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William Shatner: You know,
I've been around

for a while.

Met some interesting
people, done some crazy things.

So you just might think
that there's not much that

can take me by surprise.

You'd be wrong.

The world is full of
stories and science and

things that amaze and
confound me every single

day, incredible mysteries
that keep me

awake at night.

Some I can answer.

Others just defy logic.

Do parallel worlds exist?

In New York, a woman has a
frightening encounter with

a mysterious shadow
shaped like a human.

Was it an entity from
another dimension?

Rosemary Guiley: There was
something

very sinister about it.

In New Jersey, a boy
becomes entangled

in a strange machine...

Andrew Basiago: On the
count of three

we jumped through the
field of energy.

And ends up in
another world.

Does teleportation exist?

And in Mexico, an explorer
uncovers a bizarre skull

made of crystal.

Is it a doorway to
another universe?

William Shatner: Yeah,
it's a weird world.

And I love it.

[♪]

William Shatner: Bubbles!
Beautiful, aren't they?

Well guess what?

Scientists believe that
we're living in one.

They say that our entire
universe is a giant,

perhaps infinite
sized one of these.

But if that's hard to
comprehend there's

something else - in 2010
scientists found something

extraordinary - evidence
that our bubble, our

universe, has been
bruised,

not once but four times.

Why? 'Cause it smashed into
other bubbles and do you

know what those
other bubbles are?

Other universes.

There could be millions
of them, parallel worlds,

other dimensions that
exist alongside ours.

Amazing isn't it?

But let's think
about this.

If it's true that means
there could be people or

something like us floating
around inside them.

Isn't that a little scary?

Could we, in the distant
future, bump into

something or someone from
a neighbouring dimension?

Well I've got
news for you.

It's happening right now.

Bubbles!

Rosemary Guiley
is an author.

In October 2010, she
decided to go hiking in

the Fahnestock State
Park in New York.

Rosemary Guiley: So I
trekked out by myself,

which is not always a good
idea, and there

was no one around.

There was no one on the
trail and I went out to

what we call the
King's Chamber.

The King's Chamber is one
of several mysterious

manmade structures
in the area.

Rosemary Guiley: Nobody
really knows who built

them or why and many
people who visit them have

paranormal experiences.

Some think Native
Americans made them.

Others believe it was
European settlers

or even ancient Druids.

No one knows for sure.

But as Rosemary enters the
ruins, she begins

to sense something strange.

Rosemary Guiley: I could sense
an unusual presence there.

You have a feeling that
there may be something

unseen watching you or
that something unusual

is about to happen.

Despite her misgivings,
Rosemary presses on.

It's not long before
she's sorry she did.

Rosemary Guiley: I became
aware of a dark shape

moving through the
trees in front of me.

There was something
very sinister about it.

This figure was tall and
slim and it looked like

the outline of
a human being.

It was very dark in
colour, inky dark and it

had very blurry edges and
the lower portion of it

sort of trailed away.

There's no facial
features, no eyes but yet

you know it's
looking at you.

You can just feel it and
that is a very scary thing.

Was Rosemary's mind
playing tricks?

Or was someone or
something stalking her

through the
King's Chamber?

Rosemary Guiley: This
was not an apparition.

You simply know when you
are encountering something

that's not quite
of this world.

So what was it?

Rosemary didn't wait
around to find out.

Rosemary Guiley: It wa
like one of those movies

where bad things are
happening to people and a

voice says get out.

It's time to go.

What did Rosemary
Guiley see?

Was she in real
danger from a shadow?

Or was it something
even more sinister?

Incredibly, her
experience is not unique.

Hundreds have reported
encounters with dark

humanoid transparent
creatures.

They call them
shadow people.

But what are they?

Rosemary has come to an
incredible conclusion.

Rosemary Guiley: Shadow
people come from other

dimensions, parallel
dimensions that are right

here on this planet.

They're just around a
certain bend in space

where we can't normally
see them except under the

right circumstances.

Are shadow people
intruders from

a parallel dimension?

If so, how did they cross
into our world

and what do they want?

Chris French is
a psychologist.

He believes there is
a simple explanation.

Christopher French: These
shadow people

are just shadows.

The way that these shadow
people are said to move is

kind of a very
fleeting motion.

One moment they're there,
the next moment,

they're somewhere else.

I mean, to me, it sounds
very much like the way

that shadows move.

Are shadow people
simply random shadows?

If so, what gives them
such distinct human shapes?

French believes the answer
lies in a phenomenon

called pareidolia.

Christopher French:
Pareidolia refers

specifically to this idea
that we can sometimes

think we see clear and
distinct human forms in

what is essentially just
random background noise.

I think everybody's
probably had the

experience of looking at
patterns on wallpaper and

making out faces
in those patterns.

Or we look up in the
clouds and we see animal shapes.

People have found images
of Christ in plates of

spaghetti, in cinnamon
buns, in the burn marks

on tortillas.

What you've got are really
kind of more or less

random patterns but we
will impose some

kind of meaning on them.

People tend to experience
shadow people in certain

kinds of locations.

If you are in a forest,
if you're in a cave, if

you're in somewhere where
there's lots of shadows,

then those are precisely
the kind of random

background visual noise
situations where you might

actually think you can see
things that aren't there.

But many who have
encountered shadow people

feel physically
threatened.

Why?

Christopher French: I
think one of the reasons

that people often perceive
these things as being

something potentially
threatening is because

that's the way
we've evolved.

You know, some guy back
in the Stone Age and he

thinks that there might
be a saber tooth tiger

in that bush.

On the one hand, you've
got the guy who very

quickly decides it's a
saber tooth tiger

and runs away.

You've got the other
guy who stands there

scratching his beard
wondering whether it

really is a saber
tooth tiger.

He gets eaten.

So who's going to
pass on their genes?

We've evolved to survive.

Are our survival instincts
tricking us into believing

a shadow is a terrifying
and real creature?

Christopher French: It's
an extremely common

phenomenon for perfectly
sane people to sometimes

see things that aren't
actually there.

There are parts of the
brain that are hard wired

to recognize faces and
human forms and so

sometimes those parts of
the brain will actually

fire when what we're
looking at

are really just shadows.

Are shadow people
simply shadows?

Rosemary Guiley
isn't convinced.

Rosemary Guiley: It
was not a trick

of my imagination.

It was unmistakable, a
black shape moving

through the trees.

William Shatner: You know
it's amazing how real

shadows can appear.

But could something like
this be a terrifying

shadow creature from
another dimension

that's come to pay us a visit?

Did you do that Fluffy?

So who exactly
are shadow people?

Where do they come from?

One man believes
he has the answer.

Philip Imbrogno: They
belong to a race of beings

that predates
human beings.

They exist in a dimension
very close to oursrs.

A woman has a terrifying
encounter with a

human-like shadow.

Was it a trick of her
mind or a visitor from a

parallel world?

Philip Imbrogno is a
paranormal researcher.

He thinks the
answer is clear.

Philip Imbrogno: From the
cases that I've studied

about shadow people,
I believe they are

inter-dimensional
in nature.

They're intelligent.

They belong to a race of
beings that

predates human beings.

They exist in a dimension
very close to ours.

It's an incredible theory
but it begs one big question.

How can we know these
other dimensions exist?

Imbrogno believes the
answer lies with the force

of gravity and its
component part,

the graviton.

Philip Imbrogno: A
graviton is a theoretical

particle that ties the
entire universe together.

Gravitons flow through the
dimensions just like a,

a wave,
These particles have a pull,

like a magnetic pull.

Philip Imbrogno: The
gravity coming from our

sun, reaching the earth,
should theoretically tear

the earth apart
but it doesn't.

If all of these gravitons
being emitted from the sun

were filtered through
multi-dimensions before

they reach us, it could
give us an indication that

these other extra
dimensions do in fact exist.

If that sounds like
gobbledygook, here's the

simple version.

Imbrogno thinks gravity
is being weakened as it

travels from the sun to
earth because it's being

diffused as it passes
through - yeah,

you guessed it - other
dimensions that are home

to shadow people.

It's an extraordinary
and somewhat crazy idea.

But if there are other
dimensions surrounding

ours, how are shadow
people traveling between them

- and to us?

Philip Imbrogno: Shadow
people may understand the

concept of gravitons
more than we do.

Their technology has been
around thousands and

thousands of years
before human beings.

So they may understand
that they may have to

focus gravitons at a
particular area to open up

a portal to lead
into our reality.

According to Imbrogno,
he will soon have hard

scientific evidence to
support his theory.

Philip Imbrogno: When
these dimensions are

opened up, we should see
an influx of gravitons.

This interaction
can be measured.

So the exciting research
that I'm involved in right

now is building devices
that would be able to

detect large amounts of
gravitons to predict when

shadow people
would appear.

Are shadow people using
gravity to open portals

to our dimension?

And, if so, what
do they want?

Philip Imbrogno: It seems
to me that the main

objective of, of the
shadow person's visit is

to learn about us as much
as they can

by observing us.

Some people would find
that very unsettling.

I would like to think that
they just discovered us

and they're as curious
about us as we are about

them and perhaps some day
in the future they may

make their presence known
to us and try to coexist

with us since we
are neighbours.

Did Rosemary Guiley encounter a
curious shadow person?

Are we facing an invasion
of beings from a

neighbouring dimension?

Should we be afraid?

Very afraid?

Or are they nothing
but a trick of light?

Weird or what?

[♪]

William Shatner: You know,
I uh used to get into a

lot of sticky situations
during our voyages on the

Starship uh Enterprise but
I was always able to get

out of them like this.

Ah see what I, I
just did there?

And I didn't even have
Scotty to beam me up.

But can we somehow
transport ourselves from

one location to
another in an instant?

Things like that are
science fiction, right?

Wrong.

1960. Suburban New Jersey.

Six-year-old Andrew
Basiago is about to have

the most incredible
day of his life.

Andrew Basiago: My dad
called out to my mother

and said hon, I'm taking
Andy to the hardware store.

Instead, he drove me up
to the old aeronautical

company facility in
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey,

a large defense technical
experimental area that

dated back to
World War Two.

As they enter the
facility, Andrew wonders

why his father Frank would
bring him to a place like this.

Andrew Basiago: I didn't
know what was happening.

Andrew's dad leads
him to a secret room.

Inside is something unlike
anything he's ever seen before.

Andrew Basiago:
It was so strange.

It essentially consisted
of two elliptical shaped

booms that were about
eight feet tall

and about ten feet across.

It's a machine that's
beyond Andrew's comprehension.

Whatever it is, his father
is clearly in charge.

But why?

And what is it for?

Andrew Basiago: He had the
technician turn the device on.

As Andrew watches, the
booms begin to spin,

generating a strange
cascade of energy.

Andrew Basiago: It looked
almost like water falling

in a public fountain.

It was a very beautiful sort
of shimmering field of energy.

As the energy field
from the machine grows,

Andrew's dad does
something incredible.

He tells his son
to take his hand.

Then, the
unimaginable happens.

Andrew Basiago: We counted
down, you know,

one, two, three.

On the count of three we
jumped through

the field of energy.

We seemed to be moving and
I could ultimately see a

point of light in the
distance and that light

reached us very quickly
and accelerated and when

the light hit us we were
elsewhere in the country.

Now my father didn't tell
me where we were going.

In fact, we were jumping
two thousand, five miles

through this vortal
tunnel in the fabric of

time-space to the State
Capitol grounds in

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

It's an astonishing claim.

Did two humans actually
transport from New Jersey

to New Mexico in
the blink of an eye?

What happened to
Andrew and his father?

Is his story just the wild
fantasy of a six year old?

Basiago believes there
is only one answer.

Andrew Basiago: I think
I must have teleported.

Imagine traveling through
the Lincoln Tunnel in

New York City at ten thousand
miles per hour without any

automobile around you.

That's sort of
what it was like.

We were physically moving
through a vortal tunnel in

the fabric of time-space.

Had Andrew's father Frank
invented the world's first

teleportation machine?

And, if so, why?

Frank Basiago was
no ordinary dad.

During the Cold War, the
US and Soviets raced for

military superiority.

Frank was head of a top
secret American research

team who were conducting
experiments into

teleportation.

But why did Frank use
his son as a guinea pig?

Andrew Basiago: I think my
dad's immediate goal in

inviting me to teleport
was to show that if

teleportation was safe for
his son it was safe

for anybody's child.

And I was in it as a child
just as, for example,

a child may have been
aboard, you know, one of

Columbus' boats or may
have been an office boy to

the Wright brothers, or an
assistant

to Thomas Alva Edison.

After the success of the
experiment, Frank Basiago

decides teleportation is
too important to keep secret.

He wants to tell the
world, but the

US military disagrees.

Andrew Basiago: And so
the, the unfortunate

history of US
teleportation is that it

has remained essentially
a military secret ever since.

Forty years later,
Andrew is on a mission.

He believes teleportation
technology

is vitally important.

His father's invention should

be available to all of us.

Andrew Basiago: Today
I'm leading the truth campaign.

I'm urging the United
States government to

declassify teleportation
to allow people to

teleport between
major world cities.

The way I see it, I have a
duty simply to stand in

my truth and tell it, tell
the truth about what

happened because this was
clearly an important

epoch in the history of
applied science.

This was the moment when
our human civilization on

Earth became a time-space
faring civilization.

Did Frank Basiago invent
a machine that could

instantly transport us
across the world or even

to other dimensions?

Is teleportation possible?

Raymond Laflamme: I
wouldn't like to be

the first one to
be teleported.

I would worry to end up
maybe like a Picasso painting.

A boy enters a
teleportation machine and

is suddenly transported
thousands of miles in seconds.

Is human teleportation
possible?

Raymond Laflamme
is a physicist.

He thinks the idea we can
teleport our bodies

is simply fantasy.

Raymond Laflamme: It seem
that the laws of physics

are more constrained than
the imagination

of human beings.

The first idea that we
have when we think about

teleportation is the Star
Trek idea - Beam me up

Scotty, the idea of
taking a person so they

disintegrate in some form
and reappearing up

in a space station.

Now this is something
that happens

in science fiction.

But, incredibly, although
Laflamme dismisses the

idea that people can
teleport, he does believe

it can happen in other
ways - because he was one

of the first
scientists to do it.

Raymond Laflamme: We're
not teleporting matter

from one location
to the other.

We're really teleporting
information.

Wait a second.

Teleporting information?

How is that any different
than sending an email?

Raymond Laflamme: When we
send an email or even when

we talk on our cellular
phone, the information

goes from the sender,
through the intervening

space to a receiver.

Remarkably, Laflamme has
been able to teleport

information without it
traveling through

any device at all.

Raymond Laflamme: What has
been teleported is one

quantum bit of
information.

We've been able to
teleport a few kilometers

taking one particle of
information and make it

reappear a few kilometers
down the line.

We've been able
to do this.

It works like this.

In the world of quantum
physics, even the tiniest

particles are somehow
connected - even across

huge distances.

In quantum teleportation,
such entangled particles

can literally be in
two places at once.

Raymond Laflamme:
Absolutely amazing

that we can teleport.

In quantum teleportation
it seems to disappear here

and reappear there.

It looks like a
piece of magic.

This technology could
soon be used to instantly

communicate with
spaceships, no matter how

far away - or send
military communications

that are impossible
to intercept.

Raymond Laflamme: We are
just at the beginning of

understanding what is
quantum teleportation,

how it works.

We may be able to teleport
information, but does

Andrew Basiago's story
mean we can do it to ourselves?

Laflamme thinks not.

Raymond Laflamme: He must
have a secret that I do

not have to be able to do
this but I wouldn't like

to be the first one
to be teleported.

I would worry to end up
maybe like a Picasso painting.

If human teleportation
isn't possible,

what happened to
Andrew Basiago?

Was his incredible
journey just a figment of

childhood imagination?

Bruce Goldberg is
a hypnotherapist.

He thinks stories like
Andrew's are very real.

Bruce Goldberg: We have
ancient literature going

back thousands of years of
people who've teleported.

There are a lot of
religious cases but there

are also secular
cases too.

I think teleportation
exists.

But how?

Goldberg believes he's
discovered the secret.

Bruce Goldberg:
Teleportation is a very

complex mechanism.

I first discovered
teleportation while

working with patients.

People would describe
disappearing from one location.

One gentleman went from
New York City to Paris

in an instant.

I mean he disappeared.

His wife was sitting in
the same room and told me

yeah my husband
disappeared.

I don't know where he went
and I was right there.

At first, Goldberg
doubted his patients.

Bruce Goldberg: So then
I started doing research

about the
teleportation cases.

These are psychologically
stable people.

I know them, I know the
families and

they weren't on drugs, okay?

But as he continued his
research, Goldberg's

patients began to describe
their teleportation

experiences in remarkable
detail, and they all had

one thing in common.

Patient: You see first
just a little bit like

tunnel vision and then all
of a sudden you appear whole.

The people look
exactly like we do.

Some of the people that
I meet are recognizable.

I know who they are.

Incredibly, the people
they encountered were

replicas of - themselves.

The hauntingly similar
experiences led Goldberg

to a stunning insight.

Bruce Goldberg: When you
teleport you leave this

universe and move into
a parallel universe.

Parallel universes are
sister universes that

exist alongside ours.

Your DNA is exactly the
same in your parallel life

as it is here.

Are Goldberg's patients
somehow being sucked into

parallel dimensions and
then meeting

their own doppelgangers?

William Shatner: Now this
is getting really crazy.

Is there more
than one Bill?

Is there more
than one you?

Sounds nuts, right?

Incredibly, physicists
believe that these

identical copies of
ourselves might exist.

Now I don't really
understand how this is

possible but if the
eggheads say the math

work, who am I to argue?

Do identical copies of
each and every one of us

exist in parallel worlds?

Could we even enter those
alternate realities?

Bruce Goldberg believes
the possibilities

are staggering.

Bruce Goldberg: Let's say
you have certain aspects

of your life right now
that you cannot change.

Maybe you have an
incurable disease.

Maybe you have a
criminal record.

Maybe you've lost an arm.

Well in a parallel
universe that didn't exist.

So instead of committing
suicide or just going

through life being
depressed you can actually

switch universes and in
fact have a much better life.

But if it really is
possible to leap into a

parallel world, why
isn't everyone doing it?

Bruce Goldberg: Teleportation is
hardly predictable.

You can do this a thousand
times and you may get one

or two examples but future
technology will be such

that teleportation will be
established by machines so

people can control it and
do it with regularity

and predictability.

Could such technology
already exist?

Could Frank Basiago's
dream still be alive?

Bruce Goldberg: I don't
doubt there is some

technology that can exist
today where somebody can

enter into this like a
vortex and they can be

teleported from one
place to another.

Do we all exist in
other dimensions?

Do we possess machines
that can teleport us from

one world to another?

Could Scotty really
beam us up after all?

Weird or what?

[♪]

In Mexico, an explorer
finds a strange skull

made of pure crystal.

Is it a gateway
to another world?

Kirby Seid: Crystal
skulls are holographic.

William Shatner: You
know I love exploring.

There's nothing better
than getting out and

seeing what you can find
amongst the wilds of nature.

Uh oh you hear that?

You hear that?

Sometimes you can find
treasures beyond the

imagination - but
sometimes you find things

you want to keep
very secret.

In 1924, British
adventurer Frederick

Mitchell-Hedges went in
search of Mayan treasures

in the tiny country of
Belize in Central America.

What he discovered is
regarded by some as the

most important archaeological
relic ever found -

a perfectly formed
human skull,

made from crystal.

Carved with flawless
precision, this

2,000-year-old artifact
baffled scientists.

Many believed the
technology that created it

couldn't have existed in
ancient or even modern times.

So what was it?

And where did
it come from?

Remarkably, the answer
could lie in an ancient

Mayan legend that speaks
of not one but thirteen

crystal skulls that have
extraordinary powers.

It's a legend that
could be based in fact.

In 1994, amateur
archeologist Nick Nocerino

found another perfect
life-sized skull,

impeccably carved in clear
crystal in Guerrero, Mexico.

Kirby Seid is a crystal
and mineral expert.

In 1995, the Guerrero
skull came into his care.

As he began to study it,
something weird happened.

Kirby Seid: It began to
show me pictures of past

lives, it showed me images
of possible futures

that I could try to achieve for.

Those pictures
turn into visions.

Those visions, I see
people moving,

I see objects moving, there's
motion in those visions.

And suddenly, I feel like
I've popped into

that particular reality.

I feel like I'm merging my
energy with its energy.

But Kirby believes this
skull has many other powers.

The greatest of all is the
ability to open doors

to another world.

Kirby Seid: Crystal skulls
are, are holographic.

They contain all the
points in time and space.

We know in modern physics
theory, in string theory,

that there are at least
eleven dimensions.

Skulls are portals to
other dimensions in

parallel worlds.

Do crystal skulls possess
strange powers that can

take us to other
dimensions?

Or is there another
answer to this mystery?

Jane Walsh: Well to my
mind there's not really a

mystery surrounding them.

A man believes an ancient
crystal skull can

communicate with
parallel worlds.

Do these strange
mysterious objects have

powers beyond our
comprehension?

Jane Walsh: Well to my
mind there's not really

a mystery surrounding them.

Jane Walsh is an
anthropologist at the

Smithsonian in
Washington, DC.

She believes crystal
skulls aren't quite

as magical as they seem.

Jane Walsh: I've
essentially concluded that

none of the skulls I have
looked at have really

anything to do with
pre-Columbian Mexico.

Mostly they were
marketed to deceive.

Jane has examined nine
crystal skulls, including

the one discovered
by Mitchell-Hedges.

Due to the nature of the
crystal, it's not possible

to determine when the
skulls were made but Jane

believes there's another
way to unearth

the skulls' secrets.

Using liquid silicone, she
can find out

how they were made.

Jane Walsh: The silicone
sort of flows in nicely to

all of the crevices.

Make sure it's going into
all of the carved areas.

Once the silicone is dry,
Jane has a highly accurate

mold of the markings on
the skull's surface.

Using an electron
microscope, these can be

magnified over
ten million times.

Unknown: As those
electrons strike the

surface of the sample,
we're gonna generate a signal.

We'll get a topographical
image of the surface of

the sample and we get
great spatial resolution.

We see very good detail.

We can see a lot of things
that we wouldn't

be able to see otherwise.

One thing in particular
was remarkable - evidence

that the perfect crystal
skulls weren't quite as

perfect as they seemed.

Jane Walsh: What you're
seeing there is the edge

of a rotary disc
cutting tool.

Unknown: If you imagine
some guy sitting here

doing this, trying to
drill this little hole

we're not gonna have this
little path that cuts.

You can follow it
all the way around.

Jane's analysis
is damning.

She believes whoever made
the skulls had access to

modern power tools.

Jane Walsh: We know the
sorts of tools that were

used by pre-Columbian
lapidaries which was

essentially a
Stone Age tool kit.

So with the
Mitchell-Hedges skull we

were able to find some of
the initial carving that

was done by very tiny
high-speed dentist type drills.

That's simply not a tool
that any Mayan or Aztec

would have had.

So if the skulls are not
ancient Mayan or Aztec,

when were they carved?

Jane Walsh: They probably
are about as old as when

they first appeared.

All of them were created
by using quite modern tools.

Are the crystal skulls
simply an elaborate hoax?

Does the harsh light of
Jane's microscope mean we

should dismiss those
who believe

they have mystical powers?

Jane Walsh: I would love
it if someone would

excavate one, a recognized
archeologist but

I'm not holding my breath.

Is the legend of thirteen
all-powerful crystal

skulls nothing more
than fanciful bunkum?

Or do they have powers
beyond comprehension?

Could Kirby Seid be right?

Are they gateways
to other dimensions?

Joshua Shapiro
is an explorer.

He not only believes
crystal skulls can connect

us to other worlds, but
they were given to us by

beings who live in them.

Joshua Shapiro: What
believe is the connection

between the crystal
skulls, and let's say

other intelligences which
may come from parallel

worlds or other
dimensions.

These beings I believe
brought the crystal skulls

in physical form to humanity a
very long time ago.

Did crystal skulls arrive
from parallel worlds

in ancient times?

And if so, how do these
other-dimensional beings

use them as doorways to
connect with humans?

Shapiro thinks it all
comes down

to what they're made of.

Joshua Shapiro: The
crystal skulls act as

portals or dimensional
doors because quartz

crystal has the ability to
exist in many different

dimensions simultaneously.

It's the property of the
material itself, it just

lends itself to working
with energy on different

vibrational frequencies.

So that's why it's
a perfect conduit.

Quartz crystal vibrating
frequencies across

multiple dimensions?

Crazy talk, right?

Well, in fact, crystals
have been used in

communication devices like
radios for nearly a century.

They can be tuned to
vibrate at specific

frequencies, which allows them
to tune in broadcasts.

So maybe a crystal
skull could be an

inter-dimensional
telephone after all.

Joshua Shapiro: Quartz
crystal is, is one of the

most important materials
on the planet but to put

it into the shape of a
human bone skull, those

two combined make
them very special.

So these other
intelligences can use

the crystal skull to
communicate with us.

So are crystal skulls
portals for messages

from other dimensions?

And if so, what are
they trying to convey?

Joshua Shapiro: If I could
define in one sentence

what the crystal skulls
are, they are a mirror

and a catalyst to
awaken humanity.

If we as individuals would
just be open to all the

amazing phenomena that's
going on in our world

instead of trying to
rationalize it, I think

that our planet would be
at peace much quicker and

we would learn a lot more
about ourselves and we

would have additional
assistance coming that

we could not even imagine.

Do crystal skulls have
the ability to create

electrical signals that
allow us to interact

with other dimensions?

Or are they simply harmless
hunks of polished rock?

Is there any scientific
evidence that gateways to

other worlds even
exist at all?

William Shatner: What
an incredible story.

Can this skull generate
vibrations that allow us

to speak to people
in parallel worlds?

Can you imagine what we
could achieve if we could

harness the power within
this magnificent,

priceless object? Oops.

Can we get another one?

A mysterious crystal skull
discovered in Mexico is

believed to be a doorway
to another dimension.

Could this be possible?

Dr. Paul Stevenson studies
extreme physics at the

University of Surrey.

He thinks the idea of a
portal to a distant world

is quite plausible.

Paul Stevenson: One
possible way we could at

least theoretically think
about opening a door to

another world or a portal
to somewhere else comes

from black holes.

Astronomers once believed
that everything in a black

hole was crushed into a
single point of infinite

mass called a singularity.

But recently, some have
proposed another idea.

Paul Stevenson: It's
conceivable that you'd

make some kind of portal
from one part of the

universe to another that
you could actually travel

through and that would
be called a wormhole.

And if we can create a
sort of tunnel to other

parts of our universe,
what does that mean for

parallel dimensions?

Paul Stevenson: Now it
may not be a big leap to

suggest that we could
create a wormhole that

connects us to different
dimensions

or a different universe.

According to Paul, in
theory it's possible to

create a pathway
to other worlds.

It's nothing anyone has
ever seen before so how

does he know it
could happen?

Paul Stevenson: But
they're actually based on

solid physics and solid
science and we've

certainly come across lots
of things in the past that

at first sight seem to be
utterly ridiculous and

completely fantastical
and have turned out to be true.

I don't know whether
that's gonna turn out to

be the case for wormholes,
whether we'll ever see one

but it's certainly not
beyond the bounds of reason.

Could we open cosmic gateways
into parallel worlds...

and communicate
with them with crystal skulls?

Or can we simply teleport
our bodies

there whenever we wish?

Are shadow people from
other dimensions

already amongst us?

Weird or what?

So there we have it,
stories of parallel worlds

from all over the planet.

In New York, a woman has a
terrifying encounter

with a human shaped shadow.

Did it come from
another dimension?

In New Jersey, a weird
machine transports a boy

and his father hundreds of
miles in a split second.

Did they teleport to
a different world?

And in Mexico, a team
makes an amazing discovery

- a skull made of crystal.

Is it a doorway to a
parallel universe?

Are these stories evidence
that parallel worlds exist?

Can we dismiss the claims
of those

who believe they are true?

You decide.

William Shatner: Join me
next time for more stories

that will undoubtedly
be weird or what?