All language subtitles for HISTORY CHANNEL - Ancient Aliens (2015) - (S09E11 - The Vanishings) BD 1080p

[ Man Narrating ]
A tribe gone missing.

[Woman ]
it was some kind of harvest.

It was an experiment.

[ Narrator]
A city mysteriously abandoned.

All of a sudden they disappear.
We don't know where they have gone.

[ Narrator]
And an entire culture...

that dropped off
the face of the Earth.

Have they been abducted?
Have they been beamed up?

[ Narrator]
Throughout history and across the globe...

there have been accounts
of mass disappearances...

that defy explanation.

But did these people
suffer some horrible fate?

Or might they have been taken...

by extraterrestrial visitors?

[ Man ]
Ultimately, they vanished.

And we don't know
what happened to them.

[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...

believe we have been visited
in the past...

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?

And if so...

might they be responsible...

for mankind's
most mysterious disappearances?

[ Narrator]
Nunavut Territory, Canada.

Located at the northernmost point
of the country...

and stretching across most
of the Canadian Arctic...

the Nunavut Territory...

is among the most sparsely populated
regions on Earth.

[ Dogs Barking ]

Yet Inuit tribes have
continuously inhabited the region...

for at least 4,000 years.

Because of its remoteness...

most people had not
heard of the region until 1930...

when it first made headlines
across North American newspapers...

with the report
of the mysterious disappearance...

of an entire Inuit tribe.

A fur trapper by the name
of Joe Labelle...

comes upon a small village...

and it's empty.

There are tents.
There are shelters.

There's a fire.
There's stew in a pot on the fire.

But there's nobody around.

[Woman ]
There were graves in this village...

where every top of every grave...

had been lifted off...

and every dead person was gone.

[ Narrator] There was no sign
of violence or disturbance...

in the Anjikuni village...

to explain how an estimated
25 men, women and children...

would have vanished.

After the disappearance
was first publicized...

other details began to emerge.

When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
got to the village...

and they went around
and talked with locals...

they were hearing all about
strange things in the sky.

The Mounties themselves
saw blue lights...

twinkling and hovering
and moving around on the horizon...

as if being watched
by something in the sky.

One thing that makes
the Anjikuni case really stand out...

is the fact that
the entire village was just gone.

And that is something
that we don't see too often...

but we do see it now and again.

Possibly that demonstrates a very
disturbing aspect of the UFO phenomenon.

[ Narrator] Could it be
that the Anjikuni tribe...

actually disappeared
from the face of the Earth?

Some ancient astronaut theorists...

claim that accounts
of mass disappearances...

can be traced back
thousands of years...

to some of
our earliest civilizations.

What is happening
on all of the mass disappearances?

Nobody knows.

In the mass disappearances...

where cultures or towns or villages
have disappeared in Earth history...

nobody has come back.

[ Man ]
Throughout ancient history...

there are various reports
of large amounts of people...

just completely disappearing
from the Earth...

and going to some unknown place.

We don't know, but it's possible
that this is connected...

in fact, to extraterrestrials.

[ Narrator] Is it possible
that there ls a common thread...

linking mass disappearances
throughout history?

And if extraterrestrials have, in fact,
been removing...

entire groups of people
from the planet since ancient times...

what might their purpose be?

Perhaps further evidence can be found...

by examining
recently discovered artifacts...

left behind
by a lost ancient civilization.

Guanghan City, China, 1986.

Construction workers
unearth two sacrificial pits...

that contain the relics
of a long-lost civilization.

The cache contains hundreds
of bronze and gold masks...

statues and figurines...

in addition to numerous
marble and jade artifacts.

Chinese historians
consider the discovery...

one of the most important finds
of the 20th century...

and date the site back
between 3,000 and 5,000 years...

to the very start
of Chinese civilization.

Before the Sanxingdui discovery...

Chinese civilization
was understood to have arisen...

from the Yellow River basin-
basically, one spot in China.

This discovery showed that there were
other very advanced cultures...

on the periphery
of the Yellow River basin...

that also heavily contributed to
the formation of Chinese civilization.

[Woman ] Nobody wrote about
the culture at Sanxingdui.

There's nothing that comes up
in Chinese texts...

and the Chinese are very good
at documenting their history.

So one of the most
surprising things...

is how a culture that was
so sophisticated...

could slide under the radar of history.

[ Narrator] The Sanxingdui culture
left no written record.

No human remains have been found.

And according to their artifacts...

they appear to have only existed
for 350 years.

[ Lee]
For some unknown reason...

the artifacts were broken, burned...

and placed into two pits...

and covered up...

rendering them useless.

So it's very curious
as to why that happened.

[ Narrator] Adding to the intrigue
of the vanished civilization-

they left behind
dozens of bronze heads...

with odd features.

On November 1, 2007...

the official press agency of China...

asked the question...

whether or not what we're looking at here
are ancestors...

or, in fact, extraterrestrials.

And my question is...

what if what we have here is both?

If you check out this one right here-

Look at the eyes.

Now, why would any artisan carve
or create something like this?

Because our eyes don't look like this.

The whole thing
is very bizarre-looking.

It is not necessarily human.

It is something else.

The masks look very unusual.

They have big ears, big eyes.

They don't look like
normal human beings of today.

[ Narrator]
Could it be that the masks found...

at the Sanxingdui site...

are depicting ancient astronauts
who visited our planet in the remote past?

And if so...

could this help explain
the abrupt disappearance...

of a seemingly advanced civilization?

Ultimately, they vanish...

and we don't know
what happened to them.

So were they some kind
of extraterrestrial civilization...

or human hybrid civilization?

Then were ultimately airlifted out
at some point in time...

and perhaps moved to another place?

[ Narrator]
Is it possible that the Sanxingdui...

as well as other ancient civilizations...

were literally taken
off the face of the Earth?

And if so, why?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that clues can be found by examining
the stories of Easter Island...

and a lost tribe of giants.

[ Narrator]
The Southeast Pacific Ocean.

Rape Nui, or Easter Island,
as it has become known...

is one of the most remote places
on the planet.

The nearest inhabited island
is 1,100 miles to the west...

and its nearest continental country, Chile,
is over 2,000 miles away.

Scattered around
the perimeter of the island...

most with their backs to the sea...

stand nearly 300 massive stone figures...

known as the moan.

Most are between 75 to 20 feel tall.

But the tallest stands over 70 feet...

and the heaviest weighs up to 165 tons.

Why did these people
go to such great effort...

to build these giant statues?

No one else in Polynesia
was doing that.

When you talk to the people
of Easter Island today...

the Rapa Nui people...

they say they were
doing them to honor...

certain important
ancestral ariki or rulers.

These moais are images
of great ancestors.

[ Narrator] Some ancient astronaut
theorists have suggested...

that the moai may have been erected
by a lost race of giants...

that once inhabited the island.

Interestingly, C.F. Behrens...

a member of
the Dutch expedition team...

that first discovered the island in 1722...

described some of the priestly
class of inhabitants...

as Goliaths.

[ Barnhart ] C.F. Behrens
reported that he saw giant people.

Someone had rode up to their boat
that was some 15 foot tall.

He really made a big deal
of these giants on the island.

[ CHILDRESS ] When the first explorers
landed on Easter Island...

what they found was that there were
two types of people there-

there were the short ears
and the long ears.

The long ears
were often described as giants...

and they were a different race
from the short ears.

Presumably they had
these very, very long ears and earlobes.

And they were the priestly caste.

They were directing the creation
and the movement of these statues...

around the islands.

[ Man ]
They were said to be so tall...

that each of the crew could walk
under the legs of these giants.

The sheer size of the megaliths
on Easter Island...

do suggest they were made by giants.

There were legends all around the world
linked with megalithic sites...

which may give some clarity on who
and how they actually built these sites.

[ Narrator]
Francis Maziere, a French ethnologist...

who conducted research
on the island in 1963...

recorded local legends
that the first men to live on the island...

were of very large stature.

In his book
The Mysteries of Easter Island...

Francis Maziere talks about...

that the first islanders
of Easter Island...

allegedly were these tall, giant people.

[ Howe]
There were inhabitants there...

that were eight to 10,
maybe even 12 feet high.

And what do you
automatically think of?

Genesis in the Bible...

talks about how something
that was nonhuman-

perhaps angelic,
perhaps extraterrestrial-

saw the fair maidens of humans...

had intercourse...

and from that came the hybrids
known as the giants of old.

[ Narrator] Is it possible that
the accounts of giants on Earth- ..

Are in fact true...

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

Did the remnants of this lost race
continue to exist on Easter Island?

Ana' if so, just what' happened
to these beings?

Up to 15,000 people lived on Easter
island prior to its Western discovery.

But only 52 years later...

explorer James Cook described
a sight of mass devastation...

with nearly all of the moai statues
toppled over...

and only about 700 inhabitants
left on the island.

And no mention of giants.

Something seems to
have happened at Easter Island...

that decreased
the population seriously.

And it seems that
a number of people either died off, left...

or something happened to them.

[ Narrator] Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose...

that evidence left at the site
may point to a more intriguing theory...

regarding their disappearance.

Archaeologists found
unfinished moai left at' the quarry...

and tools scattered around...

as if the work
had been suddenly abandoned.

[ CHILDRESS ] We don't know why
they would have stopped this...

and even what happened exactly
to the priestly caste of giants...

who was overseeing all of this work.

Suddenly these people just vanished
and all the work stopped.

[ Howe ] The issue that keeps
coming up about Easter Island-

Was this a genetic experiment...

where non-humans would use islands...

high mountains, peninsulas...

so that there would not be interference
with or contamination of their experiments?

Maybe that's why
they were transferred out.

[ Narrator]
Could it be that an entire tribe...

was physically removed from Earth...

shortly after their discovery
on Easter Sunday?

And if so,
could mass disappearances...

be part of an extraterrestrial
experiment on Earth?

Perhaps evidence
of such a connection...

can be found in the jungles
of Central America...

with a civilization that seems
to have strategically abandoned...

all of their sacred sites...

and vanished without a trace.

[ Narrator]
Tikal National Park, Guatemala.

Here, deep in the northern jungles
of South America...

lie the ruins of one of the largest
cities of the classic Maya.

Starting around 800 AD...

their sacred sites were abandoned...

one after the other-

Palenque...

Copén...

Naranjo...

and then finally Tikal.

Tikal was perhaps the largest city
of the entire classic Maya period.

It really was the signature city
of the Maya.

It was also one of the last cities
to be walked away from.

So you get the impression
that whatever happened...

that compelled people
to walk away from the cities...

Tikal was the last one to do it.

[ Narrator] Scholars believe that at its
height, the classic Maya population...

may have been as large
as 2O million.

But after the collapse, up to 95%
of the Maya were unaccounted for.

We still do not know
why they left their cities.

Because all of a sudden
they disappeared.

And it was not a war...

because you find no traces of a war,
no traces of destruction.

They left. We don't know why
and where they have gone.

The question remains, why?

Where did they go?
And why did they leave their cities?

Of course there's a lot of practical
reasons that have been brought forth.

Possibly overpopulation,
quite possibly drought...

deforestation, a lack of water
and so forth, and so forth.

But nonetheless
it remains quite interesting to think...

that so many people disappeared
all at about the same time.

[ Narrator] Historians have noted that
the disappearance of the classic Maya...

seems to correspond with the end
of one of their calendar cycles.

But the priestly class...

seemed to have made a new calendar
called the long count.

We're still not really sure
why they created this calendar...

but I do note that its timing...

seems to time with major events.

The Maya are leading their lives
based on this long count calendar.

[Narrator] The Maya constructed
the long count calendar...

to count down 5,125 years...

or one “great cycle. ”

The calendar was further divided. ..

Into 13 units
of approximately 400 years each...

called baktuns.

At the end of each baktun,
the Maya held a major celebration.

But curiously,
on the 10th baktun they did not.

Their Maya calendar has this
very important juncture called a baktun.

It's a 400-year period
that comes up in 830 AD.

And they should have celebrated it.

But it's odd.

We know at Tikal, for example, that there
was no celebration of that 10th baktun.

[ Hawkes ] The Mayas
were the best timekeepers...

possibly of any civilization of all time.

So if they know so much about time
and they knew when to do things...

was their disappearance from their cities
really planned according to their calendar?

Now, the Maya of today
that have survived...

talk about how their ancestors
went home.

Where is home?

[ Narrator] Is it possible
the long count calendar...

was actually counting down
to a preordained date...

when the Maya knew
they would disappear?

And if so...

could further evidence
of this be found...

by examining the clues
left behind in Tikal?

Archaeoastronomers have noted...

that the seven most important pyramids
in the grand plaza...

form the same geometric patterns...

as the seven stars
comprising the Pleiades constellation,

a star cluster revered by many
ancient cultures across the globe.

Many of the Mayan monuments...

have undeniable celestial alignments...

with the Pleiades star cluster.

Is it possible...

that these people originally
came from the Pleiades...

and that's why they encoded the Pleiades
in their monuments so many times?

And then eventually
they returned home.

[ REDFERN ]
Today in abduction lore...

many people report that their abductors
came from the Pleiades.

That's what they tell the people
who have been taken away.

So we seem to have
a situation, potentially...

where entities from the Pleiades
have visited the Earth...

have interacted with humans
for literally thousands of years.

[ Howe] Those Mayans
didn't leave because of drought.

They left because it was...

some kind of harvest.

It was an experiment.

The Mayans reached some place...

and somebody took them from here.

It was the end of a calendar cycle...

and the beginning
of another calendar cycle...

that means a lot
to some intelligence out there.

[ Narrator] Could it be that
the collapse of the classic Maya society...

was due to a mass abduction...

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Was this an event that the elite priests
and rulers were counting down to?

Perhaps answers can be found...

2,300 miles north...

with the disappearance of another tribe
intricately connected to the Pleiades.

[ Narrator]
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 2014.

In the desolate high desert
of the American Southwest...

mysterious ruins stand
as a testament...

to a great civilization
that once flourished here-

the ancient Pueblo peoples,
or Anasazi.

With a population
estimated at well over 100, 000...

the Anasazi settled
nearly 50,000 square miles...

of the Four Corners region of Arizona,
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.

The highly sophisticated culture...

built hundreds of miles
of ancient roads...

many converging from all directions
to Chaco Canyon...

a ceremonial site believed to be
one of their most important.

The people that built this site...

somehow came on
to the engineering principles...

to be able to build
multistory buildings...

such as Pueblo Bonito
behind me here.

They developed a culture here...

that integrated
the alignments of the buildings...

with celestial objects and events
such as the rising of the Pleiades.

The Anasazi were a very successful civilization
up until about the 12th century...

and something
very strange happened.

And there's a great deal of argument
as to what that event may have been.

[ Narrator]
According to archaeologists...

sometime around 1130 AD...

all construction ceased at Chaco.

The buildings were sealed...

and roofs of the ceremonial structures,
called Kivas, were burned.

It's fair to say that there were groups
that did move and migrate to other areas.

Those then became
the Pueblos and the Hopis.

What is confusing is what happened
to the central part of the civilization...

the ones that were the astronomers
that built the observatories.

Where did they go?

It appears as though
they simply disappeared.

[ Narrator] Some ancient astronaut
theorists, like author David CHILDRESS...

propose that there is, in fact...

more to the disappearance
of the Anasazi elders...

than a simple migration...

and they claim clues can be found
throughout the ancient site.

On this cliff behind me here
at Chaco Canyon...

we have about a dozen unusual spirals...

carved into the cliff.

Archaeologists believe
that they represent the sun.

But some of these spirals
are very unusual.

One even has
little spirals coming off of it.

So you have to ask yourself...

are these spirals
in fact representations...

of some kind of portal...

some door to another dimension?

Both the Hopi and the Zuni Indians...

say they came from the stars...

that their knowledge came from
the star people, the star ancestors.

And the Hopi say portals...

are marked
with the spiral petroglyph,

portals to a different dimension,
portals to another world.

There are some that believe that
that may represent the portals...

by which the Anasazi
and other southwestern cultures...

crossed from this world
into their point of origin.

I think there is a possibility at least
that there is a connection...

between the alignments
of certain celestial events...

and the opening and closings
of these portals.

Is it possible
that the Anasazi themselves...

vanished en masse
from this site?

And did they go into
another dimension?

[ Narrator] Could it be that
the spiral-shaped petroglyphs...

left behind by the Anasazi...

actually represent portals?

If so, did the Anasazi
have knowledge...

of when and how to access
these other worlds?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and believe further evidence
of an otherworldly connection...

can be found in the oral stories
about this lost civilization...

that have survived
through other tribes.

The Anasazi is actually not a name
that they gave themselves.

It was a name that was given to them
by the Navajo.

[ Howe] The Anasazi-

The name meant “stranger from afar,”
or “strange enemy”-

something that was
separate, apart.

It is possible that the Anasazi
are in another dimension...

another timeline, another planet.

All of these various disappearances
of people over time...

whether it is the Mayans,
whether it is the Anasazi-

You can look through history
and you can begin to see these rhythms.

Advanced intelligences
that are behind all of this...

are using the planet
like a laboratory.

[ Narrator] Is it possible
that the Anasazi elders...

were an alien hybrid race...

as their Navajo name would imply?

And could extraterrestrials
have used ancient portals...

to remove entire groups of people
off the planet?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest...

that such portals
still exist on Earth today...

and that the evidence
can be found...

by examining
recent disappearances.

[ Narrator]
Burke County, North Carolina.

For at least a century...

a strange phenomenon
has been witnessed regularly...

by thousands of people
in the foothills of the Brown Mountains.

Unidentified lights moving erratically
just below the horizon...

have been photographed...

and even recorded on video.

[ Man ]
There it is! There it is!

Ooh! Ooh!
Look at that! Look at that!

Brown Mountain in North Carolina
is an area that has for centuries...

been associated with mysterious lights
and disappearances.

And for decades these lights
have been studied...

and no one is sure exactly
what causes these lights.

There are many theories
about them.

There are tales of people...

who have gone out into those foothills
or onto the mountain...

and never come back.

[WILCOCK ]
There is a long-standing tradition...

of disappearances
that happened in this area.

In 1850 we have a case
of a plantation owner...

who wanders off into the mountains...

and disappears completely.

And then a whole group of his slaves,
carrying lanterns, go out trying to find him.

And they cannot find him.
And then they also disappear.

In another case, a woman
went missing on Brown Mountain...

and a whole team of people
who were dispatched to search for her...

did not return.

There have been mysterious
disappearances of people...

who have gone up on the mountain
and never come back.

And in each instance...

there is always this reference
to mysterious lights...

as if these lights somehow function
as perhaps a portal or a gateway...

through which these people
disappear into.

[ Narrator] Could it be that there
are actually places on Earth...

where entire groups of people
could disappear...

through some sort of portal?

If so, is it possible that the Brown
Mountain lights and disappearances...

are part of a larger agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest that this may offer clues...

for some of our most baffling
modern disappearances.

[ Narrator]
The Pacific Ocean, 2014.

Malaysia Air Flight 370...

en route
from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing...

mysteriously disappears from radar
over the waters of Vietnam...

with no indication of distress.

The plane vanishes...

as well as the 12 crew members
and 227 passengers on board.

After one of the largest and most
expensive searches in history...

no debris has been located.

Theories abound as to
what happened to the craft...

including the possibility...

of extraterrestrial involvement.

As soon as Flight MH37O disappeared...

there were some people
who immediately started speculating...

that it might have something to do
with UFOs or aliens.

And there is a historical precedent
for these kinds of disappearances.

All around the world you hear these stories
of people mysteriously disappearing.

The Bermuda Triangle
is a classic example.

And people and airplanes
and other objects...

just were in the wrong place
at the wrong time...

and vanished through
the portal or star gate.

[ Narrator]
In the United States alone...

over 600,000 people
are reported missing each year...

and up to 1% are never located.

And paranormal researchers
have noticed a disturbing trend...

of unexplainable disappearances
associated with remote areas.

Hundreds of thousands of people
on planet Earth disappear every year-

every year-

and nobody knows where they are.

National forests, parks.

There have been stories of people
talking to other people.

They turn around
and they're gone.

They have no idea where they've gone.
Have they fallen into portals?

Have they been abducted?

Have they been beamed up?

We can only speculate about why
the intelligence behind UFO abduction...

behaves the way that it does.

But it certainly stands to reason that
if they need to operate clandestinely...

if they're trying to keep
what they're doing hidden away...

then it might not be possible
in our culture today.

It's possible that what we're seeing here
is the same phenomenon...

but the means
have changed over time-

that long ago
entire cultures would vanish...

and now, for whatever reason...

it's happening
on a much, much smaller scale.

[ Narrator] Are modern-day disappearances
a continuation of a much older phenomena?

But if entire groups of people
are being taken off the planet...

could it be part of a larger agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe answers may be found...

by exploring clues seen on board...

an alien spaceship.

[ Narrator] Houston, Texas...

December 1992.

Eight members
of the Houston UFO Network...

separately report being abducted...

in one of the strangest
mass abduction cases in history.

Derrel Sims, a former
US intelligence operative...

conducts the preliminary investigation.

All these people
independent of each other...

and to my shock and amazement...

they all came back
with the exact same story.

The same craft,
the same entities.

They identified each other
in great detail.

Some of them didn't even know
each other very well.

All of these people described being taken
by a small craft and-and a small entity-

and the entity took them
to a much larger craft.

[ Narrator] After researching
numerous UFO sightings...

that were reported
the night of the incident...

Sims makes a shocking discovery.

Someone in Japan
had filmed the moon during this time...

and filmed a massive craft
that left a shadow across the moon...

as it crossed the moon's surface...

during the same time
of the mass abduction.

So there was the corroboration
that we needed.

[ Narrator]
UFO researchers following the case...

believe collective details
gathered from the event...

may shed new light
on the abduction phenomena...

and perhaps clues to understanding
the extraterrestrial agenda.

One of the people taken
saw a map-like thing on the wall.

The map that this individual saw
that was on the wall...

indicated approximately 6,000 years
of the aliens' involvement with mankind.

We were down to
the last small section of that map...

which was about 100 years left.

What we deduced from the information
from the abductee was simply...

that this experiment,
whatever it is, is almost over.

[ Narrator]
After viewing the map...

one of the abductees
was led through a massive hallway. ..

To another part of the craft.

[Sims]
it was a huge room of enormous size.

I said, “What did you see?”

He said, “It looked like a collection.” Like
a museum of things that had been collected.

They seem to have collected species,
animals, people, all kinds of things.

And I said, “And what was
significant about that?”

And he said,
“I don't think they were dead.

I think they were all
in suspended animation.”

This may explain the reason
why some people disappear...

and don't come back
from an abduction event.

[ Narrator] Do the accounts from
the Houston mass abduction event...

shed new light
on the extraterrestrial agenda?

If so, might the stories of mass
disappearances throughout history...

be not fantasy,
but pan' of a program...

to collect human beings
and other Earth species?

But for what purpose?

[WILCOCK ]
Perhaps these abductions...

are not happening
for some random reason.

These samples are being taken...

so that the human seed itself
can be preserved...

in the unlikely event of some
mass ecological catastrophe...

that wipes out human life
on Earth as we now know it.

The evolution of humans on this planet
has been completely and totally...

an experiment on the part
of extraterrestrials.

We'll call it “experimental
lab process” on this planet.

Intelligences are cloning
and hybridizing...

and mixing and matching.

[ NOORY] Earth could very well be
a farm-simple as that.

It's like the island of Dr. Moreau...

where we're genetically altered,
we're mixed...

we're abducted, we're taken,
we're brought back.

This could be the greatest melting pot
of experimental work in the universe.

But, you know, as NASA has said...

they're gonna discover
alien life-forms in 2O years.

I think we will find that creatures
on other worlds...

resemble us very closely.

[ Narrator]
Could it be that extraterrestrials...

really have been coming to Earth...

and abducting large groups of people
throughout our history?

And if so...

are otherworldly beings...

conducting experiments
to upgrade the human race...

preparing us to become part of
an intergalactic community?

Ancient astronaut theorists
propose that one day...

we will be reunited
with our alien ancestors.

But perhaps for some of us...

this reunion has already occurred.