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>> NARRATOR: Luminous relics

in the shape of human skulls.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The skull

was cut against its grain.

This skull should not exist.

>> NARRATOR: Otherworldly

artifacts believed to harness

the secrets of the universe.

>> CHRIS MORTON: The skulls are

containers of great knowledge,

great wisdom, information vital

to the very survival of the

human race.

>> NARRATOR: Are they part of an

elaborate hoax?

>> GEORGE NOORY: These crystal

skulls may have some kind of

very strange mystical powers.

>> NARRATOR: Or do they reveal a

extraterrestrial agenda?

>> PHILIP COPPENS: Crystal

skulls are very much a powerful

weapon.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world beliee 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 proof be

found when we examine the

mysterious power of the crystal

skulls?

Skulls? ♪

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>> NARRATOR: December 12, 2012

Miami, Florida.

Just days before the Mayan

calendar is set to end, hundreds

converge here at the Miami.

Circle, an archaeological site

that was once a sacred center

for the Native American Tequesta

tribe.

They are gathered to witness a

native ritual involving an

ancient relic known as the

ancient relic known as the crystal skull.

Crystal skull.

Similar events centered around

these mysterious crystal

artifacts continue to draw large

crowds.

But why?

What is it about the crystal

skulls that has fascinated

mankind for centuries?

>> WILLIAM HENRY: Part of the

lore or prophecy of the crystal

skulls is that at certain times

of strife or perhaps impending

catastrophe, people will be able

to use the power of the skulls

to forestall that cataclysm.

Maybe events like we see

throughout the world at specific

dates are times when these

skulls can be brought back

together and their power can be

amplified.

>> MORTON: And according to the

legend, the skulls are

containers of great knowledge,

containers of great knowledge, great wisdom, information.

Great wisdom, information.

Common to all of these legends

is that these crystal skulls are

something particularly special

and actually, they believe, very

and actually, they believe, very important to humanity.

Important to humanity.

>> NARRATOR: Although there have

been literally hundreds of

crystal skulls found throughout

the world, according to legend,

there are only 13 which are

believed to possess an awesome,

mystical power.

>> COPPENS: The crystal skulls

have become so famous that the

field has been flooded with

dozens of modern skulls.

And on a number of occasions,

people who have possessed thes

skulls are trying to pretend as

if their skull is ancient.

And this, of course, is very

difficult because, at the same

time, we have the skeptics, the

scientists, who basically say it

is all fake.

And so, as a result of which,

we're really confronted with a

mixture of crystal skulls and a

very difficult situation.

>> NARRATOR: According to

crystal skulls enthusiasts, as

many as 12 of the 13 authentic

skulls have been discovered and

are in private collections.

But where did these so-called

authentic skulls come from?

And how were they discovered?

In the late 19th century,

museums in London and Paris

displayed crystal skulls as

genuine Mesoamerican religious

relics.

But today, mainstream scientists

argue they are all modern

creations.

They also insist that any

analysis of the skulls is

incomplete, as quartz crystal

cannot be carbon-dated.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: Quartz has no

carbon.

Quartz actually has no

radioactive elements in it.

It's pretty much pure silicon.

So the quartz itself has no real

signature that can be used to do

dating.

Even getting within 1,000 years

or 10,000 years, it gets almost

impossible to actually date it.

>> ROBERT SCHOCH: Authenticity

is something difficult to

determine when they've been

analyzed using modern scientific

techniques.

In some cases, there are

suggestions that modern tools

were being used.

Other people have suggested,

however, they were using very

sophisticated tools back in

ancient times.

>> MORTON: Some people believe

that because there are tool

markings on the teeth of some of

the crystal skulls that

therefore they are relatively

modern fakes.

However, there are others who

point out that actually the

ancient Maya had wheel-carving

technologies.

>> COPPENS: But to jump to the

conclusion that simply because

there are tool marks that

somehow this means it is a 19th

century fake is simply

unscientific.

>> NARRATOR: Like crystal skulls

enthusiasts, many ancient

astronaut theorists believe that

the 12 known ancient quartz

skulls do, in fact, have ancient

origins and believe they may

possess a great, perhaps even

otherworldly power, one that has

yet to be fully revealed.

>> HUGH NEWMAN: There is

something definitely ancient

about these skulls, and they're

not modern carvings.

There were suggestions that

these skulls may have been from

a nonhuman source.

The evidence for this is scarce,

but the-the mythologies and the

legends do suggest they were

known about in prehistoric times

known about in prehistoric times and they were revered.

And they were revered.

>> MORTON: Several Native

American tribes have similar

stories about ancient crystal

skulls that were said to have

been left behind by the earliest

ancestors way back in the mists

of time.

Some believe that these are

ancient artifacts left behind by

extraterrestrials or that they

were remnants left over from the

lost civilizations.

>> NARRATOR: According to

legend, the secret of the skulls

will be revealed when the

original 13 skulls come together

to form a global grid.

In fact, there are many who

believe that this so-called

"reunion of the skulls" will

awaken sacred knowledge of the

gods, knowledge that has been

hidden from mankind for

thousands of years.

>> TSOUKALOS: According to some.

Native American myths, there are

12 inhabited planets out there,

and each of those skulls

contains the information from

one of these planets, including.

Earth.

And the reason why there's a

13th skull is because the 13th

skull contains the knowledge of

all those planets.

It's basically a backup.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: It's

genuinely possible that some of

these crystal skulls are many,

many thousands of years old.

People have suggested, too, that

some crystal skulls aren't from

this planet and that they have

been brought here from other

solar systems.

And, of course, if that re the

case, they would have been

brought here by

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Crystal skulls with

extraterrestrial origins?

Is such a profound theory even

possible?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining one of the oldest

and most enigmatic crystal

and most enigmatic crystal skulls ever found.

Skulls ever found.

Lubaantun, Belize, Central.

America.

Here in the jungles of the

Yucatan Peninsula lay the ruins

of an ancient pre-Columbian city

that thrived in the eighth

century A.D.

In 1924, explorer Frederick

Albert Mitchell-Hedges and his

daughter Anna discover a

human-sized skull made of clear

quartz crystal.

It has a detachable jaw, making

it one of the most unique and

anatomically accurate of all the

crystal skulls.

>> HENRY: Mitchell-Hedges was

told by the Mayans that his

skull was over 3,600 years old.

This is fascinating because this

would predate Mayan

civilization.

>> NARRATOR: When

Mitchell-Hedges passed away in

1959, the skull was bestowed to

his daughter Anna.

She guarded the skull for more

than a decade before allowing it

to be studied.

>> CHILDRESS: And it was studied

by a guy named Frank Dorland,

and what he found was that the

skull was completely baffling to

him.

He would come down at night to

find the room completely

glowing, and the crystal skull

was literally lighting up itself

a dark room like it was a light.

All kinds of strange phenomena

would happen around the skull,

including people would hear

strange sounds and smell things

like sudden flowers and things

like that in the room with no

explanation but that it was

coming from the skull.

So all kinds of unusual things

were happening around the skull,

and Dorland himself couldn't

figure out how the skull had

been made.

>> COPPENS: When it comes to the

Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull,

it has been analyzed on a number

of occasions: Frank Dorland in

the 1960s did it as a private

individual; Hewlett-Packard did

it as well; And the British.

Museum did a very short analysis

in 1980 as well.

So this skull has been subjected

to a number of detailed

scientific analyses.

In all of those occasions, what

was found was that it was almost

impossible for a human being to

make this.

>> MORTON: One of the scientists

that examined the skull actually

said, "This skull shouldn't even

exis".

And that is really what led to

the idea that perhaps these

crystal skulls were not made by

humans at all.

And many people to this day

still believe that to be the

case.

>> TSOUKALOS: The entire

mythology of the Mayans is based

on extraterrestrial encounters

in the past.

Mitchell-Hedges was told by the

locals that their ancestors gave

that skull to them.

My question is, who were those

ancestors, and is theiigin

out there?

And the answer, of course,

And the answer, of course, is yes.

Is yes.

>> NARRATOR: Could the

Mitchell-Hedges skull really be

an ancient, extraterrestrial

relic, as ancient astronaut

theorists suggest?

And if so, might this skull and

others like it around the world

really possess supernatural

powers?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found by examining the history

of another crystal skull, one

linked to an ancient aboriginal

linked to an ancient aboriginal tribe half a world away.

Tribe half a world away.

>> NARRATOR: The Melanesian

islands off the coast of Papua.

New Guinea.

Eighth century A.D.

According to legend, aboriginal

tribal leaders set sail east

toward the Hawaiian Islands.

They carry with them a highly

revered ancestral crystal skull.

Today, that skull, known as.

Synergy, is under the care of

guardian Sherry Whitfield.

It was given to her as a gift by

a European businessman.

>> SHERRY WHITFIELD: When I

first got the skull, I only knew

a little bit of the history of

it.

I knew that it had come across

the Pacific in a reed canoe.

It had been in Hawaii, on Easter.

Island, with the people of the

sky.

In the 1600s, the skull was

given to a young nun in Peru.

On her deathbed in 1720, she

passed the skull to a native

family and said, "Keep the skull

until the right person comes."

And she gave them the history.

And they disappeared into the.

And they disappeared into the jungle.

Jungle.

>> NARRATOR: In 2005, Whitfield

was contacted by a

representative of the aboriginal

tribe who saw a photograph of.

Synergy in a newspaper.

>> WHITFIELD: And he said he

brought the photos and he

brought the little skull to the

shaman and the chief, and

everything stopped.

And they declared 24 hours of

feasting and telling stories

about the skulls.

It was really cool because,

really, they don't talk that

much about the skulls in their

everyday life.

It's part of their sacred

secrets and their teachings.

Now, they say that they didn't

make the skull, that it was

passed to them as a legacy, so

it's an ancestral object.

Their legend is that their tribe

was started by a white man and a

black man, twins.

Their whole religion revolves

around twins.

And they have the twin of this

skull.

Their legends are that there

were two of these skulls made

identical.

There's a powerful spirit in

crystal skulls.

>> MICHAEL HAMSON: Melanesia is

populated by all different

classifications of spirits, of

ancestral spirits, meaning

spirits of the remote ancestors

that have to do with a

particular group's creation

story or recently dead

ancestors.

Spiritual energy in Melanesian

society is just not for people.

It can be in places, in objects,

It can be in places, in objects, in plants and animals.

In plants and animals.

>> NARRATOR: The notion of a

spiritual energy that resides in

inanimate objects is widespread

throughout the South Pacific.

Anthropologists who studied.

Melanesian societies in the 19th

and early 20th centuries termed

this supernatural force "mana."

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: The idea of

mana is that there is a divine

gical energy that is both the

source of life and a kind of

animating presence in things, in

places, in people.

There is reverence for specific

objects because they sm

particularly strong in this

magical power.

Some believe that the power

comes from ancestral sources and

that the older the ancestors,

the greater the power.

>> HAMSON: These things are

incredibly important to the

people in all aspects of life

like warfare, hunting,

gardening, fishing, any type of

thing that normal human beings

can't control.

And these objects with this

ancestral spirit energy, if you

control them right and access

them right and speak to them

right and get their permission

and get their aid and get their

help, they can, in effect,

pre-kill your enemy prior to

pre-kill your enemy prior to battle.

Battle.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible for objects like

crystal skulls to be possessed

by otherworldly spirits, as.

South Pacific islanders believe?

And if so, where do these

spirits come from?

>> TSOUKALOS: In the South.

Pacific, their ancestral myths

talk about people descending

from the sky.

One of the mythologies talks

about two brothers descending

from the sky, Barkulkul and.

Marelul.

And the time in which they

spent, it was considered to be.

After that time ended, guess

what, the two of them went back

up into the sky to return where

they came from, the stars.

>> COPPENS: The core message of

crystal skulls is that... our

ancestors are very specific...

That these are divine, that

these are ancient.

Some of them are definitely

known to be used for divination,

whereby somebody basically makes

contact with an intelligence who

is either contactable or

resident within this crystal

skull.

>> NARRATOR: Could crystal

skulls really provide a link to

mankind's extraterrestrial

ancestors, as many ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

And if so, is there something

unique about the properties of

these translucent objects that

could enable them to contain

could enable them to contain supernatural powers?

Supernatural powers?

Anglesey, British Isles.

60 A.D.

Roman soldiers conquer the last

stronghold of the Druids, a

class of mystics and priests

whose roots stretch back to the

dawn of European civilization.

>> SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Everything

that we know about the Druids,

we know through their enemies,

the Romans, who went to a great

deal of trouble to exterminate

the Druids because they saw

them, rightly, as social

organizers, as important leaders

around whom the Celtic tribes

coalesced.

Many powers get attributed to

the Druids... for example, that

the Druids held mystical

knowledge.

The Druids had a philosophy of

reincarnation.

>> YOUNG: The Druids used

crystal to tell fortunes, to

read the future, to do ecstatic

mystical rituals.

The Scot Highlanders called

these "stones of power."

There's something about the

crystal clarity, the strange

experience of staring into it,

the things one can imagine.

And the crystal ball that grew

out of this and used by more

recent seers really helped a

person slip into a sort of

trance state from which they're

able to imagine or hear or

experience or see something that

is taken as important

information.

The information was considered

to come from the gods or the

spirits.

>> COPPENS: Gazing into a

crystal ball was another means

in medieval times as to how to

come into contact with the world

of the divine, to make contact

of the divine, to make contact with otherworldly intelligences.

With otherworldly intelligences.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

ancient cultures accessed other

dimensions through the use of

crystal objects, as some ancient

astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might there be a

scientific reason why divination

objects like crystal skulls are

made of this unique material?

>> HENRY: Crystal has a unique

lattice structure, and some

people beliehat it has an

other-dimensional quality.

It can transmit and receive

messages from other dimensions

and is actually

other-dimensional substance

itself.

Crystal's ability to communicate

inter-dimensionally could

explain why people throughout

history have used crystal balls

to foretell the future or even

to look into the past.

>> MORTON: And it's interesting

because when you think of the

legend that crystal skulls were

containers of great knowledge,

then perhaps there is vast

amounts of information, as the.

Native American elders say,

inside a crystal skull.

>> CHILDRESS: Ancient people

were very much aware of how

important crystals are and how

they are, in a sense, a

high-tech object.

But how would they know that?

They had to have these high-tech

objects in the past, either used

by the ancient people or, in a

sense, brought to us by

sense, brought to us by extraterrestrials.

Extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Could the inht

properties in crystal allow for

inter-dimensional communications

and assistance, as some

researchers suggest?

And might this extraordinary

power be used for other,

possibly more sinister

purposes?

Perhaps the answers can be found

by examining the tales

surrounding another quartz

crystal skull, one possessed by

one of the most brutal leaders

one of the most brutal leaders in human history.

In human history.

>> NARRATOR: Lhasa, Tibet.

March 1959.

As the Chinese begin to invade

this capital city, the Dalai.

Lama and a small group of high

lamas flee into the treacherous.

Himalayan mountains, risking

imprisonment, torture and even

death to make the 14-day trek

to Nepal.

According to reports, in their

possession was a 22-pound

crystal skull named Amar.

>> JOHN DESALVO: I've heard

many stories about a high lama

who fled from China, took a

large crystal skull.

Other Tibetan monks who risked

their lives hiding crystal

skulls when the Chinese came.

So, that tells me there also is

something more than just a

physical infatuation with these

objects, that there's some

spiritual component.

>> DAVID WILCOCK: We have a

Tibetan priest who hauls a

22-pound crystal skull out of

Tibet, specifically to stop it

from getting into the wrong

hands.

Building a human skull out of

crystal could serve as a sort of

antenna for the consciousness of

someone who is a highly-adept

meditator to be able to focus

their minds for the purposes of

healing, or potentially, for

destructive purposes.

>> NARRATOR: If the stories are

true, why did the skull's

caretakers go to such great

lengths to protect the 22-pound

object?

Could there really be a

potentially dangerous component

to the Amar skull and other

crystal skulls, especially if

one were to fall into the wrong

one were to fall into the wrong hands?

Hands?

Bavaria, Germany.

March 2011.

A 20-pound crystal skull is

discovered at the former home of

a high-ranking Nazi SS officer.

Some researchers believe the

skull was once owned by Heinrich.

Himmler, the sinister henchman

of Adolf Hitler and the man who

oversaw the extermination of

millions of people during World.

War II.

>> KEN STORCH: I, for one,

think that probably Heinrich.

Himmler, uh, had procured a.

Himmler, uh, had procured a crystal skull.

Crystal skull.

The Nazis were really obsessed

with procuring ancient

knowledge, and part of that

ancient knowledge was with the

crystal skull.

In the waning days of World War.

II, the Nazis were heavily

involved in the wonder weapon

that was going to change the

course of the war and pronounce

them as victorious.

>> NOORY: Nazis, specifically

Hitler, loved the occult.

There's no question that Adolf

Hitler, as barbaric and as

insane as he was, was into the

occult and desperately wanted to

possess all these things,

because he believed that they

would give the Nazis incredible

powers.

>> NICK REDFERN: They basically

wen the hunt for as many of

these relics and artifacts as

they could find to try and find

out if these ancient religious

relics contained fantastic

powers that could be used

against the Allies during the.

Second World War.

>> HENRY: The Nazis were

obsessed with skulls and skull

imagery, and especially the

knowledge of the ancestors.

It's not a stretch, with their

interest in ancient occult

legends and lore, that the Nazis

knew of the tremendous power of

the crystal skull.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible, as

many ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that Hitler's henchman,

Heinrich Himmler, acquired a

crystal skull in an effort to

direct its power against those

who opposed the Third Reich?

>> MORTON: The legend says that

mankind has to be sufficiently

prepared for the knowledge that

the crystal skulls contain,

because, apparently, this is

knowledge that can either be

abused or used for good.

>> COPPENS: In the case of

Heinrich Himmler, what we're

seeing is a man who is going to

will his power over everybody

else.

And the question is whether he

used the skull into trying to

get people to do certain things.

Crystal skulls are said to

somehow be able to transform the

intention of a human being.

And this is very much a powerful

weapon.

This is something which can be

used against other human beings.

>> NARRATOR: Are ancient crystal

skulls, like the one possessed

by Heinrich Himmler, really

amplifiers of energy, both

positive and negative?

And, if so, could the possession

of a skull really give its owner

potentially destructive powers?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the possible reason

why these mysterious crystal

relics were fashioned in the

shape of human skulls in the

first place.

>> WILCOCK: It may be that

building a crystal in the exact

shape of the human cranium does

have some sort of energetic

quality.

The crystallized form of the

human skull was believed to

represent the eminence of the

soul upon death.

It may even be possible that

that crystal skull, when it

focuses this human energy field,

could be used as a form of

propelling the aspirant into an

out-of-body experience, to

resonate with their own skull,

to raise the frequency of their

bioenergy field, so that they

can achieve this out-of-body

state.

>> YOUNG: One interesting thing

about a crystal skull is a

crystal is a clear thing, and

the idea of a skull is a very

dark idea.

So you have light and dark

combined in the same symbol, and

a kind of wisdom comes out of

seeing something combined, a

holistic bridging of the light

and the dark.

>> MAGLIOCCO: Skull motifs are

common really throughout the

world to signify death and

another world, the world of the

dead.

In these mythologies, there was

another world... a death world...

To which everybody went, really,

when they died.

And it was very parallel to our

own world.

>> DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: In Tibetan.

Buddhism, the skull is very

powerful.

It has a deep, deep meaning,

because it stands for death.

It also stands for the

transcendence of death,

overcoming of death.

So it's a symbol that also

represents impermanence of life.

>> NARRATOR: Were 13 ancient

crystal objects shaped like

human skulls in an effort to

suggest they might have the

power of life and death?

If so, what is the source of

such an awesome ability?

And why has it been lost to

mankind for centuries?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answers might be

found in a mythical lost

civilization, one that vanished

civilization, one that vanished overnight.

Overnight.

>> NARRATOR: Atlantis.

In two of his famous dialogues,

Timaeus and Critias, the fourth

century B.C. Greek philosopher

Plato describes this "lost"

"continent" as an island founded

by Poseidon, the god of the sea.

>> RICHARD RADER: Atlantis, at

least as imagined by Plato, was

very advanced technologically.

Had very advanced and

progressive ideas about justice,

of law.

In addition to being a sort of

technological marvel, it's also

a model of ethical,

philosophical and moral

civilization, as well.

>> NARRATOR: According to

ancient astronaut theorists,

the Atlantians also used objects

made of crystal, not only as a

means of harnessing energy, but

as a means to store important

information, much like a

computer.

>> HENRY: Part of lore and

legend of Atlantis is that the

priests had taken the ancient

relics and sacred knowledge of

Atlantis and deposited it, or

perhaps even encoded it, into

crystal objects, including

skulls.

>> NARRATOR: According to

legend, the continent of

Atlantis mysteriously

disappeared thousands of years

ago.

But if Atlantis actually

existed, is it possible that a

handful of its citizens

survived?

And might crystal skulls be

among the objects that survived

with them?

Could this explain why 12 of

what are thought to be the

original 13 skulls were found in

nearly every part of the world?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and for evidence, point to

the curious similarities that

exist between the ancient Mayans

and modern-day Tibetans.

>> COPPENS: What we're finding

is that in those places across

the world which have said to

have been a place of refuge, in

those places, we have crystal

skulls, specifically Tibet,

specifically the Mayan world.

Those two areas are specifically

linked as being identified as

refuges of the Atlantis

civilization.

>> NARRATOR: But what would be

so important about the crystal

skulls that would compel the

doomed citizens of Atlantis to

risk their lives in an effort to

risk their lives in an effort to escape with them?

Escape with them?

Tokyo, Japan.

2012.

The engineering and electronics

company, Hitachi, reveals a

revolutionary data storage

device, a quartz glass chip,

which will preserve encoded

information for millions of

years.

>> DENNIN: Hitachi announced

some very exciting breakthroughs

in etching data into actual

quartz crystal type materials.

And so, by figuring out a way to

burn little holes in the quartz

using high-powered lasers,

you've now created your ones and

zeros, and they were actually

doing it at a scale where you

can just look at it with a

microscope and see the ones and

zeroes and read it out.

>> TSOUKALOS: That chip, if

intact, can be read a million

years from now.

But that also takes into

question, how do you read the

chip?

Because you need to have the

device with which to actually

access the information.

And that is the problem we are

experiencing with the crystal

skulls.

If they contain knowledge, we

don't know where the "on" button

is.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: I would

not exclude that in a crystal

skull, there is a message,

because we can make the most

modern little chips out of

crystals.

So, I really suggest it has to

do something with

extraterrestrials.

Maybe there is information in

the crystal skull.

But we have not the technology

to reach this information.

This is a question of the

future.

>> NARRATOR: Modern science has

researched and explored the use

of quartz crystal in

cutting-edge technology and

communication.

But some ancient astronaut

theorists believe that there is

evidence that the ancients also

recognized the potential of this

uniquely conductive mineral.

>> SCHOCH: Quartz is said to be

able to hold power, to be able

to absorb energy.

It's been suggested that maybe

the ancients used quartz to

somehow record things in some

way that we don't quite

understand, or possibly not to

record so much, but to tap into

other realms.

Or to be able to use as

communication devices.

>> CHILDRESS: Certain types of

receivers, crystal radios,

television sets, other types of

communication, and even power

for spaceships, can be done

through quartz crystals.

NASA even does special

experiments in space where they

want to grow perfect quartz

crystals.

So, the idea of quartz crystal

technology being used by

extraterrestrials as kind of

high-tech technology makes a lot

of sense.

>> COPPENS: What we know as a

fact is that crystal is able to

store information.

So, what we need to ask

ourselves is whether crystal

skulls were made out of crystal

because our ancestors wanted to

put information in them.

While we might not have a means

of extracting it, I think we

really require it, for

ourselves, to try and make an

effort to see what kind of

information might be present

within these crystal skulls.

>> TSOUKALOS: When we hear

these stories about having to

bring together all those crystal

skulls, where does this premise

come from, this idea that they

have to come together, and then,

something important happens?

Well, could it be that each

crystal skull might be some type

of a computer chip, and that

they belong to some motherboard

of some extraterrestrial

computer, and that the only way

it works, if all those skulls

come together?

>> NARRATOR: Might crystal

skulls really be part of an

elaborate ancient computer

system?

Could they be data-gathering

devices, used for both recording

and transmitting information?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found by measuring the

electromagnetic energy field, or

aura, surrounding an actual

aura, surrounding an actual crystal skull... named Einstein.

Crystal skull... named Einstein.

>> NARRATOR: This is Einstein,

believed to be the largest

ancient crystal skull as yet

discovered.

Its owner, Carolyn Ford, says

she obtained the 33-pound

crystal object more than 20

years ago, and that she was

unaware that it possessed any

strange abilities until the day

when, she claims, it actually

communicated with her.

>> FORD: It was revealed to me

by Einstein the moment that

I got him, when I knew nothing

about crystal skulls, he said,

"I'm an ancient computer."

In fact, I'm a master computer.

And we record everything, like a

live feed 24/7.

"And that's our purpose."

He's been recording history on

this planet since the beginning

of time, so indeed, he was in

Atlantis.

A lot of the ancient crystal

skulls have been in Atlantis,

and even before that time.

>> NARRATOR: Could the so-called.

"Einstein skull" really be an

artifact from the lost

civilization of Atlantis, as

civilization of Atlantis, as its owner claims?

Its owner claims?

[bird screeching]

Sedona, Arizona.

2013.

>> CHILDRESS: It's very clear

down here, and then it gets

cloudy.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut

theorist David Childress enlists

the help of aura photography

expert Jamie Jones in an effort

to test the Einstein skull for

unusual energy pulses or auras.

These auras appear as colors

that correspond to various

physical, emotional, mental and

spiritual states.

>> JONES: With aura technology,

we're able to use biofeedback

imaging to pick up

electromagnetic energy field

around the human body, and by

looking at this, it's amazing.

It's like our blueprint for our

life.

And these energies are

represented in colors.

I'm not expecting any energy to

be coming out of the inanimate

object.

So, I'm a little skeptical in

that I'm not sure, um, what to

expect when I photograph the

skull.

And, um, I've been told a lot

of things about skulls, as far

as information that they're

holding, what civilizations

they're from, or if they're

actually from the

extraterrestrials.

So, I'm kind of excited to see

this particular skull and what

it emits.

>> CHILDRESS: Hi, Jamie.

>> JONES: Hi.

>> FORD: Hey.

>> CHILDRESS: And this is

Carolyn, and wow, here is the

skull.

>> JONES: Wow. This is fabulous.

>> CHILDRESS: So what do we do?

>> JONES: These are biofeedback

censors.

>> FORD: Okay.

>> JONES: And they're gonna be

reading the energy, if there's

energy around the skull, so

you're gonna place it on here

for me. Perfect.

>> CHILDRESS: So it has to go on

both of the two sensors?

>> FORD: This section here.

>> JONES: Yes, because both

sensors are picking up energy,

so we want as much coverage as

possible.

Okay, that's perfect. All right.

>> CHILDRESS: All right, and

now, um, you just take a photo

of it, huh?

>> JONES: We're gonna take a

picture.

All right.

>> CHILDRESS: I don't have

really big expectations,

honestly, but I think there is

some energy in the skull, so

maybe this aura camera can pick

it up.

[beeping]

>> JONES: All right, and here is

the aura of the skull.

>> FORD: Wow.

Oh, look at those colors!

>> CHILDRESS: Okay. Wow.

>> JONES: That is amazing.

It's amazing.

>> FORD: Really?

>> CHILDRESS: So... so what are

we looking at here?

I mean, here we can see the

skull.

>> JONES: It seems to be very

strong, warrior-type protective

energy, and if you look closely,

that energy is arced over.

>> FORD: Right.

>> JONES: Literal arc of

protection over the skull.

>> FORD: Yeah, that's beautiful.

>> JONES: Now, the blue that we

see throughout the entire

picture is wisdom and knowledge

from traveling many lifetimes

and many dimensions.

Obviously, this skull has some

consciousness and energy around

it...

>> FORD: Right, yes.

>> JONES: ...that it emanates

quite strongly, and these other

beings with it, as well.

>> FORD: 'Cause he calls himself

theSkull of Consciousness.

>> JONES: Oh, there you go, see?

>> CHILDRESS: Ah, is that right?

>> FORD: Yeah, yeah, so, um...

>> JONES: See? Quite profound.

>> CHILDRESS: I was surprised

really that the aura camera

would pick up so much energy

from the skull and the different

colors.

There's something there.

>> NARRATOR: Does the

photographed energy field

surrounding Einstein help to

prove that the crystal skull

could, in fact, be some sort of

recording device?

An extraterrestrial ct used

to harness both energy and

information?

Perhaps until all 13 legendary

skulls are discovered, their

true power will remain a

mystery.

>> STORCH: You got to ask

yourself, what happens when we

do find those crystal skulls

that have been around for eons,

and we put all 13 together?

Is the legend going to come.

Is the legend going to come true?

True?

>> CHILDRESS: Part of this

legend is that, yes, these 13

crystal skulls are

extraterrestrial skulls.

And when the 13 skulls are

together, it'll create a new

together, it'll create a new epoch for planet Earth.

Epoch for planet Earth.

>> NOORY: I think this planet

is up in arms.

So, if the legend's true that

the crystal skulls are g

join together and create this

incredible power to help us, it

better be sooner than later.

>> MORTON: There is certainly a

belief amongst certain Native

American tribes, when humanity

is at its most desperate, all

of these original ancient

crystal skulls will come back

together, and that they will

divulge their knowledge and

wisdom that can help the human

race survive.

They specifically say that what

will come out of the crystal

skulls is the lesson that we are

all connected.

>> WILCOCK: So, perhaps the

journey to find these crystal

skulls is going to help unravel

the truth of ancient human

origins, which may include the

fact that we are not indigenous

to this planet and that the

human form is far more sacred

than we believe.

>> NARRATOR: Could there really

be a network of crystal skulls

that will, when reunited,

harness powerful forces?

And, if so, will they reveal the

truth about mankind's purpose?

There are many who believe the

answer is a profound "yes" and

that the evidence is right

before our eyes.

And as clear... as crystal.

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