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Cowboys with six-shooters...
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covered wagons crossing the the
plains, and Native Americans
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wearing war paint and feathers.
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These are the images most people
associate with America's Old West.
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The Wild West as we know
it tends to come from Hollywood movies.
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And that's a very cleaned up, sanitized
version of what the West was really like.
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But might there
be more to the story?
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Much, much more?
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When we think
of the Old West, the last thing
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we think about would be Billy the Kid
chasing a flying saucer across the desert.
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From cowboys, to lawyers, to
doctors, to housewives washing
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the clothes and taking care of
the sheep-- people were seeing
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things in the sky they
couldn't explain.
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This is a
replica of one of the bars that
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was in one of the light ships.
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And they're guarded
by the Star People.
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Ancient aliens
have been around for tens
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of thousands, if not
millions of years.
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Why would they avoid the
American Southwest?
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Millions of people
around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And did the cowboys and natives
of America's Wild West actually
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come in contact with alien beings from
another-- much more distant frontier?
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Sync by n17t01
www.addic7ed.com
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What kind of a man goes around
blowing up other people's cows?
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You got to believe me.
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There's white lights!
There's bright lights!
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So there was
this big light, and you fell
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in the river, and when you come back, two
of my best hands has just disappeared.
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There weren't no
lightning this evening.
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In the 2011 film, Cowboys and Aliens,
a man awakens in the desert, with no
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clue to his past, except for a mysterious
metal device shackled to his wrist.
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This may provide the key-- not
only to his identity but to
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his ability to protect the town of
Absolution from a deadly attack
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by alien spaceships.
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Based on the graphic novel
by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
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and directed by visionary
filmmaker, Jon Favreau...
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Cowboys and Aliens skillfully
blends the conventions of the
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classic Hollywood Western with the futuristic
effects of an alien invasion film.
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But although Cowboys and Aliens it's the
product or their creators imagination,
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there are those who believe
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this story might have a few
roots in historical fact.
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Aurora, Texas.
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This rural southwestern town covers an
area of just over three square miles.
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Headstones at the
local cemetery
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mark the final resting places of the
area's hard-working ranchers and farmers.
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But one body allegedly buried
here has no marker at all.
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The Aurora's cemetery
was founded in 1861
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right at the start of the
war between states.
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Texas' State Historical Commission
has a marker here
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that states the cemetery is
well known because of the legend
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that a spaceship crashed nearby in 1897,
and the pilot killed in the crash
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was buried here.
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50 years before, the United State's
Army announced that a
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There was a report of a
strange unidentified object
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that crashed on the property
of a local judge.
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On an April morning
in 1897 an airship
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supposedly run into a
windmill on the property
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of a gentleman
named Judge Proctor.
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The ship exploded in flame and was
burnt to a crisp essentially.
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There was an explosion.
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In those days-- this is before
television, before jet
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aircraft-- any big noise
got your attention.
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Plus, the ground shook, and so
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they knew something
tremendous had happened.
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A local reporter
arrived on the scene; he
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reported that there was a large
debris field, and also that
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there was the charred remains of
what appeared to be to him an
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alien from another planet.
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The occupant described
as unworldly by witnesses
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was given a Christian burial
and put in an unmarked grave.
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In 1897, this was
six years before
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the Wright Brothers
actually made heavier-than-air
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craft work.
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So, uh, this is why I consider
the Aurora spaceship crash the
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smoking gun of the UFO
controversy, because this
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occurred six years before there
was anything manmade in the air.
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Witnesses claimed
that debris from the crash was
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recovered by local law enforcement
and never seen again.
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Others claim that Judge Proctor
buried it at the bottom
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of a deep well.
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For decades, the incident
remained largely forgotten
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until, in 1945, a man named
Brawley Oates, who had purchased
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Procter's land, reportedly was
cleaning out the debris from the
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well when he later developed
an extremely severe case of
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arthritis, which he claims
to be the result of the
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contaminated water.
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He believed that the
water from the well contained
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some sort of element to it that
gave him a severe case of
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arthritis.
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It was a bad enough case of
arthritis that it eventually
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killed him.
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So a lot of people today wonder
if the well wasn't contaminated
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with some sort of radioactive
agents, which was the rationale
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agents, which was the rationale
behind his, uh, his arthritis.
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We find that people who are
using that well actually got ill.
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And so what happens at
a moment in time,
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is that the descendants of these people
actually decided to cement the well.
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The incident at Roswell in 1947
also begins steering controversy
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about the Aurora incident.
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This time, concerning the
strange body supposedly still
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resting in an unmarked grave.
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We, searchers, wanted
to exhume the body,
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but the local cemetery association
wouldn't let them.
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My first question is, why not?
What's it gonna hurt?
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As a historian it makes me suspicious
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when somebody is trying to hide
something from you.
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Tells you you can't, you can't
do something.
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I first got onto the
Aurora story back in 1973, and
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was, uh, there before the
tombstone went missing, and
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actually probably one of the few
people around who still remember
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where the actual grave site was.
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The grave was
located right here.
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It was a short little grave.
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That of a child or a
very small person.
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And the teeny little headstone,
the marker, was right about there.
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A few years ago,
scientifics with
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ground penetrating radar
established that there really
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had been a short grave here.
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Now, back in 1973, Bill Case was
the aviation writer for the
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Dallas Times Herald.
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I was working for
the Star Telegram.
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We met up here.
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He had a metal detector, and we
found three readings of metal in
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the grave.
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A couple of months after the
headstone went missing, Bill
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invited me to meet him up here.
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We went over the grave, and there
was no readings in the grave.
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He showed me three little holes
that had been drilled in the grave.
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Somebody had extracted the
metal out of the grave.
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In recent decades,
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further investigation of the
crash site has turned up
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inconclusive evidence, including
unusually high traces of
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aluminum at the bottom of the
now-sealed well where Judge
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Proctor had supposedly
disposed of the wreckage.
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Could the events that happened
on a Texas farm in the early
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hours of April 17, 1897, really
be evidence of an alien close
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encounter?
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Could it have been the first such
event to occur in America's
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western region?
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Or was it only one of many?
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Adams Country, Ohio.
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At the end of the 1700s, President George
Washington awarded what was then the
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unchartered land beyond the
Appalachian Mountains to
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Revolutionary War veterans-- in
600-acre parcels-- as payment
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for their service.
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But when the settlers arrived,
they found much of the land
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covered with thousands
of Indian burial mounds.
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And one of these was very
different from the rest.
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Imagine when you're
pushing west, and all of the sudden
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you find this gigantic ephic
iman in a form of a serpent.
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What you have is a gigantic structure
but it just sits there in the middle
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of a fairy interesting landscape.
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Serpent mound was one of the
amazing mysterious mounds
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found by the first that came
over the Apalachian mountains.
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There are thousands of mounds, but
Serpent mound must have been special.
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Like the Nazca lines in Peru,
Serpent mound is a giant
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prehistoric structure that looks as though
is meant to be viewed only from the sky.
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When you see the
great Serpent mound in Ohio,
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is massively huge.
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And it can't really be appreciated
when you're standing there,
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looking at it. What we have here is
meant to be seen from the sky.
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It's mysterious in the fact that
it is on an elevated plateau
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unconcealed from the world.
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Unless you're flying over in a plane,
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and it's on very uneven ground.
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And really, to lay that out and
make it right, you'd almost have
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to be above, looking down to get
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it right, which is a mystery.
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This 1,330 foot long structure winds across
the land and depicts a coiled
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snake, eating what
appears to be an egg.
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It is the largest effigy mound
in the world, and curiously,
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unlike most Native American
mounds, the Great Serpent Mound
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was not constructed for burials.
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Serpent Mound had no burials.
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It's one of those mysterious mounds that
offered us no clue as who the builders were
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but on the property there were
burial mounds dated from
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about very early period,
nearly 3,000 years ago.
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Another curious
aspect of Serpent Mound is where
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the ancient Native Americans
chose to build it-- on the
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outside swell of a five-mile
wide meteor crater.
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300 million years
ago, a meteor came into this
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area and struck the Earth going
about 50,000 miles an hour.
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The Serpent Mound is built right
on the very edge of the crater.
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And there's magnetic anomalies
and faults that go across the
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Serpent Mound and that the
Native Americans could dowse
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them, and they could feel the positive
energy that's coming out of the ground.
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If you bring a
compass to the great Serpent mound,
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there are certain spots were the
compass needle just keeps going.
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So, obviously, we have some
weird magnetic fields there and
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also some gravitational
anomalies.
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The myth has it
that the Native Americans, when
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they came here, could see birds
similar to passenger pigeons, or
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homing pigeons, circling
by the millions.
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Because within the skull of the
pigeon is a little piece of
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hematite, or magnetite, and
that's how they navigate.
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And they couldn't figure
out where north was.
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Can you imagine millions of birds
flying in a circle five miles wide?
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In addition to
creating magnetic anomalies, the
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meteor also deposited a number
of elements not indigenous to
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the area, including one of the
rarest elements on Earth-- iridium.
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When we look at the
location of the Serpent Mound,
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we find that not only that there
is iron, that there is uranium,
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but also iridium.
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Iridium can withstand
temperatures up to 2,000 Celsius.
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It is non-corrosive.
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And it's actually been used
in unmanned spacecraft.
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A lot of
iridium apparently comes from
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outer space rather than
being found on the Earth.
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There is a use of iridium for
thermal electric circuits,
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These deep-space probes include
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actually a radioactive source,
because it's the only thing that
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can provide enough power when
you're out beyond Jupiter and
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there's no sunlight and
there's no nothing.
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We have iron,
iridium and uranium, three
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substances which definitely
should not be considered to be
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of any use to Native Americans.
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The question then is,
to who are they of use?
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Ancient
astronaut theorists believe
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extraterrestrials may have come
to this site to mine iridium for
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their spacecraft, and point to
numerous caves found in the
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crater swell beneath the
mound as evidence of this.
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Right here, we
can see one of those caves.
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It's pretty large.
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And since this site is believed
to be many, many, millions of
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years old, there's a chance that
there are many, many caves.
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But if alien
visitors really did come here to
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mine iridium and other elements,
might this explain why the
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Serpent Mound was built on a scale that
made its shape visible from the sky?
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The Serpent Mound
is a marker for space according
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to the Shawnee Indians.
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They're convinced that space travelers
are using Serpent Mound as a marker.
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According to Zuni
Elder Clifford Mahooty, the
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Shawnee aren't the only Native
Americans who believe Serpent
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Mound has an
extraterrestrial connection.
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The Star ancestors
talked the American Indians
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about where they came from.
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And how they're supposed to
carry out their rituals.
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The mound builders I believe were
those indian tribes that had contact
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with the extraterrestrials.
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It's the essence of our culture,
and the mounds were a place
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where we would practice and learn
from those beings that come in from
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outside of this world to visit.
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Ancient astronaut theorists also point
to the placement and shape of the Great
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Serpent Mound as proof of its
extraterrestrial origins.
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The serpent itself
was aligned to a constellation
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that had its apex at the height
of the night sky 5,000 years ago.
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The constellation Draconis-- it was
used to align the Great Pyramid.
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In addition to
lining up with the stars of
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Draconis, the coils of Serpent
Mound also align with the solar
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events of the solstice and equinox,
as well as the 18.6-year lunar cycle.
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Could these precise astronomical
alignments suggest that the
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Serpent Mound served a greater purpose
than just acting as a marker?
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Some believe that because of its
magnetic anomalies, this site
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may also have been used
to harness energy.
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These magnetic anomalies,
these faults, attract lightning.
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The Serpent Mound
is right on the edge of an
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outcropping of pure limestone or
dolomite, which is even better
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than the limestone they built the
Great Pyramid from, and it's
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highly semi-conductive.
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This is what I call the
Serpent Mound stone.
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It's an unusual feature that
seems to be made of a different
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kind of dolomite than what exists on the
outcropping of the general serpent.
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This stone could've been placed
in the center of the oval.
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Therefore, you wouldn't get a
lot of random strikes, so much
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as you would a lot of strikes that
would tend to come to the stone.
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Could the Serpent Mound have been a
source of great energy?
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Might it have held an advanced alien
technology that was somehow lost?
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When I look at a history
of building ancient monuments
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like Stonehenge, the Sphinx,
the Pyramids, the Mayan temples,
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what it tells me is no matter how
technologically advanced we are today
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we've lost a knowledge
of something tremendous
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that came thousands and
thousands years ago.
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And it's a tragedy that not only
have we forgotten how to utilize
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it, but we've relegated it to the
realm of folklore and mythology.
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When the lightning
lamps were eliminated, the
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native culture fell into the darkness
again, about 5,000 years ago.
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But we know that if their prophecies
hold true, the Serpent Mound will be
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reactivated again one day.
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And when that re-activation
occurs, that'll be the beginning
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of the restoral of the earth.
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Was the Great Serpent Mound
really a hub of ancient extraterrestrial
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visitation?
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If so, perhaps there is also
truth in legends of other, even
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more bizarre, alien encounters
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in the American West.
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Palmyra, New York.
September 21, 1823.
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In the upstairs bedroom of a
log cabin, just south of this
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small, rural village,
17-year-old Joseph Smith had a
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vision of someone, or
something, not of this world.
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It was late at night,
it was dark, and the room filled
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with a very very bright light.
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And this personage was floating in
midair, his feet was off the ground.
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And he identified
himself as Moroni.
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After talking with Joseph Smith
for a while, Moroni seemed to
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ascend into the air, completely
leaving the room again dark.
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The next morning, also, Moroni
came back to Joseph Smith to
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show him the hidden golden book,
which is what we know as the
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Book of Mormon today.
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According to
the Book of Mormon, Moroni
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identified himself to Joseph
Smith as a man who lived in
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America in the late fourth
and early fifth centuries.
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But America was not Moroni's
home-- he claimed to have much
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more distant origins.
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Moroni claimed to be
from the Pleiades star cluster.
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So a church today, nine million members
strong, believe that their church
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may have originated not of this world,
but of another world.
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According to Joseph Smith, not only the
Moroni claimed to be from another planet
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he also directed him to dig up the
golden plates from the hill Cumorah.
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What Scholars believe is a reference
to an ancient native american mound,
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much like the Serpent mound.
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We have since found out that in
burial mounds and other mounds
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across the Native American region
we have such plates.
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These written tables have been found,
and not just in North America,
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but also in South America.
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This entity tells Joseph Smith
to go on a physical search for
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an object, which we know could have
been an archeological finding.
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But if Moroni was a
spiritual or metaphysical being,
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why would he give Joseph Smith
physical objects with which to
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translate the plates?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, Moroni may, in fact,
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have been a Star Being-- an
extraterrestrial whose mission
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was to pass down to Smith and
his followers the advanced
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knowledge of the mound builders.
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In Mormonism, actually a lot
of their theologist is directly related
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to this idea of God and various angels and
various spiritual beings live on
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different planets.
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According to Native American legends,
the Star Beings left Earth thousands of
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years ago, at about the same
time ancient astronaut theorists
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believe extraterrestrials
left Egypt.
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But if Joseph Smith's vision of
Moroni was real, might this have
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been not so much a spiritual encounter
as an extraterrestrial one?
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If so, perhaps there were other
such alien visitations-- ones,
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which in turn, fueled an increased interest
in the stars throughout the 1800s.
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In the 19th century,
people were very interested in astronomy
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There was some thought that there
might be life on other planets.
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So, often times, lights in the
sky were attributed to possibly
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visitors from another world.
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Joseph Smith felt
such a strong connection to the
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Native Americans that he
believed they could help guide
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him to a new holy land, which
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he called "the new Zion."
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Although Smith died in 1844
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the victim of mob violence--
his successor, Brigham Young,
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ultimately led the Mormons
further west to Utah.
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In 1849, when the Mormons
arrived in the area of Parowan
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Gap, local Ute leader, Chief
Wakara, told them they had
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entered "God's own house" and
showed them proof in the form of
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petroglyphs dating back
thousands of years.
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All throughout
Utah, petroglyphs depict
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hunters with bows and
arrows going after buffalo.
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Very ordinary, daily life occurrences.
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But there are also some other
depictions, which are very odd.
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And they look like spaceships.
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They look like
beings with halos.
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They look like beings with
antenna on their heads, or
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beings that wear
some type of a suit.
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For all intents and purposes,
they look like depictions of
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they look like depictions of
spacemen.
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Great Falls, Montana.
October 19, 1865.
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Six months after the assassination of
President Abraham Lincoln, a fur trapper
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reports what might be the first
documented UFO crash in the Old West.
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In 1865, the Missouri Democrat
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reported that a trapper saw a
light traveling through the sky
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at night.
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It flew over his camp, broke apart and
crashed in the forest some miles away.
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The next day he tracked it down,
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found a large stone imbedded
in the side of a mountain.
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It was hollow, it was cracked
open; he claimed there were
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chambers inside of it, and there
were hieroglyphic markings
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on it.
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And there was also some mysterious
liquid spilled around the area.
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But the newspaper, you know,
went so far as to suggest that
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these were meteoric conveyances of
aliens from Mercury or Uranus.
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So, the whole idea
of UFO crashes was
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explored in the 19th century
almost a hundred years
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before Roswell.
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But what makes this story even
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more intriguing to Ancient
Astronaut theorists is the
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location of the sighting-- along
the upper Missouri River.
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This is the home of the Blackfoot
Indians, a tribe whose
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ancient legends include strange
tales of Star Beings visiting
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the region from other worlds.
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The Blackfoot
have very profound legends in
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myth relating switch quite
clearly * to * come down from
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some kind of sky-* to Earth
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and in these sky vehicles.
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And the way that they are
described, these can be modern
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ideas of flying saucers or UFOs.
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Could the object that the Montana fur
trapper claimed to
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have found really have been one
of the alien crafts described
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in Blackfoot legends?
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And might the markings have been
the same as what Joseph Smith
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found on the golden plates?
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To some Native Americans, like
Chief Standing Elk of the
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Yankton Dakota Tribe, Star
Beings are still very much
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amongst us-- and they are still
making contact with humans.
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A lot of our relatives
that come from the stars they speak
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on a telepathic level and there
are some that came to me and
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showed me a bar with symbols on there.
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They talked to me, and I
understood them very, very well.
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This is the replica of one of
the bars that was in one of
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the light ships.
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And they represent
the universal laws.
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And they're guarded
by the Star People.
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So these are universal laws.
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Did early Americans really encounter what
the natives called Star Beings as they
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crossed the frontier?
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And what other strange
encounters might they have
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experienced as they made their
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way further west?
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Tombstone, Arizona.
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In 1881, this mining boomtown
was the home of Wyatt Earp and
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the site of the gunfight
at the O.K. Corral.
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Less than ten years later, it
would become the location of
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one of the most bizarre
UFO sightings in history.
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According to a story
in the Tombstone epitaph in 1890
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two ranchers were out in the desert
of Arizona when they saw
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some sort of monsters with
a huge wings. The body was
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described as being like an alligator
and wings were described as
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memberness. There's another version
of the story told by the
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cowboys when they were very old,
they never really, they just
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shot at the bird and it got away.
It was literally bullet proofed.
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There were a number of reports
of big birds that cowboys
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would shoot at or chase for
great distances
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And they reported the bullets would
bounce off the leathery skin.
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But was the story of
this giant bird simply a hoax,
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as many believe?
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Or was there some
degree of truth to it?
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In the Old West, we have
stories of these creatures that
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resided in mines.
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The ghost rider, which was
this cowboy that was flying
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across the sky, but
also of ghost trains.
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So, were all of those stories
just campfire stories that were
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invented on the spot?
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Or were they based in
some type of truth?
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00:31:36,259 --> 00:31:38,359
For many Americans
living in the early and
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mid-1800s, the vast western frontier
offered both opportunity and profound
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sociological change.
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Freed of the constrictions
of European tradition and
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00:31:51,274 --> 00:31:55,809
Judeo-Christian fundamentalism,
the early pioneers could now
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experiment with political,
social and religious
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philosophies which their Eastern
counterparts had frowned upon.
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00:32:04,420 --> 00:32:10,056
One such newly emerging philosophy
was called Transcendentalism.
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Transcendentalism
was perhaps the leading philosophy
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00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:18,628
developed in America
in the 19th century.
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One of the founding figures in
it was Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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It was belief in
extraterrestrial life that led
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him to depart from Christianity,
and another author who is part
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of that is the
poet Walt Whitman.
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His most famous book 1855
was "The Leaves of Grass."
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And in "The Leaves of Grass," there
are like 200 references to astronomy.
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He believed strongly
in extraterrestrials.
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In a nutshell, transcendentalism
reminded young America that
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all things are not knowable and that
some things are knowable but not
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through the five senses.
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So it opened up Easterners as they
went west to new ideas and new sights.
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Another strong influence
on the way 19th century Americans
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viewed the world was the
emergence of a new genre of
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literature, science fiction.
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I think the image
that has come down to us from
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lots of movies and TV shows,
that the cowboy is kind of a
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rough, illiterate character.
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Most cowboys were extremely literated.
Face it, there was a lot of entertainment
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00:33:34,258 --> 00:33:35,935
out in the plains.
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00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:40,447
One of the first great
American science fiction writers was
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00:33:40,449 --> 00:33:44,985
Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce,
who believed strongly in
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00:33:44,987 --> 00:33:49,456
the possibility of
life beyond our world.
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00:33:49,458 --> 00:33:54,595
Ambrose Bierce was an author
of some very strange short stories.
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00:33:54,597 --> 00:33:56,664
"The Difficulty of Crossing a
Field" was about an Alabama
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00:33:56,666 --> 00:34:01,602
farmer who one day was taking a walk
across the field when he just disappeared.
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00:34:01,604 --> 00:34:03,604
He was gone.
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00:34:03,606 --> 00:34:07,141
And years later, his wife would
say that she could hear his
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00:34:07,143 --> 00:34:12,880
voice from time to time, coming from
the circle, but he wasn't there.
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00:34:12,882 --> 00:34:16,316
Ambrose Bierce was trying to
show us that this man traveled
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00:34:16,318 --> 00:34:18,886
inter-dimensionally
to another place.
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00:34:18,888 --> 00:34:23,257
And while he was still
there, he wasn't there.
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00:34:23,259 --> 00:34:27,261
It is thought by many
scholars and historians that Bierce--
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00:34:27,263 --> 00:34:32,332
as well as other authors of early
fantasy fiction-- had been influenced
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00:34:32,334 --> 00:34:36,670
by Native Americans
and their folklore.
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00:34:36,672 --> 00:34:41,508
In addition to belief in Star Beings,
they believed in the existence
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00:34:41,510 --> 00:34:46,346
of inter-dimensional gateways or portals,
which would enable visitors to
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00:34:46,348 --> 00:34:49,850
travel between time and space.
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00:34:49,852 --> 00:34:53,424
If you're thinking about
like people suddenly disappearing through
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00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:58,115
a hole in space time into another dimension
at the surface of it when we think
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00:34:58,150 --> 00:35:01,893
about out modern theory of relativity
and that you can bend space and time
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00:35:01,928 --> 00:35:06,455
it seems not so crazy, because we know
mathematically how to describe
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00:35:06,490 --> 00:35:10,451
holes in the space-time that connect
different regions of space.
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00:35:12,750 --> 00:35:17,150
The mystery of whether such portals
really exist may have been
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00:35:17,185 --> 00:35:21,861
♪♪ by Ambrose Bierce himself.
When he ventured south of the
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00:35:21,896 --> 00:35:24,427
border into the Mexican desert.
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00:35:24,462 --> 00:35:29,181
At the very early part of 20th
century Ambrose Bierce was
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00:35:29,216 --> 00:35:35,491
in northern Mexico, in this area
that's known for strange phenomenon,
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00:35:35,526 --> 00:35:40,292
called the Keymay, this area too
is thought to be another one these
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00:35:40,327 --> 00:35:42,136
interdimensional portal areas.
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00:35:45,016 --> 00:35:48,142
One theory is that Bierce may not have
traveled into Mexico alone.
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00:35:48,144 --> 00:35:53,113
Another very colorful figure by the
name of F.A. Mitchell Hedges
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00:35:53,115 --> 00:35:55,783
may have traveled
with him into Mexico.
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00:35:55,785 --> 00:36:00,187
Mitchell Hedges was a great
British adventurer, most noted
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00:36:00,189 --> 00:36:05,492
for his discovery of a
Mayan crystal skull.
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00:36:05,494 --> 00:36:11,498
The ancient city of Paquime is just a
few miles away from the Crystal Cave.
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00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:15,402
The largest crystal deposits
in the world are found here.
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00:36:15,404 --> 00:36:19,039
Mitchell Hedges believed that
his skulls were capable of
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00:36:19,041 --> 00:36:22,342
psychically communicating with a
person and interdimensionally
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00:36:22,344 --> 00:36:28,515
transferring that message to
an extraterrestrial being.
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00:36:28,517 --> 00:36:34,054
The theory is that Hedges, along
with Bierce, may have discovered
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00:36:34,056 --> 00:36:37,691
or mastered the method of
speaking through the crystals or
510
00:36:37,693 --> 00:36:41,695
employing their power, and may
have transported, as in his
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00:36:41,697 --> 00:36:47,434
stories, to an interdimensional space,
never to be heard from again.
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00:36:49,172 --> 00:36:52,031
While there, he sent
his last communication that we
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00:36:52,066 --> 00:36:54,410
know of, which was a letter, and
that letter ended with this
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00:36:54,621 --> 00:36:58,959
"As for me, I leave
tomorrow for an unknown destination."
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00:36:58,994 --> 00:37:01,848
The man who
wrote about so many strange
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00:37:02,061 --> 00:37:07,191
disappearances was never
seen or heard from again.
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00:37:08,502 --> 00:37:14,390
Did Ambrose Bierce meet with
foul play, or did he find an
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00:37:14,547 --> 00:37:19,611
interdimensional portal, like the
ones described in his stories?
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00:37:22,454 --> 00:37:25,909
Perhaps the answer can be
found in a mysterious lake in
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00:37:26,057 --> 00:37:33,193
California, one thought by many
to be an actual gateway to another world.
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00:37:39,412 --> 00:37:44,516
Elizabeth Lake.
Southern California.
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00:37:44,518 --> 00:37:49,154
This high desert body of water
sits at the junction of the
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00:37:49,156 --> 00:37:53,892
tectonic plates that form the
powerful San Andreas fault.
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00:37:53,894 --> 00:37:58,897
The Mexicans who colonized
California in the 1700s called
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00:37:58,899 --> 00:38:03,168
it Laguna del Diablo,
Lake of the Devil.
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00:38:03,170 --> 00:38:07,606
And it was said that the devil's
own pet would come into this
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00:38:07,608 --> 00:38:11,743
world through a portal at
the bottom of the lake.
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00:38:11,745 --> 00:38:16,487
Local legend says that at
the bottom is actually an entrance
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00:38:16,522 --> 00:38:19,054
to the underworld. They call
it the Lake of the Devil.
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00:38:19,089 --> 00:38:23,609
And it's said that in the middle 18th
century from upon 'till about
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00:38:23,644 --> 00:38:28,413
1880's something was happening there
which frightened locals.
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00:38:30,536 --> 00:38:33,663
Some of the rich land owners built
ranches there, these ranchers
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00:38:33,698 --> 00:38:37,053
claimed to have been harassed and
tormented by some sort of
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00:38:37,088 --> 00:38:40,502
monsters beast that would
come out of the water
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00:38:40,537 --> 00:38:44,259
and steal cattle and
menace the locals.
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00:38:46,884 --> 00:38:49,181
The ranchers who
claimed to have witnessed this
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00:38:49,183 --> 00:38:55,187
beast called it, "The Thunderbird," and
their description of it was nearly
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00:38:55,189 --> 00:39:01,660
identical to that of the giant bird
witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone in 1890.
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00:39:01,662 --> 00:39:05,464
Eventually, one of
the landowners got it in his
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00:39:05,466 --> 00:39:08,433
head that he was going to hunt
this creature down and sell it
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00:39:08,435 --> 00:39:12,371
to the circus, so according to
the story, this rancher was able
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00:39:12,373 --> 00:39:15,641
to actually fire a few shots at
this creature, which seemed to
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00:39:15,643 --> 00:39:17,209
be bulletproof and metallic.
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00:39:17,211 --> 00:39:18,377
The bullets bounced off.
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00:39:18,379 --> 00:39:22,814
And after that encounter, the
bird flew east, never to be seen
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00:39:22,816 --> 00:39:25,484
again in California.
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00:39:25,486 --> 00:39:28,921
Could this
so-called Thunderbird really
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00:39:28,923 --> 00:39:33,292
have been the same creature that
cowboys shot at in Tombstone?
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00:39:33,294 --> 00:39:37,362
And why was it referred to by
locals as, "The Devil's Pet"?
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00:39:37,364 --> 00:39:40,517
They didn't have the
vocabulary that we have today.
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00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:44,033
So when things happened that
they couldn't explain,
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00:39:44,068 --> 00:39:51,428
there was called the Devil's Lake,
there was called the Devils' this
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00:39:51,463 --> 00:39:53,072
or the Devil's that.
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00:39:53,107 --> 00:39:57,005
Take it away from legend and you
might find that this was a portal to
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00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,997
another dimension. Which locals
knew about and might have something to do
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00:40:01,032 --> 00:40:05,803
with the fact that this mysterious entity
was present at that very specific location.
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00:40:10,698 --> 00:40:15,354
If a portal to another dimension
or another part of the universe
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00:40:15,389 --> 00:40:19,403
does lie at the bottom of
Elizabeth Lake, might it also
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00:40:19,438 --> 00:40:23,665
be possible that the Thunderbird was
not really a creature at all,
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00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,943
but something even more incredible.
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00:40:26,978 --> 00:40:30,736
The Thunderbird was enormous,
it made enormous noises,
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00:40:30,771 --> 00:40:34,702
so the thunder part of it,
it could sound like a jet engine.
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00:40:34,737 --> 00:40:39,394
Was able to literally pierce
and emanate fire.
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00:40:39,429 --> 00:40:45,933
We have this large flying wing creature
which gives us a thunder sound,
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00:40:45,968 --> 00:40:50,092
and lights fly from it's eyes.
That to me says it has to
566
00:40:50,127 --> 00:40:52,036
be dealing with some sort of craft.
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00:40:56,814 --> 00:41:01,908
Native Indians in North America
they know of course the bird.
568
00:41:01,943 --> 00:41:06,731
But now something different arrived.
An object which could fly,
569
00:41:06,766 --> 00:41:10,832
which is bigger than the eagle
but at the same time makes
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00:41:10,867 --> 00:41:14,779
tremendous noise. So you have the
creation of the Thunderbird.
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00:41:14,814 --> 00:41:19,852
Even when the airplanes started
going out up in the sky here
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00:41:19,887 --> 00:41:27,397
in the southwest, they referred them
as metal birds, as a matter of fact,
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00:41:27,432 --> 00:41:32,725
wen the first wing craft landed
in, the indians that were there
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00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,189
actually went out there and
worshiped the airplane.
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00:41:37,204 --> 00:41:43,262
It makes me think of a concept called
cultural tracking, which is the UFOs
576
00:41:43,297 --> 00:41:49,228
can mask themselves to appear
as almost anything, you go back
577
00:41:49,263 --> 00:41:52,083
ancient China and they talk
about the flying dragons,
578
00:41:52,118 --> 00:41:55,703
you go back to the ancient Egyptians
and they talk about flying boats.
579
00:41:55,738 --> 00:41:59,771
You go to the Roman times and they
talk about flying **.
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00:41:59,806 --> 00:42:03,294
Perhaps that was just their
interpretation or perhaps
581
00:42:03,329 --> 00:42:05,189
that's what they actually saw.
582
00:42:06,225 --> 00:42:11,017
Did the cowboys in Tombstone, Arizona
and ranchers at Elizabeth Lake
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00:42:11,052 --> 00:42:15,753
witness an alien vehicle?
One that may have been visiting
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00:42:15,788 --> 00:42:18,623
North America for
thousands of years.
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00:42:18,658 --> 00:42:21,707
The truth of the matter is
there are some very interesting
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00:42:21,742 --> 00:42:25,750
and incredible stories that come
from the 1800s about flying objects
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00:42:25,785 --> 00:42:28,739
and strange encounters and events.
588
00:42:30,637 --> 00:42:38,070
The Old West was not only
deadly, bloody, but it was also mysterious.
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00:42:38,105 --> 00:42:41,084
It was a time when people
often encountered things
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00:42:41,119 --> 00:42:44,386
that they didn't understand and had
to make up stories to account for it.
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00:42:44,421 --> 00:42:46,882
And you see this in nearly
every society.
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00:42:46,917 --> 00:42:52,411
How many things do we know today
that were thought to be just impossible?
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00:42:52,446 --> 00:42:58,592
I always try to keep an open mind
when I hear a story and
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00:42:58,627 --> 00:43:01,134
I may not believe, I don't
disbelieve either.
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00:43:05,014 --> 00:43:08,306
Aliens invade
a quiet Western town, and
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00:43:08,308 --> 00:43:12,811
terrified residents scramble
for their guns in a valiant
597
00:43:12,813 --> 00:43:16,448
attempt to defend themselves.
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00:43:16,450 --> 00:43:22,320
A mere product of Hollywood's
high-concept imagination?
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00:43:22,322 --> 00:43:26,525
Or are films like Cowboys and
Aliens actually inspired by
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00:43:26,527 --> 00:43:29,094
historical events?
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00:43:29,096 --> 00:43:33,532
Stories that challenge everything
we know or Stories that challenge
602
00:43:33,534 --> 00:43:35,368
everything we know or
believe about ourselves?
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00:43:37,051 --> 00:43:40,893
As we continue to explore the
vastness of the universe and
604
00:43:40,969 --> 00:43:46,252
examine more and more of the
mysteries of the Earth, are we
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00:43:46,372 --> 00:43:51,264
getting closer to unlocking
the secrets of our past, and
606
00:43:51,363 --> 00:43:53,883
opening a doorway to our future?
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00:43:55,655 --> 00:43:59,500
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