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NARRATOR: Giants...

MAN: They found
up to 40 or 50 people

inside this cave.

One was allegedly
7 feet, 7 inches tall.

NARRATOR:
Grey-skinned creatures...

An essential humanoid,

but with disproportionately
large heads

and huge black
almond-shaped eyes.

NARRATOR: And beings
with god-like powers.

This was a person who was
a little more than human.

NARRATOR: Throughout history,
there have been stories

of strange beings
and fantastic creatures.

But could they be more
than just myth?

TSOUKALOS: In my opinion,
these people were misinterpreted

flesh and blood
space travelers.

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world

believe we have been
visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so,
might we find proof

by examining the faces
of the gods?

Cahuachi, Peru.

Two-thousand years ago,
this ancient settlement

served as the religious
and cultural capital

of the Nazca people.

But sometime around 500 A.D.,

the Nazca
mysteriously disappeared,

leaving Cahuachi
to fall into disarray.

1,400 years later, in 1910,

anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka
came to Cahuachi

to study the ancient
Nazca civilization.

During a dig, he unearthed
some of the most surprising

and shocking artifacts
he had ever seen.

They were skulls...

with enormous
elongated craniums.

Where did they come from?

How did they get there?

And were they human?

CHILDRESS: In Peru, we find
these weird elongated skulls,

and they're bizarre-looking.

I mean, and these people
look like aliens.

SCHOCH: One may say,
"OK. Aliens."

But another aspect
that we have to consider

is that skull
and cranial deformation,

forming elongated heads,
is a practice that's known

throughout much
of the ancient world.

NARRATOR: In 1870,
the process of skull deformation

was well chronicled by a German
botanist and explorer

named Georg Schweinfurth.

While exploring
the African Congo,

he came in contact with a tribe
called the Mangbetu.

They routinely performed
a ritual of cranial binding

that allowed them to physically
alter the shape of human skulls.

CHILDRESS: They took
infants' skulls

and compressed them
and bound them,

and they forced the cranium
out and elongated,

and in many cases,
they doubled the size.

SCHOCH: And a big question is
why was this being done?

It may have been a way
to distinguish the elite perhaps

from the everyday people.

It may have been a social
stratification type of issue.

Something that also
appeals to me

is that it may have been a way
to express physically

and maybe try
to achieve physically

greater levels of consciousness

or higher levels
of mental ability.

TSOUKALOS: In my opinion,
they did this

in order to mimic the gods,

and those gods
were physical beings

because if they were
just a figment

of our ancestors' imagination,

I don't think that's
a compelling enough reason

to expose your children
to such a ritual

to achieve that type of look,
and in my opinion,

these people were misinterpreted
flesh-and-blood space travelers.

SCHOCH: Some people
have suggested

aliens had elongated skulls,
and apparently ancient peoples

are mimicking those skulls.

The old saying is that imitation

is the sincerest
form of flattery.

NARRATOR: Although there
have been many images

that attempt to depict what
aliens might actually look like,

one in particular has come to
dominate the public perception.

It, too, features
an elongated cranium

and is associated with
an extraterrestrial race

that many refer to
as the Greys.

POPE: In terms of entities,

one very common description
are the so-called Greys,

3 1/2, 4 feet tall,
essentially humanoid,

but very spindly with
disproportionately large heads

and huge black
almond-shaped eyes.

NARRATOR: But would someone
in a primitive society

really want to replicate this
look and deform their skull?

Some archaeologists have
a different perspective.

They point to
artistic self-expression

as an explanation
of these customs.

There are all kinds
of people that...

that either worship the body
or use the body as art,

be it a tattoo
or a piercing of some sort

or tribes that put things
in their ears or in their lips

to try to grow
parts of their body.

Some societies we know practiced
binding parts of the body,

feet or heads, and try to make
certain shapes,

and this was done
for whatever reason.

We know today that
this isn't usually

the most healthy thing to do,

but it doesn't mean
people don't do it.

People are always trying
to change their body

to make it look
a certain way.

NARRATOR: Whatever
the explanation may be

for these rituals,
they are not just found

in Peru and the African Congo.

NARRATOR: Skull deformation
is a global phenomenon.

CHILDRESS:
What's really strange

is that this is found
all over the world,

and this is something

that archaeologists
cannot easily explain

because for people
on remote islands,

for people in South America
or Malta or in Africa

to suddenly independently do

this cranial deformation
like this seems incredible.

I mean, this is something
that had to be learned,

something that was
taught to them.

SCHOCH: We seem to have
basic similarities,

as if there was one civilization

or at least
one type of culture

that was influencing people
around the world.

I find it more and more
difficult to believe

what I was taught
as an undergraduate,

that all these
different cultures

just coincidentally came up
with the same concepts

independently of each other.

NARRATOR: Could it be
that the elongated skulls

found throughout the world
are really the result

of ancient humans
trying to emulate

the appearance
of other-worldly visitors?

Or could they really be
the skulls of extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further clues

can be found by examining
other strange bones and relics,

relics that may provide
proof of giants.

Lovelock, Nevada.
In the early 1800's,

local legends passed down
by the Paiute Indians

told of a race of giants

who were exterminated
by their tribe.

It was said this was done by
trapping the giants in a cave,

shooting arrows at them,
and then starting a large fire

at the mouth of the cave.

Evidence of the slaughter
lay undisturbed

until the early 20th century.

CHILDRESS: Lovelock Cave
was first discovered

by local ranchers who were
looking for bat guano

to use in their fields.

NARRATOR: In need
of fertilizer for their crops,

the ranchers removed nearly
10 feet of guano-enriched soil

from the surface of the cave.

CHILDRESS: And then they began
finding human remains.

They found up to 40
or 50 people inside this cave.

One was allegedly
7 feet, 7 inches tall.

They all had long red hair
and were literal giants.

NARRATOR: If these skeletons
were the remains

of the legendary
Red Haired Giants,

were they visitors
from distant continents?

CHILDRESS:
Throughout the 19th century,

many giant skeletons
were allegedly discovered

in the Midwest,
also in parts of California

and around Death Valley,

and the skeletons here
found at Lovelock

are one of the few
that were really excavated

by an accredited university.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists from
the Nevada Historical Society

and the University
of California

believe the cave was occupied
from approximately 1,500 B.C.

until a few hundred years
before white men appeared

in the Nevada territory.

75 miles from the cave site,

a local museum has
preserved several skulls

that some believe are recovered
remains of the giants.

CHILDRESS: Inside
this cabinet here

are 3 skulls from
the Lovelock caves.

When you first see
these skulls,

they seem to be pretty much
normal-looking skulls.

However, it's when we really
start to compare the jawbones

with this modern
dental impression

of a normal adult male
that we see that

these jawbones
are unusually large,

and these are really
the skulls of giant people

who were perhaps 7,
even 8 feet tall.

One of the odd things
with these skulls

is that they're not actually put
on display here at the museum,

and they're kept
hidden in this cabinet.

Now, we don't know if that's
really just out of, um...

respect for
the Native Americans

or whether there's
really something unusual

about these giant skulIs that
they don't want them to display.

NARRATOR: Are the Nevada bones
evidence of a race of giants

that existed all through
early human history?

If so, could the giants be

the descendants
of extraterrestrials?

According to
the Hebrew Testament,

one such giant appeared
in the Valley of Elah

2,500 years ago.

Each morning for 40 days,

a Philistine giant
over 9 feet tall

challenged the Israelites
to a fight.

His name was Goliath.

David and Goliath is one
of those episodes in the Bible

where you wonder
what is going on.

Is it just a metaphor,

or are we dealing with
a fundamental interpretation?

And in that sense, Goliath
has to be a giant creature.

The question then is,
he cannot be human.

What is he?

NARRATOR: David's
stunning triumph over Goliath

was considered a mere fable

until archaeologists turned up
evidence that suggests

this confrontation
really did happen.

On the outskirts
of Tel El-Safi, Israel,

scientists discovered a moat

that may have once protected
the Philistine fortress.

Nearby they found
shards of pottery

inscribed with the name Goliath.

Tests indicate the pottery
is from the same time period

as described in the Bible.

Ancient astronaut
theorists claim

this is unmistakable evidence
of extraterrestrial giants

in Biblical times.

COPPENS: Are we dealing
with metaphors,

or are we dealing
with hard evidence?

Are these physical creatures
which somehow roamed the Earth?

And I think on volume,

We have to accept that
some of these were real.

The question then is how did
these genetic freaks come about?

TSOUKALOS:
One of the main tenets

of ancient astronaut
theory suggests

that a long time ago,
extraterrestrials

changed our genetic makeup
through a targeted mutation

of our genes,
essentially in the lab.

So they took a couple
of human beings,

altered their DNA,
then reinserted those people

back into the population,
so through procreation,

those people would pass on
those new genetic alterations

to the entire population.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the evidence points
to one conclusion--

that aliens changed the genetics
of early human DNA.

COPPENS: For an alien being
to work with DNA is so easy

that just creating a new type
is not at all that difficult.

Even today we have
the capability

to create new types of animals.

The question is, were we
created as such as well?

NARRATOR: Did giants
really walk the Earth

thousands of years ago,
and if so,

could they have been
from another world

or perhaps the result of alien
experimentation with human DNA?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the stories

of yet another type
of other-worldly being--

winged creatures that descended
from the sky as angels.

[Bells tolling]

NARRATOR: Rome, Italy.

Stored in the treasury
of St. Peter's Basilica

is the Vatican
is the sarcophagus

of Junius Bassus.

Constructed in 359 A.D.,

the sarcophagus features
what some believe to be

the earliest known depiction
of winged angels

in all of Christianity.

In the centuries that followed,

angels were almost always
depicted as having wings.

But Why?

Especially since the actual
Biblical texts

rarely describe angels as having
birdlike appendages.

CARTER: The vast majority

of the stories
in the Old Testament,

angels aren't described
as having wings at all.

Some of them,
they look human.

When the angel comes
to visit Abraham,

this angel does not have wings.
He looks like a man.

Abraham bows to him,
which is interesting.

How did Abraham know?

If he looks like
a human being,

what was it that gave
Abraham the clue

to run over
and bow down to him?

And so there's
a supernatural quality,

there's a superhuman quality
that they acknowledge

that this was a person who was
a little more than human.

RADER: The concept
of the angel as such

comes directly out of
the Greco-Roman tradition,

stories of Hermes and Iris
kind of coming down

and giving messages.

Envisioning them as beings,
like human beings,

kind of looking
like human beings

and being benevolent.

There are plenty of other beings

which have these
beautiful wings,

these kind of forms
and shapes,

but all of these beings,
however they are conceived of,

are a way of telling us

that we have
a hard time understanding

what it is that separates us
from them, from the gods.

They have to be these kind of
weird beings who have wings.

MARTELL: Angels show up
in various cultures

as probably
misidentified technology.

If they saw someone,
a human being or a humanoid,

flying in the skies, they could
only give it a natural review,

giving it wings.

I don't think
they actually had wings.

It was ancient man's way
of saying

they had the power of flight.

CARTER: The angels have wings
that we're used to seeing

depicted in pictures
of the Bible and what have you,

and basically the wings say
these beings can fly.

So we believe in angels,

and the Native Americans
talk about the star people.

The Egyptians
talk about the gods

coming to and from the Earth.

So I believe this is the basis,
this is the template

for the civilizations of
the Earth's religious practices.

I believe that.

For centuries,
religious tradition

has perpetuated the notion
of birdlike wings

to explain an angel's
mode of travel.

But is such a concept
even scientifically plausible?

[Bells tolling]

In 2009, a study
at University College London

compared classic depictions
of winged angels

with actual bird physiology.

DENNIN: You have to be able
to both flap down and flap up,

and you really need a separate
muscle to do each of these.

On the way down,
you're generating the lift,

and you actually have to
rotate the wings slightly

and get a different angle
as you come up,

and then they actually
generate their thrust.

Otherwise, if you just
went up and down

in the same straight pattern,
you'd be making lift one way,

but when you went back
the other way,

you'd just push
yourself back down.

So when you look at
the classic pictures of angels,

the wings are centered on their
back very close together,

whereas the birds,
with the wings on the side,

can have longer muscles
with great strength

that go into moving them
up and down.

With the wings on the back,
they're gonna look like

they're gonna flap
more like this than up and down.

NARRATOR: Researchers
also concluded that angels,

given their humanoid
interpretation,

would be simply too heavy
for flight.

DENNIN: We're not designed
aerodynamically,

and we're quite heavy.

I mean, we're solid bone,
solid muscle.

So those two features
you have to overcome.

NARRATOR: But if angels could
not have possessed actual wings,

how would they have managed to
travel to and from the heavens?

Angels were never described
to fly around like Superman,

but they sort of had
a vertical ascent into the sky,

or when they descended,
it was a vertical descent.

How was that possible?

NARRATOR: In 1953,
Bell Aerosystems developed

the rocket belt, the precursor
to today's workable jet pack.

Designed to lift individuals
vertically into the air

and glide them
across the skies,

today's jet packs can reach
altitudes of over 8,000 feet

and travel at speeds
of up to 60 miles per hour.

TSOUKALOS: If you look
at a modern jet pack,

humans are ascending
and descending

in a vertical position.

Now, imagine if that picture
was shown to our ancestors.

How would they react?

Obviously they will say,

"Wow. This creature
must be divine.

"This creature must be
some type of a god

"because they've got
the capability of flight.

"They're like birds.

Not even the sky
is the limit to them."

NARRATOR: Did our ancestors
try to explain

an ancient alien technology
by suggesting

that extraterrestrial visitors
were heavenly visitors

with birdlike wings?

If the answer is yes,

the implications
are both profound

and potentially disturbing.

For if angels are actual
visitors from other worlds,

then what is their mission?

Are they simply watching us,
or is there perhaps...

a more sinister purpose?

Oaxaca, Mexico.

Situated on a low mountain range
rising above the central plain

lie the ancient ruins
of Monte Alban.

Here, around 100 B.C.,
researchers believe

the Zapotec Indians worshipped
a bloodthirsty Mayan god

with the body of a man
and the head of a bat.

They called him Camazotz.

The iconography
is rather striking,

the image of
a half man, half bat,

a man with the head of a bat
and wing-like cloaks spread out

with crosses of bones
in the lining.

The Zapotec people
in the Oaxaca area of Mexico

believe that winged creatures,
bat-like creatures,

come in the night.

They will attack,
and they will drink blood

and disappear without
ever being noticed.

CURRAN: This is simply
a sort of anthropomorphic bat

which was worshipped
by the sacrifice

of libations of blood.

So what they did
was they cut themselves

and poured it into a bowl
and offered it to the god.

WYATT: Blood was a very
important substance to the Maya.

That is what gave humans life--
blood and breath...

was what the essence
of life was.

That's where this "kahul,"
this divine essence resided,

in blood and in breath.

When you would die,
you entered into the underworld.

It was called Xibalba.

Then, if you defeated
the lords of death,

you would then ascend
into the heavens

and become one
of the revered ancestors.

The blood is the thing
that reconnects

the world that we live in
with the world of the dead.

Some of the earliest
archaeological evidence

shows that blood rituals
were present

as far back
as we can search.

NARRATOR: Legends and myths
of supernatural beings

with traits similar
to vampires

are a part of nearly every
ancient culture.

In Hindu folklore,
for example,

the Vetala was known
as an evil spirit

that took demonic possession
of corpses.

The Indian goddess Kali
was also intimately linked

with blood sacrifices.

CURRAN: Kali becomes
The Destroyer,

and she is portrayed
as a hag-like woman

with a whole number of arms...

Each carrying a sword.

She is the goddess
of death and destruction.

Her eyes are red, and she drips
blood from her mouth.

She's known to take
infants from their crib

and drink their blood.

NARRATOR: In North America,

early Cherokees believed
in a bloodthirsty creature

that slaughtered humans,
drank their blood,

and ate their livers,
known as the U'tlun'ta.

This demon was said
to possess eternal life

while feeding on the living.

The notion of the thing
from the spirit world

traveling through the various
Indian nations was a great fear

among not only the Cherokee
but also the Sioux and Arapaho.

NARRATOR: But who or what
are these mysterious creatures?

And where did they come from?

Might they be, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrial beings
abandoned here on Earth?

In the ancient Jewish Talmud,

the Genesis story
set in the Garden of Eden

includes Adam and Eve
but also a woman called Lilith.

SKAL: In Jewish folklore,

Lilith was the first
wife of Adam.

She was created from
the same earth as Adam,

not from his rib,
as Eve was.

But she proved to be very
disobedient and uncontrollable

and had to be banished.

NARRATOR: According
to the Talmud,

when Lilith refused
to obey Adam,

God sent 3 angels
to convince her

to submit to his authority,

but when Lilith refused
for the final time,

God condemned her
to live on Earth for eternity.

SKAL: In a sense,
Lilith was

the first vampire
to wander the Earth.

She shared all
of the characteristics

of female vampires.

YOUNG: Lilith had the head
and breasts of a woman,

the body of a snake,
and the wings of a bird.

She's a terrifying creature.

COOGAN: In Jewish tradition,

Lilith has been
a kind of night demon

against whom incantations
and prayers have to be offered

because she will come
and snatch away

an infant sleeping
in its crib

or at least snatch away
its soul and cause it to die.

NARRATOR: But why are tales
of bloodsucking creatures

so prevalent throughout
the ancient world?

Might blood and the unique
chemistry of it

serve as a kind of cosmic fuel,

one that connects
the living to the dead,

the human to the inhuman,

the earthly
to the other-worldly?

CHILDRESS: Blood is
the life force of humans,

and it was very important
to extraterrestrials, too.

And there are some things
very special about our blood.

So we have to think
that if these blood sacrifices

aren't some distortion
of what was originally...

just extraterrestrials
showing us

how important our blood was.

NARRATOR: Angels, demons,
the Greys...

are they all
various interpretations

of one type
of extraterrestrial species,

a species that has been
visiting our planet

for thousands of years?

Or are they descriptions

of several different
alien visitors?

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

further clues can be found
by examining

the ancient Greek stories
of fish people.

Cape Sounion, Greece.

Perched on the headland,

surrounded on 3 sides
by the sea,

lies the ruins of the temple
of Poseidon, built in 440 B.C.

The second son
of the Titan king Cronus,

Poseidon was worshipped
throughout Greece,

almost as much
as his younger brother Zeus.

Poseidon was
the god of the sea.

He was also the god
of earthquakes

and strangely, horses.

When Poseidon
was in a good mood,

he created new lands
out of the sea,

he gave calm waters
for good voyages.

When he was in a bad mood,

he destroyed ships
and brought storms.

[Thunder]

RADER: Poseidon does rule
over the kingdom of the sea.

It is envisioned as a kind of
a place where people live,

and when he comes
out of that place,

yes, he rides this spectacular
kind of like water chariot

that is driven by dolphins,

and he holds onto
a really big trident.

NARRATOR:
In Greek mythology,

Cronus eats all of his children
except for Zeus,

who eventually rescues his
siblings, including Poseidon,

from the belly
of his father.

YOUNG: A potion is prepared

that makes him heave up
all the other siblings of Zeus,

and these become
the gods of Olympus.

NARRATOR: But ancient
astronaut theorists

believe this Greek myth
is actually a metaphor

for an extraterrestrial event.

They believe the notion

of gods being vomited up
from the belly of their father

actually describes
mutinous aliens

being expelled
from the mother ship.

Any being which is swallowed up
into a living creature

will not be able
to survive for 3 days.

It will die from suffocation
and will begin to decay.

Now, what we have here
is not a creature,

but something else.

It could have been an object

which was clearly of a man-made
or extraterrestrial origin.

A mutiny took place.

Some of the extraterrestrials,
they had sex

with wonderful earthly
females, women.

They were not
allowed to do this.

So one of these
extraterrestrials

who were not allowed to go back
with the mother spaceship

had the name of Poseidon.

Poseidon fell in love
with a beautiful human girl,

and he made her pregnant.

RADER: Poseidon is married,
right? He's got a child.

He's got some
grandchildren, right?

There's the whole cast
of sea nymphs as well.

All of them presumably,
like, live in this place.

YOUNG: Poseidon has
the power of the deep,

the unseen place.

If you look out at the sea,
you see a surface,

and you're aware there's
a whole world below that,

suggesting powers beyond that
which meet the eye.

NARRATOR: Among
the mythical creatures

associated with Poseidon

are the Telchines, a race
of advanced fish children.

These human-like beings could
live both in and out of water.

They are masters
of technology

and seem to match up with the
fish gods of ancient Sumeria,

who worked for Enki,

the great god of alchemy
and technology and smithcraft.

RADER: The Telchines
are also kind of

in this shadowy territory
of God/human/monster things.

They're just these
kind of figures

who are not gods
but were like human beings.

There's one story about the
Roman version of Zeus, Jupiter,

trying to destroy them.

Now, we don't know whether
they are actually all destroyed,

but it's possibly because of
their relationship to the magic.

NARRATOR: In Greek legend,

the Telchines were also
metallurgists.

They were said to have created
Poseidon's magical trident

and to have cast
the first bronze statues

of the gods of Olympus.

And according
to some historians,

the Telchines may not
have been creatures of myth,

but were beings
who actually existed.

RADER: There were people
called Telchines.

We do actually have evidence
of these beings.

They were an actual
ancient race

who had specific tasks
and trades,

like metallurgy,
like smithing, and so on,

and so you could see how it is
that a being like Telchines,

that these things could,
in fact, not just be

these mythological beings,
but, like, actual people.

So the way that we look at
the ancient Greeks and Romans

would have been the way

that they would have
looked at the stories

that are being told
about the Iliad.

TSOUKALOS: We've got
the stories of the Telchines,

and they were able
to survive underwater

for unlimited amounts of time.

Now, how is such
a thing possible

unless you have access
to some type of technology?

An Israeli company
is currently developing

a human artificial gill system
that allows humans

to take oxygen
from surrounding water

without the need
of oxygen tanks.

You potentially
can remain underwater

for unlimited amounts of time.

All the technology
that we are discovering today

is, in fact, old news.

It's been around before.

NARRATOR: Could
the ancient Greek myths

really be based
on actual events?

And if so, were the Telchines
early humans

in possession
of alien technology,

or could they themselves
have been other-worldly beings?

Perhaps the answer
can be found

by exploring the Middle Eastern
stories of shape shifters

known as the jinn.

Temple Mount,
Old City Jerusalem.

It was here that many Biblical
stories reportedly occurred,

including the binding of Isaac
from Genesis 22.

In this story, God asks Abraham
to sacrifice his son Isaac

on Mount Moriah.

Abraham sets out
to obey God's command.

But after binding his son
and preparing for the sacrifice,

he is stopped at the last
minute by an angel.

Conventional interpretations
of the story usually conclude

that God only wanted to test
Abraham's faith,

but ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the tale has
another interpretation.

In my opinion, God God would
never ask such a question.

So is it possible that it was

a fallen angel/
alien extraterrestrial

who posed as God?

RADER: God never demands
human sacrifice.

Human sacrifice is totally
anathema to Christianity,

and it's totally anathema
to God as a creator.

The French philosopher Sartre
very famously wrote,

"if an angel were to tell me
I needed to sacrifice my son,

I'd ask for some I.D."

COPPENS: Maybe somebody else
impersonating a god,

and do we then have
somebody stepping in

to actually prevent this
from happening?

Are we, in fact,
maybe confronted

with two warring civilizations
trying to control

what is happening
in the stories of the Bible?

Just like there are good people
and bad people here on Earth,

there's good and bad
extraterrestrials out there.

Good and evil permeates
the entire universe.

Yin and yang.
There's a balance.

NARRATOR: Deep inside the Middle
Eastern country of Oman,

a mysterious cavern lies hidden
far beneath the surface.

Called Majlis al Jinn,

or "meeting place of the jinn,"

it stretches more than
14 acres underground

and is one of the world's
10 largest caves.

Many Omanis still believe
this cavern and others like it

are actually inhabited
by supernatural creatures

of Islamic folklore
called jinn or genies,

mystical creatures that are
usually invisible to man.

YOUNG: One interesting aspect
of the jinns

is an element of free will.

They're like angels, but we
think of angels in the West

as under the direct command
of the divine powers.

But the jinn can make
some decisions for themselves,

and some of them are
a little contrary or curious

in their way of being.

NARRATOR: According
to Islamic theology,

genies often reveal themselves
to humans with messages,

which can be either
benevolent or deceptive.

But is it possible
that genies actually exist?

If so, where did they come from?

TSOUKALOS: When we talk about
genie, genie in a bottle,

it's very interesting
because you rub the bottle,

and then the genie
comes out of it

and then fulfills
your wishes.

Well, let's look at this
from a modern-day perspective.

If you have a little container,
and you push a button

and a hologram comes out,

then could that be
a genie in a bottle?

And according to the ancient
astronaut theory,

that is exactly what happened,

where extraterrestrials
used holograms

in order to relay messages.

That is essentially
a genie in a bottle.

NARRATOR: Like angels,
jinn are said to be able

to appear and disappear at will

and are sometimes only heard
as disembodied voices.

But while some ancient
astronaut theorists believe

this behavior resembles
that of extraterrestrials,

others claim that angels, jinn,
and other supernatural creatures

have origins
right here on Earth.

They call these beings
ultraterrestrial.

Ultraterrestrials
are possible beings

that travel and visit us
from other dimensions.

We know that we all vibrate
in the 3-dimensional space

at a certain frequency.

It's very possible
that other beings vibrate

at a higher frequency
and are able to pass

more easily
into other dimensions.

The ultraterrestrial theory
would also explain

the folkloric creatures,
the angelic creatures,

any sort of experience
of a strange, supernatural,

or alien being that's
occurred throughout history.

NARRATOR: Angels and demons...

giants and genies...

did they actually exist,

and if so, could they
have come here

from somewhere
out of this world?

But Why?

Were they sent here
to shape mankind's past

or its future?

Did they mean to do us
harm or good?

Perhaps even more importantly,
could they still be here,

living among us undetected?