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NARRATOR: A history of UFO sightings

tied to mountainous regions.

NICK POPE: Mount Kailash is at the center of all sorts

of UFO sightings.

NARRATOR: Incredible tales

of supernatural creatures dwelling at high altitudes.

These are hairy beasts, Sasquatch-like beings,

connected with Mount Shasta.

NARRATOR: And ancient carvings on rock faces

suggesting unearthly encounters.

WILLIAM HENRY: Oh, look at that.

- The spaceman. - Spaceman, exactly.

HENRY: Look at the helmet.

NARRATOR: Throughout history,

Earth's highest peaks have been tied to alien activity.

Is it possible that these mountains

have been secretly inhabited by extraterrestrial beings?

POPE: Could mountains be extraterrestrial bases

here on Earth right under our noses?

If that's true, maybe it's not just one base,

but a network of bases.

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.

Situated on the western bank of the Po river,

this city of nearly two million people

is an important international business hub.

It is also the heart of the Italian automotive industry,

with the headquarters of Fiat,

Lancia and Alfa Romeo all located here.

But overlooking this modern metropolis

is Italy's most mysterious and infamous ancient site:

Monte Musin�.

Rising to an elevation of nearly 4,000 feet,

Monte Musin� has stood at a unique crossroads of history,

geology and the unexplained.

This is a mountain where, over the years,

almost to the beginning of recorded human history,

strange things have been seen.

Lights were seen.

Sometimes these lights have been associated

with the forces of good,

others with the forces of darkness.

But make no mistake about it, over the years,

there has been all sorts of weirdness on this mountain.

NARRATOR: Mount Musin� stands at the easternmost edge

of Italy's Susa Valley,

which stretches 31 miles west to the border of France.

During the Bronze Age, more than 3,000 years ago,

this valley represented a major crossroads,

where the local Celtic people, called the Taurini,

came into contact

with the most prominent civilizations of the time.

The Bronze Age Celts of Northwestern Italy

were very lucky,

because their particular location

was a kind of geographical hub

that had access to Northern Europe

through the Alps and access to the Mediterranean going south.

And, indeed, across the Mediterranean to Egypt.

And people think that the ancient

pretty much stayed where they were born,

but many of them traveled vast distances

and encountered many other civilizations

and absorbed some of their ideas very willingly.

NARRATOR: The Celts in Northern Italy

came into contact with the Etruscans,

the Egyptians and the Greeks.

Each of these cultures had separate

but very similar polytheistic traditions,

in which they worshipped a pantheon of gods

that came down to Earth from the heavens.

And they all revered Mount Musin�

as a place of power.

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

Mount Musin� may, in fact, be a special location on Earth

because of where it is positioned.

Mount Musin� has an amazing ancient history

of magic and mystery.

The significance of its position

is that it's located on a ley line,

which is a gathering place of Earth energies.

NARRATOR: The concept of ley lines originated in the 1920s

with English landscape photographer Alfred Watkins.

While researching his book The Old Straight Track,

Watkins made the curious discovery

that many of the prehistoric standing stones

and significant ancient sites of England and France

line up in perfectly straight lines,

and many of these sites that these lines pass through

have names that contain the letters "ley"--

like Leyland, Keighley and Otley.

HUGH NEWMAN: Ley lines are an alignment

of ancient sites,

four or more of them over any distance.

And these stretch around the world in some cases,

and these are often associated with the same sites

on the straight-line alignments,

so there's a whole network around the planet

of lots of different types,

some linked with the magnetic field,

others linked with underground water

and natural energies that move through the land.

NARRATOR: One of the most significant ley lines

that has been identified is the Saint Michael Line.

Starting from Skellig Michael in Ireland,

the seven major sites that lie along this line

each have a church dedicated to the archangel Michael

all the way down to the Stella Maris Monastery in Israel.

And incredibly, there is no record of the people

who lived in these separate locations

having coordinated this.

One of the sites the Saint Michael Line passes through

is Mount Musin�.

You've got this straight line of all these sites,

and not just any old sites, power sites.

The ancients believed that certain parts of the world

were blessed with power, energy,

that Musin� is slap-bang on that line.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient people

were aware of energy emanating from the Earth,

and were drawn to the area of Mount Musin�

and the Susa Valley more than 2,000 years ago?

And could these Earth energies also be responsible

for the many strange events

that have been documented in this area?

Local legends passed down from ancient times

tell about this mountain being home to werewolves and wizards.

It was rumored that a dragon guarded an enchanted cave,

protecting a giant emerald.

And in the fourth century AD,

the Roman Emperor Constantine claimed to have had a vision

of a cross floating in the sky over Mount Musin�

the night before a decisive battle,

one that would lead to him seizing control of Rome

from his rival Maxentius,

and converting the empire to Christianity.

POPE: This was a pivotal moment.

The adoption of Christianity as the official religion

really changed the world,

and that's now a large part of the world we live in.

So did Mount Musin� have a part in all of this,

and if so, what the heck was this encounter?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Now, it was not just Constantine's vision,

because it is described that the army of Constantine

also saw something up in the sky.

So, the question is, is this

one of the earliest UFO encounters

that we have on record?

And in my opinion, yes, it is.

NARRATOR: Could the many extraordinary encounters

recorded at Mount Musin� throughout the ages

be the product of extraterrestrial visitation?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that further evidence can be found

by examining an incredible flurry of UFO sightings

reported in much more recent times.

An Alitalia flight is 17 miles outside of Turin

when its pilot sees something unusual in the night sky

over the nearby Mount Musin�, something no one can identify.

In 1973, an Alitalia pilot

sees a strange glow over the mountain,

and this is, apparently, later confirmed by the control tower.

NARRATOR: According to witnesses,

the glow appeared to be coming from a mysterious round object.

Two Italian Air Force planes that were in the vicinity

corroborated the sighting.

The UFO report is significant

not only because it was witnessed

by multiple pilots and passengers

but because within just a two-week period,

no less than six separate UFO incidents were reported

in the vicinity of Mount Musin�.

POPE: If this was in isolation,

then perhaps you could disregard it,

but when I look at Italy--

and particularly this specific part of Italy--

it does seem as if something is going on,

and it seems as if the Italian government

and maybe others know that there's something going on.

NARRATOR: What can explain the strange incidents

that have been continuously reported at Mount Musin�

for hundreds of years?

Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that extraterrestrials are drawn

to this particular place on Earth?

DAVID CHILDRESS: This light phenomenon

and unusual activity on Mount Musin� has been going on

for thousands of years, and continues to this day.

POPE: The challenge, really, is to find

the connection, to draw together

the disparate threads of this story and say,

"What is it about this area that's so special?"

NARRATOR: Perhaps further clues can be found

by investigating the strange rock carvings found in the area.

Carvings that appear to be depictions of astronauts.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry

has traveled to this UNESCO World Heritage site

165 miles from Mount Musin� to investigate what he believes

could be forensic evidence that the early civilizations

of this region came into contact with extraterrestrials.

HENRY: Hi, I'm William.

NARRATOR: Joining him is Luca Giarelli,

the head of the Val Camonica Historical

and Anthropological Society.

Luca has spent years studying

this mysterious region of Northern Italy,

and wants to show William the rock carvings

for which this Alpine valley is famous.

This place is massive.

I'm ready, let's go.

HENRY: I'm here at Val Camonica

because it is a treasure trove of images

from the ancient world that have been well-documented

and studied by scholars.

They don't agree on the meaning of the images,

but some of them are very open-minded

to the ancient astronaut theory.

Footprints.

Wow.

Look like deer.

Look at this. Incredible.

Wow.

HENRY: Oh, look at that.

The spaceman, exactly. Look at that helmet.

Right. It's like he's glowing.

HENRY: The Camunian rose.

HENRY: Wow.

- 19 Camunian roses? - Yeah.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists call this mysterious object

the Camunian rose because of its flower-like shape.

While its exact meaning is lost to history,

some believe it to be a religious symbol

or a representation of the movement of the stars.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

it might also depict something else,

the vessel that brought these helmeted figures

to Val Camonica.

Look at that. That looks like a spaceship.

It's like, you look up in the sky,

and you would see this kind of twirling,

spinning ship in the sky.

It seems to me, just looking at it,

they're trying to talk about beings coming from other worlds,

maybe to this place.

Tell me about that five-pointed star.

HENRY: Mm-hmm.

HENRY: Sometimes, the-the stars mean energy,

like, energy from the stars would come to this place,

or star beings would come to this place.

Mm-hmm.

Okay. So this is like a newspaper, then.

It says, "This was in the sky above us at some point,

and this spaceman came down,"

and maybe met the Camunian people.

NARRATOR: According to the ancient stories of the Susa Valley,

the city of Turin was founded by a character

from Greek mythology called Phaethon

who came to Earth from the stars.

Legend states that Turin was founded by the god Phaethon,

who is a son of the sun god Helios,

and in the myth of Phaethon, we learn the story

of how he descended to Earth in a fiery chariot,

perhaps crashing into Mount Musin�.

This also led to something fortuitous,

because he brought gifts to this place.

He had great skills, was a metallurgist,

and taught this to the local people.

CHILDRESS: When we look at myths

such as the myth of Phaethon,

here is, really, the story of a UFO

landing on a mountain and interacting with the locals.

HENRY: When we look behind this myth of Phaethon,

perhaps this is what we're also seeing at Val Camonica.

I think given the-the connection with the spacemen

that are etched into the rock,

that we have to be open to the possibility

that what the ancient artist is trying to portray

is something that he actually saw in the sky,

something coming out of the heavens.

NARRATOR: Is there a connection

between the stone carvings found at Val Camonica

and the story of Phaethon's descent from the sky?

And do other clues exist here

that point to ancient alien contact?

Were there any other cultures

that were connected with the valley?

- What sort of engravings? - Uh...

Mm-hmm. Oh, the horned god.

Yeah. Right.

HENRY: That means the Celts were here.

So, is the only location where we see the spaceman?

- Even deeper into the woods? - Yeah.

I'd love to go.

NARRATOR: Luca guides William up a steep portion of the valley

for a rare look at another carving hidden from public view.

All right, thanks.

Wow.

Luca, we're-- We're like on the edge of a cliff here.

Wait a minute, there.

There's one of them, isn't it, right there?

- Yeah. - How cool.

HENRY: Wow.

HENRY: Yeah, these are just like the other guys.

- The detail is amazing. - Yeah.

HENRY: There's clearly some kind of an exchange

that's happening here.

It's like they're making a photograph

of what happened at this place.

They're trying to say, "At this spot,

this is what we saw here."

HENRY: Of all places to find a rock like this.

This is a very secretive, almost initiatory place

where select people would be brought here to be told

this story about these extraterrestrials.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Were the ancient people of what is now Northwest Italy

visited by beings from other worlds?

And could these depictions of spacemen and strange craft

descending from the heavens have a link

not only to the origin story of Turin,

but also to the UFO sightings

that have been reported over Mount Musin�

in more recent times?

Val Camonica is in this incredible vortex,

if you will, that includes Mount Musin�.

We're looking at an entire territory here

where these extraordinary experiences are being recorded.

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the carvings at Val Camonica

tell just one part of a larger story.

And they suggest that nearby ruins

may reveal not only that extraterrestrials

visited this region, but why.

NARRATOR: While ascending Mount Pirchiriano,

25 miles west of Turin,

and directly across from Mount Musin�,

a Catholic bishop is startled

by an incredible sight that suddenly appears in the sky.

He sees strange lights in the sky,

and these things are described as planks

and globes made of fire.

Firstly appearing to be

on the mountain itself, then rising up.

Flying around across the sky.

But they weren't just sightings.

They were sightings that had a profound consequence.

These strange sightings prompted the bishop to say,

"This will be the site on which we will build

the new abbey," that came to be known

as Sacra di San Michele.

So, once again we have what seems to be

extraterrestrials giving a light show for people,

uh, wanting to attract their attention

and perhaps inspiring them to do certain things.

NARRATOR: The Sacra di San Michele, or Saint Michael's Abbey,

still stands atop Mount Pirchiriano today.

It is to this sacred abbey

that ancient astronaut theorist William Henry is headed

with author and historian Gnomo Orzo,

who plans to reveal a historic secret.

- Wow. - Oh, my gosh. Look at this.

- Yes. Susa Valley. - Wow. Wow, wow, wow.

- Look. - That's incredible.

- HENRY: Musin�. - ORZO: Yeah.

It's like Musin� and Sacra are-are twin peaks.

- ORZO: Yes. - HENRY: Incredible.

And in this place where the Sacra was built,

we have some other interesting phenomenon...

NARRATOR: According to ancient stories,

in this area of the Saint Michael Line--

the energy line, or ley line,

that many believe runs straight through Italy--

a highly advanced civilization existed thousands of years ago.

A civilization that began

when the god Phaethon came down from the sky

in his fiery chariot.

The local accounts of Phaethon

not only connect this figure with the ancient Greeks,

but also the ancient Egyptians.

And some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that as a bringer of technology,

Phaeton could be the same extraterrestrial being

that was known in Egypt as Ptah.

HENRY: Their names are very similar, Ptah and Phaethon.

The legend says that Phaethon founded Turin

in honor of the Apis bull.

Turin, or Turino, is called the city of the bull.

Now, this is very interesting

because in ancient Egypt

where the reverence for the Apis bull originated,

we're told that the Apis bull,

or Apis bull, was actually

the Egyptian god of technology, Ptah, incarnate.

Ptah was the Egyptian god

of smithcraft and alchemy.

So, we have to ask the question,

is Musin� a place that was known in the ancient world

where the secrets of alchemy

were ultimately going to be stored

or could be accessed?

There seems to be a very important connection

between the cosmic knowledge of metallurgy,

which was brought to Earth by the gods,

and some kind of energy present at Mount Musin�.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials' knowledge of metallurgy

and alchemy was used to create

a technologically advanced ancient city

around Mount Musin�,

where did it go?

In the first century BC,

Rome conquered the area's original inhabitants

and established Augusta Taurinorum,

the colony that eventually became Turin.

All traces of the people and city

that came before it seem to have vanished.

HENRY: So the Roman Empire came here

and said, "We're gonna take your knowledge and secrets,

we're gonna weaponize."

Yeah, of course.

So the energy is still here in this valley.

- Let's go. - Yeah.

NARRATOR: Gnomo and William head next

to a hill near the village of Mompantero.

If extraterrestrials handed knowledge of advanced technology

to the ancient people of this region,

Gnomo believes it happened here

and he has located evidence to prove it.

Look at that.

Right, so this is knowledge way beyond

what we normally think of the Neolithic mind

- being able to grasp. - Yeah.

BRUCE FENTON: Finding this triple spiral at Musin�

is absolutely fascinating.

I suspect that among its many meanings,

which most of which have to do with movement

and energetic flow, I suspect amongst these

we're also being told something about earth energies.

They had a knowledge of these magnetic forces

and these energies, you know, something that they perhaps

should not have known but clearly did.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the ancient people of the Susa Valley

received knowledge of Earth's magnetic forces

from extraterrestrials that were present

in the region of Mount Musin�?

But if a technologically advanced city

really did once exist in the Susa Valley,

how is it that all evidence of it disappeared?

Some researchers say remnants of this lost city

can still be found in the shadow of Mount Musin�.

NARRATOR: Deeper in the Susa Valley of Northern Italy,

Gnomo Orzo takes William Henry

to a Roman archaeological site called Il Maometto.

But what he wants to show him

is something hidden in the woods nearby

that predates even the earliest identified Roman ruins.

Wow, Gnomo. Look at this.

Look at this incredible, incredible platform.

Yeah, huge wheels.

Uh, surrounded by a lot of very ancient walls.

HENRY: You know, I've seen something

like this before in Egypt, at Abu Gorab,

wheels just like this on this massive platform.

Quartz crystal embedded.

It's like a landing platform.

ORZO: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Approximately ten miles south of Cairo,

the ancient site of Abu Gorab

contains massive circular alabaster platforms.

Local tradition holds

that this site is one of the oldest

ceremonial centers on the planet

and that the alabaster platforms created a harmonic resonance

through sound vibrations to open the senses

to "communicate" with divine energies.

When I came upon this platform in the middle of this forest,

it took me back to Egypt

where you see massive stone altars like this,

for example at Abu Gorab,

that have exactly the same stone wheels in the center,

and I'm thinking, this proves the Egyptian connection, too.

This is a-a common symbolic element

that almost always connects with extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: For William Henry, the wheels also present

another intriguing possibility.

He believes that they may have been made

to commemorate the foundational story

of the city of Turin--

in which it is said

that an otherworldly being called Phaethon

descended from the sky in a fiery chariot.

In the story, the craft in which he descends to Earth

is described as having wheels--

but it is also said that he brought with him

so-called "wheels of knowledge."

The myth tells us that there was some kind of a craft

that came into this area, and they describe

wheels that Phaethon left. Wheels of knowledge?

Is that what we have here?

Wheels that match what we saw with the spirals on the rock

of this extraordinary knowledge

encoding the secrets of light itself.

- It's an incredible mystery. - It's an incredible mystery.

Right away, I think of the golden wheels

of the solar discs in the Aztec and Inca cultures.

We know that they were great circles

and on them would be engraved

all sorts of knowledge, all sorts of information,

astronomy, and other mythology being coded

into the surface of the disc.

Now, could it be that at Musin�

we have exactly the same thing happening,

that we have this great golden wheel

upon which is all of this information?

NARRATOR: Might the ancient wheels carved into the rock at Il Maometto

be just the tip of an historical iceberg?

A sign of the lost ancient city

buried beneath the ground?

We enter into this valley

where what do we find? These ancient myths

of a civilization

that might have had some extraordinary knowledge

that they're trying to protect

and we come into here and look at these walls,

more ancient than ancient Rome.

Yeah.

HENRY: We've seen Val Camonica

with these incredible depictions of spacemen on the rocks,

thousands of years old, absolutely amazing.

Then we come through the gates of Musin�

where Constantine saw this flash of light,

the heavens open.

And across the valley,

we have Sacra San Michele

where the monk saw the light as well,

an extraordinary complex there.

It's telling us that there was contact

in the ancient world at this place.

For some reason, people have been coming into this valley,

they're attracted by something here,

for a very long time

and talking about these amazing mysteries and knowledge.

Yeah, like...

There's so much more here

to investigate than I ever imagined.

NARRATOR: Ancient visitors sharing the secrets of metallurgy?

Tales of a lost civilization

that once held advanced knowledge?

And ruins still waiting to be identified in the Susa Valley?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the area of Mount Musin� provides overwhelming evidence

that extraterrestrials were once present here.

But if these otherworldly visitors helped to establish

a technologically advanced civilization

in the Susa Valley,

what happened to it?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

further clues might be found

by examining strange encounters

that have occurred on Mount Musin� in more recent times.

With the threat of war casting an ominous shadow across Europe,

an incredible series of events unfolds--

all under the supervision

of one of history's most powerful and feared leaders:

Benito Mussolini.

In 1933, it's claimed that a UFO crashed

in the Lombardy region of Italy.

This was apparently an object around 50 feet in diameter,

like two saucers joined together.

It was described as being grayish in color and metallic.

And apparently, it was then taken by the military

and studied on the personal orders

of the then dictator Benito Mussolini.

NARRATOR: According to some accounts, the UFO crashed near the city

of Magenta, just 80 miles northeast of Mount Musin�.

The craft was found to be unoccupied,

and unlocking its secrets became a top priority.

This flying saucer was something that the Mussolini government

took a lot of interest in,

and so there was an establishment of

a group of experts to study this phenomenon,

to study exactly what it involved, who made it.

And this committee was called RS 33.

NARRATOR: To lead the committee, it is said

that Mussolini enlisted the noted engineer and famed

inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi.

Mussolini said, "Find out what it is,

and because it seems to be so advanced, build one."

And Marconi apparently said, "Well, we can't.

"We can't figure it out.

There is a technology here over and above anything we possess."

And that only left the conclusion that this,

for want of a better term, was an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

NARRATOR: Was a crashed extraterrestrial craft really recovered

by the Italian government in 1933?

And if so, is it merely coincidence

that it happened so close to Mount Musin�?

Let's just suppose that the common thread here

is actually Earth energies,

which the UFOs know about and use, perhaps,

to draw the energy that they need.

So might we be dealing with not just visitation

but a more permanent facility?

MARTELL: So when we look at Mount Musin� and this energy,

we wonder if there isn't something happening

below ground as well.

Could this be a location of some type of secret base?

NARRATOR: A secret alien base?

Could this be the reason why so many strange events

have been reported in this area for centuries?

And might it also explain what happened to the lost city?

Does it still exist inside the mountain?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the most compelling evidence of all may be found

by examining an incident that happened

not above Mount Musin�, but on its slopes.

NARRATOR: Two hikers are on Mount Musin� when they witness a strong

and blinding light that seems to envelop the mountain's summit.

Curious, one of the men approaches the light

and vanishes into thin air.

When he turns up again, he is dazed, confused.

He's apparently in shock.

Uh, he has a scalded leg.

And when he comes around, he relays this account

of how he was taken on board this craft.

NARRATOR: Immediately following this terrifying ordeal,

both hikers come down with a severe case of conjunctivitis,

an inflammation or infection of the membrane

that lines the eyelid and covers the whites of the eyes.

So it would seem that they were in contact with some kind

of radiation that ultimately

affected their health, in a sense.

And this is a story that occurs

over and over again in UFO lore.

When we look at this incident

and some of the previous ones, what are the themes?

Fire in the sky, energy, scalding, burning.

It's all about power.

Are these sightings being caused because

there are perhaps underground facilities, bases?

And if that's true, maybe it's not just one base

but a network of bases in that area.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials have remained on Earth

for thousands of years, operating from secret bases

beneath the slopes of Mount Musin�,

might there be similar sites hidden on other mountains?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest evidence can be found by examining

sacred peaks around the world

that the local people revere

as being the dwelling places of the gods.

Here, in a remote area of the Himalayan mountain range,

researchers scale a cliff crumbling

from erosion in order to explore one

of the world's greatest archaeological mysteries.

The sky caves of the ancient kingdom of Mustang.

There are over 10,000 of these man-made caves tunneled all

around the Mustang region. Many have yet to be explored.

Entry is not only dangerous but nearly impossible,

even with modern climbing equipment.

ROBERT SCHOCH: The caves of Mustang are absolutely amazing

because they're in a very fragile, friable rock.

That is, it breaks off very easily.

It's very hard to scale, to try to get up to them.

These caves appear to be human-carved,

to be cut out by humans.

No one really knows who carved these caves initially

because they seem to go back to such a very, very early period.

NARRATOR: Hidden inside, researchers find art, artifacts,

and religious texts dating back to at least the 1400s

and some much, much older.

Among the most stunning of the discoveries

is a mural composed of 55 panels depicting

scenes from the life of the spiritual leader Buddha.

They have found images of Buddhas,

of various life scenes of the Buddha.

So perhaps it was used for a ritual purpose,

perhaps used as a meditation purpose.

We do not know why particularly Buddhist deities

have been painted, uh, in some of these, uh, caves.

NARRATOR: But how and why did this unknown ancient

civilization scale nearly 155 feet of sheer vertical rock wall

to create these caverns in the mountainside?

And why did they leave behind

depictions of the life of Buddha?

Mankind has been drawn to mountains for centuries.

Across ancient civilizations,

the world's highest peaks were often viewed as sacred

and home to all-powerful gods.

But why do so many different cultures throughout history

share this belief that mountains have a divine connection?

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Mountains have fascinated people

all over the world for thousands and thousands of years.

They seem to be a way to ascend to the heavens

or to get as close to the heavens

as we can here on this planet.

In many mythologies, they were

imagined as the dwelling place of the gods.

YOUNG: The idea that the mountains would be

the homes of the gods

shows up in Norse tradition, in India, in Japan, all over.

The ruler, the god, the great power,

would want to have the view from above.

This is transcendence. This is getting the big picture.

So we imagine that there is a kind of control tower

or control center up in the mountains

that helps the gods rule wisely from above.

They are the closest points to the sky

and the world that exists up there.

Which makes them the perfect place

of communication between this world and the next.

The gods are said to use them when they come down.

They are places of otherworldly activity.

NARRATOR: Were mountains around the world really home

to divine or perhaps extraterrestrial beings?

Beings who used these extreme elevations

to observe and communicate with mankind.

Many ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and as evidence they point to the mountain

that is most famously associated

with powerful gods of the ancient world.

Mount Olympus, Greece.

Rising over 9,500 feet, this sacred mountain

is the second tallest in the Balkan Peninsula.

According to ancient myth, it was also the chosen home

of immortal deities known as the Olympians.

RADER: Mount Olympus hides a particularly mysterious

abode where the gods live in perfect immortal repose

for all of their existence.

Even nowadays, clouds gather around the top of it.

That's where it is assumed that the abode of the gods was,

up in the clouds that you aren't able to see.

NARRATOR: Mount Olympus was viewed as sacred by the ancient Greeks,

and the city of Dion, located at the foot of

the mountain, became a major center of pilgrimage

and religious worship in the fifth century BC.

Dion was at the base of Mount Olympus,

and it was believed to be a power spot.

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Fourth century BC,

Alexander the Great came to Dion before launching off

on his vast conquest of Asia.

There is something about this place,

something very important related to the mountain.

The Greeks were fascinated by Mount Olympus, and they believed

that real people, real gods were living up there.

When they saw lightning flashes, storm clouds,

and when there were natural disasters,

they believed the gods were angry.

HENRY: The Olympians were huge sky beings who descended on Earth

and had a headquarters at Mount Olympus.

They interacted with humans, and the ancients believed

that they were real beings.

CHILDRESS: For many years, historians believed

that the Greek stories were complete myth.

But then in 1870, the German archaeologist

Heinrich Schliemann discovered Troy.

Similarly, we have the story of the Oracle at Delphi

and the god Apollo speaking through the Oracle.

Archaeologists have now found the exact spot

where the Oracle at Delphi sat.

So now we know that some of the Greek stories are genuine.

So is it possible that the stories of the Olympians

are also true?

HENRY: It's possible

that they were actually extraterrestrial beings

who came here to influence humankind.

NARRATOR: Could the myths of ancient Greece be true?

Was Mount Olympus home to gods living here on planet Earth?

And if so, might those powerful deities

have been extraterrestrials,

as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?

According to the accounts of the Greek poet Hesiod

from the eighth century BC,

the Olympians were the children of the Titans,

another generation of gods thought to occupy

nearby Mount Othrys.

Fed up with the oppressive rule of the Titans,

the Olympians waged a brutal

rebellion against them, using Mount Olympus as their base.

The command was done from the mountains,

and the battle took place on the plains between the mountains.

And the battle went on and on.

(overlapping shouting)

The Olympians prevailed, finally capturing the Titans.

TSOUKALOS: Whenever we have references to Mount Olympus,

it is described to be this magnificent palace.

And the temple walls were always gleaming

of gold, or gleaming with silver,

and a lot of little lights that they described as jewels,

some blinking lights and all those things.

Well, if you look at that from a modern perspective,

what if Mount Olympus and Mount Othrys were basically

the command posts where the Olympians

and the Titans drew up their battle plans?

And when I say command posts, I'm talking about

a functioning military outpost in the mountains...

...for an all-out war between extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible that Mount Olympus

and Mount Othrys served as tactical military bases

for extraterrestrial factions?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest

that alien outposts may also be hidden among

some of the world's most remote and spiritual locations.

As evidence, they point to sacred peaks found

6,000 miles away in the highest region on Earth: Tibet.

NARRATOR: On the northern side of the Himalayas lies the highest

geographical region on Earth: Tibet.

Known as "the roof of the world,"

it has an average elevation of nearly 15,000 feet.

There is 40% less oxygen to breathe here than at sea level,

and the weather can be dangerous and unpredictable.

Yet more than three million people call Tibet home.

Millions more brave the harsh conditions to travel

here each year and visit Tibet's sacred peaks,

including Mount Everest, which reaches nearly

five and a half miles into the heavens.

Tibet we call "land of snow."

YOUNG: Here is this mountain kingdom, very hard to get to,

with an exotic culture all its own, amazing architecture.

And the dizzying heights of its location.

SHIMKHADA: There are a lot of mysteries involved

with the origin of, uh, Tibet and also a lot of history.

Tibet is usually referred to as a land of gods.

It is a kind of exotic land where many people,

Westerners, wanted to go there.

YOUNG: The secrets of the Tibetan culture have eluded us

and held our fascination since early times.

NARRATOR: Humans have inhabited Tibet for at least 20,000 years.

Little is known about the earliest inhabitants of this

forbidding environment, but ancient Tibetan texts

identify the region's first rulers as the Zhangzhung people,

who emerged around 500 BC.

Much about this early civilization is still a mystery.

But their spiritual tradition,

called Bon, remains a powerful force in Tibet.

The Native Indigenous Tibetan religion,

which is known as Bon or Bonpo...

...that in many ways is similar to Taoism.

It connects nature and spirituality.

Certain spots are very powerful spots.

There's a lot of magic involved, like with demons and exorcisms.

NARRATOR: In the eighth century,

Tibetan king Trisong Detsen introduced a new religion

and philosophy to the area-- Buddhism.

Followers of Buddhism share a belief in reincarnation

and don't acknowledge a supreme god or deity.

They instead focus on achieving enlightenment--

a state of inner peace and wisdom.

The combination of Bon,

Buddhism and other local traditions

resulted in what is known today as Tibetan Buddhism.

At the same time Buddhism was introduced,

Tibet also gave rise to the world's most mysterious

spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

YOUNG: The great Tibetan thinkers strongly believe,

along with the rest of the population,

that this is, in fact, the 74th incarnation

of the Chenrezig.

And it is a continuation of the Buddha himself.

So the current Dalai Lama is a continuation

of this great energy.

SHIMKHADA: These lamas and all these great personalities

lived in Tibet,

so perhaps there is something to be learned

from these great masters in Tibet.

CHILDRESS: Having traveled in Tibet a number of times,

it really expands your mind, and in many ways

Tibet is that magical, mystical place

where anything can happen.

NARRATOR: Tibet not only stands

at a crossroads of Eastern religious traditions

but is believed by many

to be a place where heavenly beings

actually reside on Earth.

TSOUKALOS: It is said that this was the abode of the gods.

The Himalayan region is filled

with stories of so-called celestial beings...

...that descended from the sky in flying vehicles

that they're referred to as dragons and flying furnaces.

According to some of the earliest Sanskrit texts,

the first Buddha that ever walked the Earth

was nine feet tall, had light blue skin,

and his arms reached all the way down to his knees.

And there are multiple statues

all throughout that region of the world

that depict exactly a Buddha like that.

TSOUKALOS: Visitation did happen, and this was something

that has remained in the consciousness

of the local people over millennia.

The reason why this area of the world

has become a religious center

is because of the arrival of the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the culture of Tibet

was influenced by ancient alien visitors?

And if so, could they still be present

in this mountainous region today?

According to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions,

the gods reside in a hidden kingdom in the Himalayas

known as Shambhala.

CHILDRESS: Shambhala is ruled by kings who live for hundreds of years.

They are all-knowing.

And they particularly are guiding the planet.

Very much as we often think

that extraterrestrials are doing.

They have wonderful technology.

There's electricity. There's airships.

So what is going on in Shambhala?

Is it some mystical city of the masters

where extraterrestrials and humans

are living and working together?

I mean, that's what many people believe.

NARRATOR: Is the lost kingdom of Shambhala really a secret city

of advanced extraterrestrial beings,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might evidence of its alien origin

be found somewhere in Tibet?

Perhaps clues can be found in one legendary expedition

into the very heart of the unknown.

NARRATOR: Russian painter, philosopher,

and archaeologist Nicholas Roerich embarks

on an unprecedented expedition into the uncharted territory

of the Tibetan Plateau

on a quest to find the lost kingdom of Shambhala.

On August 5, 1927,

Roerich notes a strange object in the skies

while traveling through the mountains

along the northeastern border of Tibet.

Roerich writes that they were looking up at the sky,

watching an eagle fly around,

and then suddenly they saw...

...a sort of oval-shaped object

moving from north to south

at very fast speeds pass over them.

NEWMAN: At one of his later lectures in 1935,

Nicholas Roerich described his sighting

as a spacecraft

or an aerial vehicle

that must have come from Shambhala itself.

NARRATOR: Did Nicholas Roerich witness an alien craft in Tibet

nearly a century ago,

decades before the era of modern UFO sightings began?

And if so, is it possible that the traditions

that have endured here for centuries reflect

not only a profound spirituality

but are tied to an otherworldly presence?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining an early Buddhist civilization

that suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, 2020.

Towering at over 12,000 feet,

these ancient ruins are all that is left

of the mysterious Buddhist kingdom of Guge.

Established in the tenth century,

this civilization flourished for 700 years.

But then, according to local legend,

its inhabitants vanished.

The ruins of this early city are

truly amazing.

They're in the southwest corner of Tibet,

and there are thousands

of what were temples and palaces, mostly gone now.

This was a kingdom of great influence in its time.

This magnificent capitol had artwork over all the walls,

images of the Buddha, sacred carvings

and images of all kind.

It had power, it had glory, and now it is nothing.

HENRY: Guge was in continuous operation

until it mysteriously virtually disappeared.

Nobody knows exactly what happened there

or why people stopped living there

or why they-- where they went.

NARRATOR: Guge was brought under the rule

of the central Tibetan government in 1680

but remained largely isolated and independent

for more than 200 years.

Then, in the early 20th century, the Tibetan government

decided to finally start taxing the residents of Guge.

But when soldiers arrived to collect,

they were shocked to find that the entire population--

an estimated 100,000 people--

had disappeared.

Where they went remains a complete mystery,

and many Tibetans believe the reason why

is because the people of Guge traveled deep underground.

CHILDRESS: The fortress of Guge had all kinds of tunnels

and hidden staircases that went underground

and went inside this mountain.

So even though it was ruins already

when archaeologists went there,

they were astounded that this city of Guge

apparently led inside the earth.

What people seemed to believe was

that if you were to follow these tunnels

far enough into the earth,

you would eventually come to that hidden city of Shambhala.

An active city full of light and power.

NARRATOR: Did the people of this ancient civilization flee underground

on an epic pilgrimage to the mythic kingdom of Shambhala?

And if so, where did their path lead?

Some researchers believe

the tunnels of Guge lead to a holy mountain to the east

that can be clearly seen from these ruins--

Mount Kailash.

Every year, thousands of pilgrims make

the treacherous journey to the base of this sacred peak.

STEAVU: Every year, there are pilgrimages

around Mount Kailash in order to gain the blessing

and maybe even some of the powers

associated with the residing gods

and, and Buddhas and deities

of Mount Kailash.

It lasts up to four weeks if it's done correctly

with full prostrations at every step,

and it's also a very unforgiving landscape,

so many people end up giving up

and some of them also end up dying.

NARRATOR: According to ancient Buddhist texts known

as the Kalachakra tantra,

the kingdom of Shambhala can be found

behind Mount Kailash, or as some interpret it, within.

And many who have stared up at this sacred peak

have observed mysterious objects in the sky.

Mount Kailash is at the center

of all sorts of mysteries.

UFO sightings,

the hint that there might be something hidden there,

but it's unknowable.

HENRY: There are many myths and legends and strange things

that have gone on at Mount Kailash.

People go there on pilgrimages,

but they're told not to stay there long

because there's something radioactive inside the mountain.

And we're told that people live there

both in physical form and in nonphysical form.

It has to be one of the strangest places

on the planet.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the mysterious phenomena

occurring at Mount Kailash

and its association with Shambhala

is connected to extraterrestrial activity?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest answers can be found

by studying the sacred Buddhist monuments

known as stupas,

found all throughout Nepal, India and Tibet,

including at the ruins of Guge.

HENRY: For centuries people have been sighting UFOs

or unexplained craft coming in and out of Mount Kailash.

It's very interesting when you compare

the shape of the stupas that we find in Tibet,

these dome shapes and how they highly resemble

some kind of extraterrestrial craft sitting on the ground.

So perhaps people saw these craft

entering into Kailash and decided,

"We're gonna build stupas" in remembrance of what they saw.

TSOUKALOS: A stupa by definition is a vehicle

with which to reach the realm of the gods.

That is the definition of a stupa.

Well, just change the wording

of vehicle with which to reach space.

These stupas can be seen, for example, in the Ajanta Cave,

with smoke and fire at the bottom.

What more do you want?

It's no longer a symbol. It is the truth.

NARRATOR: Might the Buddhist stupas of Tibet be monuments

to alien craft witnessed flying in

and around Mount Kailash?

A site believed by many to be the kingdom of Shambhala?

And if so, how has it remained hidden for millennia?

Could it be that somewhere on the slopes of Mount Kailash

is the entrance to a hidden extraterrestrial realm?

While countless expeditions have tried and failed to find

the legendary kingdom of Shambhala,

there are some who claim to have found a way

to communicate with its otherworldly inhabitants.

NARRATOR: London, 1888.

Famed Russian mystic and philosopher

Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

publishes her seminal book The Secret Doctrine.

In it, she offers detailed descriptions

of the legendary lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria.

She claims not only that these ancient civilizations existed

but that they possessed highly advanced technology,

including flying machines, thousands of years ago.

Madame Blavatsky maintained

that human lineage is vastly older

than we understand.

And that primordial civilizations,

like Atlantis or Lemuria,

formed the foundation of human history

and were much older than Egyptian culture,

than Vedic culture, than any culture known to humanity.

This to her was an occult history that humankind, uh,

had forgotten about, had failed to understand.

LACHMAN: Atlantis, we know, goes back to Plato.

He's the first one to really talk about it.

And both Atlantis and Lemuria-- at some point

they sort of turned dark.

They became fascinated

with a kind of form of black magic

and a kind of hyper technology.

And this led to their demise.

NARRATOR: Madame Blavatsky claimed she received this knowledge

from a mysterious entity she described as a "mahatma,"

a Sanskrit word that means "great soul."

He called himself Koot Hoomi and resided in Tibet.

Koot Hoomi communicated with her telepathically.

In other words, she kind of channeled him.

SHIMKHADA: The way she described him

is almost like a eternal baba, eternal soul,

so, you know, he is, like, immortal.

SALLA: Also, he was able to manifest himself

in her apartment in New York City

even though it was thousands of miles away.

NEWMAN: We have to question what was going on here.

Was she somehow in contact

with some kind of hidden world in the Himalayas?

NARRATOR: In 1875,

Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society.

It was made up of prominent thinkers

who sought to explore Eastern religions and the occult

and create a kind of universal brotherhood

based on the teachings of Koot Hoomi and other mahatmas.

LACHMAN: Theosophy means the wisdom of the gods.

The Theosophical Society was incredibly, um,

successful and popular and influential.

Not only in the occult world,

but she was also influential in the cultural world.

Uh, people like the painter Mondrian

and Wassily Kandinsky were early theosophists.

L. Frank Baum, who wrote the Oz books,

Abner Doubleday, who invented baseball.

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

These were all very early members

of the Theosophical Society.

NARRATOR: While many important figures joined the Theosophical Society,

Madame Blavatsky had a particularly

profound influence on a young Indian law student

who came to visit her in London--

Mohandas Gandhi.

HOROWITZ: Gandhi wrote about this as one of the pivotal

encounters of his life.

He maintained that Madame Blavatsky

gave him the first sense of universal brotherhood

that later came to form the core of his philosophy,

not only of radical equality but of radical nonviolence.

Now, this is quite astonishing, when we think about

the potential here that perhaps an entity,

this strange Tibetan entity

that's making psychical contact with Blavatsky,

has now reached out to someone who would go on to be

one of the most famous persons in history

and would have made this radical change in India

that would, you know, really shock the world

and change the face of the British Empire.

NARRATOR: Was Gandhi's transformative leadership

and Indian independence, in part,

a result of influence from these mysterious,

enlightened masters in Tibet?

And if so, who were these so-called mahatmas?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found

by examining an encounter with a similar entity.

New York City, 1918.

British occultist and writer Aleister Crowley

engages in a magic ritual he calls the Amalantrah Working.

He claims the ritual opens an interdimensional portal

allowing him to interact with an otherworldly being.

Aleister Crowley is probably the most famous,

or rather infamous, magician of the 20th century.

And Crowley took it upon himself to revive

the ancient black arts, the dark arts, as it were.

He was contacting lots of different beings

from other dimensions.

But there was also a vision Crowley had of this individual,

this entity that he called Lam.

NARRATOR: According to Crowley, this entity claimed to reside

high in the mountains of Tibet,

just like the mahatma

that Madame Blavatsky said she encountered.

Lam claimed to be a Tibetan master of wisdom,

somewhat in the footsteps of some of the figures

that Madame Blavatsky had been in touch with.

And he was a kind of mystical or otherworldly adept,

in his own description, according to Crowley.

PICKNETT: Aleister Crowley drew a sketch of this creature,

and if you look at this sketch,

one thing that hits you very forcibly, in fact, startlingly,

is the fact that this looks like a Grey alien.

NARRATOR: More than 70% of alleged alien abductees describe encountering

what have become known as the Greys, or Grey aliens.

Is it possible that there is a connection

between these beings and the Tibetan masters

that both Aleister Crowley

and Madame Blavatsky claimed to have contacted?

If so, does this suggest that there is

a hidden extraterrestrial outpost

within the mountains of Tibet

and possibly elsewhere?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a sacred paranormal hotspot

in North America:

Mount Shasta.

NARRATOR: Rising to an elevation of 14,179 feet,

Mount Shasta in Northern California

lies at an intriguing crossroads of folklore,

geology and the paranormal.

This majestic peak, which is also a dormant volcano,

features breathtaking waterfalls,

pristine lakes, and spectacular Alpine vistas

that attract more than 26,000 visitors each year.

But the Native Americans who are indigenous to this area

warn that Mount Shasta is as dangerous

as it is beautiful, and for very unnatural reasons.

For centuries, the mountain has been known

as a place where people report strange events in the sky,

encounter terrifying creatures,

and sometimes have even vanished without a trace.

POPE: Mount Shasta is a location

where there are multiple strange events taking place,

UFO sightings,

paranormal events,

strange disappearances...

...that go back throughout history.

And, indeed, one can look to

certain Native American legends, for example,

to say that Mount Shasta has always

been associated with strange goings-on.

There's things around in this mountain here

that people are really unaware of.

Some people don't even want to believe it.

But I believe it 'cause I seen it.

I've witnessed it.

NARRATOR: Local Native American tribes

such as the Shasta, Wintu,

Modoc and Karuk have inhabited the area

dating back as much as 12 centuries.

Each revere Mount Shasta

as a place that possesses mystical powers.

THOM: I was told by my grandmother and grandfather

that, you know, that we didn't go above the tree line.

That that belongs to "Grandfather" up there.

So I try to stay as far away as I can.

NARRATOR: 60 miles northeast of Mount Shasta,

at Lava Beds National Monument,

a curious record of

Native American traditions can be found.

Hundreds of stone carvings, known as petroglyphs,

that were created as much as 6,000 years ago

by ancestors of the Modoc tribe.

The Lava Beds petroglyphs include ancient calendars,

depictions of animals, humans,

and one of the petroglyphs depicts a large-winged creature

emerging from inside of Mount Shasta.

It is believed to represent a sky being

who the Modoc people worship as their creator known as Skell.

The local people believe that in ancient times

the great Sky Chief Skell

came down from the sky to live in Shasta

and has been there ever since and protects it.

NARRATOR: Could this petroglyph of Skell be, as some believe,

an actual depiction of an extraterrestrial being

that the Modoc people encountered centuries ago?

Curiously, to date,

there have been more than 50 reports of UFO sightings

around Mount Shasta,

with an increasing number in just the last decade.

Almost everyone who lives there

has-has seen something unusual.

One of the most remarkable UFO sightings

I've heard of took place in 2008.

Witnesses in the town of McCloud

saw a UFO that looked like a giant glowing jellyfish

move over the town and then fly off into the distance.

THOM: I was driving back from, uh, Klamath Falls

around 7:00, 6:30-7:00 in the evening in the summertime.

All of a sudden, I looked up on the mountain

and I seen the whole mountain,

toward Yreka-side, open up.

And then this big ship came

and sat there and hovered for a minute

and then went right in.

And the next thing you know, the mountain closed,

and I was like, what is going on?

NARRATOR: Incredibly, accounts of giant beings

and Bigfoot sightings

have also been reported in this area

for hundreds of years.

And in October 1930, several newspapers

detailed the discovery

of a mysteriously large humanoid skeleton

in the town of Redding,

60 miles south of Mount Shasta.

There are traditions of giants linked with Mount Shasta,

which absolutely fascinated me.

And one of these, uh, goes back quite a long way,

and it's part of the Modoc tribe

who are kind of part of this area.

And they say the sky spirit's daughter

was abducted by a bear,

and she actually gave birth to a race of giants.

Some people suggest that these are actually

hairy beast, Sasquatch-like beings

connected with Mount Shasta.

NARRATOR: Could it be that this area

is home to strange beings,

beings with a connection to the stars?

And if so, are these, in fact, extraterrestrials,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Could evidence of an alien outpost

be found in the caves and tunnels

winding deep underneath Mount Shasta?

NARRATOR: In November 2020,

William Henry, along with author Dustin Naef...

NAEF: It's down this path here.

...set out to explore

what is known as Pluto's Cave,

several miles north of Mount Shasta.

HENRY: That is just spectacular.

NARRATOR: It is here where numerous eyewitnesses

claim to have encountered mysterious beings

as well as seen evidence of possible

interdimensional portals.

Pluto's Cave is one of several natural wonders

known as lava tubes that crisscross the region.

SCHOCH: Mount Shasta is a volcanic mountain.

So, volcanic lava tubes are formed

when you have fast-flowing lava,

and it cools on the surface of the flow,

so it actually builds a crust,

but the lava continues to flow in the middle

and it forms, literally, a tube.

And these tubes in some cases are very small.

They might only be a few feet across.

In other cases they've been documented to be 50 feet across.

And some of them have been documented to be

not just miles long

but tens of miles long.

HENRY: Check it out, man.

Awesome.

Awesome.

NAEF: Almost all of the mythology and legends around the place,

it all takes place underground in the caves and tunnels

which surround the area.

If you were to be able to look underground,

I mean, you would just see tunnels radiating out

in every direction.

There are actually Native-authored stories

that you could travel clear into Oregon

completely underground.

HENRY: Yeah.

Look at that, Dustin. That's awesome.

Beautiful skylight.

NAEF: This almost makes, like, an eye-like symbol.

There's a really big subculture here in Mount Shasta

that has always believed that

these caves and tunnels contain a civilization

full of people just like you and I.

And they come back and forth through portals

hidden in these caves.

I've had people actually contact me and tell me

they've seen people in this very cave

walk right into a wall and vanish.

Wh-What were these people like?

What did they look like?

They look just like us.

That's how they're able to travel

back and forth and mingle with humans.

Wow.

NARRATOR: One of the most famous reports

of a being emerging from within Mount Shasta

was made in 1930 by Guy Warren Ballard.

Ballard, a mining engineer who worked in the area,

claimed he was surveying the slopes of the mountain

when he encountered a mysterious glowing figure.

Guy reported that when he was hiking on Mount Shasta

in the early 1930s, he encountered

some extraordinary mysterious teacher,

which he later identified as the ascended master.

YOUNG: This is a radiant being dressed in white.

And they get into a long conversation.

And this teacher, this guru,

this otherworldly character teaches Ballard

the secrets of enlightenment.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

Ballard's description of a radiant being

is reminiscent of accounts from ancient times

of similarly luminous figures.

In Irish legend, we learn of the Tuatha D� Danann,

or the Tua D� Dann.

These are luminous humanoid beings

who are considered to be beings of immense wisdom,

who are also called the Shining Ones.

NARRATOR: Much like the Shining Ones of the Celtic tradition,

the ancient Sumerian gods known as the Anunnaki

are also described as glowing figures.

Might these accounts, including those made

about Mount Shasta, be true?

If so, can William Henry find any evidence

to help verify them?

If you look on the USGS charts,

there's an immense negative magnetic anomaly

that surrounds Mount Shasta.

HENRY: That's the ley line they describe here, right?

NAEF: Yeah, a lot of psychic

and paranormal phenomena actually occurs in places

that have magnetic anomalies.

And used as a, as a portal between

the inner Earth realm and the stars?

Yeah, it...

Anything capable of generating, you know,

energy like that could be conceptualized as a portal.

NARRATOR: Some theoretical physicists believe

that strong variations of electromagnetic fields

may create areas that give rise

to exotic phenomena

like portals through space and time.

There appears to be,

in nature, the possibility

of crossing thresholds of energy,

of vorticity, of electromagnetic phenomena

that can perhaps open up portals in space-time

that we never would have thought possible.

NARRATOR: Could the strange electromagnetic anomalies

discovered on Mount Shasta

and other high-altitude sites across the globe

serve as a sign of a hidden portal

to other worlds?

Is it possible that these sites

function as extraterrestrial outposts?

And if so, are sacred mountains all over the world

hiding a vast alien presence on Earth?

HENRY: Throughout the world, we find myths and legends

of sacred mountains that are not only landing places,

or places where the gods or star beings descended,

but also places that became their sanctuary.

So what happened to them?

They went and lived in the inner realms.

CHILDRESS: It's entirely possible that the extraterrestrials set up

space bases in mountains all over the world.

That way, they could watch humanity,

help guide us, and if necessary,

intervene again in human affairs as they had done in the past.

That civilization can still be around today

and is living separate from us

in these secret places.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the majestic

snow-capped mountains of North America,

Tibet,

Italy,

and numerous other sacred peaks around the world

have served as secret sanctuaries

for extraterrestrial beings?

And if so, is it possible that these visitors

still occupy alien outposts

at Earth's highest elevations?

Perhaps we will one day discover

that the places our ancestors referred to

as the realms of the gods

are, in fact, still inhabited

by our alien creators.

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