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NARRATOR: Mysterious stone
structures that defy explanation.
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Look at that.
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NARRATOR: Exhibiting
electromagnetic anomalies...
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- And you can see it's fluctuating. See it there?
- Yeah, right.
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NARRATOR:
That have even been linked
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to UFO sightings.
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Thousands of people
would witness
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these massive
triangular spacecraft
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congregate towards where
these chambers are.
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NARRATOR: And perhaps
most incredible of all,
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these ancient sites are located
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in the Northeastern
United States.
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WILLIAM HENRY: These mysterious
stone structures are in fact
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Druid structures.
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NARRATOR: Could an
extraterrestrial culture
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have existed in North America
centuries ago?
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BILL BIRNES: People were
not only seeing UFOs,
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they were seeing creatures, they
were experiencing missing time.
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WHITLEY STRIEBER: I have experienced
it directly for years now.
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It's an extraordinary place
of power.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
New York's Hudson Valley.
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December 26, 1985.
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Author Whitley Strieber has
an experience that becomes
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the basis of his blockbuster
book Communion.
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STRIEBER: My wife and
I had bought a cabin.
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And in October of 1985,
strange experiences
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began to happen there
that were memorable
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but not understandable.
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And then, on December the 26th,
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I felt myself in motion...
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and woke up in the middle
of the night.
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And the room was filled
with these willowy figures
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with big black eyes,
and dark blue,
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short figures moving around.
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I assumed it was a nightmare,
and I kept trying
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to wake up from the dream,
and I couldn't.
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Then I began to hear a voice
repeating, a very gentle voice.
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But it was like
a mechanical voice:
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"What can we do to help you
stop screaming?"
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And I thought, "I'm screaming?"
And I was screaming.
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That was the beginning of it,
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and that's when the rest
of my life began.
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ANDREW COLLINS: And to this
day, he still doesn't know
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exactly who they were,
where they came from.
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Were they aliens?
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Were they inter-dimensional
visitors?
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He cannot say.
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NARRATOR:
Unbeknownst to him at the time,
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Strieber's abduction was
actually witnessed
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by a neighbor.
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STRIEBER:
After I published Communion,
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one neighbor shamefully admitted
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that he had seen
what happened to me that night.
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He and his wife had been
driving home from a party
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at about 2:00 in the morning,
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and they had seen what they
thought was the Goodyear Blimp
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landed in a field
near our houses.
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And suddenly, lights came on
all over it.
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He heard someone
screaming inside.
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His wife panicked,
and he drove away.
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And a year later, he said to me,
"Whitley, I'm so ashamed
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"to tell you,
I know it was you in there.
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It was a man screaming.
It had to have been you."
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NARRATOR: Communion became
a massive best seller,
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and ignited a cultural shift
in people's attitudes
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towards the subject
of alien abduction.
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STRIEBER:
When I published it,
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I thought there were,
like, maybe
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30 or 40 people
who had had the experience,
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not millions.
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But it was millions.
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NARRATOR:
But for UFO researchers
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and ancient astronaut
theorists alike,
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of particular significance
is where
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Strieber's encounter occurred.
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The Hudson Valley
stretches northward
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150 miles, from New York City
up to Albany.
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STRIEBER: This occurred
right at the western border
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of the Hudson Valley.
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The area is full of
this type of thing.
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And after I published Communion,
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people from the neighborhood
would come forward,
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one after another,
to tell me their own stories.
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NARRATOR:
Kent, New York.
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New Year's Eve, 1982.
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(party horns blowing)
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Just a few miles
from the Hudson River,
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New Year's Eve revelers spot
a gigantic V-shaped craft
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throbbing with red,
white and green lights.
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As they watch in amazement,
the colors vanish,
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replaced by white lights
so bright
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they illuminate the ground.
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Over the next months,
authorities are bombarded
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with hundreds
of similar reports.
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PHILIP IMBROGNO: Usually, UFOs just
appear to a small number of people,
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and they disappear.
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In this case, people were
stopped on the highways.
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People were running out
of their houses watching
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this enormous object pass over,
the size of a football field.
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BIRNES: They were so large that
people standing between trees
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couldn't see the ends
of the flying triangles
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'cause they were so big.
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That's how large they were.
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NARRATOR: The sightings continued
for more than six years,
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and became the most
widely reported
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in American history.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: The Hudson
Valley UFO sightings continued,
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well, up to 1988.
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It's estimated that
as many as 5,000 people
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called in and made reports
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of this very large,
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lit-up UFO.
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HUGH NEWMAN: Other accounts
are of people seeing
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these strange balls of light,
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which move around in erratic
and unusual ways.
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IMBROGNO: UFOs were being
seen all over the place.
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Pilots were seeing them,
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police officers were
chasing them.
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It was like something
out of a movie.
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NARRATOR: But why were so
many UFO sightings reported
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in this one particular area?
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Could there be a connection
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to Whitley Strieber's
abduction experience?
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The thinking is that
when you have so much
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UFO activity in one place,
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that place is going
to be significant.
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There's something about
that area, it seems,
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that is attracting the UFOs.
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They want something
in that location.
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There is a connection with
something in that location.
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Some have suggested
the reason why
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these sightings have happened
at the Hudson Valley
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is because they are
on top of a vortex.
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Now, what's a vortex?
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Well, there are varying opinions
of what that is.
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Some have suggested that
they are magnetic points
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that are part of the Earth's
magnetic grid.
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Other's have suggested
that vortexes are
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sort of these portals.
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COLLINS: What we call
"portals" are locations where
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paranormal phenomena
and supernatural events
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occur on an extremely
regular basis,
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and have done for many decades,
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if not hundreds of years.
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NARRATOR: Some argue that
New York's Hudson Valley
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and the adjoining region
of New England,
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America's Northeast,
may be just such a vortex.
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STRIEBER: There is definitely
an extraordinary place of power,
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the Hudson Valley.
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If you want to call it a vortex,
then sure it's a vortex.
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I'd have to be completely nuts
to say anything else,
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because I experienced it
directly for years there.
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NARRATOR: Could Whitley
Strieber's story of Communion,
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and the frenzied Hudson Valley
UFO sightings of the 1980s
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be just two small parts
of a much larger story?
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A story that begins thousands
of years before Columbus,
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when ancient visitors
set sail for America,
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bringing with them
secrets from the stars.
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Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
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the hundreds of strange
stone structures
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that dot the area,
and their possible connection
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to an ancient people
known as the Druids.
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Salem, New Hampshire.
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July 9, 1975.
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At one of New England's most
popular archaeological sites,
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Mystery Hill, also known
as "America's Stonehenge,"
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Harvard professor Barry Fell
discovers a stone tablet
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with a mysterious script
carved into it.
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He identifies it as belonging
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to a writing system
called "ogham,"
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which was used
by the Irish Celts
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who lived 2,000 years ago,
and 3,000 miles away,
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in their traditional homeland
of Ireland.
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He translates the script
as meaning, "Dedicated to Bel,"
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the Celtic sun god.
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But why would there be
Celtic writing
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carved into an ancient
stone tablet in New Hampshire?
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NEWMAN: There is some
evidence that the Celts
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were in ancient America.
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The megalithic stone chambers.
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We have stone circles.
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There's stone avenues.
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There's also ogham writing
that's been found.
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And there's even some dolmens
as well.
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And it's all what you find
in ancient Ireland
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and ancient Europe.
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NARRATOR:
In recent years,
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a growing number of people
have come to believe
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that the Celts were present
in the American Northeast
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thousands of years ago.
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And some suggest that
these mysterious Celtic priests
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believed that the land possessed
a powerful energy.
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Did the Celts travel
to North America
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because of its connection
to extraterrestrial activity?
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Or, in coming here,
did they open a gateway
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that is still open today?
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NARRATOR:
Harvard University, 1976.
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Professor Barry Fell,
who discovered
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what he believed
to be ancient Celtic writing
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in New Hampshire
one year earlier,
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publishes America B.C.
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In it, he argues that long
before Christopher Columbus
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reached the shores
of the New World in 1492,
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America was visited
by the Druids,
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a high-ranking priest class
of the Celtic people
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who first arose in
Northern Europe around 800 BC.
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As evidence,
Fell points to the prevalence
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of strange stone chambers
scattered over
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large areas of the
Hudson Valley and New England.
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NEWMAN:
All over New England
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and New York state,
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hundreds of these
unusual stone chambers.
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Many of them are thought to be
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colonial root cellars,
where local colonialists
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would place their vegetables
in for storage.
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(leaves rustling)
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If they're root cellars,
if they're just for
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where the colonialists would
place their vegetables,
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then why are they so far out
in the middle of nowhere?
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And why were some of them
being reported
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by colonial people
as they moved into this area,
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even as far back as the 1600s?
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STRIEBER: There were stone
structures all over the place.
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But they weren't things made
by settlers because
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there had never been
any agriculture in those woods.
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You can't grow anything there.
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SALVATORE TRENTO: Many of
them have stone flooring.
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And stone is not the best
material for keeping crops.
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The cold seeps through
and destroys the crops.
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But there was something else.
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We've dated charcoal
that we found within
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many of these structures
and they date back
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to about 3,000 years ago.
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I think that the stone chambers,
which are dismissed
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so often as root cellars,
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are not root cellars.
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I've been in a couple
of those chambers
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and that is no root cellar,
believe you me.
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NARRATOR:
Professor Fell also noted
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that the chambers
accurately line up with
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astronomical events like
the solstice and the equinox,
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just like ancient Celtic
megaliths in Europe.
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Could Professor Fell
have been right?
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Were these chambers built by
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the ancient Druids
of Northern Europe?
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There's been a lot of discussion
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over the last century
about if these chambers
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are actually part of an ancient
Celtic or Druid tradition
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that came over from Europe.
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HENRY: They're virtually identical
to the Neolithic structures
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we find throughout Europe
that were created
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by the Druids for the purpose
of meditation,
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as observatories
of stellar phenomena
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and perhaps even other
more mysterious purposes.
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IMBROGNO:
There are all types of legends
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that people from Europe
came here a long time ago
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and explored the East Coast
of the United States
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from New York, Connecticut,
all the way up
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to Vermont and Massachusetts.
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And they actually built these
structures with a Druid priest
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and they were used
for ceremonial purposes.
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NARRATOR:
Did Druids visit America
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centuries before Columbus
and build these structures?
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And if so, are they connected
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to the Hudson Valley sightings
of the 1980s
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and even the abduction story
told by Whitley Strieber
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in his book, Communion?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by more closely examining
just who the Druids were
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and who they worshipped.
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(wind whistling)
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Wiltshire, England.
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Summer solstice, 500 BC.
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As ancient Celts converge
on the megalithic
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stone circle known
as Stonehenge,
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the Sun's first rays
shine directly into
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the center of the monument.
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Like the stone chambers
found scattered
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throughout
the American Northeast,
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Stonehenge is aligned
to this celestial event.
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The Celts are led
by their Druid priests
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who are believed to communicate
with a higher realm.
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RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
The Druids, history shows us,
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the ancient inhabitants in both
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the British Isles
and in Ireland.
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They were allegedly
an ancient priesthood.
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Masters of magic, science.
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They were political leaders.
They were judges.
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They were essentially the elite.
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Who exactly were they?
Where did they come from?
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NARRATOR: According to Irish
legend, the Druid priests
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were instructed by a race
of godlike beings
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who descended from the heavens:
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"The Shining Ones"
or Tuatha Dé Danann.
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TOK THOMPSON: The Tuatha
Dé Danann are probably
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the most important tribe
in Irish mythology.
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All the representations
we have that
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the Tuatha Dé Danann
were special.
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So the "Tuatha" means tribe.
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"Dé" means gods or divine,
so, divine tribes.
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Gods of the divine.
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According to these
ancient Irish books,
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the Tuatha Dé Danann
had red hair
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and blue or green eyes.
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They had magical powers.
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And they arrived in airships
with dark clouds.
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They had all kinds
of magical devices
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and weapons that they used.
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The Shining Ones had access
to strange pieces of weaponry.
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For example, one of them
is called the light sword.
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This sword made out of fire...
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(flames roaring)
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with which you could end
any battle like this.
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It is my opinion that those were
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the extraterrestrials
who imparted
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the first type of knowledge
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to the local population
of that area.
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NARRATOR: Are the Celtic
stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann
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actual historical accounts
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of an alien visitation
in Ireland?
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And if so, were these teachers
perhaps also present
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in the American Northeast
thousands of years ago?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes.
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And they suggest
physical evidence
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may have been unearthed
on a quiet New England beach.
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Milford, Connecticut.
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August 19, 1922.
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The dean of American archeology,
Warren Moorehead,
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makes a shocking discovery
on the Connecticut shore.
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His excavations uncover the
remains of two massive giants.
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Their discovery sparked
a media sensation.
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IMBROGNO:
Warren Moorehead uncovered
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two skeletons
of some strange beings
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which were over seven feet tall.
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They had flat heads
and extra rows of teeth.
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NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
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an intriguing clue
about the giants' origins
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can be found in the
Native American oral tradition,
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which says that
the giants had red hair.
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COLLINS:
Red hair is something
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that is traditionally
associated with
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the Celtic peoples of Britain.
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So is it possible that there's
a relationship between
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the ancient British peoples
and these giants?
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NARRATOR:
If Druids came to the New World
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and built the stone chambers
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scattered throughout
New England,
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did they do so with the help
of extraterrestrial visitors?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by more closely examining
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these potentially
ancient structures
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and the mysterious properties
they exhibit.
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NARRATOR:
North Salem, New York.
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April 2019.
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Seeking a link between the
Celts, Druids and the New World,
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ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress
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and British megalith expert
Hugh Newman
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set out to visit
one of the most mysterious
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stone structures in America:
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- Balanced Rock.
- CHILDRESS: I'm excited about
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seeing this Balanced Rock.
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And you, you think
it's a dolmen.
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- Is that what you're saying?
- I'm convinced it's a dolmen.
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It looks like something
you would find in Britain.
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NARRATOR:
Thousands of ancient dolmens
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have been found
throughout Europe.
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Most are known to be
at least 5,000 years old,
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and since rock
cannot be carbon-dated,
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could be far older.
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The dolmens were
sometimes open tombs
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under which a body would be
ceremonially placed.
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COLLINS:
This monument
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that is known
as Balanced Rock resembles
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almost exactly
the stone dolmens of Europe.
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NEWMAN:
It's a massive top stone.
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60 to 90 tons are the estimates.
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And it's just
a remarkable place.
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And so, geologists
are saying that it's...
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a glacial erratic
and a-a glacier just brought it.
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It's, it's totally natural.
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As the glacier pulled out,
it just sort of
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dropped them down
on these stones.
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That's what they say,
but it just doesn't make sense
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'cause it looks like
it's constructed.
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You can see the shaping on the,
the stones underneath it.
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NARRATOR:
Just a few miles south
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of the mass UFO sightings
that happened
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in Kent, New York in the 1980s,
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David and Hugh arrive
at the mysterious formation.
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Wow, look at that.
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Oh, man. That is huge.
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NEWMAN: That is pretty
impressive, isn't it?
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- CHILDRESS: That is a giant dolmen, isn't it?
- I know.
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- I know. It's amazing.
- Cool, wow.
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It looks like a European dolmen,
doesn't it?
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It does, it's identical.
'Cause you have,
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we have these uprights; I mean,
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there were originally
seven there.
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- Uh-huh.
- There seems to be five or six there.
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It's hard to tell
because some split.
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And the fact that it's granite
is quite intriguing,
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combined with
the gneiss rock underneath.
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So there is a potential
piezoelectric effect.
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And this site is renowned
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for having kind of energies
associated with it.
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NARRATOR: In the so-called
"piezoelectric effect,"
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electrical energy accumulates
in solids, rocks
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and otherwise lifeless matter.
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Some claim that objects infused
with piezoelectricity
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can produce strange
and anomalous results.
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Because this is granite,
it's infused
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- with tiny quartz crystals.
- Yeah.
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So, yeah, there should be
some energy coming out of it.
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I believe there is, and also,
the landscape it's in,
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it sits right on top
of a negative magnetic anomaly,
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directly under
the main part of the stone.
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So you think that this is
some kind of vortex area,
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and there's a magnetic anomaly,
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and that perhaps they used
that magnetic anomaly
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to move this giant boulder
a-and place it here?
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It's quite possible.
And I think,
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if you place them
in the right spot
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when there's magnetic anomalies
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or telluric currents underneath,
which is both here,
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you have
the piezoelectric effect.
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So when you place seeds
or grains there,
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it'll charge them up,
and you'll get a higher yield
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and a better-quality crop.
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CHILDRESS: Seeds that
are charged under here
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for one or two days,
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and then other seeds
that aren't charged,
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they grow 'em together,
and the ones from here grow,
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like, twice as fast.
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NEWMAN: This has been
tested scientifically.
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CHILDRESS: So, if there's some
kind of energy vortex here,
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- you can measure that, right?
- Yeah.
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So, I've got this.
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This is a TriField magnetometer.
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This is a classic device
where you measure
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different readings
from magnetic fluctuations.
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Also electric charge.
Even radiation.
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Well, should we do some tests?
Shall we see what we can find?
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- Yeah, let's do it.
- Yeah, let's go.
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Okay, let's turn this on.
So what we'll do is,
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we'll get down a bit closer in.
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- Uh-huh.
- Let's put this down here, right in the center.
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And look, immediately...
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We've got it on the magnetic,
uh, setting,
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so we're getting
fluctuations already.
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CHILDRESS: So that means that
there's an anomalous energy here.
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Some magnetic field
that's stronger than outside.
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So this energy field is pulsing.
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NEWMAN:
This is a proper energy site.
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So let's just keep
walking around,
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see if we can pick up any other
fluctuations or readings here.
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And, yeah, this spot here
seems to be the-the hot spot.
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- CHILDRESS: It's stronger now.
- NEWMAN: It's much stronger.
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- It's almost double.
- Uh-huh.
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NEWMAN: We certainly
have an anomaly here.
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NARRATOR: While many rocks
naturally carry a magnetic charge,
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the magnetic energy under
and around Balanced Rock
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is unusually high...
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From ten to 50 times normal.
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STRIEBER: The great
structures of the past,
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like Balanced Rock,
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were about experiencing
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the great energy of the Earth.
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And, in fact, if you go
to Balanced Rock,
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you can feel the power
of the Earth there still,
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just as it was then.
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NARRATOR:
But is the rock generating
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all of this energy on its own?
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Or could it have been
purposely placed here
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because it is a location
that amplifies
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its magnetic properties?
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So, you're also thinking,
then, that Druids
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or the Tuatha Dé Danann,
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they've come here from Ireland
and England and Wales,
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and then they chose this area
because it's a vortex spot,
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and then they chose this spot
particularly
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to put this giant dolmen here?
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NEWMAN: I think that's the
case, and I think this is really
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the center of the whole complex
around this part of the country.
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CHILDRESS: So, back in the '80s,
there was this big UFO flap
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here in the Hudson Valley.
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And some UFO researchers claim
that the UFOs were
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coming up the valley
towards this rock.
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NARRATOR: Six years after Harvard
University Professor Barry Fell
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published his controversial
theory that the Druids
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had visited North America,
500
00:25:02,910 --> 00:25:06,080
the Hudson Valley UFO sightings
began right over
501
00:25:06,210 --> 00:25:10,210
the mysterious stone chambers
and Balanced Rock.
502
00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:13,220
As investigators began tracking
these many thousands
503
00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:15,380
of sightings
in the Hudson Valley,
504
00:25:15,510 --> 00:25:18,010
they began to notice that
there was a focal point.
505
00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:21,970
A central point: Balanced Rock.
506
00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:25,770
Appears to be a sort of a vortex
that was either used as a portal
507
00:25:25,890 --> 00:25:28,940
by these craft,
or as a guidance mechanism
508
00:25:29,060 --> 00:25:33,860
for these craft as they're
travelling through this vortex.
509
00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:37,450
It's no accident that these
masses of sightings took place
510
00:25:37,570 --> 00:25:39,120
in the Hudson Valley.
511
00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:43,540
NEWMAN: Some of the research
that was carried out,
512
00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:46,170
they found that some of
the balls of light
513
00:25:46,290 --> 00:25:49,290
which seem intelligent,
were moving towards these kind
514
00:25:49,420 --> 00:25:51,550
of sites, like the dolmens,
the chambers
515
00:25:51,670 --> 00:25:53,840
of the Hudson Valley here.
516
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,010
NARRATOR: Does the magnetic
testing at Balanced Rock reveal
517
00:25:58,140 --> 00:26:01,100
that this area of the Earth
generates an energy vortex?
518
00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:04,310
And if so, could this anomaly
519
00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:07,060
be connected to both
the high number of UFO sightings
520
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:09,650
in the Hudson Valley, and also
521
00:26:09,770 --> 00:26:12,940
the mysterious stone structures
found throughout the region?
522
00:26:13,070 --> 00:26:15,780
Perhaps further clues
can be found
523
00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:18,450
by examining an infamous site
524
00:26:18,570 --> 00:26:22,950
where some say time
stands still.
525
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,670
NARRATOR:
Upstate New York.
526
00:26:29,790 --> 00:26:33,050
April 2019.
527
00:26:33,170 --> 00:26:34,630
In search of further evidence
528
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,130
that the ancient Druids
came to America,
529
00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:40,300
David Childress and Hugh Newman
head to a site
530
00:26:40,430 --> 00:26:42,510
just 20 miles north
of Balanced Rock...
531
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,810
One of the mysterious stone
chambers of Putnam County.
532
00:26:46,930 --> 00:26:50,350
There's huge boulders here,
and some walls. Well...
533
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,060
Yeah, there's just
so many of them, really.
534
00:26:52,190 --> 00:26:53,820
I mean, some of them are
probably still buried,
535
00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:55,480
to be discovered.
536
00:26:55,610 --> 00:26:58,070
All right, I see a chamber
right there. Yeah.
537
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,700
NEWMAN: I'm really looking
forward to seeing this one.
538
00:26:59,820 --> 00:27:00,660
CHILDRESS:
All right.
539
00:27:04,450 --> 00:27:08,040
Yeah, this is one of the-the
more famous ones.
540
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,420
When we get inside,
it gets bigger.
541
00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:13,500
So let's get these on.
542
00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:14,880
Let's go in and take a look.
543
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,510
See what we can see.
544
00:27:16,630 --> 00:27:18,880
CHILDRESS:
Yeah, this is a big lintel.
545
00:27:19,010 --> 00:27:20,880
NEWMAN: Yeah, look at this.
This is incredible.
546
00:27:21,010 --> 00:27:23,350
CHILDRESS:
Wow.
547
00:27:23,470 --> 00:27:26,100
NEWMAN:
It's well constructed.
548
00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:29,140
This is one of the chambers
where the strange lights
549
00:27:29,270 --> 00:27:31,980
would kind of congregate
during the whole
550
00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,690
- Hudson Valley UFO flap that lasted for ten years.
- Is that right?
551
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:38,440
And also, we've got massive
megalithic block.
552
00:27:38,570 --> 00:27:41,160
Especially this stone back here.
Look at this.
553
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,160
This is the classic sort of
British megalithic design,
554
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,240
and it proves, I believe,
555
00:27:46,370 --> 00:27:48,410
a connection with the ancient
sites of Britain.
556
00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:52,460
This entrance, what direction
do you think that's pointing?
557
00:27:52,580 --> 00:27:54,840
Well, we can just check that,
actually, while we're here.
558
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,250
If we're standing over
this side,
559
00:27:57,380 --> 00:27:59,550
in that direction,
it's going east.
560
00:27:59,670 --> 00:28:02,720
But if we go over here,
for instance,
561
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,300
and we look in that direction,
that's like northeast.
562
00:28:05,430 --> 00:28:08,270
So we've got summer solstice
alignment going that way,
563
00:28:08,390 --> 00:28:09,730
and if you're standing
over there,
564
00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:11,520
we've got an eastern equinox
alignment.
565
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,900
So, that's kind of intriguing
in itself.
566
00:28:16,190 --> 00:28:19,440
NARRATOR:
Based on Hugh Newman's research,
567
00:28:19,570 --> 00:28:22,950
the chamber lines up
with the solstice and equinox,
568
00:28:23,070 --> 00:28:26,490
like ancient sites all over
the former Celtic territory
569
00:28:26,620 --> 00:28:30,330
of Northern Europe,
such as Stonehenge in England,
570
00:28:30,450 --> 00:28:33,000
the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland,
571
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,040
Newgrange in Ireland,
572
00:28:35,170 --> 00:28:37,630
and the Carnac Stones in France.
573
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:40,670
Were the Hudson Valley
chambers constructed
574
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,300
by the same ancient builders?
575
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:46,850
And if so,
how are the chambers connected
576
00:28:46,970 --> 00:28:49,430
to the spectacular UFO sightings
577
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,810
that electrified
the Hudson Valley 30 years ago?
578
00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:57,610
In the whole Hudson Valley
UFO flap in the '80s,
579
00:28:57,730 --> 00:29:00,860
we did have accounts of these
balls of light,
580
00:29:00,980 --> 00:29:03,200
these-these orbs coming down.
581
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,860
They would sort of almost
orientate and kind of land,
582
00:29:05,990 --> 00:29:08,410
go inside the chambers.
583
00:29:08,530 --> 00:29:09,990
And so, why would they do that?
584
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,620
Then it was realized they may
have been designed to trap
585
00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:15,620
magnetic and electric charge,
and it would attract
586
00:29:15,750 --> 00:29:18,290
and move these natural
balls of light around.
587
00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:21,420
NARRATOR: If Druids armed
with alien technology
588
00:29:21,550 --> 00:29:23,800
visited the American Northeast,
589
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,840
could there be other signs
of their passage
590
00:29:25,970 --> 00:29:27,510
through New England?
591
00:29:31,010 --> 00:29:32,350
Hartford, Connecticut.
592
00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:35,140
November 20, 1654.
593
00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:40,360
A settler named John Pynchon
writes Governor John Winthrop
594
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,360
about a newly discovered
stone site known as Gungywamp,
595
00:29:44,490 --> 00:29:48,780
from which he says he is hearing
"many strange reports."
596
00:29:48,910 --> 00:29:53,250
Gungywamp is a series
of stone chambers,
597
00:29:53,370 --> 00:29:56,580
alignments of standing stones
on a 24-acre hilltop
598
00:29:56,710 --> 00:29:58,500
in Southern Connecticut.
599
00:29:58,630 --> 00:29:59,750
And people have been
looking at this
600
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,130
since the early 1600s.
601
00:30:02,250 --> 00:30:05,090
Gungywamp is a place of mystery.
602
00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:07,220
It's a place that has a lot
of anomalies with it.
603
00:30:07,340 --> 00:30:10,470
COLLINS: It's known for
its magnetic anomalies.
604
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,310
It's known for
the strange lights,
605
00:30:12,430 --> 00:30:15,060
the UFOs that appear
in this area.
606
00:30:15,180 --> 00:30:18,100
People have very strange
experiences when they go there.
607
00:30:18,230 --> 00:30:22,570
They burst into tears,
becoming very emotional.
608
00:30:22,690 --> 00:30:26,190
People have reported nosebleeds
out of nowhere.
609
00:30:28,030 --> 00:30:30,570
Bleeding from the eyes.
610
00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:34,450
People have reported
passing out, feeling nauseous.
611
00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:39,000
I was there with a friend of
mine, and we had to sit down
612
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,540
because we got so nauseous
and dizzy.
613
00:30:41,670 --> 00:30:46,590
Some have claimed
extraordinary experiences
614
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,890
where time and space
actually are freezing.
615
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,140
NARRATOR: Interestingly,
Governor John Winthrop,
616
00:30:57,270 --> 00:30:59,730
who recorded the first reference
to Gungywamp,
617
00:30:59,850 --> 00:31:03,020
also recorded the first report
of a UFO sighting
618
00:31:03,150 --> 00:31:04,270
in the New World.
619
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,900
It occurred in 1639,
620
00:31:08,030 --> 00:31:10,320
100 miles east of Gungywamp,
621
00:31:10,450 --> 00:31:13,490
on Boston's Muddy River.
622
00:31:13,620 --> 00:31:16,290
He described an incident
that fishermen had,
623
00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:19,330
where an object flew up
out of the water,
624
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:20,500
hovered in the sky...
625
00:31:20,620 --> 00:31:23,130
Then, all of a sudden,
626
00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:26,670
these fishermen were back
at the headwaters of this river,
627
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,380
with no sense of passing time.
628
00:31:29,510 --> 00:31:33,550
NARRATOR:
Strange magnetic anomalies.
629
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,180
Unexplainable physical ailments.
630
00:31:36,310 --> 00:31:38,180
Missing time.
631
00:31:38,310 --> 00:31:40,230
UFO sightings.
632
00:31:40,350 --> 00:31:43,810
Could Balanced Rock, Gungywamp,
633
00:31:43,940 --> 00:31:47,530
and the stone chambers be part
of a larger "energy grid"
634
00:31:47,650 --> 00:31:51,320
that overlies vast swaths of the
Hudson Valley and New England?
635
00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:54,660
One that contributes
to the creation of a vortex?
636
00:31:54,780 --> 00:32:00,290
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a resounding yes,
637
00:32:00,410 --> 00:32:03,080
and they suggest a connection
to the Druids
638
00:32:03,210 --> 00:32:04,540
and their otherworldly mentors,
639
00:32:04,670 --> 00:32:06,670
the Tuatha Dé Danann,
640
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,050
can be found by examining
their darkest practice,
641
00:32:10,170 --> 00:32:12,970
human sacrifice.
642
00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,270
NARRATOR:
Mystery Hill, New Hampshire.
643
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,440
At this remarkable
megalithic stone site
644
00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:28,650
known as America's Stonehenge,
645
00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:31,280
where Barry Fell
first discovered evidence
646
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,320
of Druid writing in 1975,
647
00:32:34,450 --> 00:32:38,030
can be found numerous
celestial alignments.
648
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,290
NEWMAN: It's an area
that covers 12 acres.
649
00:32:42,410 --> 00:32:44,170
It has multiple stone chambers.
650
00:32:44,290 --> 00:32:46,250
It has megalithic construction,
651
00:32:46,380 --> 00:32:49,380
such as standing stones,
652
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,920
which have now been found
to be astronomically aligned
653
00:32:52,050 --> 00:32:53,880
from the center of the site.
654
00:32:54,010 --> 00:32:57,470
NARRATOR: The most famous
artifact at Mystery Hill
655
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,430
is a curious stone slab.
656
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,900
COLLINS: Among the many stone
structures at America's Stonehenge
657
00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:08,320
is a huge, flat slab
658
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,320
that is the size
of a human body.
659
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,660
And around its edges
is a channel
660
00:33:16,780 --> 00:33:18,410
that leads into a hole
661
00:33:18,530 --> 00:33:23,750
that very clearly would've been
used to catch liquid
662
00:33:23,870 --> 00:33:28,670
that was running down the stone
and that would eventually go
663
00:33:28,790 --> 00:33:31,250
through the channel
down into the ground.
664
00:33:31,380 --> 00:33:36,510
NARRATOR: A stone slab
the size of a human body?
665
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,760
With a channel
for catching liquid?
666
00:33:39,890 --> 00:33:43,520
Could this slab have been used
for blood rituals?
667
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,730
The stone has, in fact, been
dubbed "The Sacrificial Table,"
668
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:53,030
and some researchers believe
it was used by the Druids.
669
00:33:53,150 --> 00:33:56,360
Throughout Northern England,
670
00:33:56,490 --> 00:33:58,740
so-called "bog bodies"
have been found,
671
00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:01,740
disturbingly
well-preserved corpses
672
00:34:01,870 --> 00:34:06,080
of 2,000-year-old
human sacrifice victims.
673
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:08,330
COLLINS: Bog bodies,
as they're described,
674
00:34:08,460 --> 00:34:11,250
are human cadavers
675
00:34:11,380 --> 00:34:13,710
that have been repeatedly found
676
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,720
in boggy environments,
677
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,050
and the manner
of their discovery
678
00:34:20,180 --> 00:34:22,760
seems to suggest that they
could've been cast
679
00:34:22,890 --> 00:34:27,810
into the waters as a sacrifice.
680
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:30,860
There is powerful evidence
681
00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:35,820
that those responsible for these
ritual murders were the Druids,
682
00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:39,570
and if the Druids
did reach North America,
683
00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:42,530
that they carried
sacrifice with them.
684
00:34:42,660 --> 00:34:46,660
IMBROGNO: The Druids did
sacrifice a certain way.
685
00:34:46,790 --> 00:34:49,170
They would put a noose
around the neck
686
00:34:49,290 --> 00:34:52,130
so that the pressure builds up
in the carotid artery,
687
00:34:52,250 --> 00:34:53,920
then they would slit the throat
688
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:57,090
so the blood
had pressure to form
689
00:34:57,220 --> 00:35:02,100
a stream in the grooves
of the rock.
690
00:35:02,220 --> 00:35:05,560
NARRATOR:
Could the Table of Sacrifice
691
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,390
be physical evidence that
the Druids came to America
692
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,690
centuries ago
693
00:35:10,810 --> 00:35:14,480
and brought with them,
not only their dark customs,
694
00:35:14,610 --> 00:35:17,440
but perhaps also left
an indelible mark
695
00:35:17,570 --> 00:35:20,700
on New England
and the Hudson Valley?
696
00:35:22,570 --> 00:35:24,990
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
697
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,450
and point out
that Balanced Rock,
698
00:35:27,580 --> 00:35:29,580
the Hudson Valley
stone chambers,
699
00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:32,580
the largest number of UFO
sightings in U.S. history,
700
00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:35,500
and Whitley Strieber's
famous abduction story,
701
00:35:35,630 --> 00:35:39,920
all happened within miles
of each other.
702
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:44,140
I've had many conversations
with Whitley Strieber,
703
00:35:44,260 --> 00:35:48,600
and he uses the Hudson Valley
UFO sightings to give validation
704
00:35:48,730 --> 00:35:52,650
to his own experiences, which
occurred in the Hudson Valley.
705
00:35:52,770 --> 00:35:55,570
It validates his story.
706
00:35:55,690 --> 00:36:00,700
NARRATOR: Strieber notes that,
according to the ancient Celtic stories,
707
00:36:00,820 --> 00:36:03,450
the Tuatha Dé Danann,
the so-called "Shining Ones"
708
00:36:03,570 --> 00:36:05,620
who descended from the sky,
709
00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:07,910
ultimately went underground
710
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,620
and became the fairy folk
of Irish myth.
711
00:36:12,750 --> 00:36:16,090
In his own extraterrestrial
abduction experience,
712
00:36:16,210 --> 00:36:19,210
the beings he encountered
came from below.
713
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:24,010
There's a tradition
in Celtic folklore that
714
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:27,390
the old gods
retreat underground.
715
00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:30,890
I think they came up,
and those people who came up
716
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:35,810
were real, just as real
as you and me.
717
00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:40,610
So maybe there is something
to the old fairy lore.
718
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:43,910
Let me put it this way,
and we mustn't forget this,
719
00:36:44,030 --> 00:36:48,580
these fairy folk had nothing
to do with Tinker Bell.
720
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,580
They're really a serious bunch.
721
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,290
NARRATOR: Is there an
extraterrestrial presence
722
00:36:56,420 --> 00:36:58,960
that has existed
in the American Northeast
723
00:36:59,090 --> 00:37:01,170
for more than 2,000 years?
724
00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:05,970
If so, is this what brought
the Druids to this area?
725
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:09,760
Or might the Druids themselves
have been responsible
726
00:37:09,890 --> 00:37:13,560
for opening the door
to otherworldly visitors?
727
00:37:13,690 --> 00:37:16,520
Perhaps further clues
can be found
728
00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:20,110
in another eerie similarity
between ancient Druid legends
729
00:37:20,230 --> 00:37:24,240
and the testimony
of today's abductees:
730
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,910
The strange phenomenon
of missing time.
731
00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:35,540
NARRATOR: More than 30
years after the publication
732
00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,290
of his book Communion,
733
00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:40,040
author Whitley Strieber
remains convinced
734
00:37:40,170 --> 00:37:41,920
of a profound connection
735
00:37:42,050 --> 00:37:45,260
between his abduction and
the mysterious stone chambers
736
00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:47,090
that dot the Hudson Valley.
737
00:37:47,220 --> 00:37:50,760
STRIEBER:
You sit in one of these chambers
738
00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:56,140
that's been carefully aligned
to the earth and to the sky,
739
00:37:56,270 --> 00:38:00,020
and you will communicate
with other levels of reality
740
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:02,940
to the point that you
will actually bring
741
00:38:03,070 --> 00:38:06,400
physical entities
into your presence.
742
00:38:06,530 --> 00:38:10,780
And you knew then the land
is terribly sacred.
743
00:38:10,910 --> 00:38:13,620
NARRATOR:
Could these structures
744
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:15,460
and Strieber's
strange encounter,
745
00:38:15,580 --> 00:38:17,830
point to an
extraterrestrial influence
746
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,500
dating back to the age
of the ancient Druids?
747
00:38:21,630 --> 00:38:25,050
Perhaps one final key
can be found in famous tales
748
00:38:25,170 --> 00:38:27,180
of lost and missing time
749
00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:29,840
for which this region
of the world is famous,
750
00:38:29,970 --> 00:38:34,220
and which played a major role
in Communion.
751
00:38:34,350 --> 00:38:36,390
STRIEBER: Like many close
encounter witnesses,
752
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,600
I have missing time
in my experience.
753
00:38:39,730 --> 00:38:41,730
It's not like going to sleep.
754
00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:44,900
It's as if you and I
are sitting here talking,
755
00:38:45,030 --> 00:38:48,530
I sense no change whatsoever,
and then I discover
756
00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:51,370
that I've actually been here
for over an hour
757
00:38:51,490 --> 00:38:53,580
in what seemed to me
like five minutes.
758
00:38:55,450 --> 00:38:56,870
NARRATOR:
Missing time plays a role
759
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,040
in many modern reports
of alien abductions,
760
00:39:00,170 --> 00:39:02,590
but when it comes
to the Hudson Valley,
761
00:39:02,710 --> 00:39:06,090
stories of missing time
go back centuries.
762
00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:10,090
200 years ago,
Washington Irving published
763
00:39:10,220 --> 00:39:14,260
America's most famous tale
of lost time, Rip Van Winkle.
764
00:39:14,390 --> 00:39:17,680
It's the story of
a Dutch American colonist
765
00:39:17,810 --> 00:39:21,730
who takes a nap in the woods
and wakes up 20 years later.
766
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,900
Curiously, it's set in a village
767
00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:28,400
just a few miles away
from Strieber's cabin.
768
00:39:28,530 --> 00:39:30,950
And Irving's
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
769
00:39:31,070 --> 00:39:34,910
takes place in the real village
of North Tarrytown, New York,
770
00:39:35,030 --> 00:39:37,750
just a few miles
from Balanced Rock.
771
00:39:37,870 --> 00:39:40,540
STRIEBER:
I think that Washington Irving
772
00:39:40,670 --> 00:39:42,380
sensed something up there,
clearly.
773
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:46,500
He was very sensitive to what
was going on in that area,
774
00:39:46,630 --> 00:39:49,550
what is going on to this day
in that area, in my opinion.
775
00:39:49,670 --> 00:39:52,930
THOMPSON: The well-known,
uh, Rip Van Winkle story,
776
00:39:53,050 --> 00:39:54,970
uh, that was put
into literary form,
777
00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:59,100
uh, by Washington Irving is, uh,
kind of a fascinating story
778
00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:02,350
because even though
it seems to be American,
779
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,980
it's really lifted directly out
of the Celtic fairy tradition.
780
00:40:10,780 --> 00:40:14,820
NARRATOR: If the ancient Druids came
to America thousands of years ago,
781
00:40:14,950 --> 00:40:18,290
were they attracted
by an alien presence?
782
00:40:18,410 --> 00:40:20,290
Or is it possible that they used
783
00:40:20,410 --> 00:40:22,540
their vast and mysterious
knowledge,
784
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:25,340
that allowed them to harness
the electromagnetic energy
785
00:40:25,460 --> 00:40:28,960
of the Earth,
in order to create a vortex
786
00:40:29,090 --> 00:40:32,840
and open a gateway
for extraterrestrials?
787
00:40:32,970 --> 00:40:36,930
And if so, could that gateway
have been left open,
788
00:40:37,060 --> 00:40:39,060
making it possible
for the scores
789
00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:42,640
of otherworldly encounters
that have followed?
790
00:40:42,770 --> 00:40:46,860
In my opinion,
the vortexes and the portals
791
00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:49,900
have been around for many,
many thousands of years.
792
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:51,990
And with each generation,
793
00:40:52,110 --> 00:40:54,530
we interpret the
supernatural events,
794
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:58,240
the paranormal phenomena,
that repeatedly occur
795
00:40:58,370 --> 00:41:00,500
in these areas
in different ways.
796
00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:05,120
Sometimes we see them
as demons and devils.
797
00:41:05,250 --> 00:41:10,420
Today, we see them as spacemen,
as places of extraterrestrials.
798
00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:13,800
Tomorrow, they may be
the portals through which
799
00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:18,430
trans-dimensional beings are
making contact with this world.
800
00:41:18,550 --> 00:41:23,230
STRIEBER: I don't think
that we should ever assume
801
00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:26,440
that we have
always been alone here.
802
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,070
There's too much evidence
that that is not true.
803
00:41:30,190 --> 00:41:32,650
It's just that we don't like
to look at that evidence.
804
00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:37,200
NARRATOR: Did the Druids
arrive in America centuries ago
805
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,910
and forever leave
their imprint on the land,
806
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,580
creating an entry point
for beings from other worlds,
807
00:41:44,710 --> 00:41:49,250
other dimensions,
and even other points in time?
808
00:41:49,380 --> 00:41:52,800
Perhaps as we learn more
about the ancient Druids,
809
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,340
we will uncover the secret to
harnessing this power ourselves,
810
00:41:57,470 --> 00:42:02,640
and finally be prepared to meet
our ancient alien ancestors.