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NARRATOR: Mysterious
stone heads.
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GEORGE NOORY: How in the
heck did they make these?
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Where did they come from?
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And how did they move them?
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NARRATOR: Ancient monuments
containing 100-ton blocks--
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Some of the stones
are of such magnitude,
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modern machinery is incapable
of putting them there.
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NARRATOR: --and solid granite
cut with incredible precision.
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We ourselves today
could not replicate
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what our ancestors allegedly
accomplished with stonemasonry.
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NARRATOR: Throughout the world,
there are giant structures that
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have baffled archaeologists.
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Could they really
have been constructed
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using primitive tools?
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Or might they be the
product of alien technology?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Extraterrestrials would not
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have left without any proof.
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They wanted that in the far
future, we start to reflect.
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Have you been visited
by outer space?
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NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world
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believe we have been
visited in the past
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so, might they have
a connection to the world's
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most mysterious structures?
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On the Northwest coast of
France just south of Brittany
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lies one of the most important
prehistoric sites in Europe.
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At the seaside
village of Carnac,
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over 3,000 megalithic
stones are placed
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in rows over two miles along.
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The Carnac Stones were hewn
from local rock formations
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and erected between
4,500 to 2,500
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BC at the end of the Stone Age.
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They are the largest
collection of standing
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stones in the world.
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Archaeologists are baffled by the
many megaliths in Carnac here.
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It's clearly a massive
construction project
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with blocks of granite
weighing 50 to 100
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to even up to 350 tons.
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Legends here say that
giants built Carnac.
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But you have to wonder,
what is the real purpose
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of these giant megaliths?
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And why would
prehistoric people have
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moved all of these
massive stones
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and placed them in their many
alignments here at Carnac?
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Thousands of large
stones have been arranged
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in very interesting patterns.
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They're arranged in
intersecting lines
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that form triangles
that could only be
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visible from above the Earth.
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These arrangements
of stones may have
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been a way of communicating
with extraterrestrial beings.
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NARRATOR: The ancient Greek poet
Pindar spoke of a mystical land
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called Hyperborea
far to the north
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where the sun shined
24 hours a day.
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Legends claim that
Apollo visited
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Hyperborea traveling in his
chariot of fire every 20 years.
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Apollo would
tell to the Greeks,
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OK, I'm gonna go see
some other people.
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I've got to go and teach them.
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And they're like, well,
where are you off to?
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And he's like,
well, I'm actually
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going to a place that's beyond
where the north wind comes.
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It's the land of
the Hyperboreans.
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NARRATOR: Although mainstream
archaeologists speculate
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that the Carnac Stones are
most likely tomb markers,
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ancient astronaut
theorists believe
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these stones are
intentionally laid out
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in a unique geometric formation.
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Many speculations
existed since centuries.
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And only a few years
ago in France, they
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started to photograph this whole
French Brittany by helicopters.
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And when they put the
pictures together,
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all of a sudden
someone realized,
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hey, this is not coincidence.
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The distances of
the lines are always
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the same, 2,860
meters, or exactly
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the half of 2,860 meters.
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The angles are always the same.
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It's Pythagorean triangles.
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It's all a gigantic
geometrical pattern from Stone
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Age, which is impossible.
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Our Stone Age people have no
idea of Pythagoras triangles.
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Pythagoras was about 420 BC.
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NARRATOR: Even though
the geometric arrangement
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of the Carnac stones
predates the Pythagorean
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theorem by more than 2,000
years,
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one question remains--
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why were the stones arranged
in such a precise pattern?
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The Carnac Stones are
one of the few things
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on the planet that can
actually be seen from space.
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And they're a perfect marker
for any kind of aerial vehicle
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looking down on the Earth.
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Many of the tourists
who come here to Carnac
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claim that they can actually
feel the energy emanating
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from these granite megaliths.
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How did these ancient people
know about this energy?
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Is it possible that
they were able to use
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this energy to even move and
erect these giant stones?
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I am of the opinion that
they were made on purpose.
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The extraterrestrials told our
ancestors, do this and this.
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It's not the extraterrestrials
who made the stone lines,
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it's the humans who made
it, but by the order
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of the extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: But were
the Carnac stones
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a signpost for an
ancient astronaut
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called Apollo as he flew his
spacecraft high above the land?
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If the Greek god
Apollo was really
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some kind of ancient
astronaut, it's
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possible that the
stones here at Carnac
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were a directional
finder pointing
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the way to the far north, to the
Hyperborea of the ancient gods.
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NARRATOR: Over 1,000 miles North
of Carnac lies Scandinavia,
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home to an ancient
people called the Norse.
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The Norse were tribal
Germanic people
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who lived in what is
now known as Sweden,
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Denmark, Iceland, and Norway.
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Norse legends record the
triumphs of great warriors
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with advanced weaponry,
sophisticated combat
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techniques, and
navigational prowess.
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Like the Greeks, Norse
mythology includes
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supernatural beings,
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other
worlds, and powerful gods.
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But like the Romans,
could the Norse myths
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refer not to different
gods, but the same gods
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as those depicted by
the ancient Greeks?
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There are a number
of similarities
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between Greek mythology
and Norse mythology.
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And many of the gods
are almost identical.
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And they do much the same thing.
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NARRATOR: Descriptions of
the Viking god Odin, the god
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of war, death, and
knowledge, and the Greek gods
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Zeus bear striking similarities.
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Zeus and Odin are
both sky father gods.
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They traveled through
the skies in chariots
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because they are akin
to the solar divinities.
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The precursor to many religious
beliefs is sun worship.
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The ancients knew that
life came from the sun.
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So that is a great mystery
and a source of great awe.
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What you're getting there
is not just some minor deity,
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but you really are
nailing it down
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to one of the chief deities.
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This is a very
important character.
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And so whoever is
behind Odin or Zeus
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is obviously a person
or a divine entity which
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is shared by these cultures.
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And it's clear that
whoever inspired
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the myth of Zeus or Odin
is somehow somebody who
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had an extremely
important contribution
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to make to both civilizations.
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So this entity was definitely
known throughout Europe.
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NARRATOR: Could
the Norse and Greek
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gods really have been the
same extraterrestrial beings?
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Did they use the
megalithic stones at Carnac
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as a directional
marker that can be
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seen from high above the Earth?
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And if so, is it
possible that this site
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and other megalithic
structures around the world
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really were built with the help
of otherworldly technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and claim further proof can
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be found by examining
megalithic rocks in Bolivia,
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cut with incredible precision.
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Palm Springs, California, master
stonemason and sculptor Roger
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Hopkins uses a variety
of advanced tools
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to cut and shape hard stones.
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Powered implements
such as diamond
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tipped wires and polishers
enable him to fashion works
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of art out of huge
granite blocks
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obtained from nearby quarries.
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Yet even with these
high-tech tools,
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Hopkins cannot
replicate what ancient
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civilizations accomplished
thousands of years ago.
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Could these advanced
engineering methods
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be the smoking gun
that proves humans
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had help from alien beings?
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ROGER HOPKINS: The precision on
some of the work that I've seen
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is just incredible.
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It's possible to do it by hand.
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But it would take an
incredible amount of time.
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Plus you have to have
years of experience
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to be able to pull it off.
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In my opinion, the most
tangible pieces of evidence
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that we have regarding
possible extraterrestrial
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technology is when we
look at the ancient
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stone-cutting techniques.
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Because in some instances,
we ourselves today
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could not replicate what
our ancestors allegedly
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accomplished with stonemasonry.
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NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a
large temple complex located
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on a high plateau in Bolivia.
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Mainstream archaeologists date
the site from approximately 200
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BC.
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The people who lived here
had neither a written
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language nor the wheel.
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Yet somehow they built
one of the world's
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most complex structures.
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Ancient alien theorists view
Puma Punku as clear proof
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of extraterrestrial influence.
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The ruins we find at Puma
Punku are simply extraordinary.
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Puma Punku defies logic.
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The interest of Puma
Punku is not so much
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that the individual stones
slotted together perfectly
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but the fact that
the stones, as such,
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are of such tremendous design
that it requires concepts
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of mathematics which are
far beyond anything we
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are actually using right now.
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Yet somehow in
the past, somebody
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has made that for
a specific purpose
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and in a way which even computer
programs today would kind
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of go, how is this possible?
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In the highlands of
Bolivia, Puma Punku,
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some of these blocks are
over 40 to 50 tons each.
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What can you tell us about this?
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Boy, they-- they had their
stone cutting abilities,
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you know, pretty well fine
tuned for 5,000 years old.
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I mean, it's almost
unbelievable.
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But these cutting planes
that they have on here
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are very impressive.
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And some of the inside cuts.
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Say, like in here, all these
interior cuts, very hard to do.
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I mean, it would
be difficult for us
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with our equipment to get
that kind of precision.
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Let's talk a little
bit about inside boxes.
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Ooh.
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I was afraid you were gonna
pull something like this on me.
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That is a hell of
a piece of work.
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I mean, if we were to do
something like that today,
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we'd use what they have, these
computer-driven CNC machines,
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which have diamond tips.
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And you have a template that,
you know, the computer follows.
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And even then, it may
not come out as perfect.
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Because even though you
can tell that obviously
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this piece broke off,
nowhere in here can
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you see any imperfection.
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It's like-- and by the
way, when you're there,
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if you go with your
finger over these edges
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and you put a little
pressure on your fingertip,
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you can cut yourself.
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This is how sharp the edges are.
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NARRATOR: But where
could the ancient peoples
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have developed such technology?
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Is it really possible that
extraterrestrial visitors
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provided different
construction methods and tools?
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When I saw these
blocks, I didn't really
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think that they were cut.
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The first thing really
that I thought of
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was this appears very similar
to Frank Lloyd Wright's
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textile block system
of construction,
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which he used in his California
houses in the early 1920s.
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Now what he did was he took
concrete, poured it into molds.
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There actually are
ancient Incan legends
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that suggest that they
have the capability
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of softening the stone.
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At Sacsayhuaman, for example,
we find these gigantic stone
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blocks of gigantic
stone walls where
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it looks as if those stones
were molten, put into place,
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and then the stone
hardened again.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the precision-cut stones
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at Puma Punku are
really the product
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of extraterrestrial technology?
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Perhaps further clues can be
found halfway around the world
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with an ancient
civilization that was
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found buried beneath the Earth.
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Located more than 500 miles
away from the crowded streets
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of Istanbul, Sanliurfa
in southeastern Turkey.
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There in 1994 on
a dusty hilltop,
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a local shepherd noticed
the tip of a stone
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sticking out of his field.
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He began to dig, eventually
unearthing a 19-foot pillar.
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Its edges were precise
and rising from its center
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was a relief carving
of a strange animal.
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Upon closer
examination, it appeared
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that the finely-chiseled
stone had
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been fashioned by
talented stonemasons
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working with advanced tools.
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When word of the
discovery reached
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the scientific community,
one fact became obvious--
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a Kurdish shepherd had
stumbled upon what is perhaps
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the most astonishing
archaeological discovery
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in modern times, a site
known as Gobekli Tepe.
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For 13 years, a German
archaeology team has been
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meticulously going into a hill.
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And they have been doing carbon
dating as deep as they go.
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And it has taken them 13
years to uncover only 5%
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of a gigantic civilization.
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They know what's
under the ground,
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circles upon circles
upon circles,
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perfect circles in stone.
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And rising up out of those
stone circles are huge,
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sculpted columns 19 feet
high,
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15 tons per column.
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NARRATOR: Test results
have supported the idea
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that Gobekli Tepe is nearly
12,000 years old, almost 7,000
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years older than Mesopotamia's
Fertile Crescent,
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long heralded as the
cradle of civilization.
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In Gobekli Tepe, the
oldest advanced site
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now on our planet, we
know of no other site
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that is this advanced.
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And they just now doubled
the history of humanity.
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GRAHAM HANCOCK:
And right there is
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this gigantic site with huge
megalithic circular structures.
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It just stands there
a mystery, asking
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us to go figure
how was this done,
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what's the background to this.
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We don't know who made them.
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They just come out of the
darkness of the last Ice Age,
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where we know nothing, and
enter the stage of history,
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already fully formed.
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And to my mind, this is
indicative of a major forgotten
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episode in human history.
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NARRATOR: Curiously,
after 13 years of digging,
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archaeologists investigating
the ancient site have failed
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to recover a single
stone cutting tool
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nor have they found any
agricultural implements.
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How in the world can you
contemplate 19-foot-tall,
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perfectly sculpted columns
that are 11,000 to 12,000
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years old and no tools?
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NARRATOR: The mystery
of Gobekli Tepe
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is further compounded by
the ancient stone carvings
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found throughout the site.
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They depict creatures
like wild boars and geese.
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We see various types of
creatures, different animals,
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birds, insects, and even
abstract human forms
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that seem to come together
to create this very
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weird menagerie,
which has totally
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baffled the archaeologists
who have uncovered this site.
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Now what they represent is
a matter of speculation.
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But it's my intuition
that they may
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even represent a arc in stone.
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NARRATOR: Located less than
350 miles from Mount Ararat,
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the site many biblical scholars
believe to be the resting place
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of Noah's Ark, the animal
carvings of Gobekli Tepe
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suggest a time in
the region's history
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when the indigenous animal
population may have been
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of a totally different origin.
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But do these carvings
actually provide
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historical proof
of the Great Flood
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that was described in the Bible?
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Archaeologists
are aware that there
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are more than 2,000 myths of
a great flood which destroyed
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an earlier civilization.
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NARRATOR: Some
researchers theorize
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that the events of a
cataclysmic flood and a story
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similar to that
told of Noah's Ark
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was recorded on the stone
pillars of Gobekli Tepe.
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If true, that would push the
date of the Great Flood back
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to the end of the last
Ice Age, far earlier
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than the biblical period.
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There is evidence
that this may have
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ended quite catastrophically.
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There was a lot of things
happening, a lot of migrations,
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possibly waters rising
up very quickly,
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a lot of rapid
changes in lifestyles.
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NARRATOR: But
another perhaps even
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more profound question remains.
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Who built Gobekli
Tepe, for what purpose,
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and how did such an
ancient site remain
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in nearly pristine condition
for more than 10,000 years?
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In the case of
Gobekli Tepe we find
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that the site was carefully
placed underneath sand.
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This site was buried.
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It appears as if somehow
the usage of Gobekli Tepe
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was no longer there and that
people moved on but had such
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a reference to
this important site
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that rather than
destroy it, they
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put it to peace by burying it.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the people of Gobekli Tepe
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had such reverence for
this site because it
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really was built with the
help of alien technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and claim further evidence
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that extraterrestrials were
behind the construction
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of the world's most
mysterious structures
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can be found in Lebanon
by examining a site that
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dates back nearly 9,000 years.
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Eastern Lebanon,
the Beqaa Valley,
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here at this archaeological site
stand the ruins of Heliopolis,
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built in the 4th century
BC by Alexander the Great
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to honor Zeus.
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But beneath the Corinthian
columns and remnants
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of both Greek and
Roman architecture
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lie the ruins of a site
that is much, much older.
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According to archaeologists, it
dates back nearly 9,000 years.
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The ancient city of Baalbek,
named after the early Canaanite
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deity Baal.
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Baal is the god of
life, the god of the sky,
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the god of the sun.
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He was the god
that was venerated
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on the site of Baalbek
during the Canaanite
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and the finishing times.
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And so because it was
already sacred to the god Baal,
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then later, the
Greeks and the Romans
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then would build temples
on this very same spot.
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NARRATOR: Archaeological
surveys have revealed
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that the enormous
stone foundation that
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lies at the base of the site
dates back tens of thousands
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of years.
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Baalbek, as we know from
the archaeological evidence,
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must have existed during
the neolithic period
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between 6,000 to 8,000 years
or even 9,000 years BC.
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NARRATOR: But even
more significant
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to ancient astronaut
theorists is their belief
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that the colossal
stone platform may
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once have served as a landing
pad for space travelers.
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We don't know why Baalbek was
chosen as this specific site.
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It may well be some kind
of special power place.
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But what was originally there
before the Roman temple was
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this spaceport platform
that was apparently
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used for
extraterrestrials coming
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and going on planet Earth.
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NARRATOR: As
evidence, researchers
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point to the gigantic
megalithic stones incorporated
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into the foundation,
each weighing
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between 800 to 1,200 tons
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and perfectly fitted together.
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PHILIP COPPENS: This is the
real mystery of Baalbek--
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how these stones
came to be there,
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why they were placed there,
and specifically how they
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were transported into place.
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Because some of the stones
are of such magnitude
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that modern machinery is
incapable of putting them there.
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But somehow our ancestors
were able to do this.
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Some have suggested
that this stone alone
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weighs in excess of 1,200 tons.
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How was it moved there?
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Because obviously it's situated
on top of these stone rows
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that we can find
down here, which
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means that this stone had to
be lifted
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and then set on top
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of these stones down here.
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And because these
storms were gigantic,
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ancient people assumed
that extraterrestrial
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or unknown forces brought
them to the site itself.
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BILL BIRNES: It is one
of the oldest, oldest
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megalithic sites on the planet.
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And it has these
huge stones laid out
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in a precise geometrical
shape at a time when
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the prehistoric people who
would have lived there,
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who would have gone to the
Beqaa Valley in Lebanon,
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would have no concept of how
to move stones of that nature.
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NARRATOR: But if the moving,
hoisting, and setting
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of such massive stones was so
incredibly difficult, then who
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or what placed them there?
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And perhaps more
importantly, why?
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We know that the ancients
always went to power places
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and Baalbek clearly
is one of them.
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It is a place where the gods
were worshipped, where the gods
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were said to be present.
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And so when it comes to
Baalbek, this platform
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was built there for a reason.
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For what purpose it was
used is a question we can't
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answer at this moment in time.
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But what we do know is
that whatever was happening
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there had a great religious
significance to them
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and was linked with worshipping
deities, deities which clearly
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are of an otherworldly origin.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists
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believe, that Baalbek had
been considered a sacred place
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for tens of thousands
of years because it
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was where extraterrestrial
beings first arrived on Earth?
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Perhaps the answer can
be found by examining
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other megalithic stones
on Easter Island.
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The South Pacific Ocean.
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2,300 miles West of South
America in one of the most
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remote places on Earth,
giant stone figures stand
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with their backs to the sea.
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Called moai by the
native inhabitants,
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they are the silent
sentinels of Easter Island.
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CHRIS STEVENSON: The moais are
scattered throughout the island
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and they're positioned on top
of platforms, for the most part.
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A moai is a stone sculpture
of a deceased ancestor.
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They were once living
individuals who ruled
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the society or led the society.
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They were chiefs.
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And then upon their death,
we believe that they
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become represented in stone.
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NARRATOR: Nearly 900
moai were carved between
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the 12th and 18th centuries.
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Hewn with stone tools
from volcanic rock,
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the tallest stands a
towering 33 feet high
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and weighs a staggering 75 tons.
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CHRIS STEVENSON: They
were probably even more
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unique looking in the past.
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They may have been painted.
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And they also had
large white coral
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eyes with obsidian pupils.
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So it's a very effective
way of telling people,
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not verbally, but symbolically
that someone's watching you
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and you should toe the line.
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You should do what
you're supposed to do.
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NARRATOR: The people
who created the moai
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called themselves the Rapa Nui.
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And mainstream
historians believe
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their Polynesian ancestors
came to the island in canoes
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00:31:25,140 --> 00:31:31,100
from across the vast Pacific
Ocean between 700 and 1,100 AD.
496
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,380
But over several centuries, for
reasons that are still unclear,
497
00:31:36,980 --> 00:31:41,300
what was once an island paradise
withered into a treeless desert
498
00:31:41,940 --> 00:31:47,060
stalked by famine, violence,
and some say cannibalism.
499
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:52,940
When the first Europeans
arrived in 1722,
500
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,300
the Rapa Nui culture had
already been nearly wiped out.
501
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,020
And few could imagine
how such primitive people
502
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,100
could have created the moai.
503
00:32:04,340 --> 00:32:06,340
GEORGE NOORY: How in the
heck did they make these?
504
00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:08,940
Where did they come from?
505
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,940
And how did they move them?
506
00:32:11,060 --> 00:32:13,320
Nobody has the answer.
507
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,300
NARRATOR: Modern
scientists have tried,
508
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,100
and so far have failed,
to duplicate the feats
509
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,020
of the ancient Rapa Nui.
510
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,380
In 1987, anthropologist
Charles Love
511
00:32:28,940 --> 00:32:32,260
used rollers to move a nine-ton
moai replica at Western
512
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,280
Wyoming community college.
513
00:32:34,340 --> 00:32:39,960
Ready, on three,
one, two, three.
514
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,200
On three.
Come on, get it.
515
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,960
Good.
516
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,340
Thank you.
Whoa.
517
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,280
It only ever budges
about half an inch.
518
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,300
NARRATOR: Other researchers have
tried pulling moai with sleds.
519
00:32:54,020 --> 00:32:57,200
But there is a unique problem
with the idea of moving
520
00:32:57,260 --> 00:33:00,180
moai with sleds or rollers.
521
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,000
CHARLES LOVE: When you
go to Easter Island,
522
00:33:03,060 --> 00:33:05,020
you don't get the
impression they had
523
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,380
enough wood to have rollers.
524
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,380
And in fact, in the
1700s, the first four
525
00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:14,940
expeditions to Easter Island
never really saw a tree.
526
00:33:15,340 --> 00:33:18,200
And so that's the real
mystery of Easter Island--
527
00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:21,380
how can you move a
multi-ton statue if you
528
00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:23,940
have no trees for rollers?
529
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,000
NARRATOR: According to the
oral history of the Rapa Nui,
530
00:33:31,140 --> 00:33:35,040
the moai were moved
in a very unusual way.
531
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,060
They all reply, basically,
the same thing, the moai
532
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,100
walked to the ahu.
533
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,100
And that's the only
explanation that they give.
534
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,960
NARRATOR: But who or
what had the power
535
00:33:48,020 --> 00:33:52,280
to make multi-ton moai
appear to walk to their ahu
536
00:33:52,340 --> 00:33:54,180
or stone platforms?
537
00:33:56,340 --> 00:34:01,360
In 1919, British archaeologist
Katherine Routledge
538
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,300
who lived on Easter
Island for a year
539
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,060
recorded the legends and
testimony of an old woman
540
00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:13,080
who said the moai were moved with
a mystical energy called mana.
541
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,040
And according to the oral
histories of the Rapa Nui,
542
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:21,100
mana came from the gods.
543
00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:26,380
Mana was a direct
gift of the gods
544
00:34:26,940 --> 00:34:29,340
given to the Easter Islanders.
545
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:34,180
Was this mana really a
type of magical force?
546
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,200
Of course not.
547
00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:39,900
It was some type of
misunderstood technology,
548
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:44,300
some type of a device,
an extraterrestrial tool
549
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,040
with which you could
move those massive Easter
550
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:50,340
Island heads rather easily.
551
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,360
NARRATOR: Did early
inhabitants of Easter Island
552
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,900
really know how to unlock the
secrets of gravity using mana?
553
00:35:00,340 --> 00:35:05,040
And if so, where might such
power over the physical world
554
00:35:05,140 --> 00:35:06,960
have come from?
555
00:35:07,020 --> 00:35:10,940
Might these astounding
abilities forever lost to time
556
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,980
have been made possible by
extraterrestrial visitors?
557
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,900
Perhaps further
evidence can be found
558
00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:21,020
with a mysterious structure
in southern Florida
559
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,360
built from 30-ton coral blocks?
560
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:34,380
Homestead, Florida, 30
miles south of Miami,
561
00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:39,440
this former agricultural
town is home
562
00:35:39,540 --> 00:35:43,220
to one of the most mysterious
structures in North America--
563
00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:48,340
a stone garden made of sculpted
blocks of ancient coral,
564
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,220
some weighing 30 tons.
565
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,400
It's called the Coral Castle.
566
00:35:57,140 --> 00:36:01,200
Spread over several acres,
the complex formations
567
00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,180
and intricate
designs of the stone
568
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,100
walls and sculptures
marvel tourists.
569
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,160
But unlike other great
structures around the world,
570
00:36:10,260 --> 00:36:13,240
this site is not ancient.
571
00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:15,480
Coral Castle in
Florida is often
572
00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:21,420
said to be the only modern
megalithic structure ever built.
573
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,460
NARRATOR: In 1923,
Ed Leedskalnin,
574
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,340
a Latvian immigrant, began
building what he originally
575
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,340
called Rock Gate Park.
576
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,340
But believe it or
not, Leedskalnin
577
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,220
insisted that he was not using
modern machinery to build
578
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,500
the impressive structure.
579
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,560
He also claimed that
he was working alone.
580
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,500
Well, Ed was a hermit.
581
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,500
And Ed was a loner.
582
00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:49,140
And he was a foreigner.
583
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,500
And he was a recluse
and a scientist.
584
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,300
GEORGE NOORY: He was
in love with a woman
585
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,200
and he wanted to build this
facility in memory of her.
586
00:36:59,260 --> 00:37:01,300
And he waited for her
to come from Europe.
587
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,100
And he waited and he waited.
588
00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:05,380
And she never did.
589
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:10,300
But the big question is, how
did this frail little man
590
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:16,300
move these thousands of
pounds of block by himself?
591
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,120
NARRATOR: Barely
over 5 feet tall
592
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:23,420
and weighing just 100
pounds, Leedskalnin
593
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,340
is said to have carved moved and
hoisted huge, multi-ton stones
594
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,300
using only a makeshift tripod.
595
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,420
He has a tripod, three
pieces of Florida pine.
596
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,200
And he's got some chains.
597
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:42,260
And he's now gonna lift
30 tons, 10 tons of rock.
598
00:37:42,420 --> 00:37:43,380
It can't be done.
599
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,520
No one could do that.
600
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,260
He would work at night.
601
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,180
He wouldn't let
anybody watch him.
602
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:52,540
And he said that he knew
the secrets of the pyramids.
603
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,560
NARRATOR: But what exactly
was Leedskalnin referring to?
604
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,320
Had he rediscovered the
same advanced technology
605
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:03,480
used to build
megalithic structures
606
00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:07,360
like Carnac and Gobekli Tepe.
607
00:38:07,420 --> 00:38:10,260
Ed over and over
again would tell people
608
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,460
that he knew the secrets that helped
the Egyptians build the pyramids.
609
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,080
What was he talking about?
610
00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:19,200
Why was he constantly harking
back to the Egyptians?
611
00:38:19,260 --> 00:38:20,560
We don't know.
612
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,140
NARRATOR: Leedskalnin continued
work on The Coral Castle
613
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,220
until his death in 1951.
614
00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:30,400
In the journals he left
behind, the builder
615
00:38:30,460 --> 00:38:34,460
explained that he had
discovered the ancient secret
616
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,540
of transforming stones
into weightless objects.
617
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,480
Ed says this in his
pamphlet "Magnetic Current"
618
00:38:42,540 --> 00:38:47,520
that real gravity is
actually real magnet.
619
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,240
So if you reverse the magnet
force with a force of some kind
620
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:57,220
of electromagnetic radio,
perhaps, frequency,
621
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,140
you can then make
these rocks not
622
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,420
as heavy as they seem
otherwise, and therefore you
623
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,240
can lift them.
624
00:39:06,420 --> 00:39:08,500
NARRATOR: But if
Leedskalnin had developed
625
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:14,160
a device that could modify
gravity, what was his secret?
626
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,300
Some suggest the answer lies
in a mysterious black box that
627
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,420
can be seen in
various photographs,
628
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:26,380
a box that has
since disappeared.
629
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:33,420
The black box sitting
on top is the element
630
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,420
that no one has ever seen,
except in those pictures,
631
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,320
and no one has today.
632
00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:44,080
We believe that black box has
something to do with how we got
633
00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:49,140
these massive, heavy,
brittle pieces of rock
634
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,240
up in the air in a way
that no one can duplicate.
635
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,440
GEORGE NOORY: He had some
kind of magnetic machine down
636
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:00,360
in one of his other house areas
that has since been dismantled.
637
00:40:00,420 --> 00:40:03,200
But it had a revolving ability.
638
00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:05,100
He may have been
having that thing spin.
639
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,280
The whole place could
have been anti-gravity.
640
00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:10,280
Probably just pushed
these into place.
641
00:40:11,540 --> 00:40:13,520
SARA SEAGER: Levitation is
the only way that I know of
642
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,380
to hold up very heavy objects.
643
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,420
Very, very high-speed trains
are magnetically levitated.
644
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,480
These high-speed
trains don't have
645
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:26,100
wheels that touch any tracks.
646
00:40:26,180 --> 00:40:28,240
They're literally
suspended above the track
647
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:30,240
using magnetic forces.
648
00:40:31,540 --> 00:40:35,220
We can speculate at
this time that there
649
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,460
are techniques for
using electromagnetism
650
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,460
to nullify gravity.
651
00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:43,560
This was the great
quest of Einstein.
652
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:47,080
The motivation for
such technology
653
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:49,180
is, of course, to lift
a large spaceship out
654
00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:52,120
into space and across space.
655
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,160
NARRATOR: Could it be that
Ed Leedskalnin utilized
656
00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:05,240
anti-gravity to levitate and
distribute the enormous rocks
657
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:07,460
used to build Coral Castle.
658
00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:12,120
If so, where did this
incredible knowledge come from?
659
00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:16,280
And he died taking
this secret to his grave.
660
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:20,400
The question is, did he invent
it or did he himself somehow
661
00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:23,240
inherit it or learn
it from a tradition
662
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:26,440
or maybe from some visitor
from another realm.
663
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,460
The only thing
that is explainable
664
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:35,440
is that someone who with
a higher form of physics
665
00:41:35,540 --> 00:41:39,460
and understanding of gravity
has created the ability of one
666
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,340
person to lift stones
that modern technology
667
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,120
could not do the way he did it.
668
00:41:46,220 --> 00:41:49,540
It had to come from a
different place in this galaxy.
669
00:41:58,180 --> 00:41:59,360
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
The fact that one
670
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:04,100
guy created these
massive structures
671
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,280
is absolutely fascinating.
672
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,220
Am I suggesting that
he did this with
673
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,420
extraterrestrial technology?
674
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,220
No, because I don't know.
675
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,260
Am I excluding that possibility?
676
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,440
No.
677
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,480
NARRATOR: If aliens visited
Earth in ancient times,
678
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:25,460
perhaps the world's
mysterious stone structures
679
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,460
can provide clues not
only to mankind's past,
680
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,120
but to its future.
681
00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:36,100
I think that
extraterrestrials would not
682
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,460
have left our solar
system some thousands
683
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,520
of years ago without any proof.
684
00:42:41,260 --> 00:42:45,460
They wanted that in the far
future we start to reflect,
685
00:42:46,240 --> 00:42:48,180
have we been visited
by outer space?
686
00:42:50,100 --> 00:42:54,500
NARRATOR: Could additional
evidence still lie hidden right
687
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,140
before our eyes,
688
00:42:57,500 --> 00:43:01,300
evidence that,
when found, will prove once
689
00:43:01,340 --> 00:43:05,220
and for all that
we are not alone?
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