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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,601 NARRATOR: Enormous man-made caves. 2 00:00:03,634 --> 00:00:06,871 PAUL BAHN: Nobody knows what on earth these things are. 3 00:00:06,903 --> 00:00:08,874 NARRATOR: Unexplainable structures. 4 00:00:08,906 --> 00:00:11,509 LOGAN HAWKES: You ask them, "How did you build these?" 5 00:00:11,542 --> 00:00:13,238 And they'll say, "We didn't build this." 6 00:00:13,262 --> 00:00:15,047 NARRATOR: And underwater discoveries 7 00:00:15,079 --> 00:00:18,082 that challenge everything we know about the past. 8 00:00:18,350 --> 00:00:19,751 DAVID CHILDRESS: That's amazing. 9 00:00:19,783 --> 00:00:22,729 I'm convinced. Something's going on down there. 10 00:00:23,477 --> 00:00:26,362 NARRATOR: Is it possible that an advanced civilization 11 00:00:26,731 --> 00:00:30,031 inhabited the earth thousands of years ago? 12 00:00:30,661 --> 00:00:33,356 And if so, were they human 13 00:00:33,381 --> 00:00:36,485 or something out of this world? 14 00:00:36,726 --> 00:00:39,869 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Extraterrestrials colonized Planet Earth 15 00:00:39,904 --> 00:00:41,640 thousands of years ago. 16 00:00:41,673 --> 00:00:45,888 The more we uncover, it will all point in one direction. 17 00:00:46,578 --> 00:00:48,012 We are not the first. 18 00:00:48,715 --> 00:00:51,383 NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization, 19 00:00:51,415 --> 00:00:55,097 mankind has credited its origins to gods 20 00:00:55,122 --> 00:00:57,764 and other visitors from the stars. 21 00:00:58,456 --> 00:01:00,333 What if it were true? 22 00:01:01,078 --> 00:01:02,927 Did extraterrestrial beings 23 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,141 really help to shape our history? 24 00:01:06,864 --> 00:01:08,347 And if so... 25 00:01:08,831 --> 00:01:13,183 what might we learn from the study of aliens BC? 26 00:01:31,452 --> 00:01:36,052 Sync and corrected by minouhse www.addic7ed.com 27 00:01:45,851 --> 00:01:47,376 NARRATOR: Traverse City, Michigan. 28 00:01:47,423 --> 00:01:50,336 May 22, 2015. 29 00:01:50,814 --> 00:01:52,875 At an undisclosed location 30 00:01:52,908 --> 00:01:55,245 in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan, 31 00:01:55,543 --> 00:01:57,947 author and explorer David Childress 32 00:01:57,979 --> 00:02:01,403 has teamed up with sonar technician Brian Abbott 33 00:02:01,428 --> 00:02:03,918 and underwater photographer Chris Doyal 34 00:02:04,334 --> 00:02:07,322 to investigate a series of strange 35 00:02:07,355 --> 00:02:09,330 underwater rock alignments 36 00:02:09,355 --> 00:02:12,109 they first discovered in 2007. 37 00:02:13,461 --> 00:02:15,930 So you don't bring very many people out here, do you? 38 00:02:15,962 --> 00:02:18,484 No, you're one of the first we've brought out to this site. 39 00:02:18,508 --> 00:02:20,447 We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret. 40 00:02:20,472 --> 00:02:21,994 Chris has been out here a few times. 41 00:02:22,415 --> 00:02:25,989 Well, it's a pretty sensitive site, so we try to keep traffic to a minimum. 42 00:02:26,373 --> 00:02:28,408 Well, how did you find this site, anyway? 43 00:02:28,443 --> 00:02:30,443 Uh, we were actually out looking for shipwrecks 44 00:02:30,467 --> 00:02:32,680 and we put our sonar down off the side 45 00:02:32,712 --> 00:02:35,849 and I started to see stones line up on my rose compass. 46 00:02:35,884 --> 00:02:39,854 Okay, and then you deploy this sonar and take a picture, huh? 47 00:02:39,887 --> 00:02:42,423 Yeah, we, uh, we can get that done here real quick, 48 00:02:42,456 --> 00:02:43,992 we can deploy the sonar off the side 49 00:02:44,033 --> 00:02:45,991 and, uh, start getting some images 50 00:02:46,016 --> 00:02:47,799 and show you what we've got on the screen. 51 00:02:47,824 --> 00:02:48,893 All right, great, let's do it. 52 00:02:48,927 --> 00:02:50,127 Excellent. 53 00:02:50,331 --> 00:02:52,375 When I first found these on the computer screen, 54 00:02:52,407 --> 00:02:54,342 I started to laugh, because it was like, 55 00:02:54,375 --> 00:02:56,673 this can't be true, and I jokingly said, 56 00:02:56,698 --> 00:02:58,973 "Hey, we have our own Stonehenge underwater," 57 00:02:59,006 --> 00:03:00,842 and everyone, "Ha, ha, ha," 58 00:03:00,875 --> 00:03:02,843 and I started looking at it farther and I'm going, "Wow. 59 00:03:02,877 --> 00:03:04,445 We might have something here." 60 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:06,374 Set the cable here, we'll be all set. 61 00:03:06,399 --> 00:03:08,549 So we'll take a look at the computer screen. 62 00:03:08,581 --> 00:03:09,809 Okay? 63 00:03:12,385 --> 00:03:14,954 All right. So the sonar's spinning around. 64 00:03:15,064 --> 00:03:17,445 So as you can see in this, uh, deployment location, 65 00:03:17,470 --> 00:03:20,503 we have, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six stones. 66 00:03:20,528 --> 00:03:22,764 And what's really interesting about this 67 00:03:22,796 --> 00:03:25,868 is, these stones all measure the same distance across. 68 00:03:26,133 --> 00:03:29,504 CHILDRESS: Yeah, this does look like an artificial alignment... 69 00:03:29,537 --> 00:03:32,190 this stone circle and then this line of stones there. 70 00:03:32,215 --> 00:03:33,875 Yeah, that was unique to me, 71 00:03:33,908 --> 00:03:36,611 because as an engineer, when I look at stuff 72 00:03:36,644 --> 00:03:39,271 that's square or rectangular or circle in nature, 73 00:03:39,296 --> 00:03:42,349 it-it kind of makes it jump out, because Mother Nature 74 00:03:42,384 --> 00:03:44,347 generally doesn't do things like that. 75 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,622 What I saw on the sonar 76 00:03:47,655 --> 00:03:49,524 looked a lot like stone circles 77 00:03:49,557 --> 00:03:52,185 and stone alignments that I've seen in England, 78 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:54,062 or Carnac in France, 79 00:03:54,094 --> 00:03:56,598 and it makes me wonder what's going on here 80 00:03:56,629 --> 00:03:58,348 in Ancient North America. 81 00:03:59,735 --> 00:04:02,370 So have you actually, uh, been down here 82 00:04:02,403 --> 00:04:03,906 in scuba equipment? 83 00:04:03,938 --> 00:04:05,774 No, I haven't, but Chris has. 84 00:04:05,806 --> 00:04:08,776 Yeah, we went down and I actually took some still photographs of it 85 00:04:08,808 --> 00:04:10,912 and we noticed on one of the stones 86 00:04:10,944 --> 00:04:12,913 there's some really interesting carvings on the surface of it. 87 00:04:12,947 --> 00:04:14,515 Some people have even said 88 00:04:14,548 --> 00:04:16,479 that it appears to resemble a mastodon. 89 00:04:16,817 --> 00:04:18,332 Really? - Really. 90 00:04:18,357 --> 00:04:21,555 Wow. Can we go down there now and see it? - Yeah, absolutely. 91 00:04:27,428 --> 00:04:29,363 NARRATOR: Taking an underwater camera 92 00:04:29,398 --> 00:04:31,399 down to the mastodon rock, 93 00:04:31,432 --> 00:04:34,044 Chris Doyal will send up a live feed 94 00:04:34,069 --> 00:04:35,903 to a monitor on the boat. 95 00:04:35,937 --> 00:04:39,408 As he descends, he's gonna pick out the stone here. 96 00:04:39,441 --> 00:04:40,643 CHILDRESS: Okay. 97 00:04:45,646 --> 00:04:48,449 What's that? - ABBOTT: That's the stone. 98 00:04:48,481 --> 00:04:50,418 CHILDRESS: Is-is this the stone that has the carvings on it? 99 00:04:50,451 --> 00:04:52,821 Yes, it is. So he's moving slowly in on it. 100 00:04:53,408 --> 00:04:55,490 So you can see the head, right through there. 101 00:04:55,523 --> 00:04:56,858 There's a tusk. 102 00:04:56,891 --> 00:04:58,860 So we have one leg coming down. 103 00:04:58,893 --> 00:05:01,546 CHILDRESS: It does look like the stone has been carved, and... 104 00:05:01,570 --> 00:05:04,699 ABBOTT: Yeah. - Yeah, you can see the legs and a trunk on it. 105 00:05:04,894 --> 00:05:06,134 Wow! That's amazing. 106 00:05:06,166 --> 00:05:07,569 I'm... - Yeah, it truly is. 107 00:05:07,601 --> 00:05:09,571 Yeah, I-I'm convinced. 108 00:05:09,603 --> 00:05:11,906 Uh, something's going on down there. 109 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:15,944 ABBOTT: Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, 110 00:05:15,976 --> 00:05:18,276 mastodons went extinct. 111 00:05:19,238 --> 00:05:22,451 So we've got a carving on a rock formation 112 00:05:22,483 --> 00:05:24,586 at, you know, a depth of water 113 00:05:24,619 --> 00:05:27,787 that, uh, you know, probably shouldn't be here, but is here. 114 00:05:28,622 --> 00:05:30,792 This rock is probably made out of granite, 115 00:05:30,826 --> 00:05:32,342 which is very, very hard, 116 00:05:32,625 --> 00:05:34,896 and if you look up close at these markings, 117 00:05:34,928 --> 00:05:37,465 you can see that these were made by percussion marks. 118 00:05:37,499 --> 00:05:39,456 These weren't just scratched into the surface, 119 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,243 that each line was individually pecked out. 120 00:05:42,735 --> 00:05:47,141 That rock looks like it has a carving of a mastodon on it. 121 00:05:47,421 --> 00:05:50,062 And that would mean that that carving was made 122 00:05:50,202 --> 00:05:53,251 before the extinction of these mastodons. 123 00:05:54,671 --> 00:05:56,491 So you have to wonder 124 00:05:56,516 --> 00:05:59,153 what was going on here in North America 125 00:05:59,187 --> 00:06:01,689 at the time of the last ice age. 126 00:06:05,125 --> 00:06:07,528 NARRATOR: The carved image of a mastodon? 127 00:06:07,999 --> 00:06:10,031 An animal that has been extinct 128 00:06:10,064 --> 00:06:11,791 for over 10,000 years? 129 00:06:12,335 --> 00:06:15,611 But what is it doing at the bottom of Lake Michigan? 130 00:06:17,351 --> 00:06:18,973 Could it really be part 131 00:06:19,005 --> 00:06:21,607 of an artificially created rock formation, 132 00:06:21,653 --> 00:06:23,797 like Stonehenge in England? 133 00:06:24,614 --> 00:06:27,521 If so, it would have to have been created 134 00:06:27,607 --> 00:06:31,687 before the end of the last ice age, when the lake bed was dry... 135 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,520 over 12,000 years ago... 136 00:06:35,658 --> 00:06:38,408 and that would contradict the currently held belief 137 00:06:38,572 --> 00:06:41,205 that early humans were not capable 138 00:06:41,330 --> 00:06:44,665 of erecting monumental structures in North America, 139 00:06:44,699 --> 00:06:47,590 or anywhere else, at that time. 140 00:06:48,345 --> 00:06:50,345 You never know when something's going to pop up 141 00:06:50,369 --> 00:06:51,807 that's going to totally change 142 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:53,542 your whole view of a, of a period 143 00:06:53,574 --> 00:06:55,043 or even of human development. 144 00:06:56,177 --> 00:06:59,081 One of the main trends that I've noticed in archaeology 145 00:06:59,418 --> 00:07:03,033 is that the dates for things tend to go back all the time; 146 00:07:03,117 --> 00:07:05,119 the earliest pottery in a place, 147 00:07:05,153 --> 00:07:07,088 the earliest arrival of people in a place. 148 00:07:07,122 --> 00:07:09,223 They always turn out to be earlier 149 00:07:09,255 --> 00:07:11,104 than we traditionally thought. 150 00:07:11,725 --> 00:07:14,073 ANDREW COLLINS: Today we know that there was a monument 151 00:07:14,097 --> 00:07:17,609 on the site of Stonehenge at least 10,000 years ago. 152 00:07:18,999 --> 00:07:20,600 And this is not speculation. 153 00:07:20,634 --> 00:07:23,004 The archaeologists are saying this today. 154 00:07:23,036 --> 00:07:25,574 And the same thing seems to be going on 155 00:07:25,606 --> 00:07:26,952 in other parts of the world. 156 00:07:27,991 --> 00:07:29,644 CHILDRESS: New dating techniques 157 00:07:29,677 --> 00:07:33,155 done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza 158 00:07:33,444 --> 00:07:38,185 indicate that it was carved before 10,000 BC. 159 00:07:38,786 --> 00:07:42,990 So more and more, as we make new discoveries in archaeology, 160 00:07:43,023 --> 00:07:46,894 it's pushing mankind and civilization 161 00:07:46,927 --> 00:07:49,264 back farther and farther. 162 00:07:51,165 --> 00:07:53,839 TSOUKALOS: Earth has a much deeper 163 00:07:53,864 --> 00:07:58,137 prehistory than what we read about in textbooks today. 164 00:07:58,465 --> 00:08:02,256 You can read that Puma Punku or Tiahuanaco, for example, 165 00:08:02,486 --> 00:08:07,040 was built between 500 and 800 AD. 166 00:08:07,916 --> 00:08:10,619 Some archaeologists have suggested 167 00:08:10,651 --> 00:08:12,824 that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco 168 00:08:12,849 --> 00:08:18,213 might date back as far as 12,000 years BC, 169 00:08:18,238 --> 00:08:20,871 so around 14,000 years ago. 170 00:08:23,138 --> 00:08:24,699 NARRATOR: Could it be 171 00:08:24,731 --> 00:08:27,735 that a sophisticated culture existed on Earth 172 00:08:27,768 --> 00:08:32,009 thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago? 173 00:08:33,273 --> 00:08:35,839 But if so, who built it? 174 00:08:36,211 --> 00:08:37,799 What happened to it? 175 00:08:38,211 --> 00:08:40,182 And might there still be remnants of it, 176 00:08:40,215 --> 00:08:43,884 standing boldly, right before our eyes? 177 00:08:44,886 --> 00:08:47,508 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 178 00:08:47,613 --> 00:08:51,246 many of the answers can be found by looking no further 179 00:08:51,271 --> 00:08:53,841 than the Old Testament of the Bible. 180 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:04,102 NARRATOR: Throughout the world, there are incredible man-made structures 181 00:09:04,154 --> 00:09:07,311 that have been found to date back thousands of years earlier 182 00:09:07,336 --> 00:09:09,697 than archaeologists initially thought. 183 00:09:10,929 --> 00:09:15,266 Is it possible that an advanced civilization really existed 184 00:09:15,291 --> 00:09:18,196 on Earth in mankind's prehistory? 185 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,604 A close examination of the so-called "Old Testament" 186 00:09:24,062 --> 00:09:26,718 of the Judeo-Christian Bible suggests 187 00:09:26,907 --> 00:09:29,624 that although Adam and Eve are 188 00:09:29,649 --> 00:09:31,879 presumably the first humans created by God, 189 00:09:32,242 --> 00:09:37,183 their son Cain later went on to marry and join a thriving community. 190 00:09:38,485 --> 00:09:41,788 REVEREND LIONEL FANTHORPE: There are a number of biblical stories 191 00:09:41,822 --> 00:09:43,882 which make us suspect 192 00:09:43,907 --> 00:09:49,339 that perhaps Homo sapiens were not the only species on Earth 193 00:09:49,364 --> 00:09:50,828 or even the first ones. 194 00:09:51,265 --> 00:09:53,934 Although Adam and Eve are recorded 195 00:09:53,967 --> 00:09:58,505 in the Garden of Eden as the first human parents 196 00:09:58,736 --> 00:10:01,375 that when Cain went on his way 197 00:10:01,408 --> 00:10:03,541 after murdering his brother, Abel, 198 00:10:04,678 --> 00:10:08,810 he comes to another city with other beings living in it. 199 00:10:08,873 --> 00:10:11,552 Now, who are they? What are they? 200 00:10:12,388 --> 00:10:15,090 NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, 201 00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:19,131 several ancient texts can be found that describe beings 202 00:10:19,156 --> 00:10:23,063 that dwelled upon the earth before the time of Adam and Eve. 203 00:10:23,681 --> 00:10:27,219 These are often referred to as the "pre-Adamites." 204 00:10:28,568 --> 00:10:30,838 There is a long and ancient history 205 00:10:30,871 --> 00:10:33,407 of what today are called pre-Adamites. 206 00:10:33,651 --> 00:10:35,283 Now, who are they and what are they? 207 00:10:35,315 --> 00:10:38,011 This is a subject, of course, of many legends. 208 00:10:39,540 --> 00:10:43,180 Those legends tell us tremendous amount of things. 209 00:10:43,501 --> 00:10:47,421 People's lives extended for thousands of years. 210 00:10:47,626 --> 00:10:50,690 They allegedly reached high levels of technology, 211 00:10:50,724 --> 00:10:52,993 even traveling to the stars, 212 00:10:53,198 --> 00:10:58,103 and yet somehow something went wrong in their civilization. 213 00:11:00,434 --> 00:11:03,656 The pre-Adamic civilization fell, 214 00:11:03,804 --> 00:11:07,632 but some went to the stars, 215 00:11:07,984 --> 00:11:12,242 and they were told, ordered by God, 216 00:11:12,328 --> 00:11:15,115 to watch and to observe. 217 00:11:15,975 --> 00:11:17,618 Well, let's assume for a moment 218 00:11:17,652 --> 00:11:21,803 that we had this incredible planet, and, all of a sudden, 219 00:11:21,828 --> 00:11:25,527 the extraterrestrials, other beings, came here, 220 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,706 and they had their own facilities, their own monuments, 221 00:11:29,854 --> 00:11:33,500 their own communities for at least some time. 222 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,093 And then, somewhere along the line, they took off. 223 00:11:40,508 --> 00:11:42,000 NARRATOR: Stories of a time 224 00:11:42,025 --> 00:11:46,441 when otherworldly beings occupied the planet can be found 225 00:11:46,647 --> 00:11:49,234 in nearly all world mythologies. 226 00:11:50,970 --> 00:11:52,620 For the ancient Egyptians, 227 00:11:52,652 --> 00:11:55,359 the dawn of life on Earth is referred to 228 00:11:55,384 --> 00:11:57,926 as "Zep Tepi," "the first time," 229 00:11:57,959 --> 00:12:01,548 when the god Osiris served as an earthly ruler. 230 00:12:03,774 --> 00:12:07,274 The ancient Greeks called this period the "Golden Age," 231 00:12:07,539 --> 00:12:10,769 when the Titans and the Olympians dwelled on Earth. 232 00:12:12,828 --> 00:12:16,109 And the ancient Sumerian accounts detail a time 233 00:12:16,134 --> 00:12:17,912 before the creation of man 234 00:12:18,283 --> 00:12:21,859 when the gods were the sole occupants of the planet. 235 00:12:22,950 --> 00:12:27,546 The basic suggestion is that extraterrestrials colonized 236 00:12:27,571 --> 00:12:30,117 Planet Earth thousands of years ago, 237 00:12:30,142 --> 00:12:33,647 and we're talking not 10,000 or 15,000 years ago, 238 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:37,902 but hundreds of thousands of years ago. 239 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:44,367 NARRATOR: But if an advanced, possibly extraterrestrial, 240 00:12:44,392 --> 00:12:47,812 civilization really did exist here on Earth, 241 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:50,053 why is there no record of it? 242 00:12:50,107 --> 00:12:54,278 No apparent archaeological or architectural evidence? 243 00:12:55,115 --> 00:12:59,294 BAHN: For most of the cultures studied by archaeology, 244 00:12:59,842 --> 00:13:02,289 we are bereft 245 00:13:02,322 --> 00:13:04,991 of probably the vast majority of what they produced. 246 00:13:05,025 --> 00:13:07,895 This is particularly true the further back in time you go, 247 00:13:07,928 --> 00:13:11,032 simply because anything organic will-will not survive. 248 00:13:13,099 --> 00:13:15,570 TSOUKALOS: The reason why most of the ancient monuments 249 00:13:15,602 --> 00:13:21,015 were built by using stone is because stone lasts forever. 250 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,277 That's it. 251 00:13:22,309 --> 00:13:26,179 And the reason why we have these monuments today 252 00:13:26,212 --> 00:13:29,250 is because they were calling cards. 253 00:13:29,493 --> 00:13:33,297 They were calling cards of a pre-civilization. 254 00:13:36,291 --> 00:13:40,213 NARRATOR: Mechanical engineers, like Nikhil Kar, study 255 00:13:40,238 --> 00:13:44,001 the deterioration, corrosion and decomposition 256 00:13:44,026 --> 00:13:47,267 of various materials to determine the approximate rate 257 00:13:47,301 --> 00:13:49,803 of decay and structural failure. 258 00:13:52,476 --> 00:13:55,274 By applying these principles to a cityscape, 259 00:13:55,308 --> 00:13:57,879 scientists are able to determine 260 00:13:57,912 --> 00:14:00,748 roughly how long it would take the hallmarks 261 00:14:00,780 --> 00:14:04,085 of a sophisticated civilization to disappear. 262 00:14:07,525 --> 00:14:10,625 If civilization was abandoned, after 50 years, 263 00:14:10,657 --> 00:14:14,266 you would start to see, um, material degradation processes 264 00:14:14,291 --> 00:14:17,764 take over for a skyscraper, for example, 265 00:14:17,971 --> 00:14:22,671 would see parts of the external facade crumbling to the ground. 266 00:14:25,138 --> 00:14:28,642 For steel material, you're gonna start to see little pits form 267 00:14:28,676 --> 00:14:30,232 in that steel structure. 268 00:14:31,831 --> 00:14:36,501 After a thousand years, the soil may begin to absorb the material 269 00:14:36,526 --> 00:14:39,262 and erode the material itself. 270 00:14:40,010 --> 00:14:41,939 Eventually, you're gonna get to a point 271 00:14:41,964 --> 00:14:44,213 where only stone materials, 272 00:14:44,294 --> 00:14:48,232 natural stones are gonna be around, such as Mount Rushmore. 273 00:14:52,034 --> 00:14:53,995 NARRATOR: Quito, Ecuador. 274 00:14:56,703 --> 00:14:59,588 Here in the grasslands of South America 275 00:14:59,706 --> 00:15:02,645 are the remnants of the Great Incan Road. 276 00:15:04,844 --> 00:15:08,849 The sophisticated network of pathways and trails covers 277 00:15:08,883 --> 00:15:13,220 over 25,000 miles though Ecuador, Peru, 278 00:15:13,807 --> 00:15:18,070 Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. 279 00:15:19,982 --> 00:15:22,767 The Inca built this vast roadway 280 00:15:22,792 --> 00:15:26,762 without the use of the wheel, draft animals, metal tools 281 00:15:27,134 --> 00:15:29,236 or even a written language. 282 00:15:29,548 --> 00:15:31,648 Yet modern engineers have noted 283 00:15:31,673 --> 00:15:35,911 that the roadway incorporates advanced engineering principles. 284 00:15:37,277 --> 00:15:39,321 ED BARNHART: The Inca road system was really one 285 00:15:39,345 --> 00:15:44,817 of the most magnificent ancient architectural feats ever made. 286 00:15:44,922 --> 00:15:47,754 One of the things that made the Inca roads so incredible 287 00:15:47,787 --> 00:15:49,724 is that they traversed the Andes, 288 00:15:49,756 --> 00:15:52,595 these incredibly tall, steep mountains. 289 00:15:53,461 --> 00:15:56,357 They had to bore tunnels through mountains. 290 00:15:56,763 --> 00:16:00,946 They cut narrow paths along sheer cliff faces. 291 00:16:03,664 --> 00:16:05,751 BRIEN FOERSTER: One of the most intriguing things 292 00:16:05,775 --> 00:16:08,921 about the Inca road system is that there is a major artery 293 00:16:09,176 --> 00:16:12,334 that goes from the northwest to the southeast. 294 00:16:12,717 --> 00:16:14,315 And along that, 295 00:16:14,347 --> 00:16:17,361 we find almost every major megalithic construction, 296 00:16:17,706 --> 00:16:21,336 including Tiahuanaco, Puma Punku, 297 00:16:21,626 --> 00:16:24,555 Cuzco, Machu Picchu, 298 00:16:24,836 --> 00:16:28,040 Ollantaytambo and Saksaywaman. 299 00:16:28,329 --> 00:16:31,364 Many are starting to believe that these megalithic structures 300 00:16:31,397 --> 00:16:34,167 are thousands of years older than the Inca, 301 00:16:34,233 --> 00:16:38,522 and therefore parts of the Inca road system are, as well, 302 00:16:38,780 --> 00:16:41,711 thousands of years older than that civilization. 303 00:16:43,115 --> 00:16:45,676 The Incas, so many of their great structures 304 00:16:45,701 --> 00:16:48,301 Cuzco and their royal highway 305 00:16:48,326 --> 00:16:50,761 you ask them, "Who built these? How did you build these?" 306 00:16:50,785 --> 00:16:52,481 And they'll say, "We didn't build this." 307 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:55,071 Well, who did build it? 308 00:16:55,865 --> 00:16:58,793 CHILDRESS: The Incas had elaborate legends 309 00:16:58,825 --> 00:17:01,947 of coming through tunnel systems in the earth, 310 00:17:01,972 --> 00:17:06,128 appearing on an island in Lake Titicaca, 311 00:17:06,183 --> 00:17:08,729 and then coming to Cuzco 312 00:17:09,167 --> 00:17:11,471 and finding already a-a system 313 00:17:11,505 --> 00:17:14,540 of tunnels and-and ancient mines and structures. 314 00:17:14,580 --> 00:17:16,126 It was home of the gods. 315 00:17:16,151 --> 00:17:18,494 It's where they lived before they left. 316 00:17:21,361 --> 00:17:23,781 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the foundations 317 00:17:23,806 --> 00:17:25,353 of the Inca superhighway 318 00:17:25,611 --> 00:17:28,703 and the megalithic sites along it are remnants 319 00:17:28,728 --> 00:17:31,057 of an extraterrestrial civilization 320 00:17:31,090 --> 00:17:33,608 that once colonized Earth? 321 00:17:35,150 --> 00:17:37,578 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 322 00:17:37,603 --> 00:17:40,536 the answer is a profound yes. 323 00:17:41,697 --> 00:17:44,422 And to prove it, they point to a series 324 00:17:44,447 --> 00:17:47,768 of stone carvings said to depict mankind's 325 00:17:47,988 --> 00:17:50,166 ancient ancestors. 326 00:17:57,054 --> 00:17:58,998 NARRATOR: Southeastern Turkey. 327 00:18:01,023 --> 00:18:03,606 Buried beneath 20 feet of sand, 328 00:18:03,638 --> 00:18:05,741 archaeologists unearth 329 00:18:05,776 --> 00:18:08,052 the world's oldest temple complex... 330 00:18:08,931 --> 00:18:10,757 Gobekli Tepe. 331 00:18:12,382 --> 00:18:14,384 Radiocarbon dating suggests 332 00:18:14,416 --> 00:18:16,308 that the site dates back 333 00:18:16,333 --> 00:18:18,618 to at least the tenth century BC, 334 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:22,525 a time before the end of the last ice age 335 00:18:22,557 --> 00:18:26,049 and 6,000 years before prehistoric man 336 00:18:26,088 --> 00:18:28,262 was said to have developed language. 337 00:18:30,225 --> 00:18:31,602 BAHN: Gobekli Tepe is really one 338 00:18:31,634 --> 00:18:34,341 of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. 339 00:18:35,022 --> 00:18:37,273 There are very few finds in archaeology 340 00:18:37,307 --> 00:18:40,411 that really changed the whole way we look at the past. 341 00:18:40,442 --> 00:18:42,229 And that is essentially what has happened, 342 00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:44,223 because our view of hunter-gatherers, 343 00:18:44,346 --> 00:18:46,517 uh, has changed enormously. 344 00:18:46,731 --> 00:18:49,286 We now know they were capable of coming together 345 00:18:49,317 --> 00:18:51,721 in large numbers with... under presumably 346 00:18:51,753 --> 00:18:55,657 some kind of authority to cooperate on massive projects 347 00:18:55,692 --> 00:18:58,327 such as Gobekli Tepe, which involved bringing huge pieces 348 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,518 of stone from quite some distance away, 349 00:19:00,695 --> 00:19:03,665 carving it beautifully, setting these pillars upright, 350 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,836 and doing this on a massive scale. 351 00:19:07,122 --> 00:19:11,026 The very first temples in the world are at Gobekli Tepe. 352 00:19:11,343 --> 00:19:14,514 And-and this in many ways changes everything, 353 00:19:14,577 --> 00:19:17,290 because here we have the smoking gun 354 00:19:17,413 --> 00:19:19,216 of a lost civilization. 355 00:19:19,583 --> 00:19:22,208 It confirms to us absolutely 356 00:19:22,233 --> 00:19:24,314 that at the end of the last ice age, 357 00:19:24,653 --> 00:19:27,166 there was high culture existing in the world. 358 00:19:28,099 --> 00:19:31,707 There's no doubt in my mind that there are question marks 359 00:19:31,732 --> 00:19:33,514 all around the ancient world. 360 00:19:33,539 --> 00:19:37,437 And Gobekli Tepe offers such a giant question mark, 361 00:19:37,462 --> 00:19:40,654 because according to mainstream science, 362 00:19:40,979 --> 00:19:43,574 we were sitting in caves, munching on bananas. 363 00:19:43,948 --> 00:19:47,506 And clearly that isn't the case. 364 00:19:49,941 --> 00:19:52,151 NARRATOR: Although, to date, archaeologists 365 00:19:52,176 --> 00:19:54,811 have only excavated less than one acre 366 00:19:54,836 --> 00:19:56,857 of this 22-acre site, 367 00:19:57,055 --> 00:19:59,682 what they have found is astounding. 368 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:04,131 The remains of a complex of buildings, 369 00:20:04,559 --> 00:20:05,879 massive walls 370 00:20:06,261 --> 00:20:08,919 and T-shaped stone formations, 371 00:20:09,292 --> 00:20:11,970 some nine to ten feet tall 372 00:20:12,058 --> 00:20:14,732 and weighing up to 50 tons. 373 00:20:15,933 --> 00:20:18,081 Many of the stone pillars are covered 374 00:20:18,124 --> 00:20:20,668 with relief carvings of animals, 375 00:20:20,954 --> 00:20:23,822 reptiles and insects. 376 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:28,218 Archaeologists have also found figures at the site 377 00:20:28,250 --> 00:20:30,220 that appear to represent humans 378 00:20:30,553 --> 00:20:32,926 with strangely stylized clothing. 379 00:20:33,913 --> 00:20:37,084 BAHN: We have no idea what these humans represent. 380 00:20:37,444 --> 00:20:40,608 We suspect that these are not just simple statues 381 00:20:40,663 --> 00:20:42,092 commemorating people. 382 00:20:42,139 --> 00:20:44,366 T-They could be gods. They could be spirits. 383 00:20:44,401 --> 00:20:46,924 They could be ancestors, something of that kind. 384 00:20:49,912 --> 00:20:53,626 NARRATOR: But perhaps most intriguing is a life-size statue 385 00:20:53,843 --> 00:20:56,048 found just six miles away 386 00:20:56,330 --> 00:20:58,698 that has been dated to the same period... 387 00:20:59,466 --> 00:21:01,159 the Urfa Man. 388 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,921 DAVID WILCOCK: This looks like a person 389 00:21:04,234 --> 00:21:06,945 who has come from an advanced civilization, 390 00:21:07,324 --> 00:21:10,661 who's wearing something that has much more of a defined collar, 391 00:21:10,906 --> 00:21:13,904 possibly even some sort of advanced space suit. 392 00:21:14,564 --> 00:21:16,637 What the heck is he doing there? 393 00:21:16,898 --> 00:21:19,429 His face looks strange, he's bald, 394 00:21:19,538 --> 00:21:21,574 his head, his eyes look weird. 395 00:21:22,105 --> 00:21:24,673 There's something unusual about this guy, 396 00:21:25,197 --> 00:21:28,951 and that could be a clue that leads us into the mystery 397 00:21:29,038 --> 00:21:32,836 of an antediluvian, or pre-flood, civilization. 398 00:21:35,695 --> 00:21:38,797 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange humanoid figure 399 00:21:38,836 --> 00:21:40,616 found near Gobekli Tepe 400 00:21:40,761 --> 00:21:43,947 actually represents an extraterrestrial? 401 00:21:44,109 --> 00:21:47,896 A being from a lost civilization that existed on Earth 402 00:21:48,126 --> 00:21:51,129 sometime before the last ice age? 403 00:21:53,048 --> 00:21:57,061 If so, does it give credence to other ancient stories 404 00:21:57,162 --> 00:21:59,702 describing otherworldly civilizations 405 00:21:59,727 --> 00:22:02,168 that once existed here on Earth? 406 00:22:02,877 --> 00:22:07,250 There is this recessed courtyard in Tiahuanaco 407 00:22:07,282 --> 00:22:09,301 that has all these different faces. 408 00:22:11,229 --> 00:22:15,296 These stones were found underneath the soil, 409 00:22:15,321 --> 00:22:18,600 meaning that at some point, some type of event happened 410 00:22:18,625 --> 00:22:21,849 that buried these particular stones. 411 00:22:26,012 --> 00:22:28,520 Some have actually surmised 412 00:22:28,636 --> 00:22:32,153 that they represent some type of a pre-flood civilization, 413 00:22:32,192 --> 00:22:35,010 that what we have here is, in fact, 414 00:22:35,045 --> 00:22:37,946 a remnant that depicts that society. 415 00:22:38,878 --> 00:22:41,884 All over the world, we have giant statues 416 00:22:41,916 --> 00:22:46,630 and-and carvings of people's faces and heads. 417 00:22:47,126 --> 00:22:49,491 Some of them are giant colossal heads 418 00:22:49,526 --> 00:22:51,416 like the Olmec colossal heads. 419 00:22:51,795 --> 00:22:55,288 Others are the Easter Island type statues, which are huge 420 00:22:55,313 --> 00:22:58,667 and depict people who have elongated heads. 421 00:22:58,701 --> 00:23:00,525 They're cone heads, essentially. 422 00:23:01,045 --> 00:23:04,649 They were giants of yore with godlike powers. 423 00:23:04,801 --> 00:23:07,591 In my mind, we would call them extraterrestrials. 424 00:23:08,545 --> 00:23:12,048 In all of these places, the locals are saying, 425 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,459 "Yes, these are our ancestors. 426 00:23:14,771 --> 00:23:17,191 These are the people who came before us." 427 00:23:20,309 --> 00:23:22,824 NARRATOR: Might our planet really have been inhabited 428 00:23:22,849 --> 00:23:27,314 by alien visitors tens of thousands of years ago? 429 00:23:28,403 --> 00:23:31,565 And might they have brought with them advanced knowledge, 430 00:23:31,905 --> 00:23:33,660 incredible architecture 431 00:23:33,685 --> 00:23:37,778 and technology that virtually vanished, without a trace... 432 00:23:38,117 --> 00:23:41,199 save for a few stone carvings and monuments? 433 00:23:42,009 --> 00:23:43,305 But why? 434 00:23:43,878 --> 00:23:47,220 What catastrophic event might have happened on Earth 435 00:23:47,351 --> 00:23:50,940 that would have wiped out everything that wasn't made of stone? 436 00:23:52,241 --> 00:23:55,544 Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining 437 00:23:55,569 --> 00:23:58,745 a number of massive man-made caves 438 00:23:59,064 --> 00:24:01,757 recently discovered in China. 439 00:24:05,397 --> 00:24:08,068 NARRATOR: Zhejiang Province, China. 440 00:24:08,202 --> 00:24:10,719 June 1992. 441 00:24:11,745 --> 00:24:16,017 A local villager pumping water out of a pond in Phoenix Hill 442 00:24:16,042 --> 00:24:20,089 uncovers a man-made cavern with stairs... 443 00:24:21,477 --> 00:24:22,850 hallways... 444 00:24:23,617 --> 00:24:26,728 and massive ten-story-tall pillars. 445 00:24:29,188 --> 00:24:31,527 The grotto is one in a series 446 00:24:31,558 --> 00:24:33,388 of 24 separate caverns, 447 00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:35,972 each with similar proportions 448 00:24:36,663 --> 00:24:38,569 and intricately carved walls, 449 00:24:38,844 --> 00:24:41,182 floors and ceilings. 450 00:24:44,507 --> 00:24:47,669 BAHN: Nobody really knows what on earth these things are. 451 00:24:48,857 --> 00:24:51,390 There's no trace of them having been occupied 452 00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:53,406 or being used for storage. 453 00:24:53,695 --> 00:24:55,351 Uh, certainly not for burials. 454 00:24:55,384 --> 00:24:57,353 There's no trace of anything like that. 455 00:24:58,210 --> 00:25:00,821 TSOUKALOS: There's a Swiss author by the name of Luc Burgin 456 00:25:00,855 --> 00:25:03,724 who was the first to take this story outside of China 457 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:06,625 in his book China's Mysterious Cave Labyrinth. 458 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:09,835 And what he showed me convinced me that some kind 459 00:25:09,932 --> 00:25:12,664 of advanced technology was used here. 460 00:25:13,706 --> 00:25:17,249 It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, 461 00:25:17,479 --> 00:25:21,034 where you enter this subterranean world 462 00:25:21,127 --> 00:25:25,147 that clearly has been hewn out of the bedrock 463 00:25:25,181 --> 00:25:27,078 with artificial means. 464 00:25:28,717 --> 00:25:31,957 It's almost as if there was some sort of artificial mechanism 465 00:25:32,176 --> 00:25:35,214 that was grinding and drilling all of the stone out, 466 00:25:35,589 --> 00:25:37,720 and this suggests the possibility 467 00:25:38,074 --> 00:25:41,093 that they may have had some sort of technology. 468 00:25:43,816 --> 00:25:45,634 NARRATOR: Archaeologists estimate 469 00:25:45,666 --> 00:25:47,919 that the material excavated from the site 470 00:25:48,140 --> 00:25:51,531 would amount to nearly one million cubic meters... 471 00:25:51,742 --> 00:25:53,276 approximately the volume 472 00:25:53,307 --> 00:25:56,360 of 400 Olympic-sized pools. 473 00:25:57,132 --> 00:25:58,680 Yet there is no evidence 474 00:25:58,712 --> 00:26:01,088 of where this material would have gone. 475 00:26:01,481 --> 00:26:03,732 And Chinese officials have calculated 476 00:26:03,927 --> 00:26:07,279 that an endeavor of this magnitude would take a minimum 477 00:26:07,304 --> 00:26:10,141 of 1,000 men working day and night 478 00:26:10,166 --> 00:26:12,453 for at least five years. 479 00:26:14,230 --> 00:26:16,730 There is no historical record, uh, 480 00:26:16,765 --> 00:26:20,008 of these caverns having been excavated. 481 00:26:20,033 --> 00:26:22,737 So there's no document explaining what they were used for, 482 00:26:22,769 --> 00:26:24,375 who excavated them. 483 00:26:24,530 --> 00:26:28,194 And this remains a very, very, uh, frustrating detail for historians. 484 00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:31,148 COLLINS: We know that in China 485 00:26:31,346 --> 00:26:33,981 there are written records that go back 486 00:26:34,016 --> 00:26:36,781 at least 3,000 years. 487 00:26:36,982 --> 00:26:41,027 They make absolutely no mention of these caves. 488 00:26:41,052 --> 00:26:45,173 So we must look much further back in time 489 00:26:45,446 --> 00:26:46,894 for their origin. 490 00:26:46,989 --> 00:26:49,060 But exactly how old are they? 491 00:26:49,498 --> 00:26:52,466 Are they 4,000 years, 5,000 years? 492 00:26:53,711 --> 00:26:57,347 Are they even 10,000 years? We just don't know at this time. 493 00:26:58,266 --> 00:26:59,775 TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested 494 00:26:59,807 --> 00:27:02,891 that they're up to 15,000 years old. 495 00:27:03,071 --> 00:27:07,610 In fact, Chinese scholars are the ones who have proposed 496 00:27:07,743 --> 00:27:10,920 that this cave system dates back 497 00:27:10,951 --> 00:27:14,230 to one of China's first emperors, Huang Di. 498 00:27:14,347 --> 00:27:16,215 And Huang Di, as we all know, 499 00:27:16,337 --> 00:27:21,359 descended from the sky in nothing else but a fiery dragon. 500 00:27:23,081 --> 00:27:26,018 WILCOCK: Somebody went to an extreme amount of trouble 501 00:27:26,043 --> 00:27:28,987 to build an underground civilization. 502 00:27:29,065 --> 00:27:30,698 Why would they do that? 503 00:27:31,666 --> 00:27:35,631 Is it possible that something was happening on the surface of the Earth? 504 00:27:37,330 --> 00:27:40,048 When we go back to the Icelandic legends, 505 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,084 we see this cataclysm 506 00:27:42,126 --> 00:27:45,432 that is described as a cataclysm of fire called the Ragnarok 507 00:27:45,744 --> 00:27:49,601 in which you have flames in the air and rocks and gravel 508 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:51,656 raining down from the sky. 509 00:27:53,372 --> 00:27:55,798 NARRATOR: In the Icelandic Ragnarok legend, 510 00:27:55,829 --> 00:27:58,146 the world is turned upside down. 511 00:28:00,622 --> 00:28:03,404 A great fire is followed by a submersion 512 00:28:03,439 --> 00:28:04,799 of the world in water, 513 00:28:05,168 --> 00:28:08,876 resulting in the death of the Nordic gods and their offspring. 514 00:28:10,903 --> 00:28:14,503 Only two humans are left to repopulate the earth. 515 00:28:15,246 --> 00:28:18,553 It is a tale much like that of the Great Flood found 516 00:28:18,691 --> 00:28:21,109 in the Judeo-Christian Bible. 517 00:28:21,455 --> 00:28:24,183 And similar stories of a great deluge... 518 00:28:24,491 --> 00:28:26,740 one that marks the end of an old world 519 00:28:26,904 --> 00:28:30,097 and the start of a new one... can be found in the histories 520 00:28:30,132 --> 00:28:32,567 of virtually every ancient civilization 521 00:28:32,888 --> 00:28:34,257 on our planet. 522 00:28:36,404 --> 00:28:39,450 ROBERT SCHOCH: Virtually every culture, every ancient culture 523 00:28:39,475 --> 00:28:41,966 talks about floods and ancient floods. 524 00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:44,616 Some people dismiss this as, you know, 525 00:28:44,878 --> 00:28:47,582 myth without explanation. 526 00:28:47,615 --> 00:28:50,922 But what we find geologically is, in fact, 527 00:28:51,140 --> 00:28:53,577 we would expect flood legends. 528 00:28:55,579 --> 00:28:59,188 NARRATOR: In 2007, a consortium of geologists 529 00:28:59,454 --> 00:29:03,131 publishes its collective findings indicating evidence 530 00:29:03,163 --> 00:29:05,108 of a major meteor event. 531 00:29:07,213 --> 00:29:10,005 What they discover is a carbon-rich layer 532 00:29:10,038 --> 00:29:12,875 in the geological record at various sites 533 00:29:12,906 --> 00:29:15,144 across the globe dating back 534 00:29:15,175 --> 00:29:18,779 to around 10,900 BC. 535 00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:22,870 A separate study conducted by scientists 536 00:29:23,116 --> 00:29:26,621 studying Arctic ice core samples finds evidence 537 00:29:26,775 --> 00:29:29,064 suggesting a rapid glacial melt 538 00:29:29,089 --> 00:29:31,734 at nearly the same time period. 539 00:29:33,212 --> 00:29:35,064 SCHOCH: The Ice Age ends very, 540 00:29:35,096 --> 00:29:38,320 very dramatically, almost literally overnight. 541 00:29:38,345 --> 00:29:40,501 You see this in the ice cores. 542 00:29:40,536 --> 00:29:43,322 All of a sudden, there are dramatic changes, 543 00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:45,141 temperatures rising, 544 00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:47,910 torrential rains, 545 00:29:47,942 --> 00:29:49,231 flooding. 546 00:29:51,077 --> 00:29:53,511 NARRATOR: Could the geological record suggest 547 00:29:53,536 --> 00:29:57,341 that the stories of a global cataclysm are true? 548 00:30:00,189 --> 00:30:03,741 If so, might the stories of a cleansing of the earth 549 00:30:03,766 --> 00:30:06,801 of otherworldly beings, leaving only humans 550 00:30:06,826 --> 00:30:10,197 to repopulate the planet, also be true? 551 00:30:12,874 --> 00:30:15,955 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 552 00:30:16,570 --> 00:30:20,368 and suggest further evidence exists in the tales 553 00:30:20,509 --> 00:30:23,111 of a long lost continent. 554 00:30:30,514 --> 00:30:32,836 NARRATOR: Minneapolis, Minnesota. 555 00:30:34,538 --> 00:30:37,820 Here at the Minnesota Historical Society 556 00:30:38,142 --> 00:30:40,747 are housed boxes upon boxes 557 00:30:40,772 --> 00:30:42,792 of notes, letters 558 00:30:42,847 --> 00:30:46,349 and research material detailing evidence 559 00:30:46,374 --> 00:30:50,368 of an antediluvian, or pre-flood, civilization. 560 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,789 The collection is the culmination 561 00:30:53,824 --> 00:30:56,130 of an exhaustive search for proof 562 00:30:56,231 --> 00:30:58,422 of a prehistoric civilization, 563 00:30:58,654 --> 00:31:02,046 conducted by the 19th century U.S. senator. 564 00:31:02,116 --> 00:31:03,782 Ignatius Donnelly. 565 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:08,634 COLLINS: Ignatius Donnelly was a very interesting person. 566 00:31:09,605 --> 00:31:11,219 He was a U.S. congressman. 567 00:31:11,509 --> 00:31:13,341 Um, he was a writer. 568 00:31:13,411 --> 00:31:15,489 He was a-a cryptologist. 569 00:31:16,064 --> 00:31:20,659 And in 1882 he came out with his most famous book... 570 00:31:21,104 --> 00:31:23,927 _ 571 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:28,759 What he did was to propose the existence 572 00:31:28,791 --> 00:31:30,838 of a mother civilization, 573 00:31:30,926 --> 00:31:33,586 a-a lost civilization that existed 574 00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:36,339 at the time of the last ice age. 575 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,075 CHILDRESS: Ignatius Donnelly was fascinated by the story 576 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:42,807 of a lost civilization that was destroyed 577 00:31:43,671 --> 00:31:45,423 over 10,000 years ago. 578 00:31:46,789 --> 00:31:51,188 He looked into all kinds of scientific anomalies at the time, 579 00:31:51,745 --> 00:31:55,107 including the extinction of mammoths and other animals. 580 00:31:56,086 --> 00:31:59,690 Stories of a civilization within the Americas 581 00:31:59,721 --> 00:32:01,164 and in the Atlantic. 582 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:07,039 NARRATOR: In his writings, Donnelly concluded 583 00:32:07,064 --> 00:32:10,542 that not only did a lost civilization actually exist, 584 00:32:11,182 --> 00:32:14,808 but that it was destroyed due to a meteoric-type event 585 00:32:14,886 --> 00:32:18,271 that shifted the earth's axis in the distant past. 586 00:32:21,527 --> 00:32:24,648 Donnelly believed that remnants of this civilization 587 00:32:24,886 --> 00:32:26,892 could be found in the Americas... 588 00:32:29,045 --> 00:32:31,303 and the ultimate evidence would be located 589 00:32:31,328 --> 00:32:33,420 underwater in the Caribbean. 590 00:32:35,717 --> 00:32:39,224 He was convinced that when Christopher Columbus sailed west 591 00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:41,585 from Spain in 1492, 592 00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:43,589 he knew this as well. 593 00:32:45,831 --> 00:32:48,145 COLLINS: The explorer Christopher Columbus, 594 00:32:48,247 --> 00:32:50,849 before his epic journey to the New World, 595 00:32:51,157 --> 00:32:55,661 was very much aware of the stories of a lost civilization. 596 00:32:56,527 --> 00:32:58,480 It was something that was discussed 597 00:32:58,550 --> 00:33:01,359 in the various European cults at this time. 598 00:33:02,449 --> 00:33:05,784 Ancient mariners, the voyagers of the past, 599 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,488 had maps which showed different areas of the earth, 600 00:33:10,701 --> 00:33:14,232 which they could not know anything possibly about 601 00:33:14,288 --> 00:33:17,153 because they hadn't been discovered at that time, 602 00:33:17,259 --> 00:33:19,002 and were probably accessible 603 00:33:19,036 --> 00:33:21,031 to people like Christopher Columbus, 604 00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:23,457 before his journey to the New World. 605 00:33:25,482 --> 00:33:27,428 There were legends in the Middle Ages 606 00:33:27,453 --> 00:33:29,554 that there was a land 607 00:33:29,579 --> 00:33:32,475 and a continent across the Atlantic. 608 00:33:33,748 --> 00:33:36,369 And early maps started showing... 609 00:33:36,394 --> 00:33:38,230 before Columbus, even... 610 00:33:38,290 --> 00:33:40,184 a large island in the Atlantic, 611 00:33:40,209 --> 00:33:42,137 which they called Antillia. 612 00:33:43,672 --> 00:33:47,203 Columbus, on his first journey to the New World, 613 00:33:47,282 --> 00:33:49,253 as he neared the Caribbean, 614 00:33:49,324 --> 00:33:53,161 he started seeing weird lights in the sky. 615 00:33:54,963 --> 00:33:57,050 So you have to wonder: 616 00:33:57,075 --> 00:33:59,277 were extraterrestrials 617 00:33:59,302 --> 00:34:03,039 purposely trying to help Columbus? 618 00:34:03,337 --> 00:34:07,342 Perhaps some of the knowledge that he had of maps, 619 00:34:07,375 --> 00:34:11,713 and that he was really going to find land across this ocean, 620 00:34:11,871 --> 00:34:13,914 had been assured to him. 621 00:34:17,046 --> 00:34:20,447 NARRATOR: Could Columbus have been purposely guided to this area 622 00:34:20,722 --> 00:34:23,944 not only by ancient maps of unknown origin, 623 00:34:24,147 --> 00:34:27,638 but also by extraterrestrial beings? 624 00:34:29,276 --> 00:34:31,231 Although the secret maps and charts 625 00:34:31,266 --> 00:34:33,626 of Christopher Columbus have been lost, 626 00:34:34,723 --> 00:34:38,096 scholars attribute them as having been a key source 627 00:34:38,121 --> 00:34:42,482 in the creation of one of history's most enigmatic maps. 628 00:34:44,796 --> 00:34:49,389 The Piri Reis map has been dated to 1513 AD, 629 00:34:49,788 --> 00:34:53,155 but what it illustrates suggests geological knowledge 630 00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:56,684 that was unknown until our modern age. 631 00:34:57,577 --> 00:34:59,716 ERICH VON DANIKEN: A Turkish seaman, 632 00:34:59,741 --> 00:35:02,142 an admiral, painted the map. 633 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,600 His name was Piri Reis. 634 00:35:05,225 --> 00:35:10,221 Now, if you see the map, you see the coastline of the southern part of France. 635 00:35:10,908 --> 00:35:12,684 Then you see Spain. 636 00:35:12,709 --> 00:35:14,678 Then you see what is today's Gibraltar. 637 00:35:14,858 --> 00:35:17,166 Then you see a part of Africa. 638 00:35:17,329 --> 00:35:20,885 On the other side, you see a coastline of South America, 639 00:35:20,999 --> 00:35:22,505 but what is important, 640 00:35:22,867 --> 00:35:25,814 on the bottom of the map of Piri Reis 641 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,988 you see the coastline of Antarctica. 642 00:35:29,575 --> 00:35:34,118 Now, this coastline is covered today with ice and snow. 643 00:35:34,445 --> 00:35:38,476 So somebody must have mapped this before the Ice Age. 644 00:35:41,204 --> 00:35:44,966 NARRATOR: The continent of Antarctica was discovered in 1820, 645 00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:49,118 over 300 years after Piri Reis drew his map. 646 00:35:51,148 --> 00:35:54,499 And scientists have proposed that the Antarctic coastline 647 00:35:54,532 --> 00:35:56,535 has been obscured by ice 648 00:35:56,957 --> 00:35:59,223 for at least 6,000 years. 649 00:36:01,282 --> 00:36:05,000 Could it be that the original source for the maps of Columbus 650 00:36:05,088 --> 00:36:09,213 and the Piri Reis map predates our recorded history? 651 00:36:10,344 --> 00:36:13,574 If so, has evidence been left behind on Earth 652 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:16,642 to assure that we can piece together the truth 653 00:36:16,862 --> 00:36:19,317 about a lost civilization? 654 00:36:19,690 --> 00:36:23,350 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim 655 00:36:23,375 --> 00:36:26,114 further proof may be found underwater 656 00:36:26,798 --> 00:36:28,506 in the Bahamas. 657 00:36:35,599 --> 00:36:39,450 NARRATOR: Andros Island, the Bahamas. 2003. 658 00:36:41,403 --> 00:36:42,905 Members of the Association 659 00:36:42,938 --> 00:36:44,794 for Research and Enlightenment 660 00:36:45,263 --> 00:36:48,506 conduct aerial searches for underwater structures 661 00:36:48,584 --> 00:36:52,012 that might reveal evidence of a lost civilization. 662 00:36:53,616 --> 00:36:57,052 Off of the coast of Andros, 663 00:36:58,725 --> 00:36:59,994 they discovered 664 00:37:00,019 --> 00:37:04,158 an incredible platform of rectangular 665 00:37:04,226 --> 00:37:06,528 and square stones that stretched 666 00:37:06,854 --> 00:37:08,877 for several hundred yards. 667 00:37:09,838 --> 00:37:11,813 And all the indications are 668 00:37:11,838 --> 00:37:14,752 that it goes back to the end of the last ice age 669 00:37:14,783 --> 00:37:18,372 and is probably around 11,000 to 12,000 years old. 670 00:37:20,801 --> 00:37:23,697 NARRATOR: The search is part of a long-term project 671 00:37:23,722 --> 00:37:26,729 working in conjunction with the Cayce Foundation. 672 00:37:27,808 --> 00:37:30,385 Their quest is to locate remnants 673 00:37:30,410 --> 00:37:32,845 of the lost continent of Atlantis, 674 00:37:33,447 --> 00:37:35,947 which healer and psychic Edgar Cayce 675 00:37:36,010 --> 00:37:38,514 said would be located in the area. 676 00:37:41,517 --> 00:37:45,211 WILCOCK: Edgar Cayce is arguably America's greatest psychic. 677 00:37:45,236 --> 00:37:48,872 He was born in 1877, died in 1945, 678 00:37:49,439 --> 00:37:54,124 and he has documented over 14,000 psychic readings. 679 00:37:56,716 --> 00:38:01,497 What's interesting is that Cayce also got into things like reincarnation. 680 00:38:03,708 --> 00:38:06,983 Some of Cayce's clients were told that they had lifetimes 681 00:38:07,008 --> 00:38:10,975 in the so-called mythical civilization of Atlantis. 682 00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:16,164 In fact, Cayce's reading said 683 00:38:16,197 --> 00:38:18,720 that the people of Atlantis, as a whole, 684 00:38:18,745 --> 00:38:22,692 had mass reincarnated as the people of America 685 00:38:24,253 --> 00:38:26,120 and that America was, in a sense, 686 00:38:26,331 --> 00:38:29,304 a future-life carryover of Atlantis. 687 00:38:34,196 --> 00:38:36,813 NARRATOR: Cayce revealed in his psychic readings 688 00:38:37,243 --> 00:38:40,490 that the truth about the nature of this lost civilization 689 00:38:40,927 --> 00:38:43,263 exists in a hidden hall of records 690 00:38:43,443 --> 00:38:45,934 at three locations across the globe: 691 00:38:47,787 --> 00:38:49,698 in Egypt near the Sphinx, 692 00:38:50,521 --> 00:38:52,453 underwater in the Bahamas, 693 00:38:52,968 --> 00:38:55,396 and in the Yucat�n Peninsula. 694 00:38:56,943 --> 00:38:59,756 Any three of these areas apparently would have 695 00:39:00,076 --> 00:39:01,972 all of the records that we would need 696 00:39:01,997 --> 00:39:05,575 to completely rebuild our history 697 00:39:05,903 --> 00:39:08,450 and understand how there may have been 698 00:39:08,483 --> 00:39:10,598 much more widespread 699 00:39:10,623 --> 00:39:13,092 extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. 700 00:39:17,493 --> 00:39:19,729 NARRATOR: Could recent archaeological finds 701 00:39:19,762 --> 00:39:23,556 in the Bahamas confirm that Edgar Cayce was right 702 00:39:23,665 --> 00:39:27,963 about the existence of a lost extraterrestrial civilization? 703 00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:31,910 And if so, should we be concerned 704 00:39:31,935 --> 00:39:35,663 about his predictions for the future of humanity? 705 00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:39,602 Cayce was a cataclysmist, 706 00:39:39,907 --> 00:39:43,461 and in his readings, he was constantly talking 707 00:39:43,486 --> 00:39:47,290 about Earth changes and pole shifts 708 00:39:47,315 --> 00:39:51,476 that caused civilizations to be destroyed 709 00:39:51,501 --> 00:39:52,829 in ancient times. 710 00:39:53,399 --> 00:39:57,124 And Cayce said that we were gonna have another pole shift 711 00:39:57,149 --> 00:39:59,746 around the time of the millennium. 712 00:40:01,338 --> 00:40:03,104 Even a relatively small asteroid, 713 00:40:03,139 --> 00:40:05,453 coming in at the right angle... 714 00:40:06,572 --> 00:40:09,634 not necessarily hitting Earth, but sort of grazing the earth... 715 00:40:10,025 --> 00:40:13,616 could, theoretically, change the tilt axis 716 00:40:13,641 --> 00:40:15,110 of the earth significantly. 717 00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:17,400 Now, if that occurred, 718 00:40:17,743 --> 00:40:21,480 land and ocean would redistribute on the earth. 719 00:40:23,394 --> 00:40:26,111 WILLIAM HENRY: It seems as if history repeats itself. 720 00:40:27,045 --> 00:40:28,865 And it may be that at this moment, 721 00:40:28,890 --> 00:40:30,914 we are exactly in the same situation 722 00:40:30,939 --> 00:40:33,493 that the citizens of Atlantis were in. 723 00:40:35,662 --> 00:40:39,162 COLLINS: Perhaps we will find out exactly what had happened 724 00:40:39,187 --> 00:40:41,119 to this lost civilization 725 00:40:41,546 --> 00:40:43,937 and learn from their mistakes 726 00:40:44,155 --> 00:40:47,499 and not sink into oblivion ourselves. 727 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,547 TSOUKALOS: The more we uncover, it will all point in one direction. 728 00:40:53,734 --> 00:40:56,857 We are not the first and we never have been. 729 00:40:58,977 --> 00:41:02,264 An extraterrestrial pre-civilization existed 730 00:41:02,289 --> 00:41:04,371 before our recorded history, 731 00:41:05,703 --> 00:41:08,171 and this truth will be revealed 732 00:41:08,509 --> 00:41:10,436 within our lifetime. 733 00:41:12,788 --> 00:41:14,709 NARRATOR: Could the stories of a time 734 00:41:14,734 --> 00:41:17,419 when gods and otherworldly beings 735 00:41:17,444 --> 00:41:21,216 inhabited the earth be more than just mythology? 736 00:41:22,178 --> 00:41:25,188 And might the discovery of unexplainable remnants 737 00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:28,815 from this lost civilization reveal the truth 738 00:41:28,948 --> 00:41:31,776 about our extraterrestrial origins, 739 00:41:31,923 --> 00:41:34,879 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 740 00:41:36,546 --> 00:41:39,382 Perhaps we are on the verge of uncovering 741 00:41:39,407 --> 00:41:41,827 the final piece of the puzzle 742 00:41:42,085 --> 00:41:44,475 that will change our understanding 743 00:41:44,577 --> 00:41:47,053 of Earth's history forever. 744 00:41:47,162 --> 00:41:48,878 But will we uncover it 745 00:41:49,351 --> 00:41:51,992 before it's too late? 746 00:41:53,305 --> 00:41:57,905 Sync and corrected by minouhse www.addic7ed.com 747 00:41:57,955 --> 00:42:02,505 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 59672

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