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Tonight on the "Proof is Out There:

Unexplained Edition",

what Laid a golden egg on the ocean floor?

Many are convinced that it is some type of USO.

Is this something extra-terrestrial?

They've been called drinking cups for giants.

Who made them?

How did they get here?

How did people transport them there?

How were they built?

Why did 17th century Poland bury the dead

as if they might return?

Vampire burials were so pervasive

at this time that officials actually banned them

to try to tamp down on the superstitions

about the creatures.

Did a man write a book in a single night,

and did he make a deal with the devil to do it?

Behind these devil's pacts,

you can't just orally agree

to some kind of agreement with him.

You must sign in blood.

Around the world,

people are collecting evidence of the unexplained,

tonight's focus, bizarre finds.

The mystery is, well, what are they?

Because at the moment we simply don't know.

Our experts will analyze the evidence

and then we'll pass a verdict.

One thing for sure,

these people did not want these corpses to walk again.

The Proof starts now.

Good evening and welcome to the "Proof is Out There".

We've had alleged alien corpses

and even alien fetuses on the show before,

but tonight, for the first time,

we're going to investigate an alleged alien egg

at the bottom of the sea.

Check this out.

It's August 30th, 2023, and researchers

at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

or NOAA, are live streaming a mission

to find new life in these unexplored waters off Alaska.

The ship, the Okeanos Explorer has sent a tricked out ROV,

or remotely operated vehicle,

two miles down below the surface.

And before long, the device's camera

comes across this confounding site.

It's a strange golden orb

resting on the Alaskan sea floor.

It's smooth, rounded texture

looks almost egg like.

The scientist are dumbfounded

having never seen anything remotely like this before.

As we were coming across it,

I was like, huh, that looks pretty interesting.

And I was like, ooh, I don't really know what that is.

Scientists from around the world

watching the live stream are just as perplexed.

Some scientists suggested

that this could possibly be coral,

but many believe that's highly improbable

due to its smooth surface and lack of coral like holes.

Other researchers have shot down the idea

that this could simply be a sponge

due to its apparent fragility.

The closer we got, rather than getting more answers,

I think we got more questions.

So we ended up deciding to take a sample

and bringing it back on board.

The mysterious specimen

is brought to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

where its identity remains a mystery to this day.

Many are convinced that it is some type of USO

or unidentified submersible object.

Is this something extra terrestrial in nature?

Underwater ETs seem farfetched.

While there are those who believe

that all life on earth may have originated

from an extraterrestrial source.

Gerhard points to a recently popularized theory

in the scientific community called Panspermia.

Panspermia, which is the concept

that the seeds of life are planted throughout the universe.

Imagine a micro organic substance

traveling through the cosmos on an asteroid.

If such life forms can survive the pressures of outer space,

then these essentially become the seeds of life

on other planets.

Many believers in Panspermia suggest

that at some point in history,

these space seeds crashed into earth's surface

leading to the development of life, even us.

Other theories picture the phenomenon

as something more sinister,

that these space seeds are dangerous

and could contaminate our planet

spelling doomed for all indigenous life.

However, Gerhard presents one more theory

that this still could be a creature of earthly origin

that haunted these waters millennia ago.

On May 18th, 2011,

paleontologists working in the Tongass National Forest

of southeast Alaska discovered the fossilized remains

of a new species of thalattosaur.

Very strange aquatic reptiles

that lived during the Lower Triassic

about 200 million years ago.

Could this golden object be the egg

of some unknown species of surviving dinosaur?

Can organisms really survive in space?

Well, tobacco seed samples

were mounted outside of spacecraft for more than a year.

After they were returned to earth on the space shuttle,

a quarter of them survived

well enough to be grown as plants.

Could this golden orb have spawned from a seed

that was equally space worthy?

Let's check in with the experts.

It's been suggested

that this could be the egg of a thalattosaur,

a group of marine reptiles that became extinct

during the mid to late Jurassic.

Even though they have found fossilized,

the lattice source up in Alaska,

they couldn't possibly survive there today

because reptiles are exothermic or cold-blooded,

which means they're not gonna be able

to maintain any body heat in the cold water off of Alaska.

The idea of panspermia

is actually very biologically and evolutionarily unlikely.

We typically think of organisms as fungi or animals

or bacteria, but before that there was actually something

called the last universal common ancestor.

And this was a creature of some sort

that was the common ancestor for all life on earth

as we know it today.

The last universal common ancestor

was a single cell bacterium like organism

that many scientists believe was the ancestor

of all living things on earth.

This was essentially

a cellular structure we know

that life on earth evolved this way.

It's actually very unlikely

that the last universal common ancestor

traveled from a different planet.

In fact, new research

suggests that this original organism

may have generated on cracks in the ocean floor.

So could this deep water orb represent the discovery

of a new earthly species?

I would guess this may be the egg casing

of some kind of ocean animal

because it's a very thin membrane

that is attached to a rocky surface.

And that gives an embryonic animal time to develop

in a safe and static environment.

But until there's molecular testing or genetic analysis

of whatever this is, we don't know for sure.

And that's part of the excitement of the ocean,

there's always something new to find.

Our verdict, we are leading toward this being the egg

of an undiscovered species.

Our experts seem to agree that this is an egg shell

or casing of some kind, but exactly what it is

and where it came from remains unknown.

This is exciting stuff, people.

We may have witnessed a discovery of something profound

in real time.

We often wonder about the vastness of space

and the unexplored depths of the oceans.

There's also a whole world

of the unexplained beneath our feet.

In this next story, something massive with huge claws

seems to be tunneling through the earth.

Take a look.

On a Friday evening in 2008,

geology professor Heinrich Franc is home bound

on the freeway past the town of Novo Hamburgo, Brazil.

Something catches his eye at a construction site

on the side of the road.

Take a look.

The first tunnel I found was very, very small,

and when I entered I see immediately,

the claw marks on the walls.

Look closer.

Dr. Frank focuses on this,

grooves dug into the tunnel walls

and slashes in the surface.

What could have made these marks?

Dr. Frank's research dates the caves

to be about 12,000 years old,

and there's reason to think,

they aren't just natural formations.

Taking a close look at 'em

from a scientific point of view,

they don't appear to be natural caves

based on the types of rocks that they're being cut in.

Some of these rocks are much harder than the easy rocks

that would be broke by water.

They also have a really weird shape,

and that they're more horizontal than they are vertical,

which tells me that something carved these tunnels out.

And when you consider all the megafauna,

you have only two animals

with the necessary claws to build tunnels,

the armadillos and the sloths.

We're talking now about the Pleistocene Era,

which ended 11,700 years ago.

It was the age of megaphone,

gargantuan mammals like mastodons,

and in this case, perhaps the famous giant sloth.

Could Frank have discovered some sort of ancient burrow

or could such an animal believe to be extinct,

still be living there today.

When you go inside the stones,

sometimes you feel like the animal is on the next corner.

The fossil record shows that megalonyx sloths

were the size of present day bull elephants,

but throw in three massive claws

on each forearm used for defense.

They roam the western hemisphere when humans first arrived.

One can only imagine how terrifying it must have been

to try to hunt these giant ground sloths.

In fact, there has been evidence found

of these giant ground sloths, the mylodonts,

that were actually trapped in a cave in Argentina

and corralled and kept as a food source by primitive humans.

Giant sloths and humans together,

if it sounds like something out of a horror film

instead of history, a recent find will change your mind.

At White Sands In New Mexico,

archeologists uncovered the prints of a giant sloth

being followed by humans.

They were stalking it.

So could these giants still be around?

Did they dig the Brazilian tunnels?

And if not them, then what did?

If you take a look

at one of the tops of the ceilings

of one of these caverns,

you'll see that there looks like claw marks.

Bob Anderson thinks some sort of burrowing creature

made these caves.

And what if these animals still exist?

Well, some people have suggested

that these giant caves

are actually the holes and burrows.

Well, that's a interesting idea, but show me the artifacts.

So far, there's no proof.

No one has captured a giant sloth, found a carcass,

or taken a single picture of one.

So I can take giant sloth right off the list.

And Barnhart even questions

if giant sloths ever dug these tunnels at all.

Look down in this section here.

Look, there's one, one, one.

There's one coming across here.

There is no reason to believe that these are claw marks

because they would be repeatedly sections of three.

Barnhart makes a good point.

But if a giant three toad had uneven claws,

it might leave one, two, or three marks

depending on how hard it was digging.

Still, Barnhart thinks it's more likely

the marks were created by an extinct worm-like creature

called a trilobite.

Some were predators.

The biggest weight is much 10 pounds.

And they were known to burrow into walls.

These are much more like worm casts

that were into the wall.

Trilobites make more sense to me

because those are individual hot dog shaped things

that attach themselves to the wall and dig in.

But hang on, as you can see,

there are distinct differences

between these confirmed trilobite tracks

and what we see in Dr. Frank's tunnels.

Is this case really closed?

Okay, it's true that no giant sloth fossils

have been found in Dr. Frank's tunnels,

but the marks don't look

exactly like trilobite tracks either.

So we can't come down on one side or the other.

We're calling this an unexplained phenomenon

until we get further proof.

Can evil spirits possess our bodies

even after we die?

In our next story, we take a look at evidence

from an ancient burial ground

that indicates a genuine fear of the undead

among a terrified community.

Were they onto something?

It's late 2023 in the village of Pien, Poland.

Dariusz Polinski along with his team of fellow researchers

are excavating an unmarked 17th century cemetery,

first discovered in 2005.

Archeologists have unearthed nearly 100 graves at the site.

Their digs just keep getting stranger

until they make this ghastly discovery.

This photo shows remains that archeologists say

are those of a 6-year-old boy who was buried face down

with a padlock under his left foot

that's seemingly chaining him to the earth

as if to keep the body from getting up

and leaving the grave.

A woman's body was also found in the cemetery

with a sickle around the neck placed in such a way

that if the deceased tried to get up,

the head would be severed or at least injured.

What's going on here?

Journalist Erin McCarthy says,

it could tie back to the concept of reanimation.

Reanimation of this kind was a really big fear in Poland

in the 17th century.

They were really afraid of revenants.

Revenant might not be a term

that many people are familiar with.

It actually comes from the French word revenir,

meaning to come back, and it describes a number of creatures

that rise from the dead.

If the idea behind the demonic like beings

known as revenants sounds familiar,

it's because the concept would overlap

into what we now call the vampire.

Many folklores suggest that there was a perceived

outbreak of vampirism in most of Eastern Europe

during the 17th and 18th centuries where many individuals

reported seeing violent acts

perpetrated by recently deceased individuals

who continued to walk the earth.

One famous tale in 1674,

a Polish man rose from the dead,

and he was going around sucking the blood of his neighbors.

His nocturnal wanderings only stopped

when the body was decapitated.

Historians suggest materials made of iron

like the small lock

were used to keep members of the undead at bay.

There are hundreds of burials like this

across the Baltic states.

In Poland, in Bulgaria, and in other areas.

Vampire burials were so pervasive at this time

that officials actually banned them

to try to tamp down on the superstitions

about the creatures.

However, this is the only time

a child has been found buried this way.

Many scholars today, believe that the legends we now know

as vampires first originated amongst Slavic people

as early as the fourth century.

The word vampire itself

is thought to be derived from the Latin word impurus,

meaning impure or unclean.

Could these remains really belong to early blood suckers?

Let's see what our experts think.

Dr. Ed Barnhart believes we are seeing

what he calls apotropaic burials.

Burials conducted in a specific manner

with the intention of warding off evil.

Practically speaking, shackling someone's toe

is not going to prevent them from getting up.

But their talismans, the material mattered,

the placement mattered,

but they were basically magic incantations

that prevented that body from coming back.

But Barnhart suggests

that the reason this child may have been considered

a revenant like vampire could be due to ignorance

of a more real world condition.

Somehow or another, these people

were mistreated or misunderstood.

Perhaps they had a mental illness

that people didn't sympathize with,

but the remedy was always the same.

Keep that body in its grave,

make sure that it can't wriggle out of the dirt

and come for us

During the time of the plague,

they probably overreacted in fear

and that might be what we're seeing here.

It logically makes sense to me

that the 6-year-old was probably targeted

because he was sick first,

and they wanted to make sure that whatever it is

that he had didn't spread.

Our verdict.

We're going with superstitious burial.

There has never been tangible proof

over the last several centuries

to establish the existence of revenant like vampires.

But whatever was going on with this child

spooked these people enough to bury him in this way.

For many people of faith,

the Bible is recognized as the word of God,

a sacred scripture handed down from the heavens.

But in this next story, we're cracking open a spiritual text

that's rumored to be of unholy origin.

The National Library of Sweden in Stockholm

holds a collection of more than 18 million items

that date back over a thousand years.

What's the biggest draw?

Well, history buffs, religious scholars, believers,

and nonbelievers alike, all find themselves drawn to this.

It is believed

to be the largest preserved medieval manuscript

in the world.

The Codex Gigas, famously called The Devil's Bible,

and it's easy to see why.

Weighing 165 pounds, this is an 800 year old

620 page book said to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys

or possibly calves.

Within the pages of this historic tome

is a terrifying depiction of the devil.

But how the book was made and by whom is a mystery.

There's a really interesting legend

about how this book was created.

They say that there was a monk at the monastery

where this was created in Bohemia.

He committed some kind of grave sin,

and he was sentenced to be walled up alive.

He said, please, I will write a book

with all of the knowledge in the world overnight,

and then can I escape this punishment?

And the Abbott said, sure.

He tried to write this book in one night, it didn't work,

so the devil appeared to him and said,

"I'm happy to write this book for you in one night,

you just have to give me your soul."

And the Codex Gigas or the Devil's Codex was created.

This origin story isn't the only unsettling tale

surrounding the book.

There's another account of a museum caretaker

who suffered a mental breakdown

after being trapped with the book

inside the national library overnight.

And if that's not spooky enough,

there's also another mystery

of what's been torn from the book's pages.

There was a lot in this book,

aside from the pictures of the devil in heaven,

the Old Testament, the New Testament,

calendars and ecclesiastical texts,

a dictionary of medical knowledge,

and even text for an exorcism.

However, there are some pages missing.

Some people think the missing pages from The Codex

contain an incantation used to summon the devil

where they torn out to keep people from doing that,

we can't speculate, but we did ask our experts

to speak to the mystery of who made this book and how.

First, is this the work of one man

on one sleepless night?

Well, that's half right.

One of the studies that have been done in recent times

is a handwriting analysis, and to our surprise,

it turns out that the text part

was almost certainly written by a single person.

The handwriting is identical throughout the book.

But as far as the rest of the story, not so fast.

Even if it was penned by a single person,

it's virtually impossible

that it was done in a single night.

The kind of ink that they used back in those days,

that took hours in and of itself

to dry before you could turn the page.

So even if you accept the man was possessed,

the ink wouldn't have cooperated.

The National Library of Sweden

set out to find how long it would've taken.

They've done a little bit of math or calculation

on just how long it might take a monk

to accomplish this work.

You figure they work six days a week,

taking Sunday off of course,

working six hours a day, you might say,

but trim that down to three because of all the activities

that a monk will have to do in his day.

But then when you do that calculation,

it comes out to be 20 or 30 years of dedicated effort

in order to accomplish this.

As for the devil's portrait,

it's worth noting that the Dark Lord's image

comes immediately after another full page artistic depiction

of heavenly Jerusalem.

That has left some suggesting

that the person who drew the devil

actually made a two page spread

that contrasts a symbol of salvation against one of evil.

I think perhaps this was the work of a monk

who was dedicated to elucidating the mysteries

as relate to the devil

and thought it would be a contribution

to society and the church

to spend year after year, decade after decade perhaps

creating this incredible work.

Our verdict, man made, or maybe we should say monk made.

The devil may be in the details,

but according to our experts,

he's not behind this centuries old text.

Burial sites,

storage containers,

or drinking goblets for giants

all have been offered as explanations

for these next odd structures.

The problem is, trying to find the correct answer

could kill you.

It's March, 2014 in the Xiang Khouang Planie

in Laos Highlands.

Amateur archeologist Alexander Kerekes

sets out to capture a mysterious sight on film

for one of the first times ever.

His footage shows thousands of large stone jars

scattered a few feet apart throughout the field.

These huge hollow jars are different sizes

and look almost like

they grew out of the vegetation around them.

The fascinating thing is some of these jars are humongous.

You ask yourself, how did they get here?

How did the people transport them there?

How were they built?

Eric Grundhauser says,

the stone jars have baffled scientists and locals

since French archeologists first studied them in the 1930s.

These giant stone jars date back almost 3000 years.

They have these nearly perfectly round apertures at the top.

They stand anywhere from 3 to 10 feet high.

Some of them weigh as much as 14 tons.

There is no written history

about the origin of these jars,

but local legend points to an ancient king of the giants.

The story goes

that Khun Cheuang won a decisive battle,

and to celebrate, he wanted to create a feast

with this local Laos-Laos rice wine.

And so he created all of these giant cups

for his giant army.

Others have speculated

that these artifacts may have had a more practical use

for travelers of the ancient world.

One theory is that these jars were placed

along an ancient trade route

and that they acted sort of as storage containers.

So as travelers passed through the area,

they could come here, leave the goods in one of these jars,

and then another traveler could come pick them up,

almost like an ancient dropbox.

Yet another theory is that these weren't used

for sustenance in life,

but instead were part of a ritual of death.

The concept that these jars

would've been used as burial earns is backed up

by the findings of some archeologists

who in a nearby cave found some human remains

and some ashes.

The simple fact that these jars

have survived is an anomaly.

They lie on the site of the Secret War in Laos,

where the US government dropped more bombs

on the country in the 1960s and 70s

than they used in Germany and Japan combined

during World War II.

The area is off limits to most since the region

is littered with mines and active bombs

making it too dangerous to study properly.

But let's see what our experts can uncover.

Dr. Ed Barnhart explores whether

there's any credence to the legend of the giant king.

Giants

are in virtually every folklore around the planet.

It might be something to do

with finding dinosaur or mammoth bones.

Mammoth skulls were the origin of cyclopses,

but archeology has yet to produce a single skeleton

of a giant humanoid creature.

So I can rule out that these jars

are made by and for giants.

Then could these containers have been used

as part of an ancient form of dropbox

as Grundhauser suggested?

These jars are leading up towards northern India,

and that would lead one towards the conclusion

that they are part of a trade route.

People had to have access to food and water.

They may have also needed places

to temporarily store the things

that they were transporting and trade to secure them.

And Barnhart believes,

a recent discovery supports this theory.

In a region called Assam,

they found another 65 of these jars.

The more we find of these jars

and see that there is a linear pattern they're following,

the stronger the hypothesis

that they represent a trade route

between India and Southeast Asia.

I believe that these jars represent a burial practice

that was very common in that area at the time.

There is a cave nearby

that has what is now a chimney drilled into it

and black soot.

We now realize that those were for cremations.

Then they would remove the bones

and then put 'em in a secondary burial.

And then put the ashes into one of the jars.

And we know this because some of the jars

that have been opened had human remains in them.

But scientists believe

the human remains found in the jars

were placed there long after the jars were created.

So the containers might have been repurposed at some point.

Our verdict, we like Barnhart's trade route storage theory.

The discovery of those similar jars in India

is pretty convincing.

We know that ships have traveled back and forth

between the Indian subcontinent in southeast Asia

since prehistoric times, carrying spices,

aromatic roots, and resins.

Still, the lack of written records

and the fact that the dangerous landscape

inhibits further study

means we may never have a definitive answer.

There have been both myths and documented cases

of civilizations living underground.

Have we just found proof of another one?

Let's travel to a mysterious spot

at the edge of the earth to find out.

It's August, 2020 in Russia's Yamal Peninsula.

A TV crew is flying over the remote permafrost

of the Siberian Arctic.

But suddenly, the scene goes from beautiful to bizarre.

Emerging from the tundra is a large opening in the earth.

Back down on the ground, a research scientist

captures the giant maw of the 65 foot diameter pit

from right on the edge of the precipice.

As he walks along the brink,

he snaps photos of the packed dirt

that rings the circumference

and the sheer gray rock that stretches down

to an unseen depth.

Author Jason Martell says,

this is just one of more than a dozen similar chasms

found recently in the region.

We have to wonder what is the cause

of these massive holes?

They don't seem natural.

They seem out of place.

Martell says, some suspect these pits

could be the mouths of tunnels

leading to an ancient underground civilization.

Ancient humans first started taking shelter in caves

as much as 1.8 million years ago.

But it wasn't until the late 1600s

that a scientist named Edmond Halley

proposed that a larger open space existed within the planet,

possibly inhabited by humans or other creatures.

One offshoot of Halley's Hollow Earth theory

suggest that advanced prehistoric people

made a honeycomb of caves in the earth

from which their descendants

still terrorized those living up on the surface.

This is what's known Troglodyte architecture.

A Troglodyte is a person who lives in a cave.

And Martell says, there's another storied example

out of California.

Hopi legends speak of an advanced race

of lizard people,

not reptilians, but worshipers of lizards

who built a great city under what is now Los Angeles.

They did this to shield themselves

from some type of cataclysmic fires.

But apart from the Troglodyte Civilization Theory,

Martell says, these holes could have

an even scarier modern explanation.

During the Cold War, the Soviets engaged

in several secret,

yet somewhat reckless nuclear tests in the region.

Would we really be surprised

if this crater is the result of recent

or even prior Russian nuclear detonation tests?

This isn't the only strange hole on Russian soil.

In the 1970s, the Soviets drilled the cola

super deep borehole, now the deepest manmade hole on earth

reaching down almost eight miles.

They claimed the project was purely for research,

but could these mysterious tundra holes be connected?

Let's see what our experts can unearth.

Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku analyzes

if this could be the result of a nuclear blast.

The crator created by nuclear detonation

does not look like this at all.

Plus, the killer application here

is a geiger counter that looks for signs of radiation.

If it was a nuclear blast, you'll find evidence

of radioactive strontium, iodine, cesium

scattered throughout the area.

And we find nothing.

No alpha, beta, gamma radiation,

it's a perfectly non-radioactive area.

So could this be an example

of Troglodyte architecture?

There is evidence

that ancient civilizations

did move underground during times of extreme weather,

during times when ice was appearing on the planet.

Unfortunately, we don't find anything in here

from an archeological point of view

that indicates that this was manmade.

You don't find any staircases.

You don't find anything

that indicate that this would be an entrance

into an underground civilization.

So if this hole wasn't made by humans,

then could it be the result

of a natural disaster like a meteorite strike?

When a meteorite hits,

it has a tendency to take the material that's in the center

and flip it over onto the edges.

And when you look at these,

we don't find that reversal of stratigraphy at all.

You're just seeing a combination of materials here,

which leads you one to believe

that this is what's called an endogenic explosion

that came from the inside,

causing the material to explode outwards.

And Kaku thinks, he knows just what caused

that outwards explosion.

This is tundra.

Tundra has vegetation that froze thousands of years ago,

and as we have global warming

and as the tundra begins to thaw out,

this vegetation releases organic gases like methane gas.

These methane gas will often collate

rise to the surface and create a dome.

These domes, in fact, are unstable,

and eventually the dome collapses.

Methane is potentially explosive

and it has enough energy to create a hole of this nature.

Our verdict, this is likely what's known

as a gas emission crater

caused by methane that built up underground

and was then released by climate change.

The explosions are described as going off

like a huge bottle of champagne

throwing debris hundreds of feet,

and setting off gas fires that burn for over an hour.

The Nazca Lines of Peru

are world famous for their strange geometric shapes.

But on the other side of the world,

we found another set of impressive

and mysterious markings.

The question is, who made them and why?

Wadi Wisad, Jordan.

In this swath of the black desert is an ancient site

local Bedouins called "The Works of Old Men".

It was discovered by Westerners in the 1920s

when pilots flying over the desert looked down

and saw this,

a series of dark circles on the desert floor.

They look like enormous wheels.

A closer look reveals,

the circles are made of arranged rocks.

Some of the circles are bisected by winding strips of stone,

while others seem to have lines resembling spokes.

It was a wonderful experience to just fly

from one to the other to try and understand what they were

because they are unique in this particular landscape.

None of them, as far as I'm aware, have been excavated.

There are fascinating,

but as yet completely unrevealed in terms of their function.

It's that mystery, which has led some

to an extraterrestrial explanation.

In the 1968 book, "Chariots of the Gods",

it was speculated that the Nazca Lines

were actually built as landing sites

or as a way for people to communicate

with extraterrestrials, which has led others to speculate

that perhaps the black wheels of the desert in Jordan

are built for the same purpose.

The theory that extraterrestrials

might have been present in antiquity isn't new.

Sumerian texts speak of a group of God-like beings

known as the Anunnaki, who some say we're alien visitors,

but do we see anything here

that suggests an alien influence?

First, we're one of this area's

ancient civilizations behind this?

Jordan has fantastic archeology,

like Petra is the most amazing example.

Petra was made by the Nabataeans

somewhere in the third or fourth century BCE.

The Nabataeans were highly resourceful engineers

who managed to build an empire in the desert,

constructing dams, canals, and reservoirs.

Problem is, these circles are way older

than the Nabataean culture.

So digging some of these up,

we can get in a date based on the rock itself,

and those dates are coming back very, very early.

The earliest of these wheels date back 8,500 years.

We know there were nomadic tribes

in the area at the time.

So could these be the remains of camps?

Nomadic people, oftentimes,

they wanna band together

for safety, and they wanna be close,

but they also need to subdivide that area practically.

So another theory of these areas between the spokes

is that they are subdivisions

of where various clans are living within the property.

Another theory suggests

that the wheels may have had the same purpose

proposed for another ancient

and mysterious rock structure, Stonehenge.

If you go with the idea of Stonehenge

being a astronomical clock or an astronomical calendar,

then this could be an astronomical calendar

that we see from other indigenous people here on earth.

Another hypothesis is that it was actually a compass

helping the ancient people navigate through these regions

during this time.

But we admit these are just best guesses.

Who knows?

Perhaps they were made to communicate

with extraterrestrials, real or imagined.

If you look at

the unconformity of the structure,

what really makes it very difficult

to figure out what it initially was designed for.

So in the end, when you look at these kinds of structures,

all you have is speculation

of what actually they were used for and who used them.

Our verdict, unexplained structures.

These circles were clearly made

by ancient people of the Middle East,

but we don't know who, let alone their purpose.

The secrets of these structures may have died

with the unknown old men the Bedouins credit

for their construction.

Strange discoveries continue to challenge

what we think we know about the past,

and who knows what we'll uncover next.

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