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For more than 3 ,000 years, Ireland has maintained a connection to ancient magic

and a mystical realm.

We have two parallel worlds, the human world and the other world.

The rolling landscape is believed to possess hidden powers.

It's said that the mound acted as the doorways into other realities.

And within these earthen mounds, are said to be powerful beings known as the

Shining Ones. They are somehow able to manipulate their surroundings and

have the knowledge of the universe.

Are these Irish legends more than fanciful mythology?

And if so, could there be an extraterrestrial connection?

The ancient Irish were saying that these beings came from the sky.

There is a doorway in the universe Beyond it is the promise

of truth It demands we question everything we have ever been taught

The evidence is all around us The future is right before

our eyes We are not alone.

We have never been alone

Ireland.

This lush green island in the North Atlantic has a history of human activity

dating back more than 33 ,000 years.

Numerous cultures have called Ireland home, from the early Beaker people to

Celts and the Gaels.

And the island has a rich tradition of folklore that is spread throughout the

world.

But perhaps most notable, is that Ireland boasts some of the oldest

on the planet.

Massive earthen mounds, many of which date back more than 5 ,000 years.

These mounds are constructed. They're not natural hills. These are megalithic

constructions involving, in the larger sites, an enormous amount of man hours

and labor.

These would have been, when they were made, just a very, very impressive site.

These mounds.

were an ancient earthwork that had a tunnel going through it with stones on

either side and stones on top and then covered with earth.

Ireland has a tremendous amount of these mounds. And these are some of mankind's

oldest large structures in the world.

And they anchor all of the land together.

Usually if you visit one on top of the hill, you go up, you find one, you can

a line of sight to the next one.

There was almost a network, almost across the entire Ireland, of these

The oldest known writing in Ireland dates to the 6th century AD.

More than 3 ,000 years after the ancient mounds are believed to have been built.

With no written record about the mounds' construction, archaeologists and

historians can only speculate as to who made them and for what purpose.

These things were built to go inside, where presumably very, very important

rituals took place. We don't know, but much later on, these sites would have

been used for gatherings, for rituals, and sort of keeping the society

These were enormously long -lived sites of cultural importance, with enormously

long -lived societies that used these as focal points.

Thirty miles north of Dublin, in County Meath, is Ireland's largest and oldest

mound. called Newgrange.

The ancient structure consists of over 200 ,000 tons of stone and has a

passageway leading to a central chamber in which human bone fragments have been

found. But archaeologists say Newgrange also has an undeniable connection to the

cosmos.

Spiral petroglyphs thought to symbolize the universe are found all around it,

and the passageway and chamber form a cruciform shape that researchers believe

is based on the constellation Cygnus.

At the time Newgrange was built, it was presumed to be the largest structure

that mankind had ever built in the world.

And one of the most interesting things about Newgrange is its celestial

alignment. It's still very, very poppy. If you go out in the winter solstice,

you have this sun dagger that it cuts tremendous distance all the way in to

brighten up the inner chambers.

Newgrange is unique among Ireland's mounds in its sophistication and was

designed for ritualistic activity.

But according to ancient Irish texts, the mounds serve a more profound and

mysterious purpose, as the dwelling places of otherworldly beings

called the she.

The word she, it can mean the mounds and also...

can mean the other world people the people of the mounds in irish

tradition it's bad luck to use the word she to directly refer to these other

world people so there are many different names we have the english word fairy

folk also elves

Stories of fairies, elves, and even leprechauns are rooted in the ancient

folklore of what the Irish called the she.

But for many Irish people, the she are not merely mythological figures.

Fairies and leprechauns and all that sort of stuff, there are too many people

laugh and joke about at times, but it's knowledge that's been passed down for

thousands and thousands of years.

We have the terrestrial world and the subterrestrial world, the human world

the superhuman or other world.

These worlds exist in parallel.

Occasionally, however, there is communication between the two worlds.

The mounts are often referred to as ferry forts, as are stone circles and

clusters that are considered the property of the sheath.

This strong cultural belief That these features are the domain of otherworldly

beings has kept them intact for thousands of years.

And the Irish say that when they are disturbed, bad luck always follows.

Sean Quinn was the wealthiest man in Ireland.

He lost everything because he moved a ferry fort. He damaged a ferry fort and

moved it to another place.

DeLorean car manufacturers, they came to Belfast and they were making the

DeLorean car up in Northern Ireland and they built the factory on the site of a

fairy fort.

And then it all came crashing down and the local people would say, well, you

know, what do you expect?

Ask any Irish person, would you damage a fairy fort?

What would happen if you damaged a fairy tree?

If you gave me 10 million bucks and a Cadillac and a helicopter and a

house on Sunset Boulevard, and said all I had to do was chop down a fairy tree,

I'd be handing that money straight back to you.

I wouldn't do it. No one I know would do it either. So do we believe in the

fairies in Ireland?

We do.

While modern -day representations of fairies often depict benevolent,

creatures, traditional Irish notions of fairies are much different.

They are considered powerful and sometimes dangerous beings.

You don't want to mess with the Ishi. They're not cute, cuddly little fairies

like we typically think of today.

These are very extraordinarily powerful people, wielders of supernatural powers.

The Shi, or fairy folk, are often referred to as the Shining Ones.

But do accounts of their luminous appearance suggest that they are divine

beings?

According to the ancient Irish stories.

While the fairies have supernatural abilities, they are not immortal gods.

The inhabitants of the Xi is not necessarily immortal in the narratives.

Sometimes they're killed or meet with death.

But they never grow old, and so if they are killed or die, they do so while

young. They're other, but somewhat humanoid. Sometimes they're small and

they abduct people, they have either advanced technology or ancient magic.

And in many ways, the fairy tradition reminds me very much of the UFO

that we have in the United States.

When it comes to these dwellings of the fairy folk, there's lots of talk about

otherworldly beings emerging from the mouth.

And also people getting taken into the mouth and, like, disappearing.

You hear stories of lights in the sky or even lights in the forest and the woods

that you see. So could it be possible that the fairy folk is a description

of extraterrestrials back in the day? There is absolutely an argument that can

make that case.

In our stories related to...

Is it

possible that modern beliefs of fairy and elves

are based on real otherworldly beings that the Irish people encountered

centuries ago and that may still inhabit the island today?

And if so, why are they thought to dwell within the ancient bounds?

According to legend, the she did not always live within the earth.

And their story begins with a group of shining beings who arrived in flying

craft.

In Ireland, tales of the she, or fairy folk, have been passed down orally for

more than 3 ,000 years.

And in the 11th century, many of these stories were documented in a text called

the Book of Invasions.

According to this medieval account of Irish history and lore, thousands of

ago, a godlike race of beings called the Tuatha Dé Danann landed on a

mountaintop in Ireland, often referred to as the Shining Ones. They are the

ancestors of the She.

All of our stories relate back to the Tuatha Dé Danann.

For 3 ,000 years at least, if not more, before that, all the stories from

mythology are all related to Tuatha Dé Danann. They were the Shining Ones.

There is a description in the mythological material, in the early

literature, of the Tuatha Dé Danann arriving in cloud ships,

arriving in dark clouds and landing on a mountain.

There is a long poem about the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Danann. One of the

says, The truth was not known beneath the sky of stars, whether they were of

heaven or of earth.

The Tuatha Dé Danann are not human. They're demigods, not immortal, not

infallible, not like the gods of monotheistic tradition of any of the

religions.

The Tuatha Dé Danann were said to be luminous beings of large stature who

wielded magical powers.

The Tuatha Dé Danann had an arsenal of very technological -founding weaponry.

Lou of the long arm, for example, possessed a spear that when he threw it,

could give a voice command and it would automatically hit whatever target. Then

he'd give another voice command and the spear would mysteriously return to him.

We have circles of light that they used to travel around Ireland upon.

We have another chieftain named Nuada who lost an arm in a battle against the

giants and they were able to replace his arm.

The Tuatha Dé Danann were said to have a magical cauldron. They had a cloak of

invisibility. They had spears that shot flames out.

The ancient astronaut theory tries to look at ancient stories in which magic

happens.

from a modern perspective and determine if that so -called magic really was some

type of technology, then one has to wonder where did that technology come

Well, there's only one answer to this, and that is extraterrestrials.

For ancient astronaut theorists, another intriguing aspect of these stories is

how similar they are to accounts of sky gods found in other ancient cultures.

The stories of, let's call them aliens, descending from clouds

on tops of mountains are straight across the cultural history of human beings.

Let's start with one of the earliest ones, the descent on Mount Hermon in the

Golan Heights.

That's where the Nephilim came down.

Another in the descent of the Anunnaki. They came from clouds.

We have other stories in Tibet and other places where these gods are coming down

and they land on top of a mountain.

The gods of Olympus in Greece as another example.

The stories of the Tuat Danon in these whirlwinds or clouds is something that

find in connection with deities in other parts of the world.

For instance, across the Middle East.

There is the concept of jinn.

These are supernatural beings, very often associated with fire and light,

can appear in whirlwind and manifest into physical form.

The fact that we have countless stories that are not just similar but identical

leads me to think that perhaps all these ancient cultures were visited by the

same extraterrestrials.

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the tradition that is most

the Tuatha Dé Danann is that of the Anunnaki, the sky gods described by the

Sumerians, humankind's earliest known civilization.

What you've got with the Sumerians is the beginnings of civilization, people

living together, but also the beginnings of writing. You know, some of the

earliest written texts that we have are texts by these people.

These clay tablets are 5 ,000 years old and more, and they tell of the arrival

of the gods, the Anunnaki, the pantheon of gods. The chief was Anu.

This is the sky god who came along and created everything.

The term Anunnaki means those who from the heavens came, and it refers

to beings descending from the sky imparting knowledge.

In the Irish stories, the Tuatha Dé Danann were also responsible for

knowledge to the ancient people.

The Tuatha Dé Danann were the masters of all of the crafts, masters of all of

the art, and they introduced the knowledge and the ways of agriculture.

Tuatha Dé Danann would always interact with the people. It's the same when he

did Anunnaki.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the iconography of the Sumerians and Irish

provides additional evidence that they encountered the same.

otherworldly beings.

Both depicted the gods as being of giant stature compared to humans.

Both portrayed them in scenes with hybrid or flying animals.

And both have images of the gods with horns or antlers emerging from their

heads.

But perhaps most intriguing of all is that there appears to be a linguistic

connection between the Anunnaki and the Tua de Danan.

According to some account, the Tua de Danan's original name was the Tua de

the tribe of Anu or Danu.

Linguists are very intrigued by this because this encodes the name of Anu,

the high god of the Anunnaki for whom they are formed.

And it suggests that perhaps the Tua de Danan are the descendants of the

Anunnaki.

Could the striking similarity that exists...

between the stories of the Tua de Danann and the Anunnaki reveal that Ireland

was visited by the same otherworldly beings that are described by humanity's

first known civilization roughly 3 ,000 miles away.

But if so, how are they connected to Ireland's mound dwellers, known as the

or fairy folk?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining mysterious ancient priests.

called the Druid.

Kent, England, 1988.

During an excavation of an Iron Age burial site, archaeologists uncover the

skeleton of a man who lived around the 3rd century B .C. and who was wearing a

unique headdress.

Based on the design of this bronze crown, Many researchers believe these

first remains ever discovered of a druid.

According to Irish legend, the druids were a class of ancient Celtic priests

were in close contact with the Shining Ones, the Tua de Danann.

The word for druid in Irish is druid, which literally means magic.

So there is an interconnection between the Tuatha De Danann and their magic and

the practice of druidry.

The Tuatha De Danann were said to have been the founders of druidism. And the

druids were said to have all kinds of special powers themselves.

And so it would seem that the Tuatha De Danann had shown some of their

extraterrestrial technology to the druids who then were able to use it

themselves.

The Druidic religion originated with the Tua de Danon, but they were never

allowed to write down any of the Druidic knowledge.

It was taboo because it was so -called sacred knowledge.

The Druids spent decades in training to perform their priestly functions. These

are members of the inner circle, as we're told. The inner circle refers

ultimately to the innermost knowledge of the two Adonis.

The shining ones, they know their secrets and they can wield their

Portrayals of Druids as mysterious, shaman -like figures with mystical

has led some scholars to question if they truly existed or were purely...

mythological figures.

But according to the earliest accounts of them, the Druids were an integral

of Celtic society throughout the British Isles.

There are certain things we know about the Druids, but of course there's a lot

we don't know.

And this vacuum incited a lot of romantic speculation in the 19th

And so we're still carrying that baggage a little bit, swirling robes and so on.

But in Celtic society, in Gaelic society, the Druids exercised authority

played an important role in the life of the tribe and the society.

The Druids were beholders of knowledge.

They held and perpetuated the knowledge which was important to the survival of

the tribe.

They held and perpetuated judiciary knowledge, things sacred and

spiritual.

The Druid was a very special figure, a priest perhaps, a historian perhaps, a

magician perhaps, and many, many things. These were the learned people of Celtic

society. They formed a special class.

According to Caesar, the Druids in Gaul had to study 20 years to become a Druid.

And they had many, many roles to play, including acting as jurists and judges,

advisors to kings.

And so Druidism and the magic that they were able to employ is really a

foundational part of early Celtic society.

Druids are not necessarily men. We also have a lot of accounts of female

Druidry. And it does seem to be associated heavily with the Tuatha de

They didn't just teach things like astronomy and, you know, harmony in

They were working with geomancy, the placement of ancient sites across the

landscape called geodesy, and also working with earth energies and even

medicines. So they had a high understanding of these different arts

sciences.

The Druids were known to travel far and wide, seeking out the knowledge of other

cultures.

But they were also said to interact directly with the Tuat de Danann, who

the secrets of their so -called magical abilities.

Pliny the Elder, who was one of the most famous of the Roman writers and

historians, he claimed that at a full moon, druids would meet at a

mound and they would trace a design that looked something like a dragon on top

of the mound.

And this would summon some sort of lightning or some phenomenon that

the sky.

I don't think he saw it himself. He was taking what he knew from Roman soldiers

that witnessed it. But apparently it frightened a lot of them. They saw

in the sky once the Druids did this dragon ritual, as it became known.

So it would seem that the Druids knew of the power of certain...

special places.

And perhaps this is something that would summon the Tuatha Dan and these shining

people who came from the sky.

One of the many magical powers the druids were said to possess was the

to levitate massive stones, which they used to construct some of the megalithic

structures found throughout the British Isles.

The most famous of the Druids, of course, was Merlin.

Merlin was said to have created Stonehenge by taking

an existing stone circle from Ireland and bringing it to Salisbury Plain in

southern England.

And there, using magic powers, he was able to raise the stone into position

in the manner that we see them today.

What is interesting is that the stones that built Stonehenge did come from a

long way away, about 135 miles away in South Wales.

Somehow they were moved to central England, and the ancients believed it

Merlin who was responsible for that.

There are stories that say that some of those big gigantic blocks at Stonehenge

were levitated into place through magical incantations. Well,

what magical incantations? Because I don't think that levitation can happen

just by words. There has to be some type of technology behind

it. The idea is that basically...

This was extraterrestrial knowledge imparted by the Trudabem.

When the Romans were here, they say that the Druids had this power to build

stone circles, of which there were thousands throughout the British Isles.

Stonehenge, Avebury, Newgrange. These places we find legends attached to the

Druids that they were able to float the stones through the air.

Is it possible?

that a secret society of Celtic priests who lived more than 2 ,000 years ago had

access to otherworldly technology.

According to the ancient accounts, while the Druids were the disciples of the

Tuatha Dé Danann, it would ultimately be a Druid who brought their reign in

Ireland to an end and drove them underground.

County Kerry, 1700 B .C.

A fleet of ships arrives on the southern shores of Ireland, carrying invaders

from the south.

According to early Irish accounts, they are aided by a druid named Avrahim in

their conquest of Ireland.

Avrahim was seeking revenge for his great -uncle, who had been killed by the

three kings of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

These were the Sons of Mil, better known as the Militians. The Militians

came out of the Mediterranean, probably from Greece or Crete or

Anatolia, modern -day Turkey, and they arrived in Ireland, and huge battles

took place between the Tuatha De Nang and the Militians.

Many stories have been written about these battles.

But according to the most trusted sources, the Tuatha Dé Danann agreed to

truce to save their beloved Ireland.

They did not come to the earth to do warfare.

They came to heal the earth, to work with the earth, to work with Mother

and all of the good energies. What was agreed upon, that this country would be

shared. There was room enough for everyone in this country.

And it was agreed that the Milesians would live on the ground, on the earth

itself.

but that the Tuatha Denann would go beneath the earth inside mounds of earth

that were known as sheaths. These acted as these doorways into a

realm where forever after the Tuatha Denann would live.

It was said that they all turned sideways into the light and they just

disappeared on the ground.

The Molethians then took control of the surface of Ireland and...

Modern -day Irish people are thought to be descendants of the Milesians.

Legend states that after the Tuatha Dé Danann descended below ground, a

mysterious evolution took place.

Once the Tuatha went underground, they evolved over many years

into something known as the Ixi.

That's better known in later mythology as the Elfin Folk, elves.

After the Tuatha Danann entered into the earthen mounds or she,

they became beings that could appear in physical form but could

equally vanish.

Humans were able to interact with them often when they would see some kind of

light that would be emanating from these earthen mounds and they would go

towards them.

and when they were able to look into these lights, they could see the Tuath

Danann, the she, the fairies.

People would be able to join them in this realm.

Reports of elves and fairies and little people have been around in Ireland as

long as people have lived there.

People saw something. They saw some types of beings.

People still see these beings even today.

One location in Ireland, where sightings of fairies are often reported, is at

the Hill of Tara, which is home to numerous ancient mounds, as well as a

monolith called Leofal.

Legend states that this monolith was a gift from the Shining Ones.

The Leofal means the Stone of Destiny, and it refers to a standing stone

about five feet tall in County Meath Island.

In the legends of Leofol, we have the Tuatha Dé Danann bringing the energy of

this stone down with them to this powerful place, this place of

energy and current, because it can interact with the energy in the land.

power of the land itself is the reason that the Danann come to this location in

the Hill of Tara.

It was said that when the rightful king of Ireland came in contact with Leofol.

It would scream out to announce that this was the rightful king of all

It would then imbue the king with qualities of strength and longevity and

in order that he might reign over Ireland for a very long time.

To this day, ceremonies take place on the Hill of Tara.

The ancient Irish associated this stone with the elven folk and the fairies.

And people continue to see them today, and probably we will continue to see

in the future as well.

If otherworldly beings called the Tuatha Dé Danann truly existed in ancient

Ireland, is it possible that they are still present today, now known as the

or Fairy Folk?

who inhabit the thousands of earthen mounds found throughout the country.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that they may occupy a parallel

dimension.

Today, organizations exist throughout the world that investigate potential

encounters with extraterrestrials visiting Earth.

But long before these groups existed, the people of the British Isles were

examining another type of otherworldly phenomenon.

In the 1920s, something very strange happened in Ireland. There were suddenly

mass sightings of fairies.

So much so that a captain, Quentin Crawford, formed what he called the

for the Investigation of Fairies, which was a very scientific...

and serious approach at collecting data about these fairy sightings.

Like a modern UFO group today, their mission was to study elves,

figure elves out, what they were doing there, try to communicate with elves.

And they absolutely believed that fairies and elves were real and existed

throughout the British Isles.

People from all walks of life contacted the organization.

reporting encounters with beings they believed were fairies.

Witnesses described fairies leading them to buried relics, walking through solid

walls, and even transforming into orbs of light.

This society did important research up until World War II when their records

were destroyed.

And then in 1949, they began doing research again.

hundreds of members joined the society in the 1950s, including Walt Disney.

Now, what's amazing about this is that in order to become a member of the

society, you had to declare an absolute belief in the existence of fairies. And

who other than Walt Disney in the modern world is more closely connected to

fairies?

The idea that you would actually have a very serious...

Society that was looking into fairies shows that in the British Isles and in

Ireland, the whole concept of elven folk and fairies and leprechauns is

very real and continues to this day.

In 1969, French astronomer Jacques Pellet published a groundbreaking book

unexplained phenomena called Passport to Magonia, From Folklore to Flying

Saucers.

In it, he proposed that historical accounts of fairies and other strange

could be the same phenomenon that today is interpreted as extraterrestrial.

Jacques did what I think is one of the most important books about the UFO

phenomena, trying to understand of all the things in the sky and on the ground

through history that have either been painted, photographed.

Caught on radar, what are they and why are they?

Every culture speaks of the others, whether it be the wee people, the

leprechauns, or the fairies, or the angel, or the demon.

Our brothers in Islam know them very well and they're called the jinn.

And the one thing that is taught about the jinn is potentially they are

energetic beings.

and their place of residence is in the domain of inner Earth.

And this leads us to ask the question, if the domains of inner Earth are

actually physical within this dimension, or possibly in a parallel dimension.

According to Belay, the strange beings that humans have reported encountering

for thousands of years may in fact be interdimensional.

I believe that from the time of the Big Bang, if it created one universe,

why couldn't it create a multitude of universes?

Might there be connections between the different universes where elements

from the other universe cross into our universe and where elements of our

universe cross into theirs?

That would explain how people...

coming upon the Xi might not just see an underground civilization, but they

might see an interdimensional civilization.

Could it be that sightings of fairies and similar figures described in other

ancient traditions are encounters with beings that occupy parallel dimensions?

And if so, are these the same beings described today as extraterrestrials?

There are possible parallels between the she or fairies that seem to be similar

to UFO accounts.

For example, seeing strange lights like what's known as, in Irish and British

tradition, the will -o' -the -wisp, these fairy lights that move and lead

astray. When you get to the 20th century and where people were trying to figure

out human abductions,

You start hearing from people saying, well, they shapeshifted in front of me.

There were beams of light that took us up and down. They can disappear.

They can go through windows, walls.

And those are the same verbs and nouns that were being used in the centuries

before in Ireland and other places about fairies and so -called pretend

creatures.

There are stories and...

personal experiences similar to ufo accounts that have been recorded of

time where somebody is taken into the other worlds by the fairies and uh

they've been there for a few hours but it's been a few days when they return

oftentimes you hear stories of missing time of people disappearing

for weeks or losing their memory for significant events.

And frankly, that is similar to what you hear from modern -day

UFO abduction stories.

Could it be that the folklore of cultures all around the globe is based

otherworldly presence that people have been encountering since humankind's

earliest history?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And according to the Irish, at least once a year, the veil is lifted between

realm and their.

The hill of Ushna, Ireland, located 60 miles west of Dublin.

This site has been sacred to the Irish for centuries.

Each year in early May, Locals gather at this sacred site to celebrate the

ancient festival of Bealtaine.

Dating back more than 3 ,000 years, Bealtaine and its famous bonfire provide

link between modern Christian Ireland and its pagan Celtic past.

This festival is the traditional start of summer.

The Celtic people divided the year into a dark half and then a bright half.

It was so important that people understood the precise times of year.

agricultural reasons, the people working the fields didn't have the knowledge of

astronomy, so the fire was the signal, and they saw the fire.

From the highest point on Aisne, 20 counties are visible.

So once the main fire is lit on Aisne, in a circle, all of the hills around

light their fires, and then it spreads and spreads throughout the whole

And it happens instantly.

The fire is the signal to all of the country.

that now is the summertime.

But the Altena, which is also celebrated at other ancient sites throughout

Ireland, serves another more profound purpose.

Many Irish believe that during this festival, it is possible for humans to

inside the mounds into an entirely different reality.

There's a threshold or boundary between worlds that become thin, and human

beings... can see into the other world or encounter otherworldly beings more

easily.

Bealtaine, or May Day, is associated very strongly with the she, the fairy

people, the shining ones.

Through festivals like Bealtaine, the people of Ireland maintain a strong

connection to the traditions of their past, traditions of shining beings who

came down from the sky and continue to live on.

When I was growing up in Ireland, people, at

least in the rural areas, and Ireland was very rural at the time, nobody would

admit to not believing in the fairies. The existence of the fairy folk was not

questioned.

This idea that Ireland has had this love affair with leprechauns and fairy

folk... I would ask the question, well, what is the underlying meaning of this?

Because stories of fairy folk go back at least 3 ,000 years in Ireland.

In the case of Tortua de Danann, it's even earlier.

It's possible that what we have here is one of the earliest examples of

ancient astronaut teachers.

This is the way it is now. So do we believe in fairies and leprechauns in

Ireland?

Absolutely 100%. Is it possible that beneath the idyllic rolling countryside

Ireland, there are entrances to a hidden realm that has been inhabited by

otherworldly beings for more than 3 ,000 years?

Could they be the descendants of extraterrestrials who were responsible

creation of the human race?

Perhaps the whimsical legends of Ireland are not so whimsical after all, but

contain profound truths about an alien presence on Earth that is still with us

today.