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A temple of the dead in the Yucat�n...

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an underground city in Turkey...

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And a South American cave said
to contain a treasure from

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beyond the stars.

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For centuries, people have told
tales of caves and tunnels deep

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inside the Earth.

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Subterranean passageways that

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lead to lands of gods and monsters.

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But is there a surprising truth
behind these legends?

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I have stood in
front of drawings on the rocks

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and wondered, "am I looking at a

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extra-terrestrial biological "entity?"

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Could there really
be mysterious places far

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beneath our feet?

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Places whose origins might not
be of this Earth?

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There were
certain aspects of the caves for

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which geology could not provide an answer.

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Millions of people
around the world believe we

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have been visited in the past
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, should we be looking
for proof of their existence

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not in the heavens above but in

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mysterious worlds deep beneath
the surface?

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Underground Aliens
Original Air Date on November 18, 2010

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Bordered on the north by the
black sea, and by the Taurus

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mountains to the South, lies
Cappadocia in central Turkey.

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Here, wind and water have
sculpted strange shapes out of

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the soft volcanic rock... rock
which ancient peoples once

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turned into small, primitive dwellings.

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In more recent years, the site
has seen the construction of

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more modern structures.

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But in 1963, a simple home
renovation in the town of

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Derinkuyu led to an
extraordinary discovery when a

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cave wall was opened, revealing
a passageway to an underground

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city thousands of years old and
more than 280 feet deep.

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I've been there on multiple occasions, and

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it's incredible because there's
13 stories that go deep into

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the ground, with ventilation
shafts and 15,000 little shafts

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that bring air to even the
deepest of levels.

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Incredibly, the
number of rock rooms that were

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found could hold an estimated
20,000 men, women and children.

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There was even evidence of
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winepresses and stables for livestock.

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Oh,

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Derinkuyu would've been a
massive undertaking for anyone,

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even in modern times with modern
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But in those days, it would've
been, um... stupendous.

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Equal to the pyramids.

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At Derinkuyu, because of the
softness of the stone, you had

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to be very careful that you
provided enough pillar strength

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to support the floors above,
otherwise you'd have

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catastrophic cave-ins.

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Surprisingly, there's no
evidence of any catastrophic

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cave-ins, so they were
apparently extremely clever and

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knew their material.

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We're talking deep antiquity.

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It is mind boggling to
understand how they could've

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done this.

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Perhaps they had help from some
other civilization.

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But just who built
this massive underground city?

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And what mysterious force drove
them to live underground?

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Why would people want to live deep

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underground in these weird
caverns like that?

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It seems kind of scary, really.

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According to many
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Derinkuyu was most likely
intended to serve as a

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temporary shelter from
invasion... built around 800 b.C.

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By the Phrygians, a bronze age
people related to the trojans.

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Others believe it was built by
the hittites, a warrior people

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mentioned in the Bible who
flourished hundreds of years earlier.

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But could the underground city
be even older?

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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, it is, perhaps by

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many thousands of years.

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The Cappadocia region of Turkey
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empire, which was persian in nature.

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And it's one of the oldest
religious traditions on the face of the Earth.

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The zoroastrian
religion... an ancient faith

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based on opposing forces of
good and evil... is widely

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believed to have influenced
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judeo-christianity.

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Founded sometime
before the sixth century b.C.,

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its chief God is the creator, Ahura Mazda.

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And in the second chapter of
the zoroastrian sacred text,

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the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves
mankind from a worldwide

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environmental disaster... much
like the story of Noah in the

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Hebrew testament.

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The great prophet
Yima was instructed to build a

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kind of underground refuge
similar to Derinkuyu by the sky

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God Ahura Mazda.

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According to the
sacred texts, Yima built a

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multilevel underground city to
protect a select group of

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people and animals, not from a
flood but from a global ice age.

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The Vendidad calls this "the
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According to many mainstream
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age peaked around 18,000 years
ago and ended around 10,000 b.C.

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Is it possible that Derinkuyu
was built as a refuge from a

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devastating global winter?

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Since you cannot carbon date stone, it's

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anybody's guess how old
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And my question is: If we have
a zoroastrian story that's very

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similar, could it be that both
that place and Derinkuyu are

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much, much older than what
we've believed so far?

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But if Derinkuyu
is in fact the underground

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city that Ahura Mazda told his
followers to build, could there

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be a stunning truth behind the legend?

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If so, who or what was the God
Ahura Mazda?

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Ahura Mazda does
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the management of whatever is
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There are various ways to read
this, one of which is that it

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does represent some sort of
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But another is that it would
represent an overseeing

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extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Several sacred texts from antiquity

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speak of knowledge given to
mankind from extraterrestrials,

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but also known as gods from antiquity.

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Could the sky God
Ahura Mazda really have been an

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advanced being from another world?

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So, did he provide the
technology needed for his

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followers to build this complex
labyrinth as protection from

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environmental disaster?

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Or is there possibly a more ominous
reason for Derinkuyu's existence?

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Some say a clue lies in the
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security system: 1,000-pound
doors on rollers that allow

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them to be moved by a single
person, but only from one side.

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The Derinkuyu doors... 
they're very cleverly constructed.

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You can basically only open it
and leverage it from the inside.

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So obviously,
whoever inhabited Derinkuyu was

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hiding from someone or something.

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According to the
ancient zoroastrian texts,

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Ahura Mazda soared through the
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waged war against his eternal enemy, 
Angra Mainyu, the demon of destruction.

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But could this really be-. As
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theorists believe... a depiction
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battling over control of the
Earth and its resources?

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The aerial enemies were extraterrestrials,

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because they were the ones who
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They had access to those types
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about in every single ancient
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When you look at
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also see clear evidence that
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extraterrestrial battle going
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Therefore, it is certainly
possible that the original

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caves may have been used as
shelters against possible

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aerial bombardment from
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warring with each other during that time.

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Derinkuyu was
built out of fear of an aerial

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enemy, because if something
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you can't see the ventilation shafts.

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Some suggest 30,000 people used
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During recorded
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did in fact hide in the
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to escape everything from
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But some experts wonder whether
such conventional attacks can

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really explain why Derinkuyu
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If it were an enemy that was on horseback,

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it would be easy for them to
just smother everyone inside by

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just closing all the ventilation shafts.

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We had the phrase in the defense

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department studies that I
participated in: "The cave is a

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grave to a well-prepared "adversary."

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Once you find it, it is highly vulnerable.

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But did the people of Derinkuyu really go

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underground to avoid becoming
casualties in an

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extraterrestrial battle in the skies?

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And, if so, might there be other such cities 
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are.

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And they can be found much
nearer to home... deep in the

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caves of the American southwest.

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The majestic mesas
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American southwest are home to
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the navajo, zuni, pueblo, hopi and Apache.

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These tribes have many
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creation myths all share
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When we talk about
our origin, you know, you hear

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the stories about us coming down
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But what we believe is we
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The Apaches and
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the Zunis and the hopi Indians,
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emerged from some underground
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In some legends,
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back underground for safety.

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The hopi of Arizona say their
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storm of falling stars with the
help of the snake people, who

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took them to shelters deep in the Earth.

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Another hopi legend speaks of
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them from storms of fire and ice.

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The hopi Indians
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in this underground world with
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period of time, and then
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the underground world back into
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Ant people?

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Snake people?

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Could these stories be based on
ancestral tales of people

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actually living underground...
possibly during the last ice age?

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Or could the ancestors of
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have taken refuge in
sub-surface dwellings similar

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to the underground city of
Derinkuyu in Turkey?

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If so, over the centuries,
might they have developed

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physical traits... like large
eyes and fingers... that made

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them more closely resemble
actual Earth-dwelling creatures?

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The shamans, and
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they will tell you that before
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emerge out of planet Earth,
they were brought here by the

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star-people, the star-gods,
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I have stood in front
of what are called the ant

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people and some of the very
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the rocks and wondered, "am I
looking at native American

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interpretation of what today is called
a extraterrestrial "biological entity?"

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If extraterrestrials were here in
the remote past, there are

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multiple species out there, is
it possible that they might've

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looked lizard-like and ant-like?

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And the answer is yes.

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Is it possible that
these underground creatures of

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native American legend were
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If so, could some of them still
be living beneath the surface

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of the southwestern desert?

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For decades, stories of
encounters with UFOs and alien
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people of new Mexico's
Jicarilla Apache reservation.

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Some of the aliens in these
stories bear a strange

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resemblance to the ancient
tales of the ant-like and

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snake-like beings from the hopi legends.

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There is things up here 
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The Jicarilla
Apache reservation is located

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next to the small town of Dulce,
nestled in the shadow of the

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over 9,000-foot-high Archuleta mesa.

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It is from this mesa and mountain that

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people claim they have seen
UFOs flying out of the mountain.

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It was a spaceship we saw right there.

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And it was big... like maybe the
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And then we seen this dome on
top that was all glassed in.

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And then my husband was looking
at it with the binoculars and

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he saw two small people.

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Well, we don't know what it is.

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If we stayed here and they came
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would have done to us.

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Could the native tales of spaceships 
and strange creatures be true?

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Some ufo researchers and
conspiracy theorists believe

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that these eyewitness accounts
are not only true, but are

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evidence of a secret collaboration between

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underground aliens and the U.S.
Military.

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The amount of
military traffic over Dulce, the

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unmarked helicopters, the black
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All these helicopters spend a
lot more time in Dulce than

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they should if nothing were going on here.

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Among the stories that we've
heard from the Jicarilla Apache

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is that they discovered vents,
actually right here on the mesa.

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Awhile back, when
my brother was still alive we

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used to come up here in the
back, and he sHowed us this

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shaft and that thing was bigger
than... bigger than me.

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But we walked in, and I didn't
want to go any further.

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The vents were here maybe 25 years ago.

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You'd hear strange noises.

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Groans.

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Sighs.

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Human groans.

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And this lent a lot of credence
to stories that human beings

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were being vivisected, experimented on.

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And thus the legend of strange
creatures and strange noises

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coming out of this mesa grew and expanded.

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Aliens living underground.

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Strange, secret government cover-ups.

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Could native American legends
of underground beings help

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unEarth the truth behind these
incredible stories?

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Some think the answer might be
found deep beneath the surface

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of north America, but others
believe the truth lies hidden

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in a mysterious cave...

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thousands of Miles to the South.

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A cave that hides proof of
alien visitors who journeyed

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beyond the stars.

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South America.

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The andes mountain range in Ecuador.

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For thousands of years, this
rain forest... high on the

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eastern slopes... has been the
land of the Shuar, headhunters

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who are fiercely protective of
their homeland, and its secrets.

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And of all the Shuar's secrets,
perhaps none has been so

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carefully guarded as the location 
and entrance of the cave of Tayos.

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But why?

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Perhaps the answer can be found
in the story of an Italian

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catholic missionary named
father Crespi, who lived in the

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region in the middle of the last century.

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Father Paolo Carlo Crespi.

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He was loved by the Indians.
He helped them without, uh,

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asking for money.

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And the Indians made him some presents.

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But what was unique
about the "presents" or gifts

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given to father  Crespi was that
they often took the forms of

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elaborately-carved artifacts...

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some made of gold or other
precious metals.

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Often these objects featured
elaborate carvings and

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symbols... not known to be
associated with the Shuar culture.

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In his 1973 book, gold of the
gods, ancient astronaut

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theorist erich Von Daniken
wrote of father Crespi's

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incredible collection... which
he believed to come from the

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cave of Tayos and which were,
in his opinion, treasures from

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an unknown and highly-advanced culture.

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The startling questions posed
in Von Daniken's book soon

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inspired Scottish explorer
Stanley Hall to try and solve

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the mystery himself.

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In 1975, Hall traveled to
Cuenca to see father Crespi's

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collection with his own eyes.

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I had for years
been researching South America

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as the missing page of pre-history.

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I first heard of the Tayos
caves in erich Von Daniken's

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book and followed it through from there.

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And one of the presents which the old

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priest received is a tablet
with 36 writings.

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It's metallic tablet.

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No one until today was able to
translate these writings.

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In 1976, Stanley
Hall mounted an expedition

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of more than 100 people to explore Tayos.

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Among them was American
astronaut Neil Armstrong, the

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first man to walk on the moon.

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Entering the cave through a
jungle entrance known to the

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Ecuadorian army, the explorers
were fascinated by what they

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encountered... especially large
areas that appeared to have

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been excavated by someone...
Or something.

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The head of the
British geological group, Dr.

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Brian Kelly, in 1976, he
admitted that it was difficult

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for him to explain the actual
large doorways that you see in

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these caves.

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Although Stan Hall's expedition did find a

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tomb chamber with items dating
to 1500 bc...

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A ring! A stone ring!

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The expedition
found no treasure and no trace

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of anything that looked like
the artifacts in father Crespi's collection.

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But if Tayos was not the secret
origin of father Crespi's

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amazing collection, where did
it come from?

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Undaunted, Hall didn't give up his search.

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15 years later, in 1991, the
explorer tracked down an

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Ecuadorian named Petronio
Jaramillo who claimed to have

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entered the cave of Tayos
through a secret entrance back

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in 1946.

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And apparently,
Petronio had visited this cave

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for the very first time when he
was very young.

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When he was in his teens.

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He said that he had to dive
underwater, go in... in this

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underwater tunnel, and then come up.

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Jaramillo told Hall
he wandered through chamber

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after chamber of ancient relics,
including a vast room of books

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made from gold and other
metals... books with

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unrecognizable writing...

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Possibly like that on one of the

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metal tablets in father Crespi's
collection.

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The other things looked like formulas,

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and so on, and so on.

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So it was one spectacular
statement after another.

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Some argue whether
or not an ancient civilization

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had come down to Earth and had
used this cave system to leave

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certain artifacts of their
civilization behind for us

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to recover.

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Unfortunately,
before he could guide Stanley

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Hall to the underwater cave
entrance, Petronio jaramillo

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died, taking the secret to his grave.

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Stanley Hall himself died in
2008 before he was able to renew

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his search for the so-called
metal library.

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Fortunately, Stanley Hall's
daughter Eileen has decided to

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continue her father's work.

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Unless we find
this treasure, unless we can

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see, translate the writing, it's
still a big question mark over

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who wrote it, why they put it
there and who put it there.

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But when Eileen Hall began to look for the

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location of father Crespi's
original artifacts, she learned

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that much of the priest's
collection had mysteriously

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vanished shortly before his death in 1982.

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But why?

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Had Crespi's artifacts fallen
prey to thieves?

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Or might the Shuar have taken
their treasure back into the

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cave where they found them?

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Whatever the answer, Eileen
Hall has continued to research

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other artifacts from elsewhere in Ecuador.

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And like father Crespi's
objects, some seem to have

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uncanny resemblances to other
cultures that, according to

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mainstream archeology, ancient
Ecuadorians could not have had

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any knowledge of.

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This collection
is made up of what my father

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believed to be the formative
cultures of Ecuador.

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This is from the coastal culture
from 600 bc to 1600 ad, and this

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is very humanlike, but at the
same time, some features have

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been exaggerated.

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Here, you've got the smaller
face with the kind of bigger

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ears, and the elongated skull
shape on the head.

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The top of this
head looks like an elongated

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cranium, an elongated skull,
and it is identical to this

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Egyptian statue that we find
all over Egypt.

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To see this picture right here
and compare it to the Egyptian

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bust we see right here, it's
uncanny... the head shape is identical.

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Do Stanley Hall's
artifacts show evidence that

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Egyptian cultures could have
crossed the oceans to influence

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South American culture?

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Or is it possible that both were
influenced by another culture...

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one from beyond our world?

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If so, were the strange writings
inscribed on father Crespi's now

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missing metal tablets actual
messages from an alien world?

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My father went
as far as saying it was possibly

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an advanced civilization, but
we can't know for certain until

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this library is found.

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So this metallic library is still there in

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Ecuador in a subterranean cave.

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There are still Indian tribes
living there.

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They are still protecting the
old treasure.

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So it's going to
push the boundaries of academia

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once this cave system has been found.

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And whether it is Inca or
extraterrestrial, it doesn't

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really matter at this moment in time.

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Let's get to this cave and see
what is in there.

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Perhaps Tayos has yet to reveal all of its

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secrets, but more than 700 Miles
to the north, there is another

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cave... one that may prove that
the Mayan underworld and the

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terrifying gods who ruled it
were not only very real, but

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thirsty for human blood.

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The Yucat�n peninsula...

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One of Mexico's premier
tourist destinations.

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Besides scenic beaches, the area
is covered by thick jungle and

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pockmarked by massive sinkholes
known as Cenotes.

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The ground beneath the jungle is
also honeycombed with caves.

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But here, in 2007, Mexican
archaeologist Guillermo de Anda

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found a cave like no other.

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Following clues in the records
of 17th-century Spanish priests

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that hinted at the existence of
a mysterious underground Mayan

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temple deep in the jungle,
de Anda found a series of caves

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near the village of Tahtzibichen...

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Caves not seen for hundreds of
years, and with entrances

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submerged beneath centuries of floodwater.

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Sometimes we have to 
dive into these caves.

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Sometimes they go very deep.

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The average depth of our
research is about 140, 150 feet,

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but we know of caves much deeper
than that.

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At first, de Anda
and his team found carved stone

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heads and broken pillars with
1,900-year-old Mayan inscriptions.

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We have found columns under the water, and

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these columns are amazing
because some of them are five

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feet high and at least ten feet wide.

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But as de Anda
surfaced in the dry areas of the

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cave, he found what he believed
to be the remains of a massive

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underground temple complex,
including a concrete road,

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a crumbled pyramid and bones.

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But why was it here?

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The Mayans themselves have, uh, very

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intriguing legends of an
underground world called Xibalba.

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And it's believed now by
archaeologists that what they

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found is what the Mayans thought
was the entrance to this

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legendary underground world that 
features prominently in the Popol Vuh.

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Could this dark and
mysterious cave really be the

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underground world mentioned
in the Mayan legends?

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According to the Popol Vuh, the
written record of Mayan

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mythology, the underworld
kingdom of Xibalba, meaning

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"the place of fear," was ruled
by the cruel lords of the dead,

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who made those who entered their
realm pass through a series

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of torture chambers, involving
blood, darkness, cold, knives,

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bats and jaguars.

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We see here in this
one archaeological spot an

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actual physical representation
of what the Mayans felt the soul

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had to go through.

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Might, perhaps,
this cave of stalactites, sharp

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enough to pierce flesh,
represent the "room of knives"

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in the Popol Vuh?

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There is also, arguably, a
"room of bats," and a trench

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that might once have been
filled with blood, like the

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river of blood in the story that 
Mayan pilgrims had to cross over.

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There are places of cold and darkness... 
and even a room with carvings of jaguars.

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These caves were
littered with large patches of

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spiders and reptiles and all
types of tumultuous things that

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a human really wouldn't want to
be exposed to.

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Although some archaeologists claim this

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unique site was simply modeled
after the description of

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Xibalba in the Popol Vuh, de
Anda insists that items from

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the cave date back to a time
centuries before the Mayan holy

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book was written.

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It's not that there was this document and

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they, uh, tried to, uh, imitate
what the document said.

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I think it's all the other way around.

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We believe that we have found
the particular Xibalba of the

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central part of the Yucat�n.

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This is why we do believe it was
a real place.

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00:34:11,181 --> 00:34:17,651
But if Xibalba is real, were the 
lords of the dead also real?

477
00:34:17,686 --> 00:34:22,188
And if so, who or what were they?

478
00:34:22,189 --> 00:34:26,424
According to the
Chilam Balam book, which is the

479
00:34:26,459 --> 00:34:30,194
book of the Jaguar priests, it
says in there, that at that

480
00:34:30,228 --> 00:34:37,134
time "the road to the stars
descended from the sky, and the

481
00:34:37,168 --> 00:34:42,573
"13 and nine gods came to Earth."

482
00:34:42,574 --> 00:34:43,641
I'm sorry.

483
00:34:43,675 --> 00:34:46,210
"Road to the stars," "descended
from the sky."

484
00:34:46,244 --> 00:34:47,444
Can it be more clear?

485
00:34:47,479 --> 00:34:48,712
I don't think so.

486
00:34:48,747 --> 00:34:52,150
Right there we have a direct
reference to someone that has

487
00:34:52,184 --> 00:34:57,621
arrived from outer space, and
we have a written record about this.

488
00:34:57,655 --> 00:35:02,324
Could the "lords of
Xibalba" and other Mayan gods

489
00:35:02,359 --> 00:35:07,428
really have been
extraterrestrial travelers?

490
00:35:07,462 --> 00:35:14,167
If so, why did they display such 
a thirst for blood and torture?

491
00:35:14,168 --> 00:35:18,204
I do not believe human sacrifice was
originally taught by the ets.

492
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,341
I believe it came in the
aftermath of when the original

493
00:35:21,375 --> 00:35:25,645
teachers of humankind had arrived.

494
00:35:25,646 --> 00:35:29,382
The ancient gods, which were
really just humans from

495
00:35:29,416 --> 00:35:35,153
another world, withdrew from the
area, and the people became distraught.

496
00:35:35,187 --> 00:35:39,157
The more they became
distraught, the more they took

497
00:35:39,191 --> 00:35:43,794
the original mythology and interpreted
it in a much more literal way.

498
00:35:43,829 --> 00:35:47,164
So what might have started out
as the myth about the sun dying

499
00:35:47,198 --> 00:35:50,801
and being reborn when it sinks
below the horizon, becomes

500
00:35:50,835 --> 00:35:54,470
literally the idea of killing
people to make sure that the

501
00:35:54,505 --> 00:35:57,640
sun is gonna come back up.

502
00:35:57,674 --> 00:36:00,809
As archaeologists
and explorers continue to

503
00:36:00,843 --> 00:36:05,580
ununcover sites where legend and
reality meet, could there be

504
00:36:05,614 --> 00:36:09,717
even more evidence that
mankind's history on this planet

505
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:14,421
is much more profound than what
we currently understand?

506
00:36:14,455 --> 00:36:19,559
There are those who believe the secret 
lies even deeper within the Earth...

507
00:36:19,593 --> 00:36:23,229
As deep as its very core.

508
00:36:31,583 --> 00:36:35,819
The north pole...
a seemingly endless wasteland of

509
00:36:35,853 --> 00:36:41,925
arctic ice, shrouded in darkness
for six months of every year.

510
00:36:41,959 --> 00:36:46,529
Here, there is no food, no
shelter, not even a cave to

511
00:36:46,563 --> 00:36:49,932
hide from the slashing winds
and temperatures that can dive

512
00:36:49,967 --> 00:36:53,569
to 90 degrees below zero.

513
00:36:53,570 --> 00:36:57,774
But according to mainstream
geology, beneath the pole and

514
00:36:57,809 --> 00:37:05,049
the arctic ocean lies the Earth's mostly 
rocky crust, up to 30 miles thick.

515
00:37:05,084 --> 00:37:08,586
Below this is molten rock,
heated by the planet's spinning

516
00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:14,860
core, with a solid center of iron 
and nickel the size of the moon.

517
00:37:14,861 --> 00:37:17,829
Scientists have deduced this
information from measurements

518
00:37:17,863 --> 00:37:23,602
of Earth's gravity, magnetism
and seismic waves.

519
00:37:23,636 --> 00:37:28,005
But no one has ever seen these areas.

520
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:32,610
Could the frozen surface of the
pole be hiding a gateway to a

521
00:37:32,644 --> 00:37:37,448
world within our surface world?

522
00:37:37,483 --> 00:37:42,520
There are those who believe the
answer is, "yes."

523
00:37:44,490 --> 00:37:49,794
And what they believe is known
as the hollow Earth theory.

524
00:37:49,795 --> 00:37:56,869
The hollow Earth theory is that, 
this Earth is not molten inside.

525
00:37:56,870 --> 00:38:00,139
It is actually hollow, and that
suspended in the hollow of the

526
00:38:00,173 --> 00:38:02,775
Earth is an inner sun.

527
00:38:04,644 --> 00:38:07,813
Surprisingly, the
notion of a hollow Earth was

528
00:38:07,847 --> 00:38:11,617
first given scientific credence
by one of the founders of

529
00:38:11,652 --> 00:38:14,020
modern astronomy.

530
00:38:14,055 --> 00:38:17,724
The idea that
the Earth might be hollow, as a

531
00:38:17,758 --> 00:38:21,827
scientific notion, dates back
to the astronomer Edmund Halley

532
00:38:21,862 --> 00:38:26,066
who is best known for his comet.

533
00:38:26,067 --> 00:38:31,872
In 1691 he presented to the
London royal society his

534
00:38:31,906 --> 00:38:37,144
hypothesis that the Earth is
hollow and contains several

535
00:38:37,178 --> 00:38:39,746
little spheres inside.

536
00:38:39,747 --> 00:38:43,818
Sort of like those Russian
Matryoshska dolls.

537
00:38:43,852 --> 00:38:48,056
He was hypothesizing this for a
very practical reason.

538
00:38:48,090 --> 00:38:52,761
The Earth's magnetic pole moved
a little bit every year to the

539
00:38:52,795 --> 00:38:59,000
west, and his idea was that our
outer sphere had inner spheres

540
00:38:59,034 --> 00:39:03,037
that turned independently of
the outer one.

541
00:39:03,071 --> 00:39:06,840
He also suggested that these
interior spheres would also be

542
00:39:06,874 --> 00:39:10,743
able to support life.

543
00:39:10,778 --> 00:39:15,215
In 1818, former
U.S. army Captain John Cleves

544
00:39:15,249 --> 00:39:19,854
Symmes, Jr., announced that
there were vast openings at each

545
00:39:19,888 --> 00:39:24,025
pole where we could enter inner Earth.

546
00:39:24,060 --> 00:39:28,064
With Symmes, the
idea of a hollow Earth gets tied

547
00:39:28,098 --> 00:39:30,900
into exploring for the pole.

548
00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:34,871
At this point, nobody had actually seen 
Antarctica, for instance.

549
00:39:34,905 --> 00:39:39,141
The hollow Earth theory again captured the

550
00:39:39,176 --> 00:39:44,146
public's imagination in 1864
with the release of Jules

551
00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:48,983
Verne's second novel, a journey
to the center of the Earth.

552
00:39:49,018 --> 00:39:53,755
The novel takes an
Icelandic guide and a Professor

553
00:39:53,789 --> 00:39:58,093
and a young man down into the
center of the Earth.

554
00:39:58,128 --> 00:40:00,596
Journey to the center of the
Earth could really have been

555
00:40:00,630 --> 00:40:03,733
called a journey to the center of geology.

556
00:40:03,767 --> 00:40:06,903
Geology and paleontology were a
very hot topic in the early

557
00:40:06,938 --> 00:40:11,108
1860's and there's a lot of
discussion of that in journey

558
00:40:11,143 --> 00:40:13,079
to the center of the Earth.

559
00:40:13,812 --> 00:40:16,647
Narrator but while Verne
popularized the idea that

560
00:40:16,682 --> 00:40:20,184
extinct life forms might still
exist inside the Earth, others

561
00:40:20,218 --> 00:40:25,789
envisioned that the Earth contained 
advanced underground civilizations.

562
00:40:25,824 --> 00:40:30,126
Supposedly, they have advanced technology.

563
00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:33,129
They've got ray guns and special weapons.

564
00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:38,668
And even they have flying
saucers, other craft like that.

565
00:40:38,669 --> 00:40:42,639
But is there any
evidence that such fantastic

566
00:40:42,674 --> 00:40:46,277
claims could be true?

567
00:40:44,309 --> 00:40:49,047
And has anyone actually been to
the world within our Earth?

568
00:40:49,081 --> 00:40:52,050
Proponents of the hollow Earth
theory say, "yes," and that

569
00:40:52,085 --> 00:40:55,787
one of the explorers was no
less a luminary than famed

570
00:40:55,821 --> 00:40:59,657
polar pioneer admiral Richard e.
Byrd.

571
00:40:59,691 --> 00:41:03,728
In the 1920s, byrd made world
headlines by flying over the

572
00:41:03,762 --> 00:41:07,899
north pole, and by becoming the
first man to fly solo over the

573
00:41:07,933 --> 00:41:10,134
South pole.

574
00:41:10,169 --> 00:41:14,071
But hollow Earth theorists
believe that the famous

575
00:41:14,105 --> 00:41:21,144
explorer went even farther, and
that, on February 19, 1947,

576
00:41:21,179 --> 00:41:24,214
admiral byrd piloted a plane
through a hole near the north

577
00:41:24,248 --> 00:41:28,185
pole into the interior of the Earth.

578
00:41:28,220 --> 00:41:31,321
A flying saucer type
craft took control of his

579
00:41:31,356 --> 00:41:37,762
airplane, with some kind of
tractor beam... and they landed

580
00:41:37,796 --> 00:41:39,830
him near an inner Earth city.

581
00:41:39,865 --> 00:41:43,167
And the message that they had
for us was that they consider

582
00:41:43,202 --> 00:41:47,739
themselves the guardians of
this planet, okay?

583
00:41:47,774 --> 00:41:52,378
He says, "we don't approve of you
people using nuclear weapons."

584
00:41:52,413 --> 00:41:56,282
We had just blown up a couple
of cities in Japan a couple of

585
00:41:56,316 --> 00:42:02,354
years before, so this was the
message that he was given.

586
00:42:02,389 --> 00:42:06,225
But when he got to Washington,
they put a lid of secrecy on

587
00:42:06,259 --> 00:42:10,796
this, that this was not to go out.

588
00:42:10,830 --> 00:42:14,132
Some say admiral
Byrd's own account of this

589
00:42:14,166 --> 00:42:18,369
flight into the hollow Earth is
detailed in his secret diary,

590
00:42:18,404 --> 00:42:23,740
published in the 1990s, almost
four decades after his death.

591
00:42:23,775 --> 00:42:28,745
But skeptics claim the diary is
a forgery and point out that in

592
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:33,082
February 1947, at the time
admiral Byrd was supposedly

593
00:42:33,117 --> 00:42:37,286
visiting this other world
underneath the north pole, 

594
00:42:37,321 --> 00:42:42,225
he was actually part of a vast
4,700-man naval exploration

595
00:42:42,259 --> 00:42:44,427
called "operation high jump,"

596
00:42:44,462 --> 00:42:49,399
12,000 Miles away, near the South pole.

597
00:42:49,434 --> 00:42:53,404
But could Byrd's inclusion in
this large military operation

598
00:42:53,439 --> 00:42:58,143
at the South pole have been
merely a cover story?

599
00:42:58,178 --> 00:43:02,916
Some people claim it was, and
this allowed him to slip away

600
00:43:02,950 --> 00:43:07,821
to the other end of the planet,
unnoticed by the media.

601
00:43:07,822 --> 00:43:10,291
Admiral Byrd, the rumor was, found a

602
00:43:10,326 --> 00:43:12,293
world of flying machines, and

603
00:43:12,327 --> 00:43:15,196
people, and... more advanced than us...

604
00:43:15,230 --> 00:43:18,466
And that they helped him, and
then he left again.

605
00:43:18,467 --> 00:43:20,301
It's a myth.

606
00:43:20,335 --> 00:43:24,805
Nobody's really been able to
prove it, but it's a great myth.

607
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,175
Could there really
be vast, open spaces within the

608
00:43:28,209 --> 00:43:32,446
Earth where advanced civilizations live?

609
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:37,451
Could extraterrestrial gods
really have come to Earth,

610
00:43:37,485 --> 00:43:40,454
centuries ago, and hidden the
evidence of their journeys deep

611
00:43:40,488 --> 00:43:43,224
within caves and tunnels?

612
00:43:43,258 --> 00:43:46,193
Perhaps we have only just
scratched the surface of our

613
00:43:46,228 --> 00:43:49,163
planet's underground mysteries.

614
00:43:49,197 --> 00:43:53,200
If so, what clues to our
distant past might still be

615
00:43:53,235 --> 00:43:57,137
waiting to be found, and
hiding in the darkness?

616
00:43:57,172 --> 00:43:58,439
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