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Narrator: Ancient monuments
deep under water...
A once-thriving metropolis now
half a mile under the sea...
Lost cities submerged for
thousands of years...
David Childress: All over the
world, there are sunken cities.
There's more than 200 known
sunken cities in the
Mediterranean alone.
Graham Hancock: What we're
looking at are the remains of
cities at a time when mainstream
archeology tells us there were
no cities, uh, anywhere in the
world.
Narrator: Are underwater
monuments examples of mankind's
earliest civilizations?
Or is there evidence of skills
far beyond that of primitive
man?
And if so, where did it
come from?
Giorgio Tsoulakos: The native
legends are very clear... that
something or someone landed,
and then, knowledge, all of a
sudden, spread.
Jorge Luis Delgado Mamani:
There is many, many legends
with lights coming from under
the water.
Childress: You start to get
the idea that there's some kind
of ancient alien underwater
base...
Narrator: Millions of people
around the world believe we
have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
If so, what evidence lies deep
underwater?
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Narrator: Covering more than
71% of the planet, the Earth's
oceans are a vast and largely
unexplored mystery.
For most of recorded history,
man could only guess at what
lay beneath the ocean's surface.
But new technologies are
reaching new depths.
Researchers around the world
are finding the unexpected...
underwater complexes and
sophisticated monuments that
defy the conventional
historical record.
Michael Cremo: There are
remains of urban civilizations
on parts of the Earth that were
exposed on land 10,000 and
more years ago.
Possible.
Narrator: Scientific theory
suggests that during Earth's
last Ice Age, ocean levels were
once much lower than they are
today.
Hancock: You have to envisage
a world in which there are two
mile-deep ice caps sitting on
top of northern Europe and
North America, in which are
accumulated enormous quantities
of water.
And we know that this water
began to melt about 21,000 years
ago, and finished melting about
10,000 years ago.
Narrator: As a result, rich
coastal lands were slowly
submerged by rising sea levels.
Hancock: Ten million square
miles of land was flooded all
around the world.
That's roughly the size of
Europe and China added
together... were just rubbed
from the record.
They just disappear from
the story.
And in my opinion, archeology
is not doing enough work to
investigate those lost and
submerged lands.
Narrator: While much of the
ocean's floor remains
unexplored, for thousands of
years, philosophers and
scientists have been drawn to
one of the greatest mysteries
of the sea, the legend of the
lost city of Atlantis.
Childress: It's been said
that more books have been
written about Atlantis than any
other subject.
But most of what we know comes
from the Greek philosopher
Plato, who wrote two books about
Atlantis, the Timaeus and the
Critias.
>> Narrator: Written in 360 BC,
Plato described Atlantis as a
highly advanced city, ringed by
concentric walls, which
flourished 9,000 years before
his own time.
>> Cremo: There are descriptions
of huge palaces for kings.
It's stated that Atlantis had
huge naval forces, which it
used to conquer other parts of
the world.
It was an urban civilization.
According to the ancient Greek
texts, Atlantis was connected
with extraterrestrials from the
beginning.
It was founded by the Greek god
Poseidon.
Poseidon can be regarded as an
extraterrestrial in the sense
of not being of this Earth.
>> Erich Von Daniken: Poseidon,
one of the extraterrestrial,
found a pretty, wonderful, young
woman-girl on Earth.
And he took this woman-girl,
made her pregnant.
And to protect his new family,
he founded Atlantis.
>> Narrator: According to the
legend, after a failed attempt
to invade Athens, disaster
struck the island.
>> Childress: According to
Plato, Atlantis was destroyed in
a day and a night...
(thunder booms)
(waves crashing)
...a cataclysmic destruction
that sank the entire island and
its capital city.
Some researchers believe that
the Atlantians somehow
destroyed themselves.
>> Narrator: According to Plato,
Atlantis was located in front
of the Pillars of Hercules, a
location beyond what some
scholars attribute to modern
Gibraltar.
>> Childress: And to the
ancients, as they left the
Mediterranean Sea to go into the
larger Atlantic Ocean, this was
where they went beyond the
Pillars of Hercules between
Spain and Morocco.
>> Narrator: Across the
Atlantic lies the island chain
of the Bahamas, just southeast
of Florida.
Here in 1968, archaeologist
J. Manson Valentine believed he
found part of Atlantis when he
discovered an unusual rock
formation off the coast of
North Bimini Island.
>> John Van Auken: It's only in
about 12 to 18 feet of water, so
you can, uh, view it easily.
At first, scientists thought
this was just beach rock, but
then several other scientists
exploring the Bimini Road
noticed that the beach rock was
on top of other beach rock,
with balancing stones wedged in
between.
And nature doesn't do that; man
does.
And they realized this is a
harbor, a breakwater for a
harbor.
From the shallow edges of
Bimini all the way to the Gulf
Stream in 300 feet of water, we
have found many fascinating
complexities that look like
remnants of ancient cities or
structures... roads, pathways,
structures covered in coral.
>> Narrator: Could the Bimini
ruins be remnants of Atlantis?
And if so, could these roads
lead to other sites buried
under sand and water?
In the year 2000, while mapping
the seafloor off the western
coast of Cuba, a research
expedition led by
Russian-Canadian oceanographer
Paulina Zelitsky spotted
symmetrical stone structures
deep below the water.
Remarkably, they were over a
half mile down.
>> Paulina Zelitsky: Divers
cannot do this kind of, uh,
investigation, so we have to
use remote operating vehicle.
And this vehicle is equipped
with video cameras and
manipulators.
And it controlled, uh, from the
deck of the ship.
>> Narrator: The expedition was
also armed with side-scan sonar
equipment used to create images
of large areas of the sea floor
and underwater objects.
>> Zelitsky: I was in control
room on board of the ship, and
we were receiving that image
coming from side-scan.
And this is just one of the
many other images that we were
obtaining of, the 80, uh,
structures made of large stones
placed one on top of another.
>> Linda Moulton Howe: Well,
what do they end up with?
It is an image that shows these
rectangular 90-degree angles,
over and over and over, on very
large structures that seemed to
have wide avenues.
>> Narrator: The exploration
found huge stone blocks in
pyramid shapes, others more
circular.
Most were gigantic, reaching 16
feet in height and weighing
several tons.
30 geometric structures emerged,
appearing to be the remains of
streets, buildings, tunnels and
pyramids, all at a depth of
2,200 feet below the surface of
the water.
>> Andrew Collins: We might well
have here the evidence of a
prehistoric culture that would
probably go back tens of
thousands of years, and that's
very exciting indeed.
>> Narrator: Using dating
techniques based on the presence
of nearby volcanic ash,
geologists estimated the
underwater city sank over 6,000
years ago.
>> Howe: Could this be, a half
mile down, some part of the
sunken Atlantis from 9,000,
10,000 yrs ago that Plato
talked about?
>> Collins: Well, the Atlantis
myth is integrally related with
the area of the Caribbean and
the Bahamas, in particular Cuba.
Plato talks about an island
empire.
He's probably talking about
dozens of different islands of
different sizes, not just in the
western Atlantic, but probably
stretching out right into the
central Atlantic area.
>> Narrator: Both the Cuban and
the Bahaman ruins lie on the
western edge of the Bermuda
Triangle, an area of ocean
covering over 500,000 square
miles, known for magnetic
anomalies, extraterrestrial
sightings and unexplained
disappearances of aircraft and
ships.
Could there be a connection
between Atlantis and the area
known as the Devil's Triangle?
>> Bill Birnes: On the edge of
the Bermuda Triangle, there are
underwater ruins of the ancient
city of Atlantis, the
prehistoric city of Atlantis.
So, yes, there is a theory that
Atlantis lies, not near Greece,
but in the Bermuda Triangle.
>> Narrator: If Plato's texts
are true, then other Greek myths
may provide a hint of the true
fate of Atlantis.
One myth tells of the Titan
goddess named Asteria, who fell
from the sky and became an
island.
>> Tsoulakos: In ancient Greece,
we have a number of myths which
describe islands... bronze,
gleaming islands... that fell
from the sky and landed in
water.
I don't think that Atlantis,
therefore, was an actual
stationary, physical island.
Atlantis, according to Plato,
disappeared in one night with a
lot of fire and a lot of smoke.
See, I don't think that Atlantis
sank.
I think Atlantis lifted off.
>> Narrator: Was Atlantis a safe
haven for ancient aliens before
the end of Earth's last Ice Age?
And if so, could there be other
alien cities submerged deep
underwater?
Narrator: Yonaguni, Japan.
This small island is at the
westernmost tip of the
Japanese archipelago.
Scholars believe the first
inhabitants migrated here from
Southeast Asia during
prehistoric times.
In 1987, in nearby waters, dive
tour orator Kihachiro Aratake
made a shocking discovery.
A massive complex of stone
formations lay hidden a mere 60
feet beneath the ocean surface.
Experts call it one of the
greatest discoveries in the
history of underwater
archeology.
Hancock: What's intriguing
about the complex at Yonaguni is
that there are a whole range of
monuments, pretty much side by
side, and this, to my eye, looks
unmistakably to be the work of
human beings, not the random
action of the ocean on
differential layers of stone.
Masaaki Kimura (translated):
There are several reasons why I
think this is not a natural
formation.
Some tools and engraved stones
are found at the site.
Because of these things, there
is no doubt that this is made
artificially.
Narrator: Submerged beneath
60 to 100 feet of water, the
largest of the underwater
formations resemble a massive,
five-layered stepped pyramid,
the size of two football fields.
David Wilcock: You see
unambiguous carvings that
clearly are geometric in nature,
tons of right angles.
We see channels that you can
walk through with stairwells at
the end that are perfectly
rectangular in shape.
Hancock: There are places
where you find megaliths piled
on top of one another to create
a tunnel through which you can
swim.
There is a set of megaliths
positioned side by side against
the side of the cliff.
There's a gigantic human face
carved underwater.
Kimura (translated): There is
a stone that inscribes a big
face, about seven meters in
height.
Our first impression was that it
looked a lot like the Moai on
Easter Island.
Then we began to realize that
it strongly resembled the sphinx
which guarded the pyramids, and
we wondered, "Is that the
function the face is serving
"here?"
Hancock: It's the whole
combination of all these
structures together which
convinced me that we're looking
at a... at a ceremonial complex.
The mystery surrounding the
Yonaguni underwater structure
is, when did it go underwater?
The geological evidence is that
it was submerged during the
meltdown of the last Ice Age.
Tsoulakos: All around the
world, whether it is France,
India or Japan, there are
man-made structures that lie
underwater.
Two ways how our ancestors could
have done this.
Either they had scuba gear...
I don't think so...
or this stuff was built when the
ocean levels were lower, and
that was over 14,000 years ago,
and 14,000 years ago, according
to mainstream archeology, we
were just dwelling in caves,
hunter-gatherers.
Narrator: Could the Yonaguni
structures have been built by
such primitive people?
And what evidence exists of
the people who inhabited this
island?
Kimura (translated): Human
fossils were found, so I'm sure
there were people living on the
island, but I'm not sure if they
had the technology to create
structures, or anything like
this.
Hancock: It's not so much the
question of could the stone have
been chipped away and removed.
It's a question of the vision,
of the scale of the complex,
of thinking in those kind of
terms.
And we know of no other, uh,
Stone Age culture that thought
in those kind of terms, of
creating a gigantic, seemingly
ceremonial complex.
Narrator: If, according to
scholars, the ancient Japanese
people could not have built this
monument, who did?
And how did it get here?
Birnes: The speculation is
that extraterrestrials created
the Yonaguni monument.
The engineering is just beyond
the capacity of Stone Age
civilizations.
Narrator: Ancient astronaut
theorists also believe the key
to the Yonaguni mystery is found
in its global positioning.
Strangely, the complex lies
within an area of the Pacific
long suspected of
extraterrestrial activity.
It's called the Dragon's
Triangle.
Wilcock: Just south of Japan,
you have a mysterious area
called the Dragon's Triangle,
which is very similar to the
Bermuda Triangle, because you
have planes that have
disappeared from the air, ships
that have disappeared from the
ocean.
In fact, Japan had declared
this a disaster area.
Don't sail through it.
Don't fly through it.
Stay the heck away, because if
you go in there, terrible things
can happen to you.
Birnes: In ancient Japan, and
even into the relatively modern
era, there are stories about the
Dragon Sea, in which objects
rise out of the water and sail
through the air.
In ancient Japan, these were
winged monsters breathing fire.
In more modern times, these
took on the appearance of actual
machines.
When you compare those
descriptions of these devices
with the description that
Columbus gave of a craft nearing
the Bermuda Triangle actually
rising out of the water, a light
that followed the ship, you
realize there's a similarity in
both of these locations to
things, objects, that are in the
water and rise out of the water
and fly through the air.
Narrator: But why are the two
submerged structures found
within the perimeter of these
strange regions of the planet
where so much unusual activity
occurs?
Is it coincidence that the
Earth's 25th parallel north
cuts through both the Bermuda
Triangle and the Dragon's
Triangle?
Birnes: They lie on a plane
along the same line, and both of
them have the same magnetic
phenomena, in which compass
bearings are lost and
instruments go down.
People wonder if there's a real,
strange UFO connection.
Gian Quasar: If UFO's and
flying saucers do exist, then we
should suspect that they could
originally come from an ancient
super civilization.
It makes you wonder if flying
saucers, UFO's, whatever you
want to call them, actually use
the area of the Triangle as
their major base, and perhaps
are even coming back to the
remnants of a civilization that
they were familiar with.
Narrator: What if the sunken
monuments at Yonaguni and near
Cuba had alien origins?
Might they have been used as
alien bases?
And if we believe
extraterrestrials functioned on
land, could they have also
functioned underwater?
Could there be more evidence
lying in the vast Pacific?
Narrator: As an island
nation, it should come as no
mystery that much of Japan's
rich history is tied to the
waters of the Pacific Ocean.
But although many of Japan's
legends are largely unknown to
the West, some are drawing the
attention of ancient astronaut
theorists.
One such legend dates back to
1803 and traces its origins
to a beach north of Tokyo.
Wilcock: Allegedly, a craft
that was quite large in size
washed up on the shore in Japan.
Kazuo Tanaka: A strange round
ship drifted ashore in this
area.
Wilcock: The woman did not
speak any language they could
identify.
There were written inscriptions
inside her craft that they
could not identify, and she's
clutching this box that she
didn't want anybody to touch.
Narrator: Known as the legend
of the Utsuro Bune, or "hollow
ship," the details of the story
have puzzled historians for
centuries.
Where, for example, did the
mysterious hollow ship come
from?
Could it have come from the
area of the submerged Yonaguni
monument?
Who was the strange woman?
And what were the contents of
the box she guarded so
carefully?
Was it a human head?
Or was it, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe, a
type of brain or other form of
extraterrestrial intelligence?
If so, could it have been
intended as a gift to the early
Japanese by an ancient space
traveler?
Wilcock: There's five
different drawings that have
survived from completely
different regions of Japan.
They're almost identical to
modern UFO reports.
Narrator: As evidence to
support their claims, ancient
astronaut theorists point to
early Japanese carvings and
statuary, each suggesting a
variety of extraterrestrial
encounters.
Tsoulakos: This is a Dogu
figure, and it comes from Japan.
And even to the untrained eye,
you look at this, and it's as if
this being is wearing some type
of a suit... with a helmet, some
goggles, on the back there are
all these weird buckles and
circles, you know, straps.
Very similar to a modern-day
space suit.
In my opinion, this is a
likeness of a possible
extraterrestrial that visited
Earth thousands of years ago.
Narrator: Archaeologists have
catalogued the existence of
more than 15,000 Dogu figures
made during the Jomon period of
prehistoric Japan, dating from
approximately 14,000 to 300
years B.C.
But could, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe, these strange
Dogu figures really be a
primitive interpretation of a
pressurized space suit or diving
apparel?
Tsoulakos: The story behind
those Dogu figures is very
clear, and anyone can go and
read translations of the ancient
texts that the Dogu, a long time
ago, descended from the sky and
taught the first Japanese people
in various disciplines.
Wilcock: And the whole
Japanese culture, including the
kimono, the tea ceremony, the
use of wasabi and ginger for
eating sushi, the way that they
build their architecture, their
written language, everything
they say came from these
visitors, from these gods, from
the universe.
Von Daniken: The pictures
shows beings who look like
astronauts.
They are dressed like an
astronaut.
They have the helmet as an
astronaut.
They have some strange tools in
their hands, tools which we
do not understand.
Now, there is a link.
The Japanese call it "Dogus."
In North America, we have still
the Hopi tribe, in Arizona, and
the Hopi Indians are still
making today kachina dolls.
Kachina dolls look similar to
the Japanese Dogu figures.
Further back, in the Sahara
Desert, Africa, we found cave
paintings.
When you see the picture,
you see definitely an astronaut
suit.
No doubt.
Absolutely.
Now, you compare these cave
paintings with the kachina dolls
of the Hopi, and with the Dogu
of Japan.
You have one line.
Narrator: Do the mysterious
Dogu figures provide tangible
evidence of extraterrestrial
encounters in Japan's ancient
past?
And does the legend of the
Utsuro Bune suggest that the
Earth's oceans may be hiding
even more proof of alien
contact?
Perhaps the answer can be found
deep in the waters off the coast
of India.
Narrator: In 2001,
researchers from India's Oceanic
Institute detected anomalies on
the bottom of the Gulf of
Khambhat, seven miles from
shore.
Hancock: They had been
commissioned by the Indian
government to do a survey of
pollution in the Gulf of
Khambhat up in the northwest of
India.
And they were not expecting to
find anything except a mess
down there.
But suddenly, their side-scan
sonar started returning images
of regular structures.
Narrator: The images revealed
an enormous network of stone
buildings, now shrouded in mud
and sand, and covering a
distance of five square miles.
Hancock: What we're looking
at in the Gulf of Khambhat are
the remains of cities.
There's actually two of them.
And it turns out that they are
positioned on the side of
ancient river channels.
They look lime cities that have
been submerged for a very long
time, at a time when mainstream
archeology tells us there were
no cities anywhere in the world.
Narrator: Powerful
crosscurrents made it nearly
impossible to dive the 170 feet
to the bottom.
Still, scientists retrieved
dozens of artifacts, including
wood and pottery shards.
Cremo: Some of the dates on
some of the human artifacts that
were brought up extended as far
back as 32,000 years.
But the oceanographers concluded
that the area had been covered
by water about 9,000 years ago.
So this city had apparently
existed from 32,000 to about
9,000 years ago.
Childress: Mainstream
scholars today claim that
ancient Indian civilization
only goes back 4,000 or 5,000
years.
Yet, Hindu scholars themselves
say that Hindu civilization is
going back, uh, many tens of
thousands, even hundreds of
thousands of years.
Narrator: Might the ruins
below the Gulf of Khambhat prove
the Hindu scholars right?
Another recent discovery may
support their claims.
200 miles to the northwest lies
the modern city of Dwaraka.
Archaeologists digging deep
under the city found signs of a
settlement once inundated by
the sea.
Inspired by this clue, they
began searching for more ruins
in waters just off the coast.
In only 70 feet of water, divers
discovered sandstone walls,
cobblestone streets and evidence
of a prosperous seaport.
Scholars declared these ruins
to be the remains of the
ancient and legendary city of
Dwaraka.
Ancient Hindu texts explain that
the legendary city of Dwaraka
was said to be the dwelling
place of Lord Krishna, a deity
worshipped across many
traditions of Hinduism.
Tsoulakos: Imagine what it
would mean for the Christian
world to all of a sudden
discover the actual Holy Grail,
the actual Ark of the Covenant.
That would be akin, for the
Indian population, to discover
an actual Dwaraka.
This was a very powerful city,
which was ruled by Lord Krishna.
And Krishna is still revered
until today.
He's one of the highest gods
that we have in Hindu culture.
Narrator: Hindu texts explain
that a king named Salwa attacked
Lord Krishna in the mythical
Dwaraka.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the descriptions of the
battle suggest the use of alien
technology and even spacecraft.
Cremo: According to the
ancient Sanskrit texts, with
this spacecraft, Salwa attacked
the city, raining down energy
weapons that resemble lightning.
(explosive popping and rumbling)
He destroyed large parts of the
city in this way
When this happened, the king of
the city, the god Krishna,
responded by firing weapons at
this spacecraft.
The weapons are described as
arrows, but they're not ordinary
arrows.
It's said that they roared like
thunder when they were launched,
and resembled bolts of lightning
or rays of the sun.
In response, it is said that the
spacecraft began to appear in
different places simultaneously.
It appeared to be moving in ways
that resemble modern
descriptions of UFOs.
So what I find interesting about
this account is, there's a
spacecraft made of metal that is
firing down weapons on a city on
Earth.
Narrator: The legend says
that Krishna eventually departed
Earth, and the ocean consumed
his city of Dwaraka.
Cremo: For many people, the
description of fabulous ancient
cities in the Sanskrit writings
of India were simply mythology,
but with the discovery of the
remains of a sunken city off the
coast of India in the location
of Dwaraka, all that has
changed.
People are beginning to look at
these ancient writings in a new
light, and see them not simply
as mythology, but as actual
historical records.
Narrator: Did India's
ancestors witness a war between
extraterrestrial entities?
If the mythical city cited in
the Hindu texts turned out to be
real, could there also be
evidence of Krishna and his
supernatural powers?
Ancient alien theorists believe
a link between the submerged
ruins and extraterrestrials can
be found in another set of texts
known as India's Sangam
literature.
Cremo: Sangams were
assemblies of sages.
It says that the first two
Sangams took place on a sunken
landmass called Kumari Kandam.
This area was once above water
thousands of years ago,
according to the accounts, but
it's now underwater.
It's also interesting that these
assemblies of sages included
extraterrestrial beings, as
well.
And this fits in with evidence
discovered in the Gulf of
Cambay, and off the coast of the
present city of Dwaraka.
Narrator: Are the
interpretations of India's
ancient texts proof of alien
contact in Earth's past?
And are the descriptions of
gods actually descriptions of
extraterrestrials?
Perhaps another discovery...
one beneath a mysterious lake...
will yield even more
evidence of alien visitors in
the remote past.
Narrator: The Andes
Mountains, Peru.
Here, at an elevation of 12,500
feet, lie the dark waters of
Lake Titicaca, the highest
navigable body of water in the
world.
In August of 2000, an Italian
team of divers and
archaeologists launched an
underwater investigation of the
legendary lake.
There, submerged under 100
feet of water, the team
uncovered traces of a paved
road, a stone terrace, and a
wall nearly a half mile long.
For centuries, local legends
have spoken of a lost
underwater city called Wanaku.
Could these ruins provide proof
that such a city did, in fact,
exist?
Then, another shocking
discovery.
Lying on the lake bed was a
large, sculptured stone head.
Could this ancient relic offer
a clue to the origins of this
incredible archaeological find?
Comparisons were quickly made
to similar stonework found at
the nearby ancient city of
Tiahuana, just 12 miles south
of Lake Titicaca... a city long
thought by ancient astronaut
theorists to have
extraterrestrial origins.
Childress: When the early
conquistadors talked to the
local Aymara Indians they were
told that-that giants at the
beginning of creation had
created Tiahuanaco.
The Spanish, too, were amazed by
the gigantic blocks of stone.
They felt that the devil had
built this building.
Hancock: If you look at some
of the rock cut on megalithic
structures at the site of
Tiahuanaco, I personally
believe very strongly that we
are looking at an older episode
of construction and the traces
of a forgotten episode in the
human story.
Narrator: But if the ruins
found at the bottom of Lake
Titicaca are from the legendary
lost city of Wanaku, what
happened to it?
Did it fall prey to a major
earthquake or other natural
disaster?
Or was the city, as some
ancient astronaut theorists
believe, deliberately flooded?
Childress: The more you know
about Lake Titicaca, the
stranger it gets.
Archeologists have problems in
really explaining why there are
sunken ruins there, because
they're saying that the ruins
aren't that old.
They're only 1,500 years old.
And that would mean that Lake
Titicaca has gone through a
number of major changes in that
period.
And it's possible that somehow
the lake itself and the
shorelines were manipulated so
that certain areas of Lake
Titicaca were flooded in a sort
of artificial way.
There is a type of seahorse
that lives in Lake Titicaca.
And seahorses are coming from
saltwater and oceans, yet these
seahorses are living at
nearly 13,000 feet in the Andes.
Narrator: But just how could
an ancient people have
artificially created South
America's largest lake?
A lake that is 118 miles
long and 50 miles wide?
Tsoulakos: When you ask the
local population, "How did all
of this come into being?" the
Aymara Indians will tell
you that all of this has
existed since before the
beginning of time.
Delgado Mamani: In the Aymara
legends, the lake is like the...
the place of genesis, the
place where it starts... all the
civilizations... in our
continent.
We have these very, very, very
old roots.
I mean, we're not talking only
about this civilization, this
humanity.
We are talking about our seeds,
the roots of the stars.
Some people believe that the
extraterrestrial built, but
what I believe is that the
space brothers help us, direct
us, teach us, because they had
the experience in many ways.
The legend says that once the
space brothers came to this
planet and they used to live
with us, and they was very
important in our lives and they
used to be very powerful people.
Narrator: But is it possible
that the lost city of Wanaku
was really built, or inhabited,
by the ancient ancestors of
the indigenous Aymara people?
And if so, could it have been
deliberately flooded to avoid
detection from the outside
world?
Cristina Sovrosa
(translated): The elders, they
used to talk about the
underwater city.
They talk about the lights like
stars connecting with the lake.
The stars, when they come down
to the lake, there is changes
in the temperatures.
Delgado Mamani: There is many
legends with lights coming from
the underground of the lake.
It seems they come, they go
and they return in different
moments.
Childress: You start to get
the idea that there is some kind
of ancient alien underwater
base.
And it's possible that some of
these sunken ruins are, uh,
somehow part of that base.
Narrator: Could the ancient
city of Wanaku really have been
built by alien visitors?
And if so, why?
What was their purpose?
Could the discovr of this and
other sunken cities pride the
evidence that mankind has been
seeking for centuries...
evidence that proves... that we
are not alone?
Hancock: These mysterious
underwater structures really
don't have any context or any
background; they just seem to
come from nowhere.
They seem to stand out as being
out of place in time, so there's
some question marks, some
mystery surrounding them that
might shed new light on human
history.
Tsoulakos: Atlantis, Lake
Titicaca, Dwaraka.
All those ancient mystery
places always have had a
connection to the gods.
The gods who, in the ancient
astronaut opinion, were flesh
and blood extraterrestrials.
And in the end, the ancient
astronaut theory will be proven
right.
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