearsm in fabric, metal, and stone,

and in the DNA of holy saints and martyrs

who someday, thanks to modern
science, may even rise again.