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>> Ancient cultures around the world had a ruling class that

practiced intentional cranial modification,

a procedure to deliberately reshape the skull to express

status, wealth, and nobility.

Some of the oldest examples of this

were dated as far back as five to 12,000 years ago

in China and spans continents around the world.

Was this an attempt to imitate an advanced race

of beings with elongated heads?

If so, might they be extraterrestrials,

and what evidence suggests that they actually existed?

>> In my opinion, there was an advanced civilization on this

planet at one point who were our progenitors.

I very much believe they had elongated skulls

from what we can see in all our ancient iconography

and mythologies.

And subsequently, all the other civilizations that followed

attempted to mimic them.

Sometimes that included cranial deformation.

At other times, that included different hats and symbolism.

But we know that they existed, and we

know that they came before us.

>> Why should humans make elongated head, and how?

We know it from Central and South America.

When the Spanish conqueror arrived, for example,

in today's Peru, they saw some of the young priest

boys which had long heads.

And they asked them, how do these long heads come from?

They brought them at home.

And at home, they show the Spanish conqueror.

They show the babies.

The babies who were just born--

they just left the mother's womb--

and because the head, the bones are soft,

they pressed the bones of the boys

so that the bones became longer and longer.

>> The reason that this mimicry, or cranial deformation,

took place is because these rulers with the elongated

skulls were venerated in the ancient world.

Who were they trying to mimic?

Who were they trying to uphold?

Again, we have this very ancient connection

to these rulers with elongated skulls.

>> While elongated skulls are a worldwide phenomena,

some of the best examples to have been scientifically

examined come from Peru.

Four hours South of Lima is the Paracas Peninsula of Peru,

an area surrounded by rich agricultural landscapes

and a civilization that can be traced back

to at least 5,000 years.

It is here, in 1928, that archaeologist Julio Tello

discovered a collection of enormously elongated skulls.

Canadian scientist Brien Foerster

has lived in Peru for the past 10 years,

dedicating his entire focus to studying these specimens.

>> And it wasn't until about 12 years ago,

when I entered this museum here owned, by Señor Juan Navarro,

who was a local amateur archaeologist,

that I saw my first elongated skull.

And actually, it's a mummified one.

And coming from a biological premed background,

I was astonished at seeing this because I couldn't understand

what it was.

We have examples of skulls--

the oldest ones, which appear to be natural elongated skulls.

And then, later on, when you have the Nazca culture

interacting with the Paracas, that's

when the head binding began.

Standard academia states that the Paracas

arrived on the coast of Peru, or evolved as a group,

as a cohesive group, probably around 800 BC or 600 BC.

But that's not based on any radiocarbon analysis at all.

It's a supposition.

So we're the only ones who have been able to actually do

radiocarbon testing.

And the results that we have been able to get

do fit into that timeline.

The oldest one that we've been able to radiocarbon test

is around 2,400 years old.

So that's near the beginning of the so-called Paracas period.

Again, among the original elongated skulls,

which we believe were born with elongated skulls,

they have eye sockets which are probably 50% larger than normal

and are more vertically elongated.

Also, the jaw, the lower jaw--

the mandible-- is much larger than normal.

And then, there are also these two holes

in the back of the skull here, which

are a genetic characteristic.

And what they probably indicate is

that was for blood and nerve flow

in order to properly feed and nourish

the vertically elongated head.

>> In every single case, these elongated skulls are different

from normal human beings.

For so long, the experts--

the archaeologists, the anthropologists--

have told us that these skulls were created by human beings

by pushing the brain when the person was a child

and deforming the skull-- the head.

But now we know, through analysis of DNA,

they are not similar to us.

>> Radiocarbon testing has dated the oldest elongated skull

to approximately 2,400 years old.

That's the beginning of the so-called Paracas period.

>> The intriguing thing about the fact that the earliest

elongated skulls--

almost if not 100% of them--

they show that they had, while they were alive,

a very rich, dark reddish hair.

And that is not a Native American characteristic.

That's another suggestion of migration from somewhere else.

Most people think of red hair as being

the characteristic of Scandinavians

or Irish people or Scottish people.

But, in fact, it goes back to the Middle East.

And that's somewhat in the area where

we're starting to see a genetic DNA relationship, as well.

Two major hair experts studying hundreds

of samples of Paracas red hair have

stated that black hair always remains black.

Red hair, of course, over the course of time,

can lighten to blondish.

That is a genetic characteristic that

doesn't fit in with standard history

of Native American people of the coast of Peru.

And the other thing is none of the skulls

that we've examined show canine teeth.

So they don't have the canine, predatory, meat-eating tooth

that we have.

They're all quite normal, or regular looking.

And that's an anomaly.

Well, the basic characteristics that

distinguish cranial deformation from a natural skull

is the lack of the suture line.

I'm not talking about a partial lack.

It's non-existent.

>> In a normal human skull, the sagittal suture,

which is a connective tissue joint between the two parietal

bones of the skull, appears from the frontal plate and continues

over the dome of the skull, connecting with the occipital

plate in the rear.

Many of the skulls discovered in Paracas,

however, are completely devoid of a sagittal suture.

Might this be a genetic anomaly of a human being

or point to other possibilities worth considering?

>> We performed analysis on the skull volume--

the size of the skulls--

as compared to humans.

The skulls had a larger volume than human skulls--

slightly larger volume.

The morphology of the skull plates--

so there's sutures that are very well evident on a cranium--

the sutures where the two plates of the cranial skull

come together were different in the elongated skulls.

So we were able to document all these morphological differences

with the skulls and then, as well,

able to perform a DNA extraction of tissue samples

from both of the skulls.

>> While intentional cranial modification changes the shape

of the skull, the question remains--

would it alter other features that

are characteristic of a regular human skull?

>> It's mainly in the skull characteristics that we find

these massive anomalies, including what's called

the foramen magnum.

And that is where your spinal column enters

the bottom of your skull.

In the original elongated skulls of this area,

the foramen magnum is a full 1 inch

back from where it's supposed to be.

Because with us, of course, it's at the balance point,

so it's almost in the center.

But the original Paracas, it's basically 1 inch backwards.

And that matches with the vertical elongated skull

characteristic.

>> They are human mutations because we have a fetus with

an elongated skull.

We have the hole that joins the heads to the spine

is moved backwards more than one centimeter.

That is not possible.

If you do that with a human being, you kill it.

The foramen hole is moved.

And that proves that this is not the same kind of human beings.

>> When intentional cranial modification is carried out

on a baby, the head binding usually begins a month after

birth, when the head is most pliable,

and continues for six months or longer.

Previous discoveries of fetuses and newborns

with an elongated head suggests that

intentional cranial modification could not have taken place,

since it takes at least six months to modify

the shape of its head to produce the desired results.

>> So if you deform the head, you can get it to be more

conic, but you won't be able to get it to change its volume.

>> We've had many doctors, many nurses, many dentists,

and even brain specialists and brain surgeons and people like

that, physically come and look at the skulls.

And again, what most of them say is,

that's not something that I studied

in medical school, especially the lack

of the sagittal suture, the fact that the eye sockets are

at least 50% larger than normal, the two

holes in the back of the skull, and the fact

that the foramen magnum is a full 1 inch back.

That can't be explained through head binding or anything

like that.

That has to be genetic.

That's proof positive, according to medical experts that I've

shown that discovery to, that these were not

Homo sapiens sapiens.

At minimum, they were a subspecies of Homo sapiens.

>> Some of these skulls are very well preserved.

There's hairs, and there's skin, and there's tissue in them.

And so they're fairly easy to test.

And so the age of the remains was given

but not the DNA analysis.

And so I was fortunate enough to be

able to get samples and send them

to universities to do analysis.

>> Tissue samples taken from two of the Paracas skulls

by geneticist William Brown and scientist Nassim Haramein were

given to the UCLA Center for Genomic and Bioinformatics lab.

Ancient DNA extraction was performed.

And by early 2019, they started analyzing the whole genome.

>> We have preliminary results from the testing we've done,

and it appears to have anomalies that are very interesting.

Some of the anomalies that we're finding in the testing

is making us think that they could be--

a significant possibility that these are--

the result of some kind of different species, at least,

than the Homo sapiens sapiens.

>> The 1000 Genomes Project is the largest public catalog

of human variation and genotype data.

Initial genetic test results of the Paracas skulls

relative to this genome catalog reveals a large degree

of gene variation.

What this indicates is either non-random changes in the DNA

or a high degree of genetic divergence from Homo sapiens.

Perhaps even more fascinating is the analysis

done with a John Hopkins Deep Sequencing Genomics Core.

No alignment or match to the human reference genome

was found.

Could these DNA samples from the Paracas elongated skulls

possibly come from an extinct race of people?

>> Mostly, we've done the analysis on the mitochondrial

DNA, which shows some significant variations that may

suggest that, at least on the mother's side,

there was some alteration of the genome structure that makes us

think that it might have been a sister species from the Homo

sapiens sapiens--

something similar but not quite the same.

And we don't know where those genes would have come from.

>> The standard story, again, from academics is that all

of the people of this area were descended from people whose

ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge.

And if that was the case, then the maternal haplogroup,

which is the mother's DNA, would be haplogroup B.

Because only four bloodlines, or haplogroups, crossed the Bering

Land Bridge, as far as we know, to get to this general area.

And those are haplogroups A, B, C, and D,

with B being the far most prominent one.

>> A haplogroup is a genetic population group of people who

share a common ancestor on the paternal or maternal lineage.

Haplogroups are assigned letters of the alphabet,

and refinements consist of additional number and letter

combinations.

>> So we did that analysis, and we traced the mitochondrial

genome of these two elongated skulls to the haplogroup that

most closely compares to the mitochondrial DNA of the two

elongated skulls is in the Black Sea region of Central Asia.

So this particular haplogroup is most strongly represented

in this region around the Black Sea.

And it's very interesting because, in that region,

you find elongated skulls.

>> You don't have genetic adaptation in 2,000 or 3,000

or even 10,000 years.

You're talking probably hundreds of thousands of years.

So you have this sudden rise of similar culture,

or "similar-looking" people, quote unquote, in very distant,

separate lands.

That doesn't fit in with evolution as we know it--

a sudden appearance and then a rapid disappearance

of these people.

>> It's very unusual because in South America,

you very rarely or never find that particular mitochondrial

haplotype.

But these elongated skulls, that's where they mapped to.

And so what that would suggest is that the maternal lineage--

the mother's side-- came, in whatever way,

from that geographic region.

These skulls, the mitochondrial genome from them,

had upwards of 50 single nucleotide variants,

so more than double the amount you normally

see in the human population anywhere.

For comparison, a Neanderthal mitochondrial genome,

compared to humans, has about 150

or more single nucleotide variants, the Denisovan lineage

230 or more.

And so the mother might be a sister species to human.

Now, at what point do you call something a separate species?

But the mitochondrial DNA on the mother's side

is not closely related to any extant human populations,

either.

>> If DNA sequencing derived from these elongated skulls

reveal anomalies relating to the maternal lineage,

then what was uncovered from the paternal lineage?

>> What you have is a Y chromosome that is not matching

to the human reference genome.

Y chromosome, suggesting that the father was not Homo

sapiens.

And if that was the case, it would go a long way

in explaining why we detected such a high degree of variation

in the rest of the genome.

Because this variation is coming from a not entirely Homo

sapiens father.

>> This is very unusual.

It's very unclear where and what.

If there was a cross between different species

that produced this elongated skull feature,

what was the other species?

Now, when we get a better understanding

of the nuclear DNA of the father's side of the equation,

we might get a little more of these answers.

But preliminary results show that the father's side,

the nuclear DNA, is less related to human

than a banana, which a banana is about 40%

the same sequencing as humans.

What it's looking like--

very preliminary-- it doesn't even have 40%

match to the Homo sapiens sapiens.

>> Might the anomalous test results reveal from the DNA

of the Paracas elongated skulls be evidence of another species

of humans?

Or is it possible that some kind of genetic tampering

has taken place?

>> If it's a kind of mutation that you don't naturally see,

that means that it's suggestive that the changes were directed

by an intelligent agent.

So I could produce that kind of ratio of changes

by directly engineering or influencing

the genome of an organism.

>> These highly strange anomalies are not unique

to the Paracas elongated skulls.

In the Nazca region of Peru, Gaia investigators

uncovered a female, mummified humanoid

that the team named Maria.

She also had an elongated skull with mysterious DNA.

>> It is interesting because the DNA analysis for Maria had

a 20% matching homology to the human reference genome.

That's what we saw with the Y chromosome

for the elongated skulls.

Very interesting.

I could offer some speculation on that.

Maybe the father looked more like Maria,

by that kind of hominid form.

That would be in agreement with the similarity between only 20%

matches up with the human reference genome,

just like what was seen with Maria.

>> Other medical specialists examined Maria.

What they observed were anomalies

similar to those from the Paracas region.

Dr. MK Jesse, a musculoskeletal radiologist

at the University of Colorado Hospital in Denver,

looked at the scans.

>> The shape of the skull is interesting.

It's very elongated, an atypical appearance of a human skull

like you and I know.

The skull, I don't see any suture lines.

There's no bones that are separate in the skull.

They all appear fused.

So this appears to be a solid structure.

>> If the CAT scans and X-rays proved it was organic bone

and the bones didn't seem to be altered,

could this be evidence of a new species?

Angel Romero, a genomic specialist from Mexico,

seems to think that may be so.

>> I have to say that this sample contains DNA that we

currently don't know.

It could be from an organism that has not been studied.

Perhaps there was some microbiological contamination

of the samples.

But it could also be original DNA from these bodies.

That means that these bodies could belong to a previously

unknown species.

>> What the DNA results reveal from the Nazca mummy, Maria,

are striking anomalies similar to those from the Paracas

samples.

>> Of the DNA that was isolated, only 25% of the total matched

any known human gene.

So that means that 75% of this DNA

is not matching any known human reference sequence.

And this is pretty rigorous because there's the 1000 Human

Genome Project, where they have done whole genome

sequencing of over 2,000 individuals

from every continent on Earth and compiled

kind of like a average human reference genome.

And so you take these sequences isolated from the sample

with this being, and you go and you compare them

to that human reference genome data, and only 25% match up.

75% don't.

>> The initial question we asked of gene sequencing laboratories

in Canada, Mexico, and Russia was,

does this DNA match any modern human DNA or any DNA

in their data banks?

The answer from all three labs was, no.

>> We know about the carbon-14 analysis that Maria is 1,700

years old.

We know that the structure of the body

is not similar to human beings.

We know that the head is elongated,

that the eyes were bigger than Os.

That's more or less what we know of Maria.

>> While remarkably similar anomalies are found in both

Nazca and Paracas, the question remains, what might these be?

>> When we examine these larger, natural,

genetic specimens of elongated skulls we find in Paracas

of Peru, we have to ask ourselves,

could this larger brain capacity be the product of beings that

never evolved here?

I tend to think that's the case, especially when we look

at the differences between the Paracas skulls

and even the Incan royalty, who exhibited

various genetic abnormalities.

>> I know for sure that some extraterrestrials had sex with

humans--

definitely.

Just read the Bible.

In the beginning, when the sons of the gods

saw that the daughters of man were beauty,

they took them to wife.

Which sons of the gods?

There are no sons of the gods.

God has no sons.

It was the extraterrestrials.

Read the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch gives the name of the guardians of the sky.

And 36 of them went down to the planet Earth

and they had, definitely, sex with humans, which is

written in the Book of Enoch.

And the result were Giants.

And the Giants had elongated heads.

That's why the humans adored them.

The humans were afraid of them.

Later, the humans copied it.

They wanted to look like them.

There was definitely a sexual contact

between extraterrestrials and humans.

>> A recent publication has disclosed that the Paracas

skulls have 60% more mass, as well as being 25% larger than

a human skull.

With mounting evidence that the elongated skulls in Peru

may be of unknown genetic origins,

or possibly even extraterrestrial,

is it possible we need to reexamine our human history?

>> It challenges our histories.

It challenges us because the narrative

has to be completely torn apart and rewritten again.

And I don't think that traditional academia

has wanted to look at that up till this point.

>> To me, what happened with the elongated heads and what it

says about humanity, is that we don't have all

of the ingredients to be able to understand the evolution

of humanoids and what eventually produced the Homo sapiens

sapiens.

We're missing links.

All of a sudden, this Homo sapiens sapiens occurs which

has a larger skull, right, almost a doubling of the brain

size, and so on-- much smaller stature--

that this change happened as a result

of an alteration of the gene that

was done by external means.

>> They were special people, probably hybrids.

Probably, they were created.

That we don't know.

Or probably they were a special race

that disappeared, that they were here and disappeared,

or they come from somewhere else, and they left.

It's very difficult to understand this.

But the only thing we know for sure

is that those heads were not deformed, were not created,

by other human beings.

They are natural.

And behind them has to be a fascinating story.

>> Is it possible that their ancestors came from another

star system?

My mind and my heart and my body and spirit

are open to those possibilities.

Because they are such an anomaly.

Were their ancestors alien?

It's possible.

Were they, to some degree, alien?

That's possible.

Were they a hybrid of human and some closely related life

form from this planet or beyond?

That we don't know.

But what we do know definitively is they were not

Homo sapiens sapiens.

>> I think it's entirely possible that this progenitor

group with elongated skulls had bred and intermingled with

various groups of ancient peoples.

And as time went on and this lineage started to dissipate,

it was mimicked.

It was copied with the artificial deformation.

And this group may have disappeared

into the background.

They may have gone home to whatever planet they came from.

But one thing is for certain, that they were here

on our planet.

They influenced our cultures, our religions, our art.

And they made a gigantic impact.

>> It is without doubt that humans around the world

practiced intentional cranial modification to venerate

ancient beings of advanced culture.

But who were they venerating?

Could the people of Europe or the Middle East

have migrated to the Americas long before it's conventionally

believed?

Is it not as likely that the unusual characteristics

of the Paracas skulls may possibly be

extraterrestrial in origin?

When DNA testing reveals characteristics that cannot be

identified in a worldwide database,

does this prove the case?

As ongoing efforts to examine the elongated skulls continue,

perhaps one day we may trace our human origins

to our cosmic family.

In our next episode, explore the possibility

of extraterrestrials in the Bible.