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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:04,733 Narrator: WHO WERE THE ORACLES? 2 00:00:04,767 --> 00:00:06,600 THE YOUNG WOMEN OF THE UNDERWORLD 3 00:00:06,633 --> 00:00:09,600 WHO WERE CONSULTED BY ANCIENT GREEK SOCIETY 4 00:00:09,633 --> 00:00:13,333 AND WHOSE VISIONS HELPED SHAPE THE COURSE OF HISTORY. 5 00:00:13,367 --> 00:00:16,633 WHAT WAS THE TRUTH BEHIND THEIR TRANCES 6 00:00:16,667 --> 00:00:18,800 AND APPARENT PSYCHIC POWERS? 7 00:00:18,833 --> 00:00:24,767 ORACLES HARNESSED NATURAL ENERGY TO ACCESS THE REALM OF THE GODS 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,167 AND PRODUCE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FUTURE. 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,433 Theakston: IT'S SO TIGHT AND NARROW DOWN HERE, 10 00:00:30,467 --> 00:00:35,833 YOU REALLY GET THE SENSE THAT YOU'RE DROPPING DOWN INTO HELL. 11 00:00:35,867 --> 00:00:38,367 Butler: ORACLES WERE ABSOLUTELY BELIEVED. 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,167 THIS GAVE THEM GREAT POWER. 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,333 ORACLES ULTIMATELY HAD A GREAT PART TO PLAY 14 00:00:43,367 --> 00:00:45,267 IN THE TAPESTRY OF HISTORY. 15 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,800 NOBODY WOULD MAKE A DECISION WITHOUT COVERING THEIR BUM FIRST 16 00:00:49,833 --> 00:00:51,333 AND CONSULTING THE ORACLE. 17 00:00:51,367 --> 00:00:55,367 WE ARE NOW STOOD IN THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD? 18 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,933 Gough: THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD, THIS IS IT. 19 00:00:57,967 --> 00:01:01,067 Picknett: YOU WERE PAYING FOR YOUR PILGRIMAGE, 20 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,933 YOU WERE PAYING TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING HOLY. 21 00:01:04,967 --> 00:01:06,309 Fanthorpe: BUT IT'S DIFFICULT TO KNOW 22 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:11,700 WHETHER IT WAS ENTIRELY HONEST OR NOT. 23 00:01:11,733 --> 00:01:13,300 Gough: IF YOU CONSULTED THE GODS, 24 00:01:13,333 --> 00:01:15,400 NOBODY WOULD QUESTION THE RESULT. 25 00:01:15,433 --> 00:01:17,500 YOU'RE ABSOLVED FROM RESPONSIBILITY 26 00:01:17,533 --> 00:01:19,667 'CAUSE THE GODS TOLD YOU IT WAS OKAY. 27 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:22,667 Captions by VITAC... www.vitac.com 28 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,733 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 29 00:01:40,733 --> 00:01:44,066 Narrator: FOR CENTURIES, RULERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND WRITERS 30 00:01:44,067 --> 00:01:45,367 LIKE HOMER AND VIRGIL 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,933 WOULD COME TO BAIA ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ITALY, 32 00:01:48,967 --> 00:01:52,200 AND DESCEND INTO A NETWORK OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS 33 00:01:52,233 --> 00:01:55,133 TO VISIT THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 34 00:01:55,167 --> 00:01:57,066 IT WAS A SACRED LABYRINTH 35 00:01:57,067 --> 00:02:01,467 WHICH LED THE INITIATE DOWN TO THE MYTHICAL RIVER STYX. 36 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,667 ONCE THEY CROSSED THIS, THEY'D ENTERED THE UNDERWORLD, 37 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:07,500 IN WHICH THEY MET THE SIBYL, OR HIGH PRIESTESS, 38 00:02:07,533 --> 00:02:09,800 WHO WAS OFTEN A YOUNG VIRGIN 39 00:02:09,833 --> 00:02:12,433 SITTING IN A SMALL, TORCH-LIT CHAMBER. 40 00:02:12,467 --> 00:02:15,067 THROUGH HER, THEY WERE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE 41 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:19,300 WITH THEIR DEAD RELATIVES AS WELL AS THE GODS THEMSELVES. 42 00:02:19,333 --> 00:02:21,967 IN ESSENCE, IT WAS AN ANCIENT, ELABORATE, 43 00:02:22,067 --> 00:02:24,200 AND VERY UNSETTLING VERSION 44 00:02:24,233 --> 00:02:28,066 OF A MODERN PSYCHIC CROSSED WITH A SCARY HALLOWEEN EXPERIENCE, 45 00:02:28,067 --> 00:02:31,667 AND IT WAS A HUGELY IMPORTANT PART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 46 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,067 JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON A QUEST TO FIND OUT 47 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,200 WHAT REALLY WENT ON IN THESE UNDERGROUND CAVERNS, 48 00:02:38,233 --> 00:02:41,100 WHY PEOPLE WENT, AND WHETHER THEY REALLY DID 49 00:02:41,133 --> 00:02:44,067 OFFER SOME SORT OF SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE. 50 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,533 Butler: PEOPLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD WERE CERTAINLY VERY SUPERSTITIOUS. 51 00:02:52,567 --> 00:02:54,066 I DON'T THINK HUMANITY 52 00:02:54,067 --> 00:02:56,167 HAS PARTICULARLY CHANGED IN THAT RESPECT, 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,066 BUT THEY WERE MUCH MORE INTO THEIR GODS AND THEIR GODDESSES. 54 00:03:00,067 --> 00:03:07,100 THEY REALLY THOUGHT THAT THESE DEITIES WERE RULING THE WORLD, 55 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:10,767 THAT EVERYTHING WAS SCRIBED, IF YOU LIKE, 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,767 AND THAT IF YOU WENT TO THE RIGHT PLACES 57 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,733 AND SPOKE TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE, 58 00:03:15,767 --> 00:03:17,733 THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO TELL YOU 59 00:03:17,767 --> 00:03:20,767 WHAT WAS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. 60 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,733 Fanthorpe: SO JUST AS THERE ARE SOME HONEST MEDIUMS TODAY 61 00:03:25,767 --> 00:03:27,700 WHO WILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY HAVE... 62 00:03:27,733 --> 00:03:29,433 WHAT THEY GENUINELY BELIEVE 63 00:03:29,467 --> 00:03:32,833 THEY'VE SEEN AND HEARD FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD, 64 00:03:32,867 --> 00:03:35,600 SO THERE ARE SOME CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS 65 00:03:35,633 --> 00:03:39,300 WHO WILL PRETEND TO BE SEERS AND MEDIUMS, 66 00:03:39,333 --> 00:03:44,067 AND WHO, FOR AN EXORBITANT FEE, WILL TELL YOU 67 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:49,867 WHAT THE NONEXISTENT SPIRITS HAVE SAID TO THEM. 68 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:52,900 Picknett: OF COURSE, THE IDEA CROSSES ONE'S MIND 69 00:03:52,933 --> 00:03:54,700 THAT IT WAS ALL A BIG CON. 70 00:03:54,733 --> 00:03:57,233 I MEAN, IT HAVE STARTED OFF AS A GOOD IDEA, 71 00:03:57,267 --> 00:04:00,066 AND, CERTAINLY, THE PEOPLE BELIEVED 72 00:04:00,067 --> 00:04:02,833 THEY WERE GETTING SOMETHING FOR THEIR MONEY. 73 00:04:02,867 --> 00:04:04,633 BUT, OF COURSE, IT'S OPEN AS A SYSTEM, 74 00:04:04,667 --> 00:04:06,433 IT'S DESPERATELY OPEN TO ABUSE, 75 00:04:06,467 --> 00:04:08,267 ESPECIALLY AS THE PRIESTESS HERSELF 76 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:10,967 WOULD CHARACTERISTICALLY UTTER GIBBERISH, 77 00:04:11,067 --> 00:04:13,500 AND THAT HAD TO BE INTERPRETED BY SOMEBODY ELSE 78 00:04:13,533 --> 00:04:16,633 WHO WAS GIVEN A LITTLE BACKHAND, A LITTLE DONATION. 79 00:04:16,667 --> 00:04:21,067 SO, IT WAS SELF-FULFILLING, IT WAS SELF-GENERATING. 80 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:30,667 Narrator: THE UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH IN BAIA 81 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:34,066 DATES BACK TO THE EARLIEST GREEK SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHWEST ITALY, 82 00:04:34,067 --> 00:04:36,733 AROUND 750 B.C. 83 00:04:36,767 --> 00:04:40,066 IT WAS THEN REDISCOVERED BY DR. ROBERT PAGET, 84 00:04:40,067 --> 00:04:43,200 AN AMATEUR ARCHEOLOGIST, IN 1962. 85 00:04:43,233 --> 00:04:45,833 AND, TODAY, THE ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK 86 00:04:45,867 --> 00:04:47,667 HAS BECOME A POPULAR DESTINATION 87 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:49,867 FOR TOURISTS ON THE ITALIAN COAST. 88 00:04:53,067 --> 00:04:56,100 HISTORIAN ANDREW GOUGH HAS LONG BEEN FASCINATED 89 00:04:56,133 --> 00:04:57,633 WITH THE ANCIENT ORACLES, 90 00:04:57,667 --> 00:05:02,133 AND AGREED TO TAKE JAMIE ON A TOUR OF THE SITE. 91 00:05:02,167 --> 00:05:07,500 Gough: ORACLES HARNESSED NATURAL ENERGY 92 00:05:07,533 --> 00:05:12,600 TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT BY WHICH THE PRIESTESS, THE SIBYL, 93 00:05:12,633 --> 00:05:15,400 COULD ACCESS THE REALM OF THE GODS 94 00:05:15,433 --> 00:05:19,167 AND PRODUCE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FUTURE. 95 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:25,066 THE FACT IS THESE ORACLE CENTERS WERE ALSO PROFIT CENTERS. 96 00:05:25,067 --> 00:05:27,267 THEY WERE IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY, 97 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,633 THEY REQUIRED A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF EFFORT, 98 00:05:30,667 --> 00:05:34,333 AND THEY WERE PAID HANDSOMELY BY THEIR PATRONS. 99 00:05:39,633 --> 00:05:45,267 Picknett: LIKE MOST SERVICES OFFERED BY PRIEST AND PRIESTESSES 100 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:47,767 OVER THE CENTURIES IN WHATEVER RELIGION, 101 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,467 THERE WAS A LITTLE DONATION REQUIRED. 102 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,233 AND AN OFFERING TO THE GODS, OBVIOUSLY, 103 00:05:53,267 --> 00:05:56,267 SO THAT'S THE SAME SORT OF THING. 104 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:00,066 BUT, BASICALLY, YOU WERE PAYING FOR YOUR PILGRIMAGE. 105 00:06:00,067 --> 00:06:03,800 YOU WERE PAYING TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING HOLY. 106 00:06:12,633 --> 00:06:16,767 Narrator: IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD AT BAIA 107 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,066 WAS A MAJOR ATTRACTION FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL. 108 00:06:20,067 --> 00:06:22,867 IT WAS PART ROMAN BATHS AND HEALTH SPA, 109 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:28,267 PART UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH AND PART LUXURY SEASIDE RESORT. 110 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:33,400 IT QUICKLY GAINED A REPUTATION FOR HEDONISM AND DEBAUCHERY, 111 00:06:33,433 --> 00:06:37,833 BUT AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES 112 00:06:37,867 --> 00:06:40,300 IT FELL INTO RUIN AND WAS SLOWLY LOST 113 00:06:40,333 --> 00:06:44,433 UNDER CENTURIES OF RUBBLE, FARMING, AND DEVELOPMENT. 114 00:06:44,467 --> 00:06:47,967 ANDREW GOUGH HAD ARRANGED SPECIAL ACCESS TO THE SITE. 115 00:06:50,867 --> 00:06:54,733 Gough: THE ORACLES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD WERE ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL 116 00:06:54,767 --> 00:06:58,567 TO ALL MATTERS OF GOVERNMENT AND STATE. 117 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,933 IF YOU HAD TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT GOING TO WAR 118 00:07:01,967 --> 00:07:05,367 OR WHO'S GOING TO A BE A CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE, 119 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,367 YOU WOULD CONSULT YOUR PEERS, 120 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,067 BUT THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN AGENDA. 121 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:10,667 YOU WOULD GO AND CONSULT THE GODS 122 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:13,767 'CAUSE IF YOU WERE ON RECORD AS HAVING CONSULTED THE GODS, 123 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,267 NOBODY WOULD QUESTION THE RESULT, GOOD OR BAD. 124 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:19,133 YOU'RE ABSOLVED FROM RESPONSIBILITY 125 00:07:19,167 --> 00:07:21,633 'CAUSE THE GODS TOLD YOU IT WAS OKAY. 126 00:07:21,667 --> 00:07:24,667 SO, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FUNDAMENTAL TO ANY RULER, 127 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:26,767 TO ANY POWERFUL BUSINESSMAN, 128 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,067 TO CONSULT THE ORACLES FIRST BEFORE DOING ANYTHING. 129 00:07:36,433 --> 00:07:38,733 AND, OF COURSE, THE SITE IS RESTRICTED ACCESS, 130 00:07:38,767 --> 00:07:41,400 AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE. 131 00:07:41,433 --> 00:07:45,133 HE SAYS WITH THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. 132 00:07:45,167 --> 00:07:46,567 HERE WE GO. 133 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,633 OKAY, LEAD ON. 134 00:07:50,333 --> 00:07:52,267 THIS MY FRIEND, IS BAIA. 135 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:55,233 OH, WOW. WHAT DO YOU THINK? 136 00:07:55,267 --> 00:07:57,300 AH! FANTASTIC, ISN'T IT? 137 00:07:57,333 --> 00:07:59,600 LOOK AT THAT! WOW! 138 00:07:59,633 --> 00:08:00,833 I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING. 139 00:08:00,867 --> 00:08:02,343 EVERYONE COMES TO NAPLES. WHAT DO THEY DO? 140 00:08:02,367 --> 00:08:03,567 THEY GO TO POMPEII. 141 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:05,433 I MEAN, IT'S A HIDDEN GEM. 142 00:08:07,933 --> 00:08:10,367 SO THIS IS, WHAT, 2,000 YEARS OLD? 143 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,066 EXACTLY. YOU'RE LOOKING AT BASICALLY 100 B.C. ONWARD. 144 00:08:14,067 --> 00:08:16,533 AND SO WHAT WAS IT? WAS IT A TEMPLE COMPLEX OR WHAT? 145 00:08:16,567 --> 00:08:17,900 YOU KNOW, NOT AT ALL. 146 00:08:17,933 --> 00:08:19,767 IT WAS A SPA. 147 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,267 I MEAN, PEOPLE WOULD COME HERE 148 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:24,867 TO DO ALL SORTS OF THINGS... SWIMMING, SPORTS. 149 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:26,767 THEY'D GET PAMPERED. 150 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,109 [ CHUCKLES ] IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF FUN. 151 00:08:28,133 --> 00:08:30,867 YEAH, SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE. 152 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:32,376 AND WHAT ABOUT THIS HERE? WHAT'S THIS? 153 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:33,867 WELL, THIS IS FANTASTIC. 154 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:36,233 THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE BEST-PRESERVED 155 00:08:36,267 --> 00:08:38,433 ROMAN THERMAL BATH IN THE WORLD. 156 00:08:38,467 --> 00:08:40,067 IT'S THE TEMPLE OF MERCURY. 157 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:41,767 OKAY, SO WHAT WOULD HAVE GONE IN THERE? 158 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,067 THAT WAS JUST FOR SWIMMING? 159 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,767 WELL, WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE BECAUSE, 160 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,733 IN ADDITION TO BEING A SPA, I MEAN, 161 00:08:47,767 --> 00:08:52,533 IMAGINE WHAT THE ELITE OF ITALY WOULD DO WHEN THEY WERE HERE. 162 00:08:52,567 --> 00:08:57,133 I MEAN, IMAGINE HOW DECADENT IT POSSIBLY COULD HAVE BEEN. 163 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,433 Narrator: WHAT WE CAN SEE TODAY 164 00:09:02,467 --> 00:09:05,967 IS THE RESULT OF YEARS OF EXCAVATION AND RESTORATION 165 00:09:06,067 --> 00:09:09,467 AFTER THE SITE'S REDISCOVERY IN THE 1960s, 166 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,400 INCLUDING THE MAGNIFICENT BATHS OF MERCURY, 167 00:09:12,433 --> 00:09:15,067 ONE OF THE BEST-PRESERVED IN THE WORLD. 168 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:19,933 SO, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE VISITED HERE? 169 00:09:19,967 --> 00:09:22,067 WELL, IT WAS THE RICH AND FAMOUS... 170 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:23,633 THE POWERFUL, AND THE ELITE. 171 00:09:23,667 --> 00:09:26,300 I MEAN, CAESAR AND HIS FAMILY HAD A VILLA HERE. 172 00:09:26,333 --> 00:09:29,167 THE EMPEROR OCTAVIAN, NERO... THEY ALL CAME HERE. 173 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,367 RIGHT, SO THIS REALLY WAS 174 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,467 A PLAYGROUND OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS, RIGHT? 175 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,400 SO MUCH SO, THAT THEY CALLED IT LITTLE ROME, 176 00:09:35,433 --> 00:09:37,467 AND SOME EVEN SAY THAT IT BECAME 177 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:39,867 THE MONTE CARLO OF THE SOUTH OF ITALY. 178 00:09:43,733 --> 00:09:45,700 THE REAL SECRET OF BAIA 179 00:09:45,733 --> 00:09:48,800 WAS CALLED THE GREAT ANTRUM OF INITIATION, 180 00:09:48,833 --> 00:09:50,067 WHERE THE RICH AND FAMOUS 181 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,267 WOULD DESCEND INTO AN UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH 182 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,067 TO MEET THE ORACLE AND COMMUNE WITH THE DEAD. 183 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:58,600 IT'S BEEN SEALED OFF TO THE PUBLIC FOR DECADES, 184 00:09:58,633 --> 00:10:03,133 SO ANDREW GOUGH HAD ARRANGED FOR SPECIAL PERMISSION TO ENTER IT. 185 00:10:03,167 --> 00:10:06,100 A LOCAL CAVING EXPERT AND ARCHEOLOGIST, 186 00:10:06,133 --> 00:10:09,367 GRAZIANO FERRARI AND HIS COLLEAGUE RAFFAELLA, 187 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,400 HAD AGREED TO TAKE ANDREW AND JAMIE DOWN THERE 188 00:10:12,433 --> 00:10:16,267 ONCE THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN A FULL SAFETY BRIEFING. 189 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:20,000 SINCE WE ARE GOING UNDERGROUND, THAT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE. 190 00:10:20,033 --> 00:10:23,367 IT'S QUITE NARROW AND LOW. 191 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,567 FIRST OF ALL, YOU NEED TO WEAR A HELMET WITH THE LIGHT. 192 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,267 YOU SEE, IN THIS WAY, YOU SWITCH IT ON. 193 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:32,700 UH-HUH. 194 00:10:32,733 --> 00:10:35,167 AND THIS WAY, YOU SWITCH IT OFF. 195 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,767 EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. 196 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,900 THE SECOND POINT IS THAT WE ARE GOING INTO A VOLCANIC AREA, 197 00:10:40,933 --> 00:10:45,667 SO MAYBE WE CAN MEET SOME DANGEROUS GAS. 198 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:50,300 SO, WE BRING A GAS ANALYZER, WHICH IS RUNNING, 199 00:10:50,333 --> 00:10:57,033 AND NOW I SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE AIR BECOMES DANGEROUS. 200 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,067 [ BEEPING ] 201 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:10,367 WHEN YOU HEAR THIS BLINKING SOUND, BE CALM, 202 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,667 LET'S TURN BACK AND GO UP. 203 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:15,733 PLEASE HEAR MY COMMAND. 204 00:11:15,767 --> 00:11:17,300 NOTHING WILL HAPPEN, 205 00:11:17,333 --> 00:11:20,567 BUT IF ANYTHING, I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO BEHAVE. 206 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,600 BE CALM. OKAY. 207 00:11:22,633 --> 00:11:27,067 AND WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THE STYX RIVER. 208 00:11:29,267 --> 00:11:33,700 Narrator: WHAT SECRETS DOES THIS ANCIENT AND UNDERGROUND SITE HOLD? 209 00:11:33,733 --> 00:11:37,133 WILL THE TEAM MAKE IT TO THE RIVER STYX 210 00:11:37,167 --> 00:11:40,700 AND THE CHAMBER OF THE ORACLE? 211 00:11:40,733 --> 00:11:44,233 A FASCINATING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN 212 00:11:44,267 --> 00:11:47,667 WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 213 00:11:50,667 --> 00:11:52,633 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON 214 00:11:52,667 --> 00:11:55,267 IS IN THE TOWN OF BAIA IN SOUTHWEST ITALY 215 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:58,567 IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH BEHIND ONE OF THE GREAT INSTITUTIONS 216 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,700 OF THE ANCIENT WORLD... THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 217 00:12:02,733 --> 00:12:06,800 FOR CENTURIES, RULERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND WRITERS 218 00:12:06,833 --> 00:12:08,800 LIKE HOMER AND VIRGIL 219 00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:11,600 WOULD DESCEND INTO A SACRED UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH, 220 00:12:11,633 --> 00:12:14,300 LEADING DOWN TO THE MYTHICAL RIVER STYX 221 00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:17,167 AND THE TORCH-LIT CHAMBER OF THE ORACLE. 222 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,933 CONSULTING THE ORACLES 223 00:12:18,967 --> 00:12:22,667 WAS AN IMPORTANT, INTEGRAL PART OF LIFE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, 224 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,633 AND TODAY, JAMIE IS, HIMSELF, 225 00:12:25,667 --> 00:12:27,700 DESCENDING INTO THE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBERS 226 00:12:27,733 --> 00:12:30,567 WHERE THEY PERFORMED THEIR STRANGE TRANCE-LIKE RITUALS 227 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:31,933 CENTURIES AGO. 228 00:12:35,433 --> 00:12:38,533 THEY SOUGHT WITH THESE SACRED SITES AND TEMPLES AND ORACLES 229 00:12:38,567 --> 00:12:40,800 THAT THEY HAD TO RECREATE THAT EXPERIENCE 230 00:12:40,833 --> 00:12:42,467 OF TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOUR ANCESTORS 231 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:45,267 BY PHYSICALLY GOING TO HADES. 232 00:12:48,333 --> 00:12:49,600 OKAY. 233 00:12:49,633 --> 00:12:51,067 Gough: GET EVERYTHING ON. 234 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,200 Narrator: THE ENTRANCE TO THE GREAT ANTRUM 235 00:12:54,233 --> 00:12:56,200 COULD ONLY BE REACHED VIA A LADDER 236 00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:58,200 AS IT LAY ABOUT 20 FEET DOWN 237 00:12:58,233 --> 00:13:00,800 A VERY NARROW PASSAGE IN THE ROCKS. 238 00:13:00,833 --> 00:13:06,400 IF THIS WAS THE WAY IN, WHAT LAY IN STORE FOR THEM UNDERGROUND? 239 00:13:06,433 --> 00:13:10,667 THE PLAN WAS FOR THE TEAM TO DESCEND AS FAR AS THEY COULD 240 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,367 AND TRY TO REACH THE ACTUAL RIVER STYX, 241 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,333 WHICH, ACCORDING TO MYTHOLOGY, 242 00:13:15,367 --> 00:13:20,100 WAS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE AFTERLIFE. 243 00:13:20,133 --> 00:13:21,767 ACCORDING TO THE STORY, 244 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,066 A BOATMAN WOULD FERRY YOU ACROSS THE WATER INTO THE UNDERWORLD, 245 00:13:26,067 --> 00:13:29,700 WHERE YOU COULD THEN MEET THE ORACLE. 246 00:13:29,733 --> 00:13:31,700 OKAY. ARE YOU READY? 247 00:13:31,733 --> 00:13:33,267 YEAH. PERFECT. 248 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,200 OKAY. 249 00:13:55,233 --> 00:13:57,333 SO, ANDY, IT SEEMS REALLY NARROW IN HERE. 250 00:13:57,367 --> 00:13:59,333 I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE 251 00:13:59,367 --> 00:14:01,633 ACTUALLY COME DOWN HERE. 252 00:14:01,667 --> 00:14:04,967 Gough: WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S DESIGNED FOR SINGLE FILE, RIGHT? 253 00:14:05,067 --> 00:14:08,533 SO, I MEAN, ONE PERSON CAN BARELY, BARELY FIT. 254 00:14:08,567 --> 00:14:10,433 BUT IMAGINE THE EFFECT THAT CREATES, 255 00:14:10,467 --> 00:14:11,667 ESPECIALLY AS RIGHT NOW, 256 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,767 YOU CAN SENSE WE'RE STARTING TO REALLY DESCEND QUICKLY. 257 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:16,633 THE FLOOR IS, YOU KNOW, 258 00:14:16,667 --> 00:14:20,067 ANGLING DOWN FASTER AND FASTER EVERY STEP WE TAKE. 259 00:14:21,967 --> 00:14:26,066 SO, THEY WOULD HAVE COME DOWN HERE TO FIND, WHAT? 260 00:14:26,067 --> 00:14:28,600 AN ORACLE AT THE END, OR...? 261 00:14:28,633 --> 00:14:30,833 WELL, I MEAN, WE'RE DESCENDING, YOU KNOW, 262 00:14:30,867 --> 00:14:32,967 OVER 100 METERS INTO THE EARTH. 263 00:14:33,067 --> 00:14:35,633 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THIS STRUCTURE 264 00:14:35,667 --> 00:14:37,600 IF IT WASN'T FOR A RITUAL, 265 00:14:37,633 --> 00:14:39,867 A RITUAL THAT THE ORACLES OF THE DEAD, 266 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,067 THAT HOMER, THAT VIRGIL HAVE TOLD US 267 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:45,700 IS ALL ABOUT PAYING HOMAGE TO THE ANCESTORS, 268 00:14:45,733 --> 00:14:50,367 TO LEARN ABOUT EVENTS AND OUR OWN FATE IN OUR OWN LIFE. 269 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:55,367 Gough: TODAY, THE SPIRIT REALM 270 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,400 IS UNIVERSALLY AGREED TO BE UP THERE. 271 00:14:58,433 --> 00:15:00,433 BUT THAT WASN'T ALWAYS THE CASE. 272 00:15:00,467 --> 00:15:02,900 IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, THE NETHERWORLD, 273 00:15:02,933 --> 00:15:07,933 WHERE YOU WENT AFTER YOU DIED, THAT WAS DOWN IN THE EARTH. 274 00:15:07,967 --> 00:15:10,067 SO, THEY SOUGHT, WITH THESE SACRED SITES 275 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:11,567 AND TEMPLES AND ORACLES OF THE DEAD, 276 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,700 TO RECREATE THAT EXPERIENCE 277 00:15:13,733 --> 00:15:16,767 SO THAT YOU COULD HAVE THE EXPERIENCE 278 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:18,800 OF TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOUR ANCESTORS 279 00:15:18,833 --> 00:15:23,133 BY PHYSICALLY GOING TO HADES, AND THAT WAS QUITE POWERFUL. 280 00:15:26,233 --> 00:15:30,467 IT IS SO TIGHT AND NARROW DOWN HERE 281 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:33,533 THAT YOU REALLY GET THE SENSE 282 00:15:33,567 --> 00:15:37,600 THAT YOU'RE DROPPING DOWN INTO HELL. 283 00:15:37,633 --> 00:15:39,867 IT'S AMAZING TO THINK 284 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:43,500 THAT PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CRAWLED DOWN THESE NARROW TUNNELS. 285 00:15:47,467 --> 00:15:49,500 Gough: THIS WHOLE AREA IS VOLCANIC. 286 00:15:49,533 --> 00:15:51,867 IMAGINE THE MIST, THE NOISE, 287 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:54,567 THE VISUALS WERE REALLY ATMOSPHERIC, 288 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,167 AND TODAY, THEY ARE AS WELL. 289 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,900 YOU'RE GOING WAY DOWN INTO THE EARTH, 290 00:15:57,933 --> 00:15:59,567 AND IT'S PHYSICALLY UNCOMFORTABLE, 291 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:01,167 AND YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE BIT SPOOKED OUT 292 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,400 ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SEEING 293 00:16:02,433 --> 00:16:04,333 AND WHAT YOU'RE THINKING YOU'RE SEEING. 294 00:16:04,367 --> 00:16:07,167 AND IT'S VERY HOT. 295 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,767 THE FURTHER YOU GO AND THE MORE YOU DESCEND, 296 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,267 IT IS BLOODY HOT, AND YOU JUST FEEL DISORIENTATED. 297 00:16:20,167 --> 00:16:21,967 Theakston: WOW. 298 00:16:22,067 --> 00:16:24,167 OOH, HOO! 299 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,633 OKAY, SO... 300 00:16:26,667 --> 00:16:27,633 Ferrari: YOU CAN FEEL... 301 00:16:27,667 --> 00:16:29,500 IT'S GETTING PRETTY TIGHT DOWN HERE, 302 00:16:29,533 --> 00:16:31,900 AND YOU REALLY GET THE SENSE 303 00:16:31,933 --> 00:16:35,300 THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIND SOMETHING PRETTY SPECIAL HERE. 304 00:16:35,333 --> 00:16:37,967 IT'S NOT EASY FOR YOU... SO TALL. 305 00:16:38,067 --> 00:16:41,300 THAT'S THE HOT SPRING. 306 00:16:41,333 --> 00:16:43,066 RIGHT, OKAY. Gough: RIVER STYX? 307 00:16:43,067 --> 00:16:44,933 YOU CAN APPROACH. 308 00:16:44,967 --> 00:16:47,433 SO, THAT'S THE WATER HERE? YES. 309 00:16:53,833 --> 00:16:55,300 WOW. 310 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:57,600 YOU CAN FEEL THE TEMPERATURE IS RAISING 311 00:16:57,633 --> 00:17:00,400 BECAUSE WE ARE NEAR WHERE THE... 312 00:17:00,433 --> 00:17:01,867 SO, THIS IS THE WATER HERE? 313 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,533 YES, AND YOU CAN TOUCH THE STYX. 314 00:17:04,567 --> 00:17:06,633 OKAY. 315 00:17:06,667 --> 00:17:08,733 AND HERE IT IS. 316 00:17:08,767 --> 00:17:10,933 THIS IS THE RIVER STYX. 317 00:17:10,967 --> 00:17:12,933 THIS IS WHERE THE BOATMAN 318 00:17:12,967 --> 00:17:16,700 WOULD TAKE THE VISITOR ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE. 319 00:17:16,733 --> 00:17:19,800 AND I CAN JUST PUT MY FEET... 320 00:17:19,833 --> 00:17:21,700 AND IT'S, YEAH, IT FEELS QUITE WARM. 321 00:17:21,733 --> 00:17:23,167 AND IT'S WARM. 322 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,300 YOU REALLY GET A SENSE 323 00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:26,533 THAT THE TEMPERATURE IS WARMING UP DOWN HERE. 324 00:17:26,567 --> 00:17:30,500 IT'S GETTING FAR MORE HUMID THAN IT WAS FURTHER UP. 325 00:17:30,533 --> 00:17:36,066 AND THIS AS CLOSE AS I'M EVER GONNA GET TO HELL... 326 00:17:36,067 --> 00:17:37,533 I HOPE. 327 00:17:42,267 --> 00:17:44,500 Narrator: HAVING FOUND WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN 328 00:17:44,533 --> 00:17:47,233 THE MYTHICAL AND SYMBOLIC RIVER STYX, 329 00:17:47,267 --> 00:17:48,900 THE TEAM STILL NEEDED TO FIND 330 00:17:48,933 --> 00:17:51,333 THE NEXT PART OF THE INITIATORY JOURNEY, 331 00:17:51,367 --> 00:17:54,367 A SANCTUARY WHERE THE ORACLE WOULD HAVE SAT. 332 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,200 THE PROBLEM THEY FACED WAS THAT MOST OF THE ACCESS TUNNELS 333 00:17:57,233 --> 00:17:59,900 HAD COLLAPSED AND THE ONES THAT WERE LEFT 334 00:18:00,067 --> 00:18:01,767 WERE NOW FULL OF EARTH. 335 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,633 ON TOP OF THAT, THEY WERE IN AN OTHERWORLDLY ENVIRONMENT, 336 00:18:05,667 --> 00:18:10,600 DEEP UNDERGROUND, THAT WAS HOT, HUMID, AND FULL OF MOSQUITOES. 337 00:18:10,633 --> 00:18:15,100 I GOTTA TELL YOU, THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE OF THE DESCENT 338 00:18:15,133 --> 00:18:17,733 CHANGES ONCE YOU GET BEYOND THE RIVER STYX. 339 00:18:17,767 --> 00:18:20,900 THE TEMPERATURE... IT DOUBLES. 340 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:22,967 IT'S SO HOT. 341 00:18:23,067 --> 00:18:27,300 AND I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT THAT IS BY DESIGN. 342 00:18:27,333 --> 00:18:30,066 IF SO, IT'S VERY EFFECTIVE, BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST BOILING. 343 00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:34,100 YOU'RE EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WHEN YOU'RE HERE 344 00:18:34,133 --> 00:18:38,133 COINCIDE WITH A NATURAL INCREASE IN THE TEMPERATURE, 345 00:18:38,167 --> 00:18:40,700 WHICH CREATES QUITE AN, I THINK, AN UNSETTLING AFFECT. 346 00:18:40,733 --> 00:18:42,967 Theakston: BUT IF YOU REALLY BELIEVED IN HELL, 347 00:18:43,067 --> 00:18:44,143 WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE COMING DOWN HERE? 348 00:18:44,167 --> 00:18:45,733 WELL, I THINK IF YOU BELIEVED IN HELL, 349 00:18:45,767 --> 00:18:48,733 YOU WOULD BE DAMN SURE YOU HAD JUST ENTERED. 350 00:18:48,767 --> 00:18:52,267 YOU HAD JUST MADE THE DECENT TO THE ONE AND ONLY HADES. 351 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:54,267 YOU'D HAVE NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND. 352 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:59,367 Narrator: DOES THE ORIGINAL ORACLE CHAMBER STILL LIE BEYOND THE RIVER STYX? 353 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,167 CAN THE TEAM REACH IT SAFELY, OR WILL THE COLLAPSING TUNNELS 354 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,567 AND VOLCANIC GASES PROVE TOO DANGEROUS? 355 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,167 THE PERILOUS DESCENT INTO THE DARK LABYRINTH CONTINUES 356 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,600 IN THE NEXT PART OF "FORBIDDEN HISTORY." 357 00:19:16,067 --> 00:19:17,700 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON 358 00:19:17,733 --> 00:19:19,800 IS IN BAIA IN SOUTHWEST ITALY 359 00:19:19,833 --> 00:19:22,833 IN SEARCH OF THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 360 00:19:22,867 --> 00:19:26,200 THE SITE HAD LAIN ABANDONED FOR CENTURIES, 361 00:19:26,233 --> 00:19:28,267 LOST UNDER TONS OF RUBBLE AND EARTH, 362 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:32,700 AND WAS ONLY REDISCOVERED IN 1962. 363 00:19:32,733 --> 00:19:36,500 BECAUSE OF THE DANGERS POSED BY CAVE-INS AND POISONOUS GASES, 364 00:19:36,533 --> 00:19:38,633 TRAVELING INTO THE LABYRINTH TODAY 365 00:19:38,667 --> 00:19:41,167 REQUIRES A GREAT DEAL OF CARE. 366 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,300 BUT LOCAL CAVER AND ARCHEOLOGIST GRAZIANO FERRARI 367 00:19:45,333 --> 00:19:47,467 HAS TAKEN THE TEAM DEEP UNDERGROUND, 368 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:49,700 ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER STYX. 369 00:19:49,733 --> 00:19:54,066 CAN THEY REACH THE ORACLE CHAMBER ITSELF? 370 00:19:54,067 --> 00:19:56,400 THE DESCENT CONTINUES. 371 00:20:10,467 --> 00:20:13,333 WOW. SO, IT ALL OPENS UP HERE. 372 00:20:13,367 --> 00:20:14,333 YEAH. 373 00:20:14,367 --> 00:20:16,267 WHY IS THIS... WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE? 374 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,333 THIS IS ANOTHER VERY ODD PLACE. 375 00:20:19,367 --> 00:20:24,433 WE ARE IN VOLCANIC ERUPTION DATED 9,000 YEAR... 376 00:20:24,467 --> 00:20:26,433 NO MORE, NO LESS. 377 00:20:26,467 --> 00:20:31,533 SO, IS THIS WHERE THE ORACLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN? 378 00:20:31,567 --> 00:20:36,400 YES, THIS IS WHAT PAGET CALLS THE SANCTUARY. 379 00:20:41,567 --> 00:20:43,733 Gough: SO, THE DOMAIN OF THE SIBYL, 380 00:20:43,767 --> 00:20:47,167 YOU COULD PRETTY MUCH SUMMARIZE THREE TYPES OF PLACES... 381 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,167 ONE BEING A REALLY DARK CAVE, USUALLY DEEP IN THE EARTH, 382 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,433 THE SECOND BEING OVER A CLEFT IN THE GROUND 383 00:20:55,467 --> 00:20:58,600 WHERE NATURAL GASES ARE BEING EMITTED, 384 00:20:58,633 --> 00:21:01,933 AND THE THIRD WOULD BE IN SORT OF A PIT 385 00:21:01,967 --> 00:21:04,400 WHERE THERE'S FLAMES ALL AROUND HER 386 00:21:04,433 --> 00:21:07,433 AND EFFECT WOULD BE IDENTICAL IN EACH. 387 00:21:07,467 --> 00:21:10,567 SHE IS OFF HER HEAD... SHE IS COMMUNING WITH THE GODS. 388 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,933 SHE'S WRITHING AND MOANING 389 00:21:11,967 --> 00:21:14,100 AND ANYBODY WOULD RECOGNIZE THAT BEHAVIOR 390 00:21:14,133 --> 00:21:17,467 AS BEING THAT OF SOMEBODY WHO'S NO LONGER CONSCIOUS, 391 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,667 AND WHO'S ACTUALLY POSSESSED BY THE GODS. 392 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:29,500 Picknett: THEY WERE POSITIONED OVER A FISSURE IN A ROCK, 393 00:21:29,533 --> 00:21:34,667 UP THROUGH WHICH CAME VOLCANIC FUMES, ETHYLENE, 394 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:36,300 WHICH, YOU KNOW, 395 00:21:36,333 --> 00:21:40,733 MUST HAVE CHANGED HER MENTALITY FOR HOWEVER BRIEFLY 396 00:21:40,767 --> 00:21:44,967 AND ENABLED HER TO UTTER THIS IMPRESSIVE GIBBERISH. 397 00:21:45,067 --> 00:21:48,367 BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I DON'T WANT TO BE TOO SKEPTICAL 398 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,833 BECAUSE IN THE MODERN DAY, THERE ARE SHAMANS ALL OVER THE WORLD 399 00:21:52,867 --> 00:21:57,066 WHO TAKE DRUGS, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT ACTUALLY WHAT HAPPENS 400 00:21:57,067 --> 00:22:01,066 IS THE DRUGS DO, OBVIOUSLY, AFFECT THE BRAIN, 401 00:22:01,067 --> 00:22:04,100 AND THEY ALSO OPEN THE MIND AS A KIND OF PORTAL 402 00:22:04,133 --> 00:22:07,267 SO THEY CAN COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITS OR WITH GODS. 403 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:10,733 SO, YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHOICE THERE, 404 00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:14,067 BUT IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE 405 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,133 THAT THEY WERE ACTING SHAMANICALLY. 406 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,467 Butler: IT'S NOT UNLIKELY THAT THE ORACLES THEMSELVES 407 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:26,333 WERE TAKING DRUGS OF ONE SORT OF ANOTHER. 408 00:22:26,367 --> 00:22:28,433 THIS WAS QUITE COMMON IN ANCIENT RELIGION 409 00:22:28,467 --> 00:22:31,333 BECAUSE IT WAS THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD GET YOU INTO A STATE 410 00:22:31,367 --> 00:22:34,700 WHERE YOU COULD APPROACH YOUR GOD OR YOUR GODDESS 411 00:22:34,733 --> 00:22:36,500 MORE DIRECTLY. 412 00:22:36,533 --> 00:22:41,867 AND IN TRIBAL SOCIETIES IN THE WORLD, IT'S STILL USED TODAY. 413 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:47,633 SO, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT YOU WERE TALKING THE ORACLE, 414 00:22:47,667 --> 00:22:50,233 BUT THE ORACLE BELIEVED HERSELF 415 00:22:50,267 --> 00:22:53,400 TO BE POSSESSED BY SOMETHING ELSE. 416 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,933 WELL, I'VE JUST BEEN TO HELL AND BACK, AND... 417 00:23:04,967 --> 00:23:06,467 I DON'T THINK I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN, 418 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:09,433 NOT WITH THE HEAT AND THE HUMIDITY AND THE BATS 419 00:23:09,467 --> 00:23:12,233 AND THE CLAUSTROPHOBIA. 420 00:23:12,267 --> 00:23:13,600 QUITE HAPPY TO BE OUT. 421 00:23:16,167 --> 00:23:18,267 SLOWLY. YEAH. 422 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:27,533 Narrator: THE DESCENT INTO BAIA'S LABYRINTH 423 00:23:27,567 --> 00:23:29,833 WAS QUITE AN EXPERIENCE FOR THE TEAM, 424 00:23:29,867 --> 00:23:32,600 BUT WAS THIS REALLY THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD 425 00:23:32,633 --> 00:23:34,533 THAT HOMER WROTE ABOUT? 426 00:23:37,467 --> 00:23:40,900 THE LOCAL ARCHEOLOGISTS SAY THAT IT'S MOST LIKELY TO BE 427 00:23:40,933 --> 00:23:45,200 A STEAM VENT RISING FROM THE THERMAL SPRINGS BELOW THE BATHS. 428 00:23:45,233 --> 00:23:48,200 AND IT CERTAINLY SEEMS A LITTLE TOO TIGHT AND AWKWARD 429 00:23:48,233 --> 00:23:50,533 FOR A STREAM OF IMPORTANT INITIATES 430 00:23:50,567 --> 00:23:52,633 TO USE ON A REGULAR BASIS. 431 00:23:57,867 --> 00:24:00,900 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TODAY'S VERSION OF A SIBYL, 432 00:24:00,933 --> 00:24:05,400 A FORTUNETELLER, AND THE ACTUAL SIBYL IS PROFOUND. 433 00:24:05,433 --> 00:24:07,467 FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S NO SHOW. 434 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:10,267 THEY DON'T CONVULSE AND SPEAK TO THE GODS. 435 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:14,600 AND, SECOND OF ALL, A SIBYL'S PROPHESY 436 00:24:14,633 --> 00:24:18,767 IS NEVER, EVER DOUBTED OR QUESTIONED FOR A SECOND. 437 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,500 AND, TODAY, WHEN WE GO TO A FORTUNE TELLER, 438 00:24:20,533 --> 00:24:23,066 WE USUALLY GO, "THANKS FOR THAT. 439 00:24:23,067 --> 00:24:26,133 ALL RIGHT, THAT WAS PRETTY... THAT WAS RUBBISH, REALLY." 440 00:24:26,167 --> 00:24:30,967 Butler: THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT ORACLES WERE BIG BUSINESS 441 00:24:31,067 --> 00:24:33,200 FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RUNNING THEM. 442 00:24:33,233 --> 00:24:35,400 AND THAT WOULD, THEREFORE, SUGGEST 443 00:24:35,433 --> 00:24:37,800 THAT WHAT YOU'RE REALLY LOOKING AT 444 00:24:37,833 --> 00:24:39,867 IS A CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED SHOW, 445 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,900 ESPECIALLY AS MANY OF THE ANSWERS, 446 00:24:41,933 --> 00:24:45,933 AS WE SAID, WERE OBSCURE, TO SAY THE LEAST. 447 00:24:45,967 --> 00:24:48,700 BUT I'VE LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN THIS WORLD 448 00:24:48,733 --> 00:24:52,067 TO KNOW THAT STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN. 449 00:24:54,067 --> 00:24:56,367 Cox: I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH FOR MY BOOK ON THE OCCULT, 450 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,967 IN WHICH I SAT IN WITH MEDIUMS AND PSYCHICS 451 00:24:59,067 --> 00:25:02,267 AND MODERN-DAY ORACLES, IF YOU LIKE. 452 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,433 AND I THINK THAT THERE'S AN ELEMENT TO THIS 453 00:25:05,467 --> 00:25:07,867 THAT IS INTERESTING, AND IT IS AN ELEMENT 454 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,900 THAT NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION. 455 00:25:09,933 --> 00:25:13,600 PEOPLE DO SEEM TO HAVE INTERESTING ABILITIES. 456 00:25:13,633 --> 00:25:18,533 HOWEVER, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THIS IS... IT'S PSYCHOLOGY. 457 00:25:18,567 --> 00:25:21,867 YOU'VE GOT GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL GAMES BEING PLAYED 458 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:23,433 WHERE PEOPLE ARE BEING MANIPULATED 459 00:25:23,467 --> 00:25:25,167 ON A SUBCONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUS LEVEL, 460 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,900 TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, TO BELIEVE OR TO BE PART OF SOME THINGS. 461 00:25:30,933 --> 00:25:32,400 AND YET THIS IS A WONDERFUL GAME 462 00:25:32,433 --> 00:25:34,900 THAT'S BEEN PLAYED THROUGHOUT HISTORY. 463 00:25:39,067 --> 00:25:41,933 Narrator: THE NEXT MORNING, ANDREW TOOK JAMIE 464 00:25:41,967 --> 00:25:43,833 TO ANOTHER ORACLE SITE IN THE AREA 465 00:25:43,867 --> 00:25:45,667 ON THE EDGE OF LAKE AVERNO, 466 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,933 ABOUT A 30-MINUTE DRIVE FROM NAPLES. 467 00:25:48,967 --> 00:25:52,333 IT'S KNOWN AS THE GROTTO OF THE SIBYL. 468 00:25:52,367 --> 00:25:53,967 UNLIKE THE RICH AND FAMOUS 469 00:25:54,067 --> 00:25:56,467 WHO WOULD GO DOWN INTO THE LABYRINTH IN BAIA, 470 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,867 THE CLIENTS HERE WERE ORDINARY PEOPLE 471 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:00,500 WHO HAD COME TO SEE THE ORACLE 472 00:26:00,533 --> 00:26:02,733 TO ASK HER ABOUT EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING 473 00:26:02,767 --> 00:26:04,066 TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES... 474 00:26:04,067 --> 00:26:08,200 LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND, OF COURSE, MONEY. 475 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:10,567 Gough: THE ANCIENT WRITERS KNEW THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD 476 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,100 HAD TO BE IN THE AREA AROUND NAPLES. 477 00:26:13,133 --> 00:26:14,967 THEY KNEW THAT 'CAUSE THERE WAS ONE LAKE, 478 00:26:15,067 --> 00:26:18,367 LAKE AVERNO THAT WAS MENTIONED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. 479 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,767 AND ON THE SHORES OF LAKE AVERNO IS THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 480 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,567 WELL, BAIA IS A MILE AWAY, 481 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,667 BUT RIGHT 35 METERS OFF THE EDGE OF THE LAKE, 482 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:31,067 AND I'VE BEEN THERE, IS THE GROTTO OF THE SIBYL. 483 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:37,243 Gough: SO, I THINK YOU'RE REALLY GONNA LIKE THIS PLACE. 484 00:26:37,267 --> 00:26:39,800 YOU KNOW, IT'S PRIVATELY OWNED. 485 00:26:39,833 --> 00:26:43,533 SIGNORE CARLOS DOES THE BEST HE CAN TO MAINTAIN IT. 486 00:26:43,567 --> 00:26:49,867 BUT IT'S A MASSIVE, MASSIVE PIECE OF PROPERTY TO UPKEEP. 487 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:51,066 AND LOOK AT THIS. 488 00:26:51,067 --> 00:26:53,100 I MEAN, WE'RE HERE ALREADY. LOOK BEHIND US... 489 00:26:53,133 --> 00:26:55,867 IT'S LIKE 100 METERS TO LAKE AVERNO, 490 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:58,667 WHICH FITS PERFECTLY WITH WHAT THE ANCIENT WRITERS HAD SAID. 491 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,633 YEAH. DARK IN THERE? 492 00:27:00,667 --> 00:27:03,066 YEAH, LET'S GET OUR TORCHES READY. 493 00:27:03,067 --> 00:27:04,567 ALL SET? YEAH. 494 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,833 OKAY. HERE WE GO. 495 00:27:06,867 --> 00:27:09,833 Narrator: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JAMIE AND THE TEAM 496 00:27:09,867 --> 00:27:11,167 ENTER THE GROTTO AT LAKE AVERNO? 497 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,967 WAS THIS REALLY A SACRED UNDERGROUND SITE 498 00:27:14,067 --> 00:27:16,900 WHERE YOU COULD MEET AN ORACLE AND TALK TO THE DEAD? 499 00:27:16,933 --> 00:27:19,900 OR WAS THIS ALL JUST A CLEVER ANCIENT SHOW 500 00:27:19,933 --> 00:27:22,800 DESIGNED TO RELIEVE GULLIBLE PEOPLE OF THEIR MONEY? 501 00:27:22,833 --> 00:27:27,133 ALL THIS COMING UP WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 502 00:27:29,667 --> 00:27:31,333 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON 503 00:27:31,367 --> 00:27:33,467 IS IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH BEHIND ONE OF 504 00:27:33,500 --> 00:27:35,533 THE GREAT INSTITUTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD... 505 00:27:35,567 --> 00:27:37,400 THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 506 00:27:37,433 --> 00:27:40,600 FOR CENTURIES, THE GREAT AND GOOD OF GREECE AND ROME 507 00:27:40,633 --> 00:27:44,633 WOULD VISIT HIGH PRIESTESSES IN SACRED UNDERGROUND LABYRINTHS 508 00:27:44,667 --> 00:27:47,733 TO GET PROPHESIES FROM THE GODS. 509 00:27:47,767 --> 00:27:50,066 MOST OF THE SITES ARE LONG SINCE DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKES 510 00:27:50,067 --> 00:27:52,167 AND LOST UNDER THE RUBBLE. 511 00:27:54,333 --> 00:27:56,867 BUT A COUPLE STILL REMAIN IN SOUTHWEST ITALY, 512 00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:00,367 ALTHOUGH THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS TO ENTER. 513 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,066 HISTORIAN ANDREW GOUGH HAS TAKEN JAMIE 514 00:28:03,067 --> 00:28:05,467 TO WHAT HE BELIEVES IS A SECOND ORACLE SITE 515 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,233 ON THE SHORES OF LAKE AVERNO, NEAR NAPLES. 516 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,700 Gough: SO, I THINK YOU'RE REALLY GONNA LIKE THIS PLACE. 517 00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:15,267 YOU KNOW, IT'S PRIVATELY OWNED. 518 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:19,066 SIGNORE CARLOS DOES THE BEST HE CAN TO MAINTAIN IT. 519 00:28:19,067 --> 00:28:25,333 BUT IT'S A MASSIVE, MASSIVE PIECE OF PROPERTY TO UPKEEP. 520 00:28:25,367 --> 00:28:26,500 AND LOOK AT THIS. 521 00:28:26,533 --> 00:28:28,567 I MEAN, WE'RE HERE ALREADY. LOOK BEHIND US... 522 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,333 IT'S LIKE 100 METERS TO LAKE AVERNO, 523 00:28:31,367 --> 00:28:34,133 WHICH FITS PERFECTLY WITH WHAT THE ANCIENT WRITERS HAD SAID. 524 00:28:34,167 --> 00:28:36,066 YEAH. DARK IN THERE? 525 00:28:36,067 --> 00:28:38,400 YEAH, LET'S GET OUR TORCHES READY. 526 00:28:38,433 --> 00:28:39,967 ALL SET? YEAH. 527 00:28:40,067 --> 00:28:42,067 OKAY. HERE WE GO. 528 00:28:55,733 --> 00:28:58,900 WE KNOW THE ANCIENT WRITERS SAID THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD, 529 00:28:58,933 --> 00:29:01,367 WHICH WAS GOVERNED BY A SIBYL, 530 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,066 WAS CLOSE TO THE LAKE THAT'S 100 METERS BEHIND US. 531 00:29:05,067 --> 00:29:06,800 AND JUST LOOK. LOOK AT THE TUNNEL. 532 00:29:06,833 --> 00:29:10,700 IT HAS A PROPER SORT OF PROCESSIONAL FEEL. 533 00:29:10,733 --> 00:29:13,967 IF YOU'RE GONNA GO AND MEET THE SPIRITS, 534 00:29:14,067 --> 00:29:16,233 WHICH WILL LET YOU COMMUNE WITH YOUR ANCESTORS, 535 00:29:16,267 --> 00:29:17,533 WOULDN'T YOU HAVE 536 00:29:17,567 --> 00:29:20,600 A NICE, RESPECTFUL SORT OF ABODE LIKE THIS? 537 00:29:20,633 --> 00:29:22,567 THIS FEELS MUCH MORE LIKE A PROPER TUNNEL, 538 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,500 AS OPPOSED TO A CAVE, RIGHT? 539 00:29:24,533 --> 00:29:28,066 YES, BUT WHAT IS REALLY COOL ABOUT THIS 540 00:29:28,067 --> 00:29:29,500 IS THIS LEADS TO THE CAVES. 541 00:29:29,533 --> 00:29:30,867 AND NOT ONLY JUST TO THE CAVES, 542 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:34,067 BUT AS WE'LL SEE IN A MOMENT, TO THE RIVER STYX. 543 00:29:36,633 --> 00:29:39,767 Narrator: IT MAY HAVE BEEN USED BY THOSE OF MORE MODEST MEANS, 544 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,300 BUT THE PROCESS HERE WAS EXACTLY THE SAME 545 00:29:42,333 --> 00:29:45,800 AS AT THE OTHER, MORE EXCLUSIVE ORACLE SITE IN BAIA. 546 00:29:45,833 --> 00:29:48,400 HERE, THEY OPERATION WAS MUCH BIGGER AND BUSIER, 547 00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:50,500 WITH MORE CLIENTS, MORE REVENUE, 548 00:29:50,533 --> 00:29:53,367 AND AN ORACLE WHO WAS IN CONSTANT DEMAND. 549 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,066 ACCORDING TO VIRGIL AND HOMER, 550 00:29:55,067 --> 00:29:58,133 THIS WAS WHERE THE RIVER STYX WOULD HAVE BEEN? 551 00:29:58,167 --> 00:29:59,767 EXACTLY. EXACTLY. 552 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,833 AND YOU WOULD BE DESCENDING GRADUALLY 553 00:30:02,867 --> 00:30:04,467 WITH A PIECE OF MISTLETOE 554 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:06,400 WHICH YOU HAD TO GIVE THE FERRYMAN 555 00:30:06,433 --> 00:30:08,267 TO CROSS THE RIVER STYX. 556 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:12,533 AND YOU ONLY COULD GO THROUGH, OVER PAST THE RIVER STYX 557 00:30:12,567 --> 00:30:16,067 TO GET TO WHERE THE SIBYL, TO WHERE THE ORACLE IS. 558 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:21,167 AND... I BELIEVE WE'LL FIND IT DOWN HERE. 559 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,133 ALL RIGHT, SO WHY ARE WE PEELING OFF THE MAIN TUNNEL HERE? 560 00:30:24,167 --> 00:30:28,733 WELL, THIS WOULD BE PART OF THE JOURNEY. 561 00:30:28,767 --> 00:30:31,800 WE'VE NOW MADE THE PROCESSIONAL ENTRANCE 562 00:30:31,833 --> 00:30:33,967 INTO THE DOMAIN OF THE SIBYL. 563 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,067 NOW WE HAVE TO APPROACH THE SIBYL. 564 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:37,733 WE HAVE TO APPROACH THE ORACLE, 565 00:30:37,767 --> 00:30:40,467 SO WE'RE DESCENDING QUITE RAPIDLY NOW, AS YOU CAN TELL. 566 00:30:42,833 --> 00:30:44,400 OH, LOOK AT THIS! 567 00:30:44,433 --> 00:30:46,233 LOOK AT THAT! 568 00:30:46,267 --> 00:30:49,733 THAT IS A PROPER SORT OF RIVER, 569 00:30:49,767 --> 00:30:52,933 COMPARE AND CONTRAST TO THE ONE AT BAIA. 570 00:30:52,967 --> 00:30:56,500 THIS IS A PROPER RIVER STYX. 571 00:30:56,533 --> 00:30:59,333 YOU CAN IMAGINE A FERRYMAN IN A REAL PHYSICAL BOAT, 572 00:30:59,367 --> 00:31:01,333 PEOPLE STANDING UP. 573 00:31:01,367 --> 00:31:04,200 FERRYMAN, WHO WOULD PROBABLY LOOK SCARY AS HELL, RIGHT, 574 00:31:04,233 --> 00:31:05,400 WOULD GREET YOU HERE, 575 00:31:05,433 --> 00:31:07,900 AND YOU'D HAVE TO PUT YOUR MISTLETOE FORTH. 576 00:31:07,933 --> 00:31:09,409 AND HE WOULD SAY, "YES, COME ON BOARD." 577 00:31:09,433 --> 00:31:10,767 AND YOU'D GO ACROSS. 578 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,333 AND YOU CAN JUST SEE WHERE THIS CAN PHYSICALLY HAPPEN. 579 00:31:15,367 --> 00:31:16,867 AND, WELL, THERE'S NO TELLING 580 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:19,133 HOW DEEP THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN ANCIENT TIMES, 581 00:31:19,167 --> 00:31:20,333 BUT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, 582 00:31:20,367 --> 00:31:22,467 IT WOULD ALWAYS HAVE BEEN FILED WITH WATER. 583 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:25,167 AND THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU COULD PASS THROUGH 584 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,267 TO GET TO THE SIBYL, TO GET TO THE ORACLE. 585 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:28,543 Theakston: AND I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS YOUNGER 586 00:31:28,567 --> 00:31:29,676 AND I LEARNED ABOUT THE RIVER STYX, 587 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:31,900 I'D IMAGINED THE BOATMAN WITH THE KIND OF CLOAK, 588 00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:36,300 A HOOD OVER HIS HEAD, AND A BONY FINGER, BECKONING YOU ACROSS. 589 00:31:36,333 --> 00:31:38,333 YEAH, ABSOLUTELY! YOU CAN JUST SEE IT, CAN'T YOU? 590 00:31:38,367 --> 00:31:39,367 YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 591 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,200 AND IT'S ABOUT THE RIGHT DISTANCE. 592 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:42,833 AND THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FORWARD. 593 00:31:42,867 --> 00:31:43,800 THIS IS IT. 594 00:31:43,833 --> 00:31:45,400 SO, IF THIS IS THE RIVER STYX, 595 00:31:45,433 --> 00:31:47,267 YOU CROSS THE RIVER WITH THE BOATMAN, 596 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:49,133 AND WHERE DO YOU GET TO? 597 00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:51,833 WELL, IF WE HAD A BOAT, WE COULD FIND OUT. 598 00:31:51,867 --> 00:31:55,066 BUT SIGNORE CARLOS AND HIS FAMILY 599 00:31:55,067 --> 00:31:57,167 HAVE KNOCKED A HOLE IN ONE OF THE WALLS, 600 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,409 SO WE CAN CHEAT A LITTLE BIT AND GO AROUND THE OTHER SIDE. 601 00:31:59,433 --> 00:32:02,500 BUT KEEP IN MIND, THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY 602 00:32:02,533 --> 00:32:05,400 UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, YOU COULD GET TO THE ORACLE. 603 00:32:05,433 --> 00:32:07,233 RIGHT, SO THE ORACLE IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. 604 00:32:07,267 --> 00:32:08,200 ON THE OTHER SIDE. 605 00:32:08,233 --> 00:32:09,567 OKAY, LET'S GO AND HAVE A LOOK. 606 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:29,100 THIS BIT OVER HERE TAKES US TO MORE OF, WELL, 607 00:32:29,133 --> 00:32:31,800 WHAT YOU EXPECT IN AN ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 608 00:32:31,833 --> 00:32:35,633 BUT THIS DOOR HERE WAS CARVED OUT. I MEAN... 609 00:32:35,667 --> 00:32:38,667 BUT THIS IS STILL, LIKE, 2,000 YEARS OLD OR MORE. 610 00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:41,267 2,000-PLUS YEARS OLD, PROBABLY OLDER. 611 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:42,800 SO, WHAT ARE WE GOING INTO NOW? 612 00:32:42,833 --> 00:32:45,300 THIS DOOR NEVER EXISTED, BUT THE FAMILY... 613 00:32:45,333 --> 00:32:47,367 REMEMBER, THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY, 614 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,900 SO THE FAMILY HAD GONE ACROSS THE RIVER STYX, 615 00:32:49,933 --> 00:32:51,066 THEY KNEW WHAT WAS THERE, 616 00:32:51,067 --> 00:32:52,567 AND JUST TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE, 617 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,133 THEY PUT THAT NEW MODERN DOOR IN. 618 00:32:55,167 --> 00:33:00,300 SO, NOW WE'RE ENTERING A BIT THAT HAS ALWAYS EXISTED HERE. 619 00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:02,067 I CAN FEEL IT GETTING WARMER. 620 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:05,267 IT IS GETTING WARMER, ABSOLUTELY. 621 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:07,900 AND LOOK AT THIS! 622 00:33:07,933 --> 00:33:13,200 A PROPER... SANCTUARY, A CHAMBER. 623 00:33:13,233 --> 00:33:15,367 OH, WOW. OH, WOW! 624 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,066 YOU KNOW, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'D EXPECT, RIGHT? 625 00:33:18,067 --> 00:33:19,300 THIS IS THE OTHER END. 626 00:33:19,333 --> 00:33:21,833 THIS IS REACHABLE ONLY THROUGH THE RIVER STYX. 627 00:33:21,867 --> 00:33:23,376 SO, HANG ON... NOW, JUST TALK ME THROUGH THIS. 628 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,433 SO, WE WERE AT THE FAR END. 629 00:33:25,467 --> 00:33:27,066 THIS IS THE RIVER STYX HERE. 630 00:33:27,067 --> 00:33:29,800 THE BOAT WOULD ARRIVE HERE, AND THEN THE SUBJECT WOULD, 631 00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:32,233 WHAT, WALK UP THESE STAIRS TO MEET THE SIBYL? 632 00:33:32,267 --> 00:33:33,400 EXACTLY. 633 00:33:33,433 --> 00:33:35,267 WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN UP HERE. 634 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:38,066 EXACTLY. NOW, KEEP IN MIND, MOST OF THE QUESTERS 635 00:33:38,067 --> 00:33:40,967 HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED FOR HOURS, IF NOT DAYS. 636 00:33:41,067 --> 00:33:44,467 THEY KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN, 637 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:46,200 WHO HAS JUST PASSED AWAY. 638 00:33:46,233 --> 00:33:49,100 YOU KNOW, THIS IS A REALLY DRAMATIC SETTING 639 00:33:49,133 --> 00:33:53,400 WHERE A PROPER CONSULTATION AND PROPHESY BY A SIBYL... 640 00:33:53,433 --> 00:33:54,567 WELL, YOU CAN IMAGINE. 641 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,967 YOU CAN IMAGINE IT HAPPENING HERE, CAN'T YOU? 642 00:33:59,667 --> 00:34:02,367 I WANT TO GO DOWN AND TOUCH THE RIVER STYX. 643 00:34:05,967 --> 00:34:08,066 THIS IS ACTUALLY QUITE... 644 00:34:08,067 --> 00:34:10,833 I'M GETTING QUITE FREAKED OUT BY THIS. 645 00:34:10,867 --> 00:34:11,933 THIS IS QUITE... 646 00:34:11,967 --> 00:34:14,300 WELL, IT... IT JUST FEELS A BIT EERIE. 647 00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:19,167 THIS IS A RESPECTFUL ABODE FOR WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT 648 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,100 FOR A SIBYL TO ALLOW YOU TO SPEAK TO YOUR ANCESTORS. 649 00:34:23,133 --> 00:34:27,066 SO WE ARE NOW STOOD IN THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. 650 00:34:27,067 --> 00:34:29,600 THE ORACLE OF THE DEAD. THIS IS IT. 651 00:34:35,167 --> 00:34:38,367 Narrator: ANDREW BELIEVES THAT 2,000 YEARS AGO, 652 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,066 THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ORACLE IN THIS CHAMBER, 653 00:34:41,067 --> 00:34:44,600 MOST LIKELY A YOUNG VIRGIN, SURROUNDED BY FLAMES, 654 00:34:44,633 --> 00:34:46,367 WHO WOULD GO INTO A TRANCE 655 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,633 TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE REALM OF THE DEAD AND THE GODS. 656 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:52,667 THE INITIATE, ONCE HE PAID THE PRIEST HIS FEE, 657 00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:57,933 WOULD WALK DOWN THE LONG TUNNEL, CROSS THE SYMBOLIC RIVER STYX, 658 00:34:57,967 --> 00:35:01,733 AND THEN ENTER THE SANCTUARY OF THE ORACLE. 659 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,600 Butler: THE ACTUAL PROCEDURE OF CONSULTING THE ORACLE 660 00:35:07,633 --> 00:35:09,633 WHEN YOU'D GONE THROUGH ALL THE RIGAMAROLE, 661 00:35:09,667 --> 00:35:12,667 AND YOU GOT TO SEE THE YOUNG WOMAN, 662 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,967 REALLY DEPENDED UPON WHERE THE ORACLE WAS 663 00:35:16,067 --> 00:35:21,433 AND WHAT THE STIMULUS WAS TO THE ORACLE HERSELF. 664 00:35:21,467 --> 00:35:27,133 A LOT OF WHAT THEY CAME OUT WITH WOULD SEEM LIKE GIBBERISH, 665 00:35:27,167 --> 00:35:31,867 COUCHED IN ALLEGORY AND VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. 666 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,100 BUT IT'S NOT UNLIKELY 667 00:35:34,133 --> 00:35:36,767 THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE GIVING THESE ANSWERS 668 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,667 WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ONE THING OR ANOTHER. 669 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:46,767 Fanthorpe: IF THE ORACLE COULD GET INTO A TRANCE-LIKE CONDITION, 670 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,066 THEN IT WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER... 671 00:35:49,067 --> 00:35:52,233 IT WOULD FACILITATE THE GOD 672 00:35:52,267 --> 00:35:54,333 TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE ORACLE'S BODY 673 00:35:54,367 --> 00:35:57,067 AND GIVE THE MESSAGE. 674 00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:59,900 IF THEY WERE DISHONEST AND SIMPLY WANTED THE FEE 675 00:36:00,067 --> 00:36:04,467 AND HAD NO MORE ORACULAR ABILITY THAN ANYONE ELSE, 676 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:09,400 THEN THEY WOULD PUT ON A PRETENSE OF BEING IN A TRANCE 677 00:36:09,433 --> 00:36:13,800 OR A PRETENSE OF BEING IN AN ABNORMAL STATE. 678 00:36:13,833 --> 00:36:18,600 Gough: SHE IS CONSUMING HALLUCINOGENICS BY DESIGN. 679 00:36:18,633 --> 00:36:19,967 NOW, WE'D LIKE TO THINK 680 00:36:20,067 --> 00:36:21,809 THAT'S BECAUSE SHE'S GONNA BE THE CONDUIT OF THE GODS 681 00:36:21,833 --> 00:36:23,533 AND THAT'S HOW SHE'S GONNA COMMUNICATE, 682 00:36:23,567 --> 00:36:25,533 BUT IT MIGHT JUST BE 683 00:36:25,567 --> 00:36:27,900 THAT THIS IS HOW SHE PUTS ON A BETTER SHOW. 684 00:36:27,933 --> 00:36:31,567 IF SHE'S GONNA LOSE HER HEAD, SHE IS GONNA GO PLACES, 685 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,267 HER BODY IS GONNA CONTORT, AND THE INITIATE'S GONNA KNOW... 686 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:37,733 OR AT LEAST BELIEVE... 687 00:36:37,767 --> 00:36:40,533 THAT SHE IS NOW IN COMMUNION WITH THE GODS, 688 00:36:40,567 --> 00:36:43,800 AND ANYTHING SHE TELLS ME, I MUST BELIEVE. 689 00:36:45,833 --> 00:36:49,133 Narrator: SO WERE THE ORACLES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME 690 00:36:49,167 --> 00:36:51,533 REALLY TALKING TO THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD? 691 00:36:51,567 --> 00:36:54,633 DID THE ORACLES REALLY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE 692 00:36:54,667 --> 00:36:56,733 AND MAKE REAL PROPHESIES? 693 00:36:56,767 --> 00:36:59,233 OR WERE THE TRANCES AND CONVULSIONS 694 00:36:59,267 --> 00:37:01,767 DOWN IN THOSE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS 695 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,767 ALL PART OF A CHOREOGRAPHED SHOW? 696 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,300 THE EVIDENCE IS WEIGHED UP 697 00:37:06,333 --> 00:37:09,767 IN THE FINAL PART OF "FORBIDDEN HISTORY." 698 00:37:11,667 --> 00:37:13,933 Narrator: THE ORACLES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 699 00:37:13,967 --> 00:37:15,700 WERE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE LIVES 700 00:37:15,733 --> 00:37:17,833 OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS AT THE TIME. 701 00:37:17,867 --> 00:37:20,633 PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVED THAT THESE HIGH PRIESTESSES 702 00:37:20,667 --> 00:37:22,400 DEEP IN THEIR UNDERGROUND LABYRINTHS 703 00:37:22,433 --> 00:37:24,767 WERE COMMUNICATING WITH THE GODS 704 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,700 AND COULD OFFER TRUTHFUL PROPHESIES. 705 00:37:27,733 --> 00:37:30,667 BUT WAS IT ALL A CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED SHOW 706 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:32,967 DESIGNED TO UNNERVE AND DISORIENT 707 00:37:33,067 --> 00:37:34,500 THE VISITOR AND INITIATE, 708 00:37:34,533 --> 00:37:37,800 AND ULTIMATELY RELIEVE THEM OF THEIR MONEY? 709 00:37:37,833 --> 00:37:40,467 OR WAS THERE MORE TO IT? 710 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:41,733 CERTAINLY, THE JOURNEY DOWN 711 00:37:41,767 --> 00:37:44,133 THROUGH THE DARK, HUMID, AND CRAMPED SITES 712 00:37:44,167 --> 00:37:49,066 LENT AN OTHERWORLDLY FEEL TO THE WHOLE RITUALISTIC EXPERIENCE, 713 00:37:49,067 --> 00:37:53,400 AS JAMIE AND THE TEAM FOUND OUT FOR THEMSELVES. 714 00:37:53,433 --> 00:37:56,400 Gough: THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE OF THE DESCENT CHANGES 715 00:37:56,433 --> 00:37:58,233 ONCE YOU GET BEYOND THE RIVER STYX. 716 00:37:58,267 --> 00:37:59,667 IF YOU BELIEVED IN HELL, 717 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,333 YOU WOULD BE DAMN SURE YOU HAD JUST ENTERED. 718 00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:06,066 YOU HAD JUST MADE THE DESCENT TO THE ONE AND ONLY HADES. 719 00:38:06,067 --> 00:38:07,667 YOU'D HAVE NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND. 720 00:38:14,533 --> 00:38:17,400 Narrator: THE QUESTION IS WAS IT ALL A BIG SHOW 721 00:38:17,433 --> 00:38:19,833 DESIGNED TO RELIEVE PEOPLE OF THEIR MONEY, 722 00:38:19,867 --> 00:38:23,600 OR WAS THERE SOME REAL SPIRITUAL CONNECTION BEING MADE? 723 00:38:23,633 --> 00:38:25,500 IT'S FAIR TO SAY WITH CERTAINLY 724 00:38:25,533 --> 00:38:28,300 THAT THE RULERS AND CITIZENS OF ANCIENT ROME 725 00:38:28,333 --> 00:38:31,400 BELIEVED IN IT WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS. 726 00:38:31,433 --> 00:38:32,967 Gough: IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, 727 00:38:33,067 --> 00:38:36,167 THE ORACLES WERE ABSOLUTELY FUNDAMENTAL TO THE RULING ELITE 728 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,600 AND THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR NATIONS. 729 00:38:39,633 --> 00:38:43,700 NOBODY WOULD MAKE A DECISION WITHOUT COVERING THEIR BUM FIRST 730 00:38:43,733 --> 00:38:45,600 AND CONSULTING THE ORACLE. 731 00:38:45,633 --> 00:38:47,267 IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO TALK TO THE SENATE 732 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:49,100 'CAUSE THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN AGENDAS. 733 00:38:49,133 --> 00:38:50,500 YOU NEED TO SAY... 734 00:38:50,533 --> 00:38:53,300 YOU NEED TO TICK THE BOX THAT YOU CONSULTED THE ORACLE. 735 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:56,567 YOU CONSULTED THE GODS BEFORE YOU WENT TO WAR. 736 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,333 "WHAT?! YOU DIDN'T CONSULT THE ORACLE? 737 00:38:58,367 --> 00:39:00,867 YOU'RE OUT OF HERE. YOU'RE ASSASSINATED." 738 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:04,800 SO, IT WAS A CHECKLIST THAT THEY HAD TO DO, AND PLUS, 739 00:39:04,833 --> 00:39:09,067 IT ABSOLVED THEM OF ANY BLAME SHOULD IT GO WRONG. 740 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,233 "I CONSULTED THE GODS. THEY TOLD ME TO INVADE." 741 00:39:22,067 --> 00:39:23,800 Narrator: OUR NEXT PORT OF CALL 742 00:39:23,833 --> 00:39:26,633 IS THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT DELPHI IN GREECE, 743 00:39:26,667 --> 00:39:29,133 WHICH BECAME ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ORACLE SITES 744 00:39:29,167 --> 00:39:31,167 IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. 745 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,367 KINGS, EMPERORS, AND THE RICH AND POWERFUL OF THE DAY 746 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,733 FLOCKED THERE TO HEAR THEIR PROPHESIES. 747 00:39:36,767 --> 00:39:38,967 AND TODAY, THE RUINS ARE VISITED 748 00:39:39,067 --> 00:39:41,467 BY MILLIONS OF TOURISTS EVERY YEAR. 749 00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:45,066 ANDY GOUGH AGREED TO SHOW US AROUND. 750 00:39:45,067 --> 00:39:47,267 SO, THIS IS IT. 751 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:50,233 THIS IS DELPHI. 752 00:39:50,267 --> 00:39:52,633 RIGHT BELOW ME IS THE THEATER, 753 00:39:52,667 --> 00:39:55,067 AND JUST BEYOND IT, THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO, 754 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:57,667 WHERE PRIESTESSES WOULD GIVE PROPHESY. 755 00:39:57,700 --> 00:39:59,600 AND JUST BEYOND THE WELL-PRESERVED TEMPLE 756 00:39:59,633 --> 00:40:01,667 IS THE NAVAL STONE. 757 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:04,700 FOR LEGEND HAS IT THAT DELPHI WAS LOCATED 758 00:40:04,733 --> 00:40:07,867 AT THE PRECISE CENTER OF THE EARTH. 759 00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:11,333 Narrator: BELIEVING THAT THE SITE WAS SACRED, 760 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:14,967 THOUSANDS OF INITIATES WOULD FLOCK TO DELPHI EVERY YEAR 761 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,433 IN THE HOPE OF BEING ABLE TO SEE THE ORACLE, 762 00:40:17,467 --> 00:40:21,533 WHO SAT IN A TORCH-LIT CHAMBER UNDERNEATH THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO. 763 00:40:25,367 --> 00:40:29,567 AND THIS IS WHERE SHE SAT... JUST BEYOND THESE ROCKS HERE... 764 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,067 ABOUT TWO METERS IN THE GROUND. 765 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:35,000 THIS WAS THE CHAMBER WHERE SHE GAVE PROPHESY. 766 00:40:35,033 --> 00:40:36,300 AND THIS WAS THE CHAMBER 767 00:40:36,333 --> 00:40:38,567 WHERE SHE STOOD OVER A CRACK IN THE GROUND 768 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,767 WHERE VOLCANIC FUMES ROSE 769 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,167 AND ENABLED HER TO COMMUNE WITH THE GODS. 770 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:52,000 Narrator: THERE WOULD BE A PRIEST IN THE CHAMBER WITH THE ORACLE 771 00:40:52,033 --> 00:40:54,500 WHO WOULD FRANTICALLY WRITE DOWN WHAT SHE WAS SAYING, 772 00:40:54,533 --> 00:40:57,733 BUT IN MOST CASES, IT WAS JUST GIBBERISH. 773 00:40:57,767 --> 00:41:00,233 NEVERTHELESS, IT WAS HIS JOB 774 00:41:00,267 --> 00:41:03,067 TO INTERPRET HER MOANS, GRUNTS, AND UTTERANCES 775 00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:05,967 AND TURN THEM INTO COHESIVE PROPHESIES. 776 00:41:06,067 --> 00:41:08,933 IT WAS LITTLE WONDER THAT SCHOLARS TODAY 777 00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:11,267 QUESTION ITS CREDIBILITY, BUT AT THE TIME, 778 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,833 IT WAS THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH. 779 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:22,367 SO, DELPHI WAS THE ORACLE CENTER OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS. 780 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,233 I MEAN, THIS IS NOT RESPECTFULLY 781 00:41:24,267 --> 00:41:28,367 WHERE PEASANTS AND FARMERS CAME TO HAVE FUTURE TOLD. 782 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,400 ON THE CONTRARY. 783 00:41:30,433 --> 00:41:33,300 THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD 784 00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:35,233 WOULD COME HERE AND MAKE OFFERINGS. 785 00:41:35,267 --> 00:41:40,567 THERE'S A VERY WELL-PRESERVED ATHENIAN TREASURE TEMPLE... 786 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,567 A TREASURY WHERE PEOPLE FROM ATHENS WOULD COME WITH, 787 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,133 YOU KNOW, INCREDIBLE PRECIOUS METALS... 788 00:41:46,167 --> 00:41:48,767 GOLD AND SILVER, AND GIVE GIFTS TO THE GODS 789 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,633 FOR THE PROPHESIES THAT THEY WERE GONNA RECEIVE. 790 00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:03,700 Narrator: IT'S STILL POSSIBLE TO GO DOWN INTO THE UNDERGROUND CHAMBER 791 00:42:03,733 --> 00:42:06,066 BENEATH THE TEMPLE WHERE THE ORACLE SAT. 792 00:42:06,067 --> 00:42:07,600 IT'S QUITE A TIGHT SQUEEZE, 793 00:42:07,633 --> 00:42:10,300 BUT ONCE YOU GET UNDER THE MAIN STONE PLATFORM, 794 00:42:10,333 --> 00:42:14,333 YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE PASSAGE THAT LED TO THE ORACLE CHAMBER. 795 00:42:14,367 --> 00:42:16,700 UNFORTUNATELY, EARTHQUAKES HAVE COLLAPSED 796 00:42:16,733 --> 00:42:19,066 THE END OF THE PASSAGE, BUT IT'S STILL POSSIBLE 797 00:42:19,067 --> 00:42:22,467 TO GET A SENSE OF THIS SUBTERRANEAN LABYRINTH. 798 00:42:27,733 --> 00:42:29,500 Theakston: HOW WAS THAT? 799 00:42:29,533 --> 00:42:32,633 THAT WAS AMAZING. THAT WAS SO COOL. 800 00:42:32,667 --> 00:42:34,733 SECRET PASSAGE INTO THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO. 801 00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:38,600 Narrator: THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AND THE WHOLE DELPHI SITE 802 00:42:38,633 --> 00:42:40,467 GREW AND GREW OVER THE CENTURIES 803 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:44,167 AS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE CAME TO VISIT. 804 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,633 BUT DELPHI HAD ONE FATAL FLAW... 805 00:42:46,667 --> 00:42:49,567 IT WAS BUILT ON A HUGE GEOLOGICAL FAULT LINE, 806 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,400 INCLUDING ONE WHICH WENT THROUGH 807 00:42:51,433 --> 00:42:53,900 THE CENTER OF THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO ITSELF. 808 00:42:53,933 --> 00:42:57,667 THE RESULT WAS A SERIES OF HUGE EARTHQUAKES AND FIRES 809 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,933 WHICH, SLOWLY BUT SURELY, DESTROYED THE SITE. 810 00:43:04,467 --> 00:43:06,600 Gough: AN EARTHQUAKE WAS THE REAL KILLER. 811 00:43:06,633 --> 00:43:08,333 IN FACT, A BIG ONE AT THE BEGINNING 812 00:43:08,367 --> 00:43:11,233 OF THE 1st CENTURY B.C. DECIMATED THE AREA. 813 00:43:11,267 --> 00:43:12,700 I MEAN, LOOK AROUND ME. 814 00:43:12,733 --> 00:43:14,300 THE TEMPLES WERE IN RUINS. 815 00:43:14,333 --> 00:43:16,066 SO, EVERYONE LEFT. 816 00:43:16,067 --> 00:43:17,809 THERE WAS NO REASON TO STAY. THE PRIESTS LEFT. 817 00:43:17,833 --> 00:43:21,600 AND WHAT THAT DID WAS IT MADE THE PROPHESIES OF THE ORACLE, 818 00:43:21,633 --> 00:43:23,633 WELL, NO LONGER CREDIBLE. 819 00:43:23,667 --> 00:43:26,533 AND DELPHI SLOWLY FADED INTO HISTORY. 820 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,167 PERSONALLY, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS DIVINE CONTACT 821 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,400 WITH THE SPIRIT REALM THAT ALLOWED THESE SIBYLS 822 00:43:40,433 --> 00:43:43,567 TO GIVE PROPHESIES OF ANY ACCURACY WHATSOEVER. 823 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,333 I BELIEVE IT WAS MORE OF A CONSULTATIVE EFFORT, 824 00:43:46,367 --> 00:43:49,066 TYPICALLY FROM THE PRIEST, 825 00:43:49,067 --> 00:43:51,100 OCCASIONALLY FROM THE SIBYL HERSELF, 826 00:43:51,133 --> 00:43:52,600 BUT IN ALL INSTANCES, 827 00:43:52,633 --> 00:43:56,066 IT'S PRETTY MUCH THEM TELLING THE QUESTER, 828 00:43:56,067 --> 00:44:00,533 THE INITIATE, WHAT THEY THINK THEY NEED TO HEAR. 829 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:04,900 Narrator: THE DESIRE TO KNOW WHAT OUR FUTURES HOLD, 830 00:44:04,933 --> 00:44:06,600 WHETHER IT'S FOR LOVE OR MONEY, 831 00:44:06,633 --> 00:44:08,567 FOR WORK OR EVEN DEATH, 832 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,367 HAS FASCINATED HUMANITY FOR CENTURIES. 833 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,533 THE MOMENT PEOPLE... MOSTLY WOMEN... 834 00:44:13,567 --> 00:44:17,800 SET THEMSELVES UP AS PROPHETS, WE CAME FLOCKING, CASH IN HAND, 835 00:44:17,833 --> 00:44:20,900 AND THE BUSINESS OF FORTUNE-TELLING BEGAN. 836 00:44:20,933 --> 00:44:23,100 SO, IS THERE SOMETHING TO IT? 837 00:44:23,133 --> 00:44:26,600 OR IS IT SIMPLY A CLEVER WAY OF RELIEVING PEOPLE OF THEIR CASH? 838 00:44:26,633 --> 00:44:30,200 PERHAPS IT'S A BIT OF BOTH. 67117

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