NARRATOR: Throughout the world, enormous stone monoliths
have stood for thousands of years.
Many were built to align with the stars.
The monolith has religious implications.
It's pointing to the heavens.
NARRATOR: Some are said to have strange powers.
People get electric shocks.
They have altered states, experiences.
NARRATOR: And there are clues that they may have had
a technological function.
These stones are standing in just the right locations
where you could create a release of energy.
NARRATOR: Are the ancient standing stones
simply the earliest monuments of prehistoric humans?
Or might they have a far more profound purpose?
The standing stones are a calling card.
They are a message that somebody was here in the past,
and they were our teachers.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: Biologists, from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources,
surveying a nearby canyon,
spot a strange, rectangular-shaped object
from their helicopter.
DAVID CHILDRESS: They saw this metallic slab
down in the canyon.
It was a vertical slab about 10 to 12 feet tall.
And they were astonished because this...
this remote canyon is almost only accessible by a helicopter.
NARRATOR: Satellite imaging reveals
that the triangular column, dubbed the "Utah monolith,"
has stood undetected for over four years,
and its discovery quickly becomes international news.
There was terrific speculation
when the Utah monolith was first discovered...
as to the provenance of the monolith, you know,
was this communication from E.T.s?
And I think people were really excited by this idea,
because it's drawing on
the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey,
which was a science-fiction book
written in 1968 by Arthur C. Clarke.
And in the same year,
Stanley Kubrick directed the movie.
And together, they captured the imagination of the world.
2001 begins with this monolith appearing on Earth.
And through that monolith, as we all know from the movie,
this is how our evolution begins.
The appearance of a similar monolith
in a remote location in Utah
gives us the sense of a connection
with alien intelligence,
the idea of a point of contact.
NARRATOR: While it is still not known for certain
just who erected the Utah monolith,
it is believed to have been nothing more
than an art installation
and was removed shortly after its discovery
by a group of conservationists.
During the following weeks,
similar monoliths started popping up
on nearly every continent.
TIM BRENNAN: So between December and January,
you had hundreds of monoliths appearing around the world.
And there were nine monoliths in the U.K. alone within a month.
NARRATOR: But why did the Utah monolith
spark this worldwide fascination?
Was it all because of a science-fiction movie?
Or is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe,
that these monoliths resonate on a much more profound level...
and trigger deep-seated memories of standing stones
erected thousands of years ago?
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: People have always been fascinated
with monoliths,
and I think it goes even deeper into our past,
because we have standing stones around the world.
Standing stones have been an integral part
of our human development over thousands of years.
BRENNAN: Monoliths are a part of our DNA, part of our psyche.
Stone has a great resonance within the landscape.
It has a presence of permanence
that outlives the human frame.
NARRATOR: There are more than 50,000 ancient standing stones,
also known as monoliths or menhirs,
scattered across Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Most date back more than 5,000 years,
and the largest weigh over 300 tons--
More than double the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
When you look at these standing stones,
we're looking back at the Stone Age,
and we're thinking, are these Stone Age people
moving all of these huge megaliths around?
The largest standing stone in all of Europe
is called Le Grand Menhir Brisé, the Great Broken Menhir.
It's located in French Brittany,
and when it was one solid piece,
it was over 60 feet tall.
They have estimated for that stone, when it was one piece,
to be 330 tons.
Now explain to me how you transport 330 tons.
We have a hard time doing this today.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: It's a huge undertaking.
And there could have been some knowledge that they had
to move heavy things that, for some reason,
we don't understand today in our modern technological society.
Have we forgotten some ancient physics that they knew?
Or did they have help?
NARRATOR: While not all monoliths are of such enormous size,
for ancient astronaut theorists, the question still remains:
why would prehistoric people, struggling just to survive,
have expended so much time and energy erecting standing stones?
CHILDRESS: When you try to speculate about the standing stones
and what their purpose is, we have to wonder,
does it have to do with extraterrestrials
and something technological that we do not understand?
NARRATOR: On the northwest coast of France
lies the most famous and mysterious collection
of ancient standing stones found anywhere in the world.
Stretching across two miles of rolling countryside,
the more than 3,000 giant menhirs
are known as the Carnac stones.
French archeologists have been able to give a date
to these standing stones, and it's 5,000 BC.
So, they're saying that these stones
were erected 7,000 years ago,
but they don't know who erected them.
They don't know why they were erected.
They don't know how they moved all these stones
and erected them.
Some of these stones are as much as ten feet tall.
And they are arranged in huge alignments.
Some of them are in parallel lines.
Some of them are fan-like.
The Carnac alignments
refer to rows of stones
that run in precise lines for long distances
through the landscape.
HUGH NEWMAN: This is long before Stonehenge,
and Avebury and other such sites.
So who were these people?
And how were they able to move up to 70-ton blocks
over huge distances
and lay them out into these geometric configurations?
NARRATOR: Some mainstream scholars suggest
that the stones are simply grave markers,
while others claim they track astronomical events
like the solstice and equinox.
But neither theory can explain the precise placement
of the stones in geometric alignments.
One of the most interesting of the Carnac alignments
is the alignment of Ménec.
When viewed from above,
we can see these 11 almost perfect parallel lines
that stretch out for almost a mile.
So the Ménec alignment is so pristine
and created with such perfection
we can't even imagine
how it would've been done in ancient times.
Now, we have to wonder what these lines were for.
We have to wonder why
they're so beautifully viewed from above.
NARRATOR: In 1970, Alexander Thom, a Scottish engineer
who spent most of his life studying megaliths,
performed a survey of Carnac
and found that the stones appeared to be
purposely arranged to form geometric designs.
Of particular interest was an egg-shaped stone formation
at the west end of the Ménec alignment,
whose stones were precisely positioned
to form perfect Pythagorean triangles.
Thom's finding astonished archaeologists,
due to the fact that Pythagoras introduced
this geometrical concept in the sixth century BC,
more than 4,000 years after the Carnac stones were erected.
TSOUKALOS: One of the arrangements we have
is a representation of the Pythagorean theorem,
which is A squared plus B squared equals C squared.
How do we have that mathematical message
in a archaeological site that's at least 7,000 years old?
ERICH VON DANIKEN: The constructions in Carnac
is thousands of years older than Pythagoras,
the Greek mathematician.
So somebody must have teached our ancestors
to put these stones in a certain line, in geometrical forms.
Now the question is simply, why?
I am absolutely sure, some thousands of years in the past,
the extraterrestrials who visited our planet
left a proof behind.
TSOUKALOS: It's a message that somebody was here
in the past who instructed our Stone Age people
to put this stone here, put that stone there.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the positioning
of the Carnac stones
was directed by extraterrestrial visitors,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
But if so, was the intent
simply to leave clues that they were here?
Or might these standing stones,
and the thousands of others that exist across the world,
have served another purpose?
One that can be found
not by looking at the stones from above
but by understanding what lies beneath.
Pierre Mereaux, a French engineer in thermodynamics,
performs a study of the Carnac stones,
which produces some highly intriguing results.
CHILDRESS: What he found was that
the stones were aligned and placed over areas
that had quartz fissures.
The standing stones, themselves, are also made of quartz.
Now these stones, as I understand it,
have a fair amount of quartz,
and quartz is an interesting material...
because we do connect it with piezoelectricity.
NARRATOR: Piezoelectricity is the process of generating electricity
from crystals, like quartz,
when they are placed under pressure.
This technology is used today in watches,
speakers and computer storage systems.
But in order for the stones
found in the Carnac region to generate a charge,
they would need to be stimulated by a tremendous amount of force.
NEWMAN: When studying the landscape of Carnac,
Pierre Mereaux found fault zones
which the stone avenues appeared to be aligned to.
TAYLOR: It's really interesting, if there was tectonic movement,
the quartz could be stimulated
to create a release of energy, using the piezoelectric effect.
And these stones are standing in just the right locations
where you could create a phenomena like this.
You can store and create electromagnetic energy
in these types of stones.
NARRATOR: In addition to being placed over a fault line,
there is also the presence
of a strong and measurable "Earth energy"
that lies beneath the stones.
So, one of the cool things about the Earth
is the currents that exist.
And it's something we don't think about a lot
is that underneath the earth,
and the crust, and the mantle
and in the oceans and the water
there's constant electric current flowing.
Some of it very reproduceable and very steady.
It seems as if the Carnac stones somehow were reflecting
the presence of these electrical currents beneath the earth,
almost as if the prehistoric peoples that created them
were aware of the subtle energies of the earth.
TAYLOR: Somebody understood something about the quartz in the ground,
the standing stones and the fault line.
It's too big of a coincidence
for them not to have understood that.
TSOUKALOS: I think in Carnac, our ancestors
did not know what they were creating.
The entire region has over 4,000 stones.
And, of course, it was our human ancestors who moved that stone.
It was not aliens who moved the stone.
But somebody told our ancestors why to move it there,
and above all, how to move it there.
Carnac, at some point, was an extraterrestrial hot spot.
NARRATOR: Were the stones at Carnac part of an electrical grid?
One that was created by extraterrestrial visitors
to tap into the natural energy produced by the earth?
But if so, to what end?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining some of the strange events
that have occurred near ancient standing stones.
Rudston, England.
This ancient village in Yorkshire
has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years,
and several of its Neolithic structures are still standing...
as well as a number of monoliths.
But one towers above the rest.
The Rudston Monolith
is the tallest standing stone in Britain.
Currently, it is 25 feet in height,
and it weighs 40 tons.
Some researchers say that the monolith was found
at Cayton Bay, which is about 10 miles from Rudston,
and was carried up onto the hill.
So the effort involved to try to lift the stone
in an upright position is beyond imagination.
NARRATOR: Archaeologists believe the Rudston Monolith
dates back to at least 2,500 BC.
But some point to evidence that it could be far older.
BRENNAN: Well, we know that people have lived nearby Rudston
for over 11,000 years, uh,
in the Mesolithic era.
Because there have been some fantastic excavations
which have revealed the oldest house dwelling in the U.K.
So the Rudston Monolith could be as old as that.
NARRATOR: If the Rudston Monolith really is 11,000 years old,
that would mean it was transported and erected
some 6,000 years before the invention of the wheel.
And according to local historians,
just as mysterious as the origins
of the giant standing stone, is the strange phenomena
that have been observed in the area for centuries.
This particular area of the world is known
as the Bermuda Triangle of East Yorkshire,
and there's a multitude of strange phenomena
that people report.
Strange lights and odd occurrences
in the sky and on the ground.
BRENNAN: We have reports of high strangeness in the region
dating back to the tenth century.
We have accounts of lights in the sky.
Intelligent light forms that seem to have a purpose
and a will of their own.
People get electric shocks off the Rudston Monolith.
They have altered states, experiences.
ERIN KAVANAGH: People claim to have seen green-skinned fairy-like folk
scuttling around the Rudston.
TSOUKALOS: Aerial phenomena are reported in that region.
Lights in the sky,
weird things that happen to electronic equipment,
weird magnetic anomalies.
So clearly, there is something going on there.
CHILDRESS: So you have to wonder, is the Rudston Monolith there
because of all these strange effects?
Or perhaps, the Rudston Monolith itself
is helping create some of these effects.
NARRATOR: But how could an ancient standing stone
be the source of such unusual phenomena?
Are earth energies being amplified
by the monolith just like at Carnac?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest
there is far more to the Rudston Monolith than meets the eye.
NARRATOR: In the early 1700s, English scholar William Stukeley
conducted an excavation at the site
of the Rudston Monolith,
and discovered that the rock was twice as large
as previously thought, with half of it lodged in the earth.
HUTCHINSON: What's interesting about Rudston Monolith,
they discovered this extension of the stone went 25 feet
below the surface, as well as 25 feet above the surface.
This is what makes this monolith
the largest standing stone in Britain.
CHILDRESS: What was the purpose?
I mean, it's a lot of effort
that they're doing for no real reason
that we can gather.
It seems that they're tapping into certain places
where this energy from the earth can
be gathered, and then somehow emitted.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient people embedded
this 50-foot-tall stone a full 25 feet deep in the ground
as an attempt to tap into earth energies?
Curiously, the Rudston Monolith,
like the Carnac stones in France, is composed
primarily of highly conductive quartz crystal.
HUTCHINSON: The monolith is gritstone.
And gritstone is a conglomerate of sandstone,
with large grains of quartz-like sand.
Gritstone has a high degree of conductivity
because of the electromagnetic frequencies
that quartz can contain in some stones.
So, it is a conductor of energy.
NARRATOR: And also like Carnac, Rudston is a location where
there are strong earth energies.
Some suspect this is due, in part,
to the presence of the Gypsy Race River
that runs beneath the earth here.
The Gypsy Race is a type of river that flows above ground,
then underground, then above ground again,
weaving in and out of the earth rather like a giant worm.
The Gypsy Race River is known as the Waters of Woe,
because it's said to flood before calamity strikes,
such as a war, famine or plague.
One of the times in which the Rudston Gypsy Race flooded
was just before a meteorite struck.
It's hardly surprising that people think the Gypsy Race
leads rise to energy vortices in the earth.
NARRATOR: Rudston is also believed to be at a convergence point
of what are known as ley lines.
In the 1920s, English landscape photographer
Alfred Watkins made the curious discovery
that many of the prehistoric standing stones
and significant ancient sites of England
and France line up in perfectly straight lines.
Other researchers have since theorized
that the ancient people placed standing stones
and structures along these lines
because they were somehow aware of underlying energy currents.
I think the ancients followed a line of energy...
and placed certain monuments and monolith stones
that could activate those lines of energy.
CHILDRESS: The Rudston Monolith apparently is at
a junction of three ley lines.
And there's an energy associated with these.
It's a subtle energy, but it's there and it can be
amplified by these standing stones.
Was the Rudston Monolith erected by ancient people who were aware
that this is a place of powerful earth energy?
Or is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,
that they were directed by otherworldly visitors?
NEWMAN: The ancients knew what they were doing.
They would place these stones in specific spots.
And it would affect the energy.
But were they working with other beings to do this?
We have to ask these kind of questions
because why would they do it?
There's so much energy that is being recorded at these sites
that we have to look at this seriously.
COLLINS: It seems as if it was the result of some kind of
contact with entities, perhaps even extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists point out that although no
written records exist to document the origins of
the prehistoric standing stones found around the world,
many of the ancient cultures attributed them
to otherworldly beings.
In Wiltshire, England, legend says that the monoliths
of Stonehenge were erected by the magician
Merlin, who was not of this Earth.
McGOWAN: The great 20th-century French philosopher
and historian, Jean Marcel,
wrote over 40 books on the Celtic traditions.
- (thunder crashes) - And was adamant that Merlin was
an incredibly powerful otherworldly being.
And in a number of the legends Merlin brought
the understanding of how to utilize these stones
in some extraordinary way in terms of technology,
communications, energy.
Now also in the Breton legends of Carnac,
Michael the Archangel comes down to Earth incarnate
and brings this extraordinary information
to this very powerful place to build
these alignments that occur at Carnac to create the energy,
to harness the energy, to utilize it in some way.
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
the most compelling account of all comes from Ireland.
According to Celtic legend,
the Lia Fáil--
A sacred stone used in the coronation of kings--
Was placed on the Hill of Tara by mysterious beings
known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.
KAVANAGH: They were said to appear
on mountaintops amidst dark clouds
floating down in ships from the sky.
And they brought great knowledge
of the architecture, metalworking
and medicine to Ireland.
In Irish tradition, the Tuatha Dé Danann possessed
godlike powers, but they were mortals.
And so you wonder, what are they talking about here?
NEWMAN: Lia Fáil arrived with the Tuatha Dé Danann.
So it has this mystical kind of history
that goes way, way back, potentially thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that these stories
of otherworldly visitations
are not merely mythology but are based on actual events?
And were standing stones carefully placed
for some energetic purpose?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining
our own modern-day efforts to harness the power of the earth.
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NARRATOR: Long Island, New York.
March 1901.
After years of experimentation,
famed engineer and inventor, Nikola Tesla,
begins construction on the Wardenclyffe Tower
outside the town of Shoreham.
The project is an attempt
to wirelessly transmit electricity through the ground.
TAYLOR: Tesla invented almost everything that brought forward
our modern society with electrical power.
And his idea was to power the world wirelessly,
without having to have this big infrastructure.
All they would need was towers around the world.
His biggest test was at Wardenclyffe in Long Island,
and it was a large tower that has a strange ray conductor
on top of it, and then a large conducting pipe
that went way deep into the granite basin underneath it.
What he was really doing was grounding his system
into the earth, electrically connecting it to the earth
- and transmitting power around the Earth. - (crackling)
And there are minerals and salts and things in the ground
that are conductive.
And you can actually pass electromagnetic energy--
Electrical current-- Through the ground.
His plan was to send wireless power through the earth,
uh, over vast distances.
NARRATOR: Tesla's dream of harnessing the natural electricity
of the earth to broadcast wireless power was cut short
when he lost funding in 1904 and abandoned the project.
But another experiment he secretly conducted
in Colorado Springs five years earlier
allegedly proved the technology could work.
During the test, Tesla placed light bulbs
attached to metal conductors into the ground
as much as 26 miles
from the power source in his laboratory.
He then signaled his assistant to turn on the wireless system
and watched as the light bulbs became illuminated.
He actually lit light bulbs many miles away
with his experiment in Colorado.
And this was implementing
the electrical conductivity of the earth in a way that
nobody else has really been able to do efficiently since then.
NARRATOR: More than a century later,
scientists are still attempting to replicate
what Tesla was able to achieve in Colorado.
But is it possible that he was not the first
to conceive of drawing electricity from the earth?
When we think about what Tesla was doing
with his Wardenclyffe Tower, and we compare that
with what we see at standing stones like Carnac,
we have to wonder if the ancients were
trying to create some sort of electrical system
similar to what Tesla was proposing.
NARRATOR: When thermodynamics engineer Pierre Mereaux
studied the Carnac stones in France in 1992,
he concluded that they do, in fact, store energy
by connecting to an electric source
just below the surface of the earth,
much like Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower.
But if the ancient people were placing standing stones
in order to tap into Earth's energy currents,
what exactly were they using this energy for?
Energy can be amplified by these standing stones.
And it can be emitted as well.
Much like we use antennas, and towers,
radio towers and things like that.
We have to wonder, does it have to do
with extraterrestrials and spacecraft?
Some have suggested that these standing stones
may have been used as a fuel device
for some type of craft.
And while at first this sounds absolutely insane,
the more you think about it, the more it makes sense.
A Soviet scientist by the name of Kardashev
came up with a scale
where the advancement of a society
is determined by its energy use.
So, what if somebody came here who has been around
longer than us and has figured out
how to harness the energy of the planet
through use of standing stones?
TAYLOR: Now just imagine that you're on a long trip.
And you have an electric vehicle.
And when you leave your house, you plan your trip
around places that you know you can recharge.
Well, now imagine that you're an advanced civilization.
And you're going to a new planet.
But you understand planetary physics
and that planets will generate certain locations
that have more electromagnetic anomalies than others.
That might be a fueling station.
Would they leave a marker that says,
"Fuel here"? Maybe they would.
CHILDRESS: It's interesting that flying saucers are
very commonly seen around power lines and power plants.
But in ancient times they didn't have
those power lines running all over the world.
But what they did have were these standing stones.
So, extraterrestrials can take the stored energy
that's in these standing stones,
recharge their own craft and then fly on
to an-another one of these standing stones somewhere.
NARRATOR: Could this be the answer to the mystery
of the standing stones?
Did alien visitors instruct our ancestors
on where to place them so that they could tap
into the Earth's natural energy to charge their craft?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the answer is a resounding yes.
But they suggest this technology was used
for far greater purposes
and claim the proof can be found in ancient Egypt.
NARRATOR: Cairo, Egypt
20 miles northeast of the iconic Giza Pyramid Complex
stands the world's oldest surviving obelisk,
dating to roughly 1900 BC.
Originating from the Greek obeliskos,
meaning "pointed pillar," an obelisk is
a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument
which ends in a pyramidion at the top.
In Egypt, hieroglyphs were carved
into all four sides, and they often recorded battles,
special events, or the history of the region.
CHILDRESS: The obelisks of Egypt were erected maybe centuries
after standing stones like the ones in Carnac in Brittany.
But they're monoliths, too-- One solid piece of stone.
The obelisks of Egypt, too, are made of red granite,
and red granite is a very special kind of granite.
It's infused with tiny quartz crystals.
And this gives the obelisk a certain type of energy,
and the ancient peoples were aware of this energy
that was coming out of the obelisk.
They actually thought the obelisk was alive.
And this is very reminiscent
of the ancient standing stones that are even older.
NARRATOR: Is it more than mere coincidence
that the Egyptians erected monolithic stones
that were rich in quartz crystal,
just like ancient cultures in other parts of the world did
thousands of years earlier?
Had they discovered the secret of the ancient standing stones,
and their power to harness the energy of the Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and point out that the Egyptians believed
the obelisks provided a profound connection to the gods.
The obelisk itself, like a cathedral,
lifts up into the heavens.
It is pointing to the heavens.
It is a connection to the gods.
And at the top of an obelisk in ancient Egypt,
there was a special stone, the capstone, the pyramidion.
It was the shape of a pyramid.
It was made of specially fine granite,
polished with some, uh, hieroglyphics,
but the main detail was it was brightly gilded in pure gold,
so that the sun would bounce off that and beams would glow
for miles around it.
Must've been dazzling.
This was the point of contact between humans and the gods.
This was how we communicated with the gods
through that stone.
HENRY: You'll see the top of the obelisk
reaching into the sky.
They think of it as a sort of, uh, an axis mundi.
It's a way of connecting Earth with the heavens.
Egypt was given, according to ancient texts,
the powers of heaven.
Egypt became a mirror of the heavens,
and that the powers that are found in the heavens
are found on Earth, in Egypt.
As above, so below.
NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars interpret
this connection to the heavens as purely symbolic,
but ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the obelisks were recreating the technology
of another world, and that these giant stone pillars
were part of a vast wireless energy grid,
one that also incorporated the power of the pyramids.
It's a fascinating idea that like we would charge a phone
on a charging pad just by placing it there,
these extraterrestrials can recharge their own craft
off of these standing stones and obelisks.
You have to wonder whether pyramids had
exactly the same purpose.
Could there be even more highly advanced technology
way beyond any technology that we even know?
A lot of people don't realize this,
but Tesla's original design for the Wardenclyffe Tower
was actually to be the same height
as is the pyramid from the base to the tip of
where that conductor piece used to be on top of the pyramids.
And at the time that he was building it,
in the 1908-ish timeframe,
J.P. Morgan had an expedition in the pyramids
and were sending information to Tesla
while he was working on the Wardenclyffe Tower.
Nobody knows why and what the results of that was
and to what end.
But it seems suspect that Tesla wanted to do
something with wireless transmission of power
from a system that's the same height as the pyramids.
Did they believe that that's what the pyramids were for?
NARRATOR: The walls of the Great Pyramid-- like the obelisks--
Contain a high concentration of quartz crystal.
Could it be that this massive monument,
in conjunction with the obelisks,
made up a global wireless energy network?
By placing some of these obelisks and standing stones
around the Earth, in combination with pyramids,
if you have the correct technology,
you can use that energy,
and these standing stones become antennas
and power beacons and all kinds of things.
And it seems that this could have been
a worldwide system of power.
And that spacecraft, submarines,
other electric devices could draw their power
from the atmosphere because it was being put out
by these pyramids and by these obelisks.
NARRATOR: Might the world that Nikola Tesla envisioned
at the beginning of the 20 century
have actually existed right here on Earth
thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest there is even evidence
that parts of this wireless energy system
may still be in use today.
NARRATOR: Tara, Ireland.
Continuing a 6,000-year-old tradition,
thousands congregate on the Hill of Tara every June
to celebrate the summer solstice,
and gather around the sacred stone called Lia Fáil.
In Axum, Ethiopia,
the ancient granite obelisks attract
more than 20,000 tourists every year.
And more than 800,000 tourists will visit Wiltshire, England
this year, to gaze upon the iconic monoliths of Stonehenge.
After thousands of years, humankind remains mesmerized
by the ancient standing stones.
There's just some energy and mystery
that's associated with them that really grabs humans
to the point where all of these places today are now
major sacred places and tourist spots.
Was it something that the extraterrestrials had set up
and has now, uh, fallen into disuse?
A giant matrix and grid around the Earth
that was functioning in ancient times,
and now all we have is just sort of remnants
of this ancient power grid
that was once completely around the Earth?
It's a fantastic thought.
NARRATOR: But considering the geological makeup of these ancient stones
and their potential for transmitting energy,
is it possible that they are more
than just majestic monuments to the past?
Could otherworldly visitors be drawing power
- from them even today? - (crackling)
COLLINS: What is so interesting is that monoliths are
very strongly associated with UFO sightings.
Mysterious lights have been seen at the Rudston Monolith.
People witness these strange lights and UFOs
above the Carnac stones in France.
Near Stonehenge in England, each year,
strange crop circles appear.
And in the very same locality,
you have mysterious lights, UFO abductions,
disappearances, time slips, things like this taking place.
Plasma UFOs, have been seen and reported.
And these continue to this day.
CHILDRESS: Perhaps these standing stones are storing energy,
they're emitting energy and with the right technology
and instruments, you can pick these stones up--
These standing stones-- From hundreds of miles away.
TSOUKALOS: The point is that the standing stone formations
that we find all around the world
are pieces of the puzzle of the ancient astronaut theory,
that long ago we received visits from outer space
and we were visited by none other
than our first teachers on planet Earth.
NARRATOR: Do the standing stones found across the world represent
the remains of a sophisticated global electrical grid?
One that exceeds the most advanced technology
we possess today?
And if so, could Earth be part of a universal network
of space ports built for interplanetary travel?
Perhaps with further examination of the ancient monoliths
we will learn to harness their power ourselves
and continue the legacy of our alien ancestors.
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