1 00:00:00,901 --> 00:00:02,070 >> NARRATOR: Ancient stone 2 00:00:02,070 --> 00:00:05,073 fingers reaching for the sky, 3 00:00:05,073 --> 00:00:07,441 and stretching out over several 4 00:00:07,441 --> 00:00:09,443 miles. 5 00:00:09,443 --> 00:00:11,445 >> DAVID CHILDRESS: People who 6 00:00:11,445 --> 00:00:13,581 were basically one step removed 7 00:00:13,581 --> 00:00:15,583 from cavemen were quarrying 8 00:00:15,583 --> 00:00:17,085 these giant stones, some of them 9 00:00:17,085 --> 00:00:19,653 weighing 100, 200 tons-- even up 10 00:00:19,653 --> 00:00:22,490 to 350 tons. 11 00:00:22,490 --> 00:00:24,458 >> NARRATOR: A complex of stone 12 00:00:24,458 --> 00:00:26,760 structures dating back more than 13 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,429 10,000 years. 14 00:00:28,429 --> 00:00:29,430 >> GRAHAM HANCOCK: It just 15 00:00:29,430 --> 00:00:31,199 stands there, asking us to go 16 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:32,966 figure, "How was this done?" 17 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:34,502 "What's the background to this?" 18 00:00:34,502 --> 00:00:35,503 >> JASON MARTELL: Were they 19 00:00:35,503 --> 00:00:36,937 meant to be seen by people in 20 00:00:36,937 --> 00:00:37,938 the sky? 21 00:00:37,938 --> 00:00:39,473 Who could have been flying at 22 00:00:39,473 --> 00:00:40,774 that time other than 23 00:00:40,774 --> 00:00:41,942 extraterrestrials? 24 00:00:41,942 --> 00:00:43,344 >> NARRATOR: And the remains of 25 00:00:43,344 --> 00:00:45,613 an Incan temple, reported to 26 00:00:45,613 --> 00:00:48,015 have otherworldly origins. 27 00:00:48,015 --> 00:00:49,450 >> ERICH VON DANIKEN: They 28 00:00:49,450 --> 00:00:51,619 wanted that in the far future, a 29 00:00:51,619 --> 00:00:54,054 question comes up: "Have you 30 00:00:54,054 --> 00:00:55,956 been visited by outer space?" 31 00:00:55,956 --> 00:00:57,458 >> NARRATOR: Millions of people 32 00:00:57,458 --> 00:00:59,493 around the world believe we have 33 00:00:59,493 --> 00:01:01,162 been visited in the past by 34 00:01:01,162 --> 00:01:03,030 extraterrestrial beings. 35 00:01:03,030 --> 00:01:06,033 What if it were true? 36 00:01:06,033 --> 00:01:08,469 Did ancient aliens really help 37 00:01:08,469 --> 00:01:10,704 to shape our history? 38 00:01:10,704 --> 00:01:13,307 And if so, is there an 39 00:01:13,307 --> 00:01:15,843 extraterrestrial explanation for 40 00:01:15,843 --> 00:01:17,845 the earth's most mysterious, 41 00:01:17,845 --> 00:01:20,481 unexplained structures? 42 00:01:51,245 --> 00:01:52,413 >> NARRATOR: Located more than 43 00:01:52,413 --> 00:01:54,648 500 miles away from the crowded 44 00:01:54,648 --> 00:01:58,219 streets of Istanbul is Sanliurfa 45 00:01:58,219 --> 00:02:02,423 in Southeastern Turkey. 46 00:02:02,423 --> 00:02:06,660 There, in 1994, on a dusty 47 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:09,096 hilltop, a local shepherd 48 00:02:09,096 --> 00:02:11,499 noticed the tip of a stone 49 00:02:11,499 --> 00:02:14,067 sticking out of his field. 50 00:02:14,067 --> 00:02:16,870 He began to dig, eventually 51 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:20,508 unearthing a 19-foot pillar. 52 00:02:20,508 --> 00:02:23,010 Its edges were precise, and 53 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:25,279 rising from its center was a 54 00:02:25,279 --> 00:02:27,448 relief carving of a strange 55 00:02:27,448 --> 00:02:28,849 animal. 56 00:02:28,849 --> 00:02:31,118 Upon closer examination, it 57 00:02:31,118 --> 00:02:32,553 appeared that the 58 00:02:32,553 --> 00:02:34,588 finely-chiseled stone had been 59 00:02:34,588 --> 00:02:35,856 fashioned by talented 60 00:02:35,856 --> 00:02:38,025 stonemasons, working with 61 00:02:38,025 --> 00:02:39,527 advanced tools. 62 00:02:39,527 --> 00:02:41,529 When word of the discovery 63 00:02:41,529 --> 00:02:42,596 reached the scientific 64 00:02:42,596 --> 00:02:44,565 community, one fact became 65 00:02:44,565 --> 00:02:45,933 obvious. 66 00:02:45,933 --> 00:02:48,436 A Kurdish shepherd had stumbled 67 00:02:48,436 --> 00:02:50,371 upon what is perhaps the most 68 00:02:50,371 --> 00:02:52,440 astonishing archeological 69 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,042 discovery in modern times, 70 00:02:55,042 --> 00:03:01,181 a site known as Gobekli Tepe. 71 00:03:01,215 --> 00:03:02,450 >> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: For 13 72 00:03:02,450 --> 00:03:04,518 years, a German archeology team 73 00:03:04,518 --> 00:03:08,289 has been meticulously going into 74 00:03:08,289 --> 00:03:11,859 a hill, and they have been doing 75 00:03:11,859 --> 00:03:13,927 carbon dating as deep as they 76 00:03:13,927 --> 00:03:16,430 go. 77 00:03:16,464 --> 00:03:18,966 And it has taken them 13 years 78 00:03:18,966 --> 00:03:22,536 to uncover only five percent of 79 00:03:22,536 --> 00:03:26,374 a gigantic civilization. 80 00:03:26,374 --> 00:03:27,541 They know what's under the 81 00:03:27,541 --> 00:03:29,042 ground. 82 00:03:29,042 --> 00:03:31,445 Circles upon circles upon 83 00:03:31,445 --> 00:03:33,113 circles. 84 00:03:33,113 --> 00:03:34,782 Perfect circles in stone. 85 00:03:34,782 --> 00:03:37,117 And rising up out of those 86 00:03:37,117 --> 00:03:40,888 stone circles are huge, sculpted 87 00:03:40,888 --> 00:03:44,892 columns, 19 feet high, 15 tons 88 00:03:44,892 --> 00:03:47,461 per column. 89 00:03:47,461 --> 00:03:48,596 >> NARRATOR: Test results have 90 00:03:48,596 --> 00:03:51,231 supported the idea that Gobekli 91 00:03:51,231 --> 00:03:54,302 Tepe is nearly 12,000 years old, 92 00:03:54,302 --> 00:03:57,070 almost 7,000 years older than 93 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:59,106 Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent, 94 00:03:59,106 --> 00:04:01,275 long heralded as the cradle of 95 00:04:01,275 --> 00:04:03,411 civilization. 96 00:04:03,411 --> 00:04:05,078 >> HOWE: Gobekli Tepe, the 97 00:04:05,078 --> 00:04:08,081 oldest advanced site now on our 98 00:04:08,081 --> 00:04:09,116 planet. 99 00:04:09,116 --> 00:04:10,751 We know of no other site that is 100 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:14,855 this advanced. 101 00:04:14,855 --> 00:04:16,924 It has now doubled the history 102 00:04:16,924 --> 00:04:18,926 of humanity. 103 00:04:18,926 --> 00:04:20,428 >> GRAHAM HANCOCK: And right 104 00:04:20,428 --> 00:04:22,630 there is this gigantic site with 105 00:04:22,630 --> 00:04:24,465 huge, megalithic, circular 106 00:04:24,465 --> 00:04:25,566 structures. 107 00:04:25,566 --> 00:04:27,468 It just stands there, a mystery, 108 00:04:27,468 --> 00:04:29,069 asking us to go figure, "How 109 00:04:29,069 --> 00:04:30,304 was this done?" 110 00:04:30,304 --> 00:04:31,972 "What's the background to this?" 111 00:04:31,972 --> 00:04:33,974 We don't know who made them. 112 00:04:34,007 --> 00:04:35,343 They just come out of the 113 00:04:35,343 --> 00:04:37,345 darkness of the last Ice Age, 114 00:04:37,345 --> 00:04:39,146 where we know nothing, and enter 115 00:04:39,146 --> 00:04:41,415 the stage of history, already 116 00:04:41,415 --> 00:04:44,117 fully formed. 117 00:04:44,151 --> 00:04:45,786 And to my mind, this is 118 00:04:45,786 --> 00:04:48,656 indicative of a major forgotten 119 00:04:48,656 --> 00:04:50,991 episode in human history. 120 00:04:50,991 --> 00:04:52,626 >> NARRATOR: Could the discovery 121 00:04:52,626 --> 00:04:55,295 of Gobekli Tepe radically change 122 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:57,097 our understanding of human 123 00:04:57,097 --> 00:04:58,632 history? 124 00:04:58,632 --> 00:05:00,468 And might proof of an ancient 125 00:05:00,468 --> 00:05:02,703 civilization provide evidence 126 00:05:02,703 --> 00:05:04,838 that mankind's most puzzling 127 00:05:04,838 --> 00:05:06,807 myths might actually be based in 128 00:05:06,807 --> 00:05:09,677 fact? 129 00:05:09,710 --> 00:05:11,111 >> ROBERT M. SCHOCH: A lot of 130 00:05:11,111 --> 00:05:14,214 myths, a lot of legends suggest 131 00:05:14,214 --> 00:05:15,783 that there were past 132 00:05:15,783 --> 00:05:19,019 civilizations of astounding 133 00:05:19,019 --> 00:05:22,222 sophistication at incredibly 134 00:05:22,222 --> 00:05:23,791 early periods. 135 00:05:23,824 --> 00:05:25,292 I think we have little glimmers, 136 00:05:25,292 --> 00:05:26,794 little suggestions around the 137 00:05:26,794 --> 00:05:28,662 world that there was something 138 00:05:28,662 --> 00:05:30,898 going on, much higher, much more 139 00:05:30,898 --> 00:05:33,033 sophisticated at a much earlier 140 00:05:33,033 --> 00:05:36,303 period of time. 141 00:05:36,303 --> 00:05:37,505 >> ANDREW COLLINS: To put things 142 00:05:37,505 --> 00:05:40,140 into perspective, Gobekli Tepe 143 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:44,578 is 12,000 years old. 144 00:05:44,578 --> 00:05:47,748 That is several thousand years 145 00:05:47,748 --> 00:05:50,818 earlier in age than Stonehenge 146 00:05:50,818 --> 00:05:54,555 and the Great Pyramid. 147 00:05:54,588 --> 00:05:56,790 And indeed, according to 148 00:05:56,790 --> 00:05:58,726 biblical tradition, the world 149 00:05:58,726 --> 00:06:01,361 really began in 4000 B.C. 150 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:03,697 And yet, that is 8,000 years 151 00:06:03,697 --> 00:06:07,167 later than the foundation of 152 00:06:07,167 --> 00:06:09,737 Gobekli Tepe. 153 00:06:09,770 --> 00:06:11,705 So, clearly, we have here 154 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:14,575 something that contradicts our 155 00:06:14,575 --> 00:06:16,644 normal understanding of the 156 00:06:16,644 --> 00:06:20,147 evolution of civilization. 157 00:06:20,147 --> 00:06:22,315 >> NARRATOR: Curiously, after 13 158 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:24,985 years of digging, archeologists 159 00:06:24,985 --> 00:06:27,187 investigating the ancient site 160 00:06:27,187 --> 00:06:29,256 have failed to recover a single 161 00:06:29,256 --> 00:06:30,558 stonecutting tool. 162 00:06:30,558 --> 00:06:32,159 Nor have they found any 163 00:06:32,159 --> 00:06:35,095 agricultural implements. 164 00:06:35,095 --> 00:06:36,830 >> HOWE: How in the world can 165 00:06:36,830 --> 00:06:40,067 you contemplate 19-foot-tall, 166 00:06:40,067 --> 00:06:43,537 perfectly-sculpted columns that 167 00:06:43,537 --> 00:06:46,039 are 11,000 to 12,000 years old, 168 00:06:46,039 --> 00:06:48,275 and no tools? 169 00:06:48,275 --> 00:06:49,543 >> NARRATOR: The mystery of 170 00:06:49,543 --> 00:06:51,612 Gobekli Tepe is further 171 00:06:51,612 --> 00:06:52,946 compounded by the ancient stone 172 00:06:52,946 --> 00:06:54,381 carvings found throughout the 173 00:06:54,381 --> 00:06:56,383 site. 174 00:06:56,383 --> 00:06:58,185 They depict creatures like 175 00:06:58,185 --> 00:07:01,889 armadillos, wild boars and 176 00:07:01,889 --> 00:07:04,558 geese-- animals not indigenous 177 00:07:04,558 --> 00:07:06,694 to the region. 178 00:07:06,694 --> 00:07:07,861 >> COLLINS: We see various types 179 00:07:07,861 --> 00:07:10,531 of creatures, different animals, 180 00:07:10,531 --> 00:07:14,134 birds, insects, and even 181 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:17,304 abstract human forms that seem 182 00:07:17,304 --> 00:07:20,173 to come together to create this 183 00:07:20,173 --> 00:07:22,843 very weird menagerie which has 184 00:07:22,843 --> 00:07:24,878 totally baffled the 185 00:07:24,878 --> 00:07:27,080 archeologists who have uncovered 186 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:28,682 this site. 187 00:07:28,682 --> 00:07:30,350 Now what they represent is a 188 00:07:30,350 --> 00:07:32,452 matter of speculation, but it's 189 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:34,722 my intuition that they may even 190 00:07:34,722 --> 00:07:38,759 represent an ark in stone. 191 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:40,961 >> NARRATOR: Located less than 192 00:07:40,961 --> 00:07:44,031 350 miles from Mount Ararat, the 193 00:07:44,031 --> 00:07:45,633 site many biblical scholars 194 00:07:45,633 --> 00:07:47,200 believe to be the resting place 195 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,469 of Noah's Ark, the animal 196 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:52,305 carvings of Gobekli Tepe suggest 197 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:54,775 a time in the region's history 198 00:07:54,775 --> 00:07:56,076 when the indigenous animal 199 00:07:56,076 --> 00:07:57,811 population may have been of a 200 00:07:57,811 --> 00:07:59,112 totally different 201 00:07:59,112 --> 00:08:01,549 anthropological origin. 202 00:08:01,549 --> 00:08:03,951 But do these carvings actually 203 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:05,719 provide historical proof of the 204 00:08:05,719 --> 00:08:07,220 great flood that was described 205 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:09,056 in the Bible? 206 00:08:09,056 --> 00:08:10,257 >> HANCOCK: Archeologists are 207 00:08:10,257 --> 00:08:12,225 aware that there are more than 208 00:08:12,225 --> 00:08:15,462 2,000 myths of a great flood 209 00:08:15,462 --> 00:08:17,397 which destroyed an earlier 210 00:08:17,397 --> 00:08:18,799 civilization. 211 00:08:18,799 --> 00:08:19,800 >> NARRATOR: Some researchers 212 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,802 theorize that the events of a 213 00:08:21,802 --> 00:08:24,471 cataclysmic flood and a story 214 00:08:24,471 --> 00:08:26,273 similar to that told of Noah's 215 00:08:26,273 --> 00:08:28,676 Ark was recorded on the stone 216 00:08:28,676 --> 00:08:30,644 pillars of Gobekli Tepe. 217 00:08:30,644 --> 00:08:33,080 If true, that would push the 218 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,282 date of the great flood back to 219 00:08:35,282 --> 00:08:36,984 the end of the last Ice Age, far 220 00:08:36,984 --> 00:08:37,985 earlier than the biblical 221 00:08:37,985 --> 00:08:40,020 period. 222 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:41,021 >> COLLINS: There is evidence 223 00:08:41,021 --> 00:08:43,256 that this may have ended quite 224 00:08:43,256 --> 00:08:45,525 catastrophically. 225 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:46,827 There was a lot of things 226 00:08:46,827 --> 00:08:47,895 happening. 227 00:08:47,895 --> 00:08:49,630 Um, a lot of migrations. 228 00:08:49,630 --> 00:08:51,331 Possibly waters rising up very 229 00:08:51,331 --> 00:08:52,499 quickly. 230 00:08:52,499 --> 00:08:54,568 A lot of rapid changes in 231 00:08:54,568 --> 00:08:57,304 lifestyles. 232 00:08:57,304 --> 00:08:59,506 >> NARRATOR: But another, 233 00:08:59,506 --> 00:09:01,408 perhaps even more profound, 234 00:09:01,408 --> 00:09:03,276 question remains. 235 00:09:03,276 --> 00:09:05,946 Who built Gobekli Tepe? 236 00:09:05,946 --> 00:09:07,981 For what purpose? 237 00:09:07,981 --> 00:09:10,450 And how did such an ancient site 238 00:09:10,450 --> 00:09:12,152 remain in nearly pristine 239 00:09:12,152 --> 00:09:13,754 condition for more than 10,000 240 00:09:13,754 --> 00:09:15,756 years? 241 00:09:15,789 --> 00:09:16,924 >> PHILIP COPPENS: In the case 242 00:09:16,924 --> 00:09:18,191 of Gobekli Tepe, we find that 243 00:09:18,191 --> 00:09:20,427 the site was carefully placed 244 00:09:20,427 --> 00:09:22,095 underneath sand. 245 00:09:22,095 --> 00:09:25,799 This site was buried. 246 00:09:25,833 --> 00:09:27,467 It appears as if somehow the 247 00:09:27,467 --> 00:09:30,337 usage of Gobekli Tepe was no 248 00:09:30,337 --> 00:09:31,839 longer there, and that people 249 00:09:31,839 --> 00:09:33,540 moved on, but had such a 250 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:35,442 reverence to this important site 251 00:09:35,442 --> 00:09:37,177 that rather than destroy it, 252 00:09:37,177 --> 00:09:39,279 they put it to peace by burying 253 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:41,615 it. 254 00:09:41,615 --> 00:09:42,616 >> NARRATOR: But why would the 255 00:09:42,616 --> 00:09:44,384 area's inhabitants carefully 256 00:09:44,384 --> 00:09:45,819 bury their monuments under 20 257 00:09:45,819 --> 00:09:48,055 feet of sand? 258 00:09:48,055 --> 00:09:50,724 Is it possible that Gobekli Tepe 259 00:09:50,724 --> 00:09:52,960 was deliberately buried in 260 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,294 order to protect it from 261 00:09:54,294 --> 00:09:55,796 invaders? 262 00:09:55,796 --> 00:09:57,130 Or might the intention have 263 00:09:57,130 --> 00:09:59,399 been to preserve it, in hope, 264 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:01,969 someday, to return? 265 00:10:01,969 --> 00:10:03,704 >> CHILDRESS: You have to ask 266 00:10:03,704 --> 00:10:06,006 yourself, why is someone 267 00:10:06,006 --> 00:10:07,875 building these massive 268 00:10:07,875 --> 00:10:09,977 structures all over the world? 269 00:10:09,977 --> 00:10:11,144 And many of them are very 270 00:10:11,144 --> 00:10:12,312 similar. 271 00:10:12,345 --> 00:10:14,882 It leaves us to think that there 272 00:10:14,882 --> 00:10:18,351 is some connection between all 273 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:20,153 these ancient sites... 274 00:10:20,153 --> 00:10:22,022 that the builders were all doing 275 00:10:22,022 --> 00:10:24,124 it for a similar purpose. 276 00:10:24,124 --> 00:10:25,859 >> MARTELL: I do see a 277 00:10:25,859 --> 00:10:27,294 similarity across the globe 278 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:28,962 from megalithic sites where 279 00:10:28,962 --> 00:10:30,998 these past cultures explain that 280 00:10:30,998 --> 00:10:33,233 they were built by the gods. 281 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:35,035 But were they really gods? 282 00:10:35,035 --> 00:10:37,004 Or could they have been 283 00:10:37,004 --> 00:10:39,306 extraterrestrials? 284 00:10:39,306 --> 00:10:40,573 >> NARRATOR: Perhaps the answers 285 00:10:40,573 --> 00:10:42,642 can be found by examining 286 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:45,645 another ancient site, one 287 00:10:45,645 --> 00:10:48,982 located half a world away in 288 00:10:48,982 --> 00:10:52,185 the mountains of Peru. 289 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:56,690 >> NARRATOR: Peru, home of the 290 00:10:56,690 --> 00:10:58,491 world's longest mountain range, 291 00:10:58,491 --> 00:11:01,528 the Andes, the spine of 292 00:11:01,528 --> 00:11:03,330 South America. 293 00:11:03,330 --> 00:11:06,233 Here in a high river valley, 294 00:11:06,233 --> 00:11:09,002 among peaks towering over 20,000 295 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:12,005 feet, the Inca established their 296 00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:15,175 capital city of Cuzco, which 297 00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:19,179 thrived for over 300 years... 298 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:22,249 until Spanish conquistadors 299 00:11:22,249 --> 00:11:24,752 arrived in the 16th century. 300 00:11:24,752 --> 00:11:28,756 Above Cuzco, at an elevation of 301 00:11:28,756 --> 00:11:32,860 more than 12,000 feet, looms the 302 00:11:32,860 --> 00:11:33,761 ancient fortress of 303 00:11:33,761 --> 00:11:36,964 Sacsayhuamán, whose immense 304 00:11:36,964 --> 00:11:38,766 stone walls may hold secrets 305 00:11:38,766 --> 00:11:40,033 which predate the Inca 306 00:11:40,033 --> 00:11:42,435 themselves. 307 00:11:42,469 --> 00:11:44,704 >> HANCOCK: My feeling, very 308 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:46,439 strong feeling, is that we're 309 00:11:46,439 --> 00:11:48,441 looking at a two-phase 310 00:11:48,441 --> 00:11:49,943 construction site in many of the 311 00:11:49,943 --> 00:11:52,846 so-called Inca stone monuments. 312 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,515 And that the Inca structures sit 313 00:11:55,515 --> 00:11:57,517 on top of much more ancient 314 00:11:57,517 --> 00:11:58,886 rock-cut structures and 315 00:11:58,886 --> 00:12:00,020 megalithic structures that we 316 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:01,855 just don't know who built them. 317 00:12:01,855 --> 00:12:03,123 And this actually fits with the 318 00:12:03,123 --> 00:12:06,093 Incas' own view. 319 00:12:07,961 --> 00:12:09,262 >> NARRATOR: Like many Inca 320 00:12:09,262 --> 00:12:11,965 sites, Sacsayhuamán features 321 00:12:11,965 --> 00:12:14,701 astonishing stonework... 322 00:12:14,701 --> 00:12:16,569 but not all of it credited to 323 00:12:16,569 --> 00:12:19,807 the Inca. 324 00:12:19,807 --> 00:12:21,041 According to conventional 325 00:12:21,041 --> 00:12:23,210 archeology, the Killke 326 00:12:23,210 --> 00:12:25,312 culture built the older sections 327 00:12:25,312 --> 00:12:27,380 of the site approximately 1,000 328 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:29,449 years ago. 329 00:12:29,449 --> 00:12:31,218 But the Inca themselves believed 330 00:12:31,218 --> 00:12:33,253 the site was constructed by an 331 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:34,922 earlier unnamed race of 332 00:12:34,922 --> 00:12:38,258 people, led by a powerful god 333 00:12:38,258 --> 00:12:41,394 who descended from the skies. 334 00:12:41,394 --> 00:12:43,463 >> MARTELL: Throughout time 335 00:12:43,463 --> 00:12:45,498 there has been witness to a god 336 00:12:45,498 --> 00:12:47,467 named Virococha that visited the 337 00:12:47,467 --> 00:12:48,836 South American people and 338 00:12:48,836 --> 00:12:50,403 blessed them and gave them all 339 00:12:50,403 --> 00:12:52,672 types of technology. 340 00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:53,907 And some of his physical 341 00:12:53,907 --> 00:12:55,775 characteristics make him stand 342 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:57,010 out from the indigenous 343 00:12:57,010 --> 00:12:58,345 population, because he was a 344 00:12:58,345 --> 00:13:00,247 very tall, pale-skinned, 345 00:13:00,247 --> 00:13:02,749 white-haired being. 346 00:13:02,749 --> 00:13:04,451 >> NARRATOR: But did this god 347 00:13:04,451 --> 00:13:07,020 Virococha actually exist? 348 00:13:07,020 --> 00:13:08,521 Could he have been, as ancient 349 00:13:08,521 --> 00:13:10,790 astronaut theorists suggest, a 350 00:13:10,790 --> 00:13:14,161 visitor from an alien world? 351 00:13:14,161 --> 00:13:17,397 If so, it might help to explain 352 00:13:17,397 --> 00:13:19,599 just how the ancient site was 353 00:13:19,599 --> 00:13:23,070 constructed. 354 00:13:23,070 --> 00:13:24,137 >> JOHN BRANDENBURG: This rock 355 00:13:24,137 --> 00:13:25,572 weighs about 20 tons. 356 00:13:25,572 --> 00:13:26,907 This is miniscule compared to 357 00:13:26,907 --> 00:13:28,108 many of the rocks at 358 00:13:28,108 --> 00:13:30,110 Sacsayhuamán. 359 00:13:30,143 --> 00:13:31,778 Today we have heavy machinery to 360 00:13:31,778 --> 00:13:33,513 move such stones. 361 00:13:33,513 --> 00:13:35,348 But in the ancient times, 362 00:13:35,348 --> 00:13:36,850 especially the Inca, they would 363 00:13:36,850 --> 00:13:38,919 have used massive human 364 00:13:38,919 --> 00:13:40,420 workforces working for massive 365 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:42,255 amounts of time. 366 00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:44,925 A rule of thumb is it takes 367 00:13:44,925 --> 00:13:47,094 about ten to 20 men to move a 368 00:13:47,094 --> 00:13:49,162 one-ton rock. 369 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:50,330 So when you're talking hundreds 370 00:13:50,330 --> 00:13:51,764 of tons, you're talking 371 00:13:51,764 --> 00:13:53,733 thousands of men. 372 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,438 >> CHILDRESS: What we see is a 373 00:13:58,438 --> 00:14:00,840 culture who have got the 374 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,843 technology to quarry giant 375 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:07,514 blocks of stone-- move them to 376 00:14:07,514 --> 00:14:09,182 the site where they want to 377 00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:13,786 build and then to stack and cut 378 00:14:13,786 --> 00:14:15,822 and articulate these massive 379 00:14:15,822 --> 00:14:18,225 blocks into, in some cases, 380 00:14:18,225 --> 00:14:22,162 almost indestructible structure. 381 00:14:22,162 --> 00:14:23,630 >> CHRISTOPHER DUNN: You talk 382 00:14:23,630 --> 00:14:24,831 about granite, you're talking 383 00:14:24,831 --> 00:14:27,167 about a composition of feldspar, 384 00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,169 mica and quartz. 385 00:14:29,202 --> 00:14:31,638 So you'd need diamond to 386 00:14:31,638 --> 00:14:33,974 actually abrade it or cut it. 387 00:14:33,974 --> 00:14:35,542 We would use diamond today to 388 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:36,944 cut granite. 389 00:14:36,944 --> 00:14:38,111 Those are the kind of 390 00:14:38,111 --> 00:14:40,113 discoveries that lead one to 391 00:14:40,113 --> 00:14:42,349 question whether they were 392 00:14:42,349 --> 00:14:45,452 really using the tools in the 393 00:14:45,452 --> 00:14:47,120 ancient toolbox, or whether 394 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,156 there was something else at 395 00:14:49,156 --> 00:14:51,124 work. 396 00:14:53,961 --> 00:14:55,628 >> NARRATOR: Shaman Jorge 397 00:14:55,628 --> 00:14:57,564 Delgado has spent most of his 398 00:14:57,564 --> 00:14:59,799 life studying the mysterious 399 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:01,801 structures of Peru... 400 00:15:01,801 --> 00:15:04,237 many built prior to the rise of 401 00:15:04,237 --> 00:15:06,206 the Inca Empire. 402 00:15:08,441 --> 00:15:09,409 >> JORGE DELGADO MAMANI: It's 403 00:15:09,409 --> 00:15:11,644 amazing-- all the weight of the 404 00:15:11,644 --> 00:15:12,712 stones. 405 00:15:12,712 --> 00:15:14,914 You know, it's difficult, 406 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,516 definitely, for any human to 407 00:15:16,516 --> 00:15:18,518 move, even in groups. 408 00:15:18,551 --> 00:15:20,587 And the other aspect is how it's 409 00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:22,422 put together. 410 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:24,657 In some stones, we will see, 411 00:15:24,657 --> 00:15:26,193 still now there is like some 412 00:15:26,193 --> 00:15:27,727 marks that it seems that it 413 00:15:27,727 --> 00:15:29,829 was dissolved. 414 00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:32,232 >> HANCOCK: The walls are put 415 00:15:32,232 --> 00:15:34,667 together with blocks of stone 416 00:15:34,667 --> 00:15:37,337 weighing 50 or 100 tons, cut 417 00:15:37,337 --> 00:15:39,439 and shaped like the pieces 418 00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:41,241 of a jigsaw puzzle, so that they 419 00:15:41,241 --> 00:15:42,842 lock together so tightly that 420 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:44,711 you can't even get a sheet of 421 00:15:44,711 --> 00:15:46,579 paper between them. 422 00:15:46,579 --> 00:15:47,880 >> MARTELL: There are signs in 423 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,349 many of these stones that show 424 00:15:49,349 --> 00:15:51,118 very large amounts of thermal 425 00:15:51,118 --> 00:15:53,853 heat have been applied to mold 426 00:15:53,853 --> 00:15:55,388 the stones in such a way that 427 00:15:55,388 --> 00:15:56,689 they fit perfectly. 428 00:15:56,689 --> 00:15:57,690 And so it really does raise a 429 00:15:57,690 --> 00:15:59,526 lot of questions. 430 00:15:59,526 --> 00:16:00,860 >> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: If you 431 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:01,928 look at the style the 432 00:16:01,928 --> 00:16:03,696 Sacsayhuamán wall was built, 433 00:16:03,696 --> 00:16:06,033 the blocks look as if they've 434 00:16:06,033 --> 00:16:08,935 been molded like putty. 435 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,437 If you can mold stone into 436 00:16:10,437 --> 00:16:12,672 place, then all of a sudden, as 437 00:16:12,672 --> 00:16:15,575 crazy as this sounds, it makes 438 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:18,845 more sense because there is no 439 00:16:18,845 --> 00:16:21,848 mortar that has been used. 440 00:16:23,916 --> 00:16:25,018 >> NARRATOR: According to local 441 00:16:25,018 --> 00:16:27,620 legend, a bird was responsible 442 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:30,357 for the seamless construction. 443 00:16:30,357 --> 00:16:32,292 Legends say the winged creature 444 00:16:32,292 --> 00:16:34,527 carried a powerful chemical in 445 00:16:34,527 --> 00:16:37,464 its beak-- a substance capable 446 00:16:37,464 --> 00:16:40,700 of melting stone. 447 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:41,934 >> MAMANI: Sacsayhuamán means 448 00:16:41,934 --> 00:16:45,205 "the head of the falcon," 449 00:16:45,205 --> 00:16:47,074 falcon's head. 450 00:16:47,074 --> 00:16:49,809 But maybe it was some falcons or 451 00:16:49,809 --> 00:16:52,545 maybe some bird people who could 452 00:16:52,545 --> 00:16:55,748 connect with the place. 453 00:16:55,748 --> 00:16:57,384 >> NARRATOR: But is it possible, 454 00:16:57,384 --> 00:16:59,419 as ancient astronaut theorists 455 00:16:59,419 --> 00:17:01,754 suggest, that the mythical bird 456 00:17:01,754 --> 00:17:03,556 might actually have been a 457 00:17:03,556 --> 00:17:06,326 spacecraft piloted by alien 458 00:17:06,326 --> 00:17:08,461 visitors known to the locals as 459 00:17:08,461 --> 00:17:10,563 space brothers? 460 00:17:10,563 --> 00:17:13,233 >> MAMANI: I believe that it's a 461 00:17:13,233 --> 00:17:15,468 combination of the space 462 00:17:15,468 --> 00:17:18,238 brothers' technology with other 463 00:17:18,238 --> 00:17:20,940 kind of possibilities. 464 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:23,009 Nowadays we know, well, 465 00:17:23,009 --> 00:17:24,511 different kind of tools. 466 00:17:24,511 --> 00:17:25,745 We didn't have before these 467 00:17:25,745 --> 00:17:26,913 kind of tools. 468 00:17:26,913 --> 00:17:28,081 Or maybe we had more 469 00:17:28,081 --> 00:17:29,449 sophisticated. 470 00:17:29,449 --> 00:17:31,618 So the thing is that this place, 471 00:17:31,618 --> 00:17:33,453 Sacsayhuamán, it continues as a 472 00:17:33,453 --> 00:17:36,889 mystery. 473 00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:38,391 >> MARTELL: So looking at all 474 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:39,626 these sites with these perfectly 475 00:17:39,626 --> 00:17:41,394 stacked stones, we're looking at 476 00:17:41,394 --> 00:17:43,096 a type of technology that's not 477 00:17:43,096 --> 00:17:44,764 used anywhere else on Earth. 478 00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:46,733 I don't discount human 479 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:48,135 ingenuity, but that type of 480 00:17:48,135 --> 00:17:50,270 engineering that we still can't 481 00:17:50,270 --> 00:17:52,405 duplicate today must raise a 482 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:54,841 flag for further consideration. 483 00:17:54,841 --> 00:17:56,676 It's almost extraterrestrial, 484 00:17:56,676 --> 00:17:57,810 in a sense. 485 00:17:57,810 --> 00:17:59,246 Someone had to have taught them 486 00:17:59,246 --> 00:18:01,248 these techniques. 487 00:18:01,248 --> 00:18:02,749 >> NARRATOR: But whether the 488 00:18:02,749 --> 00:18:04,651 process of forming the large 489 00:18:04,651 --> 00:18:07,120 megalithic stones involve the 490 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,088 use of thermal energy or a 491 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:11,591 mysterious chemical, one thing 492 00:18:11,591 --> 00:18:15,428 is certain: the ancient builders 493 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:16,996 used the technique on 494 00:18:16,996 --> 00:18:19,132 a vast scale. 495 00:18:19,132 --> 00:18:20,633 But why? 496 00:18:20,633 --> 00:18:22,469 What was the intended purpose 497 00:18:22,469 --> 00:18:24,437 of creating such intricately 498 00:18:24,437 --> 00:18:28,808 built stone structures? 499 00:18:28,808 --> 00:18:30,310 >> MARTELL: So we can't really 500 00:18:30,310 --> 00:18:32,111 give an answer as to what they 501 00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:33,780 were being used for other than 502 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:34,681 we know that the 503 00:18:34,681 --> 00:18:35,348 extraterrestrials more than 504 00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:36,783 likely are the source of what 505 00:18:36,783 --> 00:18:37,650 they call "gods." 506 00:18:37,650 --> 00:18:38,851 How did they get here? 507 00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:40,453 More than likely in some type 508 00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:41,954 of craft, and very possibly, 509 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:43,490 they could have been using these 510 00:18:43,490 --> 00:18:44,657 large megaliths as platforms 511 00:18:44,657 --> 00:18:47,394 to land on. 512 00:18:47,394 --> 00:18:49,229 >> NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamán 513 00:18:49,229 --> 00:18:53,166 was in fact constructed by alien 514 00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:54,534 visitors, might there be 515 00:18:54,534 --> 00:18:55,735 additional evidence of their 516 00:18:55,735 --> 00:18:57,504 time on Earth at other 517 00:18:57,504 --> 00:19:00,340 ancient sites around the world? 518 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:03,976 Perhaps there is. 519 00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:05,945 And the path to that evidence 520 00:19:05,945 --> 00:19:09,982 is clearly marked in stones. 521 00:19:15,622 --> 00:19:17,457 >> NARRATOR: Few sites on Earth 522 00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:19,292 are as majestic or as 523 00:19:19,292 --> 00:19:21,528 treacherous as the jagged region 524 00:19:21,528 --> 00:19:23,330 of Brittany located on the 525 00:19:23,330 --> 00:19:26,633 northwest coastline of France. 526 00:19:26,633 --> 00:19:28,568 Here can be found the legendary 527 00:19:28,568 --> 00:19:32,038 Carnac stones-- a collection of 528 00:19:32,038 --> 00:19:34,841 over 3,000 massive rocks 529 00:19:34,841 --> 00:19:38,144 arranged in rows and other 530 00:19:38,144 --> 00:19:40,313 shapes and spreading across 531 00:19:40,313 --> 00:19:42,014 more than two miles of French 532 00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:45,017 countryside. 533 00:19:45,051 --> 00:19:46,185 >> SCHOCH: You're talking 534 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:47,554 thousands of stones that are 535 00:19:47,554 --> 00:19:51,691 aligned in straight rows, 536 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,826 aligned in circles, aligned in 537 00:19:53,826 --> 00:19:56,363 squares and rectangles. 538 00:19:56,396 --> 00:19:58,531 Why are people doing this? 539 00:19:58,531 --> 00:20:00,166 Why are they putting so much 540 00:20:00,166 --> 00:20:02,502 time and energy into something? 541 00:20:02,502 --> 00:20:05,204 And the short answer, I believe, 542 00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:08,207 is that we really don't know. 543 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,276 >> NARRATOR: According to local 544 00:20:09,276 --> 00:20:11,578 legend, the megaliths were 545 00:20:11,578 --> 00:20:12,912 originally invading Roman 546 00:20:12,912 --> 00:20:15,248 soldiers turned to stone by 547 00:20:15,248 --> 00:20:17,684 Merlin the magician. 548 00:20:17,684 --> 00:20:20,019 But if it wasn't magic that 549 00:20:20,019 --> 00:20:22,622 created this forest of stones, 550 00:20:22,622 --> 00:20:26,025 who or what did? 551 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:27,660 >> CHILDRESS: Modern 552 00:20:27,660 --> 00:20:29,095 archaeologists would say that 553 00:20:29,095 --> 00:20:31,498 people who were one step removed 554 00:20:31,498 --> 00:20:33,500 from cavemen were quarrying 555 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:36,035 these giant stones, some of 556 00:20:36,035 --> 00:20:39,339 them weighing 100, 200 tons-- 557 00:20:39,339 --> 00:20:42,174 even up to 350 tons-- and then 558 00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:46,178 somehow moving them into place. 559 00:20:46,212 --> 00:20:48,180 When you first look at the 560 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:50,417 stones here at Carnac, they seem 561 00:20:50,417 --> 00:20:52,619 to be in haphazard shapes, but 562 00:20:52,619 --> 00:20:56,022 on closer examination we can see 563 00:20:56,022 --> 00:20:58,224 that most of the stones have 564 00:20:58,224 --> 00:21:01,361 been cut on one side or another. 565 00:21:01,361 --> 00:21:04,597 And in fact, these granite 566 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:06,599 megaliths are magnetized with 567 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:08,768 the Earth, and nearly all of 568 00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:11,404 them come to a point. 569 00:21:11,404 --> 00:21:13,039 >> NARRATOR: Stone magnets? 570 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:15,241 Is it possible that these stones 571 00:21:15,241 --> 00:21:18,144 were really cut in position in 572 00:21:18,144 --> 00:21:19,912 such a way as to create some 573 00:21:19,912 --> 00:21:22,882 sort of geomagnetic field? 574 00:21:22,882 --> 00:21:24,717 But why? 575 00:21:24,717 --> 00:21:25,818 >> CHILDRESS: Carnac as a 576 00:21:25,818 --> 00:21:27,387 place is highly charged with 577 00:21:27,387 --> 00:21:28,621 energy. 578 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:30,557 As you walk down these stone 579 00:21:30,557 --> 00:21:32,492 corridors, you can feel 580 00:21:32,492 --> 00:21:34,661 this charge. 581 00:21:34,661 --> 00:21:36,596 Many tourists who come here also 582 00:21:36,596 --> 00:21:39,065 like to touch the stones and 583 00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:40,099 feel the energy coming 584 00:21:40,099 --> 00:21:42,635 off of it. 585 00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:44,837 The people who built Carnac must 586 00:21:44,837 --> 00:21:46,906 have been highly knowledgeable 587 00:21:46,906 --> 00:21:49,075 of the Earth's energy fields. 588 00:21:49,075 --> 00:21:50,343 >> NARRATOR: According to a 589 00:21:50,343 --> 00:21:52,445 concept known as the "World Grid 590 00:21:52,445 --> 00:21:54,381 Theory," certain places on our 591 00:21:54,381 --> 00:21:56,215 planet contain higher magnetic 592 00:21:56,215 --> 00:21:58,217 forces than others. 593 00:21:58,250 --> 00:21:59,786 >> MARTELL: An interesting 594 00:21:59,786 --> 00:22:01,053 coincidence for all the 595 00:22:01,053 --> 00:22:02,321 megalithic structures we have 596 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:03,723 around the Earth is that they're 597 00:22:03,723 --> 00:22:05,324 placed at specific points that 598 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,760 could be harnessing an ancient 599 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,562 world energy grid. 600 00:22:09,596 --> 00:22:10,730 >> SCHOCH: There are certain 601 00:22:10,730 --> 00:22:12,499 spots around the world which 602 00:22:12,499 --> 00:22:13,966 have traditionally been 603 00:22:13,966 --> 00:22:17,504 sacred, hallowed, vortexes. 604 00:22:17,504 --> 00:22:22,742 Energy feels different there. 605 00:22:22,775 --> 00:22:24,243 >> WILCOCK: The ancient stone 606 00:22:24,243 --> 00:22:26,078 monuments were built to harness 607 00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:28,247 that force and that potential to 608 00:22:28,247 --> 00:22:31,584 create a funnel-like vortex. 609 00:22:31,618 --> 00:22:33,085 >> MARTELL: When we look at 610 00:22:33,085 --> 00:22:35,588 things like the Giza Pyramids or 611 00:22:35,588 --> 00:22:37,924 Machu Picchu or Baalbek in 612 00:22:37,924 --> 00:22:39,426 Lebanon, all of these are placed 613 00:22:39,426 --> 00:22:41,628 at specific geo-coded locations 614 00:22:41,628 --> 00:22:43,029 which relate to this World 615 00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:44,764 Energy Grid. 616 00:22:44,764 --> 00:22:47,800 >> NARRATOR: Could Carnac be one 617 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,803 of these locations? 618 00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:52,505 And might the combination of 619 00:22:52,505 --> 00:22:55,942 geomagnetic properties and the 620 00:22:55,942 --> 00:22:57,109 unique shapes of the stones 621 00:22:57,109 --> 00:23:00,112 themselves have allowed ancient 622 00:23:00,112 --> 00:23:01,213 builders to actually 623 00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:03,215 manipulate gravity? 624 00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:06,653 If so, where did this knowledge 625 00:23:06,653 --> 00:23:08,621 come from? 626 00:23:08,621 --> 00:23:10,322 And what ultimate purpose did 627 00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:12,291 it serve? 628 00:23:12,291 --> 00:23:13,392 >> CHILDRESS: It wasn't until we 629 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:15,294 were able to see these stones 630 00:23:15,294 --> 00:23:18,130 from above, in a helicopter, 631 00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:20,399 that we realized that Carnac was 632 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:23,803 meant to be seen from the sky 633 00:23:23,803 --> 00:23:26,806 above us. 634 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:29,275 >> TSOUKALOS: And that is one of 635 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:31,143 only three things that you can 636 00:23:31,143 --> 00:23:33,179 see from outer space. 637 00:23:33,212 --> 00:23:35,448 That's Nazca, the Great Wall in 638 00:23:35,448 --> 00:23:39,552 China and Carnac. 639 00:23:39,552 --> 00:23:41,120 >> MARTELL: Were they meant to 640 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:42,722 be seen by people in the sky? 641 00:23:42,722 --> 00:23:44,190 And who could've been flying at 642 00:23:44,190 --> 00:23:45,224 that time other than 643 00:23:45,224 --> 00:23:48,995 extraterrestrials? 644 00:23:48,995 --> 00:23:51,197 >> NARRATOR: At one end of the 645 00:23:51,197 --> 00:23:52,799 Carnac alignment, aerial 646 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:54,967 researchers identified a stone 647 00:23:54,967 --> 00:23:57,003 circle similar to the one 648 00:23:57,003 --> 00:23:59,639 found at Stonehenge. 649 00:23:59,639 --> 00:24:01,974 At the other end, investigators 650 00:24:01,974 --> 00:24:03,643 on the ground discovered a 651 00:24:03,643 --> 00:24:06,412 rectangle of stones, one that 652 00:24:06,412 --> 00:24:09,148 had been buried for centuries. 653 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:10,983 Both groupings appeared 654 00:24:10,983 --> 00:24:13,185 precisely placed to predict 655 00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:14,420 both the summer and the 656 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:16,155 winter solstice. 657 00:24:16,155 --> 00:24:17,924 And when even more closely 658 00:24:17,924 --> 00:24:19,826 examined from above, the 659 00:24:19,826 --> 00:24:21,894 solstice points and the 660 00:24:21,894 --> 00:24:23,596 alignment of Carnac's many rows 661 00:24:23,596 --> 00:24:25,932 of stones reveal yet another 662 00:24:25,932 --> 00:24:29,401 geometric phenomenon: the shape 663 00:24:29,401 --> 00:24:31,738 of a Pythagorean, or right 664 00:24:31,738 --> 00:24:35,041 triangle, covering many square 665 00:24:35,041 --> 00:24:37,443 miles. 666 00:24:37,443 --> 00:24:39,912 But how could the builders of 667 00:24:39,912 --> 00:24:41,881 Carnac have had knowledge of a 668 00:24:41,881 --> 00:24:43,182 sophisticated mathematical 669 00:24:43,182 --> 00:24:45,885 theorem approximately 2,000 670 00:24:45,885 --> 00:24:47,386 years before its 671 00:24:47,386 --> 00:24:48,888 discovery by the Greek 672 00:24:48,888 --> 00:24:52,258 mathematician Pythagoras? 673 00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:53,993 >> TSOUKALOS: These conclusions 674 00:24:53,993 --> 00:24:55,528 about the Pythagorean Theorem 675 00:24:55,528 --> 00:24:57,664 doesn't come from me; it 676 00:24:57,664 --> 00:24:59,766 actually comes from quite 677 00:24:59,766 --> 00:25:01,668 advanced mathematicians who have 678 00:25:01,668 --> 00:25:03,335 looked at these alignments and 679 00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:05,938 made the calculations. 680 00:25:05,938 --> 00:25:10,209 We're talking Stone Age time, 681 00:25:10,209 --> 00:25:12,078 and they knew about A squared 682 00:25:12,078 --> 00:25:14,881 plus B squared equals C squared? 683 00:25:14,881 --> 00:25:16,282 They knew about it, 684 00:25:16,282 --> 00:25:19,451 yes, but why? 685 00:25:19,451 --> 00:25:22,454 Who told them this? 686 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:25,725 At the time, extraterrestrials 687 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:27,794 told our ancestors, "Put this 688 00:25:27,794 --> 00:25:29,696 stone here, put this stone 689 00:25:29,696 --> 00:25:32,364 there," with the idea that a 690 00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,701 future generation would have to 691 00:25:34,701 --> 00:25:36,603 stumble across this 692 00:25:36,603 --> 00:25:38,905 mathematical riddle, that 693 00:25:38,905 --> 00:25:41,373 somebody would say, 694 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:42,374 "Hold on a second. 695 00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:44,276 This was erected during the 696 00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:46,813 Stone Age, yet here we have 697 00:25:46,813 --> 00:25:48,480 advanced mathematics. 698 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,117 How is this possible?" 699 00:25:51,150 --> 00:25:52,384 >> VON DANIKEN: Now these 700 00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:53,720 extraterrestrials, they ask 701 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,254 themself, "How could we give 702 00:25:55,254 --> 00:25:57,323 them a sign?" 703 00:25:57,323 --> 00:25:59,391 And there was a suggestion made 704 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:01,894 in French Brittany-- kilometers 705 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,663 of stone lines in the form 706 00:26:03,663 --> 00:26:05,064 of a triangle. 707 00:26:05,097 --> 00:26:06,465 Gigantic triangle. 708 00:26:06,465 --> 00:26:08,067 So we have the sign. 709 00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:09,468 We have the information. 710 00:26:09,468 --> 00:26:11,738 But nobody looks at it. 711 00:26:11,738 --> 00:26:13,640 It's time to change our attitude 712 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,376 to these things. 713 00:26:17,376 --> 00:26:18,778 >> CHILDRESS: I think that these 714 00:26:18,778 --> 00:26:21,547 stones are transmitting energy 715 00:26:21,547 --> 00:26:24,483 that extraterrestrials or others 716 00:26:24,483 --> 00:26:27,053 in airships could pick up this 717 00:26:27,053 --> 00:26:29,455 energy like a GPS system or 718 00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:32,892 some kind of airport beacon 719 00:26:32,892 --> 00:26:35,461 and use it for navigating 720 00:26:35,461 --> 00:26:38,397 the entire planet. 721 00:26:38,397 --> 00:26:40,667 >> NARRATOR: Gigantic triangles 722 00:26:40,667 --> 00:26:43,169 made of stone. 723 00:26:43,169 --> 00:26:46,138 Geomagnetic phenomenon. 724 00:26:46,138 --> 00:26:48,340 The possibility of an 725 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:50,442 extraterrestrial encounter with 726 00:26:50,442 --> 00:26:53,780 humans thousands of years ago. 727 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:56,248 But if alien visitors did touch 728 00:26:56,248 --> 00:26:59,585 down at Carnac, where else did 729 00:26:59,585 --> 00:27:01,754 they land? 730 00:27:01,754 --> 00:27:04,256 And where did they come from? 731 00:27:04,256 --> 00:27:06,292 Perhaps a recently discovered 732 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,427 archaeological site in Armenia 733 00:27:08,427 --> 00:27:11,397 will provide the answer. 734 00:27:23,609 --> 00:27:25,277 >> NARRATOR: The Syunik 735 00:27:25,277 --> 00:27:28,314 province, southern Armenia. 736 00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:30,883 Approximately 140 miles 737 00:27:30,883 --> 00:27:32,618 southeast of the nation's 738 00:27:32,618 --> 00:27:34,954 capital, Yerevan, lies the 739 00:27:34,954 --> 00:27:38,825 city of Sisian. 740 00:27:38,825 --> 00:27:41,961 Nearby sits a high plateau where 741 00:27:41,961 --> 00:27:44,396 hundreds of ancient stones, some 742 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:46,665 weighing more than 50 tons, 743 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:50,436 stretch over a third of a mile. 744 00:27:50,436 --> 00:27:53,973 This is Carahunge, also known as 745 00:27:53,973 --> 00:27:57,076 the Armenian Stonehenge. 746 00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:02,648 Estimated to be approximately 747 00:28:02,648 --> 00:28:06,218 7,500 years old, Carahunge 748 00:28:06,218 --> 00:28:08,454 predates the British Stonehenge 749 00:28:08,454 --> 00:28:12,458 by more than 4,500 years. 750 00:28:12,458 --> 00:28:16,028 The site is made of 203 slabs 751 00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:18,898 of basalt. 752 00:28:18,898 --> 00:28:21,734 At the structure's center stands 753 00:28:21,734 --> 00:28:26,205 the stone circle, or henge. 754 00:28:26,238 --> 00:28:28,207 >> NICHOLAS HOWARTH: When most 755 00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:29,742 people hear of stone henges, 756 00:28:29,742 --> 00:28:31,343 they think of the Stonehenge 757 00:28:31,343 --> 00:28:32,378 in England. 758 00:28:32,378 --> 00:28:33,813 But there are hundreds of these, 759 00:28:33,813 --> 00:28:36,148 uh, henges, or stone circles, 760 00:28:36,148 --> 00:28:38,985 scattered all across Europe. 761 00:28:38,985 --> 00:28:42,388 What they were and how they 762 00:28:42,388 --> 00:28:45,992 were used is still a mystery. 763 00:28:45,992 --> 00:28:47,559 >> TSOUKALOS: Mainstream 764 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,362 archaeology still doesn't agree 765 00:28:50,362 --> 00:28:53,499 on who lived there or who the 766 00:28:53,499 --> 00:28:57,503 builders were of that site. 767 00:28:57,503 --> 00:29:00,706 What we do know, though, is that 768 00:29:00,706 --> 00:29:03,075 the entire site is definitely 769 00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:05,177 a part of some type of an 770 00:29:05,177 --> 00:29:07,179 astronomical model. 771 00:29:07,213 --> 00:29:09,181 >> NARRATOR: But how could this 772 00:29:09,181 --> 00:29:11,183 simple circular array of stones 773 00:29:11,183 --> 00:29:13,585 have given early man information 774 00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:16,055 about the stars? 775 00:29:16,055 --> 00:29:18,157 Is it possible that Carahunge 776 00:29:18,157 --> 00:29:20,059 might be the world's oldest 777 00:29:20,059 --> 00:29:22,161 observatory? 778 00:29:22,161 --> 00:29:25,597 In September of 2010, England's 779 00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:28,267 Oxford University sent an 780 00:29:28,267 --> 00:29:31,703 expedition to investigate. 781 00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:33,705 >> HOWARTH: What makes this 782 00:29:33,705 --> 00:29:35,574 exceptional megalithic monument 783 00:29:35,574 --> 00:29:38,344 unique are the small holes, 784 00:29:38,344 --> 00:29:40,446 which have been bored into the 785 00:29:40,446 --> 00:29:45,084 rock at different angles. 786 00:29:45,084 --> 00:29:48,754 There are 85 stones with holes. 787 00:29:48,754 --> 00:29:52,224 They're like telescopes. 788 00:29:52,224 --> 00:29:54,894 What we see with these holes is 789 00:29:54,894 --> 00:29:56,695 that they are pointed at 790 00:29:56,695 --> 00:29:58,430 different alignments to 791 00:29:58,430 --> 00:30:01,700 positions, uh, on the horizon or 792 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,802 into the night sky. 793 00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:05,872 Uh, what they're pointing at is 794 00:30:05,872 --> 00:30:08,841 still a mystery to us. 795 00:30:11,377 --> 00:30:14,546 But we can say with certainty 796 00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:15,814 from the archaeological 797 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,449 evidence that they were some 798 00:30:17,449 --> 00:30:19,418 sort of way to connect man and 799 00:30:19,418 --> 00:30:22,054 his life on Earth to the 800 00:30:22,054 --> 00:30:25,057 heavens above. 801 00:30:25,057 --> 00:30:27,626 And this would be the first time 802 00:30:27,626 --> 00:30:30,296 that we can say that people were 803 00:30:30,296 --> 00:30:32,398 systematically trying to 804 00:30:32,398 --> 00:30:34,133 understand their place in the 805 00:30:34,133 --> 00:30:36,568 solar system. 806 00:30:36,602 --> 00:30:38,570 >> WILCOCK: This site is also 807 00:30:38,570 --> 00:30:40,472 called the Zorats Karer, which 808 00:30:40,472 --> 00:30:41,773 means "The Stones of the 809 00:30:41,773 --> 00:30:43,209 Powerful." 810 00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:44,877 And what has been determined is 811 00:30:44,877 --> 00:30:46,712 that the outline of these stones 812 00:30:46,712 --> 00:30:48,881 actually does correspond to the 813 00:30:48,881 --> 00:30:50,749 constellation known as Cygnus, 814 00:30:50,749 --> 00:30:53,719 or the Swan... 815 00:30:53,719 --> 00:30:56,155 which, in certain cultures, is 816 00:30:56,155 --> 00:31:00,059 also referred to as the Vulture. 817 00:31:00,059 --> 00:31:02,128 >> COLLINS: Cygnus has always 818 00:31:02,128 --> 00:31:03,996 been seen among cultures around 819 00:31:03,996 --> 00:31:05,797 the world for many, many 820 00:31:05,797 --> 00:31:07,566 thousands of years as a point 821 00:31:07,566 --> 00:31:10,970 of entry and exit into the 822 00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:13,239 sky world-- this belief in a 823 00:31:13,239 --> 00:31:15,441 power in the stars, the idea 824 00:31:15,441 --> 00:31:17,443 that we come from the stars and 825 00:31:17,443 --> 00:31:20,579 actually return there in death. 826 00:31:22,248 --> 00:31:23,582 >> NARRATOR: The early Greeks, 827 00:31:23,582 --> 00:31:26,085 Chinese and others also believed 828 00:31:26,085 --> 00:31:28,354 that Cygnus had a special power 829 00:31:28,354 --> 00:31:30,522 or unique significance. 830 00:31:30,522 --> 00:31:31,958 But why? 831 00:31:31,958 --> 00:31:33,359 Why would so many ancient 832 00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:35,161 cultures around the world have 833 00:31:35,161 --> 00:31:36,695 similar myths about the same 834 00:31:36,695 --> 00:31:38,497 constellation? 835 00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:39,865 >> TSOUKALOS: The only reason 836 00:31:39,865 --> 00:31:41,600 why I would do this, if I were 837 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,270 on a foreign planet, is to give 838 00:31:44,270 --> 00:31:46,638 a message to future generations 839 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:50,042 to say, "Hey. Nudge, nudge. 840 00:31:50,042 --> 00:31:54,046 This is where we came from." 841 00:31:54,046 --> 00:31:56,048 >> NARRATOR: Although, today, it 842 00:31:56,048 --> 00:31:57,549 is no longer possible to see 843 00:31:57,549 --> 00:31:59,118 Cygnus through the notches of 844 00:31:59,118 --> 00:32:01,487 Carahunge, many theories exist 845 00:32:01,487 --> 00:32:03,522 as to why the position of the 846 00:32:03,522 --> 00:32:05,391 constellation has changed so 847 00:32:05,391 --> 00:32:07,293 drastically. 848 00:32:07,293 --> 00:32:09,428 >> WILCOCK: This site dates back 849 00:32:09,428 --> 00:32:11,430 to antiquity, where the Earth's 850 00:32:11,430 --> 00:32:12,598 axis was in a different 851 00:32:12,598 --> 00:32:13,799 position. 852 00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:16,268 And you had the constellation 853 00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:18,004 visible in the sky at that time 854 00:32:18,004 --> 00:32:19,972 because of the fact that the 855 00:32:19,972 --> 00:32:23,009 Earth was on a different tilt of 856 00:32:23,009 --> 00:32:24,843 its axis entirely. 857 00:32:24,843 --> 00:32:26,312 >> NARRATOR: Mainstream 858 00:32:26,312 --> 00:32:28,380 scientists have calculated that 859 00:32:28,380 --> 00:32:30,949 the Earth's axis slowly changes, 860 00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:33,385 or wobbles, over a 26,000-year 861 00:32:33,385 --> 00:32:34,686 period. 862 00:32:34,686 --> 00:32:36,688 But there are other researchers 863 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:38,490 who believe these shifts happen 864 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:41,793 more suddenly and dramatically. 865 00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:43,829 They claim that when these 866 00:32:43,829 --> 00:32:45,897 events occur, they cause major 867 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:49,301 climate changes... 868 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:50,636 flooding of biblical 869 00:32:50,636 --> 00:32:54,040 proportion... and the widespread 870 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,109 destruction of life. 871 00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:03,149 But if these rapid shifts did 872 00:33:03,149 --> 00:33:05,917 occur, might Carahunge have been 873 00:33:05,917 --> 00:33:07,553 designed to provide something 874 00:33:07,553 --> 00:33:09,155 of a warning? 875 00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:10,222 >> WILCOCK: It's possible that 876 00:33:10,222 --> 00:33:12,324 the Armenian Stonehenge was one 877 00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,826 of the initial sites where ETs 878 00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:16,262 came to visit. 879 00:33:16,262 --> 00:33:18,164 And if there had been some sort 880 00:33:18,164 --> 00:33:20,332 of shift on the Earth's axis 881 00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:21,833 before, if there were periodic 882 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:24,370 cataclysms, then maybe there is 883 00:33:24,370 --> 00:33:26,072 a time cycle in which those 884 00:33:26,072 --> 00:33:27,706 cataclysms happen. 885 00:33:27,706 --> 00:33:29,375 And maybe these ancients were 886 00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:30,876 very concerned about watching 887 00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:32,178 the astronomical alignments 888 00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:33,612 because they wanted to make 889 00:33:33,612 --> 00:33:35,647 sure that this wasn't going to 890 00:33:35,647 --> 00:33:39,218 happen again. 891 00:33:39,218 --> 00:33:41,353 >> NARRATOR: But could alien 892 00:33:41,353 --> 00:33:43,322 visitors from other worlds have 893 00:33:43,322 --> 00:33:45,757 come to this spot even before 894 00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:49,027 Carahunge was built? 895 00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:51,263 Perhaps petroglyphs in the 896 00:33:51,263 --> 00:33:53,499 area-- much older than the 897 00:33:53,499 --> 00:33:55,401 standing stones-- offer even 898 00:33:55,401 --> 00:33:57,002 more clues. 899 00:33:57,002 --> 00:33:58,704 >> HOWARTH: The petroglyphs go 900 00:33:58,704 --> 00:34:00,539 back to a much earlier time, 901 00:34:00,539 --> 00:34:02,040 so I think my first point is 902 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,276 not to confuse the petroglyphs, 903 00:34:04,276 --> 00:34:06,845 which are from 10,000 years 904 00:34:06,845 --> 00:34:08,347 before Christ, with 905 00:34:08,347 --> 00:34:10,015 Carahunge itself. 906 00:34:10,015 --> 00:34:11,717 When the stones went up, it was 907 00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:13,252 probably 3,000 to 2,000 years 908 00:34:13,252 --> 00:34:14,953 before Christ. 909 00:34:14,953 --> 00:34:17,189 There are thousands, if not 910 00:34:17,189 --> 00:34:19,858 hundreds of thousands, of images 911 00:34:19,858 --> 00:34:23,028 of humanoid figures on the site. 912 00:34:23,028 --> 00:34:24,563 Some of them are quite distorted 913 00:34:24,563 --> 00:34:26,365 and difficult to understand 914 00:34:26,365 --> 00:34:28,700 and interpret. 915 00:34:28,734 --> 00:34:30,702 >> MARTELL: The Armenian 916 00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:32,037 Stonehenge also has some 917 00:34:32,037 --> 00:34:33,772 interesting carved wall reliefs 918 00:34:33,772 --> 00:34:35,374 that show humanoid-looking 919 00:34:35,374 --> 00:34:36,642 beings. 920 00:34:36,642 --> 00:34:38,277 Now, many people have speculated 921 00:34:38,277 --> 00:34:39,645 that these could be possibly 922 00:34:39,645 --> 00:34:41,647 extraterrestrial. 923 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,649 We look at the very bulbous 924 00:34:43,649 --> 00:34:48,720 shaped heads, slanted eyes. 925 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:50,156 Very similar to what we see in 926 00:34:50,156 --> 00:34:52,124 a modern-day gray alien. 927 00:34:54,393 --> 00:34:56,628 >> TSOUKALOS: Look at the eyes, 928 00:34:56,628 --> 00:34:59,030 look at the shape of the head. 929 00:35:01,066 --> 00:35:02,168 What's interesting in this 930 00:35:02,168 --> 00:35:04,370 carving right here, those 931 00:35:04,370 --> 00:35:05,871 extraterrestrials are holding 932 00:35:05,871 --> 00:35:09,308 some type of a disc. 933 00:35:09,308 --> 00:35:12,378 You've got this sphere that's 934 00:35:12,378 --> 00:35:13,779 sort of just floating there in 935 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:16,882 midair. 936 00:35:16,882 --> 00:35:18,950 Is it possible that these here 937 00:35:18,950 --> 00:35:20,552 represent flying discs? 938 00:35:20,552 --> 00:35:22,554 And the answer is yes, because 939 00:35:22,554 --> 00:35:25,791 again, this is a human rendering 940 00:35:25,791 --> 00:35:27,593 of something that they 941 00:35:27,593 --> 00:35:30,662 witnessed a long time ago. 942 00:35:30,662 --> 00:35:31,930 And it had to have been 943 00:35:31,930 --> 00:35:34,766 compelling enough for them to 944 00:35:34,766 --> 00:35:38,237 carve this into stone. 945 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,441 >> NARRATOR: Could these 946 00:35:42,441 --> 00:35:44,743 ancient stone carvings actually 947 00:35:44,743 --> 00:35:46,412 be primitive portraits of 948 00:35:46,412 --> 00:35:48,380 visitors from the sky? 949 00:35:50,749 --> 00:35:52,818 Did ancient astronauts really 950 00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:54,953 use Carahunge as some sort of 951 00:35:54,953 --> 00:35:58,957 landing site or early portal? 952 00:35:58,957 --> 00:36:02,127 If so, what secrets did they 953 00:36:02,127 --> 00:36:05,431 leave behind? 954 00:36:05,431 --> 00:36:07,165 And could they still be helping 955 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,802 to create stone monoliths, even 956 00:36:10,802 --> 00:36:13,305 in our own time? 957 00:36:15,441 --> 00:36:17,976 >> NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida, 958 00:36:17,976 --> 00:36:20,479 30 miles south of Miami. 959 00:36:22,281 --> 00:36:24,450 This former agricultural town 960 00:36:24,450 --> 00:36:26,084 is home to one of the most 961 00:36:26,084 --> 00:36:27,919 mysterious structures in North 962 00:36:27,919 --> 00:36:31,590 America: a stone garden made of 963 00:36:31,590 --> 00:36:33,292 sculpted blocks of ancient 964 00:36:33,292 --> 00:36:37,263 coral, some weighing 30 tons. 965 00:36:37,263 --> 00:36:40,532 It's called the Coral Castle. 966 00:36:42,734 --> 00:36:45,571 Spread over several acres, the 967 00:36:45,571 --> 00:36:47,138 complex formations and 968 00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:48,840 intricate designs of the stone 969 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,909 walls and sculptures marvel 970 00:36:50,909 --> 00:36:52,411 tourists. 971 00:36:52,411 --> 00:36:53,745 But unlike other great 972 00:36:53,745 --> 00:36:55,914 structures around the world, 973 00:36:55,914 --> 00:36:58,917 this site is not ancient. 974 00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:00,018 >> CHILDRESS: Coral Castle in 975 00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:02,120 Florida is often said to be, 976 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,824 uh, the only modern megalithic 977 00:37:05,824 --> 00:37:09,127 structure ever built. 978 00:37:09,127 --> 00:37:11,430 >> NARRATOR: In 1923, Ed 979 00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:13,265 Leedskalnin, a Latvian 980 00:37:13,265 --> 00:37:14,600 immigrant, began building what 981 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,502 he originally called Rock Gate 982 00:37:16,502 --> 00:37:17,536 Park. 983 00:37:17,536 --> 00:37:19,271 But believe it or not, 984 00:37:19,271 --> 00:37:21,340 Leedskalnin insisted that he 985 00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:23,342 was not using modern machinery 986 00:37:23,342 --> 00:37:24,543 to build the impressive 987 00:37:24,543 --> 00:37:25,611 structure. 988 00:37:25,611 --> 00:37:27,313 He also claimed that he was 989 00:37:27,313 --> 00:37:28,614 working alone. 990 00:37:28,614 --> 00:37:29,681 >> RUSTY McCLURE: Well, Ed was a 991 00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:33,018 hermit, and Ed was a loner. 992 00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:35,053 And he was a foreigner. 993 00:37:35,053 --> 00:37:37,055 And he was a recluse. 994 00:37:37,055 --> 00:37:39,057 And a scientist. 995 00:37:39,057 --> 00:37:40,626 >> GEORGE NOORY: He was in love 996 00:37:40,626 --> 00:37:42,294 with a woman and he wanted to 997 00:37:42,294 --> 00:37:43,962 build this facility in memory of 998 00:37:43,962 --> 00:37:44,963 her. 999 00:37:44,963 --> 00:37:46,632 And he waited for her to come 1000 00:37:46,632 --> 00:37:48,534 from Europe, and he waited and 1001 00:37:48,534 --> 00:37:51,303 he waited, and she never did. 1002 00:37:51,303 --> 00:37:53,539 But the big question is, is how 1003 00:37:53,539 --> 00:37:57,309 did this frail little man move 1004 00:37:57,309 --> 00:37:59,611 these thousands of pounds of 1005 00:37:59,611 --> 00:38:03,281 block by himself? 1006 00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:04,716 >> NARRATOR: Barely over five 1007 00:38:04,716 --> 00:38:06,685 feet tall and weighing just 1008 00:38:06,685 --> 00:38:09,888 100 pounds, Leedskalnin is said 1009 00:38:09,888 --> 00:38:11,657 to have carved, moved and 1010 00:38:11,657 --> 00:38:14,460 hoisted huge multi-ton stones 1011 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:17,295 using only a makeshift tripod. 1012 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,331 >> McCLURE: He has a tripod-- 1013 00:38:19,331 --> 00:38:21,367 three pieces of Florida pine-- 1014 00:38:21,367 --> 00:38:23,068 and he's got some chains. 1015 00:38:23,068 --> 00:38:26,037 And he's now gonna lift 30 tons, 1016 00:38:26,037 --> 00:38:28,173 ten tons of rock. 1017 00:38:28,173 --> 00:38:29,174 Can't be done. 1018 00:38:29,174 --> 00:38:30,476 No one could do that. 1019 00:38:30,476 --> 00:38:31,377 >> NOORY: He would work at 1020 00:38:31,377 --> 00:38:32,177 night. 1021 00:38:32,177 --> 00:38:33,512 He wouldn't let anybody watch 1022 00:38:33,512 --> 00:38:34,145 him. 1023 00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:36,548 And he said that he knew the 1024 00:38:36,548 --> 00:38:39,651 secrets of the pyramids. 1025 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:40,986 >> NARRATOR: But what exactly 1026 00:38:40,986 --> 00:38:43,655 was Leedskalnin referring to? 1027 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,691 Had he rediscovered the same 1028 00:38:45,691 --> 00:38:47,859 advanced technology used to 1029 00:38:47,859 --> 00:38:49,661 build megalithic structures 1030 00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:53,064 like Carnac and Sacsayhuamán? 1031 00:38:53,064 --> 00:38:54,232 >> McCLURE: Ed over and over 1032 00:38:54,232 --> 00:38:56,568 again would tell people that he 1033 00:38:56,568 --> 00:38:58,670 knew the secrets that helped 1034 00:38:58,670 --> 00:38:59,838 the Egyptians build the 1035 00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:00,338 pyramids. 1036 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,607 What was he talking about? 1037 00:39:01,607 --> 00:39:03,575 Why was he constantly harking 1038 00:39:03,575 --> 00:39:04,843 back to the Egyptians? 1039 00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:06,678 We don't know. 1040 00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:07,713 >> NARRATOR: Leedskalnin 1041 00:39:07,713 --> 00:39:09,214 continued work on the Coral 1042 00:39:09,214 --> 00:39:13,184 Castle until his death in 1951. 1043 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:16,388 In the journals he left behind, 1044 00:39:16,388 --> 00:39:18,223 the builder explained that he 1045 00:39:18,223 --> 00:39:19,958 had discovered the ancient 1046 00:39:19,958 --> 00:39:22,227 secret of transforming stones 1047 00:39:22,227 --> 00:39:25,697 into weightless objects. 1048 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:26,865 >> McCLURE: Ed says this in his 1049 00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:28,500 pamphlet "Magnetic Current," 1050 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:31,236 that real gravity is actually 1051 00:39:31,236 --> 00:39:33,271 real magnet. 1052 00:39:33,271 --> 00:39:35,173 So if you reverse the magnet 1053 00:39:35,173 --> 00:39:37,709 forces with a force of some 1054 00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:41,079 kind of electromagnetic radio, 1055 00:39:41,079 --> 00:39:43,849 perhaps, frequency, you can then 1056 00:39:43,849 --> 00:39:47,085 make these rocks not as heavy 1057 00:39:47,085 --> 00:39:48,520 as they seem otherwise. 1058 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,023 And therefore you can lift them. 1059 00:39:52,023 --> 00:39:53,592 >> NARRATOR: But if Leedskalnin 1060 00:39:53,592 --> 00:39:55,260 had developed a device that 1061 00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:58,564 could modify gravity, what was 1062 00:39:58,564 --> 00:39:59,965 his secret? 1063 00:39:59,965 --> 00:40:02,233 Some suggest the answer lies in 1064 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,536 a mysterious black box that can 1065 00:40:04,536 --> 00:40:06,838 be seen in various photographs. 1066 00:40:09,074 --> 00:40:10,876 A box that has since 1067 00:40:10,876 --> 00:40:13,445 disappeared. 1068 00:40:15,881 --> 00:40:16,882 >> McCLURE: The black box 1069 00:40:16,882 --> 00:40:19,117 sitting on top is the element 1070 00:40:19,117 --> 00:40:21,553 that no one has ever seen, 1071 00:40:21,553 --> 00:40:23,889 except in those pictures, and no 1072 00:40:23,889 --> 00:40:25,090 one has today. 1073 00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:27,325 We believe that black box has 1074 00:40:27,325 --> 00:40:29,628 something to do with how he got 1075 00:40:29,628 --> 00:40:33,565 these massive, heavy, brittle 1076 00:40:33,565 --> 00:40:36,334 pieces of rock up in the air in 1077 00:40:36,334 --> 00:40:38,770 a way that no one can duplicate. 1078 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,739 >> NOORY: He had some kind of 1079 00:40:40,739 --> 00:40:42,574 magnetic machine down in one of 1080 00:40:42,574 --> 00:40:44,576 his other house areas that 1081 00:40:44,576 --> 00:40:46,244 has since been dismantled. 1082 00:40:46,244 --> 00:40:48,413 But it had a revolving ability. 1083 00:40:48,413 --> 00:40:49,848 He may have been having that 1084 00:40:49,848 --> 00:40:50,582 thing spin. 1085 00:40:50,582 --> 00:40:51,750 The whole place could have been 1086 00:40:51,750 --> 00:40:53,619 anti-gravity. 1087 00:40:53,619 --> 00:40:55,053 Probably just pushed these 1088 00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:57,055 into place. 1089 00:40:57,055 --> 00:40:58,456 >> SARA SEAGER: Levitation is 1090 00:40:58,456 --> 00:40:59,758 the only way that I know of to 1091 00:40:59,758 --> 00:41:01,392 hold up very heavy objects. 1092 00:41:01,426 --> 00:41:03,595 Very, very high-speed trains 1093 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:05,731 are magnetically levitated. 1094 00:41:05,731 --> 00:41:08,266 (train whistle blows) 1095 00:41:08,266 --> 00:41:10,135 These high-speed trains don't 1096 00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:11,069 have wheels that touch any 1097 00:41:11,069 --> 00:41:11,670 tracks. 1098 00:41:11,670 --> 00:41:12,904 They're literally suspended 1099 00:41:12,904 --> 00:41:15,073 above the track using magnetic 1100 00:41:15,073 --> 00:41:17,075 forces. 1101 00:41:17,075 --> 00:41:18,076 >> BRANDENBURG: We can 1102 00:41:18,076 --> 00:41:20,579 speculate at this time that 1103 00:41:20,579 --> 00:41:23,248 there are techniques for using 1104 00:41:23,248 --> 00:41:25,183 electromagnetism to nullify 1105 00:41:25,183 --> 00:41:27,118 gravity. 1106 00:41:27,118 --> 00:41:28,520 This was the great quest of 1107 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,355 Einstein. 1108 00:41:30,355 --> 00:41:32,090 The motivation for such 1109 00:41:32,090 --> 00:41:33,191 technologies, of course, is to 1110 00:41:33,191 --> 00:41:34,860 lift a large spaceship out into 1111 00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:37,428 space and across space. 1112 00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:39,430 (indistinct radio chatter) 1113 00:41:43,468 --> 00:41:44,502 >> NARRATOR: Could it be that 1114 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:46,605 Ed Leedskalnin utilized 1115 00:41:46,605 --> 00:41:48,974 anti-gravity to levitate and 1116 00:41:48,974 --> 00:41:50,842 distribute the enormous rocks 1117 00:41:50,842 --> 00:41:53,478 used to build Coral Castle? 1118 00:41:53,478 --> 00:41:56,114 If so, where did this incredible 1119 00:41:56,114 --> 00:41:58,884 knowledge come from? 1120 00:41:58,884 --> 00:42:00,451 >> COPPENS: And he died, taking 1121 00:42:00,451 --> 00:42:02,053 this secret to his grave. 1122 00:42:02,053 --> 00:42:03,655 The question is: did he invent 1123 00:42:03,655 --> 00:42:06,157 it, or did he himself somehow 1124 00:42:06,157 --> 00:42:08,126 inherit it or learn it from a 1125 00:42:08,126 --> 00:42:10,128 tradition, or maybe from some 1126 00:42:10,128 --> 00:42:13,164 visitor from another realm? 1127 00:42:13,164 --> 00:42:14,399 >> McCLURE: The only thing that 1128 00:42:14,399 --> 00:42:17,636 is explainable is that someone 1129 00:42:17,636 --> 00:42:21,106 with a higher form of physics 1130 00:42:21,106 --> 00:42:23,374 and understanding of gravity 1131 00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:25,343 has created the ability of one 1132 00:42:25,343 --> 00:42:27,713 person to lift stones that 1133 00:42:27,713 --> 00:42:30,448 modern technology could not do 1134 00:42:30,448 --> 00:42:31,683 the way he did it. 1135 00:42:31,683 --> 00:42:33,351 It had to come from a different 1136 00:42:33,351 --> 00:42:35,987 place in this galaxy. 1137 00:42:43,662 --> 00:42:45,030 >> TSOUKALOS: The fact that one 1138 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:48,199 guy created these massive 1139 00:42:48,199 --> 00:42:50,836 structures is absolutely 1140 00:42:50,836 --> 00:42:52,003 fascinating. 1141 00:42:52,003 --> 00:42:54,472 Am I suggesting that he did 1142 00:42:54,472 --> 00:42:55,641 this with extraterrestrial 1143 00:42:55,641 --> 00:42:57,308 technology? 1144 00:42:57,308 --> 00:42:59,978 No, because I don't know. 1145 00:42:59,978 --> 00:43:02,748 Am I excluding that possibility? 1146 00:43:02,748 --> 00:43:04,482 No. 1147 00:43:04,482 --> 00:43:05,851 >> NARRATOR: If aliens visited 1148 00:43:05,851 --> 00:43:08,920 Earth in ancient times, perhaps 1149 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,255 the world's unexplained 1150 00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:12,691 structures provide clues to 1151 00:43:12,691 --> 00:43:14,993 unlocking not only the secrets 1152 00:43:14,993 --> 00:43:17,996 of our past... 1153 00:43:17,996 --> 00:43:20,565 but a glimpse into our future. 1154 00:43:20,565 --> 00:43:22,000 >> VON DANIKEN: I think that 1155 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,101 extraterrestrials would not 1156 00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:25,503 have left our solar system some 1157 00:43:25,503 --> 00:43:27,038 thousands of years ago without 1158 00:43:27,038 --> 00:43:28,173 any proof. 1159 00:43:28,206 --> 00:43:30,041 They wanted that in the far 1160 00:43:30,041 --> 00:43:32,543 future we start to reflect-- 1161 00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:33,912 have we been visited by outer 1162 00:43:33,912 --> 00:43:36,181 space? 1163 00:43:36,181 --> 00:43:37,415 >> NARRATOR: Perhaps additional 1164 00:43:37,415 --> 00:43:40,351 clues still lie hidden, etched 1165 00:43:40,351 --> 00:43:44,289 on even more massive stones... 1166 00:43:44,289 --> 00:43:46,858 and waiting to be discovered, 1167 00:43:46,858 --> 00:43:48,660 right before our eyes.