1 00:00:01.102 --> 00:00:03.435 NARRATOR: Enormous man-made caves. 2 00:00:03.537 --> 00:00:04.781 PAUL BAHN: Nobody knows what on earth 3 00:00:04.805 --> 00:00:06.705 these things are. 4 00:00:06.807 --> 00:00:08.674 NARRATOR: Unexplainable structures. 5 00:00:08.743 --> 00:00:11.343 LOGAN HAWKES: You ask them, "How did you build these?" 6 00:00:11.445 --> 00:00:12.856 And they'll say, "We didn't build this." 7 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.800 NARRATOR: And underwater discoveries 8 00:00:15.182 --> 00:00:18.117 that challenge everything we know about the past. 9 00:00:18.185 --> 00:00:19.618 DAVID CHILDRESS: That's amazing. 10 00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:23.622 I'm convinced. Something's going on down there. 11 00:00:23.724 --> 00:00:26.759 NARRATOR: Is it possible that an advanced civilization 12 00:00:26.827 --> 00:00:30.462 inhabited the earth thousands of years ago? 13 00:00:30.564 --> 00:00:33.532 And if so, were they human 14 00:00:33.634 --> 00:00:36.635 or something out of this world? 15 00:00:36.737 --> 00:00:38.248 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Extraterrestrials 16 00:00:38.272 --> 00:00:39.705 colonized Planet Earth 17 00:00:39.807 --> 00:00:41.440 thousands of years ago. 18 00:00:41.542 --> 00:00:44.410 The more we uncover, 19 00:00:44.478 --> 00:00:46.378 it will all point in one direction. 20 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:48.470 We are not the first. 21 00:00:48.115 --> 00:00:51.216 NARRATOR: Since the dawn of civilization, 22 00:00:51.285 --> 00:00:54.386 mankind has credited its origins to gods 23 00:00:54.488 --> 00:00:58.290 and other visitors from the stars. 24 00:00:58.392 --> 00:01:00.592 What if it were true? 25 00:01:00.661 --> 00:01:02.728 Did extraterrestrial beings 26 00:01:02.830 --> 00:01:06.632 really help to shape our history? 27 00:01:06.734 --> 00:01:08.534 And if so... 28 00:01:08.636 --> 00:01:14.273 what might we learn from the study of aliens BC? 29 00:01:46.140 --> 00:01:47.506 NARRATOR: Traverse City, Michigan. 30 00:01:47.575 --> 00:01:50.542 May 22, 2015. 31 00:01:50.644 --> 00:01:53.450 At an undisclosed location 32 00:01:53.147 --> 00:01:55.447 in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan, 33 00:01:55.516 --> 00:01:58.150 author and explorer David CHILDRESS 34 00:01:58.219 --> 00:02:00.686 has teamed up with sonar technician Brian Abbott 35 00:02:00.788 --> 00:02:04.560 and underwater photographer Chris Doyal 36 00:02:04.125 --> 00:02:07.226 to investigate a series of strange 37 00:02:07.328 --> 00:02:08.560 underwater rock alignments 38 00:02:08.662 --> 00:02:11.663 they first discovered in 2007. 39 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.340 So you don't bring very many people out here, do you? 40 00:02:16.137 --> 00:02:18.315 No, you're one of the first we've brought out to this site. 41 00:02:18.339 --> 00:02:20.500 We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret. 42 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:21.773 Chris has been out here a few times. 43 00:02:21.876 --> 00:02:23.442 Well, it's a pretty sensitive site, 44 00:02:23.511 --> 00:02:26.245 so we try to keep traffic to a minimum. 45 00:02:26.347 --> 00:02:28.280 Well, how did you find this site, anyway? 46 00:02:28.349 --> 00:02:29.759 Uh, we were actually out looking for shipwrecks 47 00:02:29.783 --> 00:02:32.551 and we put our sonar down off the side 48 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:35.754 and I started to see stones line up on my rose compass. 49 00:02:35.856 --> 00:02:39.758 Okay, and then you deploy this sonar and take a picture, huh? 50 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:42.361 Yeah, we, uh, we can get that done here real quick, 51 00:02:42.429 --> 00:02:44.960 we can deploy the sonar off the side 52 00:02:44.165 --> 00:02:45.497 and, uh, start getting some images 53 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:46.877 and show you what we've got on the screen. 54 00:02:46.901 --> 00:02:48.600 All right, great, let's do it. 55 00:02:48.702 --> 00:02:50.169 Excellent. 56 00:02:50.237 --> 00:02:52.117 When I first found these on the computer screen, 57 00:02:52.173 --> 00:02:54.106 I started to laugh, because it was like, 58 00:02:54.175 --> 00:02:55.307 this can't be true, 59 00:02:55.409 --> 00:02:57.376 and I jokingly said, 60 00:02:57.444 --> 00:02:59.122 "Hey, we have our own Stonehenge underwater," 61 00:02:59.146 --> 00:03:00.646 and everyone, "Ha, ha, ha," 62 00:03:00.714 --> 00:03:02.759 and I started looking at it farther and I'm going, "Wow." 63 00:03:02.783 --> 00:03:04.249 We might have something here." 64 00:03:04.351 --> 00:03:05.984 Set the cable here, we'll be all set. 65 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:08.387 So we'll take a look at the computer screen. 66 00:03:08.455 --> 00:03:10.355 Okay? 67 00:03:12.259 --> 00:03:15.194 All right. So the sonar's spinning around. 68 00:03:15.262 --> 00:03:17.140 So as you can see in this, uh, deployment location, 69 00:03:17.164 --> 00:03:20.332 we have, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six stones. 70 00:03:20.434 --> 00:03:22.601 And what's really interesting about this 71 00:03:22.703 --> 00:03:25.404 is, these stones all measure the same distance across. 72 00:03:25.506 --> 00:03:29.341 CHILDRESS: Yeah, this does look like an artificial alignment... 73 00:03:29.443 --> 00:03:32.344 This stone circle and then this line of stones there. 74 00:03:32.446 --> 00:03:33.679 Yeah, that was unique to me, 75 00:03:33.781 --> 00:03:36.448 because as an engineer, when I look at stuff 76 00:03:36.550 --> 00:03:39.685 that's square or rectangular or circle in nature, 77 00:03:39.787 --> 00:03:42.187 it-it kind of makes it jump out, because Mother Nature 78 00:03:42.256 --> 00:03:45.724 generally doesn't do things like that. 79 00:03:45.826 --> 00:03:47.459 What I saw on the sonar 80 00:03:47.561 --> 00:03:49.394 looked a lot like stone circles 81 00:03:49.463 --> 00:03:52.331 and stone alignments that I've seen in England, 82 00:03:52.433 --> 00:03:54.990 or Carnac in France, 83 00:03:54.201 --> 00:03:56.435 and it makes me wonder what's going on here 84 00:03:56.537 --> 00:03:59.538 in Ancient North America. 85 00:03:59.640 --> 00:04:02.174 So have you actually, uh, been down here 86 00:04:02.276 --> 00:04:03.642 in scuba equipment? 87 00:04:03.744 --> 00:04:05.544 No, I haven't, but Chris has. 88 00:04:05.646 --> 00:04:07.212 Yeah, we went down 89 00:04:07.281 --> 00:04:08.592 and I actually took some still photographs of it 90 00:04:08.616 --> 00:04:10.682 and we noticed on one of the stones 91 00:04:10.751 --> 00:04:12.729 there's some really interesting carvings on the surface of it. 92 00:04:12.753 --> 00:04:14.286 Some people have even said 93 00:04:14.388 --> 00:04:16.555 that it appears to resemble a mastodon. 94 00:04:16.657 --> 00:04:18.690 - Really? - Really. 95 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.260 - Wow. Can we go down there now and see it? - Yeah, absolutely. 96 00:04:27.234 --> 00:04:29.101 NARRATOR: Taking an underwater camera 97 00:04:29.169 --> 00:04:31.169 down to the mastodon rock, 98 00:04:31.272 --> 00:04:33.472 Chris Doyal will send up a live feed 99 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:35.641 to a monitor on the boat. 100 00:04:35.709 --> 00:04:39.144 As he descends, he's gonna pick out the stone here. 101 00:04:39.246 --> 00:04:40.445 CHILDRESS: Okay. 102 00:04:44.351 --> 00:04:46.385 What's that? 103 00:04:46.453 --> 00:04:48.186 ABBOTT: That's the stone. 104 00:04:48.255 --> 00:04:50.233 CHILDRESS: Is-is this the stone that has the carvings on it? 105 00:04:50.257 --> 00:04:52.557 Yes, it is. So he's moving slowly in on it. 106 00:04:52.626 --> 00:04:55.227 So you can see the head, right through there. 107 00:04:55.329 --> 00:04:56.595 There's a tusk. 108 00:04:56.697 --> 00:04:58.597 So we have one leg coming down. 109 00:04:58.699 --> 00:05:00.510 CHILDRESS: It does look like the stone has been carved, and... 110 00:05:00.534 --> 00:05:04.403 ABBOTT: Yeah. -Yeah, you can see the legs and a trunk on it. 111 00:05:04.471 --> 00:05:06.400 Wow! That's amazing. 112 00:05:06.730 --> 00:05:07.205 - I'm... - Yeah, it truly is. 113 00:05:07.274 --> 00:05:09.274 Yeah, I-I'm convinced. 114 00:05:09.376 --> 00:05:11.576 Uh, something's going on down there. 115 00:05:11.645 --> 00:05:15.614 ABBOTT: Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, 116 00:05:15.716 --> 00:05:18.583 mastodons went extinct. 117 00:05:18.652 --> 00:05:22.154 So we've got a carving on a rock formation 118 00:05:22.256 --> 00:05:24.256 at, you know, a depth of water 119 00:05:24.358 --> 00:05:28.260 that, uh, you know, probably shouldn't be here, but is here. 120 00:05:28.362 --> 00:05:30.462 This rock is probably made out of granite, 121 00:05:30.564 --> 00:05:32.264 which is very, very hard, 122 00:05:32.333 --> 00:05:34.566 and if you look up close at these markings, 123 00:05:34.635 --> 00:05:37.135 you can see that these were made by percussion marks. 124 00:05:37.204 --> 00:05:39.104 These weren't just scratched into the surface, 125 00:05:39.206 --> 00:05:42.140 that each line was individually pecked out. 126 00:05:42.209 --> 00:05:46.978 That rock looks like it has a carving of a mastodon on it. 127 00:05:47.810 --> 00:05:49.514 And that would mean that that carving was made 128 00:05:49.616 --> 00:05:53.185 before the extinction of these mastodons. 129 00:05:53.287 --> 00:05:56.254 So you have to wonder 130 00:05:56.357 --> 00:05:59.570 what was going on here in North America 131 00:05:59.126 --> 00:06:01.393 at the time of the last ice age. 132 00:06:04.765 --> 00:06:07.165 NARRATOR: The carved image of a mastodon? 133 00:06:07.267 --> 00:06:09.601 An animal that has been extinct 134 00:06:09.670 --> 00:06:11.570 for over 10,000 years? 135 00:06:11.672 --> 00:06:15.540 But what is it doing at the bottom of Lake Michigan? 136 00:06:15.642 --> 00:06:18.577 Could it really be part 137 00:06:18.679 --> 00:06:20.256 of an artificially created rock formation, 138 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:23.648 like Stonehenge in England? 139 00:06:23.751 --> 00:06:27.520 If so, it would have to have been created 140 00:06:27.121 --> 00:06:31.289 before the end of the last ice age, when the lake bed was dry... 141 00:06:31.392 --> 00:06:34.726 Over 12,000 years ago... 142 00:06:34.828 --> 00:06:37.662 And that would contradict the currently held belief 143 00:06:37.765 --> 00:06:41.400 that early humans were not capable 144 00:06:41.502 --> 00:06:44.236 of erecting monumental structures in North America, 145 00:06:44.304 --> 00:06:48.407 or anywhere else, at that time. 146 00:06:48.509 --> 00:06:50.120 You never know when something's going to pop up 147 00:06:50.144 --> 00:06:51.410 that's going to totally change 148 00:06:51.512 --> 00:06:53.111 your whole view of a, of a period 149 00:06:53.213 --> 00:06:54.413 or even of human development. 150 00:06:55.849 --> 00:06:58.650 One of the main trends that I've noticed in archeology 151 00:06:58.752 --> 00:07:02.587 is that the dates for things tend to go back all the time; 152 00:07:02.689 --> 00:07:04.656 The earliest pottery in a place, 153 00:07:04.758 --> 00:07:06.625 the earliest arrival of people in a place. 154 00:07:06.693 --> 00:07:08.927 They always turn out to be earlier 155 00:07:09.290 --> 00:07:11.196 than we traditionally thought. 156 00:07:11.298 --> 00:07:13.458 ANDREW COLLINS: Today we know that there was a monument 157 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:18.470 on the site of Stonehenge at least 10,000 years ago. 158 00:07:18.572 --> 00:07:20.138 And this is not speculation. 159 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.541 The archaeologists are saying this today. 160 00:07:22.609 --> 00:07:25.760 And the same thing seems to be going on 161 00:07:25.145 --> 00:07:26.678 in other parts of the world. 162 00:07:26.780 --> 00:07:29.181 CHILDRESS: New dating techniques 163 00:07:29.249 --> 00:07:32.584 done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza 164 00:07:32.686 --> 00:07:38.290 indicate that it was carved before 10,000 BC. 165 00:07:38.392 --> 00:07:42.494 So more and more, as we make new discoveries in archeology, 166 00:07:42.596 --> 00:07:46.431 it's pushing mankind and civilization 167 00:07:46.533 --> 00:07:49.670 back farther and farther. 168 00:07:50.704 --> 00:07:52.637 TSOUKALOS: Earth has a much deeper 169 00:07:52.706 --> 00:07:57.342 prehistory than what we read about in textbooks today. 170 00:07:57.444 --> 00:08:03.140 You can read that Puma Punku or Tiahuanaco, for example, 171 00:08:03.830 --> 00:08:07.152 was built between 500 and 800 AD. 172 00:08:07.254 --> 00:08:10.880 Some archaeologists have suggested 173 00:08:10.157 --> 00:08:12.524 that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco 174 00:08:12.626 --> 00:08:17.429 might date back as far as 12,000 years BC, 175 00:08:17.531 --> 00:08:21.233 so around 14,000 years ago. 176 00:08:21.335 --> 00:08:24.169 NARRATOR: Could it be 177 00:08:24.271 --> 00:08:27.205 that a sophisticated culture existed on Earth 178 00:08:27.274 --> 00:08:31.977 thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago? 179 00:08:32.790 --> 00:08:35.647 But if so, who built it? 180 00:08:35.716 --> 00:08:37.649 What happened to it? 181 00:08:37.718 --> 00:08:39.651 And might there still be remnants of it, 182 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.355 standing boldly, right before our eyes? 183 00:08:43.457 --> 00:08:47.359 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 184 00:08:47.461 --> 00:08:50.362 many of the answers can be found by looking no further 185 00:08:50.464 --> 00:08:52.464 than the Old Testament of the Bible. 186 00:09:00.173 --> 00:09:01.940 NARRATOR: Throughout the world, 187 00:09:02.900 --> 00:09:03.942 there are incredible man-made structures 188 00:09:04.110 --> 00:09:07.479 that have been found to date back thousands of years earlier 189 00:09:07.548 --> 00:09:10.480 than archaeologists initially thought. 190 00:09:10.117 --> 00:09:14.520 Is it possible that an advanced civilization really existed 191 00:09:14.121 --> 00:09:18.123 on Earth in mankind's prehistory? 192 00:09:20.827 --> 00:09:23.762 A close examination of the so-called "Old Testament" 193 00:09:23.830 --> 00:09:27.980 of the Judeo-Christian Bible suggests 194 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.100 that although Adam and Eve are 195 00:09:29.169 --> 00:09:32.103 presumably the first humans created by God, 196 00:09:32.205 --> 00:09:34.105 their son Cain later went on 197 00:09:34.207 --> 00:09:38.643 to marry and join a thriving community. 198 00:09:38.745 --> 00:09:41.980 REVEREND LIONEL FANTHORPE: There are a number of biblical stories 199 00:09:42.820 --> 00:09:44.649 which make us suspect 200 00:09:44.751 --> 00:09:49.521 that perhaps Homo sapiens were not the only species on Earth 201 00:09:49.590 --> 00:09:51.456 or even the first ones. 202 00:09:51.558 --> 00:09:54.125 Although Adam and Eve are recorded 203 00:09:54.227 --> 00:09:58.663 in the Garden of Eden as the first human parents 204 00:09:58.765 --> 00:10:01.533 that when Cain went on his way 205 00:10:01.602 --> 00:10:04.869 after murdering his brother, Abel, 206 00:10:04.938 --> 00:10:08.540 he comes to another city with other beings living in it. 207 00:10:08.642 --> 00:10:10.410 Now, who are they? 208 00:10:10.143 --> 00:10:11.743 What are they? 209 00:10:11.845 --> 00:10:15.800 NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, 210 00:10:15.148 --> 00:10:19.840 several ancient texts can be found that describe beings 211 00:10:19.152 --> 00:10:23.455 that dwelled upon the earth before the time of Adam and Eve. 212 00:10:23.557 --> 00:10:26.858 These are often referred to as the "pre-Adamites." 213 00:10:28.829 --> 00:10:31.620 There is a long and ancient history 214 00:10:31.131 --> 00:10:33.598 of what today are called pre-Adamites. 215 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:35.433 Now, who are they and what are they? 216 00:10:35.502 --> 00:10:38.136 This is a subject, of course, of many legends. 217 00:10:38.238 --> 00:10:43.800 Those legends tell us tremendous amount of things. 218 00:10:43.110 --> 00:10:47.545 People's lives extended for thousands of years. 219 00:10:47.614 --> 00:10:50.815 They allegedly reached high levels of technology, 220 00:10:50.884 --> 00:10:53.151 even traveling to the stars, 221 00:10:53.253 --> 00:10:58.123 and yet somehow something went wrong in their civilization. 222 00:11:00.594 --> 00:11:03.528 The pre-Adamic civilization fell, 223 00:11:03.597 --> 00:11:07.532 but some went to the stars, 224 00:11:07.601 --> 00:11:12.404 and they were told, ordered by God, 225 00:11:12.506 --> 00:11:15.407 to watch and to observe. 226 00:11:15.509 --> 00:11:17.742 Well, let's assume for a moment 227 00:11:17.811 --> 00:11:21.613 that we had this incredible planet, and, all of a sudden, 228 00:11:21.715 --> 00:11:25.650 the extraterrestrials, other beings, came here, 229 00:11:25.719 --> 00:11:29.654 and they had their own facilities, their own monuments, 230 00:11:29.723 --> 00:11:33.658 their own communities for at least some time. 231 00:11:33.727 --> 00:11:37.495 And then, somewhere along the line, they took off. 232 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:42.367 NARRATOR: Stories of a time 233 00:11:42.436 --> 00:11:46.705 when otherworldly beings occupied the planet can be found 234 00:11:46.807 --> 00:11:48.807 in nearly all world mythologies. 235 00:11:50.777 --> 00:11:52.677 For the ancient Egyptians, 236 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:55.130 the dawn of life on Earth is referred to 237 00:11:55.820 --> 00:11:58.160 as "Zep Tepi," "the first time," 238 00:11:58.850 --> 00:12:02.754 when the god Osiris served as an earthly ruler. 239 00:12:02.823 --> 00:12:07.920 The ancient Greeks called this period the "Golden Age," 240 00:12:07.194 --> 00:12:11.963 when the Titans and the Olympians dwelled on Earth. 241 00:12:12.650 --> 00:12:15.967 And the ancient Sumerian accounts detail a time 242 00:12:16.690 --> 00:12:17.969 before the creation of man 243 00:12:18.710 --> 00:12:22.941 when the gods were the sole occupants of the planet. 244 00:12:23.900 --> 00:12:27.110 The basic suggestion is that extraterrestrials colonized. 245 00:12:27.800 --> 00:12:30.140 Planet Earth thousands of years ago, 246 00:12:30.830 --> 00:12:34.180 and we're talking not 10,000 or 15,000 years ago, 247 00:12:34.870 --> 00:12:37.922 but hundreds of thousands of years ago. 248 00:12:41.940 --> 00:12:44.280 NARRATOR: But if an advanced, possibly extraterrestrial, 249 00:12:44.970 --> 00:12:48.600 civilization really did exist here on Earth, 250 00:12:48.668 --> 00:12:50.869 why is there no record of it? 251 00:12:50.937 --> 00:12:55.730 No apparent archaeological or architectural evidence? 252 00:12:55.175 --> 00:12:58.376 BAHN: For most of the cultures studied by archeology, 253 00:12:58.478 --> 00:13:02.480 we are bereft 254 00:13:02.549 --> 00:13:05.160 of probably the vast majority of what they produced. 255 00:13:05.118 --> 00:13:07.886 This is particularly true the further back in time you go, 256 00:13:07.988 --> 00:13:11.890 simply because anything organic will-will not survive. 257 00:13:13.126 --> 00:13:15.593 TSOUKALOS: The reason why most of the ancient monuments 258 00:13:15.662 --> 00:13:20.465 were built by using stone is because stone lasts forever. 259 00:13:20.567 --> 00:13:22.467 That's it. 260 00:13:22.569 --> 00:13:26.171 And the reason why we have these monuments today 261 00:13:26.273 --> 00:13:29.407 is because they were calling cards. 262 00:13:29.476 --> 00:13:33.111 They were calling cards of a pre-civilization. 263 00:13:35.949 --> 00:13:39.584 NARRATOR: Mechanical engineers, like Nikhil Kar, study 264 00:13:39.686 --> 00:13:43.454 the deterioration, corrosion and decomposition 265 00:13:43.557 --> 00:13:47.358 of various materials to determine the approximate rate 266 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:49.761 of decay and structural failure. 267 00:13:51.665 --> 00:13:55.433 By applying these principles to a cityscape, 268 00:13:55.502 --> 00:13:57.769 scientists are able to determine 269 00:13:57.871 --> 00:14:00.638 roughly how long it would take the hallmarks 270 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:04.420 of a sophisticated civilization to disappear. 271 00:14:07.681 --> 00:14:10.548 If civilization was abandoned, after 50 years, 272 00:14:10.650 --> 00:14:13.885 you would start to see, um, material degradation processes 273 00:14:13.954 --> 00:14:17.689 take over for a skyscraper, for example, 274 00:14:17.791 --> 00:14:22.660 would see parts of the external facade crumbling to the ground. 275 00:14:25.131 --> 00:14:28.566 For steel material, you're gonna start to see little pits form 276 00:14:28.668 --> 00:14:31.200 in that steel structure. 277 00:14:31.710 --> 00:14:34.873 After a thousand years, the soil may begin to absorb the material 278 00:14:34.975 --> 00:14:39.677 and erode the material itself. 279 00:14:39.779 --> 00:14:41.679 Eventually, you're gonna get to a point 280 00:14:41.781 --> 00:14:43.681 where only stone materials, 281 00:14:43.783 --> 00:14:48.119 natural stones are gonna be around, such as Mount Rushmore. 282 00:14:51.791 --> 00:14:54.592 NARRATOR: Quito, Ecuador. 283 00:14:56.596 --> 00:14:59.497 Here in the grasslands of South America 284 00:14:59.599 --> 00:15:02.433 are the remnants of the Great Incan Road. 285 00:15:04.804 --> 00:15:08.706 The sophisticated network of pathways and trails covers 286 00:15:08.808 --> 00:15:13.440 over 25,000 miles though Ecuador, Peru, 287 00:15:13.146 --> 00:15:17.682 Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. 288 00:15:19.452 --> 00:15:22.720 The Inca built this vast roadway 289 00:15:22.789 --> 00:15:26.724 without the use of the wheel, draft animals, metal tools 290 00:15:26.793 --> 00:15:29.600 or even a written language. 291 00:15:29.162 --> 00:15:31.620 Yet modern engineers have noted 292 00:15:31.164 --> 00:15:35.166 that the roadway incorporates advanced engineering principles. 293 00:15:37.103 --> 00:15:39.300 ED BARNHART: The Inca road system was really one 294 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:44.542 of the most magnificent ancient architectural feats ever made. 295 00:15:44.644 --> 00:15:47.545 One of the things that made the Inca roads so incredible 296 00:15:47.614 --> 00:15:49.547 is that they traversed the Andes, 297 00:15:49.616 --> 00:15:52.550 these incredibly tall, steep mountains. 298 00:15:52.619 --> 00:15:56.487 They had to bore tunnels through mountains. 299 00:15:56.556 --> 00:16:00.458 They cut narrow paths along sheer cliff faces. 300 00:16:03.463 --> 00:16:05.141 BRIEN FOERSTER: One of the most intriguing things 301 00:16:05.165 --> 00:16:08.933 about the Inca road system is that there is a major artery 302 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.470 that goes from the northwest to the southeast. 303 00:16:12.539 --> 00:16:14.138 And along that, 304 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.141 we find almost every major megalithic construction, 305 00:16:17.243 --> 00:16:21.145 including Tiahuanaco, Puma Punku, 306 00:16:21.247 --> 00:16:24.148 Cuzco, Machu Picchu, 307 00:16:24.250 --> 00:16:27.151 Ollantaytambo and Saksaywaman. 308 00:16:27.253 --> 00:16:31.155 Many are starting to believe that these megalithic structures 309 00:16:31.257 --> 00:16:33.992 are thousands of years older than the Inca, 310 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.290 and therefore parts of the Inca road system are, as well, 311 00:16:38.980 --> 00:16:42.660 thousands of years older than that civilization. 312 00:16:42.168 --> 00:16:45.300 The Incas, so many of their great structures... 313 00:16:45.105 --> 00:16:47.605 Cuzco and their royal highway... 314 00:16:47.707 --> 00:16:50.800 You ask them, "Who built these? How did you build these?" 315 00:16:50.110 --> 00:16:51.809 And they'll say, "We didn't build this." 316 00:16:51.911 --> 00:16:54.879 Well, who did build it? 317 00:16:54.948 --> 00:16:58.516 CHILDRESS: The Incas had elaborate legends 318 00:16:58.585 --> 00:17:01.520 of coming through tunnel systems in the earth, 319 00:17:01.121 --> 00:17:05.556 appearing on an island in Lake Titicaca, 320 00:17:05.658 --> 00:17:08.426 and then coming to Cuzco 321 00:17:08.495 --> 00:17:11.362 and finding already a-a system 322 00:17:11.464 --> 00:17:13.564 of tunnels and-and ancient mines and structures. 323 00:17:13.666 --> 00:17:15.660 It was home of the gods. 324 00:17:15.135 --> 00:17:18.770 It's where they lived before they left. 325 00:17:20.840 --> 00:17:23.141 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the foundations 326 00:17:23.209 --> 00:17:25.109 of the Inca superhighway 327 00:17:25.211 --> 00:17:27.678 and the megalithic sites along it are remnants 328 00:17:27.747 --> 00:17:30.782 of an extraterrestrial civilization 329 00:17:30.850 --> 00:17:33.751 that once colonized Earth? 330 00:17:33.853 --> 00:17:36.954 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 331 00:17:37.230 --> 00:17:40.925 the answer is a profound yes. 332 00:17:41.270 --> 00:17:43.861 And to prove it, they point to a series 333 00:17:43.963 --> 00:17:46.697 of stone carvings said to depict mankind's 334 00:17:46.766 --> 00:17:49.500 ancient ancestors. 335 00:17:57.343 --> 00:17:59.844 NARRATOR: Southeastern Turkey. 336 00:18:01.514 --> 00:18:04.348 Buried beneath 20 feet of sand, 337 00:18:04.417 --> 00:18:06.684 archaeologists unearth 338 00:18:06.786 --> 00:18:09.187 the world's oldest temple complex... 339 00:18:09.255 --> 00:18:13.240 Gobekli Tepe. 340 00:18:13.126 --> 00:18:15.126 Radiocarbon dating suggests 341 00:18:15.228 --> 00:18:17.695 that the site dates back 342 00:18:17.797 --> 00:18:19.697 to at least the tenth century BC, 343 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:23.267 a time before the end of the last ice age 344 00:18:23.336 --> 00:18:26.704 and 6,000 years before prehistoric man 345 00:18:26.806 --> 00:18:29.674 was said to have developed language. 346 00:18:29.776 --> 00:18:32.310 BAHN: Gobekli Tepe is really one 347 00:18:32.412 --> 00:18:36.130 of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time. 348 00:18:36.820 --> 00:18:37.982 There are very few finds in archeology 349 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:41.119 that really changed the whole way we look at the past. 350 00:18:41.221 --> 00:18:43.200 And that is essentially what has happened, 351 00:18:43.890 --> 00:18:45.220 because our view of hunter-gatherers, 352 00:18:45.910 --> 00:18:47.225 uh, has changed enormously. 353 00:18:47.327 --> 00:18:49.994 We now know they were capable of coming together 354 00:18:50.630 --> 00:18:52.430 in large numbers with... Under presumably 355 00:18:52.532 --> 00:18:56.334 some kind of authority to cooperate on massive projects 356 00:18:56.436 --> 00:18:59.360 such as Gobekli Tepe, which involved bringing huge pieces 357 00:18:59.139 --> 00:19:01.339 of stone from quite some distance away, 358 00:19:01.441 --> 00:19:04.375 carving it beautifully, setting these pillars upright, 359 00:19:04.444 --> 00:19:08.790 and doing this on a massive scale. 360 00:19:08.181 --> 00:19:12.490 The very first temples in the world are at Gobekli Tepe. 361 00:19:12.152 --> 00:19:15.219 And-and this in many ways changes everything, 362 00:19:15.288 --> 00:19:18.890 because here we have the smoking gun 363 00:19:18.191 --> 00:19:20.291 of a lost civilization. 364 00:19:20.360 --> 00:19:22.727 It confirms to us absolutely 365 00:19:22.829 --> 00:19:25.329 that at the end of the last ice age, 366 00:19:25.431 --> 00:19:28.799 there was high culture existing in the world. 367 00:19:28.902 --> 00:19:31.869 There's no doubt in my mind that there are question marks 368 00:19:31.971 --> 00:19:34.472 all around the ancient world. 369 00:19:34.541 --> 00:19:38.309 And Gobekli Tepe offers such a giant question mark, 370 00:19:38.378 --> 00:19:41.979 because according to mainstream science, 371 00:19:42.810 --> 00:19:44.282 we were sitting in caves, munching on bananas. 372 00:19:44.384 --> 00:19:48.352 And clearly that isn't the case. 373 00:19:51.191 --> 00:19:53.124 NARRATOR: Although, to date, archaeologists 374 00:19:53.193 --> 00:19:55.293 have only excavated less than one acre 375 00:19:55.361 --> 00:19:58.362 of this 22-acre site, 376 00:19:58.464 --> 00:20:01.732 what they have found is astounding. 377 00:20:01.834 --> 00:20:05.236 The remains of a complex of buildings, 378 00:20:05.305 --> 00:20:06.971 massive walls 379 00:20:07.730 --> 00:20:10.241 and T-shaped stone formations, 380 00:20:10.310 --> 00:20:12.176 some nine to ten feet tall 381 00:20:12.278 --> 00:20:16.247 and weighing up to 50 tons. 382 00:20:16.349 --> 00:20:18.916 Many of the stone pillars are covered 383 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:22.860 with relief carvings of animals, 384 00:20:22.188 --> 00:20:25.223 reptiles and insects. 385 00:20:25.291 --> 00:20:28.859 Archaeologists have also found figures at the site 386 00:20:28.928 --> 00:20:31.162 that appear to represent humans 387 00:20:31.264 --> 00:20:33.864 with strangely stylized clothing. 388 00:20:33.933 --> 00:20:38.469 BAHN: We have no idea what these humans represent. 389 00:20:38.571 --> 00:20:41.272 We suspect that these are not just simple statues 390 00:20:41.374 --> 00:20:42.974 commemorating people. 391 00:20:43.420 --> 00:20:44.976 T-They could be gods. They could be spirits. 392 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:47.912 They could be ancestors, something of that kind. 393 00:20:49.482 --> 00:20:52.490 NARRATOR: But perhaps most intriguing 394 00:20:52.118 --> 00:20:54.452 is a life-size statue 395 00:20:54.554 --> 00:20:57.880 found just six miles away 396 00:20:57.190 --> 00:20:59.490 that has been dated to the same period... 397 00:20:59.592 --> 00:21:02.960 The Urfa Man. 398 00:21:03.290 --> 00:21:04.762 DAVID WILCOCK: This looks like a person 399 00:21:04.864 --> 00:21:07.932 who has come from an advanced civilization, 400 00:21:08.340 --> 00:21:11.302 who's wearing something that has much more of a defined collar, 401 00:21:11.404 --> 00:21:15.720 possibly even some sort of advanced space suit. 402 00:21:15.141 --> 00:21:17.441 What the heck is he doing there? 403 00:21:17.510 --> 00:21:20.211 His face looks strange, he's bald, 404 00:21:20.313 --> 00:21:22.313 his head, his eyes look weird. 405 00:21:22.415 --> 00:21:25.249 There's something unusual about this guy, 406 00:21:25.318 --> 00:21:30.121 and that could be a clue that leads us into the mystery 407 00:21:30.223 --> 00:21:34.250 of an antediluvian, or pre-flood, civilization. 408 00:21:36.396 --> 00:21:39.163 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the strange humanoid figure 409 00:21:39.232 --> 00:21:41.365 found near Gobekli Tepe 410 00:21:41.434 --> 00:21:45.169 actually represents an extraterrestrial? 411 00:21:45.238 --> 00:21:48.472 A being from a lost civilization that existed on Earth 412 00:21:48.574 --> 00:21:52.343 sometime before the last ice age? 413 00:21:52.412 --> 00:21:55.379 If so, does it give credence 414 00:21:55.481 --> 00:21:57.381 to other ancient stories 415 00:21:57.483 --> 00:21:59.383 describing otherworldly civilizations 416 00:21:59.485 --> 00:22:03.421 that once existed here on Earth? 417 00:22:03.523 --> 00:22:07.825 There is this recessed courtyard in Tiahuanaco 418 00:22:07.894 --> 00:22:12.330 that has all these different faces. 419 00:22:12.432 --> 00:22:16.330 These stones were found underneath the soil, 420 00:22:16.135 --> 00:22:19.403 meaning that at some point, some type of event happened 421 00:22:19.505 --> 00:22:22.973 that buried these particular stones. 422 00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:29.800 Some have actually surmised 423 00:22:29.182 --> 00:22:32.283 that they represent some type of a pre-flood civilization, 424 00:22:32.352 --> 00:22:35.753 that what we have here is, in fact, 425 00:22:35.822 --> 00:22:39.230 a remnant that depicts that society. 426 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:42.393 All over the world, we have giant statues 427 00:22:42.462 --> 00:22:47.365 and-and carvings of people's faces and heads. 428 00:22:47.433 --> 00:22:50.340 Some of them are giant colossal heads 429 00:22:50.136 --> 00:22:52.269 like the Olmec colossal heads. 430 00:22:52.372 --> 00:22:55.706 Others are the Easter Island type statues, which are huge 431 00:22:55.808 --> 00:22:59.210 and depict people who have elongated heads. 432 00:22:59.278 --> 00:23:01.912 They're cone heads, essentially. 433 00:23:01.981 --> 00:23:05.716 They were giants of yore with godlike powers. 434 00:23:05.818 --> 00:23:09.190 In my mind, we would call them extraterrestrials. 435 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:12.656 In all of these places, the locals are saying, 436 00:23:12.725 --> 00:23:15.250 "Yes, these are our ancestors. 437 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:18.162 These are the people who came before us." 438 00:23:20.733 --> 00:23:23.768 NARRATOR: Might our planet really have been inhabited 439 00:23:23.836 --> 00:23:28.406 by alien visitors tens of thousands of years ago? 440 00:23:28.474 --> 00:23:32.710 And might they have brought with them advanced knowledge, 441 00:23:32.812 --> 00:23:34.812 incredible architecture 442 00:23:34.914 --> 00:23:38.783 and technology that virtually vanished, without a trace... 443 00:23:38.885 --> 00:23:42.420 Save for a few stone carvings and monuments? 444 00:23:42.522 --> 00:23:44.288 But why? 445 00:23:44.390 --> 00:23:48.259 What catastrophic event might have happened on Earth 446 00:23:48.361 --> 00:23:49.994 that would have wiped out everything 447 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:52.363 that wasn't made of stone? 448 00:23:52.465 --> 00:23:55.833 Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining 449 00:23:55.935 --> 00:23:59.737 a number of massive man-made caves 450 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:05.976 recently discovered in China. 451 00:24:06.450 --> 00:24:08.679 NARRATOR: Zhejiang Province, China. 452 00:24:08.781 --> 00:24:11.882 June 1992. 453 00:24:11.951 --> 00:24:16.720 A local villager pumping water out of a pond in Phoenix Hill 454 00:24:16.789 --> 00:24:21.659 uncovers a man-made cavern with stairs... 455 00:24:21.761 --> 00:24:24.128 hallways... 456 00:24:24.230 --> 00:24:28.566 and massive ten-story-tall pillars. 457 00:24:28.668 --> 00:24:32.360 The grotto is one in a series 458 00:24:32.138 --> 00:24:34.400 of 24 separate caverns, 459 00:24:34.730 --> 00:24:37.174 each with similar proportions 460 00:24:37.243 --> 00:24:39.710 and intricately carved walls, 461 00:24:39.779 --> 00:24:43.714 floors and ceilings. 462 00:24:45.510 --> 00:24:46.550 BAHN: Nobody really knows 463 00:24:46.619 --> 00:24:49.720 what on earth these things are. 464 00:24:49.789 --> 00:24:51.549 There's no trace of them having been occupied 465 00:24:51.591 --> 00:24:53.791 or being used for storage. 466 00:24:53.893 --> 00:24:55.793 Uh, certainly not for burials. 467 00:24:55.895 --> 00:24:57.761 There's no trace of anything like that. 468 00:24:57.864 --> 00:25:01.265 TSOUKALOS: There's a Swiss author by the name of Luc Burgin 469 00:25:01.334 --> 00:25:04.168 who was the first to take this story outside of China 470 00:25:04.270 --> 00:25:07.271 in his book China's Mysterious Cave Labyrinth. 471 00:25:07.340 --> 00:25:10.574 And what he showed me convinced me that some kind 472 00:25:10.676 --> 00:25:14.645 of advanced technology was used here. 473 00:25:14.714 --> 00:25:17.781 It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, 474 00:25:17.884 --> 00:25:21.285 where you enter this subterranean world 475 00:25:21.354 --> 00:25:25.589 that clearly has been hewn out of the bedrock 476 00:25:25.691 --> 00:25:29.126 with artificial means. 477 00:25:29.228 --> 00:25:32.960 It's almost as if there was some sort of artificial mechanism 478 00:25:32.164 --> 00:25:36.000 that was grinding and drilling all of the stone out, 479 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:38.302 and this suggests the possibility 480 00:25:38.371 --> 00:25:40.400 that they may have had 481 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.541 some sort of technology. 482 00:25:43.643 --> 00:25:46.760 NARRATOR: Archaeologists estimate 483 00:25:46.178 --> 00:25:48.612 that the material excavated from the site 484 00:25:48.714 --> 00:25:51.615 would amount to nearly one million cubic meters... 485 00:25:51.717 --> 00:25:53.617 Approximately the volume 486 00:25:53.719 --> 00:25:57.221 of 400 Olympic-sized pools. 487 00:25:57.290 --> 00:25:59.230 Yet there is no evidence 488 00:25:59.910 --> 00:26:01.859 of where this material would have gone. 489 00:26:01.928 --> 00:26:03.928 And Chinese officials have calculated 490 00:26:03.996 --> 00:26:07.798 that an endeavor of this magnitude would take a minimum 491 00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:10.634 of 1,000 men working day and night 492 00:26:10.736 --> 00:26:14.572 for at least five years. 493 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.141 There is no historical record, uh, 494 00:26:17.209 --> 00:26:20.110 of these caverns having been excavated. 495 00:26:20.179 --> 00:26:21.745 So there's no document explaining 496 00:26:21.814 --> 00:26:23.147 what they were used for, 497 00:26:23.249 --> 00:26:25.150 who excavated them. 498 00:26:25.117 --> 00:26:27.585 And this remains a very, very, uh, frustrating detail 499 00:26:27.653 --> 00:26:29.587 for historians. 500 00:26:29.655 --> 00:26:31.722 COLLINS: We know that in China 501 00:26:31.824 --> 00:26:34.525 there are written records that go back 502 00:26:34.627 --> 00:26:37.828 at least 3,000 years. 503 00:26:37.930 --> 00:26:41.599 They make absolutely no mention of these caves. 504 00:26:41.667 --> 00:26:44.735 So we must look much further back in time 505 00:26:44.837 --> 00:26:47.237 for their origin. 506 00:26:47.306 --> 00:26:49.740 But exactly how old are they? 507 00:26:49.842 --> 00:26:53.177 Are they 4,000 years, 5,000 years? 508 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:55.746 Are they even 10,000 years? 509 00:26:55.848 --> 00:26:58.482 We just don't know at this time. 510 00:26:58.584 --> 00:27:00.117 TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested 511 00:27:00.219 --> 00:27:03.621 that they're up to 15,000 years old. 512 00:27:03.723 --> 00:27:07.691 In fact, Chinese scholars are the ones who have proposed 513 00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:11.228 that this cave system dates back 514 00:27:11.297 --> 00:27:14.531 to one of China's first emperors, Huang Di. 515 00:27:14.634 --> 00:27:16.634 And Huang Di, as we all know, 516 00:27:16.736 --> 00:27:19.637 descended from the sky in nothing else 517 00:27:19.739 --> 00:27:22.506 but a fiery dragon. 518 00:27:22.575 --> 00:27:24.274 WILCOCK: Somebody went 519 00:27:24.377 --> 00:27:26.644 to an extreme amount of trouble 520 00:27:26.746 --> 00:27:29.460 to build an underground civilization. 521 00:27:29.115 --> 00:27:31.248 Why would they do that? 522 00:27:31.317 --> 00:27:33.170 Is it possible 523 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:35.185 that something was happening on the surface 524 00:27:35.287 --> 00:27:37.955 of the Earth? 525 00:27:38.570 --> 00:27:40.524 When we go back to the Icelandic legends, 526 00:27:40.626 --> 00:27:42.793 we see this cataclysm 527 00:27:42.862 --> 00:27:46.163 that is described as a cataclysm of fire called the Ragnarok 528 00:27:46.232 --> 00:27:50.340 in which you have flames in the air and rocks and gravel 529 00:27:50.136 --> 00:27:52.836 raining down from the sky. 530 00:27:52.938 --> 00:27:56.400 NARRATOR: In the Icelandic Ragnarok legend, 531 00:27:56.142 --> 00:27:58.976 the world is turned upside down. 532 00:27:59.450 --> 00:28:03.614 A great fire is followed by a submersion 533 00:28:03.683 --> 00:28:05.783 of the world in water, 534 00:28:05.885 --> 00:28:07.851 resulting in the death of the Nordic gods 535 00:28:07.953 --> 00:28:10.521 and their offspring. 536 00:28:10.589 --> 00:28:12.990 Only two humans are left 537 00:28:13.590 --> 00:28:15.693 to repopulate the earth. 538 00:28:15.795 --> 00:28:18.796 It is a tale much like that of the Great Flood found 539 00:28:18.864 --> 00:28:21.665 in the Judeo-Christian Bible. 540 00:28:21.767 --> 00:28:24.735 And similar stories of a great deluge... 541 00:28:24.804 --> 00:28:26.804 One that marks the end of an old world 542 00:28:26.872 --> 00:28:30.541 and the start of a new one... Can be found in the histories 543 00:28:30.609 --> 00:28:32.810 of virtually every ancient civilization 544 00:28:32.878 --> 00:28:35.946 on our planet. 545 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:39.917 ROBERT SCHOCH: Virtually every culture, every ancient culture 546 00:28:39.985 --> 00:28:42.653 talks about floods and ancient floods. 547 00:28:42.722 --> 00:28:45.890 Some people dismiss this as, you know, 548 00:28:45.157 --> 00:28:47.791 myth without explanation. 549 00:28:47.893 --> 00:28:50.961 But what we find geologically is, in fact, 550 00:28:51.630 --> 00:28:54.531 we would expect flood legends. 551 00:28:54.633 --> 00:28:59.169 NARRATOR: In 2007, a consortium of geologists 552 00:28:59.271 --> 00:29:01.805 publishes its collective findings 553 00:29:01.907 --> 00:29:03.574 indicating evidence 554 00:29:03.676 --> 00:29:06.810 of a major meteor event. 555 00:29:06.912 --> 00:29:10.280 What they discover is a carbon-rich layer 556 00:29:10.349 --> 00:29:13.150 in the geological record at various sites 557 00:29:13.252 --> 00:29:15.552 across the globe dating back 558 00:29:15.621 --> 00:29:19.790 to around 10,900 BC. 559 00:29:19.892 --> 00:29:23.327 A separate study conducted by scientists 560 00:29:23.429 --> 00:29:26.864 studying Arctic ice core samples finds evidence 561 00:29:26.966 --> 00:29:29.333 suggesting a rapid glacial melt 562 00:29:29.435 --> 00:29:32.803 at nearly the same time period. 563 00:29:32.905 --> 00:29:35.339 SCHOCH: The Ice Age ends very, 564 00:29:35.441 --> 00:29:38.800 very dramatically, almost literally overnight. 565 00:29:38.770 --> 00:29:40.744 You see this in the ice cores. 566 00:29:40.813 --> 00:29:42.780 All of a sudden, there are dramatic changes, 567 00:29:42.882 --> 00:29:45.582 temperatures rising, 568 00:29:45.651 --> 00:29:48.850 torrential rains, 569 00:29:48.187 --> 00:29:51.255 flooding. 570 00:29:51.357 --> 00:29:54.910 NARRATOR: Could the geological record suggest 571 00:29:54.193 --> 00:29:58.362 that the stories of a global cataclysm are true? 572 00:30:00.633 --> 00:30:04.168 If so, might the stories of a cleansing of the earth 573 00:30:04.270 --> 00:30:07.204 of otherworldly beings, leaving only humans 574 00:30:07.273 --> 00:30:09.907 to repopulate the planet, also be true? 575 00:30:12.845 --> 00:30:16.680 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 576 00:30:16.749 --> 00:30:20.651 and suggest further evidence exists in the tales 577 00:30:20.753 --> 00:30:23.720 of a long lost continent. 578 00:30:30.950 --> 00:30:34.832 NARRATOR: Minneapolis, Minnesota. 579 00:30:34.934 --> 00:30:38.602 Here at the Minnesota Historical Society 580 00:30:38.671 --> 00:30:41.104 are housed boxes upon boxes 581 00:30:41.207 --> 00:30:43.774 of notes, letters 582 00:30:43.843 --> 00:30:47.277 and research material detailing evidence 583 00:30:47.379 --> 00:30:51.815 of an antediluvian, or pre-flood, civilization. 584 00:30:51.917 --> 00:30:54.117 The collection is the culmination 585 00:30:54.220 --> 00:30:56.386 of an exhaustive search for proof 586 00:30:56.488 --> 00:30:59.122 of a prehistoric civilization, 587 00:30:59.225 --> 00:31:01.625 conducted by the 19th century U.S. senator. 588 00:31:01.694 --> 00:31:05.362 Ignatius Donnelly. 589 00:31:05.464 --> 00:31:09.900 COLLINS: Ignatius Donnelly was a very interesting person. 590 00:31:09.969 --> 00:31:11.768 He was a U.S. congressman. 591 00:31:11.871 --> 00:31:13.704 Um, he was a writer. 592 00:31:13.772 --> 00:31:15.906 He was a-a cryptologist. 593 00:31:15.975 --> 00:31:19.710 And in 1882 he came out 594 00:31:19.778 --> 00:31:21.378 with his most famous book... 595 00:31:25.851 --> 00:31:29.190 What he did was to propose the existence 596 00:31:29.121 --> 00:31:31.154 of a mother civilization, 597 00:31:31.223 --> 00:31:33.891 a-a lost civilization that existed 598 00:31:33.959 --> 00:31:37.227 at the time of the last ice age. 599 00:31:37.329 --> 00:31:40.931 CHILDRESS: Ignatius Donnelly was fascinated by the story 600 00:31:41.330 --> 00:31:43.100 of a lost civilization that was destroyed 601 00:31:43.202 --> 00:31:46.169 over 10,000 years ago. 602 00:31:46.238 --> 00:31:48.805 He looked into all kinds 603 00:31:48.874 --> 00:31:52.342 of scientific anomalies at the time, 604 00:31:52.411 --> 00:31:56.346 including the extinction of mammoths and other animals. 605 00:31:56.415 --> 00:31:59.983 Stories of a civilization within the Americas 606 00:32:00.520 --> 00:32:02.352 and in the Atlantic. 607 00:32:04.990 --> 00:32:07.991 NARRATOR: In his writings, Donnelly concluded 608 00:32:08.600 --> 00:32:10.894 that not only did a lost civilization actually exist, 609 00:32:10.963 --> 00:32:14.932 but that it was destroyed due to a meteoric-type event 610 00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:17.267 that shifted the earth's axis 611 00:32:17.336 --> 00:32:20.704 in the distant past. 612 00:32:20.806 --> 00:32:24.841 Donnelly believed that remnants of this civilization 613 00:32:24.910 --> 00:32:28.879 could be found in the Americas... 614 00:32:28.981 --> 00:32:32.150 and the ultimate evidence would be located 615 00:32:32.840 --> 00:32:35.319 underwater in the Caribbean. 616 00:32:35.387 --> 00:32:37.754 He was convinced 617 00:32:37.823 --> 00:32:39.957 that when Christopher Columbus sailed west 618 00:32:40.590 --> 00:32:42.259 from Spain in 1492, 619 00:32:42.361 --> 00:32:45.662 he knew this as well. 620 00:32:45.731 --> 00:32:49.166 COLLINS: The explorer Christopher Columbus, 621 00:32:49.268 --> 00:32:51.835 before his epic journey to the New World, 622 00:32:51.904 --> 00:32:56.340 was very much aware of the stories of a lost civilization. 623 00:32:56.442 --> 00:32:59.109 It was something that was discussed 624 00:32:59.178 --> 00:33:02.145 in the various European cults at this time. 625 00:33:02.247 --> 00:33:06.683 Ancient mariners, the voyagers of the past, 626 00:33:06.785 --> 00:33:11.388 had maps which showed different areas of the earth, 627 00:33:11.457 --> 00:33:15.225 which they could not know anything possibly about 628 00:33:15.294 --> 00:33:17.828 because they hadn't been discovered at that time, 629 00:33:17.930 --> 00:33:19.162 and were probably accessible 630 00:33:19.264 --> 00:33:21.298 to people like Christopher Columbus, 631 00:33:21.367 --> 00:33:24.201 before his journey to the New World. 632 00:33:26.372 --> 00:33:28.500 There were legends in the Middle Ages 633 00:33:28.107 --> 00:33:30.173 that there was a land 634 00:33:30.275 --> 00:33:33.577 and a continent across the Atlantic. 635 00:33:33.645 --> 00:33:36.780 And early maps started showing... 636 00:33:36.849 --> 00:33:38.648 Before Columbus, even... 637 00:33:38.751 --> 00:33:40.984 A large island in the Atlantic, 638 00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:44.588 which they called Antillia. 639 00:33:44.656 --> 00:33:47.758 Columbus, on his first journey to the New World, 640 00:33:47.826 --> 00:33:50.270 as he neared the Caribbean, 641 00:33:50.950 --> 00:33:53.930 he started seeing weird lights in the sky. 642 00:33:55.734 --> 00:33:58.100 So you have to wonder: 643 00:33:58.103 --> 00:34:00.270 Were extraterrestrials 644 00:34:00.372 --> 00:34:04.410 purposely trying to help Columbus? 645 00:34:04.109 --> 00:34:08.780 Perhaps some of the knowledge that he had of maps, 646 00:34:08.180 --> 00:34:12.649 and that he was really going to find land across this ocean, 647 00:34:12.751 --> 00:34:16.190 had been assured to him. 648 00:34:18.230 --> 00:34:19.623 NARRATOR: Could Columbus have been 649 00:34:19.725 --> 00:34:21.625 purposely guided to this area 650 00:34:21.727 --> 00:34:24.628 not only by ancient maps of unknown origin, 651 00:34:24.730 --> 00:34:28.932 but also by extraterrestrial beings? 652 00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:31.902 Although the secret maps and charts 653 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.380 of Christopher Columbus have been lost, 654 00:34:35.140 --> 00:34:38.341 scholars attribute them as having been a key source 655 00:34:38.410 --> 00:34:42.679 in the creation of one of history's most enigmatic maps. 656 00:34:44.416 --> 00:34:50.353 The Piri Reis map has been dated to 1513 AD, 657 00:34:50.422 --> 00:34:54.191 but what it illustrates suggests geological knowledge 658 00:34:54.293 --> 00:34:58.610 that was unknown until our modern age. 659 00:34:58.130 --> 00:34:59.374 ERICH VON DANIKEN: A Turkish seaman, 660 00:34:59.398 --> 00:35:03.300 an admiral, painted the map. 661 00:35:03.402 --> 00:35:05.602 His name was Piri Reis. 662 00:35:05.671 --> 00:35:07.337 Now, if you see the map, 663 00:35:07.406 --> 00:35:11.174 you see the coastline of the southern part of France. 664 00:35:11.243 --> 00:35:13.900 Then you see Spain. 665 00:35:13.112 --> 00:35:15.312 Then you see what is today's Gibraltar. 666 00:35:15.414 --> 00:35:17.814 Then you see a part of Africa. 667 00:35:17.883 --> 00:35:21.618 On the other side, you see a coastline of South America, 668 00:35:21.687 --> 00:35:23.253 but what is important, 669 00:35:23.322 --> 00:35:26.590 on the bottom of the map of Piri Reis 670 00:35:26.692 --> 00:35:29.960 you see the coastline of Antarctica. 671 00:35:30.620 --> 00:35:34.831 Now, this coastline is covered today with ice and snow. 672 00:35:34.933 --> 00:35:39.350 So somebody must have mapped this before the Ice Age. 673 00:35:39.138 --> 00:35:43.390 NARRATOR: The continent of Antarctica 674 00:35:43.142 --> 00:35:45.609 was discovered in 1820, 675 00:35:45.711 --> 00:35:50.280 over 300 years after Piri Reis drew his map. 676 00:35:50.349 --> 00:35:54.951 And scientists have proposed that the Antarctic coastline 677 00:35:55.530 --> 00:35:56.953 has been obscured by ice 678 00:35:57.550 --> 00:36:00.857 for at least 6,000 years. 679 00:36:00.959 --> 00:36:05.950 Could it be that the original source for the maps of Columbus 680 00:36:05.164 --> 00:36:09.966 and the Piri Reis map predates our recorded history? 681 00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:14.337 If so, has evidence been left behind on Earth 682 00:36:14.439 --> 00:36:17.607 to assure that we can piece together the truth 683 00:36:17.709 --> 00:36:19.809 about a lost civilization? 684 00:36:19.912 --> 00:36:24.140 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim 685 00:36:24.820 --> 00:36:27.117 further proof may be found underwater 686 00:36:27.186 --> 00:36:29.719 in the Bahamas. 687 00:36:36.295 --> 00:36:38.395 NARRATOR: Andros Island, the Bahamas. 688 00:36:38.497 --> 00:36:40.297 2003. 689 00:36:42.134 --> 00:36:44.000 Members of the Association 690 00:36:44.102 --> 00:36:45.902 for Research and Enlightenment 691 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:49.105 conduct aerial searches for underwater structures 692 00:36:49.208 --> 00:36:54.177 that might reveal evidence of a lost civilization. 693 00:36:54.279 --> 00:36:58.181 Off of the coast of Andros, 694 00:36:58.283 --> 00:37:01.618 they discovered 695 00:37:01.687 --> 00:37:05.322 an incredible platform of rectangular 696 00:37:05.390 --> 00:37:07.657 and square stones that stretched 697 00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:10.360 for several hundred yards. 698 00:37:10.462 --> 00:37:12.562 And all the indications are 699 00:37:12.664 --> 00:37:15.332 that it goes back to the end of the last ice age 700 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.436 and is probably around 11,000 to 12,000 years old. 701 00:37:19.504 --> 00:37:24.341 NARRATOR: The search is part of a long-term project 702 00:37:24.409 --> 00:37:28.440 working in conjunction with the Cayce Foundation. 703 00:37:28.146 --> 00:37:31.181 Their quest is to locate remnants 704 00:37:31.250 --> 00:37:33.583 of the lost continent of Atlantis, 705 00:37:33.685 --> 00:37:36.353 which healer and psychic Edgar Cayce 706 00:37:36.421 --> 00:37:38.955 said would be located in the area. 707 00:37:41.426 --> 00:37:45.495 WILCOCK: Edgar Cayce is arguably America's greatest psychic. 708 00:37:45.597 --> 00:37:49.966 He was born in 1877, died in 1945, 709 00:37:50.680 --> 00:37:51.901 and he has documented 710 00:37:51.970 --> 00:37:56.600 over 14,000 psychic readings. 711 00:37:56.740 --> 00:37:59.309 What's interesting is that Cayce 712 00:37:59.411 --> 00:38:02.212 also got into things like reincarnation. 713 00:38:04.216 --> 00:38:07.884 Some of Cayce's clients were told that they had lifetimes 714 00:38:07.986 --> 00:38:12.255 in the so-called mythical civilization of Atlantis. 715 00:38:15.494 --> 00:38:17.227 In fact, Cayce's reading said 716 00:38:17.329 --> 00:38:18.995 that the people of Atlantis, as a whole, 717 00:38:19.640 --> 00:38:24.467 had mass reincarnated as the people of America 718 00:38:24.536 --> 00:38:26.670 and that America was, in a sense, 719 00:38:26.772 --> 00:38:30.140 a future-life carryover of Atlantis. 720 00:38:35.470 --> 00:38:37.314 NARRATOR: Cayce revealed in his psychic readings 721 00:38:37.416 --> 00:38:41.251 that the truth about the nature of this lost civilization 722 00:38:41.353 --> 00:38:44.540 exists in a hidden hall of records 723 00:38:44.156 --> 00:38:47.157 at three locations across the globe: 724 00:38:47.259 --> 00:38:50.960 In Egypt near the Sphinx, 725 00:38:51.630 --> 00:38:54.300 underwater in the Bahamas, 726 00:38:54.990 --> 00:38:57.233 and in the Yucatán Peninsula. 727 00:38:57.336 --> 00:39:00.337 Any three of these areas apparently would have 728 00:39:00.439 --> 00:39:02.605 all of the records that we would need 729 00:39:02.708 --> 00:39:06.109 to completely rebuild our history 730 00:39:06.178 --> 00:39:09.479 and understand how there may have been 731 00:39:09.548 --> 00:39:11.481 much more widespread 732 00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:13.983 extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. 733 00:39:18.256 --> 00:39:20.890 NARRATOR: Could recent archaeological finds 734 00:39:20.992 --> 00:39:24.361 in the Bahamas confirm that Edgar Cayce was right 735 00:39:24.463 --> 00:39:29.990 about the existence of a lost extraterrestrial civilization? 736 00:39:29.201 --> 00:39:32.602 And if so, should we be concerned 737 00:39:32.704 --> 00:39:36.206 about his predictions for the future of humanity? 738 00:39:38.176 --> 00:39:40.377 Cayce was a cataclysmist, 739 00:39:40.479 --> 00:39:44.581 and in his readings, he was constantly talking 740 00:39:44.649 --> 00:39:48.485 about Earth changes and pole shifts 741 00:39:48.553 --> 00:39:51.521 that caused civilizations to be destroyed 742 00:39:51.623 --> 00:39:53.523 in ancient times. 743 00:39:53.625 --> 00:39:57.660 And Cayce said that we were gonna have another pole shift 744 00:39:57.729 --> 00:40:01.664 around the time of the millennium. 745 00:40:01.733 --> 00:40:04.670 Even a relatively small asteroid, 746 00:40:04.169 --> 00:40:05.702 coming in at the right angle... 747 00:40:05.804 --> 00:40:10.206 Not necessarily hitting Earth, but sort of grazing the earth... 748 00:40:10.275 --> 00:40:14.144 Could, theoretically, change the tilt axis 749 00:40:14.212 --> 00:40:15.378 of the earth significantly. 750 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:17.914 Now, if that occurred, 751 00:40:18.160 --> 00:40:23.520 land and ocean would redistribute on the earth. 752 00:40:23.588 --> 00:40:27.457 WILLIAM HENRY: It seems as if history repeats itself. 753 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.260 And it may be that at this moment, 754 00:40:30.128 --> 00:40:31.594 we are exactly in the same situation 755 00:40:31.696 --> 00:40:33.730 that the citizens of Atlantis were in. 756 00:40:36.201 --> 00:40:39.469 COLLINS: Perhaps we will find out exactly what had happened 757 00:40:39.571 --> 00:40:42.272 to this lost civilization 758 00:40:42.374 --> 00:40:44.541 and learn from their mistakes 759 00:40:44.643 --> 00:40:48.440 and not sink into oblivion ourselves. 760 00:40:48.113 --> 00:40:51.181 TSOUKALOS: The more we uncover, 761 00:40:51.283 --> 00:40:54.170 it will all point in one direction. 762 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.220 We are not the first and we never have been. 763 00:40:59.591 --> 00:41:02.959 An extraterrestrial pre-civilization existed 764 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:06.229 before our recorded history, 765 00:41:06.331 --> 00:41:08.998 and this truth will be revealed 766 00:41:09.100 --> 00:41:11.340 within our lifetime. 767 00:41:13.205 --> 00:41:15.305 NARRATOR: Could the stories of a time 768 00:41:15.407 --> 00:41:17.600 when gods and otherworldly beings 769 00:41:17.108 --> 00:41:22.780 inhabited the earth be more than just mythology? 770 00:41:22.147 --> 00:41:26.490 And might the discovery of unexplainable remnants 771 00:41:26.151 --> 00:41:29.352 from this lost civilization reveal the truth 772 00:41:29.421 --> 00:41:31.454 about our extraterrestrial origins, 773 00:41:31.523 --> 00:41:34.958 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 774 00:41:36.495 --> 00:41:40.330 Perhaps we are on the verge of uncovering 775 00:41:40.432 --> 00:41:42.165 the final piece of the puzzle 776 00:41:42.234 --> 00:41:45.201 that will change our understanding 777 00:41:45.303 --> 00:41:47.136 of Earth's history forever. 778 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:49.906 But will we uncover it 779 00:41:49.975 --> 00:41:52.275 before it's too late?