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>> NARRATOR: Zombies rising from

their graves...

bloodsucking vampires damned for

all eternity...

and humans trapped in a life‐

and‐death struggle between

Heaven and hell.

For thousands of years mankind

has told tales of encounters

with strange soulless creatures.

But are these mere myths or are

they beliefs rooted in

scientific fact?

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: They will

attack, they will drink blood

and disappear without ever being

noticed.

>> RICHARD RADER: The blood is

the thing that reconnects the

world that we live in with the

world of the dead.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Avatars have

the power to take dead people,

bring them back to life.

What kind of powers would you

have to have to do that?

The powers of an

extraterrestrial?

>> NARRATOR: 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, are there

extraterrestrial origins in

earthly stories of the undead?

>> NARRATOR: Thebes, Egypt.

Along the west bank of the Nile

River lies the Valley of the

Kings.

Here, in 1922, archaeologist

Howard Carter discovered the

3,000‐year‐old tomb of the

pharaoh Tutankhamun.

>> DODSON: When Howard Carter

opened the burial chamber of

Tutankhamun, it was the first

time anybody had seen the burial

chamber of a pharaoh.

>> NARRATOR: Untouched since the

pharaoh's death in 1333 BC,

the tomb was full of the boy

king's earthly possessions.

>> DODSON: It's very much the

idea of having what you would

have had in your house in this

world with you to be there in

the next world.

And part of this whole idea of

the tomb as a magical machine to

bring you into the next world.

>> NARRATOR: To help Tutankhamun

on his journey into the

afterlife... the walls and

ceiling of his burial chamber

were decorated with

illustrations from the

Egyptian's sacred Book of the

Dead.

>> DODSON: The Book of the Dead

was a collection of spells

relating to the transition

between death and rebirth.

The basic idea was to provide

the dead person with what they

needed, magically, to get

through.

Because there were various

trials and tribulations to be

faced before you were reborn

into the next world.

They had to encounter various

demons:

everything from giant

cockroaches to horrendous beings

with knives instead of heads.

All sorts of nightmarish visions

you had to get through.

And one of the things the Book

of the Dead does is to explain

how you deal with these various

demons.

>> NARRATOR: Inside

Tutankhamun's tomb, the

archaeologist also discovered

a sarcophagus with the young

king's embalmed body, well

preserved with vital organs

removed and sealed in jars.

Like many ancient Egyptians,

King Tut was mummified based on

the belief that upon entering

the underworld, his body would

regain its powers of movement

and speech.

>> BAUVAL: There seems to have

been a kind of belief that the

stellar or astral aspect of the

dead king maintained a contact

with the tomb, and that the

soul would return back to the

physical body.

>> NARRATOR: The ancient

Egyptians believed the tomb

was the vessel in which the

deceased's body‐‐ attended by

its visiting soul‐‐ journeyed to

the world beyond the grave.

>> COLLINS: We today see the

idea of being placed in a coffin

and put underground as something

like simply the disposal of the

dead or the burial of the dead.

For them, it was far more

than this.

It was like going back to the

primordial womb of a sky goddess

whose name was Nuit.

And she was represented

by the Milky Way.

And by doing that, you'd

eventually, you'll go back to

being a star.

It was believed that the soul

itself could become a star.

>> NARRATOR: The practice of

preserving a dead body, or

embalming, did not begin with

the Egyptians.

Embalmed human remains have been

found in Chile and Peru dating

to 5000 BC.

But what compelled ancient man

to preserve their bodies

after their deaths?

Did they really believe they

would return to Earth,

body and soul?

If so, what had they seen in

life that would suggest that

such a thing were even possible?

>> CHILDRESS: Throughout

history, mankind has

consistently believed that when

they died, they would go to

to the stars.

The Egyptians believed

that, too.

You have to ask yourself, "Where

did our ancestors get these

ideas that on our death,

we're being transported

to the stars or to another

world?"

Wouldn't this have come from

extraterrestrials?

>> TSOUKALOS: The techniques

that were used were given to the

ancient Egyptians by the gods;

the guardians of the sky.

Who were these guardians

of the sky?

Well, according to ancient

astronaut theorists, they were

flesh and blood

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Tests on

Tutankhamun's remains confirm

that he was the son of

Akhenaten; the controversial

Egyptian pharaoh often depicted

with a large misshapen skull.

Like their father, the skulls of

both King Tutankhamun and his

sister Meritaten also appear to

have deformed shapes.

>> CHILDRESS: Archaeologists

have found that in Egypt, like

Tutankhamun or his sister, who's

this statue here, Meritaten, had

these strange elongated heads.

You have to wonder, were they

trying to imitate

extraterrestrials who looked

like this, or perhaps they, in

fact, were extraterrestrials,

and this is how they naturally

looked.

>> NARRATOR: On the other side

of the world, in the ancient

city of Paracas, Peru...

archaeologists uncovered

hundreds of mummified remains

dating to 300 BC.

Many contained elongated skulls.

>> FORESTER: What makes Paracas

unique is that the elongated

skulls are found in great

numbers here dating at least

3,000 years old if not older.

The only other place in the

world that we find these are in

Egypt during the reign

of Akhenaten.

>> COLLINS: It would seem as if

this type of skull demarked

these people as different to

the local community.

Probably because they believed

they were descendents from

original individuals that

had heads that were elongated

and that were serpent or

viper‐like in appearance.

>> NARRATOR: If, as some

researchers suggest, the

practice of elongating skulls

was done to mimic the head shape

of highly intelligent beings

ancient man came in contact

with, then could the belief in

preserving the body for the

journey to the afterlife also

have been based on some

contact with superior beings?

>> TSOUKALOS: I'm suggesting

that mummification is based on

our ancestors who watched

extraterrestrials getting ready

for a flight through deep space.

One possibility is to be frozen

or to be put into animated

sleep, where you're inside this

quote end quote sarcophagus,

this coffin.

And so our ancestors might have

watched this type of

preparation, and then they

misunderstood this for the gods

dying.

And so our ancestors mummified

themselves in order to be ready

for the return of the gods with

the hopes that the gods would

reanimate them from the dead in

the future.

>> NARRATOR: The Democratic

Republic of the Congo, Central

Africa.

Stretching across this mystical

land is the world's second

largest rain forest.

Here, according to scholars, the

world "zombie" originated around

500 BC.

According to most archeologists

and language experts, ancient

Africans used the word "nzumbe"

to refer to one's primary

spirit.

They believed that a person has

two souls‐‐ once called the

"great angel" and the other

called the "little angel."

>> SALLIE ANN GLASSMAN: The

little good angel represents

your identity, your ego self.

And upon death, the little good

angel sits by the grave for a

few days and then rises before

God.

The big good angel also sits by

the grave for nine days, and can

be stolen, and you can be made

into a zombie.

The spirits who rule over that

crossroads between life and

death are called the Ghédé.

>> JERRY GANDOLFO: The Ghédé

spirit is not the spirit of the

graveyard, nor is he the spirit

of death.

He's actually the spirit of the

gateway to the graveyard.

When you die, he opens up the

gateway to the cemetery to let

you pass from life into death.

But also he can open up the

gateway to let you pass back

from death into life.

That's why he is the spirit

who's responsible for zombies.

>> TOK THOMPSON: In must of the

traditions about zombies,

zombies are called into being or

called back from the grave

unwillingly and it's usually

under the control of a witch

doctor.

The idea is that after the soul

has left the body, you can still

raise this person from the dead.

Therefore, your classical zombie

is actually a soulless animated

corpse.

>> MAX BROOKS: Most

civilizations have some variety

of an individual coming back

from the dead.

It goes all the way back to the

first civilization in

Mesopotamia.

We have them in ancient Egypt,

we have them in Mesoamerica, you

have them in Central and East

Asia.

>> NARRATOR: In 300 BC, ancient

Chinese legends began making

reference to horrific zombie‐

like creatures called jiang shi,

a name that, when translated,

literally means "stiff corpse."

Supposedly a jiang shi rests in

a coffin by day or hides in dark

places such a caves.

At night these creatures hunt

down family members in an effort

to devour their essence.

living.

>> YOUNG: Many burial practices

grew up to try to control this

possibility of a zombie rising,

the undead coming back.

Gravestones might have

originally been to hold them

down, to keep them from coming

out of the ground.

Various kinds of spiking to hold

the body down or cutting the

body up so it couldn't

reanimate.

Cutting the head off or burning

and distributing the ashes.

All out of a fear that this

creature or this being would

somehow return.

(woman singing in foreign

language)

>> NARRATOR: Today, stories of

the reanimated dead are most

closely associated with the

Haitian practice of voodoo...

...where, beginning in the

1500s, voodoo priests performed

mysterious rituals in order to

create and control zombies.

>> BROOK: The voodoo zombie

is essentially harmless unless

it is told to commit acts of

violence.

Most importantly, the voodoo

zombie is an individual.

It is controlled by a master.

It is controlled usually by some

form of supernatural powers.

>> GLASSMAN: There are a couple

of different kinds.

There's the zombie as the

disembodied spirit, but there's

also that more traditional

concept of a body that has lost

its soul and is just

automatically enslaved and

working for a zombie master.

>> NARRATOR: But where, or from

whom, does this strange power

over life and death come from?

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, there is evidence of

strange other‐worldly entities

that communicate to humans

through intermediaries known as

priests, shamans, witch doctors

or demigods.

>> THOMPSON: Many different

religions have different ways of

conceiving of specialists who

might be able to intercede in

the cosmos.

So, for instance, among the

Native Americans we find shamans

and shamanism who very often are

held as people who can

intercede between the spiritual

realm and the mundane realm here

on Earth.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: It is

quite possible that some of the

first doctors were the

disciples, the students of some

of the extraterrestrials.

So they had their knowledge

which helped them to be higher

than the rest of mankind.

>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the most

famous story of an intermediary

reanimating the dead appears in

the New Testament of the

Holy Bible.

According to the Gospel of St.

John, it was here at Al

Eizariya, two miles from

Jerusalem, that Jesus of

Nazareth resurrected a man who

had been dead for four days.

>> BRETT PETERSON: Jesus was so

moved, the Bible says he wept.

As he looked at the tomb and

was moved by the weeping of Mary

and Martha, he decided to raise

Lazarus from the dead.

So he approaches the entrance

to the tomb and literally

calls out to Lazarus to come

forth from the dead.

In my opinion, there's no

scientific explanation for the

raising of Lazarus.

It seems that Lazarus' soul was

actually reunited with his body;

that he was just not a walking

dead or the undead, but he

became himself raised from the

dead.

>> CHILDRESS: So here are

special people who have the

power to take dead people and

bring them back to life.

What kind of powers would you

have to have to do that?

The powers of an

extraterrestrial?

>> NARRATOR: Could there really

be an extraterrestrial

connection between living humans

and the world of the dead?

Is it possible that human souls

travel through space and time

much as space travelers might?

If so, would this shatter the

belief in the existence

of Heaven?

Or would it be the very proof

mankind has been searching for

for centuries?

>> NARRATOR: Oaxaca, Mexico.

Situated on a low mountain range

rising above the central plain

lie the ancient ruins of

Monte Albán.

Here, around 100 BC,

researchers believe the Zapotec

Indians worshipped a

bloodthirsty Mayan god with the

body of a man and the head

of a bat.

They called him Camazotz.

>> SKAL: The iconography is

rather striking; the image of a

half man, half bat; a man with

the head of a bat and winglike

cloak spread out with crosses of

bones in the lining.

>> YOUNG: The Zapotec people in

the Oaxaca area of Mexico

believe that winged creatures,

batlike creatures come in

the night.

They will attack and they will

drink blood and disappear

without ever being noticed.

>> CURRAN: This is simply a sort

of anthropomorphic bat which

was worshipped by the sacrifice

of libations of blood.

So what they did was they cut

themselves and poured it

into a bowl and offered it

to the god.

>> ANDREW WYATT: Blood was a

very important substance

to the Mayans.

That is what gave humans life;

blood and breath was what the

essence of life was.

That's where this k'ul‐‐ this

divine essence‐‐ resided; in

blood and in breath.

When you would die, you entered

into the underworld.

It was called Xibalba.

Then, if you defeated the lords

of death, you would then ascend

into the heavens and become one

of the revered ancestors.

>> RADER: The blood is the thing

that reconnects the world that

we live in with the world

of the dead.

>> YOUNG: Some of the earliest

archaeological evidence shows

that blood rituals were present

as far back as we can search.

>> NARRATOR: Legends and myths

of supernatural beings with

traits similar to vampires are a

part of nearly every ancient

culture.

In Hindu folklore, for example,

the vetala was known as an evil

spirit that took demonic

possession of corpses.

The Indian goddess Kali was also

intimately linked with blood

sacrifices.

>> CURRAN: Kali becomes the

destroyer, and she is portrayed

as a hag‐like woman with a

whole number of arms...

...each carrying a sword.

She is the goddess of death

and destruction.

Her eyes are red and she drips

blood from her mouth.

>> YOUNG: She's known to take

infants from their crib and

drink their blood.

>> NARRATOR: In North America,

early Cherokees believed in a

bloodthirsty creature that

slaughtered humans, drank their

blood and ate their livers...

known as the U'tlun'ta.

This demon was said to possess

eternal life while feeding

on the living.

>> CURRAN: The notion of the

thing from the spirit world

traveling through the various

Indian nations was a great fear

among not only the Cherokee but

also the Sioux and Arapaho.

>> NARRATOR: But who, or what,

are these mysterious creatures

and where did they come from?

Might they be, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrial beings

abandoned here on Earth?

In the ancient Jewish Talmud,

the Genesis story set in the

garden of Eden includes

Adam and Eve, but also a woman

called Lilith.

>> SKAL: In Jewish folklore,

Lilith was the first wife of

Adam.

She was created from the

same earth as Adam, not from his

rib as Eve was.

But she proved to be very

disobedient and uncontrollable

and had to be banished.

>> NARRATOR: According to the

Talmud, when Lilith refused to

obey Adam, God sent three angels

to convince her to submit to his

authority.

But when Lilith refused for the

final time, God condemned her to

live on Earth for eternity.

In a sense, Lilith was the first

vampire to wander the Earth.

She shared all of the

characteristics of female

vampires.

>> YOUNG: Lilith had the head

and breasts of a woman, the body

of a snake and the wings of a

bird, which is a terrifying

creature.

>> MICHAEL COOGAN: In Jewish

tradition, Lilith has been a

kind of night demon against whom

incantations and prayers have to

be offered because she will come

and snatch away an infant

sleeping in its crib, or at

least snatch away its soul

and cause it to die.

>> NARRATOR: But why are tales

of bloodsucking creatures so

prevalent throughout the ancient

world?

And what is it about blood‐‐

particularly human blood‐‐ that

makes it such a vital ingredient

in vampire mythology?

>> THOMPSON: Unlike the zombie,

the vampire is a soulful corpse.

A corpse where the soul sort of

refused to leave the body.

Very often this is because this

person who died was just so bad

and so evil that they were able

to not go on to the other world

or to Heaven or even to hell, as

the case may be.

>> SKAL: The vampire is not part

of this world and is not totally

part of the next world.

It is halted in its progression.

And that's why most vampire

legends and stories involve the

releasing of the soul of the

vampire so he can complete the

journey to the other side.

>> NARRATOR: Might blood and the

unique chemistry of it, serve as

a kind of cosmic fuel?

One that connects the living to

the dead?

The human to the inhuman?

The earthly to the

other‐worldly?

>> YOUNG: The Mayan culture had

a fascinating ritual.

The high king would slice

himself in his male organ to

intentionally bleed, and have a

rather extensive bloodletting

which, of course, would alter

his brain chemistry.

This would lead to an altered

state and a vision which would

indicate the future path for the

>> CHILDRESS: Blood is the life

force of humans and it was very

important to extraterrestrials,

too.

There's something very special

about our blood.

So we have to think that if

these blood sacrifices aren't

some distortion of what was

originally just

extraterrestrials showing us how

important our blood was.

>> NARRATOR: Might bloodletting,

both the shedding and the

drinking of it, have been, as

some scholars suggest, a chance

to commune with the gods and a

bid to obtain godlike

immortality?

Or did early humans simply

create myths and stories about

undead vampires and zombies as a

means of communicating their

ancestral connection to

extraterrestrial beings?

And if these beings actually

existed, might they not return?

>> NARRATOR: Judgment Day.

The day of reckoning.

In Judeo‐Christian and Muslim

traditions, it is the day at the

end of time, when God will

return and descend upon Earth to

judge the living and the dead

according to the good and evil

of their earthly lives.

Consistent with the most

commonly held beliefs, God's

return will follow a sequence of

events including Armageddon and

the annihilation of all

creatures, the resurrection

of the dead and the reuniting of

all souls with their physical

bodies.

>> PETERSON: The day of

reckoning is when each man and

woman is going to be held

accountable for every word that

they've said, for every action

that they've done.

Where God will judge the souls

of the living and the dead for

anything that they have done on

this planet.

>> YOUNG: The Jewish belief is

that, except for a pristine few,

most souls will go into a period

of review, about a year, in

which they go through their

lives and see the things they've

done wrong, learn a thing or two

and then go on to the world to

come.

>> PETERSON: Now the Muslims, or

Islam, everyone dies and God

raises them all back to life and

there is nothing but judgment

and the good Muslims will be

taken to paradise and the bad

ones will be thrown into outer

darkness.

>> NARRATOR: Christians believe

that Jesus Christ is the Son of

God, and that he will return to

Earth on the day of reckoning to

pass judgment on all souls, both

living and dead.

It is also the reason why

Christians believe the human

body should be buried and not

cremated after death.

But could the tombs and graves

of the world really open one day

and the dead rise again?

>> MICHAEL COOGAN: According to

traditional Christian belief,

God creates a human being at the

moment of conception...

by infusing into the newly

formed embryo an immortal soul.

And that fusion of raw material

and soul is what makes the human

person.

That's why at the day of

reckoning there has to be the

resurrection of the dead, so

that humans are restored to

their original unity as body as

soul combined.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient cultures

throughout time also believed

in the return of their gods

and a day of reckoning.

In ancient Mesoamerica, the

Aztecs believed in feathered

serpent gods that created the

universe, who would return one

day to destroy evil and bring

peace.

>> COLLINS: In Central America,

Quetzalcoatl the feathered

serpent was this wisdom bringer.

Sometimes said to have come down

from the sky world to spread

this heavenly knowledge and

wisdom and to bring salvation

to the world.

>> NARRATOR: Dating to 150 BC,

the Dead Sea Scrolls prophesize

that the Sons of Darkness will

be destroyed and the Sons of

Light will live in peace for all

eternity.

And the concept of an omnipotent

god who will return on Judgment

Day also appears in one of the

so‐called lost books of the

Bible‐‐ the Book of Enoch.

>> PETERSON: The Book of Enoch

talks about this great judgment

for the unrighteous.

That they will be judged with

fire.

That the Son of man will come

with 10,000 fiery angels and

they will judge mankind.

After the final judgment, the

Bible says the new Heaven is

created, the new Earth is

created and the New Jerusalem

descends from Heaven onto the

new Earth.

The New Jerusalem is this

cubical city 1,500 miles long,

wide and high, made of

translucent gold.

Many people would theorize that

maybe it's some sort of

spaceship, some sort of UFO.

>> NARRATOR: But could there be

an alien, or extraterrestrial,

origin to the biblical stories

of final judgment?

Might it be, as ancient

astronaut theorists contend, the

day when we are once again

visited by alien beings or

perhaps alien ancestors?

>> VON DANIKEN: Some thousands

of years ago extraterrestrials

were here.

They created first mankind by an

artificial mutation.

And now when they... they return

and, of course, the judgment

will be, "Have you done what we

were expecting for you?"

And the ones who understand what

happened in the past, they will

not be shocked, because they

knew and they expected all the

time what will happen.

>> CHILDRESS: In my mind, it's

when the extraterrestrials

genuinely return to our planet

and announce themselves, and

at that point, the humans

who have achieved enlightenment

will join with their brothers‐‐

the extraterrestrials,

ancient astronauts who created

us‐‐ and we'll all return to the

stars.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible, as

ancient astronaut theorists

propose, that in the end we are

destined to encounter our alien

origins, and if so, is there

really truth to the notion that

our existence does not end with

death?

>> NARRATOR: April, 1983, Carmel

California.

Along a scenic coastal highway

27‐year‐old Jessica Haynes was

sitting in the passenger seat of

a friend's car as they headed

north toward San Francisco.

>> JESSICA HAYNES: So we got to

Scenic Drive, and the last thing

I remember was, "Watch this."

>> NARRATOR: Suddenly the driver

lost control and slammed into a

tree.

(loud crash)

Jessica's friend sustained only

minor injuries, but Jessica's

body was severely injured.

>> HAYNES: The next thing I

remember is that I was in an

ambulance.

I could feel there was something

very wrong.

>> NARRATOR: Nearly dead,

Jessica was rushed into surgery

where she had an extraordinary

experience.

>> HAYNES: In the evening, I

felt a presence enter the room.

It was a very loving presence.

There was a sense that I could

shift into a different

dimension.

And in telepathy, the voice

said, "If you want to let go, it

will be okay."

I was aware that I would be

leaving my body.

And I said, "Yes."

I was instantly in another

place.

I no longer had a body.

I was now a point of light.

After a while, as I'm

experiencing this and being

this, a light appeared.

And I pulled into the light like

a tractor beam and merged into

it.

It was filled with thousands and

thousands and millions of

sparkling lights.

It was just beautiful.

And I thought, "I'm home, I'm

home!"

There's a sense that Earth,

people, where I'd worked, things

that I'd done, became more and

more of an illusion.

And there are presences on

either side.

Very loving presences.

Not male, not female.

It was very much all energy.

And everything was simultaneous.

So looking at my life again, I

realized I want to get back.

>> NARRATOR: Like thousands of

other near‐death accounts,

Jessica's story featured

elements that were eerily

consistent.

The bright white light, the

notion of a gateway or tunnel,

the presence of loved ones and

a feeling of peace and security.

>> NOORY: It is uncanny that

these people all seem to talk

about the same thing.

This tunnel, this effect, this

ability to transfer from one

point to the next.

And they all seem to be going

down the same path.

>> JEFF LONG: The more people

know about near‐death

experience, the more they

realize the profound evidence

that underlies the concept that

near‐death experiences are real.

>> NARRATOR: The Greek

philosopher Plato documented the

story of a soldier named Er, who

claimed that when slain in

battle, his soul went forth from

his body and journeyed with many

gods through a tunnel of light

to a mysterious place.

Er was shown by the gods that

good souls were sent up to

Heaven and were gloriously

rewarded.

But the bad souls were sent down

to a realm where they were

first punished, then purified

and then finally resurrected.

>> RICHARD RADER: What's

interesting is that he says, so

not only seeing the rewards and

the punishments, but seeing how

it is that souls are

reincarnated. This is what's

really radical about this.

It was totally new in the Greek

world‐‐ this conceiving of the

soul not only as immortal, but

reincarnated perpetually.

>> LONG: What's exciting is that

multiple lines of evidence are

pointing to the reality of a

soul.

In other words, there does seem

to be that spiritual, unearthly,

non‐physical part of us that

absolutely can transcend and

survive death and go on and

indeed live forever.

>> NARRATOR: Might these often

reported near‐death experiences

really be proof of an afterlife?

Proof that there is an eternal

soul?

That virtue is ultimately

rewarded and evil eternally

punished?

Or might these compelling

accounts provide evidence of

another, much more

extraterrestrial reality?

>> DOC BARHAM: Based upon a

commonality of this white light

experience, it seems like what

the individual experiences is

simply moving from one state to

another.

And as they do that, they will

move through something that

could be described as like a

wormhole.

>> NARRATOR: A central tenet of

the Indian traditions of

Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism,

is expressed in an ancient

Tibetan text that advises the

living on how to prepare for the

afterworld.

The text suggests concentrating

one's mind on a wormhole through

which the soul can travel to a

cosmic universe.

If done successfully, the soul

is liberated from the cycle of

life and death.

If not, the soul is

reincarnated into the body of a

newborn.

>> CHILDRESS: It's like we have

an instinctual knowledge that

with our death, our passing

from this existence, that we are

going to this other world.

>> COLLINS: At the point of

death we could find ourselves at

the other end of the universe.

>> BARHAM: When we die, most

cultural traditions talk about

traveling from this world to the

next or returning to our

original home.

You could look at it as the

possibility that all of these

places are simultaneously

coexisting.

They would be different layers

of different dimensions

coexisting simultaneously all

together at once.

>> NARRATOR: In the Law of

Biogenesis, published in 1864,

the chemist and microbiologist

Louis Pasteur proclaimed that

life evolves from preexisting

life, not from inanimate

material.

According to this landmark

theory, life is an unbroken

chain of living organisms that

go all the way back to the

origin of life in the universe.

If true, who, or what, is the

origin for human life?

>> CHILDRESS: All life on this

planet is interconnected, and

our own lives are connected back

to the primordial lives at the

very beginning of life on this

planet.

>> NARRATOR: Could the legends

and myths of life beyond death

that sprung from countless

civilizations over thousands of

years have been mere man‐made

fabrications, or might the

so‐called legends really be

truths that had been passed to

our ancestors by ancient

astronauts?

Perhaps what awaits all humans

is not death, but a profound

knowledge, one that will reveal

the truth of our earthly and

other‐worldly origins.

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