Original subtitles

Elusive ape men stalking remote forests.

Reptilian humanoids lurking in the shadows.

And mysterious cryptids vanishing without a trace.

For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe exploring

megalithic structures.

Mysterious artifacts.

and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest for evidence that might reveal the

truth of our extraterrestrial origins. People have been reporting strange

encounters with very bizarre creatures for decades.

Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens' archives to the show's

origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone.

We have never been.

It's fascinating that there are stories from all over the world of what we call

cryptids. And these strange creatures are unlike anything else in the animal

kingdom. And we have reports that they even have supernatural abilities.

Right, and often these cryptids, for example, in ancient times, are referred

as hybrid beings, like the minotaur in ancient Greece.

Half human, half bull. And according to legend, this being was allegedly created

inside of a container.

That, to me, speaks of genetic experimentation.

Yeah, and these stories aren't just isolated to the ancient world. Cryptids

been recorded right up through to the present day. We featured these strange

creatures in a 2011 episode called Aliens and Monsters.

Surfside Beach.

Montauk, New York.

On July 13, 2008, a 26 -year -old woman and three of her friends

discovered the carcass of a strange -looking creature that had washed onto

shore.

It actually looked like a hybrid creature.

that had the claws of a raccoon and possibly the beak of a bird and the

perhaps, of a dog. A very unusual creature.

A photograph was taken and circulated. It started popping up all over the

Internet. It went viral.

The people couldn't identify the animal because it didn't look like anything.

It looked like a mixture of different animals.

And because it looks so strange, you know, it's provoked a lot of theories.

Is it just an unknown animal?

Could it be some sort of hybrid -type creature, something, you know, that had

been genetically tinkered with in a lab?

Some believe the mysterious creature is a hybrid beast, perhaps created at a

nearby government testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman labels the creature the Montauk Monster.

This is a replica of the Montauk Monster.

One of the things that we noticed about this creature was these strange features

around its mouth. It looked like a beak. It actually looked like we didn't know

what was going on here. Was it a griffin? Was it a creature? Was it a

turtle? But indeed, that was decaying flesh that had come away from the skull.

Other features were the strange -looking feet.

And the body, indeed, because the picture had no scale in it, we thought,

enormous.

On the body, these white objects here really define the size of flies on the

creature, which then determined the scale of this creature was very small.

Unfortunately, someone grabbed the carcass and supposedly took it to his

yard, and then it ultimately vanished.

So the only evidence we have of this creature is the photo.

But while some researchers theorized, that the so -called Montauk monster was

the product of modern science.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the animal could be part of a long line of

genetically modified creatures that have appeared throughout human history.

If the Montauk monster is in fact a reality, then that

could mean that if we are able today

to create some very bizarre creatures behind closed doors in labs all around

world, it is possible that our ancestors, especially the

ancestors, had the same capability. Because in ancient texts,

we have numerous references to monsters, bizarre beings

that have been described in great detail.

Ancient Greek artifacts depict terrifying beasts, such as the Gorgon,

the Hydra,

and the ferocious Cerberus.

And in Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, the Greek author describes a battle in

which the hero, Bellerophon, slays a monster called the chimera.

The chimera was a dreaded beast that wreaked havoc and terrorized the people

Asia Minor.

Homer described the chimera as an immortal beast with a lion -like head, a

tail, and a third goat head in the middle that snorted bright fire.

The notion of chimeras and hybrids is one that has been part of the human

for millennia. I mean, when you think about things such as the minotaur,

pegasus,

Anubis, this is something that either we have imagined or have been created at

one time.

But did mythic monsters merely spring from the imagination of our ancestors?

Or might they have actually existed?

Ancient alien theorists believe in their existence and that evidence can be

found in the relics of the past.

To suggest that all of these creatures were nothing else but fantasy, in my

opinion, doesn't really hold water because our ancestors weren't stupid.

depicted what they saw.

We find these mixed... hybrid beings all throughout Egypt as sphinxes,

as griffins, as bizarre creatures that, according to the ancient Egyptian texts,

they did exist.

They were not a fantasy of our ancestors' imagination.

Just imagine there is a mother spaceship traveling in the universe for centuries

and centuries.

Then they find a solar system with the planet with the possibility of life like

the earth And they observe on the Nile a crocodile a living creature

which obviously is resistant to the heat They observe a lion

with his power, his muscles. And now they start to think we could use a

of this creature on another planet. And now, by genetical design, they start

to create mixed creatures.

Some of these mixed creatures did exist in the past.

The griffon was a mythological creature that had the body of a lion with the

head and wings of an eagle.

Well, now the lion is the king of beasts, the eagle is the king of birds,

griffon was the king of all creatures.

The creature is somehow two creatures put together in a way that defies normal

sense, defies normal explanation.

So the question then is, how does that happen?

By the mid -19th century, scientists began to look at fossil records around

planet to study how organisms changed over time.

Naturalist Charles Darwin theorized that all life forms share a common origin

and have evolved over the centuries through a process called natural

Might the hybrid monsters of ancient religion and myth really have been the

result of evolution?

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is a mechanism by which life

forms can change from one into another.

It relies on the principle that organisms that have certain traits,

mutations, may be advantageous in the struggle for existence and the struggle

for reproduction.

And those traits are the ones that will be perpetuated over time, over many,

many generations.

Certain different species can breed if they are genetically close, like the

donkey and the horse, like the wolf and the dog.

However, cats and dogs will not mate because, first of all, they're not...

They don't have the biochemical signatures to mate with each other. And

their genes are so different that the chromosomes just won't line up properly

reproduce. It's impossible.

But if Darwin's theories on evolution and natural selection cannot explain the

origins of ancient beasts and monsters, then where might they have come from?

Perhaps the answer cannot be found on Earth, but in a place much farther

away.

Southern Pakistan.

In the middle of the Indus River Valley lie the ruins of Mohenjo -daro.

Ancient city, whose name means mound of the dead, was one of the largest urban

settlements in the world in 2600 BC.

The ancient city of Mohenjo -daro had what appeared to be streets

that were made up parallel and perpendicular to each other like a

The homes actually had their own toilets and they had a very sophisticated sewer

system. So it looks like a very advanced city.

Ancient astronaut theorists have long thought this site was also the epicenter

of a nuclear explosion that occurred more than 4 ,000 years ago.

Skeletons were found in dead positions as though there was an instantaneous

death. And some of those skeletons, as measured by Soviet scientists, had 50

times the normal radioactivity.

They found pottery.

that had been fused. Then walls were heated to such an extent they became

vitrified or glass -like, suggesting some sort of ancient nuclear weapon

involved.

According to the Mahabharata, the ancient holy text of the Hindus, white

smoke rose in infinite brilliance and reduced the city to ashes.

Horses were burned by the thousands.

and corpses were vaporized by intense heat.

And afterwards, a big silence came over the entire land, and people started to

have boils on their skin. Their hair started to fall out, and their nails.

There's only one thing that causes this, and that is radiation poisoning. It's

radiation fallout.

So the question then becomes, When events happen in a place where there is

extreme radiation, what impact does that have on human life or on other life

present there?

Could it explain, for example, why creatures were born with more than one

more than one leg, which then somehow became deified? Because even to this

we know that in civilizations where anomalous human beings are born, somehow

touch of God seems to be part of this creation.

According to the ancient Hindu texts, after the carnage at Mohenjo -daro, a

fearsome flying monster appeared in the sky.

It was called Garuda.

In the Mahabharata, the Garuda is a massive bird -like creature. It's a red

face, red wings, talon. It's so huge it would block out the sun.

There are stories that it would let a certain god, Vishnu, ride on him on

occasion.

Each and every time he would show up descending from the sky, he would create

hurricane winds.

And upon his descent, the earth would shake, dust would flap in the air, and

everyone in the vicinity would be absolutely terrified.

Now, here we have a carving of Garuda.

And if we look at the top, yes, they look like feathers, but at the same

they could be interpreted as big, gigantic flame.

According to Hindu mythology, the root is born out of this cosmic event,

this war and destruction that happens at the end of every age.

Could it have been somehow connected?

to exposure or to radiation, being born within a zone of high radiation.

We cannot know the answer, but we do know that within India and within

there are known zones of higher radiation than there are normal.

The logic dictates that somehow genetic abominations will have been born within

those places.

If Mohenjo -daro was in fact the site of an ancient nuclear attack, could it be

possible that Garuda was a mutant beast created as a byproduct of intense

radioactivity?

We tend to have a science fiction view of what mutation is. We think of

mutations being caused by radiation and they cause outlandish features and

gigantic sized insects and so forth. But in fact, mutations happen all the time.

There's no recorded evidence of any radiation causing a mutation which

some species into a different species.

Most of the radiation mutations are lethal.

But if, as modern scientists believe, Garuda was not likely the result of

genetic mutation, then what could explain its existence?

To the east of India, near the village of Wushang, in the Sichuan province of

China, similar tales of flying beasts have also been found in ancient texts.

In the 4th century, historian Zhang Ku reported the discovery of what were

then called dragon bones.

A question...

occurs as to whether dragons might actually have been actual dinosaurs that

wings.

I should point out that the wings would have been lost to the fossil record.

We're just recently talking about dinosaurs having feathers and having

into birds. Well, it's possible that some dinosaurs actually did have wings

could be described as dragons.

But while most mainstream scientists believe, the remains found were most

dinosaur fossils, like those of the flying pterosaur, ancient astronaut

theorists have another, more provocative explanation.

Now, a creature which somehow is able to spit fire obviously is not...

any place in the animal kingdom of today.

So what we have here is either an invention which did indeed spit fire, in

case we're not confronting a creature here, but somehow a creation, something

which was either engineered by mankind or which was engineered by

extraterrestrials.

While accounts of strange creatures, commonly referred to as cryptids, are

scientifically validated, is it possible that some of them truly exist?

And if so, might these beings have an otherworldly connection?

Perhaps further evidence can be found by exploring accounts of an aquatic beast

said to reside in the deep water of Loch Ness.

We have so many stories that describe cryptids inhabiting bodies of water,

whether oceans, lakes.

even rivers.

Right. We have stories of the Kraken and the Hydra and the Leviathan.

And in modern times, we have stories of the Loch Ness Monster, this long -necked

creature that hundreds of people have claimed to have seen and even

photographed. Yeah, and there really is no better hiding place than deep

underwater. And we keep making these new discoveries of species in our oceans,

so who knows what else might be lurking down there.

In March 2010, a panel of 41 international experts concluded that the

impact of an asteroid that smashed into Earth at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65

million years ago probably triggered the global climate change that resulted in

the mass extinction of the Earth's dinosaurs.

But is there also evidence that some dinosaur species survived?

And if so, might they also have evolved?

Paleontologists tell us that, oh, these things have been extinct for 65 million

years, yet they still crop up. And they appear to be prehistoric animals,

dinosaurs literally, that have survived right down to today. Much like the

coelacanth and alligators and sharks and turtles also have survived from those

same prehistoric times.

I believe that ancient prehistoric monsters are still living in remote

the world, either in oceans and lakes or jungle areas today.

In the highlands of Scotland, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster has long been

part of Celtic and Norse folklore.

Recorded accounts of sightings can be traced to the year 565.

to the Irish monk, St. Columba, a powerful leader who founded monasteries

both Ireland and Scotland.

During his travels, Columba is said to have encountered locals burying a man

near the shores of the now fabled Loch Ness.

They explained to Father Columba that the man who had died had been swimming

the lake and was attacked by the water beast. Upon hearing this, Father Columba

sent his own follower into the lake. When the beast came after this man,

Columba made the sign of a cross and commanded the beast not to harm the man.

The beast fled and was never seen harming another man again.

A lot of people don't realise how big Loch Ness is. It's 23 miles long, a mile

wide, and at its deepest point, about 800 feet.

And the water is very, very dark and dense. And so it is the prime location

where, conceivably, if they didn't need to surface that often, they would sort

of bypass detection.

When we're confronted with the Loch Ness monster or any kind of anomalous

creature, the question really is, where does it come from?

Is it a remnant of the dinosaur age, or is it something which is out of this

world? We know that, for example, St.

Columba definitely felt that the lake was sacred, and that there was something

present there which had a religious connotation, which is why he went to

place to begin with.

The intriguing thing is that there actually have been a significant number

UFO sightings over the Loch itself of strange, brightly lit objects hovering

over the water late at night, which clearly aren't helicopters or aircraft

meteorites or anything like that at all.

So, in other words, Loch Ness is a weird and spooky place.

Could the so -called sea monsters of Loch Ness...

possibly be descendants of ancient dinosaurs?

Or might it be of another perhaps extraterrestrial origin? And if so, what

might this say about other mythical sea beasts, like the seven -headed Sumerian

sea monster, the Leviathan? The Leviathan is...

sometimes described as a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon, but it lurks. It

the gatekeeper to a portal to hell. And this gateway to hell is apparently deep

in the ocean, and the Leviathan is there forever lurking.

In Greek myths, the Hydra was described as an ancient sea serpent with many

heads.

It was said to be a descendant of the earth goddess, Gaia.

Hercules was sent to kill the Hydra.

But it was terribly difficult. He would slice off the head and two heads would

form. He had to ask help from his nephew.

And his nephew had a brilliant idea.

Bring a torch.

Fire might keep the heads from forming. So Hercules would bash off one of the

heads and his nephew would essentially cauterize the next so that another one

wouldn't form. And in this way, the Hydra was finally defeated.

In the case of a Hydra, we have something which has several heads, which

again a category of a creature which you would expect not to see.

So we are either confronted here with something which was genetically

or which genetically went wrong, but clearly it was of such importance that

was adhered to in mythology, where it attained a status over the years, over

centuries, up until this moment in time.

According to Scandinavian legend, the Kraken are legendary sea monsters of

gargantuan size and are said to have roamed the seas off the coast of Norway

Iceland.

This fearsome beast was infamous for its attacks on sailing ships.

The danger was not only being attacked by the Kraken. They would come up to the

surface and were enormous, the size of small islands, so you could have a

collision with a Kraken that wasn't even out to attack you. Another great danger

was that if it submerged suddenly, it formed such a great whirlpool that it

could pull a ship under.

Could such legendary sea monsters have actually existed?

Might they have escaped extinction in the safety of cold, deep waters?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And they suggest that in addition to oceans and lakes, there is evidence that

many cryptids find refuge in the world's densest forests and highest mountains.

You can't really talk about cryptids without mentioning Bigfoot. And I spent

lot of time with Bigfoot hunters back in 2014 for my show In Search of Aliens.

And I'll tell you, those people were convinced that they did encounter this

creature. You know what's intriguing is that people that report witnessing

Bigfoot often see him right after a UFO sighting or even at the exact same time.

Right. And there are reports of Bigfoot disappearing in a sudden flash of light.

So, you know, you have to wonder, is there an extraterrestrial connection?

Mount Everest, November 9th, 1951.

On the Menlung Glacier, at an altitude of 18 ,000 feet, British explorers

Eric Shipton and Michael Ward came across a mile -long trail of unusual

footprint.

Not expecting to find humans in this remote corner of the mountain, the

examined the prints to determine what made them.

To their surprise, the footprints were in the shape of a large, human -like

foot, one roughly twice the normal size.

The footprints suggest that, in fact, we're dealing with a large primate, one

that shares with us not only the habit of walking on two legs, but has some

superficial resemblance in its foot to our footprints, only much larger scale,

but differ from the other great apes in the lack of a divergent big toe,

suggesting they're adapted to a wholly terrestrial environment, living on the

ground.

Photographs brought back from the expedition, launched a media sensation

marked the beginning of the Bigfoot phenomena.

But where do these giant footprints come from?

Could they be a hoax?

Or is there some mysterious unknown creature living in the remote

According to the histories and myths of the Himalayan region, one such ape -like

creature, is the yeti more commonly known as the abominable snowman

the notorious himalayan yeti it's often described as being

less than six feet in height much more aggressive when encountered all of these

sightings really make for a creature which seems to be hiding from us with

creature which is hiding in plain sight and obviously the direct evidence comes

in the form of its footprint hence why it's quite often referred to as Bigfoot.

People often ask, why don't we catch Bigfoot?

Bigfoot could be some sort of supernatural creature, like a phantom.

If Bigfoot is, however, a flesh -and -blood animal, then I would have to say

their numbers would have to be few and far between.

Since the Mount Everest discovery, there have been numerous sightings of large,

ape -like creatures on every continent.

Many clustered in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States, including

Mount Shasta in Northern California.

In 1979, I was up on the side of Mount Shasta on the foothills, trying to get

the base of the mountain.

It was so dense and so tough.

As we're standing there, we heard this crashing sound.

Simultaneously, we smelled it.

Awful smell. I mean, it was foul.

But what was horrifying was whatever it was was coming at us through this

impenetrable hedge.

And then we heard the most blood -curdling combination of an elephant

trumpeting, a lion roaring.

And it was so loud it bounced off the foothills two miles away.

That was probably the most terrified I've ever been in my life. And the next

thing I knew, we were headed down the mountain, almost getting off corners.

I had heard from sheriffs about a rancher in Montana who had gone out to

hunting, comes around a ridge, has an eight -foot -tall, reddish -brown,

-looking, long -haired creature standing right in front of him.

picks up a .30 -06 and just fires.

And the creature disappeared in a flash of light.

If the Sasquatch, when a bullet is shot at it, disappears in a flash of light,

then what in the world are we dealing with and what do they want?

Why is the creature known as Bigfoot so difficult to capture or kill?

Could it be?

as ancient astronaut theorists contend, that the creature's ghost -like

abilities are the result of its otherworldly origin.

Many Sasquatch researchers have noted that there's a connection between UFO

activity and Bigfoot activity.

In fact, Bigfoot has been seen coming out of some UFO flying saucer craft.

You have to wonder if somehow Bigfoot himself isn't some kind of

extraterrestrial.

Many of the North American Indian tribes have legends and mythological tales

about these Sasquatch, the Anasazi, and various other Indian cultures. Look at

these as a ghost creature, something that it's impossible to capture, close

impossible to see, but they do know that they exist.

Although mainstream scientists consider the mysterious beast as no more than a

modern -day myth,

the number of Bigfoot sightings reported and photographed continues to steadily

increase.

Specifically what you get is obviously big feet. You get a hairy creature. You

get a very specific smell, very harsh smell. And it's also said that the sound

which Bigfoot makes is kind of whistling.

So all of these components really make for a typical big switch fighting, and

they are concise across the board.

They seem to be very elusive, very retiring and retreating. Aggressive

are very rarely reported.

The witness sees the creature and both go in opposite directions with no

interaction whatsoever.

They range in size from perhaps 6 feet to 10 feet tall.

Coloration, the most common description is of a dark brown fur.

Their names vary from location, but you have, of course, in America, Bigfoot,

otherwise known as Sasquatch, in the Pacific Northwest.

Down in Florida, he's known as the Skunk Ape.

Down in Australia, we have the Yowie.

But if a Bigfoot creature really does exist, how has it remained so elusive?

Researchers point out that accounts of giant, human -like beasts date back

thousands of years.

Throughout ancient history, we have a number of legends about giants, about

men, about hairy beasts that live at the edge of civilization.

These were humans, you know, people.

who were, however, wild. They were hairy, they didn't wear clothes, they

in the wood, and yet, in other ways, they had special powers.

Is it possible that the supernatural creatures of Native American myths are,

fact, descriptions of encounters with Bigfoot in the remote past?

And are such creatures extraterrestrial in nature?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers can be found in numerous ancient

texts. In the book of Enoch, we have a category called the Nephilim or the

Watchers, people who set to come down from heaven to earth and basically lived

ever after amongst us.

Now, the Bible gives very little discussion as to really what they looked

except the fact that they were giants.

that they were big, and clearly they are deemed to be less worthy. And I think

this is of interest because when you start looking on the Bigfoot, you really

are confronted with a creature which even we today would classify more as an

animal rather than as a human being.

What they witnessed had absolutely nothing to do with the divine or with

spiritual because those gods were not gods at all.

They were misinterpreted.

flesh and blood, extraterrestrials.

Might Bigfoot and the Himalayan Yeti really be creatures of alien origin, as

some ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Perhaps further evidence can be found in ancient tales of giant beings with

supernatural powers.

You know, we often think of Bigfoot as a modern phenomenon, but there's actually

reports of a Bigfoot -like creature in the Sumerian texts called the Epic of

Gilgamesh, which is the oldest story ever written.

Yeah, and that text goes back about 5 ,000 years ago, and in it there is a

character named Enkidu, who is this wild, hairy beast of giant proportions.

Yeah, it's really amazing to think that the creature we call Bigfoot has been

hiding out in the wilderness since the time of the Sumerians.

And you have to wonder, maybe the reason why it's so elusive is because it

really is of otherworldly origin.

Iraq.

Site of ancient Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization.

In the remains of the ancient city of Nineveh, Sumerian tablets dating back to

as early as 1800 BC tell the story of King Gilgamesh.

In this epic poem, Gilgamesh has a companion named Enkidu.

who is described as a hairy wild man living outside human society.

What is fascinating about the Epic of Gilgamesh is the fact that it relates to

us a story of Enkidu, who allegedly was a

giant. It is possible that Enkidu, this wild, hairy

beast, this giant, could have been of extraterrestrial origin,

because that is what the ancient Sumerian texts are saying.

Enkidu is described in the Epic of Gilgamesh as being a hairy, man

-like monster with great strength.

And when you read that story, you have to think that Enkidu is some kind of

Bigfoot Sasquatch.

This is the actual first -fashioned being by the gods, where they put their

genetic marker on it to make a new being that would be their slave, and they

called this being the Enkidu.

Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the Epic of

Gilgamesh actually describes a hominid creature created by extraterrestrial

beings?

Sumerian texts also describe ancient sky gods who came to Earth, called the

Anunnaki.

The ancient astronaut theory explains how these gods were probably

extraterrestrials and put their genetic marker on this beast, but that beast

would still exist and probably went on its own evolutionary path to be the

Bigfoot and the Sasquatch that we have today.

Do ancient accounts of such human -like beasts, provide further evidence that

this otherworldly being may have really existed throughout our history.

All cultures across the world, whether it's South America, Native American

Indians, Europe, Russia, China, Tibet, Australia, all these nations have

legends and tales of giant hairy wild men.

Now, you know, people say, well, legends are just legends.

But when you have cultures and countries separated by oceans, all talking about

very similar things. To me, this does suggest that in times past, these things

were very, very prevalent and widespread across the world.

Legends of giants were common in the ancient world.

But similar stories emerged much later with Viking explorer Leif Erikson, who

the 10th century AD wrote of horrible, ugly, hairy creatures with dark eyes.

Leif Erikson was familiar with the different types of tribes and indigenous

people. Now, he spoke very specifically about these large, hairy creatures with

dark eyes and a very specific scent that they had that stood out from all the

other cultures that they interacted with on their travels into the New World.

Could these have been the Sasquatch or Yeti that we speak of today? Very

possibly.

But could all these similar accounts found throughout history and around the

world be proof that Bigfoot is more than just myth?

And is there any evidence that its origins lie not on Earth, but in the

There are a number of cases on record where Bigfoot has been seen in the same

precise time frame as UFO activity has been reported.

For example, there was a big wave of UFO activity in Pennsylvania in the early

1970s, and people were actually reporting these large, shadowy,

-like creatures walking out of the woods.

In Texas, there's a road known locally as Ghost Light Road, and it's called

Ghost Light Road because people see these weird balls of light flying

the woods.

Coincidentally, people also have reported huge numbers of Bigfoot -type

in these very same woods.

Bigfoot are intelligent.

They're very, very secretive and very, very hidden. They're able to skirt

civilization. Perhaps they do have some sort of extra ability that allow them to

do this. And if so, where do those abilities come from?

We can't factor out that possibly Bigfoot are somehow an extraterrestrial

species.

Back in 1980, I had been investigating a lot of animal mutilations, and I get a

letter from a man up in Snohomish, Washington, famous for the Sasquatch or

Bigfoot sightings, who said, I was out at my father's place.

And I hear a sound in the trees as if wind has come in.

With the trees starting to move comes the silver disc.

And then he sees a beam come down to the ground.

In the beam is a tall, shaggy primate looking. He said it looked like a

Comes down to the bottom and the tall creature.

walks by as if he doesn't exist.

The next thing, animal mutilations are reported within a few days.

If Bigfoot creatures are aligned with extraterrestrial beings, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe, what might be the purpose of their presence on this

planet?

And might the worldwide sightings be part of a clandestine program that has

going on for thousands of years?

Bigfoot could have been brought here, you know, to sort of, let's put it in

alongside the natives and see what happens.

There are stories of the star people coming down and releasing these Bigfoot

-type creatures into the wilderness.

Of course, you have to wonder what prompted those stories. And that's why

are researchers out there who do believe that Bigfoot is, if you like, an animal

born on another world.

One idea is that these are entities that have been dropped down here as part of

a research project.

Another idea is that the Bigfoot creatures perhaps were criminals or some

type of undesirable from an alien planet.

that have been left on our world.

If extraterrestrials did create a race of Bigfoot creatures thousands of years

in the past, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, might they have had a

reason for keeping them hidden from us?

Perhaps further clues can be uncovered by examining another elusive and even

more sinister cryptid race.

known as the reptilians.

One group of cryptids that are reported a lot in modern times are the

reptilians. But they're usually not thought of as monsters. They're thought

as an intelligent alien species, like the Nordics or the Greys.

Dozens of alleged alien abductees have reported encountering reptilians.

Yeah, and in fact, in ancient India, in the Vedic texts, they describe beings

like that called the Nagas. But that is not the only culture that talks about

these creatures. Right, and there are some reports that the reptilians are

to disguise themselves as humans.

We talked about all this in a 2014 episode called The Reptilians.

Bishop Bill, South Carolina.

June 1988,

2 a .m.

17 -year -old Christopher Davis had pulled over on a deserted road near

Ore Swamp to fix a flat tire.

Just as he finished, he heard a noise behind him.

He saw a strange 7 -foot -tall creature with red glowing eyes running towards

him.

Davis started to drive away, but the creature caught up with him.

and jumped on the roof of the car.

Swerving hard to throw the creature off, he saw it had three fingers and green

skin.

Finally, it fell from the car, and Davis sped away.

And he ended up getting out of where he was, and he went immediately home.

He was so upset that his parents called the police department.

Sheriff Liston Truesdale actually went out there and interviewed him. He asked

him to take a lie detector test, and this young boy passed the lie detector

with flying colors.

What Christopher Davis told the detective he saw was a lizard man.

And what's interesting is that the police took the story very, very

Although Christopher Davis' sighting of the lizard man was certainly the most

famous and infamous one, it's not the only one.

They tracked down a number of other witnesses who both previously and after

seen the lizard man.

In the spring of 1988, a crop duster named Frank Mitchell reported seeing

he said was a lizard man cross his grassy runway one morning as he was

take off.

And two years later, in 1990...

Bertha Blythers and her five children claimed they nearly hit a lizard -like

while driving near the same swamp.

Could these incidents all be related?

Is it merely coincidence that three separate people on three separate

reported seeing a lizard man near the skateboard swamp?

Could there possibly be...

another species of life down here, something we're not aware of, and

interacting with people.

Further sightings of a so -called lizard man have been reported not only in this

area, but also in Tennessee, Illinois, and Austria.

In fact, alleged encounters with these creatures have become so widespread,

are now collectively known by one name.

The reptilians.

But could accounts of the reptilians be more than just the product of overactive

imaginations?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And as evidence, they point to the legends of serpent gods that can be

throughout the world.

In South America, Quetzalcoatl...

Kukulkan, they're always referenced as serpent gods.

Even in Japan or ancient China, we have these dragon emperors and dragon gods.

It's very possible that there was a time in the past that ancient man was

interacting with what appear to be living serpent beings, a lost reptilian

We can find these stories of serpent gods all around the world.

I don't mean just, you know, particular geographic regions, but on every

continent, on virtually every ancient culture.

You have them in India, you have them in China, in Greece, in England, in

South and North America, in Africa. I mean, it doesn't matter where you go in

the world. There are the direct references to these serpent -like beings

descend from the sky.

To me, this is not a figment of the imagination and certainly not

In addition to myths and legends passed down through oral history, early written

texts also speak of serpent beings that were once present on earth.

The Bible speaks of a reptilian race, the Seraphim. We read about them in the

book of Isaiah.

Some will interpret them as being the fiery ones, but the correct

is reptilian.

There's always been knowledge of the reptilians.

Some are good, others bad.

Religious texts tell of reptilian beings whose existence is inexorably linked to

that of the earth and humankind.

So, for example, in the Bible, the book of Genesis has a story about a serpent

who tempts. Eve, the first woman, by offering her the forbidden fruit from

tree of knowledge.

Eve falls for the snake blandishments and she eats of that apple and forever

changes human history, causing Adam and Eve to be expelled from the Garden of

Eden and causing the serpent too to be punished in that he is doomed to slither

upon the ground as a punishment for his disobeying God's will.

It is understood in ancient legend that prior to God punishing the serpent, the

serpent was completely humanoid in character. And that this serpent, this

Nahash, was only one of a race of reptilian beings

who served God.

When you hear that story from a modern perspective, it sounds an awful lot like

what people describe as the reptilians.

lizard -like beings or beings with the faces or visage of a viper.

But if the serpent in the Garden of Eden really was a reptilian alien, as

ancient astronaut theorists suggest, could there be similar stories recorded

the ancient texts of other cultures as well?

In the Quran, there's a fascinating category.

of creatures known as the jinn.

The jinn are ancient. They were here before humans.

They're a category unto themselves, not unlike angels.

And at one point, Iblis, the leader of the jinn, offended God, crossed him, was

rebellious, and was cursed like the serpents in the Garden of Eden and

earthbound, trapped on earth for eternity, and they are here with us.

Throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East, there is a very strong belief

linking snakes,

skinks, lizards, and other reptiles to supernatural or magical creatures, and

some cases to the souls of ancestors.

So it can be considered bad luck to kill one of these beings if you find it in

the home, because it might be a djinn or another kind of supernatural creature

that is visiting you.

The Djinn, Kukulkan, the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Could all of these stories about otherworldly serpent beings able to

humanity be based on fact?

And if they have been part of human history for thousands of years, where do

they come from?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found.

by looking back not thousands of years, but millions.

Ottawa, Ontario, 1982.

At the National Museum of Canada, paleontologist and curator of vertebrate

fossils, Dale Russell, publishes a thought experiment based on the trend

larger brain sizes and the upright posture of dinosaurs.

He proposes a theory about what one species of dinosaur would have evolved

if it had survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago.

What he did is take the dinosaur known as Truodon. They noticed the

morphological changes in the skeletal structure of the dinosaur. And based on

over time where it was going, they extrapolated it out further.

Strangely enough, or wonderfully enough, they actually came up with a model that

resembled a humanoid reptilian being, which actually matched that of the

that we were hearing now, as well as reports from ancient history.

So for me, this was one of the most compelling pieces of information where

science actually says it is possible.

The dinos hadn't died out. This would have become what he called the

dinosauroid, an upright standing...

semi -humanoid, semi -reptilian entity, what we might call a reptoid. He thought

it might stand four to five feet high, weigh about 90 pounds, and have a fairly

advanced brain.

Now, did this entity ever come into existence?

What if some of the dinosaurs didn't become extinct?

What if they managed to survive the global extinction or presumed extinction

million years ago and over time some of them developed through natural selection

and they grew smaller, they became more intelligent, they became more adept and

adaptive and took on a humanoid form.

We necessarily shouldn't think that the reptilians are extraterrestrials.

Perhaps in some strange way there are forefathers, albeit from millions and

millions of years in the past.

If the reptilians do exist, could they be the descendants of dinosaurs that

walked the Earth millions of years ago?

Our concept of dinosaurs is changing all the time, of course, and nowadays we're

making so many new discoveries every year that we're reinterpreting them in

ways.

Certainly, if you look 20, 30 years back, there were so many things that

been found and so many other things we know now.

Particularly, I think it's been very important and that nowadays is

very well accepted, the idea that dinosaurs are not extinct, that

essentially evolved into birds and that they're alive today.

And now that we know...

that not all the dinosaurs died out and as a matter of fact some survived to

become birds warm -blooded birds mind you from a dinosaur which is considered

reptile and cold -blooded we're recognizing that even if these are birds

didn't recognize them now as being part of the dinosaur family what could these

other pockets that have survived the devastation 65 million years ago could

have evolved parallel to mankind and in hidden cavern systems, and could they be

actually the beings that we think are extraterrestrial, but are actually our

terrestrial neighbors?

Paleontologists generally argue that the dinosaurs died out totally 65 million

years ago. I think it's certainly within the realm of feasibility that some

found an ecological niche to survive in, and may even exist today.

And I point out that while we hear UFO abductees talking about little greys and

tall humanoids, a minority of them do report encounters with what we would

reptoids. So it's possible that on some planet, if not Earth, somewhere else,

they evolved from dinosaurs.

To find another place in the universe that was so rich with resources and so

capable of supporting life, was probably a very exciting discovery for

extraterrestrial visitors to Earth in our prehistory.

In their eyes, this could have been the place they could colonize or perhaps act

as a working environment for experiments they were doing with new species they

were trying to engineer.

Maybe they manipulated dinosaur DNA to favor certain mutations.

by playing with certain mutations in the genes of dinosaurs, highly advanced

extraterrestrials, through genetic modification, may have been able to

course of dinosaur evolution to favor the rise of mammals.

Is it possible celestial travelers manipulated the DNA of reptiles and

on Earth as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

And could one of their experiments have resulted in a reptilian -human hybrid

species.

It's very possible that the reptilian agenda extends well into our history.

We really don't know the full record of dinosaurs on our planet, since dinosaurs

were here for millions of years.

Many of these references to a current reptilian race or an ancient serpent

that was worshipped by various cultures could be an offshoot, a genetic

variation of dinosaurs that naturally evolved here on Earth.

Could Earth really be home to human -like reptiles that are an evolutionary

offshoot of dinosaurs?

Some researchers suggest there might be an even more profound explanation behind

the so -called reptilians.

One that may be revealed by exploring encounters with strange entities at a

mysterious site in the American Southwest known as Skinwalker Ranch.

If you're looking for evidence of cryptids, look no further than

Ranch in Utah.

I mean, that place is famous for modern UFO activity.

However, people have been reporting strange encounters with very bizarre

creatures for decades.

Right. And our own Dr. Travis Taylor has been investigating the bizarre

phenomenon there since 2019.

And William, you had a chance to visit the ranch recently yourself.

I did. It is a powerfully strange place.

And one of the theories about why there's so much anomalous activity there

because it's thought to be the location of an interdimensional portal.

Uintah County, Utah.

Nestled in a deep valley, surrounded by some of the highest mountain peaks in

North America.

is an infamous 512 -acre patch of land known as Skinwalker Ranch.

The native Utes warn of a dark presence that exists in this area, where strange

sightings in the sky, encounters with terrifying creatures, animal

and numerous other paranormal activities have been reported for centuries.

Skinwalker Ranch has become this nexus of activity.

where people are reporting strange things.

It's in an area in Utah that's very much like a desert terrain, and what's there

now is high desert prairie kind of area.

Now, what it actually is and what's going on there is a whole other

It's a very unique place in the world where the phenomenon expresses itself in

dramatic form. It's also the most scientifically studied UFO or paranormal

hotspot in history.

Native American legends say that there has been an otherworldly presence at

Skinwalker Ranch for as long as humans have existed in the area, which,

according to archaeological evidence, is at least 10 ,000 years.

And the very first European settlers to pass through this land in the late 1700s

had their own bizarre experiences, which they recorded in their journals.

The first Europeans to cross the Uinta Basin, the Franciscan monks, reported

seeing things over their campfires at night, really weird objects that we

call UFOs. The Native Americans, the indigenous tribes have been there, have

these experiences for generations.

It has... For as long as humans have lived there, it's been the site of

paranormal activity, strange things in the sky, UFOs.

There are so many stories about Skinwalker Ranch that range from cattle

mutilations going on.

There are stories that if you dig on the property, you'll get sick.

Even strange stories of cloaked beasts running out of the woods.

You've seen UFOs. They have seen different creatures. They have seen

things happening up in the sky. So you have all these different phenomena that

happen on that ranch. So some have referred to it as a veritable Disneyland

the paranormal.

The most notorious of the paranormal phenomena associated with Skinwalker

is the creature for which the property is named.

the association of the skinwalker with this mysterious plot of land can be

traced back to the mid -19th century.

In January of 1864, land disputes between Navajos, Utes, and the

United States military in Utah and Arizona reached a fateful tipping point.

After decades of conflict, the military removed the Navajo people from the area.

forcing them to make what became known as the Long Walk to New Mexico.

The Navajos blamed the Utes for helping the military.

And so they cursed the land that the Utes lived on up there. And it must have

been a pretty strong curse, because even today there are really interesting

things that happen up there.

Cursing the land, the Navajo witch doctors attempted to conjure an entity

called...

The skinwalkers, they're sort of typically six to seven feet tall, very

dangerous.

It's described as being wolf -like, but walking on two limbs.

So inevitably, it sort of provokes imagery of a werewolf.

The subject of skinwalkers is as serious as a heart attack.

This is not something to trifle with.

Even talking about them puts me in some danger.

The skinwalker is somebody who is evil.

They want to control people, communities, regions, and have that

people. And they do this by fear.

The youths to this day are very respectful.

They're very mindful. Matter of fact, they stand at arm's length from the

skinwalker ranch.

They firmly believe that this ground is cursed and that not only are you in a

basin, but this concentration of this phenomenon, this host, is on the

Skinwalker Ranch.

Could a monster known as the Skinwalker really stalk the grounds of Skinwalker

Ranch?

And if so, was it conjured up by Navajo witch doctors?

Or is it connected to the paranormal and perhaps otherworldly activity?

that has been reported on the property for centuries.

Investigative journalist George Knapp was one of the first reporters to expose

the strange stories at Skinwalker Ranch back in the mid -1990s when he conducted

extensive interviews with the Shermans, the family of ranchers that owned the

property.

This guy shows up one day while the ranching family is still there. He's

like Grizzly Adams, big burly guy with a beard.

He said he'd been drawn to the property, and he talks to the rancher and says, I

just need to meditate for a couple of minutes. I'm drawn here. I need to do

this. Can you let me on the property?

The rancher kind of bemusedly says, okay, come on in. He lets the guy in.

rancher and his son escort him to the middle homestead, and the rancher and

son are watching the guy and just kind of chuckling to themselves.

They hear this thing in the brush, and then they look over, and there's

something moving.

And it comes out of the brush, right up to where this guy is.

And it looked like the creature in Predator, with the camouflage, the

camouflage, the invisibility technology.

This thing comes right up to this guy and roars.

Scares the hell out of this guy. Opens his eyes, flies back, lands on his back.

The rancher and his son go rushing over to him.

He's petrified. Grabbing him won't let go.

They escort him off the property and he swears that the devil, it's Satan,

you're going to burn for this kind of stuff.

Is it possible that the terrifying creature witnessed by both the ranchers

their mysterious visitor was what the Navajo call a skinwalker?

Was it a being from another world?

Even another dimension?

Such stories have inspired countless curiosity seekers to make pilgrimages to

the ranch.

But for those who have lived and worked there, like current ranch superintendent

Tom Winterton, Skinwalker Ranch is not a place to be taken lightly.

I had been warned not to dig on this ranch, which I thought was absolutely

ridiculous.

It's a ranch, for crying out loud.

That's what you do. You dig fence holes. You dig ditches.

And so I paid zero attention to it. And whether it's related or not, I ended up

getting the severe head injury that causes my head to swell up. I had fluid

that separated the fatty tissue from my skull. And to this day, my doctors still

haven't come up with an explanation of what happened.

What they did say was that what happened to me just was not medically possible.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that there are things that have happened here

that have shaken me to my core.

When we patrol the perimeter of the place, both on foot and with our

we are heavily armed.

And that's not necessarily because we're looking to hurt anybody. It's more

of... We don't know what we're dealing with, and it's a dangerous place.

Morning. Hey, Caleb. How you doing, man?

Between the natural things that are here and then also the unknown.

What could possibly explain so many incredible encounters being reported on

single 512 -acre stretch of land and by multiple groups of people over a

span of hundreds of years?

To the many accounts of UFOs, point to an extraterrestrial connection.

Perhaps further clues can be found by more closely examining the stories of

Skinwalker and its connection to a supernatural creature thought to have

vanished from the Earth long ago.

Fort Duchesne, Utah.

1968.

17 -year -old Larry Sespooch is with his friends, driving along an infamous

stretch of road near Skinwalker Ranch.

As they approach a spot known as Dead Man's Curve, named for the high number

car crashes that have occurred there, they spot a bright object in the sky.

We were driving around with a bunch of us, and we come around Dead Man's Curve,

The driver looked in his rearview mirror and said, oh, what the heck is that?

It was a fireball, and that fireball was coming up behind us. And so we told

him to go faster, and this thing just flew over our head.

When I told my mother, she had talked about a similar incident when she was

younger.

and other tribal members have seen that fireball.

Other reports indicate that the local residents have been regularly witnessing

similar strange events, both in and around Skinwalker Ranch, for decades.

The various accounts describe flashing lights, floating orbs, and UFOs.

In this entire area, and there have been hundreds of reports of UFOs, you know,

multiple people seeing the same one.

This particular part of the area has kind of gotten the nickname of UFO Alley

because of the number of those sightings that have been reported.

We did see tears. We had openings in the sky, voices, craft coming through,

orbs. Is that E .T.? Hard to say.

Reality of the events is absolute.

I have personally watched as portions of the mesa as large as 500 to 600 feet

appear to glow.

We may be looking at a terrestrial light source, or we may be looking at

something far more interesting.

In the 1990s, the owners of Skinwalker Ranch also witnessed strange orbs in the

sky.

When they relayed their experiences to George Knapp, he found that the UFOs,

were tied to the other paranormal activity taking place on the property.

They start hearing heavy footsteps outside their bedroom window at night.

Then they start seeing these dark humanoid shapes in the windows at night.

Then they start hearing the footsteps inside the house.

Then they wake up at night and there's the thing at the bottom of their bed.

They would go out at night, they walk around, they start hearing disembodied

voices in the sky above their heads, speaking some strange language, almost

mocking them. They start seeing little orbs floating around, seemingly

intelligently controlled, floating around in the trees.

Is it possible that reports of floating orbs, poltergeist activity, and the

creature known as the skinwalker are not separate phenomena?

Might they be better understood by considering them all together?

Another story told to George Knapp by the Shermans may reveal yet another

to the Skinwalker Ranch mystery.

The first day they're on the property, they see an animal of some sort over on

the brush line, and it starts coming toward them.

And then you realize, that's a wolf.

It's huge.

The back of the wolf came up to the middle of his chest.

They petted this thing. It was a real physical creature.

Now, the calves are in the corral. They're all backed up against one side,

scared of this wolf, except one calf makes the mistake of sticking his snout

between the bars of the corral.

The wolf sees it, leaps in the air like 20 feet, chomps down on the head of this

calf, and is trying to drag it out of the corral.

His son grabs a .357 out of the truck.

And brings it over. Dad pops a shot into this wolf.

No yelp, no blood, no anything. Shoots it a second and third time.

Now this is a fourth shot they put into this wolf. And then a fifth shot goes

right into the chest. A chunk of flesh and fur comes popping off the side and

falls on the ground.

And this wolf just casually turns around and starts walking away. He's had

enough.

Five shots in this thing and didn't kill it.

The Shermans say they pursued the wolf into the brush, following its tracks on

the wet ground.

They get to a clearing beyond the brush, a muddy area.

The tracks go all the way out into the middle of the muddy field and stop.

It's gone.

It's as if it had been sucked up into the sky.

Later, when the Shermans told this story to a group of scientists that had come

to investigate the ranch, they were shown a series of photographs.

and asked if any of them resembled the animal they encountered.

They have a lineup of different types of wolves to ask each of the family

members, show us what this looked like. And the one that they all identified is

what's known as a dire wolf.

Dire wolf, of course, has been extinct for 10 ,000 years.

If a dire wolf is, in fact, what the Shermans witnessed, could it present

another clue as to what is happening at Skinwalker Ranch?

Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is simple.

According to them, the ranch most likely contained some kind of interdimensional

portal, one that would allow not only travel from one dimension to another,

to various points in time and space.

And they also suggest that this otherworldly connection could account

various cryptid life forms, such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot.

reptilian beings, and other elusive entities that regularly appear and

from our reality.

A lot of times when we imagine alien life forms, we think of them as looking

lot like us. I mean, not exactly like us, but as an upright humanoid form.

Then again, they may look nothing like us. Their planet's atmosphere could be

different than ours, the geology, the gravitational forces.

Yeah, and if you take into consideration all the cryptids that have been

reported since ancient times, it's quite possible that some of them were of

extraterrestrial origin.

In fact, we covered this in a 2015 episode called Alien Evolution.

West Virginia, September.

1952. Multiple witnesses report seeing a strange ball of light shooting across

the night sky and landing in a nearby wooded area.

Those who investigate the crash site describe seeing a 10 -foot tall bird

creature with glowing red eyes.

It was this huge humanoid type figure anywhere from about 10 feet to 12 feet

high.

It had these fiery blazing eyes and was emitting these sparks and flashes

of light.

It was described as having a cowl -like head not unlike an ace of spades card in

a deck of cards.

The entire group was unanimous in their belief that the object or the creature

was utterly real, that it was connected with the overflight of the strange

light, and it was also connected with this red pulsating light that they saw.

Curiously, Native American mythology also describes a similar half -bird,

half -human creature that shared the planet with mankind.

thousands of years ago.

The Apache had a demonic figure in their mythology, the giant owl man, who could

petrify you through its gaze.

It was truly a terrifying presence that could come at any time, particularly in

the night sky when owls fly.

This is a pretty common theme in a lot of Native American mythology.

There was a time in the past when the Earth was overrun by pretty scary

of various forms.

And the big owl, or the Owlman, is one of these sort of representatives.

Might the stories of Owlman and other strange creatures describe beings that

Native Americans actually encountered?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

and point to similar creation myths from across the world of gods that resemble

not just anthropomorphic birds, but also reptiles,

insects, and sea creatures.

All around the world, we have figurines and carvings and paintings, rock

paintings. of these very bizarre creatures that can be found not only on

continent, but once you compare them, they're also incredibly similar.

So one has to wonder if these figurines and these statues of these different

depictions of what they refer to as the gods, if they're actually rooted in some

type of reality.

Did our ancestors really encounter these intelligent life forms thousands of

years ago?

And if so, just what were they?

Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2013.

Analyzing data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

astronomers at the Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that 6

% of all red dwarf stars have habitable Earth -like planets.

Because red dwarf stars burn much longer than our sun, the discovery raises the

possibility that life on these planets could be much older and much different

than life on Earth.

The environment plays a really pivotal role in sort of the direction that

organisms evolve.

And so you can imagine that evolution played out on a different planet.

It might follow the same types of rules but have completely different end

products. So it would look completely different.

Let's go to any other star with planets around it.

Intelligence, it's going to happen because of crises. It's going to happen

because you can only survive with that intelligence.

But it could be from a reptile that we are a reptile equivalent. It could be

from a quadruped.

It might be from a mollusk -like creature. The causes probably could be

same. The end result, anatomically, totally different.

There could be a myriad of different forms that intelligent life takes

throughout the cosmos.

When we look to the earthly record of otherworldly beings that have visited

Earth,

They exhibit different characteristics.

They have bird heads, dog heads, reptilian -type forms.

It's possible that these are the forms that these beings take on their home

planet, and they might even coexist with beings that are even different from

them.

I think it's unscientific to flat -out say that any and all cryptids are...

non -existent because they said the same thing about the coelacanth extinct does

not exist and then they found the coelacanth again Just because you take a

out of the ocean with water and there is no shark in the spoon doesn't mean

there is no sharks in the water.

Well, right. And the oceans are so vast and deep. I mean, that is really the

unexplored territory on our planet.

Absolutely. And, you know, we're only just beginning to discover, you know,

the creatures and cryptids all over the world. Well, and then you multiply that

by the possibility that there's beings perhaps that are beyond the physical.

Life beings, for example, are beings living in a different density or a

different frequency that are still intelligent life.

Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0