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NARRATOR:
A tropical paradise

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believed to be
a gateway to the stars.

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A remote landmass

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home to enormous stone statues.

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And a mysterious man-made island

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that defies explanation.

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For more than a decade,
Ancient Aliens has traveled

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the globe to explore
some of the most isolated

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and enigmatic islands
in the world.

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Now, we're going
to take a look back

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at the top ten
mysterious islands

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we've investigated.

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Islands that just may hold
the proof

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that Earth has been visited
by extraterrestrials.

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Some of the most
mysterious places

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on the planet
happen to be remote islands.

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And that is because
many of them are home

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to stories and legends
that extraterrestrials

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may have visited Earth
in the distant past.

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Like the first location
on our list,

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where the native people say
that their ancestors

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came from the stars.

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Number ten on our countdown
of the top ten

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mysterious islands:
the Big Island of Hawaii.

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Hawaii's Big Island.

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This landmass is the largest
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covering an area
of 4,000 square miles.

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To tourists,
it is a paradise on Earth.

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But to the people
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for centuries,
and who carry with them

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the traditions
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Hawaii is something
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For many, like tribal leader
Kimokeo Kapahulehua,

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it is the place
where so-called "star people"

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came to Earth centuries ago
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Each autumn, when
the Pleiades star system appears

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on the horizon, practitioners
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gather to celebrate the harvest
and honor Lono,

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the god of rain and peace

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who descended to the island
in a canoe.

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The Hawaiians believed
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originated in the Pleiades.

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HENRY:
During the festival,
the kahunas would chant

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the epic of creation,
the Kumulipo chant,

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in which they would tell
the story of the descent of Lono

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on a rainbow.

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(singing in Native language)

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HENRY:
And it's thought
that Lono descended

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from the Pleiades,
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that he could've returned
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NARRATOR:
Did extraterrestrials visit
Hawaii in the distant past?

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And if so, for what purpose?

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GEORGE NOORY:
I've always said that Earth
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I keep thinking of
the Island of Doctor Moreau,

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where you're sequestered
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and you can conduct your work
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LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
What if the planet itself

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has been an experimental lab?

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Extraterrestrials
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for one experiment,

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tops of mountains
for another experiment.

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But they would control
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by keeping
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separated from each other.

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DAVID CHILDRESS :
If I were an extraterrestrial

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looking for
the perfect laboratory,

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I would look no further
than the Hawaiian Islands.

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Before the arrival of Europeans,

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there were no reptiles,
no mosquitoes, no rats.

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It was as pure a place
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And in many ways, it was the
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Hawaii isn't the only island
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of visitors who descended
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Off the coast of Great Britain
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that the locals say
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who arrived in what
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At number nine on our countdown

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of mysterious islands:
the Isle of Man.

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The Irish Sea.

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Located just off
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of Ireland lies the Isle of Man.

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Home to approximately
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this small island nation

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is roughly half the size
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stretching 32 miles long
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was once home to
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called the Tuatha Dé Danann.

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TOK THOMPSON:
The Tuatha Dé Danann

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are probably the most important
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that show up in Irish mythology.

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"Tuatha" means tribe.

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"Dé" means gods or divine,
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"Gods of the divine."

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JENNY BUTLER:
There is a description
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in the early Irish literature

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of the Tuatha Dé Danann arriving
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and landing on a mountain.

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According to the
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after the arrival of
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the Isle of Man became ruled
by a king named Manannán mac Lir

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and served as a home to many
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SABINA MAGLIOCCO:
Manannán mac Lir was one
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and he was a god
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He also had many magical powers.

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For example, he was known
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and to be able
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into that of anything
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HENRY:
The Tuatha Dé Danann
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of very
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and circles of light they used
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The ancient astronaut theory
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in which magic happens

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from a modern perspective
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if that so-called magic really
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Then one has to wonder, where
did that technology come from?

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Well, there's
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and that is extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
Could the legends of the
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otherworldly beings that once
inhabited the Isle of Man?

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Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining UFO sightings

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that have been reported
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ANDREW COLLINS:
There have been reports
of UFOs on the Isle of Man

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for a very long time.

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The peoples there, uh,
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They still see them
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And the common type of report
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move about for a period of time
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CHILDRESS:
So you have to think really
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was some kind of island that was
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They would land
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And, in fact, legends about UFOs

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and extraterrestrials continue
on the island even to this day.

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If you travel just 450 miles
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you will come upon the site
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but this one can't be visited

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because it reportedly vanished
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Number eight on our list:
Hy-Brasil.

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NARRATOR:
The North Atlantic Ocean.

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200 miles off
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lie open waters as far
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But according to 14th century
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this is the location
of a so-called phantom island

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known as Hy-Brasil.

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MAGLIOCCO:
Hy-Brasil allegedly appeared and
disappeared behind the mists.

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It could never
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Although, the...
its putative location

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is marked on some
of these early maps.

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NARRATOR:
Hy-Brasil was first recorded

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by the Italian-Majorcan
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Angelino de Dalorto in 1325,

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who described the island as
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Then in 1497,
Italian explorer John Cabot

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reported reaching Hy-Brasil.

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Other explorers of the time
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with accounts of meeting
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TIM SWARTZ:
Like a lot of other mythologies,
such as Atlantis,

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Hy-Brasil was thought to be
the source of, uh, civilization.

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And these people originated
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They are the people that, uh,
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NARRATOR:
Might Hy-Brasil
have been a place

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where otherworldly beings
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and jump-started civilization?

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And if so, what could explain

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its mysterious disappearance
and reappearance over the years?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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within tales of vanishing
islands from Greek mythology.

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TSOUKALOS:
In Ancient Greece,
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a type of moveable island
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referred to as Asteria.

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Asteria means
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And in certain instances,
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and then they were able to move
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So, what if Hy-Brasil
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but a glorified
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In the Mediterranean Sea,

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there's an island rich
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that spans thousands of years.

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But perhaps
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are the mysterious megalithic
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structures that are believed
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Number seven on our countdown
of the top ten

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mysterious islands: Sardinia.

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NARRATOR:
Sardinia, Italy.

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Located 116 miles west
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this picturesque island
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boasts rugged mountains,

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arid grasslands,
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It is also home
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ancient stone structures

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built by the
Nuragic civilization,

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that was believed to have
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nearly 4,000 years ago.

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Sardinia is probably
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of structures called "nuraghe."

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so that there's a flat base.

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There are approximately
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have uncovered on Sardinia,

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though that number could be
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CHILDRESS:
These nuraghe are made
out of huge basalt boulders.

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They're stacked up
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and beehive chambers.

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Archaeologists do not know
how they were all built.

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They assume that huge ramps

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were built to move
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Throughout Sardinia,
there are stories of-of giants,

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and you have to wonder
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these structures were giants.

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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Sardinia

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was once home
to a population of giants?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

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and point to several
stone statues

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found on the island known
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So, the Giants of Mont'e Prama
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were found on the, uh, western
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Since then, there's been
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and over 40
of these stone giants

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over eight feet tall
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from pieces
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TSOUKALOS:
For all intents and purposes,

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the face looks like a replica

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of C-3PO, the robot.

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And the fact
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that these are the replicas
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and they even call them
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you have to wonder
is it possible that Sardinia,

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at some point, was visited
by extraterrestrials?

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And I think the answer is yes.

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The ancient statues
of giants on Sardinia

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are truly extraordinary.

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But there is another island
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that has stories of giant beings

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that are said to actually be
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Number six on our countdown
of the top ten

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mysterious islands: Guadalcanal.

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NARRATOR:
Almost 2,000 miles
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lie the Solomon Islands.

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While this chain
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the most well-known
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which served as a strategic
military base

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during World War II.

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Today, a series
of mysterious events

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have convinced locals
the island is home

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to enormous otherworldly beings.

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There are mysterious legends
all over the Solomons, actually.

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A lot of the stories
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tend to talk about giants.

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The relationship
between people and giants.

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Giants are often portrayed
in different ways.

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Sometimes, they are benevolent
giants. They help people.

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They look after people.

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But there are stories
about giants

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killing people
and taking over things.

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There are legends and stories
that go way back that suggest

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that giants actually still live
on the Solomon Islands.

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Some say they're kind of
hairy beast kind of beings.

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Others say
they're more humanoid.

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And some say they even relate

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and kind of mate
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People talk about it that giants
actually do exist.

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They existed in the past.

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Today, with all kinds
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they shifted
further into the mountains.

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They really do exist.

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It's not just a mythology
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NARRATOR:
According to one report,
in 1998,

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workers in
a gold-mining operation

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witnessed what they believed
might be evidence of some type

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of giant humanoid when one
of their bulldozers broke down.

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The workers claimed
they removed the ten-ton blade

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from the machine to make
overnight repairs,

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but when they returned to
the dig site the next morning,

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they were shocked
by what they found.

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The blade itself had
been moved quite a distance

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and they found footprints
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So they could
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famous giants
of the Solomon Islands

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had been there and moved
the bulldozer blade.

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NARRATOR:
Is Guadalcanal
really home to giants?

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And if so,
where did they come from?

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Some researchers believe
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in eyewitness accounts of
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CHILDRESS:
The Australian author, Boirayon,

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believed that incidents of
the giants that he'd been told

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about by the natives
were related to UFO activity.

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And from what
he could put together,

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there was some kind of UFO base
deep in the mountains

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of Central Guadalcanal,
and it involved these giants.

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The Solomon Islands
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of UFO activity for centuries.

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There are numerous accounts
of abductions.

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People who disappear
after coming into contact,

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uh, with these UFOs.

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Never to be seen again.

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CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder
if these famous giants

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of Guadalcanal were,
in fact, extraterrestrials.

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We're coming up
on the halfway point

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in our countdown of
the top ten mysterious islands.

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The South Pacific is home
to some of the most remote

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islands on Earth, and
the history of this region

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is filled with stories
of otherworldly visitors.

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Like the next entry on our list,
number five: Nuku Hiva.

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NARRATOR:
The South Pacific.

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3,000 miles west of Mexico

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lies a rocky volcanic island
known as Nuku Hiva.

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Nuka Hiva is the largest
of the Polynesian islands,

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and it's in the northerly part
of the group. It is the capital.

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NARRATOR:
According to local legend,

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Nuku Hiva was built by the god
of creation, Ono, for his wife.

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Once it was complete,

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their offspring
populated the area.

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In 2018,
ancient astronaut theorists

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Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress

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traveled to Nuku Hiva
and met with local guide,

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Aniata Kimitete, to investigate
the stories about the arrival

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of the gods, as well as
the statuary depicting them.

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TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow. Okay.

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Is this considered a tiki?

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Yes, this tikis represent
the population.

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So w-what is a tiki?

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A tiki, at first,
was the representation

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of our god of magic and sorcery.

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He was one of the only god

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in French Polynesia
that has the face of a man.

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NARRATOR:
To the people of Nuku Hiva,
the word "tiki" refers to both

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an ancestral figure that came
to the islands in ancient times,

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as well as the statues
that represent him.

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They are variously carved
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and often depict a being
with large, goggle-like eyes.

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The lore has it that Tiki
was the primary ancestor

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and was created
in the image of the sky god.

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The local people
made statues in honor

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of their creator god, Tiki,
and used them in worship.

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And this is what Tiki
looks like, uh, as god?

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Yes, because they-they say
in the legend that,

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when Tiki left the Earth,
they made the sculpture

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of how he looked like
just to have something

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to remember from Tiki.

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There are multiple
other versions of the exact

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same motif worldwide
with people with

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elongated skulls
and giant goggle eyes,

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like, uh, what comes to mind
immediately is in-in Peru.

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-CHILDRESS: Yeah, at Tiwanaku
and Puma Punku.
-TSOUKALOS: Yes.

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CHILDRESS: You have the same
goggle-headed eye people.

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You have it in Mexico, too,
with the Olmec statues.

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TSOUKALOS:
Yes. These may be depictions

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of actual extraterrestrials
who visited

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the Earth
thousands of years ago.

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I still get goose bumps
thinking about my trip

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to Nuku Hiva and seeing
the carvings of the Tiki.

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But another mysterious island
in the South Pacific

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has something
even more astounding,

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hundreds of massive
stone statues.

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The number four site
on our countdown: Easter Island.

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NARRATOR:
More than 2,000 miles
southeast of Nuku Hiva

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is one of the most isolated
places on the planet,

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Easter Island.

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Today, some 5,000 people
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most of whom are the descendants

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of Easter Island's original
inhabitants, the Rapa Nui.

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But the island's
most famous residents

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are the hundreds of massive,
ancient stone statues

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known as moai that are scattered
across its grassy cliffs.

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Most are between
15 to 20 feet tall,

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but the tallest
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and the heaviest weighs
approximately 165 tons.

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PAUL BAHN:
The statues on Easter Island,
which we call moai,

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are one of the great
archeological wonders

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of the world. They are unique.

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And we believe that,
overall, they carved

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something like a thousand
of these moai

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over some centuries, maybe
even over a thousand years.

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ED BARNHART:
For the Rapa Nui,
the moai are statues

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of once living ancestors,
that they passed away,

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that they moved
to the other world,

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but that they can
still communicate

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with their living descendants

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through the statues
that are the images of them.

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HENRY:
The thing about these moai
is that they have these

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very strange faces,
very elongated.

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They don't look quite human.
They're humanoid,

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but they're somehow different
than ordinary humans.

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They look almost alien
in appearance.

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

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NARRATOR:
The moai were carved
from volcanic rock

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quarried at the center
of the island.

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But just how the ancient
Rapa Nui were able to transport

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these giant statues
remains a mystery.

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According to the legends
of the Rapa Nui,

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their ancestors used
a type of energy, known as

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"mana," to levitate
the giant sculptures into place.

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The king was given
the gift of mana

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from the great
creator god, Makemake.

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Mana is a magical energy,

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and it seemed to be capable
of extraordinary feats.

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The king used the power of mana

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to command that the great
stone statues walk.

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TSOUKALOS:
One has to wonder,
well, either they all

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were off their rockers, uh,
describing these things,

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or they witnessed something.

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And I'm leaning more
in the direction

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that they witnessed something

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because there had to have been
a spark of inspiration.

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And so, in my opinion,
mana was some type

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of extraterrestrial technology
that allowed

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these stones
to be levitated into place.

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Some of the most
compelling evidence

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for the ancient astronaut theory
can be found

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on a chain of islands
just off the coast of France.

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Thousands of years ago,
the people there were compelled

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to build hundreds
of mysterious stone structures

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that confound researchers
to this very day.

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Number three on our countdown:
the British Isles.

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NARRATOR:
The North Atlantic.

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Consisting of more than
6,000 islands,

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including Great Britain
and Ireland,

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the British Isles are home
to more than 72 million people.

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But these islands are also home
to some of the most

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mysterious megaliths on Earth:
the stone circles.

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The British Isles
is the only ancient culture

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to have built stone circles
on a large scale.

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And it all began
around 5,100 years ago

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off the north coast of Scotland.

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And then, over a period
of about another hundred years,

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the stone circle building
tradition spread pretty rapidly

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throughout the rest
of the British Isles,

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through England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland.

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NEWMAN:
Stonehenge is the most
magnificent stone circle

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in the British Isles.

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It's unique,
it's unlike any stone circle

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anywhere on the planet.

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It's perfectly circular.
It has astronomical alignments.

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NARRATOR:
According to
mainstream archaeology,

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stone circles like Stonehenge

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were constructed
as elaborate calendars.

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But ancient astronaut theorists
believe they served

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a more profound purpose.

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It is true that-that
Stonehenge can be used,

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or was used as a calendar.

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There is no doubt about it.

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However,
in order to create a calendar,

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there was absolutely
zero need to build

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a megalithic structure
as gigantic as Stonehenge

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'cause you could've recreated
the entire same thing

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by essentially placing
ordinary sticks in the ground.

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And that was not the case.
So, what was it?

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NARRATOR:
In 2019,

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authors Andrew Collins
and Graham Phillips

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set out to investigate

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some of the most mysterious
stone circles

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of the British Isles, on
the Orkney Islands of Scotland.

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This small island chain
is home to Skara Brae,

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an ancient settlement
that is over 5,000 years old.

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Now known
as the Scottish Pompeii,

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it was discovered in 1850
after a storm

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revealed the ancient ruins.

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COLLINS:
Just look at this place.
I mean, it's just extraordinary.

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PHILLIPS:
It's pretty sophisticated.
I mean, these walls here

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are really quite advanced
for 5,000 years ago,

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when everybody else
in the country

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was living in, well,
mud huts, basically.

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I know. And-and the
incredible thing about this

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is that the descendants
of these people end up creating

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all of the stone circles
around Britain.

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NARRATOR:
Experts believe that
the descendants of Skara Brae

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began building stone circles
throughout Great Britain,

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including Stonehenge.

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But what compelled them
to do so?

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Andrew believes the answer can
be found at a stone circle near

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Skara Brae called
the Ring of Brodgar

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and its connection
to mysterious lights in the sky.

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PHILLIPS: We're here
at the Ring of Brodgar.

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It is a henge circle,
so all around the outside

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of it is a ditch, an embankment.

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COLLINS:
One of the things
that's been repeatedly found

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in connection
with stone circles is that

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virtually every location

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is also somewhere associated
with the appearance

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of mysterious lights,

483
00:28:57,750 --> 00:28:59,667
what we'd call UFOs.

484
00:28:59,750 --> 00:29:03,083
We're talking about Stonehenge,

485
00:29:03,167 --> 00:29:05,958
Avebury,

486
00:29:06,042 --> 00:29:09,625
the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.

487
00:29:09,708 --> 00:29:11,833
All of these locations,

488
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:17,333
mysterious lights appear
and then disappear.

489
00:29:19,667 --> 00:29:22,833
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
the mysterious stone circles

490
00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:24,833
found on the British Isles

491
00:29:24,917 --> 00:29:29,000
were once used to signal
otherworldly beings?

492
00:29:29,083 --> 00:29:31,708
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

493
00:29:31,792 --> 00:29:33,833
and point to the fact

494
00:29:33,958 --> 00:29:36,792
that the stones used
to build the ancient circles

495
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:39,833
contained
large amounts of quartz.

496
00:29:41,208 --> 00:29:44,542
Quartz crystal can hold
frequency or vibration.

497
00:29:44,625 --> 00:29:48,042
It can store energy,
in other words.

498
00:29:48,125 --> 00:29:50,000
That opens the possibility
that it has

499
00:29:50,083 --> 00:29:52,333
a technological application.

500
00:29:52,417 --> 00:29:56,667
We use crystals in computers
and in radios and lasers,

501
00:29:56,708 --> 00:29:58,167
digital watches.

502
00:29:58,250 --> 00:30:01,083
All kinds of technology
is based on quartz crystal.

503
00:30:01,167 --> 00:30:04,833
CHILDRESS:
It's been documented
in the U.K. that

504
00:30:04,958 --> 00:30:08,000
a lot of these stone circles
are associated

505
00:30:08,042 --> 00:30:10,167
with-with strange lights

506
00:30:10,292 --> 00:30:12,083
and UFO activities.

507
00:30:12,083 --> 00:30:14,333
Then we have to wonder
about the energy there.

508
00:30:14,417 --> 00:30:18,208
So, it may well be that,
in some cases, there's some kind

509
00:30:18,292 --> 00:30:23,708
of electronic, magnetic
signature that they put out

510
00:30:23,792 --> 00:30:27,125
that are beacons for UFOs.

511
00:30:29,083 --> 00:30:32,042
NARRATOR:
Could it be that
extraterrestrial beings

512
00:30:32,167 --> 00:30:34,000
have been visiting
the British Isles

513
00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:35,917
for thousands of years?

514
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

515
00:30:40,083 --> 00:30:42,125
and suggest further evidence

516
00:30:42,208 --> 00:30:44,542
that ancient islanders
were influenced

517
00:30:44,625 --> 00:30:47,292
by otherworldly beings
can be found

518
00:30:47,375 --> 00:30:50,625
on a mysterious isle
off the coast of Italy,

519
00:30:50,708 --> 00:30:53,417
where archaeologists
have uncovered

520
00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:58,083
very curious human-like remains.

521
00:31:08,042 --> 00:31:10,167
The next location on our list

522
00:31:10,250 --> 00:31:13,875
has more than two dozen
incredible prehistoric temples

523
00:31:13,958 --> 00:31:16,917
that defy
conventional explanation.

524
00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:19,958
But perhaps the most mysterious
and intriguing place

525
00:31:20,042 --> 00:31:23,500
on the island
can be found underground.

526
00:31:23,583 --> 00:31:27,458
Number two
on our countdown: Malta.

527
00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:33,917
NARRATOR:
In the center of
the Mediterranean Sea,

528
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000
between Italy and Africa,
lies a three-island archipelago

529
00:31:39,083 --> 00:31:41,958
that makes up
the Republic of Malta.

530
00:31:43,458 --> 00:31:47,125
PICKNETT: Malta is this
really small island nation

531
00:31:47,208 --> 00:31:49,333
just south of Sicily,
and it's so small,

532
00:31:49,458 --> 00:31:53,042
it's only 122 square miles
in its entirety.

533
00:31:53,042 --> 00:31:55,958
But because it's dead center
of the Mediterranean Sea,

534
00:31:56,042 --> 00:31:59,250
Malta really
packs a punch historically.

535
00:31:59,333 --> 00:32:03,750
What Malta
is most well-known for,

536
00:32:03,833 --> 00:32:07,125
historically,
is the incredible series

537
00:32:07,208 --> 00:32:10,583
of megalithic complexes there

538
00:32:10,667 --> 00:32:15,667
created around 3000-4000 BC.

539
00:32:15,792 --> 00:32:19,250
They involve places
like Tarxien,

540
00:32:19,333 --> 00:32:22,500
Hagar Qim,

541
00:32:22,542 --> 00:32:25,708
and a quite fantastic

542
00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:29,542
megalithic structure
known as Ggantija.

543
00:32:29,625 --> 00:32:35,500
Now, this essentially means
"the place of the giantess."

544
00:32:35,542 --> 00:32:38,333
And the fascinating thing

545
00:32:38,458 --> 00:32:41,417
is beliefs on Malta

546
00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:45,542
that all of these structures
are made by giants.

547
00:32:47,542 --> 00:32:51,083
NARRATOR:
For centuries,
visitors to Malta marveled

548
00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:54,292
at the island nation's
ancient megalithic structures,

549
00:32:54,375 --> 00:32:57,667
but what no one knew
until the 20th century

550
00:32:57,708 --> 00:33:00,917
was that Malta's
most extraordinary construction

551
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,167
lied hidden beneath the ground.

552
00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:08,292
In 1902, construction workers

553
00:33:08,375 --> 00:33:11,042
uncovered a massive
underground complex

554
00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:13,000
carved out of the bedrock.

555
00:33:13,125 --> 00:33:17,250
Now known as the
Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni,

556
00:33:17,333 --> 00:33:20,417
it is considered
the greatest engineering feat

557
00:33:20,542 --> 00:33:22,958
of the Neolithic age.

558
00:33:23,042 --> 00:33:25,417
The jewel
in the archeological crown

559
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,958
of Malta has to be
the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni.

560
00:33:31,292 --> 00:33:33,833
This is a remarkable structure,

561
00:33:33,917 --> 00:33:35,292
particularly when
you bear in mind

562
00:33:35,292 --> 00:33:37,333
they didn't have metal tools.

563
00:33:38,875 --> 00:33:41,250
It's just mind-boggling.

564
00:33:42,917 --> 00:33:45,667
COLLINS:
Archaeologists realized
that this was

565
00:33:45,750 --> 00:33:49,042
a huge underground network

566
00:33:49,125 --> 00:33:51,667
of chambers and corridors.

567
00:33:53,042 --> 00:33:56,667
You enter down into it,
and there are a series

568
00:33:56,750 --> 00:33:58,958
of three different levels.

569
00:33:59,042 --> 00:34:02,625
All of them are interconnected
with corridors

570
00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:05,125
and flow into chambers.

571
00:34:08,708 --> 00:34:11,833
NARRATOR:
Soon after the discovery
of the Hypogeum,

572
00:34:11,917 --> 00:34:15,250
archaeologists excavating
the subterranean chambers

573
00:34:15,333 --> 00:34:18,292
found more than 7,000 skeletons.

574
00:34:18,375 --> 00:34:21,000
Strangely, a great many of them

575
00:34:21,083 --> 00:34:24,708
had skulls that were
noticeably elongated.

576
00:34:25,917 --> 00:34:27,875
It was found
that some of the skulls

577
00:34:27,958 --> 00:34:30,042
were actually elongated.

578
00:34:30,125 --> 00:34:33,708
They were almost like
the head going backwards

579
00:34:33,792 --> 00:34:35,500
rather than upwards.

580
00:34:35,542 --> 00:34:37,583
Does that represent
the fact that they were

581
00:34:37,708 --> 00:34:39,167
doing head binding?

582
00:34:39,292 --> 00:34:42,292
They were pressed into shape
when these people were babies?

583
00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:46,125
NARRATOR:
Head binding has been a practice

584
00:34:46,208 --> 00:34:49,250
of numerous primitive cultures
around the world.

585
00:34:49,375 --> 00:34:52,833
It involves tightly wrapping
the heads of infants

586
00:34:52,875 --> 00:34:54,750
before their skulls
fully harden,

587
00:34:54,875 --> 00:34:58,333
resulting in an elongated shape.

588
00:34:58,375 --> 00:35:01,958
TSOUKALOS:
In my opinion, the smoking gun

589
00:35:02,042 --> 00:35:05,042
of this whole
extraterrestrial question is

590
00:35:05,125 --> 00:35:07,583
the elongated skull phenomenon.

591
00:35:07,708 --> 00:35:12,208
Worldwide, in different museums,
you find these skulls...

592
00:35:13,708 --> 00:35:18,000
...that clearly have
an elongated cranium,

593
00:35:18,083 --> 00:35:21,042
and the mainstream
explanation is

594
00:35:21,125 --> 00:35:23,167
that our ancestors

595
00:35:23,250 --> 00:35:27,250
did this to mimic
their gods of worship.

596
00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:30,792
And right there is where
it becomes interesting.

597
00:35:30,875 --> 00:35:34,292
Because, if they mimic someone,

598
00:35:34,375 --> 00:35:37,875
well, you have to have
seen someone.

599
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,000
So, is it possible that
whoever visited our ancestors

600
00:35:44,083 --> 00:35:47,583
back in the day
had these elongated skulls?

601
00:35:49,208 --> 00:35:52,375
And my answer to that
is a resounding yes.

602
00:36:23,333 --> 00:36:25,292
We're just moments away

603
00:36:25,375 --> 00:36:28,333
from the most mysterious island
on our list.

604
00:36:28,375 --> 00:36:30,875
And we've definitely saved
the best for last

605
00:36:30,958 --> 00:36:34,792
because this location contains,
what I believe to be

606
00:36:34,875 --> 00:36:38,458
undeniable proof that it was
built with the help

607
00:36:38,542 --> 00:36:40,833
of extraterrestrial technology.

608
00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:54,042
In the middle
of the Pacific Ocean is a site

609
00:36:54,125 --> 00:36:56,667
that absolutely blows my mind.

610
00:36:56,667 --> 00:36:59,000
The locals say that
this artificial island

611
00:36:59,083 --> 00:37:01,208
was built thousands of years ago

612
00:37:01,292 --> 00:37:03,875
with the technology of the gods.

613
00:37:03,958 --> 00:37:08,917
At number one on our countdown:
the island of Nan Madol.

614
00:37:13,167 --> 00:37:16,375
NARRATOR:
Pohnpei, Micronesia.

615
00:37:16,458 --> 00:37:21,042
Located roughly 2,500 miles
northeast of Australia,

616
00:37:21,042 --> 00:37:25,417
this remote island is home
to some of the oldest and most

617
00:37:25,542 --> 00:37:30,583
astounding ruins
of the ancient world, Nan Madol.

618
00:37:30,667 --> 00:37:33,333
It is an 11-square-mile complex

619
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:37,083
consisting of more than
100 man-made islets,

620
00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:40,542
standing atop
a submerged coral reef.

621
00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:44,417
Archaeologists estimate that,
to construct the site,

622
00:37:44,542 --> 00:37:48,583
the builders used
250 million tons of basalt,

623
00:37:48,708 --> 00:37:52,375
some blocks weighing
upwards of 50 tons.

624
00:37:53,667 --> 00:37:58,000
Nan Madol is this
amazing construction.

625
00:37:58,083 --> 00:37:59,917
It's-it's a full-on city.

626
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,125
When pilots during World War II

627
00:38:03,125 --> 00:38:05,083
would fly over that part
of the Pacific,

628
00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:07,667
they would look out their
windows, and they would see

629
00:38:07,750 --> 00:38:10,792
what essentially was described
as the Venice of the Pacific.

630
00:38:10,792 --> 00:38:13,250
So, that became
one of its nicknames.

631
00:38:15,458 --> 00:38:17,833
NARRATOR:
In 2019,

632
00:38:17,917 --> 00:38:19,792
ancient astronaut theorists

633
00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:22,500
Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress

634
00:38:22,625 --> 00:38:24,833
traveled to the remote island

635
00:38:24,875 --> 00:38:27,875
to try and understand
how Nan Madol was built.

636
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,250
TSOUKALOS:
This is exciting.

637
00:38:30,375 --> 00:38:34,125
NARRATOR:
They were joined by Micronesia's
National Historic Preservation

638
00:38:34,208 --> 00:38:36,208
Officer, Gus Kohler.

639
00:38:36,292 --> 00:38:37,833
-All right, hello. Good morning.
-Hi, Gus.

640
00:38:37,875 --> 00:38:39,250
-This is our guy.
-How are you, Gus?

641
00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:40,583
-Welcome.
-Nice to see you.

642
00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:42,333
NARRATOR:
And to get an expert opinion

643
00:38:42,417 --> 00:38:45,292
on the megalithic complex...

644
00:38:45,375 --> 00:38:47,125
-Follow me.
-NARRATOR: ...they enlisted

645
00:38:47,208 --> 00:38:51,458
UCLA Professor of Structural
Engineering, Dr. Henry Burton.

646
00:38:51,542 --> 00:38:55,083
TSOUKALOS:
Wow. Look at this.

647
00:38:55,167 --> 00:38:56,583
-Amazing, huh?
-That's amazing.

648
00:38:56,667 --> 00:39:00,333
CHILDRESS:
So, here is this huge wall here

649
00:39:00,417 --> 00:39:02,708
full of prismatic basalt.

650
00:39:02,833 --> 00:39:05,750
How would you
build that then today?

651
00:39:05,833 --> 00:39:08,292
Well, you-you'd certainly
need cranes,

652
00:39:08,375 --> 00:39:10,125
I can tell you that. Um...

653
00:39:10,208 --> 00:39:12,625
Even for some of these
smaller blocks,

654
00:39:12,708 --> 00:39:17,083
you're talking about
on the order of tens of tons.

655
00:39:17,167 --> 00:39:21,917
So, how would you build this
if you didn't have any cranes?

656
00:39:22,042 --> 00:39:23,500
It's a mystery to me.

657
00:39:23,583 --> 00:39:27,333
I can't imagine how it could
be built without cranes.

658
00:39:27,417 --> 00:39:30,625
CHILDRESS: So, Gus,
what is your tradition of

659
00:39:30,708 --> 00:39:32,875
how they built these walls?

660
00:39:48,458 --> 00:39:52,083
NARRATOR:
Recently, a growing number
of scientists have become

661
00:39:52,167 --> 00:39:56,292
convinced that the basalt
used to construct Nan Modal

662
00:39:56,375 --> 00:39:58,417
came from a volcanic outcropping

663
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:01,792
25 miles northeast
of the ancient site.

664
00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:04,333
But how were
the massive stones transported

665
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:07,000
over such a long distance?

666
00:40:07,042 --> 00:40:10,042
To investigate, the team
traveled to another site

667
00:40:10,125 --> 00:40:12,500
on the island
that is said to have belonged

668
00:40:12,542 --> 00:40:15,667
to Nan Madol's
original builders.

669
00:40:15,750 --> 00:40:18,667
CHILDRESS:
So, Gus, what is then
the oral history

670
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,792
of moving this stone
on the island?

671
00:40:32,250 --> 00:40:34,125
NARRATOR:
For generations,

672
00:40:34,208 --> 00:40:38,500
the people of Pohnpei have told
the story that Nan Madol

673
00:40:38,625 --> 00:40:43,917
was built by strange visitors
through a process of levitation.

674
00:41:02,833 --> 00:41:06,500
NARRATOR:
According to the tale,
the basalt was carried

675
00:41:06,583 --> 00:41:10,750
by what the natives
referred to as "a giant bird."

676
00:41:10,833 --> 00:41:13,625
There's one story that says
that, at some point, there were

677
00:41:13,708 --> 00:41:19,083
these giant roosters that lived
on top of that mountain.

678
00:41:19,208 --> 00:41:22,542
And this rooster took
these basalt blocks

679
00:41:22,667 --> 00:41:25,833
and flew them over to Nan Madol.

680
00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:30,000
Now, monster roosters
do not exist.

681
00:41:30,083 --> 00:41:33,917
So, my mind always goes
to misunderstood technology.

682
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,667
Machines that were provided
by the extraterrestrials.

683
00:41:40,208 --> 00:41:43,292
Why is it that remote islands
all around the world

684
00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:46,875
are home to so many
mysterious structures,

685
00:41:46,958 --> 00:41:50,208
sightings, and legends
of otherworldly beings?

686
00:41:50,292 --> 00:41:53,833
Well, perhaps these
secluded locations offered

687
00:41:53,917 --> 00:41:57,500
the perfect outposts
for extraterrestrials

688
00:41:57,542 --> 00:42:00,292
who came to Earth
thousands of years ago

689
00:42:00,375 --> 00:42:04,500
and may still be visiting today.

690
00:42:04,542 --> 00:42:07,958
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