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Seven stone giants standing guard

over a Pacific island.

But what are they protecting, and from whom?

According to the people of the island,

they face the actual homeland of their ancestors.

Could the answer be found some 2,000 miles away?

We are baffled by what it's all about.

Ancient astronaut theorists,

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

embark on an incredible journey...

This is the famous Hiva.

...to a land of bizarre figures...

Look at all these heads with the big goggle-shaped eyes.

...and forbidden places...

If you step on the site,

something bad is going to happen to you.

...in search of what could be

the ultimate evidence of mankind's

extraterrestrial origins.

If we can crack the mysteries of Easter Island,

we're going to be able to open up once and for all

the true mysteries of the ancient world.

Easter Sunday,

April 5, 1722.

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen

is 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile,

leading a fleet of three ships on an expedition to establish

a western trade route to the Spice Islands.

In the early afternoon, he is alerted by his crew

that they have spotted a small island,

and that there is smoke rising from it in several places,

suggesting that it is inhabited.

When they reach the shore, they are surprised

by the appearance of some of the natives.

When Roggeveen and his crew

discovered Easter Island in 1722,

accounts were written down

that not only did they stumble across

normal Polynesian-looking people, but as well,

people of giant proportions,

who were light skinned, had red hair,

and even blonde hair.

As recorded in the ship's log,

they also made another, even more unexpected discovery.

"We noticed certain

"remarkably tall stone figures.

"These stone figures caused us to be filled with wonder,

"for we could not understand how it was possible to erect them.

"Some of these statues were a good 30 feet in height

and broad in proportion."

Roggeveen named this remote land "Easter Island,"

after the day on which it was discovered.

But today, nearly 300 years later,

Roggeveen's questions concerning the strange appearance

of the natives, as well as the origins and purpose

of the gigantic stone statues, known as moai,

have yet to be answered.

One can imagine that the moai,

being set up all around the island with their backs

to the outside world looking inwards,

were a kind of protective barrier

that the ancestors would look after them,

and protect their little world.

The thing about these moai

is that they have these very strange faces, very elongated.

They don't look quite human.

They're humanoid,

but they're somehow different than ordinary humans.

They look almost alien in appearance.

And you have to wonder, what do they ultimately represent?

Carved from volcanic rock,

the nearly 900 moai each weigh up to 90 tons,

and the tallest of them tower above the landscape

at heights of more than 30 feet.

There have been many theories over the years

as to how they were moved.

The first theory is thought

that they must have been dragged horizontally

on sledges or rollers or something of that kind.

It was tried again recently for a TV film,

and again they moved it a few meters

but it really doesn't, uh, prove anything.

The idea

that the trees were cut down at some point,

and they were all used for rollers, wooden logs,

falls by the wayside, because wooden rollers

would not be able to support

the weight of some of these statues.

You're talking about several hundred statues,

and it would depend on the size and weight of the statue,

the number of people you had available to help,

the distance you were going to go, the kind of terrain.

So, basically, we don't really know.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the answers to just how the moai were transported

and positioned in the island

can be found in the legends told by the native people,

legends that suggested a type of energy,

known as "mana," was used to literally levitate

the giant sculptures into place.

According with, uh, oral tradition and the legends...

The king was given the gift of mana

from the great creator god, Makemake.

Legend holds that the king commanded

that these great stone statues walk.

And one has to wonder,

well, either they all

were off their rockers describing these things,

or they witnessed something.

And I'm leaning more in the direction

that they witnessed something

because there had to have been a spark of inspiration.

And so, in my opinion,

mana was some type of extraterrestrial technology

that allowed these stones

to be levitated into place.

When the statues had pupils,

they came to life,

imbued with mana to have supernatural powers.

According to the Easter Island myth,

this power came out of the eyes of the statues,

and was this mystical power.

It's like it was creating some kind

of force field of energy

that surrounded the island and protected it.

So you have to wonder if there's something real here,

and was it some kind of extraterrestrial technology?

Of all the many mysteries of Easter Island,

perhaps the most puzzling involves

not only the construction of the moai,

but their positioning on the island.

880 of the 887 moai face inland,

but on the west edge of the island,

seven of the moai are positioned on a platform

known as Ahu Akivi,

and face outwardly, towards the sea.

Moais face in, it's believed,

because they're protecting the village that they oversee.

Ahu Akivi is the one exception.

The moais there look out to sea.

Not only that, they're identical.

But why would these seven identical moai face out

to sea, when all of the other moai on the island face inland?

Could it be that they were meant to point to a specific location

somewhere farther out?

Perhaps the answer can be found by drawing a straight line

from the line of sight of the seven moai.

Following it on a northwesterly route,

the first landmass in its path is the Marquesas Islands,

roughly 2,300 miles from Easter Island.

The Marquesas are an extremely remote island group,

which is part of French Polynesia.

It's a three-and-a-half-hour flight northeast of Tahiti.

And it's a part of what's known as the Polynesian triangle,

which is bound by Hawaii in the north,

Easter Island in the east,

and New Zealand in the west.

It was the last place on Earth that was discovered.

And there's probably more mystery shrouded in the Pacific

than any other place in the world.

To follow up on the incredible theory

that Easter Island's origins might be found

on one of the remote Marquesas Islands,

in June, 2018, ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

set out to explore the islands for themselves.

This is gonna be a great exploration

to see what connection there is

between Easter Island and right here.

Should be quite the adventure.

- Hello. - Hello.

I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you.

- I'm Aniata. - Hi, I'm David.

Arriving on one of the Marquesas Islands,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos

and David Childress meet

with local guide Aniata Kimitete.

Let's go explore.

- Great. - All right.

She has brought them to an area known as Kamuihei,

a sacred place believed to be rich

in what the natives call "mana" or spiritual power.

Here, they hope to find the answer as to why seven

of the nearly 900 giant statues on Easter Island

are all facing in the direction of this remote island chain

in the South Pacific.

So we are arriving

at this spot where I really wanted

to show you about this site.

Oh, look at this.

What we see here is what we call petroglyphs.

Yeah.

So you have three turtles.

So one, two, three here.

And also, on the rock, you can see a canoe.

- Okay. - So you have the head

of the canoe here that looks a little bit like a bird.

Their canoes had a bird head at the front.

Do you see the beak?

- Yeah, that looks like a bird head. - Yeah.

And what is the significance of the turtles?

The turtle is actually the messenger from the gods.

He was a very sacred animal.

People were not allowed to eat them.

You know, I think

this is really interested what you said,

that the turtle is regarded here

as a messenger of the gods,

because this is not something new.

It's not something native to this area.

There are other parts of the world

where the turtle is described

by having descended from the sky.

And the idea that this is here, too, considered

a messenger of the gods, that, to me, is a connection

to potential extraterrestrials.

Throughout the world,

numerous ancient cultures have origin stories

that involve some sort of a divine or "cosmic" turtle.

Followers of Japanese Shinto venerate the Kame-ishi,

a stone turtle that portends the end of the world.

In Guatemala, there are legends of giant flying turtles,

and even artifacts that feature the image of a man wearing

what appears to be a helmet lying inside a turtle shell.

In North America, the Iroquois Indians tell tales

of a "sky goddess"

who falls to Earth from the sky,

whereupon a giant turtle rises up

from the ocean to catch her.

I think it's interesting here,

this canoe, which would have been very large,

has the bird head on it.

And you have the Birdmen

of Easter Island that are so famous.

One of Easter Island's ancient traditions involves

Tangata manu, or the Birdman cult.

According to legend, the creator god, Makemake,

was looking in a mirror and saw a bird land on his shoulder.

Seeing his image combined with the bird,

he decided to make a son who was half man, half bird.

In turn, the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island worshipped

the Birdman as the predecessor of all humans.

One of the central focuses of the rituals,

the annual rituals at Easter Island,

was that of Tangata manu, the Birdman.

And the Birdman is a universal symbol

that we find in many parts of the globe

that relates to ancestry associated with figures,

characters in feather coats who were seen

to be able to go between this world and the next.

And here we have the same ideas on Easter Island.

Is there more to see on the island?

We have a lot more to see on the island.

- Okay. - So let's go. - Okay.

After showing Giorgio and David

the ancient petroglyphs, Aniata takes them to a site

that has some of the most striking statuary

in the Marquesas.

Right now, we are at the Tohua of Temehea.

So, the tohua is the gathering place.

And so this sculpture here is a modern sculpture.

But is this based on something old?

Yes. Because the site that we're on was rebuilt.

Even though it's modern,

it's really based on the original statue.

Oh, wow. Okay.

Is this considered a tiki?

Yes, these tikis represent the population.

So, to the Marquesan people,

wh-what is a tiki?

A tiki, at first, was the representation of our god

of magic and sorcery.

He was one of the only god in French Polynesia that has

the face of a man.

He became our protector,

because when you have a tiki

by your side, then you're protected from your enemy.

In the Marquesas,

the word "tiki" can be used to refer

both to an ancestral figure that came to the islands

in ancient times

as well as the statues that represent him.

They are variously carved in both wood and stone

and often depict a being with large, goggle-like eyes.

The lore has it that Tiki was the primary ancestor

and was created in the image of the sky god.

The local people made statues in honor of their creator god,

Tiki, and used them in worship.

And this is what Tiki looks like,

- as a god? - Yes, because th-they say

in the legend that, when Tiki left

the Earth, they made the sculpture

of how he looked like,

just to have something to remember from Tiki.

So that's how he looked like, actually.

He looks very strange to me.

This is a representation

of what your ancestors thought

this figure looked like.

It doesn't look like a man.

It looks... weird.

Yeah, I mean, he-he sort of looks like a man,

but, with these big goggle eyes

and the elongated head and everything,

he looks like an extraterrestrial.

From what you know,

do you think that the people of the Marquesas

went as far as Easter Island?

Are there any legends or stories

- behind that? - So, there is

one story where... when they said, um,

that one chief of the island sent his seven sons

to Easter Island,

because they were fighting a lot over here.

So he sent them away.

Told them, uh, if they wanted to come back,

they had to make peace with one another.

Seven brothers?

Princes who left the Marquesas Islands for Easter Island

hundreds of years ago?

I think it's really fascinating

that, in the Marquesas, there's a story of seven brothers

that were exiled by their father

in order to go to Easter Island.

You combine that with the fact that there is this platform

on Easter Island with seven moais standing on there,

that would indicate to me that the Marquesas

and Easter Island are, in fact, connected.

But if the stone carvings and ancient legends

prove that the origins of Easter Island

can be found some 2,000 miles away in the Marquesas,

could there have been another,

perhaps extraterrestrial, reason for the exile

of the seven royal brothers from their homeland?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest the evidence points to everything

from the strange faces of the tiki gods

to bloody stories of human sacrifice.

Ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos

and David Childress are in the remote Marquesas Islands.

They are searching for clues that may help them solve

some of the most compelling mysteries

concerning an island located some 2,000 miles to their east,

Easter Island.

I think it's really fascinating that,

of all the standing heads in Easter Island,

seven of them actually point

in the direction of the Marquesas.

And so now the question is, why?

I think it's quite possible that the Marquesas and Easter Island

are, in fact, connected.

But perhaps equally compelling,

if not slightly disturbing,

are numerous carvings found throughout the islands

which depict strange, big-eyed gods known as tikis.

So, right now, we are at the Tohua of Hikokua.

The tiki placed on site like this,

like, really, uh, sacred site...

...they were made to scare the people away,

because they-they were telling,

"Hey, this is a very sacred site,

so be careful."

"If you step on the site,

"if you do something wrong,

then something bad is going to happen to you."

I think if we are talking about extraterrestrials

in ancient times visiting

and you follow the ancient stories,

when they came down with fire, smoke and noise,

that that is the reason why they were afraid.

There are multiple other versions

of the exact same motif worldwide,

with people with elongated skulls and giant goggle eyes.

Like, uh, what comes to mind immediately is in-in Peru.

- Yeah, at Tiwanaku a-and Pumapunku... - Yes.

...you have the same

goggle-headed, eyed, uh,

- you know, people. - Exactly.

You have that in Mexico, too,

- with the Olmec statues. - Yes.

These may be depictions of actual extraterrestrials

who visited the Earth thousands of years ago.

Eerily similar to the tiki of the Marquesas,

figures with oversized skulls

and enormous eyes have surfaced at archaeological sites

throughout the world.

Among these are the Dogu figures of Japan,

the aboriginal Wandjina petroglyphs of Australia,

the terra-cotta figurines

recently unearthed in Northern Ghana,

the trickster god Eshu

of the Yoruba people of Nigeria,

and the stunning petroglyphs of Karahunj,

otherwise known as Armenia's Stonehenge.

So it does seem that Tiki, he's walking,

he's living and breathing.

He's not just a spirit, is he?

No. He's not a spirit.

So, um, they-they say that Tiki is not really a god,

but he's not really a man also.

Aniata, thank you so much for showing us everything here.

- It's truly tremendous. - You're welcome.

- Thank you so much. - Have a nice travel.

Thank you.

One day after their informative visit

to the island of Nuku Hiva,

Giorgio and David travel next to the nearby island of Hiva Oa

to see firsthand the most unusual

of all the island tikis.

Hello.

Good to see you.

- Yep. - Okay.

As their local guide,

they have enlisted Hiva Oa resident, Heimata Bonno.

This is...

- incredible. So, what are we looking at here? - Yeah.

What is this?

Oh, it totally looks like a llama.

No question.

I totally think this looks like a llama.

I mean, there's no question in my mind.

And I also don't think that this was altered.

This is original.

And I don't see any, uh, changes.

So either this is not authentic

or, if it is authentic, it's a llama

and it proves connection to-to South America.

South America?

Is it possible that the llama,

believed to be native to South America,

was known to people living on this remote island chain

some 3,500 miles away?

But how?

Some people say that it's a woman giving birth.

Do the women here

in the Marquesas Islands, do they do this?

They lie on their stomach and give birth? No.

This is crazy.

Huh.

To me,

it looks like something from the sky.

It's like, uh, maybe some flying vehicle.

- It's a great question. - Yeah.

Perhaps what we're looking at here

is some type of a craft,

because you have the windows in the front,

which are these giant goggles,

and then you have the mouth in the front,

which, to me, looks like some type of an air intake.

Underneath, you have a lifting body

that goes underneath the entire body.

And if you combine that

with the story of this object

or this woman giving birth,

if someone has never seen passengers disembarking

from an actual airplane,

if they have no idea what is happening,

well, all of a sudden,

a flying vehicle is giving birth to people.

Is it possible that this ancient statue

that has been interpreted in modern times

as a fertility goddess

is actually depicting an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I think that tikis are nothing else

but misunderstood technology

that, over time, turned into divine objects

of magic and sorcery.

Can we go look at it? Great.

Oh, wow.

Clearly, this tiki, the head is missing.

But I see that it has six fingers.

It's very feasible to me that they actually tried

to imitate whoever visited

or whoever came here to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers

if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say, "Oh, this is just fantasy."

I think they saw someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

Yeah.

- Yes. - Yeah.

So these are protectors.

And all the tikis here

and the moai on Easter Island are protectors as well.

So, on Easter Island, you-you have

seven moai, and they are looking

towards Marquesas.

Is-is this some ancestors?

Or a connection?

All of the ancient tikis in the Marquesas

are positioned to look in the direction of Easter Island.

But why?

And if both the moai and the tikis are depictions

of extraterrestrial visitors,

why do they appear so different, both in height

and appearance?

Is it possible that the seven brothers of legend

left the Marquesas for Easter Island

because they were fighting with each other?

Or could they have been fleeing for their lives?

For Giorgio and David,

these questions form the pieces of a confounding puzzle,

one they are both determined to solve

before they return home.

While visiting the ancient site known

as I'ipona, located in the Marquesas Islands,

local guide Heimata Bonno

has just shown ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

a number of sacred tiki statues

which have six fingers on each hand.

That is, uh, very interesting to me.

He has also just informed them that the tiki gods

were believed by the natives to possess

an extraordinary amount of what they called "mana,"

a spiritual power,

which, if consumed, would make the natives strong

and virtually invincible.

So, how-how does this tiki have mana?

How does it get the mana?

I see.

Eat the mana?

Is Heimata Bonno describing a form of ritual cannibalism

in which the natives of the Marquesas would eat the bodies

of those who they believed possessed spiritual power?

And where is the mana contained?

The mana's coming out of the eyes, right? Or...

So they would...

eat the eyes and the tongue,

the brain?

Is it possible that the natives

of the Marquesas Islands believed that the mana,

or spiritual power,

of their tiki gods could be literally consumed?

If so, was their eagerness

to eat the organs not only of the tiki,

but of their offspring, one of the chief reasons

why the so-called seven brothers

fled the Marquesas for Easter Island

thousands of years ago?

Here there are very large boulders

of basalt.

It's very heavy.

I know in some places in Polynesia

and Micronesia they have legends

that the stones are... are flying through the air.

So they are giants and very strong,

and they can lift these big stones?

- Oh. - Giant bones?

Found in caves on the Marquesas Islands?

Could this be the evidence

Giorgio and David have been searching for

that suggest the early inhabitants of Easter Island

were, in fact, giant alien hybrid beings?

Beings who forged a colony of giants

much like themselves,

and who commemorated their time on the island

by fashioning giant stone sentinels.

We have these stories of giants worldwide.

In Malta, we have some of the biggest megalithic sites

in all of Europe, that allegedly were built

by the giants.

The giants were offspring

of the gods after they mated with human women.

Then you have stories of the giants on Sardinia,

many of whom have been suggested were originated

by extraterrestrials.

The origin story of the giants in the Bible

is that angels mated with human women.

The offspring were the giants.

So we have to wonder,

are the seven sentinels actually giants?

Part alien and part human.

...Perhaps they were escaping

the Marquesas Islands because they were

the ruling elite,

and essentially, they were overthrown

because they had this power,

and they went to Easter Island.

Heimata, it's been so interesting here.

You have such good information. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you for sharing.

You're welcome.

Could it be that

the so-called seven princes of the Marquesas

were giant alien-human hybrids?

Hybrids who may have had access to extraterrestrial technologies

that caused them to be thought of by the natives

as kings or gods?

And if so, could it be that the real reason

these seven brothers left the Marquesas

was not because they were fighting,

but because they were fleeing for their lives,

in fear of being killed and eaten by the natives?

Ancient astronaut theorists say the answer

is a profound yes,

and believe that even more answers can be found

not only by examining the stone statues of Easter Island,

but by also taking a closer look

at what some of them are wearing

on their heads.

Isolated in the vast expanse

of the South Pacific, Easter Island remains

a land of mystery.

Since its discovery by Europeans in the 18th century,

very little is still known about the people who once lived there,

or their origins.

But of all the mysteries involving the island

otherwise known as Rapa Nui,

the most persistent involve

the nearly 900 megalithic statues known as moai,

and why they were put here in the first place.

The moai are considered to be

no more than perhaps a thousand years old.

However, it has been established

that some of them penetrate down into the ground

by a great amount of feet

to reveal the rest of the body,

not just the oversized head.

And the amount of catenation suggests

that they are infinitely older

than a thousand years.

They could go back many, many, many millennia.

When you visit Easter Island,

and you look at the sights there, the statues,

the megalithic walls, you realize they're much older

than what, you know, history tells us.

Further clouding the issue

is a discovery that was made in 2017.

With the help of photography and 3-D modeling programs,

archaeologists discovered that the 13-ton stone hats,

known as pukao, on the Easter Island moai

contain a wide diversity of petroglyphs,

made by what appear to be different groups of people.

The hats that are on top of the Easter Island moai

are a little bit of a mystery.

But recently, they've been analyzed, and carvings

have been found on them, which has, like, questioned,

you know, the idea of what they really represent.

Perhaps there is something else going on here.

It could well be

that a number of different cultures

lived on Easter Island.

One of the most fascinating monuments on Easter Island

is the stone platform, or ahu,

known as Vinapu.

And this is a huge megalithic construction

that is essentially a wall

made of cyclopean megalithic blocks

that all interlock with each other.

When you look at this, you cannot help but think

of Cuzco in Peru.

And there has to be a relationship

between the two cultures.

All of these

part of a much bigger transmission of knowledge,

where the belief,

the common belief was an origin amongst the stars.

If, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

the seven moai that face out to sea

really do represent a race of giant alien hybrid beings

that fled the Marquesas Islands hundreds, and perhaps thousands,

of years ago,

do the hundreds of other moai

represent their offspring?

And if so,

could they have had contact with other parts of the world,

making Easter Island a virtual hub

of extraterrestrial activity?

Easter Island has also got

the strong legend that it is the center of the world,

or the "navel of the world."

And there are various places around our planet

that are said to be the "navel of the world."

They're in Cuzco,

at Delphi in Greece,

at Sardinia,

and in Egypt.

In many cases, there's a stone ball

that is marking this center-of-the-world spot.

And we have that at Easter Island.

These navels of the world

are apparently power places,

places of vortex, energy.

It would seem that they are all connected

to this worldwide energy grid.

Why did this huge megalithic culture emerge here?

Perhaps this tells us

that there is some special quality

with Easter Island,

one that was recognized by the ancestors

of the Rapa Nui culture.

Were the seven moai that face the sea

positioned so as to indicate a warning

to those natives on the Marquesas that wanted

to hunt them and eat them for their power?

Or were they meant to serve as a commemoration

not only of Easter Island's extraterrestrial origins

but of the history of alien activity on our planet?

As far as Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress are concerned,

there still needs to be further investigation

before those questions can be answered.

On the last day of their incredible journey

to the Marquesas Islands,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos

and David Childress

meet at a café on the island of Nuku Hiva.

They are confident that their investigation

has led to not only evidence of a direct link

between the Marquesas and Easter Island

but also a greater understanding

as to the kinds of beings who lived on these islands

thousands of years ago.

Well, this was an in... incredible experience.

From all the people we've talked to, these ancient civilizations

are way older than what we were taught.

Yeah, you have these strong connections

from the Marquesas to Easter Island.

And the idea of the-the flying turtle

would be what you would think of as a disc...

- Yes. - ...flying.

They knew that turtles don't fly.

So why would they have stories of flying turtles?

If we had, uh, airships landing here,

and then the people are-are wondering,

how do these turtles fly?

- Yes. - And the extraterrestrials

tell them, "Well, they fly with this energy

- "called mana." - Mm-hmm.

And there, they transcribe this mana energy to-to everything.

And, you know, it... the-the tikis have the mana,

the stones have the mana.

Uh, mana's everywhere.

And, all of a sudden, something that was technological in origin

becomes magic.

It becomes sorcery.

It becomes something divine.

Everything that they're talking about

and depicting would seem to be extraterrestrial.

One of my favorite pieces that we saw

was that tiki of this woman laying on the stomach

and she's giving birth.

But that's not the position in which to deliver a baby.

To me, it looks like some sort of a flying object,

where passengers are disembarking, or pilots.

And if this is seen by someone who has never seen an airplane,

well, then, for all intents and purposes,

that thing is giving birth.

So, to me, it's a... it's a wonderful

and interesting misunderstanding.

It really shows, I think, this connection

between the Marquesas,

perhaps also that these places are-are space ports,

in a sense.

And isn't necessarily, uh,

the way that Western archaeologists tell the story.

Whether it is tikis here in the Marquesas

or moai in Easter Island,

we're looking at misunderstood technology.

Because I think that when you combine this

with the old stories of legends

of people descending from the sky

with a lot of noise, smoke and fire,

those depictions may represent

either extraterrestrials themselves

or craft that the extraterrestrials used.

Were the seven stone sentinels of Easter Island

placed there to commemorate what may once have been

a land of giant hybrids,

part human and part alien?

As far as Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

They also believe the ancient moai on Easter Island

now serve a different,

if perhaps unintended, purpose.

Instead of silently standing guard,

as if to protect the island and its secrets,

the moai might actually be helping to reveal the truth

about mankind's extraterrestrial history,

a history that may very soon repeat itself when we,

in the not-so-distant future, could come face-to-face

with those same alien visitors

who were once immortalized in stone.