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NARRATOR: Sacred idols unearthed in the most unlikely places.

PRAVEEN MOHAN: This is classic Hindu iconography

in South America. How is that possible?

NARRATOR: Architecture found

in unexpected parts of the planet.

Wow, look at that.

This monument resembles, almost exactly,

the stone dolmens of Europe.

NARRATOR: And strange connections that challenge

everything we know about our past.

He has got a beard and a mustache.

This person was not a native,

but clearly came from another land.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that out-of-place artifacts

reveal a history

of alien intervention on Earth?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: These connections, to me, illustrate

the worldwide planet was visited

by the same extraterrestrials

over long periods of time,

perhaps hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

San Agust�n, Colombia.

March 27th, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

has come to this remote mountain town

to explore and study a site that has baffled

the scientific community for decades.

Joining him is Hindu historian Praveen Mohan.

- Hello, Praveen. - Hi, David.

Welcome to Colombia.

- Jump on in, here. - Sure.

CHILDRESS: You know Praveen, I was here a number of years ago.

- Mm-hmm. - And I thought, "All right,

there�s a lot of Hindu influence here."

- Uh-huh. - And so that�s when

I thought that I need some expert

on Hinduism, like you,

to come here to San Agust�n

and-and see it for themselves.

Yeah, when I got the call

about a place like this in Colombia,

I was surprised.

A Hindu site in South America?

My heart is actually pounding to see the site.

(chuckles)

NARRATOR: Located deep within the Andean foothills of southern Colombia,

the San Agust�n Archaeological Park

is home to more than 500 megalithic stone statues

of unknown origin.

First discovered by a Spanish monk

in the mid-18th century,

they appear to be the work

of the region�s earliest civilizations,

and are thought to date back as many as 2,000 years.

CHILDRESS: So, this is the main gate here.

We�ve got a bit of a walk through the jungle.

And this is a very remote spot, even today.

It�s so high in the mountains,

and you wonder how people

got to this site,

and why they would have even chosen this.

- Here it is. - Wow.

- Check it out. - Yeah, let�s see.

David Childress has been researching this area

for many years.

He is convinced that many of the statues

show strong connections

to the Olmec statues

that were first discovered in Mexico

more than 1,600 miles to the north

in the 1800s.

CHILDRESS: We know that the Olmecs were in Mexico

and also in Central America,

but evidence of the Olmecs

in South America has been elusive until now.

Here at San Agust�n, we have that evidence.

This would be one of the earliest Olmec sites

because it�s thought

that San Agust�n started as early 3,000 B.C.,

and other Olmec sites in Mexico

are only dated to around 1,000 B.C.

So this is an extremely important site.

What I really want to show you

is what I think is Hindu things,

- which are right over here. - Okay.

Wow.

NARRATOR: It is David Childress� belief

that the stone sculptures

of the San Agust�n Archaeological Park

not only show strong similarities

to the Olmec carvings found in Mexico

but also show even more profound connections

to Hindu carvings and artwork

found in India and Southeast Asia.

CHILDRESS: I think you�ll be interested in this.

MOHAN: Oh, a figure holding a skull

flanked by two other figures.

That is so Hindu.

And these two door keepers,

see how they�re holding weapons to protect

the main deity?

We can see a central deity holding a skull.

And two guardian doorkeepers holding tools.

This is typical South Indian architecture.

This is exactly what�s portrayed in these temples.

This is amazing because I�ve never seen

anything like this in South America.

What�s really interesting to me

is that the main deity is shown with fangs.

That�s typical of South India,

in Tamil Nadu,

Shiva is shown with fangs.

CHILDRESS: You think that�s maybe Shiva, right there in the middle?

MOHAN: Yes.

NARRATOR: Shiva? Also known as the destroyer?

Is it possible that evidence of this uniquely Hindu deity

has been found in South America

and on ancient megalithic stone carvings

dating back some 2,000 years?

CHILDRESS: So, how about these right here, huh?

MOHAN: Wow, yeah, these are, uh, lingams.

These are symbols of Shiva.

And we can see these lingams

have more and more details on them.

And look here, it even has a face.

- CHILDRESS: Yeah, how about that. - MOHAN: You see this,

is a classic mukhalingam.

It is a lingam with a face on top.

- A mukhalingam? - Yeah.

The word "muka" means face

and the "lingam" means a cylindrical structure.

And this is classic Hindu iconography,

and you can see this in many ancient temples.

So here, have a look here at this one here.

I think you�ll find this pretty interesting.

Wow.

An eagle holding a snake in its beaks,

and then it�s also

holding the snake

on its talons. I mean, this is

classic Hindu iconography.

This is Garuda holding the Naga.

CHILDRESS: So, Garuda is always depicted as a giant bird

and then typically he�s holding a snake

- MOHAN: Yeah, - in his beak and his talon.

I�ve seen something very similar to this

in Vietnam in a place called Champa.

I can show you a picture of this.

CHILDRESS: So, the snake that he�s holding

in his beak and talons

- is a Naga snake, is that right? - MOHAN: Yes, yes.

In Hindu text, we don�t see the Garuda

as an animal or the snake as an animal.

There are two different races.

One is the Garuda,

which actually comes from a planet up above the sky.

The Naga is a reptilian, snake-like

shape-shifting beings,

which live underground.

CHILDRESS: Now, that�s an interesting story

because that�s on the flag of Mexico today.

- MOHAN: Oh, really? - CHILDRESS: Yeah, how about that?

MOHAN: Oh, wow. Wow.

CHILDRESS: So, the Garuda is, in some ways,

- a symbol of the air ships, the space ships... - MOHAN: Absolutely.

- and the flight that they would use. - Yes.

Historians, they will say that these are all completely

disconnected civilizations, but here we are,

in the middle of South America,

in a remote site

that looks exactly like Hindu carvings.

I mean, without any connection,

how is that possible?

Well, do you think, then,

that these Hindu demigods

are-are flying in-in spaceships,

even scouting,

they�re creating a place like this?

It�s all so strange,

but it�s-it�s so obvious that some kind of

high technical civilization was here.

They can work granite, make these

- megalithic statues... - Mm-hmm.

and they have... some of them are holding strange tools.

Yes. Mm-hmm.

It�s-it�s amazing.

NARRATOR: Ancient Hindus?

Traveling across the Pacific Ocean

in flying aircraft?

But even if such an incredible feat was possible,

where is the evidence?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the evidence not only exists,

but has been tested,

and it confirms the likelihood

that extraterrestrial visitors

came here to Earth

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: At the San Agust�n Archeological Park

in Colombia, South America,

ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

and Hindu expert Praveen Mohan

are investigating what they believe

to be compelling evidence of a Hindu influence in this area

more than 2,000 years ago.

So, here, have a look at this dolmen here.

CHILDRESS: What do you see?

MOHAN: Wow, there�s a, uh, central deity

flanked by two doorkeepers,

but these doorkeepers are not human

or even humanoid.

They look like Nagas,

the serpentine, reptilian shape-shifters.

CHILDRESS: They have the serpentine head there.

MOHAN: These are definitely snakes.

You can see the scales on the body.

You know, I see the lines.

And what�s even more interesting,

I mean, it seems almost like they have a hood

on top of them,

which is characteristic of cobras,

and cobras don�t exist in Americas.

How did this motif get here?

And, believe it or not,

we still have this same depiction

in many Southeast Asian countries.

In fact, I have pictures of it.

- CHILDRESS: Right. - MOHAN: Yeah, this is a temple.

This is in Thailand.

You can see that this is being guarded by two Nagas.

CHILDRESS: I see that, and they have the ribs, uh,

- MOHAN: Yeah. - on the stomach just like this.

MOHAN: The scales on the body.

CHILDRESS: Yeah, that�s fascinating.

MOHAN: And, you know, there�s yet

another characteristic feature

that you would really love.

These are feathered serpents, like Kukulkan.

CHILDRESS: The feathered serpent of Kukulkan.

MOHAN: Yes, and flanking on the pyramid.

So, perhaps the origin of the legend

of Kukulkan is coming from the Nagas, then,

- you�re saying. - Yes, yes.

NARRATOR: Kukulkan-- the Mayan god

that is most famously depicted on the temple

of El Castillo in Chichen Itza?

The one described as a feathered serpent

that descended to Earth from the sky?

But as far as many ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, depictions of the god Kukulkan

are not merely depictions of a flying serpent,

as many mainstream archaeologists believe,

but of a spaceman.

And they cite the presence of a humanoid face

often seen emerging from the mouth of the serpent,

as really a depiction of a helmeted astronaut

piloting a large flying spacecraft,

similar to what is known as a vimana

in the Hindu tradition.

In the Mahabharata,

we can see very advanced

flying machines, which are called vimanas.

It is clearly established

that the gods come down from the sky

using vimanas.

It is also talked about in Mayan culture.

There are several types of vimanas

that you yourself have published.

- Uh-huh. - And there is a type of vimana

which has tail fins, correct?

Yeah, the Shakuna Vimana has wings.

- MOHAN: Yeah, yeah. - While other vimanas were discoid,

and other vimanas were, like, tubular,

- cigar-shaped ships. - MOHAN: Yes. Yes.

And what�s really fascinating is that,

in the Gold Museum in Bogot�,

we have the same vimanas made of gold, correct?

We have the gold airplanes there.

NARRATOR: In 1890, tomb robbers came upon a grave site

along Colombia�s Magdalena River,

dating back an estimated 1,500 years.

Inside, they discovered hundreds of small gold figurines.

TSOUKALOS: Hundreds of these small gold objects have been found,

many of which are rooted in the animal kingdom.

17, eerily,

look like modern-day airplanes.

The wings are attached at the bottom.

Birds, they have their wings attached

where we have our shoulders, like this.

So, no formation in the animal kingdom exists

in the form of these Quimbaya artifacts.

And in 1996, two engineers

took a couple of these ancient artifacts,

blew them up to this size,

put a propeller inside,

threw it up in the air, and it flew.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that among

the Quimbaya figurines found in Colombia

are representations of what the Hindu people

on the other side of the world described as vimanas?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the answer can be found

by examining a character from the ancient Hindu texts.

A character who bears the name Maya.

The word "maya" itself is a Hindu word.

It means illusion or god of illusion,

and this was the name given to the king of Asuras,

and he�s known as Maya

because he�s able to create these magical illusions.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Maya, he was born of divine god Brahma.

He was a great architect, he was a great magician,

and he invented the flying machine.

He was not of the Earth

because he was not born on Earth,

so he was obviously an extraterrestrial.

MOHAN: Maya actually traveled out of India,

and he might have gone to Mexico.

Now, interestingly,

Mayans have a book called Popol Vuh.

In that book, they talk about

how a specific god came from the East,

and I think this is the same god

that both these cultures are talking about.

NARRATOR: If the divine King Maya was a real being,

as millions of Hindus believe,

is it possible that the Mayan civilization of Central America

adopted his name?

According to ancient astronaut theorist David Childress,

the answer is a resounding yes,

and he believes that at San Agust�n,

there is a sculpture that doesn�t only support his theory

but may also be a depiction

of an actual alien visitor.

Would you like to see, perhaps, a spaceman?

A spaceman?

- Yes, there�s one more site. - Yeah, absolutely.

(indistinct conversation)

NARRATOR: San Agust�n Archaeological Park in Colombia

is located along the west bank

of the Magdalena River, near a place

where it converges with two other rivers.

It is a location that ancient astronaut theorists believe

has a startling, and not accidental, significance.

MOHAN: They could have set up this site anywhere,

but why did they choose San Agust�n in Colombia?

In India, we have this place called Triveni Sangam

where three great rivers meet,

and that site is chosen as a sacred site.

We have a lot of temples in this place.

Whoever came from India to here

chose this place,

because this is where all these three rivers meet.

And to find a place like this,

you needed to have aerial survey.

They were using the vimanas,

which is why they set up this ancient Shiva temple here.

NARRATOR: Vimanas?

The extraterrestrial flying machines

that are described in the Mahabharata,

the ancient Hindu text?

Is it possible that Hindu explorers

made the journey from India to South America

and then settled in this region centuries ago?

And could they have made that journey--

a distance of some 12,000 miles--

by means of a vimana?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they believe that the answer

to what compelled them to come there

can be found by examining

one of the ancient stone statues

located in San Agust�n Archaeological Park.

This was the final statue that I wanted you to look at.

- Pretty curious, huh? - Yeah.

I don�t know what to call this except a spaceman.

You can see that he�s wearing

some kind of a helmet.

It looks like he has a visor, he�s got two rectangular eyes

and a rectangular mouth. He has no nose.

He�s holding this,

what they call a power staff.

MOHAN: But what�s really fascinating about that

is he�s holding that long cylinder,

and, if you look carefully, it�s going even below his feet.

He�s using that cylinder

to go into the ground.

Now, this is very interesting because, in Hindu culture,

there�s a god called Swarna Kala Bhairava,

and he�s the god of gold,

And he uses a tool called keyla,

and he uses it to go into the ground

and mine gold.

It could be a special probe that you can

put in the ground and detect gold and minerals.

So perhaps he is

the extraterrestrial that is guiding them.

He�s a spaceman in a spacesuit

with his gold mining tools.

NARRATOR: A spaceman mining gold?

In 1976, author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin

published a book called The 12th Planet

in which he translated and interpreted

the writings of humanity�s earliest known civilization:

the Sumerians.

According to Sitchin,

the beings described in the texts-- the Anunnaki--

were, in fact, visitors from another planet.

They created humankind as slaves

that could be forced to mine the gold

the Anunnaki needed to power their spacecraft.

CHILDRESS: San Agust�n is still

a remote mountain area today,

and coming here in ancient times

would have been extremely difficult.

But this was a gold-bearing area,

and if you�re looking for gold, this is the place to come.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange carvings found in the area

can be proof that Sitchin�s incredible theory is true?

And that an ancient race of people

traveled from Asia to South America

in pursuit of a metal they had been taught

to consider not just essential but sacred?

When you talk about how this place

was used for gold, you know,

how they were mining gold as offerings to gods,

that�s exactly what Hindus do, even today.

And Colombia, and right here,

in this remote spot, is land of gold.

So much of the gold in South America

- came from right here. - Mm-hmm.

So, this is what they were looking for-- gold.

And they came here and they found it.

They�re flying here, they�re creating a place like this,

they�re also sending ships across the Pacific Ocean.

- They�re bringing power tools. - Mm-hmm.

And when they�re not mining,

they�re creating these amazing statues,

and there are hundreds of them all over here.

MOHAN: Your theory about people

and Maya�s moving from South India

and coming here all the way to South America,

this is all tying together.

We have an extraterrestrial god

who comes down and he mines for gold,

and he builds an entire civilization.

Think that makes a lot of sense.

CHILDRESS: When it comes to San Agust�n,

the Spanish did not know about this ancient site,

and if they had known about it,

they probably would have destroyed it.

So, throughout Colombia and Mesoamerica,

we have ruins of ancient civilizations

still undiscovered,

and with the discoveries at San Agust�n

in the last hundred years, we now have a chance

to rewrite South American history.

NARRATOR: Do the stone statues at San Agust�n

provide compelling evidence

not only that there was interaction

between the peoples of Asia

and those of South America centuries ago

but also that there was

a common extraterrestrial connection?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest further proof can be found

by examining a curious pre-Incan artifact

featuring Sumerian writing.

NARRATOR: While searching for the capital of the Inca Empire,

Spanish conquistadors led by Pedro Cieza de Le�n

cross into Bolivia

and discover the ruins of Tiahuanaco.

Mainstream scientists believe Tiahuanaco

was once the center of a civilization

with more than 40,000 inhabitants.

PAUL GOLDSTEIN: Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest Native American

civilization that many people haven�t heard of.

It was one of the most important antecedents of the Inca.

It was long gone by the time the Spaniards came on the scene.

Yet its level of achievement in architecture,

in political development,

in agriculture,

in many craft industries,

are on a very high level.

NARRATOR: Most scholars agree that Tiahuanaco

was mysteriously abandoned around 1100 A.D.

But why?

Local legends suggest that Tiahuanaco

was built as a site of religious pilgrimage

to celebrate the arrival of sky gods

at nearby Puma Punku.

Located a quarter-mile southwest of the ceremonial complex,

and spread across a desert plateau,

the megalithic stones found at Puma Punku

are among the largest on the planet,

measuring up to 26 feet long

and weighing more than 100 tons each.

The 150 blocks found at the site

include a series of H-shaped carvings

that were cut and replicated

with machined-quality precision.

Mainstream scientists believe

the site was originally constructed

by the Tiahuanaco Empire around 500 A.D.

But in 1945,

archaeologist Arthur Posnansky

proposed that Puma Punku was much, much older.

By examining the structures and what he believed

were their original alignment with the stars,

he dated the ruins to 15,000 B.C.

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the two sites were not only built at different times

but also by beings from different worlds.

PHILIP COPPENS: Puma Punku, I think, is very of the gods,

and I think mankind did very little with that site.

And then nearby, our ancestors built

Tiahuanaco as a place where people could come

to explore these places,

but also, I think, as a tribute site

where a god had once been physically present

on planet Earth.

ERICH VON D�NIKEN: You have to differentiate

two different styles of construction:

The old style, which I call the extraterrestrial style,

and then the later style, which was made by the humans.

Tiahuanaco is nothing else but a place of pilgrimage

for people to congregate

and remember the time

when something significant happened at Puma Punku.

And the thing that was significant about it

was an extraterrestrial visit

by ancient aliens in the remote past.

NARRATOR: But if Tiahuanaco was built to honor extraterrestrial contact,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend,

might there be tangible evidence?

In the 1960s, the Bolivian government

excavated and unearthed

the subterranean temple at Tiahuanaco.

Within the walls of the square sunken courtyard

are hundreds of stone heads

with a diverse range of features.

CHILDRESS: Here at the famous sunken temple at Tiahuanaco,

we have all of the different heads

that have been inserted into the walls.

It�s sometimes said that there are

all the races of mankind

represented here,

even elongated skulls,

people wearing turbans,

people with broad noses,

people with thin noses,

people with thick lips, people with thin lips,

and some of the statues

are particularly unusual.

BRIEN FOERSTER: They don�t seem to represent the local people.

They seem to represent every type

and shape of human head existing on the planet.

Two of them, which are very intriguing,

are white in color, and they look very much like

Grey alien heads.

COPPENS: When we�re looking at the carved heads

of the Tiahuanaco complex,

you really see that it�s almost as if

this is a U.N. headquarters,

whereby everybody was able to come there

because all cultures on planet Earth

accepted that Tiahuanaco was so special

because this was a place

where contact with the divine had been made.

NARRATOR: Some researchers believe a large statue

at the center of the sunken temple

depicts the creator god known as Viracocha.

But why would the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco

have depicted their most prominent god

with features unlike their own?

CHILDRESS: He has got a beard and a mustache,

and that is an unusual thing because American Indians

do not have beards and mustaches.

FOERSTER: Exactly. The fact, also, that the beard

and the mustache are so pronounced.

They�re not little wispy ones, they�re major,

so that indicates that this person

was not a South American native,

but clearly came from another land.

CHILDRESS: And an important person, too,

who�s somehow one of the founders

here of Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody who�s come from Sumeria

to South America.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Sumerians,

a civilization established in 4,000 B.C.

and located nearly 8,000 miles away,

could be connected to the early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found

at the Precious Metals Museum

in La Paz, Bolivia.

This is perhaps one of the most important

archaeological artifacts ever discovered

in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.

This is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl

discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It�s a ceramic bowl

and it has written on it

Sumerian cuneiform, plus Proto-Sumerian

hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming from

circa 3,000 B.C.

It draws a direct connection

between the ancient Sumerians

and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

NARRATOR: Discovered near Lake Titicaca

by a local farmer in the 1950s,

researchers believe the vessel provides proof

of extraterrestrial intervention at Puma Punku.

The idea of Sumerian writing being here

at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco

would seem to relate

to the late Zecharia Sitchin

and his ideas that the Sumerians

were also interacting with these space beings

called the Anunnaki.

So, in that case, the Anunnaki were there in Sumeria,

but also here at Puma Punku

and Tiahuanaco in South America.

NARRATOR: Might the Sumerian writing found in Tiahuanaco

and the bearded figure

at the site resembling an Anunnaki god

suggest a global extraterrestrial presence

in the remote past?

And could it be that the faces on the courtyard walls

not only feature humans

from different parts of the world,

but also alien beings?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining curious accounts of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

discovered not in Egypt but in North America.

NARRATOR: Western Nevada, 2013.

On the west side of the dried-up Winnemucca Lake,

researchers take samples from a layer of white carbonate

covering petroglyphs carved into limestone boulders.

Radiocarbon tests performed

by the University of Colorado Boulder

reveal that the petroglyphs

were etched between 10,500

and 14,800 years ago,

making them the oldest petroglyphs

ever found in North America.

Winnemucca Lake in Nevada is the site

of petroglyphs that date all the way back to 8,000 B.C.

That is amazing because, right here in America,

we now have absolute proof of a civilization

that pre-dates the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia

by over 3,000 years, minimum,

and there�s nothing else like it.

Looking at some of these petroglyphs,

you�ve got to wonder if these aren�t

being drawn by early Americans

who are interacting with extraterrestrials

and then drawing what they think they see.

WILCOCK: When we look at the petroglyphs themselves,

the actual designs, we also find

very unusual formations, including spirals.

This is something that we see very consistently

in many ancient cultures,

which is often associated with the shape of the galaxies.

They may be aware that they were a part of a galaxy.

Who gave them this information?

How did they obtain this?

Why would they make these illustrations?

This has given rise to the theory

that could there have been civilizations

not dissimilar to ours,

but thousands of years ago

or tens of thousands of years ago,

that have now become lost to the fog of time?

This inevitably, sort of raises the question,

does the human race go in cycles, you know?

We�re a warlike species.

Will we, one day, be somebody�s memory

and somebody�s folklore, and they think they�re first?

NARRATOR: Could these petroglyphs,

that pre-date even the earliest known

Native American tribes,

be evidence of an ancient lost civilization?

And if so, might other, even more profound secrets,

lie hidden in North America, waiting to be discovered?

The Grand Canyon.

Located in the American Southwest.

This enormous gorge is 277 miles long,

and a mile deep.

Much of it is remote and rarely traveled.

In 1909, an explorer named G.E. Kinkaid

was boating through the canyon on the Colorado River

when he noticed stains in the sediment

on the east wall of a canyon gorge.

According to his account,

when he stopped to get a closer look,

he found the entrance to what appeared to be a man-made cave.

CHILDRESS: Kinkaid saw what he thought was an ancient gold mine.

As he climbed up onto the walls of the canyon

to investigate it, what he really discovered

was not an ancient mine

but a labyrinth of rooms and tunnels

cut into the side of the canyon

that went back hundreds, even thousands of feet.

DAVID: There were passageways radiating from this main chamber.

He found stone tablets

with Egyptian-style hieroglyphics.

He also came to another chamber,

and it contained

a marble, carved statue of Buddha

sitting in a lotus posture,

holding a lotus in each hand.

There was all kinds of statues

made of bronze, and mummies as well.

He described them as Egyptian and Tibetan

kind of things.

So therefore, he believed he had discovered

some vast secret city and treasure

inside the Grand Canyon.

NARRATOR: Anxious to spread the news of his extraordinary find,

Kinkaid reportedly made his way to Phoenix,

where he told his story to a reporter

for the local newspaper.

He then contacted his employer,

the Smithsonian Institution.

CHILDRESS: They sent an archaeologist named Jordan,

and Jordan then examined the caves.

The Smithsonian allegedly began excavating

and removing the artifacts out of the secret caves.

And, supposedly, they were all sent back to Washington D.C.

NARRATOR: But mysteriously, there was no follow-up to the story

and G.E. Kinkaid was never heard from again.

CHILDRESS: The caves were apparently sealed up,

metal doors and gates put over them.

The national park now denies any knowledge

or existence of these caves or cave entrances.

And if you talk to the Smithsonian today,

they will deny any knowledge

of the secret city in the Grand Canyon

or that an archaeologist named Jordan

worked for the Smithsonian.

And in fact, essentially, the knowledge

of the secret city in the Grand Canyon

has completely disappeared from history.

NARRATOR: How is it that such an incredible story that

The Arizona Gazette reported in two separate articles

dated a month apart was suddenly dropped?

Was Kinkaid the victim of a cover-up?

And if so, what was it that the American government

didn�t want the public to know?

According to his own description,

Kinkaid�s cave lies in one of the most remote

and inaccessible parts of the Grand Canyon.

And since a government permit is required to enter

this treacherous terrain,

few people have ever been able to explore the area

where this cave was allegedly found.

If, in fact, there are artifacts that exist

from Egypt or from the Orient in the United States,

and they pre-date history as we know it,

it would completely change everything

we know about our own history.

We�d have to rewrite our history books.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that G.E. Kinkaid

really did find Egyptian and Oriental artifacts

in a cave in the Grand Canyon?

And if so, how did they get here?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found by examining the stories

of the Native American tribes of the southwest,

who say there is a connection between the Grand Canyon

and star beings.

According to the Hopi,

just before a catastrophic event

struck the area where their ancestors lived,

these star beings led them to safety.

The Native Americans followed an object in the sky,

night and day, to the Grand Canyon,

where they found refuge.

HAWKES: The Hopi believe that they were

taken to an underground or subterranean city

where they were nurtured,

and progressed through levels

to emerge, eventually, on the surface of the Earth.

They emerged through a hole called a sipapu.

It�s a very holy place to the Hopi nation.

The sipapu in the Grand Canyon, we know there is such a place.

This is our Garden of Eden,

where we had an...

the beginning of the present world.

We hold the Grand Canyon as a very reverent place

that came out after the last catastrophe

into the present-day systems that we have.

NARRATOR: The Hopi elders only recently revealed

the Grand Canyon as the site of their sipapu,

causing some to question

whether this might be the same cave dwelling

G.E. Kinkaid claimed to have found in 1909.

But the exact location remains a mystery.

Supposedly, the entrance into this underground city

of the Grand Canyon is on this eastern part,

on these slopes right over here.

We were able to get to the edge of the canyon

to look down,

but it�s hundreds of feet straight down

on cliffs into this area of the Grand Canyon.

It�s just almost impossible to get a good look

or see what is in this park.

NARRATOR: Could it really be that there�s an ancient relationship

between civilizations in Egypt,

South Asia, and the United States?

And if so, might the connection be traced back

to extraterrestrial beings?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe

indisputable proof of this global alien influence

can be found by examining the incredible Druid structures

in the American northeast.

NARRATOR: Salem, New Hampshire.

July 9th, 1975.

At one of New England�s most popular archaeological sites,

Mystery Hill, also known as America�s Stonehenge...

...Harvard Professor Barry Fell discovers a stone tablet

with a mysterious script carved into it.

He identifies it as belonging to a writing system

called ogham, which was used by the Irish Celts

who lived 2,000 years ago

and 3,000 miles away

in their traditional homeland of Ireland.

He translates the script as meaning...

...the Celtic sun god.

Shortly after his discovery of the strange writing,

Fell researches the connection further

and publishes America B.C.

In it, he argues that long before Christopher Columbus

reached the shores of the new world in 1492,

America was visited by the Druids,

a high-ranking priest class of the Celtic people

who first arose in northern Europe

around 800 B.C.

As evidence, Fell points to the prevalence

of strange stone chambers scattered over large areas

of the Hudson Valley and New England.

HUGH NEWMAN: All over New England and New York State,

there are hundreds of these unusual stone chambers.

Many of them are thought to be colonial root cellars,

where local colonialists

would place their vegetables in for storage.

If they�re root cellars,

if they�re just for where the colonialists

would place their vegetables,

then why are they so far out in the middle of nowhere?

And why were some of them being reported by colonial people

as they moved into this area, even as far back as the 1600s?

WHITLEY STRIEBER: There were stone structures all over the place.

But they weren�t things made by settlers

because there�d never been any agriculture in those woods.

You can�t grow anything there.

SALVATORE TRENTO: Many of them have stone flooring,

and stone is not the best material for keeping crops.

The cold seeps through and destroys the crops.

But there was something else. We�ve dated charcoal

that we found within many of these structures,

and they date back to about 3,000 years ago.

I think that the stone chambers,

which are dismissed so often as root cellars,

are not root cellars.

I�ve been in a couple of those chambers,

and that is no root cellar, believe you me.

NARRATOR: Professor Fell also noted that the chambers

accurately line up with astronomical events

like the solstice and the equinox,

just like ancient Celtic megaliths in Europe.

NARRATOR: Could Professor Fell have been right?

Were these chambers built by the ancient Druids

of northern Europe?

There�s been a lot of discussion over the last century

about if these chambers

are actually part of an ancient Celtic

or Druid tradition that came over from Europe.

WILLIAM HENRY: They�re virtually identical to the Neolithic structures

we find throughout Europe

that were created by the Druids

for the purpose of meditation,

as observatories of stellar phenomena,

and perhaps even other more mysterious purposes.

PHILIP IMBROGNO: There were all types of legends

that people from Europe came here a long time ago

and explored the east coast of the United States,

from New York, Connecticut,

all the way up to Vermont and Massachusetts,

and they actually built these structures

with a Druid priest,

and they were used for ceremonial purposes.

NARRATOR: Did Druids visit America centuries before Columbus

and build these structures?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by more closely examining just who the Druids were

and who they worshipped.

Wiltshire, England.

Summer solstice, 500 B.C.

As ancient Celts converge on the megalithic stone circle

known as Stonehenge,

the sun�s first rays shine directly

into the center of the monument.

Like the stone chambers

found scattered throughout the American northeast,

Stonehenge is aligned to this celestial event.

The Celts are led by their Druid priests,

who are believed to communicate with a higher realm.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: The Druids, history shows us,

the ancient inhabitants

in both the British Isles and in Ireland.

They were allegedly an ancient priesthood,

masters of magic, science,

they were political leaders, they were judges.

They were essentially the elite.

Who exactly were they? Where did they come from?

NARRATOR: According to Irish Legend, the Druid priests

were instructed by a race of godlike beings

who descended from the heavens:

the Shining Ones, or Tuatha D� Danann.

TOK THOMPSON: The Tuatha D� Danann are probably

the most important tribe in Irish mythology.

All the representations we have

that the Tuatha D� Danann were special.

So the "Tuatha" means tribe.

"D�" means gods or divine,

so, "divine tribes."

"Gods of the divine."

According to these ancient Irish books, the Tuatha D� Danann

had red hair and blue or green eyes.

They had magical powers.

And they arrived in airships

with dark clouds.

They had all kinds of magical devices

and weapons that they used.

The Shining Ones had access to strange

pieces of weaponry. For example,

one of them is called the light sword,

this sword made out of fire...

with which you could end any battle like this.

It is my opinion that those were the extraterrestrials

who imparted the first type of knowledge

to the local population of that area.

NARRATOR: Are the Celtic stories of the Tuatha D� Danann

actual historical accounts of an alien visitation in Ireland?

And if so, were these teachers perhaps also present

in the American northeast thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest physical evidence

may have been unearthed on a quiet New England beach.

NARRATOR: Milford, Connecticut.

August 19th, 1922.

The dean of American archeology, Warren Morehead,

makes a shocking discovery on the Connecticut shore.

His excavations uncover the remains

of two massive giants.

Their discovery sparked a media sensation.

Warren Morehead uncovered two skeletons

of some strange beings, which were over seven feet tall.

They had flat heads and extra rows of teeth.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

an intriguing clue about the giants� origins

can be found in the Native American oral tradition,

which says that the giants had red hair.

COLLINS: Red hair is something that is traditionally

associated with the Celtic peoples of Britain.

So, is it possible that there�s a relationship

between the ancient British peoples

and these giants?

NARRATOR: If Druids came to the New World

and built the stone chambers

scattered throughout New England,

did they do so with the help of extraterrestrial visitors?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by more closely examining

these potentially ancient structures,

and the mysterious properties they exhibit.

North Salem, New York.

April, 2019.

Seeking a link between the Celts, Druids

and the New World,

ancient astronaut theorist David Childress

and British megalith expert Hugh Newman

set out to visit one of the most mysterious

stone structures in America:

Balanced Rock.

CHILDRESS: I�m excited about seeing this Balanced Rock,

and you-you think it�s a dolmen. Is that what you�re saying?

I�m convinced it�s a dolmen.

It looks like something

you would find in Britain.

Thousands of ancient dolmens

have been found throughout Europe.

Most are known to be at least 5,000 years old,

and since rock cannot be carbon-dated,

could be far older.

The dolmens were sometimes open tombs,

under which a body would be ceremonially placed.

This monument that is known as Balanced Rock

resembles almost exactly

the stone dolmens of Europe.

It�s a massive top stone.

60 to 90 tons are the estimates,

and it�s just a remarkable place.

And so geologists are saying

that it�s a glacial erratic

and a glacier just brought it. It�s totally natural.

As the glacier pulled out, it just, sort of,

dropped them down on these stones.

That�s what they say, but it just doesn�t make sense

because it looks like it�s constructed.

You can see the shaping on the stones underneath it.

NARRATOR: Located just 30 miles from the site

where strange giant skeletons were discovered,

David and Hugh arrive at the mysterious formation.

Wow, look at that.

Oh, man. That is huge.

NEWMAN: That is pretty impressive, isn�t it?

CHILDRESS: That is a giant dolmen, isn�t it?

- NEWMAN: I know, it�s amazing. - CHILDRESS: Cool. Wow.

It looks like a European dolmen, doesn�t it?

NEWMAN: It does, it�s identical

�cause you have... we have these uprights.

I mean, there were originally seven there.

There seems to be five or six there.

It�s hard to tell because some split.

And the fact that it�s granite is quite intriguing,

combined with the gneiss rock underneath,

so there is a potential piezoelectric effect.

And this site is renowned

for having, kind of, energies associated with it.

NARRATOR: In the so-called piezoelectric effect,

electrical energy accumulates in solids,

rocks and otherwise lifeless matter.

Some claim that objects infused with piezoelectricity

can produce strange and anomalous results.

Because this is granite, it�s infused with tiny

- quartz crystals. - Yeah.

So yeah, there should be some energy coming out of it.

I believe there is, and also, the landscape it�s in,

it sits right on top of a negative magnetic anomaly,

directly under the main part of the stone.

So, you think that this is some kind of vortex area,

and there�s a magnetic anomaly,

and that, perhaps, they used that magnetic anomaly

to move this giant boulder

- and place it here? - It�s quite possible.

And I think, if you placed them in the right spot,

when there�s magnetic anomalies or telluric currents underneath,

which is both here, and you have the piezoelectric effect,

so when you place seeds or grains there,

it�ll charge them up,

and you�ll get a higher yield

and a better-quality crop.

CHILDRESS: Seeds that are charged

under here for one or two days,

and then other seeds that aren�t charged,

they grow them together, and the ones from here

grow, like, twice as fast.

NEWMAN: This has been tested scientifically.

CHILDRESS: So if there�s some kind of energy vortex here

you can measure that, right?

Yeah, so we got this.

This is a TriField magnetometer.

This is a classic device where you measure

different readings from magnetic fluctuations,

also electric charge,

and even radiation.

Well, should we do some tests? Should see what we can find?

- Yeah, let�s do it. - Okay, let�s turn this on. So what we�ll do is

we�ll get down a bit closer in.

- Uh-huh. - Let�s put this down here,

right in the center.

And look, immediately, we�ve got it on the magnetic setting,

so we�re getting fluctuations already.

CHILDRESS: So, that means that there�s an anomalous energy here,

some magnetic field that�s stronger than outside.

So this energy field is pulsing.

NEWMAN: This is a proper energy site.

So, let�s just keep walking around,

see if we can pick up any other fluctuations

or readings here.

And, yeah, this spot here seems to be the hot spot.

- CHILDRESS: It�s stronger now, the field. - It�s much stronger.

- It�s almost double. - Uh-huh.

NEWMAN: We certainly have an anomaly here.

NARRATOR: While many rocks naturally carry a magnetic charge,

the magnetic energy under and around Balanced Rock

is unusually high,

from 10 to 50 times normal.

STRIEBER: The great structures of the past,

like Balanced Rock,

were about experiencing

the great energy of the Earth.

And in fact, if you go to Balanced Rock,

you can feel the power of the Earth there still,

just as it was then.

NARRATOR: But is the rock generating all of this energy on its own

or could it have been purposely placed here

because it is a location

that amplifies its magnetic properties?

So, you�re also thinking, then,

that Druids or the Tuatha D� Danann,

they�ve come here from Ireland and England and Wales,

and then they chose this area

because it�s a vortex spot,

and then they chose this spot particularly

to put this giant dolmen here.

NEWMAN: I think that�s the case,

and I think this is really the center

of the whole complex around this part of the country.

CHILDRESS: So, back in the �80s there was this big UFO flap

here in the Hudson Valley,

and some UFO researchers claim

that the UFOs were coming up the valley,

towards this rock.

NARRATOR: Six years after Harvard University professor

Barry Fell published his controversial theory

that the Druids had visited North America,

the Hudson Valley UFO sightings began right over

the mysterious stone chambers and Balanced Rock.

HENRY: As investigators began tracking

these many thousands of sightings in the Hudson Valley,

they began to notice that there was a focal point.

A central point.

Balanced Rock.

Appears to be a sort of a vortex that was either

used as a portal by these craft

or as a guidance mechanism for these craft

as they�re travelling through this vortex.

It�s no accident that these masses of sightings

took place in the Hudson Valley.

NEWMAN: Some of the research that was carried out,

they found that some of the balls of light,

which seemed intelligent, were moving towards

these kind of sites like the dolmens,

the chambers of the Hudson Valley here.

NARRATOR: Does the magnetic testing at Balanced Rock

reveal that this area of the Earth

generates an energy vortex?

And if so, could this anomaly be connected to both

the high number of UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley

and also the mysterious stone structures

found throughout the region?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining an infamous site

where some say time stands still.

NARRATOR: Upstate New York.

April, 2019.

In search of further evidence

that the ancient Druids came to America,

David Childress and Hugh Newman

head to a site just 20 miles north of Balanced Rock,

one of the mysterious stone chambers of Putnam County.

There�s huge boulders here and some walls. Wow.

Yeah, there�s just so many of them, really.

I mean, some of them are probably still buried,

to be discovered.

All right, I see a chamber right there, yeah.

NEWMAN: Really looking forward to seeing this one.

(car doors close)

Yeah, this is one of the-the more famous ones.

When we get inside, it gets bigger,

so let�s get these on. Let�s go in and take a look,

see what we can see.

CHILDRESS: Yeah, this will be lit or, yeah.

NEWMAN: Yeah, look at this. This is incredible.

CHILDRESS: Wow.

NEWMAN: It�s well-constructed.

This is one of the chambers where the strange lights

would kind of congregate on

during the whole Hudson Valley UFO flap

- that lasted for ten years. - Is that right?

NEWMAN: And also we got massive megalithic blocks,

especially this stone back here. Look at this.

This is the classic sort of British megalithic design,

and it proves, I believe,

a connection with the ancient sites of Britain.

This entrance-- what direction do you think that�s pointing?

NEWMAN: Uh, check that, actually, while we�re here.

If we�re standing over this side,

in that direction, it�s going east.

But if we go over here, for instance,

and we look in that direction, that�s like northeast,

so we�ve got a summer solstice alignment going that way

and if we�re standing over there,

we�ve got an eastern equinox alignment.

So, that�s kind of intriguing in itself.

NARRATOR: Based on Hugh Newman�s research,

the chamber lines up with the solstice and equinox,

like ancient sites all over

the former Celtic territory of Northern Europe,

such as Stonehenge in England,

the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland,

Newgrange in Ireland

and the Carnac stones in France.

Were the Hudson Valley chambers

constructed by the same ancient builders?

And if so, how are the chambers connected

to the spectacular UFO sightings

that electrified the Hudson Valley 30 years ago?

In the whole Hudson Valley UFO flap in the �80s,

we did have accounts of these balls of light,

these orbs coming down,

and they would sort of almost orientate

and kind of land, go inside the chambers.

And so, why would they do that?

Then it was realized they may have been designed to trap

magnetic and electric charge,

and it would attract and move

these natural balls of light around.

NARRATOR: If Druids, armed with alien technology,

visited the American northeast,

could there be other signs

of their passage through New England?

Hartford, Connecticut.

November 20th, 1654.

A settler named John Pynchon writes Governor John Winthrop

about a newly-discovered stone site known as Gungywamp

from which he says he is hearing "many strange reports."

Gungywamp is a series of stone chambers,

alignments of standing stones,

on a 24-acre hilltop in southern Connecticut,

and people have been looking at this since the early 1600s.

Gungywamp is a place of mystery.

It�s a place that has a lot of anomalies with it.

COLLINS: It�s known for its magnetic anomalies.

It�s known for the strange lights,

the UFOs that appear in this area.

People have very strange experiences when they go there.

They burst into tears, becoming very emotional.

People have reported nosebleeds out of nowhere,

Bleeding from the eyes.

People have reported passing out, feeling nauseous.

I was there with a friend of mine,

and we had to sit down

because we got so nauseous and dizzy.

Some have claimed extraordinary experiences

where time and space actually are freezing.

NARRATOR: Interestingly, Governor John Winthrop,

who recorded the first reference to Gungywamp,

also recorded the first report

of a UFO sighting in the New World.

It occurred in 1639,

100 miles east of Gungywamp

on Boston�s Muddy River.

He described an incident that fishermen had

where an object flew up out of the water,

hovered in the sky, then all of a sudden,

these fishermen were back at the head waters of this river

with no sense of passing time.

NARRATOR: Strange magnetic anomalies.

Unexplainable physical ailments.

Missing time.

UFO sightings.

Could Balanced Rock, Gungywamp,

and the stone chambers be part of a larger energy grid

that overlies vast swaths

of the Hudson Valley and New England?

One that contributes to the creation of a vortex?

For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer is a resounding yes,

and they suggest a connection to the Druids

and their otherworldly mentors,

the Tuatha D� Danann,

can be found by examining their darkest practice:

human sacrifice.

Mystery Hill, New Hampshire.

At this remarkable megalithic stone site

known as America�s Stonehenge,

where Barry Fell first discovered evidence

of Druid writing in 1975,

can be found numerous celestial alignments.

NEWMAN: It�s an area that covers 12 acres.

It has multiple stone chambers.

It has megalithic construction,

such as standing stones,

which have now been found to be astronomically aligned

from the center of the site.

NARRATOR: The most famous artifact at Mystery Hill

is a curious stone slab.

COLLINS: Among the many stone structures

at America�s Stonehenge is a huge, flat slab

that is the size of a human body.

And around its edges is a channel

that leads into a hole that, very clearly,

would have been used to catch liquid

that was running down the stone,

and that would eventually

go through the channel, down into the ground.

NARRATOR: A stone slab the size of a human body,

with a channel for catching liquid?

Could this slab have been used for blood rituals?

The stone has, in fact, been dubbed the sacrificial table.

And some researchers believe it was used by the Druids.

Throughout northern England, so-called "bog bodies"

have been found,

disturbingly well-preserved corpses

of 2,000-year-old human sacrifice victims.

COLLINS: Bog bodies, as they�re described,

are human cadavers

that have been repeatedly found

in boggy environments,

and the manner of their discovery

seems to suggest that they could have been

cast into the waters as a sacrifice.

There is powerful evidence that those responsible

for these ritual murders were the Druids,

and if the Druids did reach North America,

that they carried sacrifice with them.

IMBROGNO: The Druids did sacrifice a certain way.

They would put a noose around the neck so that the pressure

builds up in the carotid artery,

then they would slit the throat

so the blood had pressure to form

a stream in the grooves of the rock.

NARRATOR: Could the table of sacrifice be physical evidence

that the Druids came to America centuries ago,

and brought with them not only their dark customs,

but perhaps also left an indelible mark

on New England and the Hudson Valley?

Is this just one of many unexpected relationships

between ancient cultures worldwide?

If so, did mankind�s prehistory

look vastly different from what we are led to believe?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest this global connection

nearly always traces back to the extraterrestrial gods.

And for further proof,

they point to a mysterious hieroglyphic message

carved into rock walls

on the east coast of Australia.

NARRATOR: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.

Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park

is a mysterious site known as the Gosford Glyphs.

The site consists of two massive, eight-foot-high walls

engraved with over 300 ancient carvings,

carvings that experts say do not resemble

indigenous artwork, but Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Absolutely beautiful out here.

STRONG: I know.

NARRATOR: In 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos

met with local ancient astronaut theorist Evan Strong

to get a first-hand look

at the enigmatic carvings at the Gosford Glyphs.

Wow.

That�s incredible.

I had no idea. I mean, this looks

totally different than on pictures.

So what do these hieroglyphs say?

Well, at least one panel talks about two brothers,

two princes, coming here from Egypt.

They were shipwrecked.

One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake.

He then died. The theory is,

then he was interred here,

and that�s why you�ve got hieroglyphs here,

because he died here.

But there�s these other walls with a mixture of symbols.

This one over here,

it�s more of a philosophical, astrophysics-style thing,

with symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff, so...

Now, have these symbols, at all,

been interpreted by Egyptologists?

There�ve been a few, actually.

Um, a few different, um, people have done that.

And what was their reaction?

Well, Raymond Johnson was one of the first people

to come here and translate.

He actually sent some of his translations off

to the Cairo library and Dr. Abu Dhia Ghazi

ended up saying, "Yep, you�re on the right track."

It�s something called proto-Egyptian.

And how old do you reckon these are?

STRONG: We�re thinking because of the prevalence,

at least in one panel of proto-Egyptian,

that it�s about 4,600 years old.

TSOUKALOS: Wow.

Are there any hieroglyphs that stand out to you?

Yeah, definitely. Follow me down here,

and I�ll show you this other one.

So, this one here, um, we call the UFO glyph,

and people have called it that since they�ve been coming here

because it kind of looks like a UFO.

TSOUKALOS: It definitely has the classic UFO shape.

It�s got the... the rays

or whatever you want to call it.

What would you suggest if anyone says,

"Well, this is not a UFO,

"it�s-it�s some other symbol that...

But certainly not that"?

STRONG: I think someone suggested that it�s jewelry,

but it�s a completely different symbol that�s upside down,

and it really doesn�t quite fit in.

It�s one of those symbols here

that-that doesn�t fit into the canon.

TSOUKALOS: In your opinion,

why do you think the Egyptians

made it all the way to Australia?

I think they were looking for esoteric wisdom, definitely.

- From the Aboriginals? - Yes.

DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians, we have stories,

and Aboriginal stories, about their arrival,

and about their visits

long before Europeans had arrived here.

Naturally, we would have shared ceremony

with these people because they have

the same similar beliefs as our people.

Egyptians have that same

spiritual connection to the sky world.

Many stories from all over this continent,

not just from here, but all over this continent,

talk about those who came by the sea

and came to these continents,

and some of our knowledge and wisdom and technology

went back with them.

And if you do some of the research,

in the last pyramids that they found,

they found boomerangs

made from iron bark from here.

And they have hieroglyphs of blackfellows

throwing the boomerangs to take out

the ducks and the geese.

Now, the question would be why would they paint us

and carve us on their walls if they didn�t come here?

And if that meeting and relationship

was not significant, they wouldn�t have carved it.

It must have been significant in order to carve.

NARRATOR: Aboriginal artifacts found in Egypt?

Hieroglyphs found in Australia?

Might the continent have actually served

as a pilgrimage site for visitors seeking

a direct connection to the so-called gods?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence of this otherworldly link

can be found in a megalithic structure

lost to time.

Mullumbimby, New South Wales.

1939.

Frederic Slater, the President

of the Australian Archaeology Society,

was dispatched to investigate the discovery

of a complex Aboriginal arrangement

consisting of 188 standing stones.

Slater dubbed the formation the Stonehenge of Australia,

and became convinced that it was one of the oldest

temple complexes in the world,

predating those found in Europe and the Middle East.

Frederic Slater found that the site he was investigating

was part of a larger, much larger site.

And fitted in very closely

with Aboriginal sacred law, myths and legends.

After a time, Frederic Slater began to posit

and suggest that instead of "out of Africa,"

that maybe we should re-examine the evolution of man

as "out of Australia."

He took a massive leap and started declaring

that in ancient times in Australia

the Aborigines were more advanced

than any culture that he could recount on the planet.

He was declared almost insane

by the rest of the academic community.

The landowners were so terrified

of the controversy that it implied

that it was pretty much destroyed by bulldozers.

CHILDRESS: There are many stone circles,

uh, throughout the British Isles and Europe.

Stonehenge is one of the most well-known.

They all have some relationship

to astronomical observatories.

This Aboriginal Stonehenge

would really alter the way we think of the Aboriginals

and the sophistication of their society,

where they had astronomical

and archaeoastronomical structures

that helped them monitor the heavens,

much as standing stones in Europe would have done.

DUNCAN: For our people, it went beyond the paintings and the carvings

into stone arrangements.

We would arrange in certain patterns,

which relate to the constellation of the stars

in regards to our connectedness with the sky world

and where we originate from.

NARRATOR: Could the so-called Aboriginal Stonehenge

provide insight into the other stone arrangements

found scattered across the continents?

If so, might they serve to provide

a permanent record of a significant connection

to another world?

Perhaps the best evidence of this

extraterrestrial relationship is found

with one stone depiction

that exists all across the globe.

NARRATOR: 2017.

To date, 69 massive stone pillars

have been unearthed at the ancient site

after more than two decades of excavation.

More than one-third of the statues

contain elaborate carvings of animals

including various mammals,

reptiles,

insects and birds.

But also included are depictions of species

not indigenous to the area,

like geese, armadillos

and wild boar.

There are such an incredible range of animals

and birds and insects depicted at G�bekli Tepe,

the like of which we have never seen

at that period anywhere else in the world.

And to have a whole bunch of them together is interesting.

You can speculate till the cows come home

as to what it might represent.

We have not the faintest idea.

NARRATOR: At the center of each of the five megalithic ring structures

that occupy the archaeological site

stand two oversized monolithic pillars.

Weighing up to 20 tons,

and reaching heights of over two stories,

they visually stand apart from the T-shaped stonework

that surrounds them.

These pillars are anthropomorphic,

they are humanlike in appearance.

They have low relief arms that come round

to the front, and end in these long, spindly fingers.

They wear garments.

They have belts with strange symbols.

There are no faces on these stones.

Their heads are represented by T-shaped terminations

that look almost like hammerheads, basically.

PAUL BAHN: They could be gods, they could be ancestors,

or they could be very specific people who are being venerated.

We really have no idea.

HENRY: The archaeologist Schmidt himself referred to them

as the celestial ones or the celestial ancestors.

And we have to ask if these are depictions

of the extraterrestrial gods at G�bekli Tepe.

NARRATOR: Yet as mysterious as these statues are,

strikingly similar depictions can be found

in other parts of the globe.

An interesting feature about some of these T-shaped pillars

is the fact that these arms culminate

in the front, around the navel area.

And what I find so cool is that this type of motif

can be found elsewhere around the world.

For example, in Easter Island,

with those giant statues, the Moai.

There too, the arms go around the belly

and they culminate in front of the navel.

And then, at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, for example,

there�s a statue that has the exact same hand position

in front of the navel.

EDWIN BARNHART: At the city of Tiahuanaco,

in its central complex called the Kalasasaya,

is a massive monolithic statue.

The statue is said, by the Inca, to be a giant.

In the previous creation, before men,

giants roamed the earth,

and they inhabited the city of Tiahuanaco.

And this is actually very similar to the mythology

of Easter Island in the stories we hear about the Moai.

CHILDRESS: One of the strange things that appears on the belts

of some of these figures is the "H" symbol,

which is almost identical to the H-blocks that are found

at Puma Punku in South America,

and those H-blocks are perfectly fitted together,

like Lego blocks, to create huge walls.

So is that some kind of symbol

of the extraterrestrial engineers

and their ability to go anywhere in the world

and construct giant walls? It would seem so.

Also seen on the giant T-shaped megaliths

at G�bekli Tepe are animals

carved in relief on the stones.

When you go to South America, to Peru and Bolivia,

you have towers and walls

that also have similar animals

carved in relief.

Foxes and birds,

condors and lions and pumas

are carved in relief

onto these walls.

It�s identical to what�s at G�bekli Tepe.

And we find that at the Yazidi Temples

in northern Iraq,

those temples also have serpents

carved in relief on them.

We get very similar type of carved pillars

as G�bekli Tepe in other parts of the world.

There is a very strong similarity in style

which tells us that there is almost certainly

some kind of relationship,

that G�bekli Tepe is not in isolation.

It�s part of some kind of global culture,

the remnants of a lost civilization

that once existed in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR: If the figures found at G�bekli Tepe

are a representation not of local deities

but of extraterrestrial beings

that visited different areas of the Earth,

could it bring us closer to solving a puzzle

whose pieces are scattered all over the world?

TSOUKALOS: If these connections only existed in one or two

ancient cultures, one could say,

"Okay, it�s just coincidence."

But the fact that they exist worldwide--

that, to me, illustrates,

there is a bigger picture behind it.

The idea is that perhaps the worldwide planet

was visited, essentially, by the same extraterrestrials

over long periods of time.

Perhaps hundreds, if not thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Ancient depictions of the gods of India

discovered in Colombia.

Architecture of the Druids unearthed in North America.

Egyptian hieroglyphs carved into stone walls

in Australia.

Could these and countless other out-of-place artifacts

be evidence of alien intervention on Earth

thousands of years ago?

Perhaps the most profound discovery of all

is still to come.

The discovery of an ancient connection

that reaches not across oceans

but off-planet.

The discovery of mankind�s origins in the stars.

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