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NARRATOR: A mysterious cloth bearing a divine image.

It represents the supernatural transformation of a human.

NARRATOR: Gold hats worn by strange, mystical beings.

The wearing of a golden hat would tend to amplify

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

NARRATOR: And powerful stones believed

to have otherworldly origins.

It is said that every wish was granted.

NARRATOR: Could these mysterious objects simply

be the targets of human imagination,

or are they evidence of something even more profound?

We have to wonder if possibly all of these metallic books

aren't part of some extraterrestrial library.

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, might the evidence be found in the world's most

mysterious relics?

The White House, February 11, 2013.

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

Sergeant Clinton Romesha for his courageous actions

during the deadly battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: These 53 Americans

were surrounded by more than 300 Taliban fighters.

If you seek a measure of that day,

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

grace their chests.

NARRATOR: This tradition of honoring brave soldiers

by decorating their chest with medals

dates back to at least the second century.

BC when the ancient Roman military used sculpted disks

of medal to reward superior acts of service.

But why?

What is it about the properties of metal

that make them chosen objects of adornment and commemoration?

The tradition of adoring people with metal

really goes back thousands of years.

In the case of the bible, we have stories

about how the priests actually had to wear certain medals

before they were able to enter the holy of holies

and make contact with the divine.

Today, we are confronted with symbolism.

Our heroes are given pins and medals because somehow we

set them apart as great people who somehow have superseded

the human race.

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

NARRATOR: Do certain metals actually

enhance mankind's ability to connect with divine,

or some would say extraterrestrial forces?

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

along with other metal adornments and relics,

have been so prized throughout human history?

Definitely, the belief is that we hold the relic dear

because the relic is link either to a deity

or to something magical.

Relics can be any number of things...

Pieces of wood, bits of statues.

Literally anything can be a relic

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

And that means you have a piece of the god,

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

It seems to have always been the case with human beings

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

either from the gods, to do with the gods,

or in some way associated with the gods.

NARRATOR: Berlin, Germany, 1996.

The Museum of Prehistory and Early History

acquires a glittering artifact from an anonymous Swiss

collector.

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

and embellished with dozens of sun and moon symbols.

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

throughout Europe, and is believed by historians to date

back as far as 1000 BC.

What is so important about them

is that they indicate that there was a common culture.

The images on them represent astronomy, the study

of the stars.

They also have complicated mathematical implications,

suggesting a level of philosophical development

that's very advanced for what we thought

was available at that time.

NARRATOR: German researchers carefully studied the symbols

on the golden hat, and concluded they represent

a complex mathematical table.

One that can accurately calculate the long-term cycles

of the sun and the moon.

But how could such ancient people

have been able to make such advanced and highly

sophisticated astronomical predictions?

The suggestion is that they belong to what might

be referred to as oracles...

People that could fall into an altered state and prophesize,

could come up with statements relating to the future

or otherworldly situations.

NARRATOR: Though most mainstream scholars believe

these mysterious hats were worn by king-priests

during religious ceremonies, ancient astronaut theorists

have another, even more astounding, theory.

The golden hats are kind of interesting,

because if gold is something that actually enhances

your connection with energies and higher-up celestial beings,

then the wearing of a golden hat,

especially in a conical shape, would tend to amplify

the signal that you were getting from on high.

So it seems to me that ancient cultures logically

would build them to get connected with the gods who had

perhaps left them behind and gone back

to their celestial birthplace.

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

there is that all of this technology

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

again, it seems this is a civilization which made contact

with the gods.

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

And they're so incredibly unusual and tall.

Perhaps the extraterrestrial gods

were wearing some kind of conical hat like this.

NARRATOR: Could the so-called king-priests

of the ancient past have been otherworldly visitors utilizing

metals' unique properties?

If so, might additional evidence be

found of other ancient peoples using metal relics

for advanced, even metaphysical, purposes?

Khirbet Qumran, Israel, 1952.

Hidden deep in a cave on the desert cliffs,

archaeologists discover a mysterious 2000-year-old

manuscript written on a sheet of copper.

Known as the Copper Scroll, this mysterious relic

was found at the same site as the ancient religious writings

known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

While the Dead Sea Scrolls that have been found

were written on either leather or papyrus,

the Copper Scroll is the only one made of copper.

You got to keep in mind copper was valuable,

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

and a lot of technique.

So it has to be very important.

NARRATOR: Scholars examining the language

on the Copper Scroll agree it is unlike anything found

in other texts of the period.

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

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

It also has Greek letters on it.

So it's quite peculiar.

The thing that makes the Copper Scroll so fascinating

is that it mentions hidden treasures.

The Copper Scroll lists 64 locations

in Jerusalem and around that area that

buried treasure is located.

Maybe the key is in the 64th location,

it says there is another copper scroll that will help explain

the rest of it.

Because we haven't found the treasure yet,

I somehow suspect there could be another code

within this treasure map, a code within a code.

NARRATOR: What is the origin of the mysterious Copper Scroll,

and what is its true purpose?

Mainstream scholars and archaeologists

have been puzzled by these questions for more than half

a century.

Maybe the Copper Scroll is missing a piece.

Many times with treasure maps, you need a second piece

in order to complete the entire map.

So who knows if there's a piece missing?

It seems to be an oddball artifact,

and it's written in metal.

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

supposedly written in sheets of gold.

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

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

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

written in copper or gold plates aren't

part of some extraterrestrial library.

NARRATOR: Could the mysterious Copper Scroll

have extraterrestrial origins?

And is the fact that it is made of copper evidence

of a connection between metal objects and otherworldly

beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and believe further proof

can be found by examining the similarly strange properties

attributed to other mysterious relics found

all over the world.

Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, July, 2010.

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

six small human bone fragments are discovered inside a marble

sarcophagus.

Through radiocarbon dating and DNA testing of one knuckle

bone, scientists conclude that the bones

are from the first century AD.

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

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

In Christianity, John the Baptist

is specifically important because he

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

comes before the Messiah.

And in the stories of John the Baptist,

he becomes extremely important for Christians

because he announces that a greater Messiah is coming

after him.

And the legends around John's bones

were always legends of extreme power.

John was a prophet.

NARRATOR: Now on tour in churches throughout Bulgaria,

tens of thousands of the faithful come to visit,

pray, and even worship these tiny bone fragments.

But why?

What is it about ancient bones, even those thought

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

and visit them?

Could it be they possess some mystical or otherworldly power?

The idea of saints' bones and relics having power

is something that goes back to the very early days

of Christianity.

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

Ages, they became very big business.

If you had saints' relics in your church

or in your cathedral, you could bring

in a lot of pilgrims, who would also

bring in a lot of donations.

There was a strong belief by the nobility and the royalty

that the bones of these saints actually

did contain some kind of power.

Humans always want to worship their celebrities, their kings.

Whatever was linked with mysteries, humans worship it.

So in antiquity, it [inaudible] already into altars.

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

were sometimes separated, brought to different countries,

and everyone worshipped the bone in an altar.

That still happen in Christianity.

NARRATOR: Kushinagar, India, 483 BC.

Siddhartha Gautama, the great spiritual teacher upon whom.

Buddhism is founded, dies.

According to legend, after Buddha was cremated,

several small pieces of his body remained intact

and were retrieved from the ashes.

After his cremation, the ashes were fought over

by a lot of his disciples.

And finally, they resolved the problem

by dividing them into eight different pots.

When the Buddha's ashes were divided,

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

it was considered as very valuable.

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

the relic, the tooth relic itself,

became associated with the power of kingship.

And is believed that the king who possesses the tooth

would be able to rule properly, and there

would be peace and prosperity in his kingdom.

NARRATOR: Could such a tiny but tangible relic

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

Is a physical link to a holy and venerated leader really

a means of connecting to the afterlife, and even more

profoundly some divine life force?

The worship of relics actually is

as old as the Buddha's religion itself,

and in many other religions, too.

The Buddha himself approves of the worship of relics

because he believes that his followers need something very

concrete to remind them of his presence and his teachings.

The relics are supposed to be actually the essence

of the saints, so in a way, the relics

are the saint themselves.

So they have the powers of the saint.

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

can gain such an incredible spiritual value?

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

of the importance of individuals like the Buddha

who are seen to be personification of God

or the gods themselves.

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

imbued you with the same power as the gods themself.

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

We give them power, these bones and these teeth.

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

is a piece of DNA from the Buddha himself.

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

the extraterrestrials would return again.

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

on the planet Earth if we find your body,

your cells are still existing, then

we are able to reconstruct your body.

NARRATOR: Cloning dead saints using DNA from their relics.

Could this incredible notion be one of the reasons

why bone fragments and other human remains

have been so prized throughout the centuries?

And might this now very real scientific possibility

be connected to ancient religious notions of rebirth

and resurrection?

Perhaps the answers can be found in another mysterious relic

that some believe depicts the greatest religious figure

of all time.

The Cathedral of Turin, Northern Italy.

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

A large piece of linen, which when photographed

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

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

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

And what's so important about this cloth

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

who appears to have been crucified,

which matches the biblical descriptions of Jesus Christ.

So many believe that this shroud, this relic,

is the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ

and bears the wounds of crucifixion.

The Shroud of Turin has such a fascinating history.

And the question is, is it authentic?

Those who are against it say no, this could easily

have been a fake, and a body would never have

left such an image, and so on.

The chemicals of an embalmed body

would not [inaudible] such a thing.

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

the figure did get there.

It's not painted.

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

The shroud has been studied actually

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

And with all of the scientific knowledge and equipment,

we still do not know how the image of the shroud

was produced.

And this is what I think continues to fascinate us

about it, regardless of what you believe,

whether you are a Christian and a believer,

and believe that this is the image of the resurrected

Christ, or if you just believe that there

is some other extraordinary metaphysical event

that causes this...

You have to be fascinated by the fact

that this extraordinary relic could not have been created

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

NARRATOR: Could the Shroud of Turin really

be a divine relic...

Tangible evidence of the existence of an almighty power?

In 2011, Italian scientists were

able to prove that the Shroud of Turin

was created by a supernatural flash of light,

an unearthly flash of light.

In my opinion, the Shroud of Turin

is proof that Jesus transformed himself into a being of light

and projected himself through the Shroud of Turin.

NARRATOR: Does the Shroud of Turin

actually contain an image of the crucified Jesus?

Or could this sacred object be something else?

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

otherworldly technology?

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

perplexing, ancient artifact...

One found on a land known as the Emerald Isle.

Southern Ireland.

Here, approximately five miles northwest of the small city

of Cork, lies the Blarney Castle.

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

fortress houses the world-famous Blarney Stone,

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

It is not in a convenient location.

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

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

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

a very great distance.

According to legend, it grants whoever kisses it the power

to speak in an articulate and charismatic way

and to flatter and blandish in any circumstance.

Here you have a stone that has been kissed and revered

by probably millions of people.

Blarney is the gift of gab, and so the idea

is that somehow kissing this stone

gives you the ability to talk better,

or to somehow amplify your verbal prowess.

NARRATOR: Composed of a single block of blue stone,

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

magical powers are widely renowned.

But could a stone really have such power...

One that could actually affect an individual's power

of speech?

And the story is in the 15th century,

Cormac McCarthy had a court case coming up,

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

Cliodhna, the Queen of the Banshees,

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

She did.

She said, listen, on your way to court,

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

you'll find the words.

And he did this.

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

On his way home, he picked up that rock

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

and set it into the wall of his castle,

where it is still to be found.

When you look at Irish mythology as a whole,

it starts to become pretty obvious that these people

such as Cliodhna, were not ordinary, Earthborn humans,

but were in fact most likely extraterrestrial humans who

came to the Earth and shared their technology.

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

eloquently, is something that may have been impregnated

into the stone by an extraterrestial technology

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

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the Blarney Stone is actually

evidence of some ancient and otherworldly power?

Technology that helps to prove that ancient man

was in direct contact with highly developed beings

from another part of the galaxy?

If so, might that character known in Irish folklore

as the goddess Cliodhna actually have been a celestial traveler?

Perhaps more clues can be found by investigating

another mysterious stone relic located just 160 miles away.

County Meath, Ireland.

On top of this mound known as the Hill of Tara

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

One of four magical treasures said

to have been brought to Ireland by mythical deities called

the Tuatha De Danann.

The Lia Fail was a stone that was considered magical.

All of the kings of Ireland up until the fifth century

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

It seemed to know who the true king was.

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

it would roar with delight.

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

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

if that was necessary.

NARRATOR: To mainstream scientists and archaeologists,

this stone relic represents nothing

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

But according to Irish mythology, the Hill of Tara

was also a sacred dwelling place for the gods.

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

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

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

The word Sidhe means both the people

themselves, the otherworldly people, and the mounds in which

they are said to dwell.

And the Hill of Tara is allegedly

an entrance to the other world.

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

The kings ruled from there for many centuries

in ancient and early history.

And this was considered a sacred portal to another dimension,

to the other world.

So it had more than the authority of kingship.

It had the authority of the supernatural.

In Irish mythology, the Tuatha De Danann

were gods who had magical powers.

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

of the gods.

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

in the mountains of Ireland.

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

of darkness.

So you have to ask yourself what kind of power

they had, and were they some kind of celestial visitors

arriving in UFOs.

Maybe the extraterrestrials found a way

to help society make advancements, including

the selection of a virtuous leader.

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

that was coming out of a mythology,

that the Lia Fail was an engineered

device that those leaders were able to be assessed

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

see into their future.

NARRATOR: Might the Lia Fail, a stone relic imbued with power

like the Blarney Stone, really be evidence of highly advanced

knowledge brought to mankind by the so-called gods?

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

extraterrestrial connections?

Perhaps the answers can be found by examining

strange and unusual relics fallen from the sky.

Valley of the Kings, Egypt, November, 1922.

Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers King Tutankhamun's

tomb containing a treasure trove of artifacts.

Among them is King Tut's magnificent breastplate

with a yellow jewel as its centerpiece.

A jewel created as the result of a meteorite impact.

In Egyptian culture, there was a fascination

with Libyan desert glass.

And while it's not actually a meteorite,

Libyan desert glass is the product of a meteorite impacts.

Millions of years ago, an enormous meteorite

crashed into what is today the Egyptian desert.

And the heat and pressure of that impact

melted the sand in the desert, forming

a beautiful yellow impact glass.

And it crystallizes the sand, formed the glass,

and you get these wonderful, almost like jewel stones.

And they clearly imagine these stones to be celestial,

to have been created by the impact of a star.

And therefore, they were given cosmic meaning.

NARRATOR: Humans have long had a fascination with meteorites,

and have fashioned many tools and spiritual objects

from them, but why?

There are many magical stories of meteors, meteorites,

and meteor showers.

Aeschylus in "Prometheus Unbound"

talks about an angry Zeus throwing rocks down

at the Earth.

In the Aeneid, Virgil speaks of meteors.

He describes a meteor shower as indicating

Troy is about to fall.

Such folk beliefs about meteors, shooting stars,

meteorites were common in the ancient world, where clearly,

a piece of stone from the heavens

is worshipped as a divine item.

The reason why they were so important

was because they inherently had the power of the gods

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

and they descended from the sky.

NARRATOR: Meteoric gemstones like Libyan desert glass

have been venerated throughout history.

But one particularly mysterious green gemstone

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

Moldavite is the name given to a green impact

glass of extraordinary beauty and rarity.

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

It's very old.

Metaphysically, moldavite creates

this strange pulsating energy field that amplifies

human thoughts or intention.

If you're a loving or compassionate person,

it will amplify that.

Or it can bring chaos if your thoughts and energy

and emotions are chaotic.

NARRATOR: According to some legends, the Holy Grail,

the cup from which Jesus and his apostles

drank during the Last Supper, was

carved from a green gemstone that had fallen to Earth

from the heavens.

It is said that there was discord

in the heavens involving Lucifer, and a stone dropped.

It was a stone that at one time had

been the center of Lucifer's crown

when he was an important angel.

It dropped to Earth.

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

and was greatly venerated.

It was carved into the Holy Grail, which was not

made of metal, but of this beautiful emerald,

a precious stone from heaven.

NARRATOR: Could the green gemstone that supposedly fell

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

but of moldavite?

Perhaps more evidence can be found in the legends

of another sacred stone that fell from the sky

more than 4,000 miles away.

Yumbu Lakhang Palace, Southern Tibet.

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

obtains a magical jewel called Cintamani.

It is said to be one of four revered relics that

fell from the sky in a chest.

The Cintamani Stone is a fascinating myth

that could well have meteorite associations.

It describes a jewel that's meant

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

And there are legends that some of the greatest warriors

and leaders in all of history, including King Solomon,

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

or leader to another.

In both Hindu and Buddhist tradition,

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

And it wielded great power.

It had a connection between this world and the next

that it could be used to interact, not just

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

It is said that whoever possessed the Cintamani.

Stone was able to control destiny,

that every wish was granted.

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

truly that is something which is a piece of technology.

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

which, fortunately, our ancestors have answered for us.

Their answer is that this came from the sky,

that it was given to us by the gods,

and that it played a role in this exchange between us

and the divine.

NARRATOR: Could the legends of the Cintamani stone

be based on fact?

If so, might this otherworldly stone, as well as

other sacred and mysterious relics,

help forge a connection between mankind and extraterrestial

forces?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

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

sacred objects in the world.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Fifty miles from the Red Sea.

This is Islam's holiest city.

It was here in 2000 BC that Muslims believe the prophet

Abraham built the Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure that

draws millions of pilgrims each year.

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

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

On the eastern side of the Kaaba

is a meteorite stone which is embedded

in the corner of the Kaaba.

According to Muslim belief, this meteorite stone

was sent from heaven to Adam and Eve.

And that stone was used to build the first temple.

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

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

and statues, but he retained the one strange thing that

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

still worshipped today at Mecca.

So you have to wonder why Mohammed specifically

chose that object as part of his religion

that would remain as part of the Muslim faith.

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

NARRATOR: Might the black stone of Mecca

and other sacred relics really possess great power?

Could they be gateways, not only to ancient knowledge,

but to other worlds and even other dimensions?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining what many believe

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

mysterious relics...

The cross of Jesus Christ.

Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

According to some researchers, this sacred site

is the place where the crucified Jesus was buried,

and after three days, rose from the dead.

And it was near here in 326 AD that the remains

of a relic thought to be Jesus' cross

were discovered by a Roman Empress.

Empress Helena was the mother of the emperor Constantine,

and she was an early convert to Christianity.

According to legend, she journeyed to the Holy Land

to found a number of churches there.

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

where Jesus was allegedly executed.

And she had the pagan temple which

she found there torn down.

And in the rubble of that temple,

she allegedly discovered the True Cross, the cross where

Jesus was crucified.

She found three crosses.

Well, Christ was crucified with two thieves,

so three crosses might be the right artifacts.

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

very near death, to touch the crosses.

She touched the first two crosses and her condition

was unchanged.

When she touched the third cross,

she was miraculously healed, and Helena

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

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

many, many people.

And people collect these, or like

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

brings them closer to the one they love,

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

Literally, hundreds of Christian churches lay claim to the fact

that they have pieces of the actual cross

that Jesus died on.

Like many relics or pieces of saints' bodies,

the True Cross where Jesus was crucified

was believed to have all kinds of miraculous powers,

including healing powers and the power to grant salvation.

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

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

would transfer itself to you through the power of touch.

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

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

perhaps raise them from the dead.

So is it possible that there is some kind

of extraterrestrial artifacts with some kind of power in them

that we don't understand?

NARRATOR: Could fragments of Jesus' cross,

like other ancient stones and relics, really

have harnessed strange extraterrestrial energy?

Could legends concerning mysterious healing powers

really be true?

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

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

To possess an object that mean something to them,

an object that can perhaps help them in their life.

Could these relics assist us in invoking otherworldly power?

I think we need to be open.

We need to be open to that possibility.

Clearly, our ancestors thought so.

Well, ancient relics were very important

to many different ancient cultures,

just as they still are today to religions.

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

access points to otherworldly environments

wherein the gods, the spirits, the immortals dwell.

Throughout history, we find that some of our most powerful

figures, our most powerful leaders,

have gone on relic quest.

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

the Key of Life.

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

we will acquire powers beyond human comprehension...

Powers that originally came from the gods

that will make us more godlike if we

can get our hands on them.

The relic tradition, this tooth from a deity,

the bone from a saint, all of these aspects

really tie in that somehow this deity,

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

of the divine.

NARRATOR: Sacred bones, golden hats,

and fragments of sacred objects thought

to possess healing properties.

Is it possible that these ancient and mysterious relics

helped to prove that extraterrestrials

not only visited Earth in the ancient past,

but remain strangely connected to us throughout space

and time?

Perhaps the truth of mankind's origins

has been right before our eyes for hundreds and thousands

of yearsm in fabric, metal, and stone,

and in the DNA of holy saints and martyrs

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