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[ Man Narrating ]
Gateways to other dimensions.
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To the Mayans, this represented
the passageway to another world.
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Hidden dwellings for strange beings.
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They were the first
inhabitants of the planet Earth.
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Secret vaults of cosmic knowledge.
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[ Man ] it's almost as though
they're opening a doorway...
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to communicate
with these divine beings.
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[ Narrator]
Since the dawn of man...
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caves have been a source
of great mystery.
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[ Bats Screeching ]
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But could the darkest recesses
of our planet...
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really be hiding some mysterious power?
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And within their depths...
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might we find evidence
of extraterrestrial visitors?
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[ Man] In some ways...
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exploring the underground
cavern world of planet Earth...
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is the final frontier.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we 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,
might there be a connection...
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between aliens
and the earth's forbidden caves?
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Central India.
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July, 2014.
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While exploring caves
in the region of Charama...
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which are known
to contain prehistoric artwork...
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dating as far back as 10,000 years...
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an Indian archaeologist, J.R. Bhagat,
makes a stunning discovery.
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The Indian government
and Times of India had a major story...
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about rock paintings
found recently in Central India...
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that seem to show these tall beings...
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and they do not seem
to have a nose or a mouth...
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and nearby is this three-legged disk.
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The Times of India
actually proposed the idea-
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what if what we have depicted here...
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are some type of extraterrestrials
or at least some type of flying craft?
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Because it's the basis for much
of the Hindu pantheon of gods.
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[ Narrator]
Ancient Hindu texts...
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like the Vedas and the Puranas...
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record stories about extraterrestrials
existing on other planets...
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and the Mahabharata...
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one of ancient India's
two major Sanskrit epics...
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contains stories about gods
coming to Earth in flying machines.
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Even the legends specific to this region...
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tell of a mysterious race of beings
known as the “rohela”...
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who descended from the sky
and abducted local villagers.
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Could the newly unearthed cave an'
be a visual record...
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that extraterrestrials really visited here?
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There was an obsession
of ancient human beings...
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to depict things that they saw...
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and I think they did it
with carvings on caves...
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because that's what they saw.
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[ Narrator] But what is it about caves
that made them the ideal canvases...
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for ancient peoples
to chronicle their experiences?
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Caves are hugely significant
in ancient mythology and legends...
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especially about the gods.
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They seem to be
kind of a luminal point...
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a boundary place where
the gods and humans can meet.
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[CHILDRESS ] There is a whole hidden
underground world of planet Earth...
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that we're only just now
beginning to discover.
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We don't know what's there.
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We could be discovering all kinds
of amazing things...
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and it's possible...
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that there are entire
cities under the earth-
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whole cavern metropolises...
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that are talked about in legends.
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[ Narrator]
But while ancient cave art...
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often reveals the type of animals
our earliest ancestors encountered...
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and their means for hunting them...
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there is a surprising number of depictions
of strange-looking figures and objects...
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that defy any conventional explanation.
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In Australia, the Wandjina people,
they painted images on their caves...
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which eerily looks like the so-called
Greys of alien abduction lore today.
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You have the strange petroglyphs...
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in the Hoggar Mountains
of Southern Algeria.
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Uh, you've got strange rock art too,
in the American Southwest...
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and when you look at it, and even
have the natives explain it to you...
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they say things like,
“Oh, yes, he's Martian god,” or...
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“These are the star people
coming from the sky.”
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[ Narrator] How do we explain
so many different cultures...
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across thousands of years
and thousands of miles...
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producing such consistent
visual representations?
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The ones that were discovered
in some of the African caves-
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it's too similar...
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to what has been discovered
on every continent...
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for it to be complete coincidence.
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So, it's this whole idea
of the spark of initial inspiration.
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What is it that they witnessed?
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And could it be that they
witnessed extraterrestrials?
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One of the more intriguing aspects...
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of the cave paintings
that seem to show aliens...
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is why are they inside caves?
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This has sort of given rise
to the theory that maybe these aliens...
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perhaps have permanent bases
on the planet underground.
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Maybe ancient man saw them coming
out of some of these caves and caverns...
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and then realized there was a relationship
between the aliens and the caves.
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[ Narrator] In ancient times,
caves were places of shelter.
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But is it possible our ancestors
were also using caves...
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to record and protect information...
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about extraterrestrial beings
who played a role in our existence?
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Perhaps the answer can be found...
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halfway around the world,
in the American Southwest.
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The Grand Canyon.
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This epic, 277 mile-long,
one mile-deep fissure...
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exposes millions of years
of geologic strata.
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Imprinted onto this dramatic landscape...
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are petroglyphs that depict
everyday life...
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as experienced by the first
inhabitants of the region.
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But in one of the most
remote corners of the canyon...
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is a small cave covered
with artwork that mystifies experts.
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Some refer to it as the Shaman's Panel...
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because it appears to depict scenes
of the supernatural.
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All around the Grand Canyon
are unusual sites and sacred sites.
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And then you have the Shaman's Panel
there in the Grand Canyon...
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which seems to show these
long, tall extraterrestrial-type figures.
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Like the strange-looking beings
found in the cave in Charama, India...
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the figures depicted
on the Shaman's Panel...
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are oddly elongated...
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and are also thought to have been
created as many as 10,000 years ago.
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And just as in Charama...
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the native Hopi people here
also have detailed accounts...
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of extraterrestrials
who came down to Earth.
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In the Southwest, the Pueblo Indians,
such as the Zuni and the Hopi...
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believe that there is an entrance
into an underground world...
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and it is located in the Grand Canyon.
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And it's this mythological underworld...
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uh, of caves and extraterrestrials,
the ant people.
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The Hopi have this concept
of the ant people.
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Uh, the ant people are very thin.
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They have elongated heads.
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And the ancestral Hopi people...
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did make pictures of these ant people
which still survive today.
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[ Narrator]
Is it possible the rock art found here...
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and elsewhere around the world...
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is evidence that
the earth's first inhabitants...
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had contact with otherworldly beings?
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And if so, might there be some
significance to the fact...
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that many of these strange petroglyphs
are found in and around caves?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and suggest further evidence
can be found...
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by examining the ritualistic practices...
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that continue to be performed
inside caves even to this day.
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The Himalayas, Northern India.
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- [ Chattering ]
- [ Horse whinnying ]
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Every summer, hundreds of thousands
of Hindu pilgrims...
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brave an arduous journey.
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They cross many miles of deadly terrain...
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to reach the Amarnath Cave-
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a place of worship for thousands of years.
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12,756 feet above sea level
in the Himalayas...
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is the most revered holy pilgrimage site...
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for all of the people
who follow the Hindu faith.
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[ Man ] People die because
of high-altitude sickness.
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Others simply fall off the cliff.
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And still, people go there...
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because it is considered to be
the most holiest, uh, shrine.
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[ Narrator]
According to local lore...
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this massive cave
is where the god Shiva...
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revealed the secrets of immortality
and the creation of the universe...
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to his wife, Parvati.
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[Shouting In Foreign Language]
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To honor Shiva, worshipers pay
their respects to a sacred relic inside...
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an ice lingam...
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which they believe is a physical
manifestation of his generative power.
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To reveal the secret
to transcending the flesh...
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the secret to true immortality...
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makes that site of extreme importance
to the people in the Hindu faith.
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[Shouting ]
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[ Narrator]
To the Hindu faithful...
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who risk life and limb
to reach the Amarnath Cave...
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this story is a real account
of an otherworldly being. -.
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Who was at this exact location
here on Earth.
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But why would Lord Shiva choose
to divulge his divine secrets in a cave?
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Could caves really hold
special properties...
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that have made them places
of worship throughout history?
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Interestingly, the Amarnath Cave...
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is only one of hundreds of caves
around the world...
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that have been, at one time,
considered sacred.
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Archaeologists believe...
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a 20-foot long serpentine rock carving
in Botswana's Rhino Cave...
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was the focus of religious ritual
as far back as 70,000 years ago.
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And cave monasteries
can be found in France...
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Russia...
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Thailand...
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Ethiopia...
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and Hungary. ..
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Just to name a few.
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[ Man ]
I don't think that this is a coincidence...
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that places of refuge, spiritual refuge,
are inside caves.
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This is where one can contemplate...
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one can hear one's inner voice...
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without the distractions of the day.
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One thing about caves is
they're underground. They're unseen.
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Well, religion is about unseen things.
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Going into a cave is going
into holy ground.
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[Chattering ]
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[ Narrator]
Is the mysterious nature of caves...
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enough to explain why they have
been revered as sacred places...
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by different cultures and religions
all over the World?
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Ancient' astronaut theorists suggest
there may be a more profound reason...
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which can be found by examining
the stories behind our ancestors' rituals.
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Yucatan, Mexico, 2008.
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Mexican archaeologists exploring
just outside the capital of Merida...
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make an historic discovery-
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an aquatic underworld full of mysterious
offerings to the Mayan gods...
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including human sacrifices.
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What they found
was a system of 14 caves...
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and in them were stone temples...
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and they were all linked together.
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And it was thought
that what they had discovered...
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was the Mayan underworld
known as Xibalba.
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[Young ]
Some of this work is underwater.
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Divers would have had
to hold their breath and go down...
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and do carving underwater
to make this possible.
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They were very devout,
to be sure.
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[ Narrator] Central to the heavily
Mayan ritualistic society...
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was the belief that in order for them
to rejoin the gods in the next life...
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the dead must make their way
through a dark and perilous journey.
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In the mythology of the Maya...
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we have these incredible
references to Xibalba...
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which means “the underworld.”
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And we can read about it in the PopolVuh...
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which is the book of the Jaguar priests.
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[ Narrator]
Some historians believe...
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that the caves discovered in 2008...
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are indeed those caves
that represented for the Maya...
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the passageway to Xibalba,
the underworld.
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But ancient astronaut theorists propose...
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Xibalba has a more cosmic connection.
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One of the most famous code breakers-
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her name was Dr. Linda Schele.
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She dealt with the Maya language
all her life.
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She is actually one of the people
who have suggested...
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that there is another
meaning for Xibalba...
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and that's “the Milky Way.”
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[ Man ] To the Mayans,
who were very good astronomers...
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this represented the passageway
to another world-Xibalba-
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the middle of the Milky Way.
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So when they refer to the underworld...
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they're actually referring
to the sky above.
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[WILCOCK ] This suggests that the cave
could be a portal...
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in which extraterrestrials
are actually able to come and go freely...
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from their plane of existence to our own.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible
that the Mayan stories of Xibalba...
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were not describing
a passageway to the afterlife...
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but a portal to another part
of the universe?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that caves have become places of ritual...
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because they have a direct
connection to extraterrestrials...
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and claim that further
proof can be found...
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by examining the mysterious
Sky Caves of Nepal.
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Shikoku Island, Japan.
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The eighth century AD.
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A young monk named Saeki Mao...
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was deep in the mountains
doing his spiritual training...
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when he decided to enter a small cave
called Mikurodo and meditate.
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While inside, he had an encounter...
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that he would later credit
with bringing him enlightenment...
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and he emerged from the cave
as Kukai, a high priest-
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who would become one of Japan's
most important historical figures.
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Many Buddhists have reported
enlightening experiences in caves.
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And one of the most famous stories
involves the monk Kukai.
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He is the individual who brought
esoteric Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism...
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to Japan from China.
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And according to his autobiography...
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he was meditating in a cave
at Cape Muroto.
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And he had fixed his eyes
on the morning star.
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The morning star flew towards him...
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entered his mouth...
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and in front of him he saw
an image of the Bodhisattva Akasagarbha.
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And Akasagarbha, in Japanese,
is known as Kokuzo Bosatsu.
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So, we have this spiritual being
surrounded by light-
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perhaps he even used the light
to travel there.
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[ Narrator] After this encounter,
Kukai suddenly had great wisdom...
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including the ability to comprehend
85,000 Buddhist texts.
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But what happened inside Mikurodo Cave...
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that allowed Kukai to enter
this enlightened state?
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Kokuzo appeared to Kukai in the cave
when he was in his trance...
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and basically, informed him that
he was a conduit to the universe.
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And it channeled through his body...
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and he could tell you anything
about the stars, the planet.
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It was almost as if he were tapped
into a database.
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Some even perceive that the cave
is similar to a womb.
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So a human being enters
as a normal mortal.
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They engage in ascetic or meditative
discipline within the cave.
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And when they exit the cave,
they're no longer a typical mortal...
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but they're more akin to a saint...
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or even a Buddha.
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[ Narrator] But could the enlightenment
found inside caves...
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be coming from an extraterrestrial source
inside the earth?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and suggest evidence of this...
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might be found in the fabled nirvana
known as Shambala...
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and the Sky Caves of Mustang in Nepal.
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Some say Shambala is a mythical city...
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that's located somewhere
in the mountains in the Himalayas.
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Its inhabitants are supposed to be
fully enlightened beings...
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who have access to a great amount
of technology...
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which comes from the enlightenment itself.
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[ Mott]
Buddhism has always seen caves...
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as more or less a conduit
to altered states of consciousness...
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to other civilizations that may exist
inside the earth.
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The Sky Caves in Mustang are interesting...
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because there are a hundred or so
man-made caves...
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carved into the faces of cliffs.
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And are only accessible
by these huge vertical shafts.
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And inside these caves, we have
huge statues of Buddhas, bodhisattvas.
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[ Narrator]
And Buddhists are not alone in this belief.
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Hindus also revere caves as places
where monks can go to find wisdom.
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The Sadhu are Indian holy men
who, basically...
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lead a life of depravation,
self-imposed exile in caves...
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so that they can enter
these altered states of consciousness.
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They definitely believe
that caves are a conduit...
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to communicating with nonhuman entities.
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It's almost as though they're opening
a doorway into a spiritual consciousness...
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in which they are able to communicate
with these divine beings...
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and hopefully become divine themselves.
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[ Narrator] Other important
figures throughout history...
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also attribute their
life-altering epiphanies...
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to mysterious encounters
that happened in caves.
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In the life of the great
artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci-
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he'd had some unusual but important
experience at the mouth of a cave.
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Right after that,
he disappeared for two years.
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And fight after that...
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he began this spurt of creativity
that was awesome.
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In art and in science...
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he invented the first self-propelled
vehicle and imagined flying machines.
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[ Man ] Joseph Smith wrote
that an angel appeared to him...
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with the name of Moroni in the year 1827-
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told to Joseph Smith-
he should go to a certain little hill.
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He should pull the stone plate away...
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and inside, he would find a cave.
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And in the cave,
he would find unknown writings.
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As all good Mormons know,
he found the golden tablets...
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which contained a vast amount of data.
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[ Narrator]
Why are there so many accounts of humans...
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having enlightening experiences
inside caves?
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Is there something
about caves themselves...
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that facilitate such
extraordinary experiences?
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Could it be that these people are coming into
contact with an extraterrestrial presence?
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that cosmic knowledge may be stored in the
very walls of these caves themselves...
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and that the proof can be found
in Central America...
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1,000 feet underground.
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Chihuahua, Mexico.
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April, 2000.
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Miners excavating 1,000 feet below
the mineral-rich town of Naica...
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drill through a cave wall
and make a stunning discovery-
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a glittering cavern full of giant crystals
that are half a million years old.
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The Cueva de los Cristales,
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or the Crystal Cave of Northern Mexico-
is a very unique site.
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And we're talking crystals
as big around as a car...
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that stretched from the floor
to the ceiling of the cavern.
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It's a remarkable thing to see.
356
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The incredible Cave of the Crystals
in Mexico...
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was just accidentally found...
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and the discoverers
were completely astounded...
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with these giant gypsum crystals.
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It's fantastic...
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and it reminds a person
of the Fortress of Solitude of Superman...
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where all this information is encoded
into these giant crystals.
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[ Hawkes ]
Now, the significance of this...
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is extremely important to the indigenous
people of Northern Mexico...
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in fact, all of Mesoamerica...
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in that the crystals themselves
were considered sacred.
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They vibrated.
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And they believed there was also
some properties involved in crystals...
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that would provide them a way
to communicate with the gods.
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Many ancient myths tell us that
there are magical apparatus...
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that are made out of rock
or stone or crystal.
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[ Man ] if we look at the properties
of many of the caverns and caves...
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we see that there's usually some type
of lining of crystal or quartz...
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and we know that crystal
has a vast ability to store information.
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Maybe some of these caves
are actually storing information...
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and that ancient people who meditate
in caverns are tapping into this knowledge.
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[ Narrator] Might caves that are
rich in quartz or crystal...
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really possess some special power
that' our ancestors were aware of?
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Ancient astronaut theorists point out...
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that the scientists today are discovering
that crystals do, in fact...
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have very unique properties.
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[ Man ]
Quartz and other crystalline structures...
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oscillate at incredibly well-defined
frequencies when you hit them mechanically...
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and they can be activated electrically...
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through an effect known as
the “piezoelectric effect.”
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So you can put quartz in a watch...
387
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and use it as a very accurate
timekeeping device.
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So quartz could be used in conducting
or communicating certain signals.
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[ Narrator]
In the Silicon Valley of California...
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quartz is used to manufacture the small
integrated circuits found in computers...
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because of its strong
semiconducting properties.
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Computer chips are also made
with a form of the mineral quartzite...
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which is a highly-condensed form
of quartz.
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Today, computer engineers are working
on how to physically manipulate crystals...
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so that digital data can be stored
inside them forever.
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The media has dubbed these
hard drives of the future-
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“Superman memory crystals.”
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So, Superman is one of our superheroes
who came from outer space.
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He came from the planet Krypton.
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It was in the process of being destroyed...
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so his parents saved him
and sent him in a spaceship to our planet.
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One of the interesting things
in the Superman story...
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is that his father was able to program
a crystal that traveled with him...
404
00:28:20,909 --> 00:28:24,204
that he was able to use to construct
the Fortress of Solitude from.
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00:28:24,287 --> 00:28:28,041
And it was basically a crystal structure,
essentially a cave...
406
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where he could both get away from things...
407
00:28:30,585 --> 00:28:34,964
and he could use the crystals in there
to get information.
408
00:28:35,048 --> 00:28:38,301
So one of the things that's interesting
in the Fortress of Solitude...
409
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is the way that the quartz technology,
or the crystal technology...
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seems to be underlying everything.
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And so a future that we're looking at
is using light in computing.
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You have to figure out ways
to trap light and to store it-
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basically, to create bits on and off
and have the light last long enough...
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that the signal stays there
and the memory is stored.
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[ Narrator]
Was the power of crystals...
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something the ancients
not only knew about...
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but utilized by building structures
that would harness and transmit it?
418
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[ MARTELL ] A lot of the pyramids had either
granite or some type of crystal-lined surface.
419
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For instance, Giza,
those great pyramids were topped...
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with an obelisk made of
shiny granite crystal.
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And when we look at an obelisk...
422
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it very much resembles some type
of power rod, maybe a Tesla coil.
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Ancient times, the obelisk was always
a symbol of power.
424
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Maybe this wasn't just emotional power...
425
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but actual physical power that was being
harnessed by these objects.
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Crystals are transformers.
They hold energy.
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And, indeed,
caves are thought of as “hot spots”...
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where you have Earth energy
emerging from the planet.
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[ Narrator]
If scientists today...
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are looking into the technological
uses for crystal...
431
00:30:10,727 --> 00:30:14,564
is it possible that there
are extraterrestrial civilizations...
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that have already mastered this technology?
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00:30:19,277 --> 00:30:22,113
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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00:30:22,196 --> 00:30:25,325
and that the mineral properties
found inside caves...
435
00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:29,412
have enabled some of the world's
most astounding miracles.
436
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Bethlehem.
437
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The Church of the Nativity...
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built around 330 AD by the first
Christian Roman emperor, Constantine...
439
00:30:51,434 --> 00:30:55,605
is one of the oldest continuously
operating churches in the world...
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having survived invasions, regime changes,
fires and earthquakes.
441
00:31:06,157 --> 00:31:11,037
Many claim that the church
is protected by a higher power...
442
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,124
because it sits above a cave
that some Bible scholars believe...
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to be the true birthplace
of Jesus Christ.
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There are many books about the story
of Christ's life, Jesus' life...
445
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which never made their
way into the Bible...
446
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and one of them was called
the “Protoevangelium of James.”
447
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And in that story, Joseph and Mary
are approaching Bethlehem...
448
00:31:34,477 --> 00:31:36,521
and Mary says,
“I'm going to give birth.”
449
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And he thinks for a minute.
He said, “Ah, I know a cave near here.”
450
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And they're met at the entrance
to the cave by a brilliant light.
451
00:31:44,362 --> 00:31:46,364
And when the light dissipates...
452
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there is Mary holding Christ in her arms.
453
00:31:50,910 --> 00:31:52,954
And if you look at Byzantine painting...
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the nativity is always
represented in a cave.
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[ Narrator]
According to the Gospel of Luke...
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Mary gave birth and places
the baby Jesus in a manger...
457
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but no actual location
for the nativity is given.
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It is known, however...
459
00:32:10,888 --> 00:32:15,685
that caves at the time were commonly
used as shelter for livestock.
460
00:32:18,187 --> 00:32:19,981
Going back to the third century...
461
00:32:20,064 --> 00:32:22,942
they started this idea
that he was actually born in a cave.
462
00:32:24,694 --> 00:32:29,407
But then they also describe
the tomb of resurrection as a cave...
463
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as a simple hollowed-out room that
had this circular stone at the entranceway.
464
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[ Gervers ] The Bible does make a point that
when Christ was taken from the cross...
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and he's buried in a rock-cut tomb.
466
00:32:41,711 --> 00:32:45,214
There does seem to be
a mystical environment here-
467
00:32:45,298 --> 00:32:47,758
this idea of a cave being a place...
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where someone who is of divinity comes
and someone who is of divinity leaves.
469
00:32:53,014 --> 00:32:56,225
So it's almost as if passages
are happening in caves.
470
00:32:57,226 --> 00:33:01,481
Constantine's building program
of churches in the Holy Land...
471
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began by building churches over caves...
472
00:33:04,734 --> 00:33:07,403
associated with key mysteries of the faith.
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He built a church
over the site of Jesus' birth.
474
00:33:11,908 --> 00:33:15,912
He built a church over the site
of Jesus' crucifixion...
475
00:33:15,995 --> 00:33:18,998
where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
stands today.
476
00:33:19,081 --> 00:33:21,709
And he built a church
on the Mount of Olives...
477
00:33:21,792 --> 00:33:26,297
over a cave associated with the site
of his ascension into heaven.
478
00:33:31,552 --> 00:33:33,804
[ Narrator]
Is there some significance to the fact...
479
00:33:33,888 --> 00:33:36,849
that both Jesus'
birthplace and resurrection...
480
00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:39,477
may have occurred inside caves?
481
00:33:40,478 --> 00:33:43,689
Some ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
482
00:33:43,773 --> 00:33:46,692
and claim there may even be
physical evidence...
483
00:33:46,776 --> 00:33:48,903
that what happened within these caves...
484
00:33:48,986 --> 00:33:51,948
was something other than miraculous.
485
00:33:52,031 --> 00:33:56,285
The Shroud of Turin is certainly the most
important relic of the resurrection-
486
00:33:56,369 --> 00:34:00,540
this extraordinary imprint
of the crucified body on this cloth...
487
00:34:00,623 --> 00:34:04,544
that no one has ever been able
to accurately explain or reproduce.
488
00:34:04,627 --> 00:34:06,295
[ Mott]
When Jesus was in the tomb...
489
00:34:06,379 --> 00:34:09,215
and some believe there
was an intense burst of energy...
490
00:34:09,298 --> 00:34:11,801
which created what we now call
the Shroud of Turin...
491
00:34:12,927 --> 00:34:15,930
as some form of radiation
which was very intense and powerful.
492
00:34:16,597 --> 00:34:19,058
[COPPENS]
We know with 21st Century technology...
493
00:34:19,141 --> 00:34:22,562
that the Shroud of Turin
is a first-century garment.
494
00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:24,730
And we know,
beyond a shadow of a doubt...
495
00:34:24,814 --> 00:34:27,858
that it could not have been painted
or in any way created.
496
00:34:27,942 --> 00:34:31,445
So the Shroud of Turin gives us
this exceptional piece of evidence...
497
00:34:31,529 --> 00:34:34,991
that something powerful
happened in that tomb.
498
00:34:35,741 --> 00:34:39,495
[ Mott] And when people came
to see him the next day to view his body...
499
00:34:39,579 --> 00:34:41,581
he was gone.
500
00:34:41,664 --> 00:34:44,625
Two shining beings, nonhuman beings...
501
00:34:44,709 --> 00:34:47,169
met these two witnesses
outside the tomb...
502
00:34:47,253 --> 00:34:50,965
and informed them that Christ had arisen
and that he had departed.
503
00:34:52,341 --> 00:34:53,901
[ Henry]
it's possible that that cave...
504
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:56,929
was acting as a sort of
a gateway or a portal...
505
00:34:57,013 --> 00:35:01,934
because in many of these stories,
the caves link Earth and heaven.
506
00:35:10,318 --> 00:35:11,944
[ Narrator]
Could the Shroud of Turin...
507
00:35:12,028 --> 00:35:15,489
really be evidence that
something of a technological...
508
00:35:15,573 --> 00:35:17,867
as well as a spiritual nature...
509
00:35:17,950 --> 00:35:22,371
took place in the cave where
many believe Jesus was resurrected?
510
00:35:26,626 --> 00:35:30,796
Reports of humans
encountering the divine in or near caves...
511
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,259
come from all corners of the globe
going back thousands of years.
512
00:35:37,303 --> 00:35:41,349
[ Carter ] We look at
the prophet Muhammad at Mount Hira.
513
00:35:41,432 --> 00:35:45,144
He's in a mountain in a cave.
He's praying and meditating.
514
00:35:45,227 --> 00:35:47,772
He hears the voice of Gabriel.
515
00:35:47,855 --> 00:35:51,734
"Iqra, Iqra." which means
to "recite, recite."
516
00:35:51,817 --> 00:35:54,737
And so, he recites the Koran.
517
00:35:56,197 --> 00:35:58,282
According to the Hebrew tradition...
518
00:35:58,366 --> 00:36:03,412
the prophet Elijah,
who existed around 9 BCE...
519
00:36:03,496 --> 00:36:05,665
lived in a cave.
520
00:36:09,669 --> 00:36:13,464
According to Greek mythology,
Zeus was born in a cave.
521
00:36:13,547 --> 00:36:17,176
[ Thunderclap]
522
00:36:17,259 --> 00:36:21,097
And caves are often understood,
in religious traditions...
523
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:23,516
to be gateways to the underworld.
524
00:36:24,392 --> 00:36:29,105
So, caves are worshipped
throughout the Mediterranean...
525
00:36:29,188 --> 00:36:32,400
usually because a god is
associated with that cave.
526
00:36:32,483 --> 00:36:35,111
A god is worshipped
in a cave or in a grotto.
527
00:36:38,906 --> 00:36:40,866
[ Thunderclap]
528
00:36:40,950 --> 00:36:45,371
[ Narrator] Could the stories of Zeus,
Muhammad and even Jesus...
529
00:36:46,205 --> 00:36:49,500
be evidence that the world's
subterranean caverns...
530
00:36:49,583 --> 00:36:53,379
might be portals that connect us
to other realms...
531
00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:56,298
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
532
00:36:57,258 --> 00:36:59,635
Perhaps the answer will be found...
533
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,887
with new cutting-edge technology...
534
00:37:01,971 --> 00:37:05,474
designed to uncover
secrets in cave walls...
535
00:37:05,558 --> 00:37:07,893
not visible to the naked eye.
536
00:37:15,609 --> 00:37:19,363
Santa Monica, California, 2014.
537
00:37:20,531 --> 00:37:22,700
Here at xRez Studio...
538
00:37:22,783 --> 00:37:26,495
visualization artists
Greg Downing and Eric Hanson...
539
00:37:26,579 --> 00:37:31,834
are pioneering the use of photogrammetry
and special-effects software...
540
00:37:31,917 --> 00:37:37,089
to assist archaeologists in the global
effort to decipher ancient cave art.
541
00:37:40,676 --> 00:37:42,720
We use a combination of techniques...
542
00:37:42,803 --> 00:37:46,682
from the fields of computational
photography and graphics...
543
00:37:46,766 --> 00:37:49,351
in order to help the archaeologists
reveal information...
544
00:37:49,435 --> 00:37:52,813
difficult to see just with basic vision
when you're there.
545
00:37:52,897 --> 00:37:56,192
[ Narrator] The team recently
traveled to the Grand Canyon...
546
00:37:56,275 --> 00:38:00,613
to compile a massive,
in-depth photographic compilation...
547
00:38:00,696 --> 00:38:05,117
of the collection of strange petroglyphs
known as the Shaman's Panel.
548
00:38:05,201 --> 00:38:07,870
We were drawn to the panel
for two primary aspects.
549
00:38:07,953 --> 00:38:11,874
One was the rich layering
of the anthropomorphic figures...
550
00:38:11,957 --> 00:38:16,879
and two is the kind of evocative,
surreal nature of their composition.
551
00:38:19,131 --> 00:38:22,301
[ Downing ] This cave is maybe,
like, five- or six-feet deep.
552
00:38:22,384 --> 00:38:24,804
So, by using a photogrammetric technique...
553
00:38:24,887 --> 00:38:28,307
we're able to get the detail
across the entire painting.
554
00:38:31,185 --> 00:38:33,312
[ Hanson ]
The nice thing about this technique is...
555
00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:36,649
we can separate the different
dyes and minerals that are used.
556
00:38:36,732 --> 00:38:40,486
And in this case, now we can kind of
see the layering expressed-
557
00:38:40,569 --> 00:38:44,949
we can see figures that are simply
lost by the naked eye.
558
00:38:48,494 --> 00:38:50,621
Yeah, that brings it out.
559
00:38:50,704 --> 00:38:52,873
Yeah, it's a complete difference.
560
00:38:59,088 --> 00:39:01,340
[ Narrator]
Could modern techniques one day...
561
00:39:01,423 --> 00:39:05,761
uncover even more details about
what ancient people really saw...
562
00:39:05,845 --> 00:39:08,722
and hoped to communicate
with rock art?
563
00:39:09,807 --> 00:39:13,477
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe one compelling clue...
564
00:39:13,561 --> 00:39:16,772
that modern researchers
might be on the right track...
565
00:39:16,856 --> 00:39:18,858
can be found, oddly enough...
566
00:39:18,941 --> 00:39:21,944
in contemporary America.
567
00:39:25,489 --> 00:39:28,617
March, 1945.
568
00:39:28,701 --> 00:39:32,663
Amazing Stories magazine
publishes an article entitled...
569
00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:35,291
“I Remember Lemuria!”
570
00:39:35,374 --> 00:39:37,042
But according to the author...
571
00:39:37,126 --> 00:39:40,462
this is the first piece to appear
in the science fiction magazine...
572
00:39:40,546 --> 00:39:42,965
that is not fiction at all...
573
00:39:43,924 --> 00:39:48,762
but an actual account
of his own alien abduction.
574
00:39:50,556 --> 00:39:53,684
[ REDFERN ] Richard Shaver was a man
who surfaced decades ago...
575
00:39:53,767 --> 00:39:57,187
with a story of underground entities...
576
00:39:57,271 --> 00:39:59,273
that were very hostile to the human race.
577
00:40:00,858 --> 00:40:04,987
Terrible creatures that would kidnap
and kill members of the human the race.
578
00:40:06,322 --> 00:40:08,991
[ Man ] They were the first
inhabitants of planet Earth.
579
00:40:09,074 --> 00:40:12,036
When the sun became radioactive...
580
00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:14,747
these people could no longer
live on the surface.
581
00:40:15,998 --> 00:40:20,085
Some left in their spaceships.
Others went underground.
582
00:40:26,342 --> 00:40:28,028
[ Narrator]
Could Richard Shaver's account...
583
00:40:28,052 --> 00:40:32,723
of underground extraterrestrials
abducting humans be true?
584
00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:38,020
Shaver proposed that the alien race
that once populated the earth...
585
00:40:38,103 --> 00:40:40,731
had developed
highly specialized equipment...
586
00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:45,694
that allowed them to embed
multifaceted imagery into stones.
587
00:40:46,862 --> 00:40:49,698
[ Man ] Richard Shaver
believed that he had made...
588
00:40:49,782 --> 00:40:52,785
the greatest discovery
in the history of mankind...
589
00:40:52,868 --> 00:40:55,955
about the true nature
of intelligent life on Earth.
590
00:41:01,377 --> 00:41:05,881
So this is an original Shaver
photograph of a rock book.
591
00:41:06,799 --> 00:41:11,136
And this multidimensional way
of making images in the rock books...
592
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:14,056
was something that Shaver saw
as a real sign...
593
00:41:14,139 --> 00:41:17,810
of the superior intelligence
of the ancient races.
594
00:41:18,852 --> 00:41:23,107
And Shaver believed that these weren't
mere rocks with random patterns...
595
00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:27,319
that these were actually deliberately
manufactured artifacts...
596
00:41:27,403 --> 00:41:33,033
by the ancient races who had been here
30,000, a hundred thousand-
597
00:41:33,117 --> 00:41:35,202
who knows how many years ago.
598
00:41:36,620 --> 00:41:39,665
[ Narrator] Might Richard Shaver
have actually discovered...
599
00:41:39,748 --> 00:41:45,129
real physical evidence that extraterrestrials
have been here on planet Earth...
600
00:41:45,212 --> 00:41:47,506
and might still be here today?
601
00:41:49,091 --> 00:41:52,011
Whether or not
Richard Shaver's stories are true...
602
00:41:52,094 --> 00:41:56,181
it does dovetail with legends
across this planet...
603
00:41:56,265 --> 00:42:00,519
of a race of beings
that either created humankind...
604
00:42:00,602 --> 00:42:03,772
or were, at least, our ancestors...
605
00:42:03,856 --> 00:42:07,026
that had a superior technology.
606
00:42:08,277 --> 00:42:10,821
[ REDFERN ]
If we're looking for extraterrestrials...
607
00:42:10,904 --> 00:42:14,533
ironically, the heavens above
might not be the best place to look.
608
00:42:14,616 --> 00:42:18,037
We should, perhaps, even be looking
deep below our feet.
609
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,747
[ CHILDRESS ] In some ways...
610
00:42:19,830 --> 00:42:23,208
exploring the underground
cavern world of planet Earth...
611
00:42:23,292 --> 00:42:25,711
is the final frontier.
612
00:42:28,839 --> 00:42:30,340
[ Narrator] Is it possible...
613
00:42:30,424 --> 00:42:33,093
that some of the world's
most mysterious caves...
614
00:42:33,177 --> 00:42:37,056
really are home to extraterrestrial beings?
615
00:42:38,015 --> 00:42:40,851
Could it be that
the knowledge of the universe...
616
00:42:40,934 --> 00:42:44,646
has been left for us to discover
right here on Earth...
617
00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:47,357
once we have the technology
to unlock it?
618
00:42:47,441 --> 00:42:50,986
And might the crystals
found within cave walls...
619
00:42:51,070 --> 00:42:53,614
not only tell us where we came from...
620
00:42:54,656 --> 00:42:56,658
but even provide the technology...
621
00:42:56,742 --> 00:43:00,079
to access the most
distant corners of the universe?
622
00:43:00,788 --> 00:43:03,165
Perhaps one day we will find proof...
623
00:43:03,248 --> 00:43:05,542
that there is life beyond our planet...
624
00:43:06,335 --> 00:43:08,837
by searching deep within it.
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