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NARRATOR:
Mysterious stone figures

found across the globe.

ANDREW COLLINS:
The similarity tells us

that there is some kind of
global culture

that existed
in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR:
Sacred idols imbued with an otherworldly energy.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Those statues were considered alive.

They had a consciousness.

NARRATOR:
And massive figures sculpted from material

possessing
extraordinary properties.

HUGH NEWMAN:
With these stone giants, were they specifically choosing

certain types of rock
for technological reasons?

NARRATOR:
Could there be ancient statues

all over the world that depict
extraterrestrial visitors?

And if so, might there be more

to these alien effigies
than meets the eye?

WILLIAM HENRY:
Maybe the stone giants

are gateways
into other star systems

where humans can connect
with extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR:
Sanliurfa, Turkey, October 1994.

While ploughing his field,

shepherd Savak Yildiz
spots a strangely shaped stone

protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt,

he realizes that it may be part
of a much larger object.

Shortly after contacting
the local museum with his find,

he is visited by Klaus Schmidt

from the German
Archaeological Institute.

It wasn't until German
archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

visited the site

and began digging,

they realized
what was really at this site.

What he discovered
was mind-blowing.

After discovering
the first T-shaped pillar

buried at the site,

he soon found more
of these massive structures.

NARRATOR:
Intrigued by evidence

that the structure might
go back to a Neolithic period,

Klaus Schmidt has
the sediment layers

of the site radiocarbon-dated.

The results indicated
that the stone structures

could be as much
as 12,000 years old,

more than 5,000 years older

than mankind's
first known civilization,

in Mesopotamia.

More than that,
it would place the construction

of G �bekli Tepe to a time
when mainstream scholars suggest

humans were roaming the Earth
as hunter-gatherers.

PAUL BAHN:
Well, the site of G �bekli Tepe

really did send shock waves
through the whole world

of early prehistory,
because we'd never before known

or imagined, even,
that simple hunter-gatherers

could produce such spectacular
monumental structures.

NARRATOR:
To date, 69 massive stone pillars

have been unearthed
at the ancient site

after more than two decades
of excavation.

More than one third
of the statues

contain elaborate carvings
of animals,

including various mammals,

reptiles,

insects and birds.

But also included
are depictions of species

not indigenous to the area
like geese,

armadillos and wild boar.

There are such
an incredible range of animals

and birds and insects
depicted at G �bekli Tepe,

the like of which we have
never seen at that period

or anywhere else in the world.

And to have a whole bunch
of them together is interesting.

You can speculate
till the cows come home

as to what it might represent.

We have not the faintest idea.

HENRY:
In the story of Noah's Ark,

we're told
that after the deluge,

Noah's Ark lands at Mount Ararat
in Eastern Turkey--

not far from G �bekli Tepe--

and we see
some very strange animals

portrayed on the pillars
at G �bekli Tepe,

almost as if it's a record
of Noah's Ark itself.

Perhaps G �bekli Tepe
is the place

where Noah and his descendants
disembarked

and recreated civilization
after the flood.

NARRATOR:
If there really is a connection between G �bekli Tepe

and the biblical story
of a great flood,

could the carvings
found at the site

be an inventory of the animals
that were rescued?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, but also suggest

other carvings depict
a species not of this Earth.

At the center of each of the
five megalithic ring structures

that occupy
the archaeological site

stand two oversized
monolithic pillars.

Weighing up to 20 tons

and reaching heights
of over two stories,

they visually stand apart
from the T-shaped stonework

that surrounds them.

These pillars
are anthropomorphic,

they are humanlike
in appearance.

They have low-relief arms

that come round to the front

and end in these long,
spindly fingers.

They wear garments.

They have belts
with strange symbols.

There are no faces
on these stones.

The heads are represented
by T-shaped terminations

that look almost like
hammerheads, basically.

BAHN:
They could be gods, they could be ancestors

or they could be very specific
people who are being venerated.

We really have no idea.

HENRY:
The archaeologist, Schmidt himself,

referred to them
as the "celestial ones,"

or the "celestial ancestors."

And we have to ask
if these are depictions

of the extraterrestrial gods
at G �bekli Tepe.

NARRATOR:
Yet, as mysterious as these statues are,

strikingly similar depictions
can be found

in other parts of the globe.

An interesting feature about
some of these T-shaped pillars

is the fact that these arms

culminate in the front
around the navel area.

And what I find so cool
is that this type of motif

can be found elsewhere
around the world.

For example, in Easter Island,

with those giant statues,
the moai.

There, too,
the arms go around the belly

and they culminate
in front of the navel.

And then, at Tiahuanaco,
Bolivia, for example,

there is a statue that has
the exact same hand position

in front of the navel.

ED BARNHART:
At the city of Tiahuanaco,

in its central complex
called the Kalasasaya,

is a massive monolithic statue.

The statue is said by the Inca
to be a giant.

In the previous creation before
men, giants roamed the Earth,

and they inhabited
the city of Tiahuanaco.

And this is actually
very similar

to the mythology
of Easter Island

and the stories
we hear about the moai.

We get very similar type
of carved pillars

as G �bekli Tepe
in other parts of the world.

There is a very strong
similarity in style

which tells us
that there is almost certainly

some kind of relationship,

that G �bekli Tepe
is not in isolation,

it's part of some kind of
global culture,

the remnants
of a lost civilization

that once existed
in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR:
Could the figures found at G �bekli Tepe

and other parts of the globe

really be a record
carved in stone

of an alien race that existed
in Earth's prehistory?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further clues
can be found

by examining the stories

associated
with the massive effigies

found scattered
across Easter Island.

NARRATOR:
Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722.

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen

is 2,300 miles
off the coast of Chile

leading a fleet of three ships
on an expedition

to establish a western trade
route to the Spice Islands.

In the early afternoon,
he is alerted by his crew

that they have spotted
a small island

and that there is smoke rising
from it in several places,

suggesting that it is inhabited.

When they reach the shore,
they are surprised

by the appearance
of some of the natives.

When Roggeveen and his crew

discovered Easter Island
in 1722,

accounts were written down

that not only
did they stumble across

normal
Polynesian-looking people,

but as well,
people of giant proportions

who were light-skinned, had
red hair and even blonde hair.

NARRATOR:
As recorded in the ship's log,

they also made another
even more unexpected discovery.

JACOB ROGGEVEEN: We noticed
certain remarkably tall

stone figures.

These stone figures caused us
to be filled with wonder,

for we could not understand how
it was possible to erect them.

Some of these statues
were a good 30 feet in height

and broad in proportion.

NARRATOR:
Roggeveen named this remote land "Easter Island,"

after the day
on which it was discovered.

But today,
nearly 300 years later,

Roggeveen's questions concerning

the strange appearance
of the natives

as well as the origins
and purpose

of the gigantic stone statues
known as moai

have yet to be answered.

One can imagine that the moai

being set up all around
the island with their backs

to the outside world,
looking inwards...

...were a kind of
protective barrier,

that the ancestors would
look after them

and protect their little world.

HENRY:
The thing about these moai is that they have

these very strange faces,
very elongated.

They don't look quite human.

They're humanoid,
but they're somehow different

than ordinary humans.

They look almost alien
in appearance.

And you have to wonder: what
do they ultimately represent?

NARRATOR:
Carved from volcanic rock,

the nearly 900 moai
each weigh up to 90 tons

and the tallest of them
tower above the landscape

at heights of more than 30 feet.

There have been
many theories over the years

as to how they were moved.

The first theories thought

that they must have been
dragged horizontally

on sledges or rollers
or something of that kind.

It was tried again
recently for a TV film,

and again,
they moved it a few meters,

but it really doesn't
prove anything.

The idea that the trees
were cut down at some point

and they were all used
for rollers, wooden logs,

falls by the wayside
because wooden rollers

would not be able
to support the weight

of some of these statues.

BAHN:
You're talking about several hundred statues,

and it would depend on the size
and weight of the statue,

the number of people
you had available to help,

the distance you were going
to go, the kind of terrain.

So, basically,
we don't really know.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

the answers to just how
the moai were transported

and positioned in the island
can be found in the legends

told by the native people.

Legends that suggested a type
of energy known as "mana"

was used to literally levitate
the giant sculptures into place.

According with, uh, oral
tradition and the legends...

The king was given
the gift of mana

from the great creator god
Makemake.

Legend holds
that the king commanded

that these
great stone statues walk.

TSOUKALOS:
And one has to wonder, well,

either they all were
off their rockers,

uh, describing these things
or they witnessed something.

And I'm leaning more
in the direction

that they witnessed something

because there had to have been
a spark of inspiration.

And so, in my opinion,

mana was some type
of extraterrestrial technology

that allowed these stones
to be levitated into place.

YOUNG:
When the statues had pupils,

they came to life

imbued with mana
to have supernatural powers.

CHILDRESS:
According to the Easter Island myth,

this power came out
of the eyes of the statues,

and was this mystical power.

It's like it was creating
some kind of force field

of energy that surrounded
the island and protected it.

So you have to wonder
if there's something real here,

and was it some kind of
extraterrestrial technology?

NARRATOR:
Of all the many mysteries of Easter Island,

perhaps the most puzzling

involves not only
the construction of the moai

but their positioning
on the island.

880 of the 887 moai face inland.

But on the west edge
of the island,

seven of the moai
are positioned on a platform

known as Ahu Akivi

and face outwardly,
towards the sea.

Moais face in, it's believed,

because they're protecting
the village that they oversee.

Ahu Akivi is the one exception.

The moais there look out to sea.

Not only that,
they're identical.

NARRATOR:
But why would these seven identical moai face out to sea

when all of the other moai
on the island face inland?

Could it be
that they were meant to point

to a specific location
somewhere farther out?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by drawing a straight line

from the line of sight
of the seven moai.

Following it
on a northwesterly route,

the first landmass in its path
is the Marquesas Islands,

roughly 2,300 miles
from Easter Island.

NASON:
The Marquesas are extremely remote island group,

which is part
of French Polynesia.

It's a three-and-a-half-hour
flight northeast of Tahiti,

and it's a part of what's known
as the Polynesian Triangle,

which is bound by Hawai'i
in the north,

Easter Island in the east
and New Zealand in the west.

It was the last place on Earth
that was discovered.

And there's probably more
mystery shrouded in the Pacific

than any other place
in the world.

NARRATOR:
To follow up on the incredible theory

that Easter Island's origins
might be found

on one of the remote
Marquesas Islands,

in June 2018,
ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress

set out to explore the islands
for themselves.

This is gonna be
a great exploration

to see what connection there is

between Easter Island
and right here.

Should be quite the adventure.

TSOUKALOS: Hello.

- ANIATA: Hello.
- I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you.

- I'm Aniata.
- Hi, I'm David.

NARRATOR:
Arriving on one of the Marquesa Islands,

ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos

and David Childress meet with
local guide Aniata Kimitete.

- Let's go explore.
- Great.

All right.

NARRATOR:
She has brought them to an area

known as Kamuihei,

a sacred place
believed to be rich

in what the natives call
mana, or spiritual power.

Here they hope to find
the answer as to why seven

of the nearly 900 giant statues
on Easter Island

are all facing in the direction
of this remote island chain

in the South Pacific.

ANIATA:
So, we are arriving

at this spot
where I really wanted

- to show you about this site.
- TSOUKALOS: Oh, look at this.

ANIATA:
What we see here is what we call petroglyphs.

- Yeah.
- So you have three turtles.

ANIATA:
So, one,

two, three, here.

And also, on the rock,
you can see a canoe.

- Okay.
- So you have the head of the canoe here

that looks
a little bit like a bird.

CHILDRESS:
Their canoes had a bird head

- at the front?
- Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: You see the beak?

CHILDRESS: Yeah, that looks like
a bird head.

- ANIATA: Yeah.
- TSOUKALOS: And what is the significance

of the turtles?

TSOUKALOS:
The turtle is actually

the messenger from the gods.

He was a very sacred animal.

People were not allowed
to eat them.

TSOUKALOS:
You know, I think this is really interesting,

what you said that the turtle
is regarded here as a messenger

of the gods, because
this is not something new.

It's not something native
to this area.

There are other parts
of the world where

the turtle is described by
having descended from the sky.

And the idea that this
is here, too, considered

a messenger of the gods,
that, to me, is a connection

to potential extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,

numerous ancient cultures
have origin stories

that involve some sort of
a divine or cosmic turtle.

Followers of Japanese Shinto
venerate the Kameishi,

a stone turtle that portends
the end of the world.

In Guatemala, there are legends
of giant flying turtles,

and even artifacts that feature
the image of a man

wearing what appears to be
a helmet

lying inside a turtle shell.

In North America,
the Iroquois Indians tell tales

of a sky goddess who falls
to Earth from the sky,

whereupon a giant turtle rises
up from the ocean to catch her.

I think it's interesting here,
this canoe,

which would have been very
large, has the bird head on it.

and you have the Birdman
of Easter Island

that are so famous.

NARRATOR:
One of Easter Island's ancient traditions

involves Tangata manu,
or the Birdman cult.

According to legend,
the creator god Makemake

was looking in a mirror

and saw a bird
land on his shoulder.

Seeing his image
combined with the bird,

he decided to make a son
who was half-man, half-bird.

In turn, the Rapa Nui people
of Easter Island

worshiped the birdman as
the predecessor of all humans.

One of the central focuses
of the rituals,

the annual rituals
at Easter Island...

...was that of Tangata manu,
the birdman.

And the birdman
is a universal symbol

that we find
in many parts of the globe

that relates to ancestry
associated with figures,

characters in feather coats
who were seen to be able

to go between
this world and the next.

And here we have
the same ideas on Easter Island.

Is there more to see
on the island?

- We have a lot more
to see on the island. - Okay.

- So let's go.
- CHILDRESS: Okay.

NARRATOR:
After showing Giorgio and David the ancient petroglyphs,

Aniata takes them to a site
that has some of the most

striking statuary
in the Marquesas.

Right now we are at
the Tohua of Temehea.

So the Tohua
is the gathering place.

And so this sculpture here
is a modern sculpture.

But is this based
on something old?

Yes. Because the site
that we are on was rebuilt.

Even though it's modern,

it's really based
on the original statue.

TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow. Okay.

Is this considered a tiki?

Yes, this tikis represent
the population.

So, to the Marquesan people,
what is a tiki?

A tiki, at first,
was the representation

of our god of magic and sorcery.

He was one of the only god
in French Polynesia

that has the face of a man.

He became our protector,

because when you have a tiki
by your side,

then you are protected
from your enemy.

NARRATOR:
In the Marquesas, the word "tiki" can be used to refer

both to an ancestral figure
that came to the islands

in ancient times, as well as
the statues that represent him.

They are variously carved
in both wood and stone,

and often depict a being
with large, goggle-like eyes.

The lore has it that
Tiki was the primary ancestor,

and was created
in the image of the sky god.

The local people made statues
in honor of their creator god,

Tiki, and used them in worship.

And this is what
Tiki looks like... as a god?

Yes, because they say
in the legend that when Tiki

left the Earth,
they made the sculpture

of how he looked like,

just to have something
to remember from Tiki.

So that's how
he looked like, actually.

It looks very strange to me.

This is a representation
of what your ancestors thought

this figure looked like.

It doesn't look like a man,
it looks weird.

Yeah. I mean,
he sort of looks like a man,

but with these big goggle eyes

and the elongated head
and everything...

he looks like
an extraterrestrial.

From what you know,
do you think that the people

of the Marquesas went
as far as Easter Island?

Are there any legends
or stories behind that?

So there is one story where...

when they said that
one chief of the island

sent his seven sons
to Easter Island because

they were fighting a lot
over here.

So he sent them away.

Told them, uh,
if they wanted to come back,

they had to make peace
with one another.

NARRATOR:
Seven brothers?

Princes who left
the Marquesas Islands

for Easter Island
hundreds of years ago?

I think it's really fascinating
that in the Marquesas

there's a story of
seven brothers that were exiled

by their father in order
to go to Easter Island.

You combine that with the fact
that there is this platform

on Easter Island with
seven moais standing on there...

That would indicate to me
that the Marquesas

and Easter Island are,
in fact, connected.

NARRATOR:
But if the stone carvings and ancient legends

prove that the origins
of Easter Island

can be found
some 2,000 miles away

in the Marquesas,

could there have been another,
perhaps extraterrestrial, reason

for the exile of the seven royal
brothers from their homeland?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest the evidence
points to everything

from the strange faces
of the tiki gods

to bloody stories
of human sacrifice.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and
David Childress are

in the remote Marquesas Islands.

They are searching for clues
that may help them solve

some of the most compelling
mysteries concerning an island

located some 2,000 miles
to their east... Easter Island.

I think it's really fascinating

that of all the standing heads
in Easter Island,

seven of them actually point in
the direction of the Marquesas.

And so now the question is why?

I think it's quite possible

that the Marquesas
and Easter Island

are, in fact, connected.

NARRATOR:
But perhaps equally compelling,

if not slightly disturbing,

are numerous carvings found
throughout the islands

which depict strange,
big-eyed gods known as tikis.

KIMITET:
So right now we are at the Tohua of Hikokua.

The tiki placed on site
like this,

like really a sacred site...

...they were made
to scare the people away.

Because they were telling, hey,

this is a very sacred site,
so be careful.

If you step on the site,
if you do something wrong,

then something bad is
going to happen to you.

So I think, if we are talking
about extraterrestrials

in ancient times visiting,

and you follow
the ancient stories,

when they came down
with fire, smoke and noise,

that that is the reason
why they were afraid.

There are multiple
other versions of

the exact same motif worldwide,

with people
with elongated skulls

and giant goggle eyes.

Like, uh, what comes to mind
immediately is in Peru.

- CHILDRESS: Yeah,
at Tiahuanaco... - Yes.

...uh, and Puma Punku you have

- the same goggle-headed...
eyed, uh, you know... - Exactly.

...people, uh--
You have it in Mexico, too,

- with the Olmec statues.
- Yes.

These may be depictions
of actual extraterrestrials

who visited the Earth
thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Eerily similar
to the tiki of the Marquesas,

figures with oversized skulls
and enormous eyes have surfaced

at archaeological sites
throughout the world.

Among these are
the dogu figures of Japan...

the aboriginal Wandjina
petroglyphs of Australia...

...the terracotta figurines

recently unearthed
in Northern Ghana...

...the trickster god Eshu of
the Yoruba people of Nigeria...

...and the stunning
petroglyphs of Karahunj,

otherwise known
as Armenia's Stonehenge.

So it does seem that Tiki,

he's walking,
he's living and breathing.

He's not just a spirit, is he?

No. He's not a spirit.

So, um, they say
that Tiki is not really a god,

but he's not really a man, also.

Aniata, thank you so much
for showing us everything here.

- It's truly tremendous.
- You're welcome.

- Thank you so much.
- Have a nice travel.

Thank you.

NARRATOR:
One day after their informative visit

to the island of Nuku Hiva,

Giorgio and David travel next

to the nearby island of Hiva Oa

to see firsthand
the most unusual

of all the island tikis.

Hello.

Good to see you.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
As their local guide, they have enlisted

Hiva Oa resident Heimata Bono.

This is incredible.

So what are we looking at here?

What is this?

Oh, it totally looks
like a llama.

TSOUKALOS: I totally think
this looks like a llama.

I mean, there is
no question in my mind.

And I also don't think
that this was altered.

This is original.
And I don't see any changes.

So either this is not authentic,

or if it is authentic,
it's a llama,

and it proves connection
to South America.

NARRATOR:
South America?

Is it possible that the llama,

believed to be native
to South America,

was known to people living
on this remote island chain

some 3,500 miles away?

But how?

Some people say that
it's a woman giving birth.

Do the women here
in the Marquesas islands,

do they do this?

They lie on their stomach
and give birth?

No.

TSOUKALOS:
This is crazy.

CHILDRESS:
Huh.

To me, it looks like
something from the sky.

It's like, maybe,
some flying vehicle.

- It's a great question.
- Yeah.

Perhaps what
we're looking at here is

some type of a craft.

Because you have
the windows in the front,

which are these giant goggles,
and then you have the mouth

in the front, which to me looks
like some type of an air intake.

Underneath,
you have a lifting body

that goes underneath
the entire body.

And if you combine that
with the story of this object,

or this woman giving birth,
if someone has never seen

passengers disembarking
from an actual airplane...

...if they have no idea
what is happening,

well, all of a sudden,

a flying vehicle is
giving birth to people.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that this ancient statue,

that has been interpreted
in modern times

as a fertility goddess,

is actually depicting
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I think that tikis are
nothing else

but misunderstood technology
that, over time,

turned into divine objects
of magic and sorcery.

Can we go look at it?

TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow.

Clearly, this tiki,
the head is missing.

But I see that
it has six fingers.

It's very feasible to me
that they actually tried to

imitate whoever visited,
or whoever came here

to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers
if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say,
oh, this is just fantasy.

I think they saw
someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

- Yes.
- Yeah.

TSOUKALOS:
So these are protectors.

And all the tikis here,
and the moai on Easter Island

are protectors as well.

So, on Easter Island
you-you have seven moai,

and they're looking
towards Marquesas.

Is this some ancestors,
or a connection?

NARRATOR:
All of the ancient tikis in the Marquesas

are positioned to look in
the direction of Easter Island.

But why?

And if both the moai
and the tikis are depictions

of extraterrestrial visitors,
why do they appear so different,

both in height and appearance?

Is it possible that
the seven brothers of legend

left the Marquesas
for Easter Island

because they were fighting
with each other?

Or could they have been
fleeing for their lives?

For Giorgio and David,
these questions

form the pieces
of a confounding puzzle,

one they are both determined to
solve before they return home.

NARRATOR:
While visiting the ancient site known as I'ipona,

located in
the Marquesas Islands,

local guide Heimata Bono

has just shown
ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress

a number of sacred tiki statues

which have six fingers
on each hand.

That is very interesting to me.

NARRATOR: He has also
just informed them

that the tiki gods were believed

by the natives to possess
an extraordinary amount

of what they called "mana,"

a spiritual power
which, if consumed,

would make the natives strong
and virtually invincible.

So how-how does
this tiki have mana?

How does it get the mana?

I see.

Here there are very large
boulders of basalt.

It's very heavy.

I know in some places
in Polynesia and Micronesia

they have legends that
the stones are...

are flying through the air.

So they are giants,
and very strong,

and they can lift
these big stones?

Oh.

NARRATOR:
Giant bones found in caves

on the Marquesas Islands?

Could this be the evidence

Giorgio and David have
been searching for

that suggests the early
inhabitants of Easter Island

were, in fact,
giant alien-hybrid beings?

Beings who forged
a colony of giants,

much like themselves,

and who commemorated
their time on the island

by fashioning
giant stone sentinels?

We have these stories
of giants worldwide.

In Malta, we have some of
the biggest megalithic sites

in all of Europe that allegedly
were built by the giants.

The giants were
offspring of the gods

after they mated
with human women.

Then you have stories
of the giants on Sardinia,

many of whom have been
suggested were originated

by extraterrestrials.

And the origin story
of the giants in the Bible

is that angels mated
with human women.

The offspring were the giants.

CHILDRESS:
So we have to wonder, are the seven sentinels

actually giants?

Part alien and part human?

Perhaps they were escaping
the Marquesas Islands

because they were
the ruling elite,

and essentially,
they were overthrown

because they had this power.

And they went to Easter Island.

Heimata, it's been
so interesting here.

You have such good information.
I really appreciate it.

- Yeah, thank you for sharing.
- No problem. You're welcome.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the so-called

seven princes of the Marquesas

were giant alien-human hybrids?

Hybrids who may have had access

to extraterrestrial technologies

that caused them to be
thought of by the natives

as kings or gods?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say the answer

is a profound yes.

And they suggest
the moai statues,

representing
these otherworldly beings,

continue to reveal
new secrets to this day.

Of all the mysteries
involving the island,

otherwise known as Rapa Nui,
the most persistent involve

the nearly 900 megalithic
statues known as moai

and why they were put there
in the first place.

The moai are considered
to be no more

than perhaps a thousand
years old.

However, it has been established
that some of them penetrate

down into the ground by
a great amount of feet to reveal

the rest of the body,
not just the oversized head.

And the amount of patternation

suggests that they are
infinitely older

than a thousand years

and could go back many,
many, many millennia.

When you visit Easter Island
and you look at

the sites there, the statues,

the megalithic walls,
you realize they're much

older than what,
you know, history tells us.

NARRATOR:
Further clouding the issue is a discovery

that was made in 2017.

With the help of photography
and 3D modeling programs,

archaeologists discovered
that the 13-ton stone hats,

known as pukao,
on the Easter Island moai

contain a wide diversity
of petroglyphs,

made by what appear to be
different groups of people.

The hats that are on
top of the Easter Island

moai are a little bit
of a mystery.

But recently they've
been analyzed, and carvings

have been found on them,
which has, like, questioned,

you know, the idea of
what they really represent.

Perhaps there is something else
going on here.

It could well be that
a number of

different cultures
lived on Easter Island.

One of the most fascinating
monuments on Easter Island

is the stone platform,
or ahu, known as Vinapu.

And this is a huge
megalithic construction

that is essentially
a wall made of cyclopean

megalithic blocks that all
interlock with each other.

When you look at this,
you cannot help

but think of Cuzco in Peru.

And there has to be
a relationship

between the two cultures.

All of these part of
a much bigger transmission

of knowledge, where the belief,

common belief was
an origin amongst the stars.

NARRATOR:
If, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

the seven moai that face out
to sea

really do represent
a race of giant

alien-hybrid beings
that fled the Marquesas Islands

hundreds and perhaps
thousands of years ago,

do the hundreds of other moai
represent their offspring?

And, if so,
could they have had contact

with other parts of
the world, making Easter Island

a virtual hub of
extraterrestrial activity?

CHILDRESS:
Easter Island has also got the strong legend

that it is
the center of the world,

or the navel of the world.

And there are various places
around our planet

that are said to be
the navel of the world.

They're in Cuzco,
at Delphi in Greece,

at Sardinia, and in Egypt.

In many cases,
there's a stone ball

that is marking this center
of the world spot.

And we have that
at Easter Island.

So these navels of the world
are apparently power places,

places of vortex energy.

It would seem
that they're all connected

to this worldwide energy grid.

Why did this huge
megalithic culture emerge here?

And perhaps this tells us

that there is some special
quality with Easter Island,

one that was recognized
by the ancestors

of the Rapa Nui culture.

NARRATOR:
Were the moai statues on Easter Island

meant to serve
as a commemoration

not only of Easter Island's
extraterrestrial origins

but of the history
of alien activity on our planet?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

these and other massive
stone figures found worldwide

are not just effigies
of the so-called gods

but may also possess

a significant
technological function.

NARRATOR:
March 1813.

Swiss explorer Johann Burckhardt
is traveling north

along the Nile River
when he comes across

three massive stone heads
protruding from the sand.

Four years later,

a thorough excavation reveals
a 3,200-year-old temple complex.

The Abu Simbel Temple,
as it is now known,

contains some
of the largest stone statues

ever constructed
in the ancient world.

HENRY:
In 1244 BC, the Egyptians built

in a mountain an incredible
temple complex

devoted to Ramses the Great.

These statues are colossal.

They're 64 feet tall,

and the Egyptians
would visit Abu Simbel

and they would see their king,

their pharaoh, as this great
godlike being in his perfection.

And people would understand
that their king,

their pharaoh was,
in fact, a god incarnate.

NARRATOR:
In the 1960s,

the temple was
carefully dismantled

and moved to higher ground

to make way for the Aswan Dam.

Engineers overseeing
the relocation efforts

paid particular attention

to assure that both
the geographical

and astronomical alignments
of the original site

remained intact.

Twice a year on February 22

and October 22,
the dawning rays of the Sun

pass through the temple entry.

The light travels 185 feet

through a great hall
of stone giants

and for 20 minutes
shines directly

upon the carved statues
of the Egyptian gods Amun,

Ra-Heractates,
and the Pharaoh Ramses II

located at the end
of the temple.

HENRY:
These colossal stone statues

serve more than just
an artistic purpose,

more than a political purpose.

That purpose, we're told,
centers around the idea

that these colossal statues
are transmitters.

They're utilized as a mechanism

of drawing down
cosmic energies, cosmic forces

that then can be emitted
into the surrounding area.

The question arises,

are these cosmic vibrations used
in just a religious sense,

or is this more
of a technological purpose?

While the Egyptians' notion
of stone statues

possessing energy is regarded
by mainstream scholars

as purely symbolic,

ancient astronaut
theorists believe

that it was meant
to be taken literally.

And they suggest
evidence can be found

by examining similar ideas held

by other civilizations
throughout the ancient world.

CHILDRESS: In a number
of ancient societies,

people associated these
statues as having an energy

and those statues were alive.

They had even a consciousness.

They had power in them.

HENRY:
Some of the best-known giant statues in the world

are the moai heads
that we find on Easter Island,

that were actually utilized
by the Easter Islanders

as a conductive mechanism

for drawing down mana,
spiritual power.

We found that in Cop�n.

Probably G �bekli Tepe
is the same idea.

That these
colossal stone statues

are more than just statues.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
ancient stone statues found

throughout the world
were built to serve

a technological purpose?

While the idea
may sound far-fetched,

geologists point out

that stone is not
as lifeless as it might appear.

Rocks and us are made
of the same exact thing, matter.

And all matter vibrates,
it all has a frequency.

It-it all has energy.

When you look at a rock,

it's not just a plain,
inanimate object,

it actually has tons and tons

of different types
of minerals in it.

And these minerals are-are
like a recipe and a cake mix.

They can be
all different types of things.

Mother Nature has
her own cookbook, so to speak.

ROGER HOPKINS:
Stones give you a different feeling.

I mean, some stones
will feel warm.

Some will feel cold.

Others will have
a drama about them.

Stonework has
a very primordial feeling.

I mean, the ancients
were drawn to it.

WILLIAMS:
All this radiation that we're getting from cell phones...

It's almost ironic,
if you look at it,

that the one thing that we're
trying to get away from--

the-the technology and the EMFs

that we're bombarded
with every day--

we actually get those
from rocks.

Most stones have
a weak magnetic field to them.

And some rocks have

a more pronounced
magnetic field to them.

And certain stones act
as conductors of energy,

and I think
the ancients knew it.

NARRATOR:
Of all the minerals capable of conducting

and even generating
electromagnetic forms of energy,

the most efficient
and, at times,

most powerful
are found in granite.

NEWMAN:
Red granite is used a lot in ancient Egypt.

But why is this?

It's believed
it's because it was

very, very powerful
energetically,

and this is partly to do

with the piezoelectric
effect of the quartz...

...because granite has
about 55% quartz in its makeup.

And so when you put
weight on it,

you actually get this effect

of like an electric charge
coming off the rock.

NARRATOR:
Abundant in nearly all

the ancient stone giants found
throughout the world--

including the sandstone figures
at Abu Simbel in Egypt--

quartz is known to possess
piezoelectric properties.

Today, quartz is being used

for the most powerful data
storage device ever created--

the 5D Superman Memory Crystal.

One of the new ways
scientists are working

on data storage
is the 5D quartz crystal.

And this is a way of keeping

a huge density of data
in a relatively small object.

This is an incredibly secure

and lasting way
of encoding data

because the data is actually

physically encoded
into the crystal.

It's in there forever,
until that quartz is destroyed,

and it's very hard
to destroy that quartz.

NARRATOR:
In 2018, tech entrepreneur Nova Spivack used

a 5D quartz crystal to create
a permanent space library

and sent it into orbit aboard
the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket.

Quartz is very stable,
it's a crystal,

it doesn't change
even for billions of years.

So if you put data in quartz,

it's gonna last
basically forever.

NARRATOR: At the University
of Southampton in England,

Dr. Peter Kazansky demonstrates

to author and ancient
astronaut theorist

Andrew Collins just how this new

5D quartz technology works.

How much information
could you put

into this small piece
of crystal glass?

- 800 Blu-ray discs?
- 800-- yes.

NARRATOR:
This tiny piece of quartz glass

is able to store the same
amount of information

as 600 standard smartphones.

And the amount of 5D quartz
drives it would take

to store the entire
British Library

could fit in a shoebox.

So, potentially, all of
the information in the world

can now be stored indefinitely.

NARRATOR:
To demonstrate how the technology works,

Dr. Kazansky transfers a copy of
the Bible onto a quartz drive.

What we're looking at
here, then,

is the very first stage
of converting the Bible,

in this instance, into data
which can be stored

within one of these
memory crystals.

NARRATOR:
The laser sends pulses into the quartz glass,

producing a grid
of nano-sized dots or voxels.

A traditional storage device,
like a CD, stores information

in pixels, and each pixel can
hold one bit of information.

In a quartz drive,

each voxel can hold
eight bits of information.

So, stored within here now
is the entire Bible

within this tiny memory crystal.

So, potentially, this could now
be preserved forever.

It's incredible.

NARRATOR:
The technology that Dr. Peter Kazansky

and others are developing
is still in its infancy,

but is it possible
that some form

of quartz memory drives

could have existed
in the ancient world?

Ancient civilizations
clearly had

very advanced technologies
for working with stone.

They had advanced technologies
for working with crystal

and with metal.

It's a reasonable
question to ask,

if a previous civilization
was so advanced

it could build a pyramid,

could it have
encoded data as well

in a form that we haven't
figured out yet?

NARRATOR:
Could it be that embedded within the stone giants

of the ancient world
are massive amounts of data?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
colossal stone heads,

unearthed in Central America,
that are magnetically charged.

A team of researchers from MIT,
Harvard and Yale announce

that they have discovered
unusual magnetic anomalies

within the colossal stone heads
attributed to the Monte Alto--

a Mesoamerican civilization
that emerged around 1800 BC.

CHILDRESS:
Some of these statues have very strong magnetic fields.

The creators
of these statues were

totally aware
of these magnetic fields.

And that is something that
shocked modern archaeologists,

that this rather
primitive culture, they thought,

was aware of magnetism
and that they actually chose

certain rocks
because of the magnetic field.

NARRATOR:
In Mexico, similar statues created

by the Olmec civilization

were also found to emit
magnetic anomalies.

These intricately carved heads

vary in height
from nearly five feet

to over 11 feet tall,

the largest weighing
approximately 50 tons.

Like the Monte Alto sculptures,

most of these heads
were made from basalt.

Basalt has large quantities of,

of iron and magnesium in 'em.

The Olmec were so precise

with knowing where
the magnetic fields were

that they actually
carved the structure

around these anomalies.

So, when scientists use
a magnetometer

around the stone statue,

they notice the nose
or the cheeks, around the chin,

the magnetic fields
are strongest there.

COLLINS:
The great heads of the Olmec are made of basalt.

Basalt is a volcanic substance.

And this closest source
to many of these heads

is anything
up to a hundred miles away.

Now, this is interesting
because I don't think

it's simply the case

that the basalt
was easy to sculpt

into the forms of heads.

WILLIAMS:
Basalt is dense, it's very, very heavy, thick rock

and it's very difficult
to work with,

let alone carve

with rudimentary tools
like flint.

Because they range higher
on Mohs test as far as density.

And flint is a much
softer material than basalt.

So it's difficult to understand
how they carved these things,

and the intricate detail
on some of them

is just incredible.

NEWMAN:
With these stone giants it really is a question

as to why they chose
these specific types of rock,

like granite-- we find
it's very crystalline,

it's also
electrically conductive.

We find basalt,

which is volcanic, again,
this is very magnetic.

And so, again,
it can be conductive

for various different purposes.

And so what's going on here?

Were they specifically choosing
certain types of rock

for technological reasons?

CHILDRESS:
When we look at how the ancients were selecting certain stones

that were magnetic
or had certain energies,

we wonder how they could
know about all of the,

the properties of these stones.

Are they getting
this information

from extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR:
Extraterrestrials?

Is it possible

that the ancient people
of Mesoamerica

were given instructions

to sculpt these giant
basalt heads by alien visitors?

But if so, why?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is simple.

They were intended
to be used for data storage.

In 2017, IBM made a huge
breakthrough in data storage.

They figured out how to store
201 gigabytes of data

on a square inch of tape.

That means a magnetic tape reel

the size of the palm
of your hand

can hold as much data as you
would have in 330 laptops.

WILLIAMS:
Mag tape, mag stripe tape is made out of basically

very, very tiny
magnetic particles.

And what they do is they,

they adhere them
to the back of a thin strip.

And the way it works is,
the little metal filings,

which are very microscopic,

they would all align
in a certain pattern,

kind of like the grooves
on a record player.

And it would take
another piece of equipment

similar to the one
that actually aligned them

to interpret how
those particles are lined up.

And we still use it to this day
for backup data storage.

CHILDRESS:
And so, once again, we have to ask ourselves

if these statues were, in fact,

devices that had
recorded information.

And information could be
extracted from them.

Like a computer hard drive
or something like that.

And so there's this energy
associated with them.

WILLIAMS:
Most people don't even realize

when they're looking
at some of the artwork

or some of the sculptures

or carvings
that the ancients did,

they can't figure out,

how did they know
about magnetic fields?

How did they understand?

Well, maybe there's
a technology there

that we don't understand today.

SPIVACK:
We've been looking at these objects primarily

at the macroscopic level--
what do they look like?

But maybe there's
information inside them,

encoded using nanotechnology.

Why is that likely?

Because we ourselves
are doing the same thing.

By trying to store information

for thousands
or millions of years,

you end up going
to the same physical materials

and solutions
that the hypothetical

ancient aliens may have also

figured out how to use.

NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrials taught early civilizations

how to encode data in stone,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

what information were they
trying to preserve?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

a number
of megalithic sculptures

that stand
in the jungles of Honduras.

Mysterious stone giants
depicting a divine ruler

who could see into both the past

and the future.

NARRATOR:
This ancient site, located

deep in the jungles
of the Yucat�n Peninsula,

served as one of the most
important city centers

of the Mayan empire.

The Maya thrived
between 2000 BC and 900 AD

and are celebrated for having
a vast knowledge of astronomy,

mathematics, writing
and architecture.

The Maya were
one of the longest lasting

and most expansive civilizations

that our planet has ever known.

Geographically, they covered
an area from the top

of the Yucat�n Peninsula
in the Caribbean

all the way down to
the Pacific Coast of Guatemala.

It bled into what's now
today Mexico and Honduras.

It was thought
that the great city of Cop�n

at one time covered
an area of, like,

ten square miles,
something like 20,000 people.

But sometime
in the ninth century,

this incredible Mayan city
was abandoned,

its people vanished,

and it was swallowed
by the jungle overgrowth.

NARRATOR:
The ruins of Cop�n include

dozens of elaborately
carved stone statues--

or stelae--

depicting Cop�n's
semi-divine rulers.

These larger-than-life figures

covered
with hieroglyphic writings

provide an intriguing account

of how ancient cultures
revered the heavens.

TSOUKALOS:
Cop�n is a place where even the archaeologists agree

that the celestial realm

was built on Earth

in order to show
as above, so below.

And in Cop�n, we have that
in-between level right there

laid out in this amazing
archaeological structure.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

travels to Cop�n to meet up

with renowned Mayan
archaeologist David Sedat,

who has been involved
in the excavation of the site

for more than three decades.

David, great pleasure
to meet you.

Well, I've been
looking forward to this.

I'm sure you have a lot
of things you want to see.

Yes, I do.

So, David, what are we
looking at here?

Well, this is the Great Plaza,

it's over 100 meters.
Larger than a football field.

And, uh, it's the southern,
uh, portion

of the Great Plaza
where the majority

of the great
standing stone giants

that you've come to see
are located.

NARRATOR:
Before examining Cop�n's stone giants up close,

Giorgio has been
invited to explore

the underground tunnels
beneath Temple 16.

SEDAT:
Watch your step and watch your head, it's low.

- Oh, wow, yeah.
- Yeah.

Okay, well, look
at this corbelled ceiling.

That's unbelievable.

NARRATOR:
It was here that archaeologists discovered that the structure,

believed to have
been built in 776 AD,

completely encased
an older temple called Rosalila.

Giorgio will find Rosalila
Temple especially interesting

because he'll be able to see

some of these stucco figures
right close up.

And those images,
are going to, I believe,

absolutely astound him.

Look at that.

This is extraordinary.

I mean, that to me,
it looks like a helmet

and a guy with a regulator

or a microphone
in front of his mouth.

Incredible.

It's interpreted
as an ancestor figure.

TSOUKALOS:
I see an astronaut in a helmet.

You know, rendered
by someone who has

no concept what an astronaut is.

No, this is truly extraordinary.

The Rosalila Temple is
one of countless examples

where archaeologists
themselves are saying

this temple was dedicated
in honor

of the so-called celestial gods.

The celestial beings.

Well, the archaeologists are
already speaking my language.

The only thing
they have to change is

change "celestial being"
to "extraterrestrials."

NARRATOR:
On the grounds at Cop�n

are 15 of what
are called "stelae."

The most well-known of these

were built during
the 36-year reign

of the ruler
Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,

better known by
the nickname "18 Rabbit."

This is the first time I'm
standing next to one of these.

Absolutely incredible.

What do the glyphs
say about this

particular statue or stela here?

SEDAT:
This is all a representation

of the 13th ruler who
we have nicknamed "18 Rabbit."

And they show him
taking on the persona

of the high god of Cop�n,
Ju'n Ajaw,

uh, who was a sky god,
the supreme being.

The motifs on his headdress
and other attributes

show that he is a sky deity.

This is amazing to me

because here we have not only

a statue depicting something,

which is a picture,
a carved picture,

but on the sides,
we have writing, glyphs carved

that speak of a sky deity.

Now, when I look at
something like this,

I'm immediately reminded
of misunderstood technology.

Because imagine if
a people who are intelligent,

yet their technological
frame of reference

from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago,

we have to admit was primitive--

not their intelligence,

their technological
frame of reference.

Of course,
let me just add to that

that everything shows
his connectedness of the cosmos

and this living space of mankind
in all of its senses.

And by the way, I have seen
that headdress right there

elsewhere on planet Earth.

And that is in Mesopotamia,

where you have Enki,
and the goddess Ishtar,

with the exact
or similar type headdress.

And by the way, Enki and Ishtar,
too, were sky gods.

So, you have
these references of sky gods,

not just here,
not just in Mesopotamia,

but in each and every
ancient culture

regardless of continent.

So, the fact that we have
these examples worldwide

leads me to think that it was

a flesh and blood
extraterrestrial

whom our ancestors
misinterpreted as being God.

Why? Because they came
from the sky.

Arthur C. Clarke said it best
when he said,

"Any sufficiently
advanced technology

is indistinguishable
from magic."

Imagine showing your great-great
grandfather your smart phone.

Right. That's right.

All of a sudden, you've become
a magician, a wizard.

When we, uh,
talk about technology,

I imagine some day in the future

that the technology will be such

that we'll be able
to scan this stela here...

...and we see the resonances
that are inside

the crystalline structure
of the stone.

In other words, that these were
great memory chip banks.

NARRATOR:
Great memory chip banks?

For Giorgio,
the fact that David Sedat,

a renowned archaeologist

and one of the foremost
authorities on Cop�n,

is of the opinion
that these stone giants

could be storing information
about the ancient world

is an astounding revelation.

But perhaps
even more extraordinary

is the next figure
David Sedat plans to show him.

NARRATOR: While exploring
the ruins of Cop�n

with renowned Mayan
archaeologist David Sedat,

ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos

has just been treated
to an astounding theory

concerning
the megalithic stone giants

that dot the landscape.

These were
great memory chip banks.

- Wow. Okay.
- And in the appropriate algorithm,

we could peel back into time

by hearing the sights and sounds

and everything that happened
in this sacred space

and maybe answer some of the
questions that you were posing.

Thank you for that, uh,
I appreciate that very much.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that these Mayan stone giants

were designed in such a way

as to be able to
digitally store valuable data,

much like today's
so-called "Superman" crystals?

Every single thing
we do using a phone,

using a laptop,
that all creates little data.

We're even creating
data passively.

We have microphones and multiple
cameras in all our devices.

We don't know when
something might be picked up

and stored to a server.

Or when you air-drop
something to somebody.

Using Bluetooth
and cloud-based storage,

we're transferring data
to each other

and something
could be picking up

this massive
wealth of information

and storing that data somewhere.

SPIVACK:
We've learned a lot about how ancient civilizations

understood our solar system
and their world.

These civilizations
had advanced technologies

for working with stone
and metal,

and, in some cases, crystals.

We still don't know
how they did what they did.

It's reasonable that,
given these monuments exist,

that we should analyze them
to see if there's

other layers of information
encoded in them.

CHILDRESS:
If these statues were in fact devices

that had recorded information,

you wonder if we have, also,

some evidence here
from the statues of Cop�n

that extraterrestrials
are coming to this planet.

NARRATOR:
Could the ancient stone giants of Cop�n,

like hundreds of
other stone monoliths

found all across the globe,

really be encoded
with precious information

about the ancient world?

And, if so, might they
also hold evidence

of extraterrestrial contact?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove their point,

they believe that
one of the keys can be found

by examining
the elaborate carvings

located on what
is referred to as "Stela C,"

the same one that David Sedat
considers the most incredible.

The inscription on this side
starts a 20-year period.

Equivalent to December 5 is 711.

And midnight on that night,

the Milky Way was standing
precisely straight up

in the tropical sky here.

The text goes on to say

that this also happened
4,600 years before.

And there is strong implication

that he was, as well--
like on that night--

witnessing this celestial event.

NARRATOR:
Witnessing the event?

Is it possible that the ruler
depicted on the stela,

known as 18 Rabbit,

was able to observe
an astronomical event

that occurred more than
4,000 years before his time?

Let me show you
how the narrative

picks up on the other side.

All right, let's check it out.

So, now here,
this guy has a beard.

Well, yes, this is, uh,
still 18 Rabbit,

but he's achieved
great age, great wisdom,

telling us that he is witnessing

this astronomical conjunction
of the Milky Way

two million years ago.

- Two million years ago?
- Two million years ago.

- So, this stela here?
- And he witnessed it.

Now, he witnesses this

astronomical conjunction
of the Milky Way

two million years in the future.

- As well?
- As well.

- That's extraordinary.
- So, these stones have to be

seen as
the supernatural personas

that can travel in time

simultaneously
backwards and forwards.

You've just blown my mind.

NARRATOR:
Supernatural personas that can travel through time?

If the statues of Cop�n

were really created as a means

of storing valuable
ancient knowledge,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

then how-- and why--

did that knowledge
come to be lost,

along with the keys
needed to unlock their secrets?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a number
of other stone giants

that were mysteriously buried

deep underground.

NARRATOR:
45 miles from Mexico City.

Standing guard atop
a 30-foot-tall pyramid

dedicated to the feathered
serpent god Quetzalcoatl

are four imposing
warrior figures,

each over 13 feet tall.

The city's main temple

is called "The Temple
of Quetzalcoatl."

On top of it stand
four very large columns

in the form of warriors.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists have attributed the figures

to the Toltec civilization
that preceded the Aztec

and occupied the region
around 750 AD.

Like the Olmec heads of Mexico

and the Monte Alto statues
of Guatemala,

they are carved out of basalt

and weigh
eight and a half tons each.

These giant statues at Tula,
they have a range

of odd features,
but particularly notable

are the fact that some
have three fingers.

It's as if these guys
are standing inside

some pressurized suits...

...they have these packs
on their chest,

they have helmets on,

and they have
what seem to be headsets.

NARRATOR:
While mainstream archaeologists

identify the statues
as Toltec warriors,

their actual identity
is unknown.

There is, in fact,
no way of identifying

exactly who sculpted them,
when they were sculpted

or for what purpose.

Also curious is the fact

that they were not found
where they stand now.

They were found
deep beneath the earth,

as if deliberately buried.

At Tula, they purposefully
buried these statues.

And that would be
to remove the power

that was also
associated with them.

VIEIRA:
You find many statues around the world

where there's
purposeful vandalism,

because the belief is
you disempower the statue.

It seems like superstition,

but it seems like the ancients,

uh, really understood
a lot of concepts

that we really don't get.

CHILDRESS:
The famous statues on Easter Island

were said to be alive
and to have a power in them.

But eventually there was
a revolution on Easter Island.

And they had
to kill the statues.

They would snap
the neck of the statue.

What archaeologists
have done today

is re-erected them on platforms,

put the heads back on.

Did these statues actually
have some energy or power

that the people were aware of
and influenced people as well?

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that information

stored within the world's
ancient stone giants,

or the energy they contained,

was considered so powerful
and so dangerous

that they had to be buried
or deliberately destroyed?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining exactly where

many of these quartz-filled
monoliths are located.

One thing that
we consistently see

all around the world is that

ancient sites are built

on even more ancient sites.

And why are these spots special?

They have power in them.

They're part
of this grid network.

And they placed giant statues

at these nodal places

and people
associated these statues

as having an energy
that came out of them.

NARRATOR:
In 1972, Ivan T. Sanderson,

a World Mysteries author,

noted a distinct pattern

that emerged
when he plotted locations

known for strange
magnetic disturbances on a map.

His list, which included
the Bermuda Triangle,

the Devil's Sea, south of Japan

and Easter Island

fell in a distinct formation
that circled the globe.

Other investigators have
since elaborated on his work

and mapped their own
intricate worldwide grids

based on sacred structures

and electromagnetically charged
regions of the Earth.

HENRY:
Places like Machu Picchu,

the Great Pyramid,
Kailasa Temple in India

are all considered
to be nodal points

on the world grid.

And what happened in the ancient
world is that they would build

stone giants where they could

tune into this cosmic energy.

The world grid is actually seen
as an interdimensional doorway.

That these places are seen
as portals or gateways

into other star systems.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that some highly advanced civilization

was responsible
for teaching early man

not only how to manufacture
megalithic stone giants,

but what type of material to use

and where to place them?

And, if so, were they positioned

to draw energy from the Earth

simply to power memory drives?

or could they
have served another,

even more profound purpose?

43,000 miles above the Earth,

four magnetospheric
multiscale spacecraft

fly in formation through
the Earth's magnetic boundaries.

Their mission is to record
data related to "x-points"

where the magnetic field
of the Earth

and that of the Sun
briefly merge,

forming an uninterrupted portal
from the Earth to the Sun.

There are studies that are
underway right now

to determine where
and why these portals open.

One could easily connect this
to the ancient belief that

there are portals that bring
cosmic energy to the Earth,

and that the stone statues

become vessels
of this cosmic energy.

Maybe the stone giants
are the X-portals themselves

where humans can connect
with extraterrestrials

in an energetic way,

and possibly even
travel there physically

to other civilizations
through these portals.

NARRATOR:
Portals? Is it possible that the stone giants

served as
interdimensional gateways,

allowing not only data
to be transmitted and received,

but also
extraterrestrial lifeforms?

The idea that these statues
were buried

raises the question as to should
they have been left buried?

If they were conveying
extraterrestrials,

have we potentially
reactivated them

by unburying them
and putting them

at their original locations?

HENRY:
The stone giants that we see scattered around the planet

represent
a profound cosmic truth,

and that is that
we once were connected

with the divine beings
or the celestial beings,

and we've lost that connection.

So, by replacing those stone
giants or recovering them,

we're actually
reconnecting ourselves

with these divine beings,
with celestial beings,

through these stone statues.

CHILDRESS:
If we were able to completely understand this system,

a system which is apparently

not completely functioning
right now,

and by rebuilding
some of the giant statues

at certain places
on this world grid,

we might be able to reconstruct

that worldwide system
that was in place.

And quite possibly
put by extraterrestrials.

In some ways, I think
we're doing that right now,

slowly, bit by bit.

NARRATOR:
Might the proof of humanity's extraterrestrial past

lie concealed within
the effigies commemorating

the so-called "gods"
found in G �bekli Tepe,

Easter Island,

Egypt

and other corners of the globe?

Could there be more
to these enigmatic figures?

Perhaps someday soon,

we'll discover
that they not only contain

a storehouse
of encoded knowledge

waiting for us to uncover,

but also serve as a gateway,

allowing us to come face-to-face

with the alien visitors

our ancestors so meticulously
immortalized in stone.

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