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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:02,917 NARRATOR: Ancient structures built 2 00:00:03,083 --> 00:00:04,583 with enormous stone blocks. 3 00:00:05,917 --> 00:00:09,458 Solid granite cut with laser-like precision. 4 00:00:09,667 --> 00:00:15,208 And accounts of astounding technological capabilities. 5 00:00:17,167 --> 00:00:19,000 For nearly two decades, 6 00:00:19,208 --> 00:00:21,375 Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe 7 00:00:21,542 --> 00:00:24,125 exploring towering megalithic structures, 8 00:00:24,333 --> 00:00:27,083 mysterious artifacts, 9 00:00:27,292 --> 00:00:29,375 and stories of otherworldly beings 10 00:00:29,542 --> 00:00:31,667 in a quest for evidence 11 00:00:31,750 --> 00:00:36,500 that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial origins. 12 00:00:36,667 --> 00:00:38,542 A lot of these sites that we've featured, 13 00:00:38,708 --> 00:00:42,250 most people haven't even heard about beforehand. 14 00:00:42,417 --> 00:00:46,500 NARRATOR: Now, we take a look back through the Ancient Aliens archives 15 00:00:46,667 --> 00:00:49,542 to the show's very origins, 16 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:53,958 to examine the evidence that we are not alone. 17 00:00:54,042 --> 00:00:56,792 We have never been alone. 18 00:00:56,958 --> 00:00:59,083 โ™ช โ™ช 19 00:01:04,083 --> 00:01:06,500 How cool is it to be able to look back 20 00:01:06,667 --> 00:01:09,500 ten, 11, 15 years ago 21 00:01:09,708 --> 00:01:11,500 of Ancient Aliens? 22 00:01:11,708 --> 00:01:12,792 We know have 23 00:01:12,917 --> 00:01:14,875 about 300 hours 24 00:01:15,042 --> 00:01:16,542 worth of content. 25 00:01:16,708 --> 00:01:18,833 Yeah, it just goes to show you just how much evidence 26 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,083 there is for ancient astronaut theory. 27 00:01:21,250 --> 00:01:23,125 And what strikes me as I look back over the years 28 00:01:23,292 --> 00:01:26,500 is the number of fields that the evidence crosses through, 29 00:01:26,667 --> 00:01:30,000 from art, religion, archaeology, astronomy, 30 00:01:30,125 --> 00:01:31,792 -mythology... -JASON MARTELL: And engineering. 31 00:01:31,958 --> 00:01:33,375 I-I love that "wow" factor 32 00:01:33,542 --> 00:01:35,875 when we look at a lot of the sites like Sacsayhuamรกn, 33 00:01:36,042 --> 00:01:37,583 Gรถbekli Tepe, Baalbek, 34 00:01:37,708 --> 00:01:40,167 we have to wonder how they could stack 35 00:01:40,375 --> 00:01:42,083 hundred-ton stones perfectly. 36 00:01:42,250 --> 00:01:44,333 Yeah, and that is one of the reasons 37 00:01:44,542 --> 00:01:47,000 why ancient engineering was one of the first topics 38 00:01:47,167 --> 00:01:49,500 that we covered on Ancient Aliens. 39 00:01:49,667 --> 00:01:51,583 And starting with the Pyramids of Giza. 40 00:01:51,750 --> 00:01:54,667 Yeah. No, look, by now, it's clear that we've all aged 41 00:01:54,750 --> 00:01:56,083 -like fine wine. -(chuckles) 42 00:01:56,292 --> 00:01:58,458 But the great Pyramids of Giza have retained 43 00:01:58,542 --> 00:02:01,583 their magnificence for thousands of years. 44 00:02:01,750 --> 00:02:04,500 And it's all just as mystifying and exciting 45 00:02:04,667 --> 00:02:05,542 as it was at the time. 46 00:02:09,625 --> 00:02:11,875 NARRATOR: In today's largest construction sites 47 00:02:12,042 --> 00:02:13,208 and quarries, 48 00:02:13,375 --> 00:02:15,750 huge megamachines are used to dig, 49 00:02:15,917 --> 00:02:18,500 cut and lift stone. 50 00:02:18,708 --> 00:02:22,000 These man-made creatures dwarf their creators 51 00:02:22,083 --> 00:02:24,417 and perform the work of thousands of men 52 00:02:24,542 --> 00:02:27,250 using modern hydraulic technologies. 53 00:02:28,667 --> 00:02:30,167 Without such equipment, 54 00:02:30,375 --> 00:02:33,625 builders could never construct modern skyscrapers. 55 00:02:35,292 --> 00:02:37,417 Yet, thousands of years ago, 56 00:02:37,542 --> 00:02:40,417 ancient civilizations were accomplishing the same work 57 00:02:40,542 --> 00:02:42,792 while constructing their monuments and temples 58 00:02:42,958 --> 00:02:45,208 using massive stones. 59 00:02:46,917 --> 00:02:48,208 These enormous blocks-- 60 00:02:48,375 --> 00:02:50,792 many weighing in excess of 100 tons-- 61 00:02:50,958 --> 00:02:54,375 would be a challenge even for today's engineers. 62 00:02:55,292 --> 00:02:57,292 Yet, thousands of years ago, 63 00:02:57,458 --> 00:02:59,708 people cut them out of solid rock, 64 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:01,708 transported them for miles 65 00:03:01,875 --> 00:03:04,875 and then lifted them precisely into place. 66 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,500 But how? 67 00:03:08,875 --> 00:03:12,667 Did they cut these massive stone blocks with hammers, chisels, 68 00:03:12,792 --> 00:03:17,250 and copper wire, as mainstream archeologists suggest? 69 00:03:17,375 --> 00:03:19,417 Could they have lifted and transported them 70 00:03:19,583 --> 00:03:22,458 without a pulley system, or the wheel? 71 00:03:22,625 --> 00:03:26,458 Or did ancient civilizations possess advanced technologies 72 00:03:26,625 --> 00:03:29,292 that have since been lost to science? 73 00:03:35,708 --> 00:03:38,292 ROBERT BAUVAL: At Giza, you just don't have the pyramids. 74 00:03:38,458 --> 00:03:40,000 Linked to the pyramids are 75 00:03:40,167 --> 00:03:42,333 what Egyptologists call valley temples. 76 00:03:43,375 --> 00:03:44,542 It doesn't take a rocket engineer 77 00:03:44,708 --> 00:03:46,042 that when you go there, 78 00:03:46,208 --> 00:03:47,458 there's something not quite right here. 79 00:03:49,583 --> 00:03:51,750 Whereas the pyramids are built with blocks 80 00:03:51,875 --> 00:03:54,125 of two to three tons, 81 00:03:54,333 --> 00:03:55,500 these temples, 82 00:03:55,708 --> 00:03:57,292 which are minute compared to the pyramids, 83 00:03:57,417 --> 00:03:59,958 are built with blocks of 100 tons 84 00:04:00,083 --> 00:04:02,333 and some of them 200 tons. 85 00:04:03,333 --> 00:04:05,083 Let me tell you what a 100-ton block is. 86 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:06,792 If you take a 100 family cars 87 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,292 and you squeeze them together, you get one of these blocks. 88 00:04:09,458 --> 00:04:12,375 First of all-- let alone how they move these blocks-- 89 00:04:12,542 --> 00:04:15,875 is why would they want to use 100-ton blocks? 90 00:04:16,042 --> 00:04:17,458 It simply doesn't make sense. 91 00:04:17,625 --> 00:04:19,792 โ™ช โ™ช 92 00:04:19,958 --> 00:04:21,208 There's no reason for them 93 00:04:21,375 --> 00:04:25,000 to want to build out of granite blocks 94 00:04:25,208 --> 00:04:27,375 the size of a semitruck. 95 00:04:27,583 --> 00:04:29,667 It's like "Okay, let's do something, 96 00:04:29,833 --> 00:04:33,500 but let's do it as difficult as we could possibly do it." 97 00:04:33,667 --> 00:04:36,458 The reason why I am convinced 98 00:04:36,625 --> 00:04:40,000 that sophisticated technology was utilized 99 00:04:40,208 --> 00:04:43,333 in these ancient rocks is because 100 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,500 if we go to a stone quarry today 101 00:04:46,625 --> 00:04:51,000 and look at the scope of machinery required 102 00:04:51,208 --> 00:04:53,875 to accomplish similar things, 103 00:04:54,042 --> 00:04:56,625 those machines are huge. 104 00:04:59,875 --> 00:05:02,500 NARRATOR: Subscribers to ancient alien theory 105 00:05:02,625 --> 00:05:06,667 do not believe extraterrestrials built these amazing monuments 106 00:05:06,875 --> 00:05:10,333 but instead provided some type of technological know-how 107 00:05:10,542 --> 00:05:12,667 or tools to our ancestors. 108 00:05:14,042 --> 00:05:17,583 Engineering expert Chris Dunn has spent several decades 109 00:05:17,708 --> 00:05:19,792 researching the construction tools used 110 00:05:19,917 --> 00:05:21,833 by the ancient Egyptians. 111 00:05:21,958 --> 00:05:25,542 We're normally taught by Egyptologists 112 00:05:25,667 --> 00:05:28,792 that the ancient Egyptians had simple tools. 113 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,083 They went to work every day using stone balls, 114 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:34,875 copper chisels or copper tube 115 00:05:35,083 --> 00:05:37,792 and sand to-to grind holes in, 116 00:05:37,917 --> 00:05:41,750 in diorite and granite, extremely hard rock. 117 00:05:41,917 --> 00:05:45,208 From what I have actually gathered over the years, 118 00:05:45,375 --> 00:05:47,708 is information that seems to actually argue 119 00:05:47,875 --> 00:05:52,708 against that notion that they had simple tools. 120 00:05:55,042 --> 00:05:56,167 NARRATOR: In Egypt, Dunn was able 121 00:05:56,375 --> 00:05:59,083 to examine ancient sites firsthand. 122 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,417 What he found has proved 123 00:06:02,542 --> 00:06:06,000 to be both revolutionary and controversial. 124 00:06:07,625 --> 00:06:09,125 DUNN: If you look at the Giza Plateau 125 00:06:09,292 --> 00:06:10,583 and all the stones 126 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:14,125 that they actually placed in the Great Pyramid 127 00:06:14,292 --> 00:06:16,500 and Khafre's pyramid, Menkaure's pyramid, 128 00:06:16,667 --> 00:06:18,375 two and a half million blocks of stone 129 00:06:18,542 --> 00:06:20,333 in the Great Pyramid alone. 130 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:22,667 They had to have some efficient means 131 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:25,833 of cutting them to size and putting them into place. 132 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,208 They had to have had somebody on site 133 00:06:28,375 --> 00:06:30,750 who's saying, "Okay, I need a block this size." 134 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:34,417 And then getting a block to them that size. 135 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:37,375 Stat. Like, immediately. 136 00:06:40,167 --> 00:06:44,375 NARRATOR: While searching several miles north of Giza at Abu Rawash, 137 00:06:44,542 --> 00:06:47,875 Dunn stumbled upon a clue when he spotted a granite block 138 00:06:48,042 --> 00:06:49,917 containing a deep cut. 139 00:06:52,208 --> 00:06:54,958 DUNN: When I first saw it, I just didn't know what to make of it. 140 00:06:56,042 --> 00:06:57,208 And it was only after 141 00:06:57,375 --> 00:06:59,583 puzzling over it for days, 142 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:02,417 and sometimes waking up at 3:00 in the morning 143 00:07:02,583 --> 00:07:04,000 scratching my head and thinking, 144 00:07:04,167 --> 00:07:05,917 "Well, how did they make this cut?" 145 00:07:06,042 --> 00:07:09,833 And finally to realize that the only way 146 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,833 that they could have actually cut that thing was 147 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,042 with a saw that was 35 feet in diameter. 148 00:07:18,875 --> 00:07:22,458 The idea that ancient Egyptians used giant saws 149 00:07:22,625 --> 00:07:26,000 provoked much resistance from mainstream archeologists. 150 00:07:26,167 --> 00:07:28,500 Dunn, however, was convinced. 151 00:07:28,625 --> 00:07:31,500 As an ex-machinist, I look for tool marks. 152 00:07:31,667 --> 00:07:33,500 I look for them everywhere I go, 153 00:07:33,625 --> 00:07:35,833 and I could be accused of, "Well, you know, 154 00:07:36,042 --> 00:07:37,708 "if you're gonna look for something, 155 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:39,333 "you're probably gonna find it because you're looking at it 156 00:07:39,458 --> 00:07:41,417 through a certain filter." 157 00:07:41,583 --> 00:07:42,833 Accepted, I agree. 158 00:07:43,042 --> 00:07:46,083 But the question is, why is it there? 159 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:50,333 Clearly, to me, that is a machine mark. 160 00:07:50,542 --> 00:07:52,875 But there were no machines back then. 161 00:07:53,042 --> 00:07:54,708 So, what-what do I do? 162 00:07:54,875 --> 00:07:56,750 I just go looking for more machine marks 163 00:07:56,917 --> 00:07:58,542 and-and they're all over the place. 164 00:07:58,708 --> 00:08:00,708 โ™ช โ™ช 165 00:08:00,875 --> 00:08:02,500 You find them on statues, 166 00:08:02,708 --> 00:08:05,208 you'll find them, particularly, in the Luxor Museum. 167 00:08:06,458 --> 00:08:08,333 There seems to be an impression 168 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,458 on the side of Amon's buttock 169 00:08:11,625 --> 00:08:12,833 where it meets the bench... 170 00:08:13,875 --> 00:08:15,250 ...where there is an undercut. 171 00:08:15,375 --> 00:08:16,833 It was a slip of a tool. 172 00:08:17,042 --> 00:08:18,958 And, therefore, it must have been 173 00:08:19,167 --> 00:08:21,583 a tool that was quite efficient. 174 00:08:22,625 --> 00:08:24,000 NARRATOR: Dunn also believes 175 00:08:24,208 --> 00:08:26,792 that the large depressions in the ground at Giza 176 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,333 are not boat pits-- 177 00:08:28,458 --> 00:08:30,833 as is claimed by mainstream archeologists-- 178 00:08:31,042 --> 00:08:35,083 but were actually used to hold the 35-foot saws. 179 00:08:35,250 --> 00:08:37,958 I speculate that they were actually saw pits. 180 00:08:38,958 --> 00:08:41,667 The saws were mounted in these pits 181 00:08:41,833 --> 00:08:44,542 and that they ran the blocks through the saws 182 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:47,333 before they put them in the Great Pyramid. 183 00:08:48,375 --> 00:08:51,667 Another mystery involves how mega stones were lifted up 184 00:08:51,833 --> 00:08:54,500 and placed into a precise position. 185 00:08:55,542 --> 00:08:57,500 What you find in modern construction is 186 00:08:57,667 --> 00:08:59,292 that to build big buildings, 187 00:08:59,458 --> 00:09:00,667 you need to build big instruments, 188 00:09:00,833 --> 00:09:03,167 which help build these big buildings. 189 00:09:03,333 --> 00:09:04,500 And that is something 190 00:09:04,667 --> 00:09:07,583 which archaeology has never addressed. 191 00:09:07,750 --> 00:09:10,625 NARRATOR: The three largest man-made stones in the world 192 00:09:10,833 --> 00:09:14,583 are found at The Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek in Lebanon. 193 00:09:14,708 --> 00:09:17,875 Each weighs an estimated 1,000 tons 194 00:09:18,042 --> 00:09:20,125 or two million pounds. 195 00:09:21,042 --> 00:09:24,292 A nearby quarry contains an even bigger stone 196 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:27,625 known as the Stone of the Pregnant Woman. 197 00:09:27,750 --> 00:09:32,667 This giant rectangular block weighs an incredible 1,200 tons. 198 00:09:34,625 --> 00:09:36,292 To move it today would take the strength 199 00:09:36,458 --> 00:09:38,917 of 21 heavy lift cranes. 200 00:09:42,208 --> 00:09:45,000 PETER PALUTIKOF: Being in the construction industry, 201 00:09:45,208 --> 00:09:48,875 if a certain project is being constructed somewhere, 202 00:09:49,042 --> 00:09:52,458 particularly in mountainous areas, 203 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:56,000 how would we carry this machinery? 204 00:09:56,208 --> 00:09:58,083 These cranes and all that? 205 00:09:58,250 --> 00:10:01,292 They are so heavy that it is virtually impossible 206 00:10:01,458 --> 00:10:02,958 to take them to the site. 207 00:10:04,708 --> 00:10:07,625 ROGER HOPKINS: This stone came off of a, 208 00:10:07,792 --> 00:10:11,458 a project in Palm Springs, where they were... 209 00:10:11,625 --> 00:10:13,208 had one of the largest excavators 210 00:10:13,375 --> 00:10:14,708 they could rent. 211 00:10:15,708 --> 00:10:18,458 They had trouble loading it into the truck. 212 00:10:18,583 --> 00:10:20,667 It's well in excess of five tons, 213 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:22,875 ten thousand pounds. 214 00:10:23,833 --> 00:10:26,250 Small in megalithic terms, 215 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:28,042 but basically 216 00:10:28,208 --> 00:10:30,750 what we can handle with modern machinery. 217 00:10:32,417 --> 00:10:34,333 We're supposed to accept 218 00:10:34,542 --> 00:10:36,167 that the people who built the pyramids 219 00:10:36,333 --> 00:10:40,083 did not have the wheel, did not have the pulley, 220 00:10:40,250 --> 00:10:43,083 did not have iron, in fact, they had nothing. 221 00:10:43,250 --> 00:10:47,833 With brutal manpower and pieces of strings, 222 00:10:48,042 --> 00:10:51,750 the context does not fit the evidence. 223 00:10:55,042 --> 00:10:56,583 NARRATOR: Ancient man's method 224 00:10:56,750 --> 00:11:00,083 of moving large blocks is only one mystery. 225 00:11:00,250 --> 00:11:03,583 Another surrounds the techniques of their stonemasons. 226 00:11:03,750 --> 00:11:06,375 How did pre-historic civilizations 227 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:10,667 cut such intricately designed patterns in solid granite? 228 00:11:26,458 --> 00:11:29,958 NARRATOR: Master stonemason and sculptor Roger Hopkins 229 00:11:30,125 --> 00:11:35,000 uses a variety of advanced tools to cut and shape hard stones. 230 00:11:37,792 --> 00:11:40,792 Powered implements such as diamond-tipped wires 231 00:11:40,958 --> 00:11:44,292 and polishers enable him to fashion works of art 232 00:11:44,417 --> 00:11:48,375 out of huge granite blocks obtained from nearby quarries. 233 00:11:51,667 --> 00:11:54,333 Yet even with these high-tech tools, 234 00:11:54,542 --> 00:11:57,750 Hopkins cannot replicate what ancient civilizations 235 00:11:57,917 --> 00:12:00,333 accomplished thousands of years ago. 236 00:12:03,875 --> 00:12:05,792 Could these advanced engineering methods 237 00:12:05,958 --> 00:12:08,375 be the smoking gun that proves 238 00:12:08,542 --> 00:12:11,208 humans had help from alien beings? 239 00:12:13,583 --> 00:12:16,500 HOPKINS: The precision on some of the work that I have seen 240 00:12:16,667 --> 00:12:18,667 is just incredible. 241 00:12:18,792 --> 00:12:20,667 It's possible to do by hand, 242 00:12:20,792 --> 00:12:25,792 but it'd take an incredible amount of time. 243 00:12:25,958 --> 00:12:28,750 Plus, you have to have years of experience 244 00:12:28,917 --> 00:12:31,042 to be able to pull it off. 245 00:12:31,208 --> 00:12:33,625 TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, the most tangible pieces 246 00:12:33,792 --> 00:12:35,667 of evidence that we have 247 00:12:35,833 --> 00:12:39,000 regarding possible extraterrestrial technology 248 00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,375 is when we look at the ancient 249 00:12:42,542 --> 00:12:44,875 stonecutting techniques. 250 00:12:45,042 --> 00:12:47,875 Because, in some instances, 251 00:12:48,042 --> 00:12:51,667 we ourselves today could not replicate 252 00:12:51,833 --> 00:12:55,500 what our ancestors allegedly accomplished 253 00:12:55,667 --> 00:12:57,750 with stonemasonry. 254 00:13:05,083 --> 00:13:08,000 NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a large temple complex 255 00:13:08,208 --> 00:13:10,542 located on a high plateau in Bolivia. 256 00:13:13,208 --> 00:13:15,125 (sheep bleating) 257 00:13:16,167 --> 00:13:18,708 Mainstream archaeologists date the site 258 00:13:18,917 --> 00:13:21,333 from approximately 200 BC. 259 00:13:22,583 --> 00:13:25,667 The people who lived here had neither a written language 260 00:13:25,875 --> 00:13:28,167 nor the wheel, yet somehow 261 00:13:28,333 --> 00:13:31,167 they built one of the world's most complex structures. 262 00:13:35,417 --> 00:13:38,125 Ancient alien theorists view Puma Punku 263 00:13:38,292 --> 00:13:41,417 as clear proof of extraterrestrial influence. 264 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,042 TSOUKALOS: The ruins we find at Puma Punku are simply 265 00:13:48,250 --> 00:13:50,000 extraordinary. 266 00:13:50,167 --> 00:13:52,958 Puma Punku defies logic. 267 00:13:58,167 --> 00:14:01,250 COPPENS: The interest of Puma Punku is not so much 268 00:14:01,375 --> 00:14:03,500 that the individual stones sorted together perfectly, 269 00:14:03,667 --> 00:14:05,333 but the fact that the stones, 270 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:08,000 as such, are of such tremendous design 271 00:14:08,125 --> 00:14:10,542 that it requires concepts of mathematics 272 00:14:10,708 --> 00:14:13,750 which are far beyond anything we are actually using right now. 273 00:14:13,875 --> 00:14:15,250 Yet somehow, in the past, 274 00:14:15,458 --> 00:14:18,375 somebody has made that for a specific purpose. 275 00:14:18,542 --> 00:14:21,833 And in a way which even computer programs today 276 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,250 would kind of go, "How is this possible?" 277 00:14:33,042 --> 00:14:36,375 TSOUKALOS: In the highlands of Bolivia, Puma Punku, 278 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:41,667 some of these blocks are over 40 to 50 tons each. 279 00:14:41,833 --> 00:14:44,542 What can you tell us about this? 280 00:14:44,708 --> 00:14:46,500 HOPKINS: Boy, they, they had 281 00:14:46,667 --> 00:14:49,458 their, uh, stonecutting abilities, 282 00:14:49,667 --> 00:14:52,875 you know, pretty well fine-tuned for 5,000 years old. 283 00:14:53,042 --> 00:14:55,875 I mean, uh... it's almost unbelievable. 284 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,458 But the-- these cutting planes 285 00:14:58,625 --> 00:15:01,125 that they have on here are very impressive. 286 00:15:01,333 --> 00:15:04,125 And some of the incised cuts. 287 00:15:06,208 --> 00:15:07,833 See, like in-in here, 288 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,292 all these interior cuts? 289 00:15:09,458 --> 00:15:10,833 -Very hard to do. -TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm. 290 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:11,917 HOPKINS: I mean, it would be difficult 291 00:15:12,083 --> 00:15:13,792 for us with the-- our equipment 292 00:15:13,958 --> 00:15:15,667 to get that kind of precision. 293 00:15:20,375 --> 00:15:22,583 TSOUKALOS: Let's talk a little bit about 294 00:15:22,708 --> 00:15:24,208 -inside boxes. -Ooh. 295 00:15:24,333 --> 00:15:26,583 I was afraid you were gonna pull something like this on me. 296 00:15:27,875 --> 00:15:29,542 That is a hell of a piece of work. 297 00:15:31,250 --> 00:15:34,792 I mean, if we were to do something like that today, 298 00:15:34,958 --> 00:15:36,083 we'd use what they have-- 299 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:38,167 these, uh, computer-driven 300 00:15:38,333 --> 00:15:42,292 CNC machines which are-- have diamond tips and, 301 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:46,375 uh, you have a template that, you know, the computer follows. 302 00:15:46,542 --> 00:15:49,458 And even then, it may not come out as perfect. 303 00:15:50,792 --> 00:15:53,000 Because even though you can tell that, obviously, 304 00:15:53,208 --> 00:15:54,375 this piece broke off... 305 00:15:54,542 --> 00:15:56,167 -HOPKINS: Mm-hmm. -...nowhere in here 306 00:15:56,333 --> 00:15:58,000 can you see any imperfection. 307 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:01,292 It's like-- and by the way, when you're there, 308 00:16:01,417 --> 00:16:04,000 if you go with your finger over these edges, 309 00:16:04,167 --> 00:16:06,875 and you put a little pressure on your fingertip, 310 00:16:07,042 --> 00:16:08,500 you can cut yourself. 311 00:16:08,667 --> 00:16:11,333 This is how sharp the edges are. 312 00:16:15,958 --> 00:16:17,667 NARRATOR: But where could the ancient peoples 313 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:20,042 have developed such technology? 314 00:16:20,208 --> 00:16:23,625 Is it really possible that extraterrestrial visitors 315 00:16:23,792 --> 00:16:27,667 provided different construction methods and tools? 316 00:16:27,833 --> 00:16:30,333 When I saw these blocks, 317 00:16:30,458 --> 00:16:33,125 I didn't really think that they were cut. 318 00:16:34,583 --> 00:16:38,125 The first thing really that I thought of was 319 00:16:38,292 --> 00:16:41,125 this appears very similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's 320 00:16:41,250 --> 00:16:43,417 textile block system of construction, 321 00:16:43,583 --> 00:16:46,167 which he used in his California houses 322 00:16:46,292 --> 00:16:48,542 in the early 1920s. 323 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,167 Now, what he did was 324 00:16:52,375 --> 00:16:56,000 he took concrete, poured it into molds. 325 00:16:57,125 --> 00:17:01,417 There actually are ancient Incan legends 326 00:17:01,583 --> 00:17:05,542 that suggest that they had the capability 327 00:17:05,708 --> 00:17:08,125 of softening the stone. 328 00:17:08,250 --> 00:17:11,458 At Sacsayhuamรกn, for example, 329 00:17:11,625 --> 00:17:14,167 we find these gigantic stone blocks, 330 00:17:14,333 --> 00:17:16,333 gigantic stone walls, 331 00:17:16,542 --> 00:17:20,583 where it looks as if those stones were molten, 332 00:17:20,708 --> 00:17:22,750 put into place, 333 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:25,250 and then the stone hardened again. 334 00:17:32,208 --> 00:17:35,000 NARRATOR: Several hundred miles north of Puma Punku, 335 00:17:35,167 --> 00:17:38,458 Machu Picchu sits high atop the Peruvian Andes. 336 00:17:40,333 --> 00:17:42,375 Built by the Incas in the 15th century, 337 00:17:42,542 --> 00:17:44,333 this stone citadel 338 00:17:44,542 --> 00:17:47,708 was suddenly abandoned about 100 years later. 339 00:17:49,417 --> 00:17:52,500 Like Puma Punku, Machu Picchu also has signs 340 00:17:52,708 --> 00:17:54,750 of advanced engineering 341 00:17:54,917 --> 00:17:58,125 and possibly molded stones. 342 00:18:00,792 --> 00:18:03,417 DUNN: I can't help but think that whoever was behind this, 343 00:18:03,542 --> 00:18:06,417 thought the process through from beginning to end. 344 00:18:06,583 --> 00:18:08,500 They didn't quarry the rock and then decide, 345 00:18:08,625 --> 00:18:10,375 "How the heck are we gonna transport this?" 346 00:18:11,417 --> 00:18:15,833 They knew, from beginning to end, what needed to be done 347 00:18:16,042 --> 00:18:18,000 with whatever techniques and technology 348 00:18:18,125 --> 00:18:19,375 they were going to use. 349 00:18:19,583 --> 00:18:21,750 So that this was no big deal. 350 00:18:23,542 --> 00:18:26,208 In industry today, there's a... kind of an adage: 351 00:18:26,375 --> 00:18:28,750 "Keep it simple, stupid." 352 00:18:29,958 --> 00:18:31,375 NARRATOR: Based on his experience, 353 00:18:31,542 --> 00:18:33,417 Mike Dunn believes the simplest way 354 00:18:33,583 --> 00:18:36,458 to build the great walls of Machu Picchu would have been 355 00:18:36,583 --> 00:18:39,083 to transport small rocks to the site, 356 00:18:39,292 --> 00:18:41,667 then melt them and use molds to fashion 357 00:18:41,875 --> 00:18:44,333 the exact size and shape needed. 358 00:18:45,583 --> 00:18:48,167 MICHAEL DUNN: That would solve a lot 359 00:18:48,333 --> 00:18:51,333 of difficulties of constructing this wall first. 360 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:55,000 You have your shapes, all the same size. 361 00:18:55,208 --> 00:18:56,708 Each shape. 362 00:18:56,875 --> 00:19:00,958 So you're guaranteed that they would fit together, 363 00:19:01,083 --> 00:19:04,917 as opposed to being cut by different artisans. 364 00:19:06,208 --> 00:19:08,333 HOPKINS: Melting the rocks, and then pouring them 365 00:19:08,542 --> 00:19:12,250 into place would take an incredible amount of heat 366 00:19:12,458 --> 00:19:15,833 just to spall off pieces of stone. 367 00:19:16,958 --> 00:19:19,250 I have a-a stone torch, 368 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:22,417 which I use for sometimes shaping granite. 369 00:19:22,542 --> 00:19:26,250 And, I mean, it generates a temperature of-- 370 00:19:26,375 --> 00:19:29,708 in excess of 3,000 degrees. 371 00:19:30,708 --> 00:19:32,042 3,000 degrees. 372 00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:33,500 That's a lot. 373 00:19:36,208 --> 00:19:38,333 MICHAEL DUNN: When we look back at the ancients, 374 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:42,667 and we see a technology that they couldn't possibly know... 375 00:19:43,958 --> 00:19:45,208 ...there's only two possibilities: 376 00:19:45,375 --> 00:19:47,500 that either God did it, 377 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:50,000 which we really don't think happened, 378 00:19:50,167 --> 00:19:53,833 or some high-tech civilization 379 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,500 from another planet came and showed them how to do it. 380 00:19:57,667 --> 00:20:00,917 Then took their materials and tools and went back home. 381 00:20:03,042 --> 00:20:05,333 The idea behind that is that 382 00:20:05,458 --> 00:20:07,667 none of these ancient monuments were constructed 383 00:20:07,833 --> 00:20:10,458 or manufactured by extraterrestrials. 384 00:20:10,583 --> 00:20:13,583 It was us, humans, who built it 385 00:20:13,708 --> 00:20:16,292 with extraterrestrial technology. 386 00:20:17,750 --> 00:20:21,125 HOPKINS: It's entirely possible that there were visitations. 387 00:20:21,250 --> 00:20:24,167 That they pointed out ways to do things, 388 00:20:24,292 --> 00:20:26,625 and that they wanted to leave some kind of a record. 389 00:20:26,792 --> 00:20:30,000 And, I mean, if you're gonna leave a permanent record, 390 00:20:30,167 --> 00:20:32,583 the only way you can do that is in stone. 391 00:20:39,625 --> 00:20:40,333 There must have been thousands of ancient structures 392 00:20:40,417 --> 00:20:41,833 made of mud and wood 393 00:20:41,958 --> 00:20:43,583 that we'll never know existed. 394 00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:46,375 But when you build with stone, that's for the ages. 395 00:20:46,542 --> 00:20:48,417 -Mm-hmm. -And stone is much harder 396 00:20:48,583 --> 00:20:50,167 to work with and build structures, 397 00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:51,500 especially megalithic stones. 398 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:53,417 HENRY: Right, and these massive 399 00:20:53,542 --> 00:20:56,125 stones were transported, in many cases, 400 00:20:56,292 --> 00:20:58,125 from miles and miles away. 401 00:20:58,292 --> 00:20:59,792 Yeah, and that is one of the smoking guns 402 00:20:59,958 --> 00:21:03,083 of the ancient astronaut theory: transportation, 403 00:21:03,208 --> 00:21:05,583 and also the stonework. 404 00:21:05,792 --> 00:21:08,208 I mean some of, the stonework is so perfect 405 00:21:08,375 --> 00:21:10,167 you can't even put a dollar bill 406 00:21:10,375 --> 00:21:11,792 in between the fittings. 407 00:21:13,333 --> 00:21:14,750 NARRATOR: Peru, 408 00:21:14,875 --> 00:21:16,917 home of the world's longest mountain range, 409 00:21:17,042 --> 00:21:18,833 the Andes, 410 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,542 the spine of South America. 411 00:21:22,583 --> 00:21:24,542 Here, in a high river valley, 412 00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:28,250 among peaks towering over 20,000 feet, 413 00:21:28,417 --> 00:21:30,458 the Inca established 414 00:21:30,583 --> 00:21:33,250 their capital city of Cuzco, 415 00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:37,708 which thrived for over 300 years... 416 00:21:38,708 --> 00:21:40,375 ...until Spanish conquistadors 417 00:21:40,542 --> 00:21:43,292 arrived in the 16th century. 418 00:21:44,917 --> 00:21:47,375 Above Cuzco, at an elevation 419 00:21:47,583 --> 00:21:50,250 of more than 12,000 feet, 420 00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:54,292 looms the ancient fortress of Sacsayhuamรกn, 421 00:21:54,458 --> 00:21:56,625 whose immense stone walls 422 00:21:56,792 --> 00:22:00,292 may hold secrets which pre-date the Inca themselves. 423 00:22:02,417 --> 00:22:04,083 GRAHAM HANCOCK: My feeling, very strong feeling, 424 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:05,458 is that we're looking at 425 00:22:05,625 --> 00:22:07,667 a two-phase, uh, construction site 426 00:22:07,875 --> 00:22:10,958 in many of the so-called, uh, Inca stone monuments. 427 00:22:12,208 --> 00:22:13,917 And that the Inca structures 428 00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:15,833 sit on top of much more ancient 429 00:22:16,042 --> 00:22:18,167 rock-cut structures and megalithic structures 430 00:22:18,333 --> 00:22:20,667 that we just don't know who built them. 431 00:22:20,833 --> 00:22:23,875 And this actually fits with the Inca's own view. 432 00:22:26,292 --> 00:22:30,167 NARRATOR: Like many Inca sites, Sacsayhuamรกn features 433 00:22:30,333 --> 00:22:32,750 astonishing stonework, 434 00:22:32,917 --> 00:22:35,750 but not all of it credited to the Inca. 435 00:22:37,750 --> 00:22:40,500 According to conventional archaeology, 436 00:22:40,667 --> 00:22:44,417 the Killke culture built the older sections of the site 437 00:22:44,583 --> 00:22:47,583 approximately 1,000 years ago. 438 00:22:47,708 --> 00:22:49,333 But the Inca themselves 439 00:22:49,542 --> 00:22:51,167 believed the site was constructed 440 00:22:51,375 --> 00:22:53,875 by an earlier, unnamed race of people 441 00:22:54,042 --> 00:22:56,458 led by a powerful god 442 00:22:56,625 --> 00:22:59,375 who descended from the skies. 443 00:23:00,833 --> 00:23:02,542 MARTELL: Throughout time, there has been witness 444 00:23:02,708 --> 00:23:04,792 to a god named Viracocha 445 00:23:04,958 --> 00:23:06,708 that visited the South American people, 446 00:23:06,917 --> 00:23:10,250 and blessed them and gave them all types of technology. 447 00:23:10,375 --> 00:23:12,875 And some of his physical characteristics 448 00:23:13,042 --> 00:23:15,583 make him stand out from the indigenous population 449 00:23:15,708 --> 00:23:17,542 because he was a very tall, 450 00:23:17,708 --> 00:23:19,792 pale-skinned, white-haired being. 451 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 But did this god Viracocha actually exist? 452 00:23:25,125 --> 00:23:28,417 Could he have been, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, 453 00:23:28,583 --> 00:23:31,750 a visitor from an alien world? 454 00:23:33,250 --> 00:23:36,208 If so, it might help to explain 455 00:23:36,375 --> 00:23:39,542 just how the ancient site was constructed. 456 00:23:41,208 --> 00:23:43,708 This rock weighs about 20 tons. 457 00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:46,083 This is miniscule compared to many of the rocks 458 00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:47,750 at Sacsayhuamรกn. 459 00:23:47,917 --> 00:23:51,417 Today, we have heavy machinery to move such stones, 460 00:23:51,583 --> 00:23:54,667 but in the ancient times, especially the Inca, 461 00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:57,875 they would've used massive human work forces 462 00:23:58,042 --> 00:23:59,958 working for massive amounts of time. 463 00:24:01,083 --> 00:24:04,167 A rule of thumb is it takes about ten to 20 men 464 00:24:04,375 --> 00:24:07,167 to move a one-ton rock. 465 00:24:07,375 --> 00:24:08,750 So when you're talking hundreds of tons, 466 00:24:08,917 --> 00:24:11,792 you're talking thousands of men. 467 00:24:14,542 --> 00:24:18,417 CHILDRESS: What we see is a culture 468 00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:20,250 who have got the technology 469 00:24:20,417 --> 00:24:23,667 to quarry giant blocks of stone, 470 00:24:23,833 --> 00:24:28,375 move them to, uh, the site where they want to build, 471 00:24:28,542 --> 00:24:31,875 and then, to stack and cut 472 00:24:32,042 --> 00:24:34,917 and articulate these massive blocks 473 00:24:35,042 --> 00:24:39,125 into, in some cases, almost indestructible structure. 474 00:24:41,042 --> 00:24:42,917 Talk about granite, you're talking about 475 00:24:43,083 --> 00:24:47,667 a composition of feldspar, mica and quartz, 476 00:24:47,875 --> 00:24:51,792 so you'd need diamond to actually abrade it or cut it. 477 00:24:51,958 --> 00:24:54,833 We would use diamond today to cut granite. 478 00:24:55,042 --> 00:24:58,625 Those are the kind of discoveries that lead one 479 00:24:58,792 --> 00:25:02,250 to question whether they were really 480 00:25:02,417 --> 00:25:05,500 using the tools in the ancient toolbox, 481 00:25:05,583 --> 00:25:08,250 or whether there was something else at work. 482 00:25:12,625 --> 00:25:16,542 NARRATOR: Shaman Jorge Delgado has spent most of his life 483 00:25:16,750 --> 00:25:20,583 studying the mysterious structures of Peru, 484 00:25:20,792 --> 00:25:24,167 many built prior to the rise of the Inca Empire. 485 00:25:27,417 --> 00:25:30,208 JORGE DELGADO: It's amazing, all the weight of the stones. 486 00:25:30,375 --> 00:25:32,833 You know? It's, uh, difficult, 487 00:25:33,042 --> 00:25:36,208 definitely, for any human to move, even in groups. 488 00:25:36,375 --> 00:25:40,333 And the other aspect is the-- how it's put together. 489 00:25:40,542 --> 00:25:43,417 In some stones, we will see, still now, 490 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:46,917 there is, like, some marks that it seems that it was dissolved. 491 00:25:49,167 --> 00:25:53,250 HANCOCK: The walls are put together with blocks of stone 492 00:25:53,375 --> 00:25:55,000 weighing 50 or 100 tons, 493 00:25:55,208 --> 00:25:58,833 cut and shaped like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, 494 00:25:59,042 --> 00:26:01,000 so that they lock together so tightly 495 00:26:01,125 --> 00:26:04,458 that you can't even get a sheet of paper between them. 496 00:26:04,667 --> 00:26:07,042 There are signs in many of these stones 497 00:26:07,208 --> 00:26:10,333 that show very large amounts of thermal heat 498 00:26:10,542 --> 00:26:13,000 have been applied to mold the stones 499 00:26:13,167 --> 00:26:14,958 in such a way that they fit perfectly. 500 00:26:15,125 --> 00:26:17,833 And so, it really does raise a lot of questions. 501 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,333 TSOUKALOS: If you look at the style 502 00:26:20,542 --> 00:26:22,667 the Sacsayhuamรกn wall was built, 503 00:26:22,833 --> 00:26:26,958 the blocks look as if they've been molded like putty. 504 00:26:28,375 --> 00:26:30,125 If you can mold stone into place, 505 00:26:30,292 --> 00:26:31,542 then all of a sudden, 506 00:26:31,708 --> 00:26:33,500 as crazy as this sounds, 507 00:26:33,667 --> 00:26:36,542 it makes more sense because 508 00:26:36,708 --> 00:26:40,125 there is no mortar that has been used. 509 00:26:42,750 --> 00:26:45,000 NARRATOR: According to local legend, 510 00:26:45,125 --> 00:26:49,333 a bird was responsible for the seamless construction. 511 00:26:49,542 --> 00:26:51,583 Legends say the winged creature 512 00:26:51,708 --> 00:26:54,333 carried a powerful chemical in its beak, 513 00:26:54,542 --> 00:26:57,750 a substance capable of melting stone. 514 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,167 DELGADO: Sacsayhuamรกn means, 515 00:27:01,375 --> 00:27:04,167 the head of the falcon. 516 00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:05,667 "Falcon's head." 517 00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:08,625 But, maybe was some falcons, 518 00:27:08,792 --> 00:27:10,958 or maybe some bird people, 519 00:27:11,083 --> 00:27:13,750 who could connect with the place. 520 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,625 NARRATOR: But is it possible, 521 00:27:16,792 --> 00:27:19,292 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, 522 00:27:19,458 --> 00:27:20,917 that the mythical bird 523 00:27:21,083 --> 00:27:23,708 might actually have been a spacecraft, 524 00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:26,042 piloted by alien visitors 525 00:27:26,208 --> 00:27:28,917 known to the locals as "space brothers"? 526 00:27:30,750 --> 00:27:33,792 DELGADO: I believe that it's a combination 527 00:27:33,958 --> 00:27:36,417 of the space brothers' technology 528 00:27:36,583 --> 00:27:39,500 with other kind of possibilities. 529 00:27:39,708 --> 00:27:42,833 Nowadays, we know different kind of tools. 530 00:27:43,042 --> 00:27:45,500 We didn't had before, these kind of tools. 531 00:27:45,667 --> 00:27:47,833 Or maybe we had more sophisticated. 532 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,333 So, the thing is that this place, Sacsayhuamรกn, 533 00:27:51,542 --> 00:27:54,208 it continues as a mystery. 534 00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:57,667 MARTELL: So, looking at all of these sites 535 00:27:57,792 --> 00:27:59,625 with these perfectly stacked stones, 536 00:27:59,792 --> 00:28:01,708 we're looking at a type of technology that's not used 537 00:28:01,875 --> 00:28:04,333 anywhere else on Earth. 538 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:06,333 I don't discount human ingenuity, 539 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,000 but that type of engineering, 540 00:28:08,167 --> 00:28:10,000 that we still can't duplicate today, 541 00:28:10,167 --> 00:28:13,375 must raise a flag for further consideration. 542 00:28:13,583 --> 00:28:16,125 It's almost extraterrestrial in a sense. 543 00:28:16,333 --> 00:28:18,708 Someone had to have taught them these techniques. 544 00:28:20,917 --> 00:28:23,375 NARRATOR: But whether the process of forming the large 545 00:28:23,542 --> 00:28:27,333 megalithic stones involved the use of thermal energy, 546 00:28:27,458 --> 00:28:29,208 or a mysterious chemical, 547 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:31,208 one thing is certain. 548 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,375 The ancient builders used the technique on a vast scale. 549 00:28:37,542 --> 00:28:39,042 But why? 550 00:28:39,208 --> 00:28:41,875 What was the intended purpose of creating 551 00:28:42,042 --> 00:28:45,083 such intricately-built stone structures? 552 00:28:48,167 --> 00:28:49,750 MARTELL: So, we can't really give an answer as to 553 00:28:49,917 --> 00:28:51,958 what they were being used for other than 554 00:28:52,083 --> 00:28:53,750 we know that the extraterrestrials, 555 00:28:53,917 --> 00:28:54,875 more than likely, are the source 556 00:28:55,042 --> 00:28:56,667 of what they call "gods." 557 00:28:56,833 --> 00:28:58,125 How did they get here? 558 00:28:58,250 --> 00:28:59,833 More than likely, in some type of craft. 559 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,833 And very possibly, they could've been 560 00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:05,333 using these large megaliths as platforms to land on. 561 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,333 NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamรกn was, in fact, 562 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,500 constructed by alien visitors, 563 00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:13,833 might there be additional evidence 564 00:29:14,042 --> 00:29:15,542 of their time on Earth 565 00:29:15,708 --> 00:29:18,417 at other ancient sites around the world? 566 00:29:19,750 --> 00:29:22,167 Perhaps there is. 567 00:29:28,125 --> 00:29:29,125 When we talk about megalithic sites in Peru, 568 00:29:29,250 --> 00:29:31,000 we really have to include Puma Punku 569 00:29:31,125 --> 00:29:33,292 just to the south in Bolivia. 570 00:29:33,458 --> 00:29:37,333 Yeah, and as any fan of Ancient Aliens knows by now, 571 00:29:37,458 --> 00:29:39,667 Puma Punku is, by far, 572 00:29:39,833 --> 00:29:42,000 my most favorite place in order to illustrate 573 00:29:42,167 --> 00:29:45,500 the ancient astronaut theory because 574 00:29:45,667 --> 00:29:49,500 Puma Punku is unparalleled on Earth. 575 00:29:49,667 --> 00:29:53,792 There is no other place like Puma Punku. 576 00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:55,875 I remember, in 2013, we did an episode 577 00:29:56,083 --> 00:29:57,750 where we sent David Childress there... 578 00:29:57,875 --> 00:29:59,708 -Yes. -HENRY: Yeah. -...on location, 579 00:29:59,875 --> 00:30:01,667 and he's, you know, examining the blocks, 580 00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:03,167 and it's interesting to see how those blocks 581 00:30:03,375 --> 00:30:06,375 fit together so perfectly in the past, 582 00:30:06,542 --> 00:30:08,875 but today, the blocks are scattered 583 00:30:09,042 --> 00:30:10,375 -all over that location. -That's right. 584 00:30:10,542 --> 00:30:12,500 Yeah, but even in ruins, 585 00:30:12,708 --> 00:30:15,333 it is clear that that place 586 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,958 was an incredible ancient piece 587 00:30:19,125 --> 00:30:21,333 of magnificent engineering. 588 00:30:24,875 --> 00:30:26,958 NARRATOR: Bolivia, South America. 589 00:30:28,125 --> 00:30:31,625 Here, 45 miles west of La Paz, 590 00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:34,458 isolated high in the Andes Mountains, 591 00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:38,208 lie the mysterious ancient ruins of Puma Punku. 592 00:30:41,125 --> 00:30:43,042 Spread across a desert plateau 593 00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:46,583 at an altitude over 12,000 feet, 594 00:30:46,792 --> 00:30:48,625 the megalithic stones found here 595 00:30:48,833 --> 00:30:51,125 are among the largest on the planet... 596 00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:55,250 ...measuring up to 26 feet long 597 00:30:55,417 --> 00:30:58,625 and weighing more than 100 tons each. 598 00:31:00,167 --> 00:31:04,417 These are the mysterious ruins of Puma Punku, 599 00:31:04,583 --> 00:31:06,750 nearly 13,000 feet 600 00:31:06,917 --> 00:31:09,875 in the Altiplano of Bolivia. 601 00:31:12,375 --> 00:31:13,625 What you have here 602 00:31:13,792 --> 00:31:17,375 are massive blocks of granite 603 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:21,167 scattered like some kid's toy blocks 604 00:31:21,333 --> 00:31:23,083 around the site. 605 00:31:25,542 --> 00:31:28,458 It's like some giant cataclysm 606 00:31:28,583 --> 00:31:32,292 just wiped out this entire area. 607 00:31:33,708 --> 00:31:39,583 Archaeologists are baffled by what Puma Punku was, 608 00:31:39,708 --> 00:31:42,667 how it looked and what the purpose 609 00:31:42,875 --> 00:31:45,625 of this enormous structure would have been. 610 00:31:49,042 --> 00:31:51,292 NARRATOR: Mainstream scientists believe 611 00:31:51,417 --> 00:31:53,458 the site was originally constructed 612 00:31:53,625 --> 00:31:56,375 about 2,000 years ago. 613 00:31:56,542 --> 00:31:58,208 But in 1945, 614 00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:02,167 archaeologist Arthur Posnansky proposed 615 00:32:02,333 --> 00:32:05,792 that Puma Punku was much, much older. 616 00:32:06,833 --> 00:32:10,208 By examining the structures and what he believed were 617 00:32:10,333 --> 00:32:12,625 their original alignment with the stars, 618 00:32:12,833 --> 00:32:16,208 he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC. 619 00:32:18,375 --> 00:32:20,875 HUGH NEWMAN: Arthur Posnansky was a researcher. 620 00:32:21,042 --> 00:32:22,208 He was part Bolivian, 621 00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:24,500 and he worked at the site for many decades 622 00:32:24,667 --> 00:32:26,583 and he concluded that the site must've been built 623 00:32:26,708 --> 00:32:28,333 about 17,000 years ago 624 00:32:28,458 --> 00:32:31,458 by studying the archeoastronomy of that particular site. 625 00:32:33,042 --> 00:32:35,375 COPPENS: We don't know how old Puma Punku is. 626 00:32:35,542 --> 00:32:38,167 We have had some circumstantial dating, 627 00:32:38,292 --> 00:32:39,500 but we have been unable 628 00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:42,458 to date the stones of Puma Punku themselves. 629 00:32:42,542 --> 00:32:44,042 They could be thousands, 630 00:32:44,208 --> 00:32:45,667 if not hundreds of thousands of years old. 631 00:32:45,833 --> 00:32:47,042 We don't know. 632 00:32:48,708 --> 00:32:51,167 GEORGE NOORY: I think the fascinating thing 633 00:32:51,292 --> 00:32:56,500 about Puma Punku is how did these structures get built? 634 00:32:56,708 --> 00:33:01,958 We're talking about stone that is 25 feet high. 635 00:33:02,917 --> 00:33:06,167 Stone that is hundreds of tons. 636 00:33:08,208 --> 00:33:10,042 FOERSTER: Puma Punku is so unique 637 00:33:10,250 --> 00:33:12,042 in the way that it was constructed 638 00:33:12,250 --> 00:33:14,125 and shaped and positioned 639 00:33:14,333 --> 00:33:18,500 that it is the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. 640 00:33:19,917 --> 00:33:22,750 Of all the places I've ever visited, 641 00:33:22,917 --> 00:33:25,500 Puma Punku is the one that I go back to 642 00:33:25,708 --> 00:33:27,000 time and again 643 00:33:27,208 --> 00:33:30,083 because no one can solve the mystery. 644 00:33:34,458 --> 00:33:36,417 NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars believe 645 00:33:36,542 --> 00:33:39,708 the andesite blocks found at Puma Punku 646 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:44,042 were formed by hand with primitive stone tools. 647 00:33:44,208 --> 00:33:47,458 But some researchers point to the intricate stonework 648 00:33:47,625 --> 00:33:51,708 as evidence of the use of advanced precision technology. 649 00:33:54,125 --> 00:33:57,625 One of the amazing things here at Puma Punku is 650 00:33:57,750 --> 00:34:00,333 the precision of the blocks. 651 00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:03,042 You can see with this block of granite 652 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:04,625 that it's really been cut 653 00:34:04,792 --> 00:34:08,667 at very accurate right angles. 654 00:34:10,292 --> 00:34:12,625 Not only do these granite blocks have 655 00:34:12,792 --> 00:34:14,417 precision corners 656 00:34:14,583 --> 00:34:18,833 but they also have these difficult drill holes 657 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,667 that are going right through the rock. 658 00:34:22,708 --> 00:34:24,667 โ™ช โ™ช 659 00:34:25,708 --> 00:34:28,000 NARRATOR: But how could such primitive people, 660 00:34:28,125 --> 00:34:31,958 living perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, 661 00:34:32,042 --> 00:34:35,083 have produced such flawless stonework? 662 00:34:36,583 --> 00:34:40,083 Might the ancient builders of Puma Punku have fabricated 663 00:34:40,292 --> 00:34:43,917 the megalithic stones with advanced technology, 664 00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:47,292 technology of an otherworldly origin, 665 00:34:47,458 --> 00:34:50,208 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 666 00:34:51,083 --> 00:34:53,208 If you look at the stones carefully 667 00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:55,083 and you get a magnifying glass on some of them, 668 00:34:55,208 --> 00:34:57,333 you can see some intricate stonework, 669 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,750 as though they're using machine tools 670 00:35:00,917 --> 00:35:02,042 or even lasers. 671 00:35:02,167 --> 00:35:03,500 It's absolutely incredible. 672 00:35:03,708 --> 00:35:05,667 I've seen nothing like it anywhere on the planet. 673 00:35:06,708 --> 00:35:11,083 When an architect or an engineer looks at Puma Punku, 674 00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:14,208 one thing jumps out immediately... 675 00:35:14,417 --> 00:35:17,875 that whoever built this place 676 00:35:18,042 --> 00:35:21,958 had knowledge of planning, of logistics, 677 00:35:22,083 --> 00:35:25,250 and had access to advanced technology. 678 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,667 You know, Brien, this is one of the most interesting 679 00:35:30,833 --> 00:35:32,667 and unusual stones 680 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,417 here at Puma Punku. 681 00:35:34,583 --> 00:35:36,875 It's got these perfect right angles. 682 00:35:38,375 --> 00:35:41,000 And then, each of these small drill holes are 683 00:35:41,208 --> 00:35:46,792 basically evenly spaced along this routed groove. 684 00:35:48,625 --> 00:35:52,167 To me, it's clear that power tools have been used 685 00:35:52,292 --> 00:35:54,667 on this unusual block of stone here. 686 00:35:54,833 --> 00:35:57,833 Well, exactly. And this surface is as smooth as a tabletop, 687 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,125 like in your kitchen. 688 00:35:59,333 --> 00:36:01,083 There's no wave to it or anything. 689 00:36:01,292 --> 00:36:03,000 It's-- This was machined. 690 00:36:03,208 --> 00:36:05,375 But who machined it? 691 00:36:05,542 --> 00:36:07,708 It's an astonishing piece of work. 692 00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:09,417 And how anyone could think 693 00:36:09,542 --> 00:36:12,167 that primitive human beings could have done this, 694 00:36:12,375 --> 00:36:13,542 you know, it's just crazy. 695 00:36:13,708 --> 00:36:15,542 If anything looks like ancient aliens, 696 00:36:15,708 --> 00:36:16,917 it's this stone. 697 00:36:19,667 --> 00:36:24,167 NARRATOR: But if otherworldly technology was used at Puma Punku, 698 00:36:24,333 --> 00:36:26,708 where is the proof? 699 00:36:27,833 --> 00:36:29,292 In Danville, Illinois, 700 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,000 machinist and toolmaker Chris Dunn 701 00:36:32,167 --> 00:36:34,125 has put the Puma Punku stone 702 00:36:34,292 --> 00:36:36,167 through the ultimate cutting test, 703 00:36:36,333 --> 00:36:38,292 using both laser technology 704 00:36:38,458 --> 00:36:41,208 and a modern diamond saw. 705 00:36:43,375 --> 00:36:45,542 We've got a sample of the laser cut. 706 00:36:47,250 --> 00:36:50,208 This is the diamond wheel cut. 707 00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:54,167 And the top surface is the original cut surface 708 00:36:54,333 --> 00:36:55,875 from Puma Punku. 709 00:36:56,083 --> 00:36:57,833 So now we can compare the difference 710 00:36:58,042 --> 00:36:59,625 between all three cuts. 711 00:37:01,042 --> 00:37:03,333 NARRATOR: Looking at the stone under a microscope, 712 00:37:03,542 --> 00:37:06,208 Dunn compares the two modern cutting techniques 713 00:37:06,375 --> 00:37:09,708 with the part of the stone cut thousands of years ago. 714 00:37:10,750 --> 00:37:14,542 Though age has worn the surface of the ancient example, 715 00:37:14,708 --> 00:37:18,833 the comparison reveals distinct differences. 716 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,167 You've got vitrification on the laser cut side. 717 00:37:23,375 --> 00:37:26,167 And then, of course, you've got circular tool marks 718 00:37:26,375 --> 00:37:30,500 on, uh, the-the side cut with the diamond saw. 719 00:37:30,625 --> 00:37:35,167 And then whatever tool they used to cut the ancient surface 720 00:37:35,333 --> 00:37:37,833 must have been a different method. 721 00:37:37,958 --> 00:37:40,083 Now, do you think it's possible 722 00:37:40,208 --> 00:37:43,000 that some type of a diamond precision tool 723 00:37:43,167 --> 00:37:45,125 was used on the old surface, 724 00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:47,667 but because it was such a long time ago 725 00:37:47,792 --> 00:37:52,167 that, over time, the surface became a bit more rough? 726 00:37:52,375 --> 00:37:56,292 And we're talking 10,000 or even 15,000 years ago. 727 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:58,292 DUNN: That is a reasonable speculation. 728 00:37:58,417 --> 00:38:02,250 I think we have to start examining, um, 729 00:38:02,458 --> 00:38:06,917 a little more sophisticated tools that no longer exist. 730 00:38:09,250 --> 00:38:11,167 NARRATOR: What did the ancients use 731 00:38:11,375 --> 00:38:14,417 to cut the andesite stone so precisely? 732 00:38:16,208 --> 00:38:19,333 Might evidence of advanced technology be found 733 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:21,417 by further study of the construction 734 00:38:21,583 --> 00:38:24,167 of the Puma Punku stones? 735 00:38:24,292 --> 00:38:27,333 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 736 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,500 and point to what they call H-blocks. 737 00:38:31,958 --> 00:38:37,000 Seems like every one of these H-blocks is exactly the same. 738 00:38:37,208 --> 00:38:40,292 So it's like a prefabrication process, 739 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:42,833 where they needed x-hundred of these. 740 00:38:42,958 --> 00:38:46,750 And whatever machinery it is that they had was able, 741 00:38:46,917 --> 00:38:49,042 with amazing accuracy, to replicate 742 00:38:49,250 --> 00:38:51,458 one after another after another. 743 00:38:52,917 --> 00:38:54,167 That's very sophisticated. 744 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:55,917 CHILDRESS: Yeah, it's an ingenious way 745 00:38:56,125 --> 00:38:59,000 of building a huge granite wall. 746 00:38:59,208 --> 00:39:04,167 And, again, the whole thing is just so incredibly precise-- 747 00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:08,375 doing these kind of inside corners like this. 748 00:39:08,542 --> 00:39:10,208 This-this just can't be done, really, 749 00:39:10,333 --> 00:39:15,000 with-with copper chisels and-and stone hammers. 750 00:39:15,125 --> 00:39:16,208 The whole thing is... 751 00:39:16,375 --> 00:39:20,333 is-is just so incredibly high-tech, 752 00:39:20,542 --> 00:39:23,750 even beyond what we would do today. 753 00:39:26,708 --> 00:39:28,792 NARRATOR: But how could the ancients have managed to move 754 00:39:28,958 --> 00:39:31,958 the incredibly heavy andesite stones to the site? 755 00:39:33,958 --> 00:39:35,667 After years of research, 756 00:39:35,792 --> 00:39:39,500 mainstream archaeologists have said the massive stones 757 00:39:39,708 --> 00:39:43,375 were hewn at quarries over 60 miles away 758 00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:46,625 and then rolled to Puma Punku on logs. 759 00:39:48,083 --> 00:39:51,250 What nobody talks about is the irrefutable fact 760 00:39:51,375 --> 00:39:55,458 that we are at an altitude of 12,800 feet, 761 00:39:55,625 --> 00:40:01,125 which means we are above the natural tree line. 762 00:40:01,292 --> 00:40:06,250 No trees ever grew in that area, 763 00:40:06,458 --> 00:40:09,667 meaning no trees were cut down 764 00:40:09,792 --> 00:40:12,917 in order to use wooden rollers. 765 00:40:13,917 --> 00:40:17,000 -The wooden roller theory... -(snaps fingers) 766 00:40:17,167 --> 00:40:18,583 ...falls by the wayside. 767 00:40:22,167 --> 00:40:24,792 NARRATOR: Could there have been another, more profound method 768 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,625 of moving these megalithic stones into place? 769 00:40:28,750 --> 00:40:32,833 And if so, how could such an advanced engineering feat 770 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 have been accomplished without the help of modern machinery? 771 00:40:37,208 --> 00:40:40,000 CHILDRESS: How these massive blocks of granite 772 00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:44,458 were moved from their quarries and brought here to Puma Punku 773 00:40:44,667 --> 00:40:48,875 would have required some kind of super technology. 774 00:40:50,083 --> 00:40:53,375 Levitation and antigravity, 775 00:40:53,542 --> 00:40:55,750 huge lifting vehicles-- 776 00:40:55,917 --> 00:40:59,750 something that ancient aliens would have had. 777 00:41:01,958 --> 00:41:04,750 NARRATOR: Might the ancient city of Puma Punku 778 00:41:04,875 --> 00:41:07,750 really have been built by alien beings, 779 00:41:07,958 --> 00:41:10,750 as ancient astronaut theorists contend? 780 00:41:11,792 --> 00:41:14,208 And if so, for what purpose? 781 00:41:14,375 --> 00:41:18,417 Perhaps by piecing together the precision-cut blocks, 782 00:41:18,583 --> 00:41:22,792 profound new possibilities will be revealed. 783 00:41:33,542 --> 00:41:36,458 NARRATOR: January, 2011. 784 00:41:36,625 --> 00:41:39,875 Researchers survey and measure the monolithic stones 785 00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:43,583 and H-blocks scattered around the archeological site 786 00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:46,167 of Puma Punku, hoping to solve 787 00:41:46,333 --> 00:41:49,750 the mystery of what these structures were used for 788 00:41:49,917 --> 00:41:51,583 and why. 789 00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:53,958 TSOUKALOS: The evidence that something extraordinary 790 00:41:54,125 --> 00:41:55,833 happened at Puma Punku 791 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,708 is in front of our very eyes, 792 00:41:58,875 --> 00:42:01,083 because at Puma Punku, 793 00:42:01,250 --> 00:42:04,833 we find evidence of stone cuts 794 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,125 that we today could only replicate 795 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:11,958 if we used the most sophisticated of technologies. 796 00:42:14,208 --> 00:42:17,333 FOERSTER: That is part of the great mystery of Puma Punku. 797 00:42:17,542 --> 00:42:21,208 It seems as though some kind of factory was set up there 798 00:42:21,417 --> 00:42:24,125 to make these almost exactly the same. 799 00:42:24,292 --> 00:42:26,750 It's almost like a Lego system of interconnecting blocks 800 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:29,583 and that is unique on this Earth. 801 00:42:31,125 --> 00:42:32,542 ERICH VON Dร„NIKEN: Many of the blocks 802 00:42:32,708 --> 00:42:34,833 were prefabricated blocks. 803 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,042 Prefabricated blocks means planning. 804 00:42:37,208 --> 00:42:38,750 You have to make a design. 805 00:42:38,875 --> 00:42:40,917 Planning means writing. 806 00:42:41,083 --> 00:42:44,000 Now the archaeologists say that Puma Punku 807 00:42:44,083 --> 00:42:47,333 are the ruins of temples made by the Aymara. 808 00:42:47,542 --> 00:42:50,583 Aymara are the highland Indians up there. 809 00:42:50,750 --> 00:42:53,042 But the Aymara were Stone Age people. 810 00:42:53,208 --> 00:42:55,167 They had not even writing. 811 00:42:55,375 --> 00:42:58,417 So not planning, it's absolutely impossible. 812 00:42:58,542 --> 00:43:01,125 Prefabricated blocks in Stone Age 813 00:43:01,250 --> 00:43:03,625 doesn't fit with Stone Age. 814 00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:07,958 And the precision of the blocks is absolutely baffling. 815 00:43:13,125 --> 00:43:16,625 NARRATOR: In Danville, Illinois, toolmaker Chris Dunn 816 00:43:16,750 --> 00:43:19,042 uses measurements taken at Puma Punku 817 00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:22,417 to create a one-eighth-scale model of an H-block 818 00:43:22,583 --> 00:43:24,583 to better understand 819 00:43:24,792 --> 00:43:26,750 how they may have originally fit together. 820 00:43:28,542 --> 00:43:30,542 So you actually went to Puma Punku 821 00:43:30,708 --> 00:43:32,750 to measure the H-blocks. 822 00:43:32,917 --> 00:43:34,083 What was your conclusion? 823 00:43:34,250 --> 00:43:35,333 What did you find? 824 00:43:35,542 --> 00:43:36,917 For me, it was important 825 00:43:37,083 --> 00:43:39,500 to find out what the measurements were. 826 00:43:39,667 --> 00:43:41,958 Uh, what I found was that the internal cavities 827 00:43:42,125 --> 00:43:44,458 were not parallel to each other. 828 00:43:44,625 --> 00:43:46,417 And by internal cavities, 829 00:43:46,583 --> 00:43:49,167 you're referring to these two parts right here, right? 830 00:43:49,375 --> 00:43:50,500 -Exactly. -Mm-hmm. 831 00:43:50,583 --> 00:43:52,292 These two surfaces right here, 832 00:43:52,458 --> 00:43:54,250 both top and bottom, uh, 833 00:43:54,417 --> 00:43:55,750 they are smaller at the front 834 00:43:55,958 --> 00:43:57,500 than they are at the back. 835 00:43:57,667 --> 00:43:59,208 TSOUKALOS: Essentially suggesting a dovetail. 836 00:43:59,375 --> 00:44:01,667 -DUNN: Creating a dovetail. -TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm. 837 00:44:01,833 --> 00:44:06,250 Why do you think a dovetail shape was carved or used? 838 00:44:06,417 --> 00:44:09,542 Really, if we look at the way we have used dovetails, 839 00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:12,083 we use them for mechanical purposes. 840 00:44:12,208 --> 00:44:14,000 To hold things together. 841 00:44:14,167 --> 00:44:16,167 So essentially what I'm saying is that they were 842 00:44:16,375 --> 00:44:19,875 using these H-blocks for a mechanical purpose. 843 00:44:20,042 --> 00:44:23,333 Probably to hold hinges for a door. 844 00:44:24,417 --> 00:44:28,292 NARRATOR: To test his theory, Dunn created a door hinge 845 00:44:28,458 --> 00:44:31,958 that would connect to a small-scale model H-block. 846 00:44:32,125 --> 00:44:34,917 DUNN: So if we put this together, we put the one in the bottom. 847 00:44:35,125 --> 00:44:36,667 Like so. 848 00:44:36,833 --> 00:44:38,958 One in the top part. 849 00:44:40,750 --> 00:44:43,292 Like so. And then... 850 00:44:43,417 --> 00:44:45,625 this piece fits in there. 851 00:44:45,833 --> 00:44:48,500 Put a hinge pin in it. 852 00:44:48,625 --> 00:44:50,792 And now you have your hinge. 853 00:44:50,958 --> 00:44:52,833 TSOUKALOS: Yeah, I mean, i-it's absolutely spectacular. 854 00:44:53,042 --> 00:44:56,708 And of course, the most fascinating question is, 855 00:44:56,875 --> 00:44:59,333 what tools were used 5,000 years ago? 856 00:44:59,542 --> 00:45:03,250 Because something very sophisticated was used. 857 00:45:03,458 --> 00:45:04,667 And not chicken bones. 858 00:45:04,792 --> 00:45:07,500 Not chicken bones, not, uh, 859 00:45:07,667 --> 00:45:10,917 copper chisels, not, uh, stone chisels. 860 00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:13,833 The tools that were used to create these blocks 861 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,000 at Puma Punku do not exist in the archaeological record. 862 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,208 NARRATOR: According to Dunn, 863 00:45:21,375 --> 00:45:23,333 the H-blocks may have been used to mount 864 00:45:23,542 --> 00:45:25,583 hinges for a massive door, 865 00:45:25,750 --> 00:45:28,833 perhaps for one of the largest temple complexes 866 00:45:28,958 --> 00:45:30,958 in the ancient world. 867 00:45:31,083 --> 00:45:34,708 TSOUKALOS: It's a spectacular discovery that Chris Dunn made. 868 00:45:34,875 --> 00:45:37,625 This lends a whole new meaning 869 00:45:37,750 --> 00:45:39,958 to the H-blocks at Puma Punku 870 00:45:40,125 --> 00:45:43,833 because, possibly, they held something in place. 871 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,417 The question is what? 872 00:45:51,708 --> 00:45:52,583 Puma Punku is definitely 873 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:53,917 one of the most mysterious sites on Earth. 874 00:45:54,083 --> 00:45:55,250 And it's really clear those blocks 875 00:45:55,417 --> 00:45:56,833 were made to fit together. 876 00:45:57,042 --> 00:45:58,833 MARTELL: Yeah, you know but there's sites all over the world 877 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,542 -that still defy explanation. -Yeah. 878 00:46:00,708 --> 00:46:04,417 I know one of my most favorite sites would have to be Malta. 879 00:46:04,583 --> 00:46:07,167 Megalithic structures that are some of the largest on Earth. 880 00:46:07,292 --> 00:46:09,708 And some of the oldest, and there's evidence 881 00:46:09,917 --> 00:46:11,500 that the builders knew the science of acoustics. 882 00:46:11,708 --> 00:46:12,917 And that might give us a clue 883 00:46:13,042 --> 00:46:14,833 about how these megalithic sites were built. 884 00:46:14,958 --> 00:46:18,250 Yeah. Possibly acoustic levitation. 885 00:46:18,417 --> 00:46:20,000 NARRATOR: Malta. 886 00:46:21,167 --> 00:46:24,583 A small island nation in the center of the Mediterranean Sea 887 00:46:24,750 --> 00:46:28,167 just south of Italy. 888 00:46:30,042 --> 00:46:32,833 Scholars believe the first inhabitants migrated here 889 00:46:32,958 --> 00:46:37,333 from the nearby island of Sicily in 5200 BC. 890 00:46:39,375 --> 00:46:43,792 Today, stone structures on the Maltese island of Gozo 891 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,417 are considered by archeologists 892 00:46:46,583 --> 00:46:49,792 to be among the greatest achievements by ancient builders 893 00:46:49,958 --> 00:46:52,917 anywhere in the world. 894 00:46:56,125 --> 00:46:58,542 The temples on Malta and Gozo 895 00:46:58,708 --> 00:47:01,833 are more than 1,000 years older than the pyramids of Egypt. 896 00:47:03,375 --> 00:47:06,833 They are the earliest monumental architecture in the world. 897 00:47:07,875 --> 00:47:09,750 There are engineering features 898 00:47:09,917 --> 00:47:11,917 in these temples that are just astonishing. 899 00:47:12,083 --> 00:47:16,250 We're talking about walls enclosing space... 900 00:47:16,417 --> 00:47:17,958 paved walkways. 901 00:47:18,167 --> 00:47:20,250 They were ceilinged at one time. 902 00:47:20,417 --> 00:47:23,333 Definitely much more complex than anything else 903 00:47:23,542 --> 00:47:26,417 that was appearing on Earth for a very long time. 904 00:47:28,875 --> 00:47:32,958 NARRATOR: Built before metal tools or the wheel had been invented, 905 00:47:33,125 --> 00:47:36,875 experts are baffled by the sheer scale of the construction 906 00:47:37,042 --> 00:47:40,667 and the use of vertically arranged monolithic stones, 907 00:47:40,833 --> 00:47:43,542 each weighing over 20 tons. 908 00:47:45,792 --> 00:47:47,583 FLANAGAN: It's only been in recent years 909 00:47:47,750 --> 00:47:49,167 that we've developed instruments 910 00:47:49,375 --> 00:47:51,792 that are accurate enough to appreciate 911 00:47:51,917 --> 00:47:53,750 that some of these ancient societies 912 00:47:53,917 --> 00:47:55,833 were able to shape stones 913 00:47:56,042 --> 00:47:58,000 to optical accuracy. 914 00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:02,458 Optical accuracy greater than what we're able to do today. 915 00:48:02,583 --> 00:48:06,292 And so they must've had some kind of advanced technology 916 00:48:06,458 --> 00:48:08,042 in able to do that. 917 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,167 But if the ancient builders of Malta 918 00:48:11,375 --> 00:48:13,625 had used advanced technology, 919 00:48:13,833 --> 00:48:16,333 where did it come from? 920 00:48:16,542 --> 00:48:19,208 Researchers believe answers may be found 921 00:48:19,375 --> 00:48:21,833 among Malta's numerous mysteries, 922 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,208 including the so-called cart ruts 923 00:48:24,375 --> 00:48:27,333 which can be found all over Malta. 924 00:48:30,375 --> 00:48:33,583 ENEIX: These parallel incisions in the bedrock 925 00:48:33,708 --> 00:48:35,292 have been identified as cart ruts 926 00:48:35,417 --> 00:48:37,167 because that's what they look like. 927 00:48:37,292 --> 00:48:38,833 What they really were, 928 00:48:39,042 --> 00:48:40,333 what their purpose was, 929 00:48:40,542 --> 00:48:41,333 we don't know. 930 00:48:41,542 --> 00:48:42,458 There's nothing written. 931 00:48:44,042 --> 00:48:46,083 ARLAN ANDREWS: The cart ruts on Malta 932 00:48:46,250 --> 00:48:49,208 are about four feet wide. 933 00:48:49,375 --> 00:48:52,083 They're uniformly spaced. 934 00:48:52,208 --> 00:48:54,542 Some of-of them run hundreds of yards. 935 00:48:54,708 --> 00:48:56,708 Some of them run miles. 936 00:48:57,875 --> 00:49:00,000 According to the studies on them, 937 00:49:00,125 --> 00:49:03,000 they probably were there up to 10,000 years ago, 938 00:49:03,125 --> 00:49:05,042 because some of the ancient temples 939 00:49:05,208 --> 00:49:07,292 are built right on top of the, uh, ruts. 940 00:49:08,542 --> 00:49:11,125 NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists believe 941 00:49:11,292 --> 00:49:14,583 the cart ruts may in fact be evidence 942 00:49:14,750 --> 00:49:19,458 that Malta was one of Earth's earliest industrial work sites. 943 00:49:20,583 --> 00:49:24,000 It seems like what these cart ruts really were 944 00:49:24,208 --> 00:49:28,333 was some kind of ancient, uh, railway. 945 00:49:29,375 --> 00:49:33,208 And this railway was then to move heavy machinery, 946 00:49:33,375 --> 00:49:37,500 much as we would use today in a mining operation. 947 00:49:37,708 --> 00:49:43,125 Even the way rockets are rolled out onto a launchpad. 948 00:49:45,792 --> 00:49:49,083 NARRATOR: Further evidence of the use of advanced technology on Malta 949 00:49:49,250 --> 00:49:51,375 can be found underground. 950 00:49:51,917 --> 00:49:55,333 In 1902, construction workers, 951 00:49:55,542 --> 00:49:58,000 while building the foundation for several houses, 952 00:49:58,208 --> 00:50:00,250 accidentally discovered 953 00:50:00,375 --> 00:50:02,792 a mysterious underground sanctuary 954 00:50:02,917 --> 00:50:05,875 dating to 2500 BC. 955 00:50:06,083 --> 00:50:08,042 Called the Hypogeum, 956 00:50:08,208 --> 00:50:09,875 the subterranean structure 957 00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:13,625 was revealed to be three levels deep, 958 00:50:13,792 --> 00:50:16,583 all hewn from solid stone. 959 00:50:16,708 --> 00:50:18,667 ENEIX: It's been estimated that they removed 960 00:50:18,875 --> 00:50:23,042 more than 2,000 tons of stone from these subterranean chambers 961 00:50:23,208 --> 00:50:27,000 to create a space that beautifully replicates 962 00:50:27,167 --> 00:50:29,167 the temples aboveground. 963 00:50:32,833 --> 00:50:34,958 NARRATOR: Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries 964 00:50:35,125 --> 00:50:37,167 concerning the Hypogeum 965 00:50:37,375 --> 00:50:39,792 involve the acoustical properties 966 00:50:39,875 --> 00:50:43,083 in what is called the Oracle Room. 967 00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:47,958 ANDREW COLLINS: The acoustical properties within this 968 00:50:48,167 --> 00:50:50,000 are absolutely extraordinary, 969 00:50:50,208 --> 00:50:52,792 because what happens is the-- if a person 970 00:50:52,958 --> 00:50:54,833 is within the Oracle Room, 971 00:50:55,042 --> 00:50:57,125 the-the way that their voice is carried 972 00:50:57,292 --> 00:51:00,167 is heard within the whole of the complex. 973 00:51:02,042 --> 00:51:05,292 HENRY: The ancients were using this profound sound technology 974 00:51:05,458 --> 00:51:08,375 in order to put themselves into a deep state of trance 975 00:51:08,583 --> 00:51:12,000 in order to access higher human consciousness. 976 00:51:12,208 --> 00:51:13,667 They wanted to go deep within 977 00:51:13,833 --> 00:51:16,750 in order to connect themselves with star energy. 978 00:51:19,167 --> 00:51:21,333 NARRATOR: Might the Oracle Room have been used 979 00:51:21,458 --> 00:51:23,625 to communicate with ancient gods... 980 00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:27,583 ...or perhaps celestial ancestors? 981 00:51:28,542 --> 00:51:31,667 Or do its advanced acoustics suggest 982 00:51:31,875 --> 00:51:33,458 that early Maltese people 983 00:51:33,583 --> 00:51:37,375 had mastered the science of sonic manipulation, 984 00:51:37,542 --> 00:51:40,583 the ability to manipulate solid matter 985 00:51:40,750 --> 00:51:42,375 through audio frequencies? 986 00:51:44,542 --> 00:51:46,833 FLANAGAN: One of the main things that I've realized 987 00:51:47,042 --> 00:51:48,583 is that they're using something 988 00:51:48,750 --> 00:51:53,333 called fractal nonlinear resonance. 989 00:51:53,500 --> 00:51:57,750 And we're now discovering in the field of material science 990 00:51:57,875 --> 00:52:02,625 that nonlinear resonances of sound waves, 991 00:52:02,792 --> 00:52:05,500 microwaves, magnetic waves, 992 00:52:05,667 --> 00:52:10,458 that we are able to actually change matter in ways 993 00:52:10,583 --> 00:52:12,958 that we never dreamed possible. 994 00:52:13,167 --> 00:52:15,375 NARRATOR: If the Oracle Room 995 00:52:15,542 --> 00:52:18,667 was used to harness the power of audio waves, 996 00:52:18,875 --> 00:52:22,375 as many ancient astronaut theorists believe, 997 00:52:22,542 --> 00:52:25,167 is it possible the prehistoric builders 998 00:52:25,333 --> 00:52:27,250 used sonic technology 999 00:52:27,417 --> 00:52:30,292 to help build Malta's mammoth temples? 1000 00:52:30,458 --> 00:52:33,875 CHILDRESS: The builders had this advanced knowledge 1001 00:52:34,042 --> 00:52:36,833 of sonic technology. 1002 00:52:36,958 --> 00:52:38,167 And in fact, 1003 00:52:38,333 --> 00:52:40,958 sound technology can be used 1004 00:52:41,125 --> 00:52:42,583 for all kinds of applications, 1005 00:52:42,708 --> 00:52:46,500 including levitation, or antigravity. 1006 00:52:46,667 --> 00:52:48,333 COLLINS: All around the world, 1007 00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:51,208 there are myths and legends 1008 00:52:51,375 --> 00:52:54,000 relating to how large structures, 1009 00:52:54,208 --> 00:52:56,625 um, came into being. 1010 00:52:56,792 --> 00:52:59,292 They talk about the movement of stones 1011 00:52:59,375 --> 00:53:01,500 through the use of sound, 1012 00:53:01,667 --> 00:53:04,958 about the use of instruments, 1013 00:53:05,125 --> 00:53:08,292 or-or the banging, the ringing, 1014 00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:12,708 that will elevate stones enough so that they can be pushed 1015 00:53:12,875 --> 00:53:16,625 as if they've become completely weightless. 1016 00:53:18,667 --> 00:53:21,125 CHILDRESS: It would appear that the builders at Malta 1017 00:53:21,292 --> 00:53:23,458 had very advanced knowledge of things 1018 00:53:23,625 --> 00:53:25,667 we're just now discovering. 1019 00:53:25,833 --> 00:53:27,833 And you would think that they got this knowledge 1020 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,625 from extraterrestrials. 1021 00:53:35,667 --> 00:53:36,833 It's very possible that what we're seeing at Malta 1022 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,375 is some type of sound levitation technology. 1023 00:53:39,542 --> 00:53:41,333 And if that's true, there's many other sites 1024 00:53:41,458 --> 00:53:43,458 that may have been built in a similar fashion. 1025 00:53:43,625 --> 00:53:46,292 Right, because our ancestors 1026 00:53:46,375 --> 00:53:49,583 were all taught by the same teachers. 1027 00:53:49,792 --> 00:53:52,583 Now, if we really want to talk about acoustic levitation, 1028 00:53:52,792 --> 00:53:56,125 then one place comes to mind, and that's Nan Madol. 1029 00:53:56,208 --> 00:53:57,625 Which is truly extraordinary 1030 00:53:57,792 --> 00:54:01,625 because you have these giant basalt structures 1031 00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:05,833 in the middle of nowhere in the ocean on tiny, tiny islands. 1032 00:54:05,958 --> 00:54:08,375 HENRY: Yeah, I remember when we first featured it on the show, 1033 00:54:08,542 --> 00:54:11,542 and the locals actually said that those giant basalt columns 1034 00:54:11,708 --> 00:54:14,333 were actually floated through the air. 1035 00:54:14,542 --> 00:54:18,333 Yes, and I got to listen to these accounts firsthand 1036 00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:20,708 when I visited Nan Madol with David Childress 1037 00:54:20,875 --> 00:54:22,917 a few years later. 1038 00:54:23,083 --> 00:54:26,333 And, uh, let me tell you, the moment that you stand 1039 00:54:26,458 --> 00:54:29,333 in front of Nan Madol, in person, 1040 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:31,542 it just blows your mind. 1041 00:54:38,833 --> 00:54:41,375 NARRATOR: The island of Pohnpei. 1042 00:54:41,583 --> 00:54:45,667 More than 2,500 miles southwest of Hawai'i, 1043 00:54:45,792 --> 00:54:49,417 completely isolated in the Pacific Ocean, 1044 00:54:49,583 --> 00:54:55,167 this Micronesian landmass is home to just 34,000 people, 1045 00:54:55,375 --> 00:54:57,333 mainly farmers and fishermen. 1046 00:54:57,542 --> 00:54:59,625 But there is one area of the island 1047 00:54:59,792 --> 00:55:02,208 that is completely uninhabited: 1048 00:55:02,375 --> 00:55:05,958 the lost city of Nan Madol. 1049 00:55:08,542 --> 00:55:13,667 The native islanders believe this ancient site is cursed... 1050 00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:16,625 and it is also home to some of the most mysterious 1051 00:55:16,792 --> 00:55:19,458 archaeological ruins in the world. 1052 00:55:21,542 --> 00:55:25,667 Built on a coral reef just off the eastern coast of Pohnpei 1053 00:55:25,833 --> 00:55:28,667 and sprawling more than 200 acres, 1054 00:55:28,833 --> 00:55:33,500 Nan Madol consists of 92 smaller man-made islands 1055 00:55:33,667 --> 00:55:35,708 connected by canals. 1056 00:55:38,958 --> 00:55:42,417 According to historians, this ancient city, 1057 00:55:42,542 --> 00:55:45,125 often called the "Venice of the Pacific," 1058 00:55:45,292 --> 00:55:48,125 was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty 1059 00:55:48,292 --> 00:55:53,125 that ruled from about 500 to 1628 AD. 1060 00:55:56,208 --> 00:55:59,333 BEARDSLEY: This ancient city housed the Saudeleurs, 1061 00:55:59,500 --> 00:56:02,875 the kings of that time. 1062 00:56:03,042 --> 00:56:05,167 So, it has their houses, 1063 00:56:05,333 --> 00:56:09,667 it has feasting areas, it has tombs. 1064 00:56:09,833 --> 00:56:12,208 So there's a whole number of areas 1065 00:56:12,417 --> 00:56:15,542 that each of these islets supported. 1066 00:56:17,583 --> 00:56:19,667 NARRATOR: Most archaeologists agree 1067 00:56:19,792 --> 00:56:22,292 that construction of these artificial islands 1068 00:56:22,458 --> 00:56:25,542 began sometime in the 13th century. 1069 00:56:27,042 --> 00:56:29,500 Each has been formed with columnar basalt, 1070 00:56:29,625 --> 00:56:32,333 a black rock that forms 1071 00:56:32,458 --> 00:56:34,667 when basaltic lava from a volcano 1072 00:56:34,875 --> 00:56:38,917 cools in the form of columns. 1073 00:56:39,083 --> 00:56:42,333 There are a number of columnar basalt outflows 1074 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:44,708 across Pohnpei itself. 1075 00:56:44,875 --> 00:56:47,750 And we know of several of these outcrops 1076 00:56:47,917 --> 00:56:51,042 that were used to mine the basalt. 1077 00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:55,500 They were then transported to the area of Nan Madol 1078 00:56:55,708 --> 00:56:58,958 and then placed to create these small islets. 1079 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,792 NARRATOR: But how did the native people living here 800 years ago 1080 00:57:06,958 --> 00:57:11,500 manage to build 92 islets out of giant basalt columns? 1081 00:57:11,667 --> 00:57:15,500 Researchers estimate that each stone log 1082 00:57:15,667 --> 00:57:18,125 used to construct the megalithic structures 1083 00:57:18,292 --> 00:57:20,875 weighs between five to 50 tons. 1084 00:57:21,042 --> 00:57:25,542 Stacked to form walls as high as 25 feet tall 1085 00:57:25,708 --> 00:57:27,875 and 17 feet thick, 1086 00:57:28,042 --> 00:57:30,833 archaeologists believe that it was an undertaking 1087 00:57:30,958 --> 00:57:33,042 that most likely would have required 1088 00:57:33,208 --> 00:57:36,958 all 25,000 island inhabitants to complete. 1089 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,500 Around the ruins of Nan Madol are many canals, 1090 00:57:41,708 --> 00:57:44,833 which researchers and archeologists say 1091 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,333 were the routes taken by boats to move these basalt columns 1092 00:57:48,500 --> 00:57:50,208 across and around the island 1093 00:57:50,375 --> 00:57:53,042 to construct the huge megalithic site. 1094 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,000 NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars insist native people built Nan Madol 1095 00:57:59,208 --> 00:58:03,542 using ropes, rollers and rafts, 1096 00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:06,792 but attempts to prove this theory have failed. 1097 00:58:08,750 --> 00:58:12,167 BEARDSLEY: So, if you add up all of the stone logs, 1098 00:58:12,333 --> 00:58:18,792 you have a weight of 750,000 or so metric tons. 1099 00:58:18,917 --> 00:58:21,375 That's a lot. 1100 00:58:21,542 --> 00:58:24,208 If you were to move maybe 1101 00:58:24,375 --> 00:58:26,875 2,000 tons a year, 1102 00:58:27,083 --> 00:58:30,083 you might be able to get it built 1103 00:58:30,250 --> 00:58:33,083 over about three centuries. 1104 00:58:33,208 --> 00:58:38,500 We're talking about a major, massive effort here. 1105 00:58:38,667 --> 00:58:40,500 The kind of effort that you would see 1106 00:58:40,708 --> 00:58:44,042 in the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. 1107 00:58:47,917 --> 00:58:50,000 NARRATOR: But could there be another explanation 1108 00:58:50,208 --> 00:58:52,708 for how these ancient people were able to move 1109 00:58:52,875 --> 00:58:56,583 such massive rocks miles across the island 1110 00:58:56,750 --> 00:58:58,292 and into place in the ocean 1111 00:58:58,500 --> 00:59:01,583 without the help of modern machinery? 1112 00:59:02,583 --> 00:59:04,125 According to local legends, 1113 00:59:04,333 --> 00:59:05,708 the ancient builders 1114 00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:08,875 used a much more profound method of construction, 1115 00:59:09,083 --> 00:59:12,500 an advanced antigravitational technology 1116 00:59:12,667 --> 00:59:15,333 that ancient astronaut theorists believe 1117 00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:20,583 may explain many of the world's mysterious megalithic sites. 1118 00:59:23,250 --> 00:59:25,833 Some legends state that the stones were actually flown 1119 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,292 from one part of the island to another, 1120 00:59:28,458 --> 00:59:30,875 or levitated some way to get them up 1121 00:59:31,042 --> 00:59:35,042 to such high areas of the main construction. 1122 00:59:35,208 --> 00:59:38,875 BRAD OLSEN: This is very reminiscent of what researchers call 1123 00:59:39,042 --> 00:59:41,875 auditive levitation, which was a technique 1124 00:59:42,042 --> 00:59:46,292 of raising heavy stones by matching 1125 00:59:46,458 --> 00:59:49,375 the sound frequency of matter, 1126 00:59:49,542 --> 00:59:52,125 rendering it weightless 1127 00:59:52,250 --> 00:59:54,500 and moving it into place. 1128 00:59:54,625 --> 00:59:56,667 TSOUKALOS: The people themselves, 1129 00:59:56,875 --> 01:00:00,333 who still, to this day, live there in Pohnpei, say 1130 01:00:00,542 --> 01:00:03,375 that this place "was not built by us. 1131 01:00:03,542 --> 01:00:06,708 It's been here before we arrived." 1132 01:00:15,792 --> 01:00:17,333 TSOUKALOS: Man, oh, man. 1133 01:00:17,500 --> 01:00:19,500 I mean, look how tall that is. 1134 01:00:19,667 --> 01:00:22,667 NARRATOR: While visiting the ancient site of Nan Madol, 1135 01:00:22,833 --> 01:00:24,792 ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos 1136 01:00:24,958 --> 01:00:26,417 and David Childress, 1137 01:00:26,583 --> 01:00:29,125 along with their guide Gus Kohler 1138 01:00:29,292 --> 01:00:32,583 and structural engineer Dr. Henry Burton, 1139 01:00:32,708 --> 01:00:34,875 have traveled to the site of Nandauwas, 1140 01:00:35,083 --> 01:00:36,875 the royal mortuary said to belong 1141 01:00:37,083 --> 01:00:40,083 to Nan Madol's original builders. 1142 01:00:40,250 --> 01:00:43,625 This is supposed to be the biggest stone here 1143 01:00:43,792 --> 01:00:45,250 -at Nandauwas. -This corner stone right here? 1144 01:00:45,417 --> 01:00:49,042 This thing, it's-it's supposed to be the biggest of all 1145 01:00:49,167 --> 01:00:52,042 -the stones here. -TSOUKALOS: Henry, 1146 01:00:52,208 --> 01:00:53,750 do you think you can calculate the weight of this? 1147 01:00:53,917 --> 01:00:56,000 Yeah, we can certainly estimate it. 1148 01:00:56,125 --> 01:00:57,792 Um, I have a measuring tape, we can estimate the volume, 1149 01:00:57,958 --> 01:01:00,833 and we know the density, so that can give us the mass. 1150 01:01:00,958 --> 01:01:02,208 All right, let's do that. 1151 01:01:04,042 --> 01:01:06,083 BURTON: Yeah, so, this is about four meters. 1152 01:01:06,292 --> 01:01:09,750 All right, here's, uh, the far corner here. 1153 01:01:09,875 --> 01:01:11,625 NARRATOR: Using the dimensions and the density 1154 01:01:11,708 --> 01:01:13,875 of one of the basalt stone blocks, 1155 01:01:14,042 --> 01:01:15,667 Dr. Burton calculates its weight. 1156 01:01:15,875 --> 01:01:17,792 TSOUKALOS: 250. Two meters, 50. 1157 01:01:17,958 --> 01:01:19,750 BURTON: All right, so based on the measurements, 1158 01:01:19,917 --> 01:01:21,792 you're looking at a weight of about 54 tons. 1159 01:01:21,958 --> 01:01:24,500 -54 tons? -Yeah, so 50 tons, give or take. 1160 01:01:24,667 --> 01:01:27,458 And you have one, two, three, four 1161 01:01:27,625 --> 01:01:30,833 of those monoliths essentially stacked on top of each other... 1162 01:01:30,958 --> 01:01:34,583 -BURTON: Mm-hmm. -...at a height of 40 feet? 1163 01:01:34,792 --> 01:01:37,458 CHILDRESS: So, Gus, what is, then, the oral history 1164 01:01:37,625 --> 01:01:41,167 of moving this stone on the island? 1165 01:01:41,333 --> 01:01:43,333 Well, according to the legends, uh, 1166 01:01:43,542 --> 01:01:47,250 the stones were flown up here. 1167 01:01:50,875 --> 01:01:52,542 NARRATOR: For generations, 1168 01:01:52,708 --> 01:01:55,333 the people of Pohnpei have told the story 1169 01:01:55,542 --> 01:01:58,792 that Nan Madol was constructed by strange visitors 1170 01:01:58,958 --> 01:02:01,833 through a process of levitation. 1171 01:02:02,792 --> 01:02:05,000 It is this legend that has suggested 1172 01:02:05,125 --> 01:02:06,833 to ancient astronaut theorists 1173 01:02:07,042 --> 01:02:10,583 that Nan Madol is not only an ancient megalithic structure, 1174 01:02:10,708 --> 01:02:14,417 it is also an extraterrestrial one. 1175 01:02:14,583 --> 01:02:17,917 We have in the oral traditions 1176 01:02:18,042 --> 01:02:19,875 story about two brothers... 1177 01:02:46,125 --> 01:02:47,542 NARRATOR: According to legend, 1178 01:02:47,708 --> 01:02:50,375 the twin sorcerers who created Nan Madol 1179 01:02:50,542 --> 01:02:52,333 were of giant proportions, 1180 01:02:52,500 --> 01:02:54,625 much like the legends 1181 01:02:54,833 --> 01:02:56,583 of Easter Island, where it is said 1182 01:02:56,792 --> 01:02:58,542 that giants magically floated 1183 01:02:58,750 --> 01:03:01,333 the stone Moai statues into place. 1184 01:03:03,042 --> 01:03:05,958 Similar stories involving levitation are associated 1185 01:03:06,125 --> 01:03:08,833 with numerous other megalithic sights 1186 01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,625 like Stonehenge in England, 1187 01:03:11,750 --> 01:03:14,208 the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, 1188 01:03:14,375 --> 01:03:17,625 the Uxmal Pyramid in the Yucatรกn Peninsula 1189 01:03:17,792 --> 01:03:20,375 and Puma Punku in Bolivia. 1190 01:03:21,375 --> 01:03:24,667 There are other stories around the world 1191 01:03:24,875 --> 01:03:27,125 that say the exact same thing... 1192 01:03:28,167 --> 01:03:33,333 ...how gigantic stones were moved into place as if by magic. 1193 01:03:33,542 --> 01:03:36,042 And you have to ask yourself, is there a connection? 1194 01:03:36,167 --> 01:03:38,333 Did all of our ancestors receive 1195 01:03:38,500 --> 01:03:41,958 the same knowledge from the extraterrestrials? 1196 01:03:42,125 --> 01:03:45,125 And the answer to that is a resounding yes. 1197 01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:54,000 Okay. 1198 01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,667 CHILDRESS: They don't know. 1199 01:03:59,833 --> 01:04:01,333 I think they don't know where it came from. 1200 01:04:01,542 --> 01:04:02,875 -TSOUKALOS: Aha! -But it's-it's not from here, right? 1201 01:04:05,458 --> 01:04:07,833 So, yeah, 60% of the stones, they don't know 1202 01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,208 -where they came from. -That's incredible. That... 1203 01:04:10,375 --> 01:04:14,083 the 60% is essentially still a mystery, yes? 1204 01:04:14,250 --> 01:04:15,417 Huh. 1205 01:04:17,583 --> 01:04:20,917 NARRATOR: For decades, mainstream archaeologists have been 1206 01:04:21,083 --> 01:04:23,792 frustrated by their failure to identify the source 1207 01:04:23,958 --> 01:04:25,125 for much of the basalt used 1208 01:04:25,250 --> 01:04:27,958 in the construction of Nan Madol. 1209 01:04:28,042 --> 01:04:30,333 But recently, a growing number of scientists have 1210 01:04:30,542 --> 01:04:33,958 become convinced that it came from a volcanic outcropping 1211 01:04:34,125 --> 01:04:37,000 located 25 miles northeast of Nan Madol 1212 01:04:37,125 --> 01:04:39,292 called Pwisehn Malek. 1213 01:04:40,333 --> 01:04:43,958 The unusual formation extends over 400 feet into the air, 1214 01:04:44,125 --> 01:04:47,708 and, incredibly, the rock used to construct Nan Madol 1215 01:04:47,875 --> 01:04:49,208 appears to have been extracted 1216 01:04:49,375 --> 01:04:51,833 from the least accessible part of the mountain: 1217 01:04:52,042 --> 01:04:53,417 the very top. 1218 01:04:53,583 --> 01:04:54,792 But how? 1219 01:04:55,417 --> 01:04:58,083 According to the oral history of Pohnpei, 1220 01:04:58,208 --> 01:05:00,917 the basalt was taken by what the natives referred to 1221 01:05:01,083 --> 01:05:03,208 as "a giant bird." 1222 01:05:03,375 --> 01:05:05,875 There's one story that says that at some point 1223 01:05:06,042 --> 01:05:08,042 there were these giant roosters 1224 01:05:08,208 --> 01:05:11,750 that lived on top of that mountain. 1225 01:05:11,875 --> 01:05:13,667 And this rooster took 1226 01:05:13,792 --> 01:05:19,125 these basalt blocks and flew them over to Nan Madol. 1227 01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:22,583 Now, monster roosters do not exist. 1228 01:05:22,708 --> 01:05:26,958 So my mind always goes to misunderstood technology. 1229 01:05:27,125 --> 01:05:31,208 Machines that were provided by the extraterrestrials. 1230 01:05:33,625 --> 01:05:36,625 CHILDRESS: I believe that the islanders are correct 1231 01:05:36,833 --> 01:05:41,292 when they say all those stones were flown through the air, 1232 01:05:41,458 --> 01:05:45,500 because I can't see how it was done in any other way. 1233 01:05:47,083 --> 01:05:50,458 NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, 1234 01:05:50,625 --> 01:05:53,333 the local legends, along with hard evidence 1235 01:05:53,458 --> 01:05:55,917 that basalt appears to have been excavated 1236 01:05:56,083 --> 01:05:57,792 from the top of Pwisehn Malek, 1237 01:05:57,875 --> 01:05:59,792 add credence to the idea 1238 01:05:59,917 --> 01:06:02,167 that advanced alien technology was used 1239 01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:04,667 in the construction of Nan Madol. 1240 01:06:04,833 --> 01:06:06,333 And to help prove their theory, 1241 01:06:06,500 --> 01:06:09,292 Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress, 1242 01:06:09,458 --> 01:06:12,750 along with structural engineer Dr. Henry Burton, 1243 01:06:12,917 --> 01:06:14,958 travel 25 miles across the island 1244 01:06:15,083 --> 01:06:17,833 to visit the nearest basalt quarry. 1245 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,000 TSOUKALOS: Man, look at this. 1246 01:06:20,167 --> 01:06:22,042 -BURTON: Wow. -TSOUKALOS: What a quarry. 1247 01:06:22,208 --> 01:06:26,000 So, how does one free the basalt from, from this wall? 1248 01:06:26,167 --> 01:06:28,042 Yeah, no, it-it would, it would certainly require 1249 01:06:28,208 --> 01:06:29,500 some specialized tools, 1250 01:06:29,708 --> 01:06:30,833 some type of excavator, 1251 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:32,208 some type of drill tip. 1252 01:06:32,375 --> 01:06:33,875 And once you start taking rocks off, 1253 01:06:34,042 --> 01:06:35,500 depending on how much room 1254 01:06:35,667 --> 01:06:38,000 you have to drive things up, depending on the size 1255 01:06:38,167 --> 01:06:39,833 of the blocks, you might need a crane 1256 01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:41,875 to sort of move things around. 1257 01:06:42,042 --> 01:06:43,167 You would need some type of machinery 1258 01:06:43,333 --> 01:06:45,000 to be able to do that today. 1259 01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:46,458 TSOUKALOS: How did people 1260 01:06:46,583 --> 01:06:48,458 from at least a thousand years ago 1261 01:06:48,583 --> 01:06:51,833 remove these blocks from this quarry? 1262 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,333 CHILDRESS: They had to somehow 1263 01:06:53,458 --> 01:06:57,542 pry these columns out of the cliff, 1264 01:06:57,708 --> 01:06:59,792 and, you know, remove them 1265 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,500 so that they would be, yeah, stand-alone 1266 01:07:02,708 --> 01:07:03,833 piece of prismatic basalt 1267 01:07:03,958 --> 01:07:05,250 and then, and then move it, 1268 01:07:05,375 --> 01:07:07,000 millions of tons of it. 1269 01:07:07,167 --> 01:07:08,958 I would think that, yeah, there was 1270 01:07:09,125 --> 01:07:12,833 very much a-a special survey done of this island 1271 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:14,542 looking for material 1272 01:07:14,708 --> 01:07:17,167 -that could be used to build. -TSOUKALOS: Right. 1273 01:07:17,375 --> 01:07:18,958 And I would say that an aerial survey 1274 01:07:19,083 --> 01:07:20,875 -would accomplish all of that. -Yes. 1275 01:07:21,042 --> 01:07:22,583 Yes, or any type of, you know, 1276 01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:27,333 advanced radar technology that, in my opinion, existed 1277 01:07:27,500 --> 01:07:29,583 with the extraterrestrials at the time. 1278 01:07:31,875 --> 01:07:33,458 NARRATOR: For Giorgio and David, 1279 01:07:33,583 --> 01:07:35,833 the more they learn about Nan Madol, 1280 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,333 from the weight of the basalt columns 1281 01:07:38,458 --> 01:07:41,208 to the distance they had to be transported, 1282 01:07:41,375 --> 01:07:44,625 to the tools that would be needed to quarry the rock, 1283 01:07:44,833 --> 01:07:48,292 the more difficult it becomes to explain how all of this 1284 01:07:48,458 --> 01:07:50,250 could have been accomplished without the help 1285 01:07:50,417 --> 01:07:53,500 of advanced extraterrestrial technology. 1286 01:07:53,708 --> 01:07:56,083 โ™ช โ™ช 1287 01:08:00,042 --> 01:08:01,417 For me, Nan Madol ranks right up there 1288 01:08:01,583 --> 01:08:04,792 alongside Puma Punku and the Great Pyramids of Giza 1289 01:08:04,875 --> 01:08:06,250 as far as evidence 1290 01:08:06,417 --> 01:08:08,375 for the ancient astronaut theory is concerned. 1291 01:08:08,542 --> 01:08:12,333 Because we, today, would have a hard time 1292 01:08:12,542 --> 01:08:16,542 replicating these sites, even with modern-day technology. 1293 01:08:16,708 --> 01:08:18,375 And you know, the ancients tell us 1294 01:08:18,500 --> 01:08:22,667 that there's a much older structure under Nan Madol. 1295 01:08:22,875 --> 01:08:25,167 And you can see that there's still underwater columns 1296 01:08:25,375 --> 01:08:27,125 -at that location. -Right. 1297 01:08:27,292 --> 01:08:29,167 HENRY: There's sites literally all over the world 1298 01:08:29,333 --> 01:08:32,667 where the ancients were building impressive sites 1299 01:08:32,833 --> 01:08:34,708 on even more ancient, 1300 01:08:34,875 --> 01:08:36,458 even more impressive sites. 1301 01:08:36,625 --> 01:08:38,083 Look at Baalbek, for example, 1302 01:08:38,250 --> 01:08:40,500 where you have the Roman Temple of Jupiter 1303 01:08:40,708 --> 01:08:43,833 that is built on top of this platform composed 1304 01:08:44,042 --> 01:08:46,167 of these massive stone blocks. 1305 01:08:46,375 --> 01:08:49,000 And the perfection of that platform is 1306 01:08:49,208 --> 01:08:50,792 beyond astonishing. 1307 01:08:53,208 --> 01:08:55,250 NARRATOR: Eastern Lebanon. 1308 01:08:55,417 --> 01:08:57,167 The Bekaa valley. 1309 01:08:58,208 --> 01:09:00,708 Here, at this archaeological site, 1310 01:09:00,875 --> 01:09:03,292 stand the ruins of Heliopolis, 1311 01:09:03,417 --> 01:09:05,542 built in the fourth century BC 1312 01:09:05,708 --> 01:09:08,500 by Alexander the Great to honor Zeus. 1313 01:09:08,667 --> 01:09:11,500 But beneath the Corinthian columns 1314 01:09:11,667 --> 01:09:14,708 and remnants of both Greek and Roman architecture 1315 01:09:14,875 --> 01:09:19,167 lie the ruins of a site that is much, much older. 1316 01:09:19,333 --> 01:09:21,208 According to archaeologists, 1317 01:09:21,375 --> 01:09:24,708 it dates back nearly 9,000 years. 1318 01:09:26,917 --> 01:09:29,875 The ancient city of Baalbek... 1319 01:09:30,875 --> 01:09:34,500 ...named after the early Canaanite deity, Baal. 1320 01:09:34,583 --> 01:09:36,542 HANAN CHARAF: Baal is the god of life, 1321 01:09:36,667 --> 01:09:38,583 the god of the sky, the god of the sun. 1322 01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:41,750 He was the god that was venerated 1323 01:09:41,875 --> 01:09:43,333 on the site of Baalbek 1324 01:09:43,500 --> 01:09:46,375 during the Canaanite and the Phoenician times. 1325 01:09:48,375 --> 01:09:52,042 ROBERT MULLINS: And so because it was already sacred to the god Baal, 1326 01:09:52,208 --> 01:09:54,125 then, later, the Greeks 1327 01:09:54,292 --> 01:09:56,167 and the Romans then would build temples 1328 01:09:56,333 --> 01:09:58,375 on this very same spot. 1329 01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,917 NARRATOR: Archeological surveys have revealed 1330 01:10:04,083 --> 01:10:06,000 that the enormous stone foundation 1331 01:10:06,167 --> 01:10:08,375 that lies at the base of the site 1332 01:10:08,542 --> 01:10:11,708 dates back tens of thousands of years. 1333 01:10:12,792 --> 01:10:16,208 Baalbek, as we know from the archaeological evidence, 1334 01:10:16,375 --> 01:10:18,500 must have existed during the Neolithic period, 1335 01:10:18,583 --> 01:10:21,000 between six to eight thousand years, 1336 01:10:21,208 --> 01:10:23,417 or even nine thousand years BC. 1337 01:10:26,042 --> 01:10:29,875 NARRATOR: But even more significant to ancient astronaut theorists 1338 01:10:30,042 --> 01:10:34,125 is their belief that the colossal stone platform 1339 01:10:34,292 --> 01:10:36,792 may once have served as a landing pad 1340 01:10:36,958 --> 01:10:38,917 for space travelers. 1341 01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:44,500 CHILDRESS: We don't know why 1342 01:10:44,667 --> 01:10:47,708 Baalbek was chosen as this specific site. 1343 01:10:47,875 --> 01:10:51,583 Uh, it may well be some kind of special power place. 1344 01:10:51,750 --> 01:10:53,667 โ™ช โ™ช 1345 01:10:58,083 --> 01:11:02,333 But what was originally there, before the Roman temple, 1346 01:11:02,500 --> 01:11:06,250 was this spaceport platform 1347 01:11:06,417 --> 01:11:11,167 that was apparently used for extraterrestrials 1348 01:11:11,333 --> 01:11:12,958 coming and going on planet Earth. 1349 01:11:14,625 --> 01:11:17,500 NARRATOR: As evidence, researchers point 1350 01:11:17,708 --> 01:11:19,958 to the gigantic megalithic stones 1351 01:11:20,125 --> 01:11:22,583 incorporated into the foundation, 1352 01:11:22,708 --> 01:11:26,625 each weighing between 800 to 1,200 tons. 1353 01:11:28,292 --> 01:11:30,333 And perfectly fitted together. 1354 01:11:32,917 --> 01:11:35,583 COPPENS: This is the real mystery of Baalbek. 1355 01:11:35,708 --> 01:11:37,667 How these stones came to be there, 1356 01:11:37,750 --> 01:11:39,750 why they were placed there and, specifically, 1357 01:11:39,875 --> 01:11:41,667 how they were transported into place, 1358 01:11:41,792 --> 01:11:44,083 because some of the stones are of such magnitude 1359 01:11:44,250 --> 01:11:47,333 that modern machinery is incapable of putting them there. 1360 01:11:47,500 --> 01:11:50,042 But somehow our ancestors were able to do this. 1361 01:11:51,625 --> 01:11:52,583 TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested 1362 01:11:52,792 --> 01:11:55,875 that this stone alone weighs 1363 01:11:56,042 --> 01:12:00,792 in excess of 1,200 tons. 1364 01:12:00,958 --> 01:12:03,292 How was it moved there? 1365 01:12:03,458 --> 01:12:05,208 Because, obviously, it's situated 1366 01:12:05,375 --> 01:12:08,000 on top of these stone rows 1367 01:12:08,125 --> 01:12:09,542 that we can find down here. 1368 01:12:09,708 --> 01:12:14,000 Which means that this stone had to be lifted 1369 01:12:14,208 --> 01:12:16,292 and then set on top 1370 01:12:16,417 --> 01:12:19,042 of these stones down here. 1371 01:12:21,875 --> 01:12:24,958 CHARAF: And because these stones were gigantic, 1372 01:12:25,125 --> 01:12:28,042 ancient people assumed 1373 01:12:28,208 --> 01:12:32,333 that extraterrestrial or unknown forces brought them 1374 01:12:32,458 --> 01:12:34,667 to the site itself. 1375 01:12:38,125 --> 01:12:39,333 BIRNES: It is one of the oldest, 1376 01:12:39,500 --> 01:12:41,833 oldest megalithic sites on the planet. 1377 01:12:41,958 --> 01:12:44,167 And it has these huge stones laid out 1378 01:12:44,250 --> 01:12:47,167 in a precise geometrical shape 1379 01:12:47,333 --> 01:12:49,042 at a time 1380 01:12:49,208 --> 01:12:52,625 when the prehistoric people who would've lived there, 1381 01:12:52,750 --> 01:12:54,792 who would've gone to the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon, 1382 01:12:54,875 --> 01:12:58,958 would have no concept of how to move stones of that nature. 1383 01:13:02,542 --> 01:13:05,375 NARRATOR: But if the moving, hoisting and setting 1384 01:13:05,542 --> 01:13:09,167 of such massive stones was so incredibly difficult, 1385 01:13:09,375 --> 01:13:12,875 then who, or what, placed them there? 1386 01:13:13,042 --> 01:13:16,625 And perhaps more importantly, why? 1387 01:13:16,750 --> 01:13:19,292 We know that the ancients always went to power places, 1388 01:13:19,375 --> 01:13:21,500 and Baalbek, clearly, is one of them. 1389 01:13:21,708 --> 01:13:23,833 It is a place where the gods were worshipped, 1390 01:13:23,958 --> 01:13:25,833 where the gods were said to be present. 1391 01:13:25,958 --> 01:13:27,750 And so, when it comes to Baalbek, 1392 01:13:27,875 --> 01:13:30,375 this platform was built there for a reason. 1393 01:13:30,542 --> 01:13:32,375 For what purpose it was used is a question 1394 01:13:32,583 --> 01:13:34,833 we can't answer at this moment in time. 1395 01:13:34,958 --> 01:13:37,917 But what we do know is that whatever was happening there 1396 01:13:38,083 --> 01:13:40,167 had a great religious significance to them 1397 01:13:40,375 --> 01:13:42,708 and was linked with worshipping deities. 1398 01:13:42,875 --> 01:13:46,167 Deities which clearly are of an otherworldly origin. 1399 01:13:52,542 --> 01:13:54,292 You know, it is awesome 1400 01:13:54,417 --> 01:13:56,667 that we now have over 250 episodes 1401 01:13:56,833 --> 01:13:58,792 of Ancient Aliens, in which we've featured 1402 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,792 some of the most magnificent megalithic sites. 1403 01:14:01,958 --> 01:14:03,833 And what's also cool is that a lot of these sites 1404 01:14:04,042 --> 01:14:07,083 that we've featured are megalithic places 1405 01:14:07,208 --> 01:14:10,792 that most people haven't even heard about beforehand. 1406 01:14:10,958 --> 01:14:12,792 And they're not all ancient, either. 1407 01:14:12,958 --> 01:14:14,375 I mean, one of my favorite, 1408 01:14:14,542 --> 01:14:15,958 or most fascinating megalithic sites... 1409 01:14:16,125 --> 01:14:18,500 -Yeah. -...is Coral Castle in Florida, 1410 01:14:18,667 --> 01:14:20,625 -and it was built in the 1920s. -Mm-hmm. 1411 01:14:20,792 --> 01:14:22,958 MARTELL: And it was just done by one person. 1412 01:14:23,083 --> 01:14:25,417 -Ed Leedskalnin. -MARTELL: Yeah, and you know, 1413 01:14:25,583 --> 01:14:28,583 Ed claims that he knew the secrets of the pyramids. 1414 01:14:28,708 --> 01:14:30,000 And whether you believe him or not, 1415 01:14:30,208 --> 01:14:31,792 Coral Castle exists. 1416 01:14:31,958 --> 01:14:34,250 You can visit it to this day. 1417 01:14:34,417 --> 01:14:37,125 So it's possible we have this megalithic site in Florida 1418 01:14:37,292 --> 01:14:39,375 that was built with an extraterrestrial technology. 1419 01:14:39,542 --> 01:14:40,792 Mm-hmm. 1420 01:14:43,292 --> 01:14:45,500 NARRATOR: Homestead, Florida. 1421 01:14:45,708 --> 01:14:48,792 30 miles south of Miami. 1422 01:14:50,208 --> 01:14:52,458 This former agricultural town 1423 01:14:52,625 --> 01:14:55,125 is home to one of the most mysterious structures 1424 01:14:55,250 --> 01:14:58,917 in North America, a stone garden 1425 01:14:59,042 --> 01:15:01,750 made of sculpted blocks of ancient coral, 1426 01:15:01,875 --> 01:15:05,250 some weighing 30 tons. 1427 01:15:05,458 --> 01:15:08,083 It's called the Coral Castle. 1428 01:15:10,708 --> 01:15:12,875 Spread over several acres, 1429 01:15:13,083 --> 01:15:15,792 the complex formations and intricate designs 1430 01:15:15,958 --> 01:15:20,042 of the stone walls and sculptures marvel tourists. 1431 01:15:20,208 --> 01:15:23,542 But unlike other great structures around the world, 1432 01:15:23,708 --> 01:15:26,833 this site is not ancient. 1433 01:15:27,042 --> 01:15:29,000 CHILDRESS: Coral Castle in Florida 1434 01:15:29,125 --> 01:15:32,667 is often said to be, uh, the only modern 1435 01:15:32,833 --> 01:15:35,375 megalithic structure ever built. 1436 01:15:37,250 --> 01:15:38,917 NARRATOR: In 1923, 1437 01:15:39,083 --> 01:15:41,500 Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant, 1438 01:15:41,667 --> 01:15:43,375 began building what he originally called 1439 01:15:43,542 --> 01:15:45,375 Rock Gate park. 1440 01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:48,708 But believe it or not, Leedskalnin insisted 1441 01:15:48,875 --> 01:15:50,875 that he was not using modern machinery 1442 01:15:51,042 --> 01:15:53,625 to build the impressive structure. 1443 01:15:53,708 --> 01:15:56,500 He also claimed that he was working alone. 1444 01:15:56,667 --> 01:15:57,917 McCLURE: Well, Ed was a hermit 1445 01:15:58,125 --> 01:16:00,625 and Ed was a loner 1446 01:16:00,792 --> 01:16:03,000 and he was a foreigner 1447 01:16:03,167 --> 01:16:04,542 and he was a recluse 1448 01:16:04,750 --> 01:16:06,333 and a scientist. 1449 01:16:06,458 --> 01:16:08,667 NOORY: He was in love with a woman 1450 01:16:08,875 --> 01:16:12,833 and he wanted to build this facility in memory of her. 1451 01:16:13,042 --> 01:16:15,125 And he waited for her to come from Europe, 1452 01:16:15,292 --> 01:16:19,208 and he waited and he waited, and she never did. 1453 01:16:19,375 --> 01:16:20,875 But the big question is, 1454 01:16:21,042 --> 01:16:25,000 is how did this frail little man move 1455 01:16:25,167 --> 01:16:30,042 these thousands of pounds of block by himself? 1456 01:16:31,625 --> 01:16:33,667 NARRATOR: Barely over five feet tall 1457 01:16:33,875 --> 01:16:36,167 and weighing just 100 pounds, 1458 01:16:36,333 --> 01:16:40,083 Leedskalnin is said to have carved, moved and hoisted 1459 01:16:40,250 --> 01:16:45,167 huge multiton stones using only a makeshift tripod. 1460 01:16:45,333 --> 01:16:49,375 McCLURE: He has a tripod-- three pieces of Florida pine-- 1461 01:16:49,542 --> 01:16:50,792 and he's got some chains, 1462 01:16:50,917 --> 01:16:53,167 and he's now gonna lift 30 tons. 1463 01:16:54,375 --> 01:16:55,958 Ten tons of rock. 1464 01:16:56,083 --> 01:16:57,875 Can't be done. No one could do that. 1465 01:16:58,042 --> 01:16:59,833 NOORY: He would work at night. 1466 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:01,917 He wouldn't let anybody watch him. 1467 01:17:02,042 --> 01:17:06,208 And he said that he knew the secrets of the pyramids. 1468 01:17:08,042 --> 01:17:11,542 NARRATOR: But what exactly was Leedskalnin referring to? 1469 01:17:11,708 --> 01:17:15,083 Had he rediscovered the same advanced technology 1470 01:17:15,250 --> 01:17:17,333 used to build megalithic structures 1471 01:17:17,542 --> 01:17:20,833 like Carnac and Sacsayhuamรกn? 1472 01:17:21,042 --> 01:17:22,792 McCLURE: Ed, over and over again, 1473 01:17:22,958 --> 01:17:25,958 would tell people that he knew the secrets 1474 01:17:26,125 --> 01:17:27,875 that helped the Egyptians build the pyramids. 1475 01:17:28,042 --> 01:17:29,708 What was he talking about? 1476 01:17:29,917 --> 01:17:32,375 Why was he constantly harking back to the Egyptians? 1477 01:17:32,542 --> 01:17:34,333 We don't know. 1478 01:17:34,542 --> 01:17:37,333 NARRATOR: Leedskalnin continued work on the Coral Castle 1479 01:17:37,500 --> 01:17:40,833 until his death in 1951. 1480 01:17:41,875 --> 01:17:43,958 In the journals he left behind, 1481 01:17:44,083 --> 01:17:46,750 the builder explained that he had discovered 1482 01:17:46,917 --> 01:17:49,792 the ancient secret of transforming stones 1483 01:17:49,958 --> 01:17:52,500 into weightless objects. 1484 01:17:53,958 --> 01:17:56,250 McCLURE: Ed says this in his pamphlet Magnetic Current, 1485 01:17:56,375 --> 01:18:00,875 that real gravity is actually real magnet. 1486 01:18:01,083 --> 01:18:03,667 So if you reverse the magnet forces 1487 01:18:03,875 --> 01:18:05,500 with a force of 1488 01:18:05,667 --> 01:18:10,667 some kind of electromagnetic radio-- perhaps-- frequency, 1489 01:18:10,833 --> 01:18:13,000 you can then make these rocks 1490 01:18:13,208 --> 01:18:16,125 not as heavy as they seem otherwise, 1491 01:18:16,292 --> 01:18:18,292 and therefore, you can lift them. 1492 01:18:19,875 --> 01:18:21,667 NARRATOR: But if Leedskalnin 1493 01:18:21,875 --> 01:18:25,042 had developed a device that could modify gravity... 1494 01:18:25,958 --> 01:18:27,833 ...what was his secret? 1495 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:32,083 Some suggest the answer lies in a mysterious black box 1496 01:18:32,292 --> 01:18:35,042 that can be seen in various photographs. 1497 01:18:37,042 --> 01:18:40,125 A box that has since disappeared. 1498 01:18:43,625 --> 01:18:46,042 McCLURE: The black box sitting on top 1499 01:18:46,208 --> 01:18:49,250 is the element that no one has ever seen, 1500 01:18:49,375 --> 01:18:53,000 except in those pictures, and no one has today. 1501 01:18:53,208 --> 01:18:56,042 We believe that black box has something to do 1502 01:18:56,167 --> 01:18:59,125 with how he got these massive, 1503 01:18:59,208 --> 01:19:04,000 heavy, brittle pieces of rock up in the air 1504 01:19:04,167 --> 01:19:06,958 in a way that no one can duplicate. 1505 01:19:07,125 --> 01:19:09,667 NOORY: He had some kind of magnetic machine 1506 01:19:09,875 --> 01:19:11,958 down in one of his other house areas 1507 01:19:12,125 --> 01:19:13,958 that has since been dismantled. 1508 01:19:14,125 --> 01:19:16,500 But it had a revolving ability. 1509 01:19:16,667 --> 01:19:18,375 He may have been having that thing spin. 1510 01:19:18,542 --> 01:19:20,667 The whole place could have been antigravity. 1511 01:19:20,875 --> 01:19:24,208 He probably just pushed these into place. 1512 01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:27,458 SARA SEAGER: Levitation is the only way that I know of 1513 01:19:27,583 --> 01:19:29,292 to hold up very heavy objects. 1514 01:19:29,417 --> 01:19:33,958 Very, very high-speed trains are magnetically levitated. 1515 01:19:35,750 --> 01:19:37,667 These high-speed trains 1516 01:19:37,875 --> 01:19:39,333 don't have wheels that touch any tracks. 1517 01:19:39,500 --> 01:19:41,792 They're literally suspended above the track 1518 01:19:41,958 --> 01:19:44,125 using magnetic forces. 1519 01:19:45,333 --> 01:19:47,875 BRANDENBURG: We can speculate at this time 1520 01:19:48,042 --> 01:19:50,208 that there are techniques 1521 01:19:50,417 --> 01:19:54,875 for using electromagnetism to nullify gravity. 1522 01:19:55,042 --> 01:19:57,250 Uh, this was the great quest of Einstein. 1523 01:19:57,375 --> 01:20:00,750 The motivation for such technology is, of course, 1524 01:20:00,917 --> 01:20:03,500 to lift a large spaceship out into space 1525 01:20:03,625 --> 01:20:05,375 and across space. 1526 01:20:05,500 --> 01:20:07,583 -ASTRONAUT: Oh, we have arrived. -(laughter) 1527 01:20:07,750 --> 01:20:09,417 (indistinct comm chatter) 1528 01:20:11,542 --> 01:20:13,958 NARRATOR: Could it be that Ed Leedskalnin 1529 01:20:14,125 --> 01:20:17,792 utilized antigravity to levitate and distribute 1530 01:20:17,958 --> 01:20:21,333 the enormous rocks used to build Coral Castle? 1531 01:20:21,542 --> 01:20:25,875 If so, where did this incredible knowledge come from? 1532 01:20:27,042 --> 01:20:29,833 COPPENS: And he died, taking this secret to his grave. 1533 01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,083 The question is, did he invent it? 1534 01:20:32,250 --> 01:20:34,625 Or did he himself somehow inherit it 1535 01:20:34,792 --> 01:20:36,500 or learn it from a tradition 1536 01:20:36,667 --> 01:20:39,667 or maybe from some visitor from another realm? 1537 01:20:41,250 --> 01:20:44,083 McCLURE: The only thing that is explainable 1538 01:20:44,292 --> 01:20:49,542 is that someone with a higher form of physics 1539 01:20:49,708 --> 01:20:51,333 and understanding of gravity 1540 01:20:51,417 --> 01:20:55,292 has created the ability of one person to lift stones 1541 01:20:55,375 --> 01:20:59,500 that modern technology could not do the way he did it. 1542 01:20:59,708 --> 01:21:03,917 It had to come from a different place in this galaxy. 1543 01:21:11,750 --> 01:21:14,167 TSOUKALOS: The fact that one guy 1544 01:21:14,333 --> 01:21:19,958 created these massive structures is absolutely fascinating. 1545 01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:22,667 Am I suggesting that he did this 1546 01:21:22,833 --> 01:21:24,875 with extraterrestrial technology? 1547 01:21:25,083 --> 01:21:27,958 No, because I don't know. 1548 01:21:28,167 --> 01:21:31,625 Am I excluding that possibility? No. 1549 01:21:32,667 --> 01:21:36,000 NARRATOR: If aliens visited Earth in ancient times, 1550 01:21:36,208 --> 01:21:38,792 perhaps the world's unexplained structures 1551 01:21:38,958 --> 01:21:41,667 provide clues to unlocking 1552 01:21:41,875 --> 01:21:44,208 not only the secrets of our past... 1553 01:21:46,125 --> 01:21:48,958 ...but a glimpse into our future. 1554 01:21:49,083 --> 01:21:50,292 VON Dร„NIKEN: I think that extraterrestrials 1555 01:21:50,458 --> 01:21:53,000 would not have left our solar system 1556 01:21:53,125 --> 01:21:56,042 some thousands of years ago without any proof. 1557 01:21:56,208 --> 01:21:58,500 They wanted that, in the far future, 1558 01:21:58,708 --> 01:22:00,708 we start to reflect, 1559 01:22:00,875 --> 01:22:03,125 "Have we been visited by outer space?" 1560 01:22:04,917 --> 01:22:07,542 Worldwide, on every continent, 1561 01:22:07,667 --> 01:22:11,417 the most ancient of structures all essentially feature 1562 01:22:11,583 --> 01:22:15,417 the same type of masonry, or stonework. 1563 01:22:15,542 --> 01:22:19,167 And you can't just attribute this to coincidence. 1564 01:22:20,208 --> 01:22:23,750 Either our ancestors all went to the same school 1565 01:22:23,958 --> 01:22:27,083 or they were visited by the same teachers. 1566 01:22:27,250 --> 01:22:29,917 MARTELL: The ubiquitous knowledge seems to be coming from 1567 01:22:30,083 --> 01:22:32,792 either one source or a shared source 1568 01:22:32,958 --> 01:22:34,917 that is influencing the whole globe. 1569 01:22:35,042 --> 01:22:36,583 HENRY: Humanity has had a hidden past 1570 01:22:36,750 --> 01:22:39,708 where we were building these megalithic structures 1571 01:22:39,875 --> 01:22:41,750 by unknown means. 1572 01:22:41,917 --> 01:22:43,500 But now, we're starting to develop 1573 01:22:43,667 --> 01:22:46,792 is a more accurate picture of this megalithic civilization 1574 01:22:46,958 --> 01:22:51,042 that was global, that was highly advanced, intelligent, 1575 01:22:51,250 --> 01:22:52,958 probably working with extraterrestrials, 1576 01:22:53,125 --> 01:22:55,542 and now we're beginning to learn the true purpose 1577 01:22:55,708 --> 01:22:57,708 of those megaliths. 1578 01:22:57,875 --> 01:23:00,292 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS 124161

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