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>> In 1997, Holley Moyes an
archeologist at the University

of California, led an expedition
to survey a large cave system

in Belize, known as
Actun Tunichil Muknal.

As they followed a bizarre
complex of chambers

three miles into the Earth,
they discovered thousands

of offerings to ancient gods,
including the skeletal remains

of thousands of
human sacrifices,

and tools and ceramics made
from the semiprecious stone,

obsidian.

What made this find
even more unusual

was that, as Holley and
her team followed the trail

deeper and deeper into the cave,
it appeared to have no end.

Where would it
ultimately lead to?

Descriptions of the
caves in the Popol Vuh,

an ancient Maya
creation myth, has

led many to believe these
archeologists had uncovered

an opening to the
ancient underworld known

as Xibalba, a much-feared
threshold to the afterlife.

>> The Maya have an interesting
and related legend about

an underworld called Xibalba.

Xibalba is basically
their version of hell.

And these lords of the
underworld in the Mayan story

cycle are basically
reptilian-headed humanoids.

You have one guy who's got
crocodile head, another

who's got an iguana head.

Chaac, the rain god,
has a bird head,

which is somewhat reptilian.

And this is the theme,
again, that we find

throughout underworld lore.

Stories about beings that rule
these nether regions are often

reptilian yet humanoid.

>> Reptilian yet humanoid is
not a new myth in the ancient

worlds.

But are these Mayan myths of
an underground simply folklore,

or could there be some
scientific evidence

that habitable places below
the Earth could exist?

Hollow Earth theory has been
around for several years,

and this is something
that has now begun

to fascinate people again.

You know, the original theory
goes back maybe 500 years,

and various very well-known
historical figures

have talked about this.

Sir Isaac Newton was a
proponent for the hollow Earth.

The Earth is not
solid, by a long shot.

The Earth is-- there's always
a lot of movement and motion

going on down deep
inside the Earth.

So the idea that there could be
large spaces inside the crust

of the Earth, even down
as far as the crust mantle

boundary, that might be
conducive to habitation

is not that impossible.

>> There's a lot of scientists
today, planetary scientists,

credible planetary scientists,
that will tell you that when

a planet evolves, when
it comes into being,

it has to do so in such a way
that the center is hollow.

And in fact, they dropped a bomb
on the moon not too long ago

and a geologist, NASA
geologist, wanted

to record the
vibrations coming out

of it so they could
tell something

about the inner structure.

And it rang for eight hours
like a bell, like an empty bell.

And that kind of
gives you a glimpse.

Now whether or not
the Earth itself

is completely hollowed
out inside or whether

or not they are just
vast inner caverns that

might be the size of whole
continents, I'm not sure.

But what I can tell you is
that in ancient civilizations

all over the globe, they have
these hollow Earth stories.

>> In my research I have
discovered maps that show a lot

of these deep underground
bases, also known as domes.

These bases are
in locations where

there appear to have been other
openings deep under the earth.

And how do I know this?

Well anybody can figure it
out because we have access

to the ground
penetrating radar data.

This data shows specific
types of caverns and openings

deep, deep beneath the
earth, sometimes a mile deep.

And what it appears
when you look

at some of these overlaying
military tunnels,

it seems as if they knew where
they were at so they actually

tunneled to these
actual locations,

these ancient locations,
and kind of made them

into their path as they
created their own grid.

>> When we look at the
creation stories of our past,

as different as they
are from one another,

there are common themes that
weave them all together.

One of the most obvious
of these common threads

is the theme of another
world beneath this one.

A world, subterranean
world, from which

our ancestors emerged.

The Mayan calendar, for example.

It's a circular calendar
and it shows four boxes

with unique glyphs representing
the four worlds of the past.

And the Maya say there have
been four previous worlds.

We live in the fifth
world that is represented

by the circle and the image
that is staring right at us

from that circle.

Each of those four previous
worlds was destroyed.

One was destroyed by wind,
one was destroyed by fire,

one was destroyed by ice.

And when the ice
melted, a great flood

destroyed the fourth
world, and that flood story

is one of the common
themes that we

find throughout these
indigenous traditions.

So the question is,
is that just mythology

or are there any
physical links that

can help us relate to
these in the real world?

>> Maybe the links in
the physical world are

to our genetic existence, and
how humans were able to survive

cataclysm after cataclysm.

>> All species tend to transcend
into something else sooner

or later.

This is the process of evolution
and natural selection, which

some people find very annoying.

But I see no mileage in saying
evolution doesn't happen.

You need species
to have the ability

to bounce back from assaults.

You know, for example, if you
have a giant asteroid or comet

hit the Earth and
make life on Earth

extremely fragile
and tenuous, you

need to be able to
bounce back from that.

In other words, you need
to be able to duck and dive

and evolve to adapt
to the new situations

and keep the project
of life going.

The whole process of evolution
is a process of unfolding.

Could we become very different
from what we are now?

Yes, given enough time.

Given enough new situations
to adapt to and develop with.

>> Could these new situations
have included taking refuge

within the inner Earth?

>> We have the Biblical texts
about this notion of giants

in the old days.

And certainly after
the great floods

and the great cataclysmic events
that may have sunk Atlantis,

we can only speculate
to say that there

could be a breakaway
civilization that

went underground at the
end of the last cataclysm.

And these beings,
some of whom could

be giants, others
could look just

like us or some
similar human to us,

could be living
inside the Earth.

>> You get the Mayans
who kind of disappeared.

There's speculation
they may have ascended,

they maybe have gone to a
deeper plane of existence

that we originally came out of.

And same with the Tuatha
de Danann in Ireland.

Like they're said to be gods or
fairies or ancestral spirits,

but they were originally people.

I also see a lot of legends
where people coming out

of the sea and coming out
of the Earth may explain,

may tie end of
the Atlantis myth,

where we've come from
deeper plains of ontology.

Because a lot of
time the underworld

does represent a deeper
plane of existence.

>> Anton Parks' research
indicates that the underworld

can also be linked to creation.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH] In ancient
texts, in Gnostic, Sumerian,

even Egyptian texts, the abyss
is always linked to the process

of creation.

So we find this recurrent
theme of the abyss,

and through the research
that I have done,

I found out that Enki is
the master of the abyss,

of the great deep,
which also in some ways

corresponds to the underworld.

>> If you go back to the
Mesopotamian creation stories,

they talked about gods from the
sky basically bioengineering

a form of humanity
that was already here,

creating a more modern form.

But they don't necessarily
say that the engineering

was done in the sky.

For example, Enki was also the
god of the underwater realms.

So there was a possibility
that maybe there

was some realm under
water or underground

where some of this activity
was being conducted.

And so you have
this possibility,

at least within the lore.

You don't necessarily
exclude sky borne gods

from gods that lived underground
because people had both ideas.

That the gods had
realms underground,

underwater, and in
the sky, and they

interacted with all of them.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH] Indeed, the
further back you go in history,

the more you are
faced with Giants,

just like prehistoric
animals on Earth.

For example, the dinosaurs.

Roughly, I would say that
if Enki is about six feet

five inches, closer to human.

An and the other Sumerian
gods and goddesses,

by the way they were
portrayed, I would say

are about 11 feet five inches.

Between 10 feet and
11 feet five inches.

Maybe even up to 14 feet.

>> If some of the Sumerian
gods were suggested to be giant

in size, how would this relate
to myths of an underworld

in South America?

Sonja Grace uses her
alternative research

to connect the dots on
the underground mythology

in Mesopotamia.

>> When I first spirit
travelled to the Ziggurat of Ur,

I was really amazed because
there was a very small

structure, like a temple,
made out of stone.

And the ant people, who
I call the [INAUDIBLE],,

were all over the land,
they were everywhere.

And one of them came up to me,
and these are ginormous ants.

These are not little
ants or people

that look like-- they're ants.

And they came up to
me and they said,

we created this place
in the beginning.

And this is what we built
for the people of Atlantis

so that when Atlantis fell,
they had a place to go to.

We helped them to safety.

And they said, we want to take
you and show you this place.

So we went through
this little opening

and we started going down and
down, and further and further

into this long tunnel.

It went on forever.

And then all of a
sudden, it opened out

into this beautiful,
huge cavern.

There were all kinds
of rocks and crystals

and stones in the walls.

There was a lake, and it
went on into further caverns.

It was enormous.

And they said, this
is where we lead

the people who did survive
and got out of Atlantis

before it fell.

And at the top of the
cave were these roots

from a big tree that
was coming down.

And they said that when
the people were there,

they referred to
this place as Eden.

It was the place
that they had to--

that was their refuge,
that saved them.

So they referred to
it and called it Eden.

And when the world
came back and life

was happening on
the surface again,

in the roots of the tree
that were coming down

from the top of the
cave, they could

see greenery coming
out and growing.

So they knew it was OK to
come back up to the surface.

And when they came back up,
they referred to this tree

as the tree of life.

>> If the underworld is not
only a place of creation,

might it also have
been a place to hide?

In the Hebrew
Bible, the Nephilim

were the sons of gods, mingling
with the daughters of Adam.

They were also known as
giants and considered

to be the fallen ones.

Michael Mott's research
suggests that they might

have retreated underground.

Are these the Giants
described in ancient texts?

>> Some people will say that
these giants are pre-Adamites,

which means they came
about before Adam and Eve.

Some say that they
are Nephilim, which

would mean they're part
human and part fallen angel.

And this is a theme that
does find reflection

in some of the
Native American lore

because the Giants are described
as having six fingers, six

toes, double rows of teeth,
occasionally they have horns.

And this ties right in with
the ancient description

of the Nephilim.

For instance, from the Book
of Enoch and other sources,

and even from the Old Testament.

So is something that
we see again and again.

They fled a cataclysm.

They fled something they fear.

So they go beneath
the Earth and they

claim that they live much
longer by living there.

There's plenty of water,
there are strange areas

where there seems to be
a lot of high pressure

which blow out a lot
of breathable air.

That's not to say
that you wouldn't

have to have a really
advanced level of not just

civilization, but
technology in order

to carve out a space inside
the crust of the planet

and to make a sustainable
environment there.

>> [SPEAKING FRENCH]
What became of the gods?

I'm not sure that I can give
an answer to this question.

And maybe that the survivors,
the ones that could still

be alive in our solar system,
lived underground on Earth.

>> There are many reports
that these giants moved inside

the Earth, into the inner Earth.

According to my information,
it is a honeycomb

of caverns inside
the Earth, and there

are many groups living inside.

Groups that are
non-terrestrial, groups

that left the surface of the
Earth many, many millennia

ago and just never
came back out.

>> Has any evidence been
discovered that can prove

the existence of a lost
underground civilization?

Historians have been
debating this for centuries.

Perhaps the answer
to this question

lies deep in the Amazon
jungle, two and a half

thousand miles south of Belize.

An indigenous tribe
known as the Macushi

have lived here with little
contact from the outside world

until the mid-18th century.

And yet, their
mythology is almost

identical to beings who protect
the hollow Earth described

by the Mayans.

>> You have that South
American tradition,

which is very interesting, of
the tribe that said that they

were guarding the entrance
to the inner Earth.

And they said it would take
maybe a couple of weeks

to finally get down far
enough where they would meet

the inhabitants,
and they were just

these gigantic people, anywhere
between 10 and 11 and 1/2 feet

tall.

So of course, the common
idea is that this is just

a bunch of mythology
by a primitive people.

But what's interesting
is they talked

about how when they
got far enough down,

one of the things they saw
was basically molten rock.

And that's exactly what
modern science tells us

you should find
underneath the Earth.

And how would a primitive
people know that?

There are also
areas where there's

all these lush plants, and
food, and the people living down

there.

Can we take that seriously?

We're left with this
very interesting myth

that has a few intriguing
elements to it.

It's worth a look if
we can get down there.

>> The Macushi Indians of Guyana
and also of the northern Amazon

basin have a very interesting
legend concerning an entrance

to the inner Earth.

And according to their
legend, there is an entrance

to the underworld there.

And at one point,
they were in charge

of security over the
entrance to this location.

And according their legend,
they could descend to this world

and come into contact
with the very tall men who

were basically giants, 15
feet tall, 12 feet tall.

And they had been
given this task

of guarding this location
and the entrance,

and not let anyone else enter.

>> Traveling for 15 days down
into this cavern until they

literally put down their torches
because there's these balls

of light that will light you the
rest of the way on steps that

are 33 inches long.

Eventually making it into
caverns where food was growing,

lit by four large sun-like
disks that they couldn't even

stare at they were so bright.

And they describe the
food as being apples

the size of a human head,
grapes the size of a human fist.

Interacting with
giant beings that they

described as being three
to four meters in height.

He would catch
giant fish for them

and give it to him as a gift.

That kind of detail
coming from a culture who

didn't have any
access to libraries,

didn't have any access
to television, satellite,

internet.

How is it that they
come across or begin

to tell stories that
are being duplicated

in all these other cultures?

There has to be
some truth to it.

Now whether it's
completely hollow inside,

or whether or not these vast
caverns are just there--

I believe that they're
there, and a lot of people

believe that they're inhabited
by what we would describe

as being an alien species,
an ultra-terrestrial species

rather than an
extraterrestrial species.

>> Could these strange species
be linked to the Sumerian gods?

Many of these stories
about a lost civilization

under the Earth from indigenous
cultures around the world

have strong similarities.

Is it possible that
these giant creatures

were the sages described
in ancient Sumerian texts

and others?

And did these beings bring back
humanity after a cataclysm?

>> In Sumerian tradition and in
the surviving texts that have

been passed down to us, there
is a very strong and intriguing

reference to what is called
the seven antediluvian sages.

Go over to India and we
have the seven rishis.

So this number keeps
on cropping up.

We can go further
away, to Easter Island,

and there we discover
an ancient tradition

that civilization was first
brought to Easter Island

by seven initiated men.

Now how are we to
take all of this?

How can we put it into
some kind of context?

For me, what I think
we're looking at

is more evidence that there
was a high civilization

that we have lost track of.

That we truly are a
species with amnesia,

and that we have forgotten
a very important part

of our story.

And fragments of that story
crop up all around the world.

What I think we are looking
at is an outreach program.

An outreach program
reaching out to the hunter

gatherers in what we would
call the upper Paleolithic,

and beginning to
teach certain of them

selected skills, giving them
the gifts of civilization.

But to find this
theme again and again

and again, the seven
sages, the seven wise men,

teaching the gifts
of civilization--

I would say we are looking
at symbolic allusions

towards the outreach
of a lost civilization.

>> But who are these beings
we have lost touch with?

>> If we look back throughout
all the historical cycles,

we find this interaction with
supposed reptilian humanoids.

That goes as far as even
the mythic cycles of Europe,

and the whole concept of like,
for instance, frog princesses

and all these other
strange things

that we find coming down to us
in lore about these people who

aren't quite human, or they
can pass as human sometimes

but they have a
reptilian aspect.

The stories about them and
their interacts with people,

it's often seen that
like for instance

in the Mayan underworld, that
even though these brothers

killed some of these
beings, the Mayan royalty

traces their lineage to
some of the same beings.

And this is a theme we'll
see around the world,

whether it's China,
Japan, wherever it is.

You have an elite
group that believes

that they are descended from
these mostly unseen beings who

live under the Earth.

The Anunnaki in
the Sumerian text

are described as being
reptilian to some extent,

or have birdlike heads,
reptile like heads.

Even in contemporary
accounts of Ufology,

people talk about the reptoids
and these humanoid beings

with reptilian heads.

And this theme, again, is
associated with the underworld

and with these unseen
manipulators of the human race.

In the legend of
Central Asia, there

are stories about
subterranean civilizations.

One of these is called
Agartha or Agharti.

The other one is called Patala.

And Patala is often
associated with the Naga,

who are reptilian humanoids.

>> As described in
the Mahabharata,

the Nagas are considered to
be a subterranean half-human,

half-serpent race.

At some point in
the ancient text,

they are important players in
many of the events in the epic,

and frequently even on
the side of good, given

the nature of their character.

They dwell in the
city Potala, which

is said in the Vishnu Purana
to have seven realms, which are

located one above the other.

Patala is a paradise,
and the Naga

that live there are
described as a very

advanced race or species, with
a highly developed technology.

According to the
legend, they wage war

on the Kingdom of Agartha.

>> The Agarthans are supposedly
enlightened human beings,

and they have a ruler over them
called the King of the World.

He has a capital called
Shambhala, which is in Agartha.

And from this
area, supposedly he

influences events on
the surface world.

They also influence
human civilization.

They either interfere with our
civilization to slow it down

or they give us little
things to help advance it

when it suits their purposes.

We get the idea.

We get the story that there
is more than one group,

and that they have
various agenda that they

conflict with each other.

>> Are these underground
beings really manipulating us?

And if so, how?

Graham Cere believes
the underworld

is a world that reaches out
to us when we least expect it.

>> The entrances to the
inner Earth describe portals

into the underworld, and the
underworld is actually a plane

between spirit and nature.

It's the area of
reality where spirit

becomes nature and nature
turns back into spirit.

So it's an intermediary sort of
paradoxical apparitional realm

which is closer to spirit
than nature is because it's

where nature comes out of.

It's where the spirits
initially start

to embody before they
finally densify and kind of

fall into this frequency range.

You can look at it as
the Christian purgatory,

or the Celtic Other World or the
Egyptian Duat or the Kabalistic

Yetzira.

These are all different
names that refer

to this intermediary plane.

It's also where prophetic
imagination occurs

and all these things.

That's where revelation occurs.

>> We are drawn to caves.

Joseph Campbell said that
all of the world's religions

probably started in
some cave in Siberia

where the first shamans went
and had a dream or a vision,

told a story, and the story
was retold and retold.

Interesting that it might
have been in a cave.

Well the shamans in
Siberia lived in caves,

but caves reach down and down.

Spelunkers go and
explore the depths

of unseen parts of the
planet, this planet,

the planet we have known
and studied so well.

There are all these
unseen places.

There is more to be known.

Even as our technology
advances, we

have to be humbled by how much
close at hand we do not know.

The ancients, the
people, the primal people

that live close to the
Earth's all the gods

and spirits, the sacred energies
as down in those places.

Whether we go down to explore
physically-- personally

I'll let somebody
else do the exploring.

But I want to explore
mentally and spiritually.

I want to imagine
what is below us,

what the Earth has to teach us.

It is a living thing, and
our lives are tied to it.

So we don't have to be adherents
of the ancient nature religions

to know this is important stuff.

But the stories can help
us, that perhaps there

is some kind of personality that
were in a relationship with.

Some god-- some
goddess, more likely,

since the Earth is
maternal; it feeds us--

that we need to be respectful
of and to seek a deeper

relationship with.

>> Could there really be beings
living inside of the Earth,

manipulating humans?

Is it possible we at one time
were created or recreated

beneath the surface?

Or is the meaning
behind the legends

a metaphor for the greatest
secrets the Earth keeps

on our human existence?

Does this mean we
are all searching

for our own personal Xibalba?

Andrew Collins
suggests something

from beyond this planet might be
trying to get in touch with us

on the surface.

He points to a discovery by
astronomers at the Green Bank

Telescope that suggested
light signals were emanating

from a star in the
Cygnus constellation

1,200 light years away.

This fluctuating star
was cataloged KIC8462852

and named Tabby's star.

>> Now what I have determined
relating to this star is that

there are certain cycles
associated with the Kepler

data.

They are all
interlinked, and they all

reflect certain key numbers.

And those key numbers are the
numbers 11, 121, and 1331.

Now all of them are
multiples of 11.

>> Up next, is there something
trying to help us figure out

this code to humanity?

And could they be using our own
ancient sites on this planet?