1 00:00:00,651 --> 00:00:07,692 An enormous flying creature born of a raging inferno... 2 00:00:07,693 --> 00:00:14,030 a vicious three-headed dog guarding the gates of hell 3 00:00:14,032 --> 00:00:20,003 and mysterious sea serpents terrorizing mankind. 4 00:00:20,005 --> 00:00:24,808 But are such monsters just mythical creatures; a fantasy? 5 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:28,745 Or did they actually exist in the ancient past? 6 00:00:28,747 --> 00:00:31,548 GEORGE NOORY: There was some kind of experimentation going on. 7 00:00:31,550 --> 00:00:35,185 Let's take this animal and give him two heads. 8 00:00:35,187 --> 00:00:38,655 Let's take this dragon and give him wings. 9 00:00:38,657 --> 00:00:43,260 GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: These creatures are direct products 10 00:00:43,262 --> 00:00:49,166 of extraterrestrial genetic experimentations in our past. 11 00:00:49,168 --> 00:00:53,069 NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have 12 00:00:53,071 --> 00:00:56,540 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 13 00:00:56,542 --> 00:00:59,476 What if it were true? 14 00:00:59,478 --> 00:01:04,181 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 15 00:01:04,183 --> 00:01:08,618 And if so, might the beasts and monsters of ancient legend 16 00:01:08,620 --> 00:01:13,089 really have been the product of an advanced extraterrestrial 17 00:01:13,091 --> 00:01:15,091 intelligence? 18 00:01:19,127 --> 00:01:22,649 19 00:01:49,313 --> 00:01:53,763 Montauk, New York. 20 00:01:53,765 --> 00:01:59,870 On July 13, 2008, a 26-year-old woman and three of her friends 21 00:01:59,872 --> 00:02:03,673 discovered the carcass of a strange looking creature that 22 00:02:03,675 --> 00:02:07,143 had washed onto the shore. 23 00:02:11,532 --> 00:02:14,765 At actually looked like a hybrid creature, 24 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,830 that had the claws of a raccoon and possibly the beak of a bird 25 00:02:19,865 --> 00:02:21,974 and the body perhaps of a dog. 26 00:02:22,009 --> 00:02:27,801 A very unusual creature, a photograph is taken and circulated. 27 00:02:27,836 --> 00:02:30,318 It started popping up all over the internet. 28 00:02:30,353 --> 00:02:31,922 It went viral. 29 00:02:31,957 --> 00:02:36,866 The people couldn't identify the animal because it didn't look like anything, 30 00:02:36,901 --> 00:02:39,625 it looked like a mixture of different animals. 31 00:02:43,814 --> 00:02:47,521 And because it looked so strange, you know, it's provoked a lot of fairies. 32 00:02:47,556 --> 00:02:48,923 Is it just an unknown animal? 33 00:02:50,853 --> 00:02:53,433 Could it be some sort of hybrid type creature, 34 00:02:53,468 --> 00:02:56,082 something, you know, that had been genetically tinkered with in a lab? 35 00:03:01,778 --> 00:03:03,932 Some believe that the mysterious creature 36 00:03:03,967 --> 00:03:05,379 is a hybrid beast. 37 00:03:05,414 --> 00:03:09,196 Perhaps created at a nearby government testing facility. 38 00:03:09,231 --> 00:03:11,968 The Plumb Island Animal Disease Center. 39 00:03:13,213 --> 00:03:18,909 Crypto zoologists Lauren Callman labels the creature the Montauk Monster. 40 00:03:18,944 --> 00:03:22,600 This is a replica of the Montauk monster. 41 00:03:22,635 --> 00:03:25,803 One of the things that we notice about this creature was the 42 00:03:25,838 --> 00:03:29,460 strange features around it's mouth. It looked like a beak, 43 00:03:29,495 --> 00:03:33,383 and actually looked like we didn't know what was going on here, 44 00:03:33,409 --> 00:03:36,377 was it a griffin? Was it a creature? Was it a giant turtle? 45 00:03:36,378 --> 00:03:41,660 But indeed, that was decaying flesh that came away from the skull. 46 00:03:41,737 --> 00:03:45,041 Other features were the strange looking feet, and the 47 00:03:45,043 --> 00:03:48,244 body, indeed-- because the picture had no scale in it-- 48 00:03:48,246 --> 00:03:50,347 we thought looked enormous. 49 00:03:50,349 --> 00:03:54,718 But on the body, these white objects here really define the 50 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:59,356 size of flies on the creature, which then determined a scale. 51 00:03:59,358 --> 00:04:02,258 This creature was very small. 52 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:04,427 RUEHL: Unfortunately, someone grabbed the carcass and 53 00:04:04,429 --> 00:04:07,897 supposedly took it to his front yard, and it ultimately vanished. 54 00:04:07,899 --> 00:04:09,432 So the only evidence we have of 55 00:04:09,434 --> 00:04:12,969 this creature is the photo. 56 00:04:12,971 --> 00:04:22,345 But while some researchers theorized that the so-called Montauk Monster was 57 00:04:22,347 --> 00:04:28,284 the product of modern science, ancient astronaut theorists 58 00:04:28,286 --> 00:04:32,322 believe the animal could be part of a long line of genetically- 59 00:04:32,324 --> 00:04:36,760 modified creatures that have appeared throughout human history. 60 00:04:36,762 --> 00:04:41,297 TSOUKALOS: If the Montauk Monster is in fact a reality, 61 00:04:41,299 --> 00:04:48,772 then that could mean that if we're able today to create some 62 00:04:48,774 --> 00:04:52,542 very bizarre creatures behind closed doors in labs all around 63 00:04:52,544 --> 00:04:57,047 the world, it is possible that our ancestors, especially the 64 00:04:57,049 --> 00:05:02,652 extraterrestrial ancestors, had the same capability. 65 00:05:02,654 --> 00:05:08,291 Because in ancient texts, we have numerous references to 66 00:05:08,293 --> 00:05:16,032 monsters, bizarre beings that have been described in great detail. 67 00:05:16,034 --> 00:05:20,003 NARRATOR: Ancient Greek artifacts depict terrifying 68 00:05:20,005 --> 00:05:35,819 beasts such as the Gorgon... the Hydra... and the ferocious Cerberus. 69 00:05:35,821 --> 00:05:41,491 And in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, the Greek author 70 00:05:41,493 --> 00:05:46,129 describes a battle in which the hero, Bellerophon, slays a 71 00:05:46,131 --> 00:05:50,567 monster called the Chimera. 72 00:05:50,569 --> 00:05:52,718 JASON MARTELL: The Chimera was a dreaded beast 73 00:05:52,753 --> 00:05:55,773 that wreaked havoc and terrorized the people of Asia Minor. 74 00:05:55,808 --> 00:05:58,910 Homer described the Chimera as an immortal beast, 75 00:05:58,945 --> 00:06:02,858 with a lion-like head, a snake tail and a third goat in the middle 76 00:06:02,893 --> 00:06:04,404 that snored bright fire. 77 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:08,744 The notion of Chimera as some hybrids has been part of the human 78 00:06:08,971 --> 00:06:10,346 psyche for a millennium. 79 00:06:10,381 --> 00:06:14,471 I mean, when you think about things, just the Minotaur, Pegasus, 80 00:06:14,506 --> 00:06:19,587 Anubis... This is something that either we have imagined or 81 00:06:19,622 --> 00:06:22,096 had been created at one time. 82 00:06:22,131 --> 00:06:27,001 These beings, these monsters serve more of a kind of an ethical purpose in 83 00:06:27,036 --> 00:06:31,376 mythology than they are catalogs of something literal. 84 00:06:31,978 --> 00:06:35,360 Because story-telling in fiction are just a part of what we are as human beings. 85 00:06:39,228 --> 00:06:44,287 But did mythic monsters merely spring from the imagination of our ancestors? 86 00:06:44,289 --> 00:06:49,092 Or might they have actually existed? 87 00:06:49,094 --> 00:06:54,164 Ancient alien theorists believe in their existence and that 88 00:06:54,166 --> 00:06:59,869 evidence can be found in the relics of the past. 89 00:06:59,871 --> 00:07:03,339 TSOUKALOS: To suggest that all of these creatures were 90 00:07:03,341 --> 00:07:07,877 nothing else but fantasy, in my opinion, doesn't really hold 91 00:07:07,879 --> 00:07:11,548 water because our ancestors weren't stupid. 92 00:07:11,550 --> 00:07:14,050 They depicted what they saw. 93 00:07:17,881 --> 00:07:26,563 We find these mixed hybrid beings all throughout Egypt as sphinxes, as griffons, 94 00:07:26,565 --> 00:07:29,065 as bizarre creatures that, according to the the ancient 95 00:07:29,067 --> 00:07:34,304 Egyptian texts, they did exist. 96 00:07:34,306 --> 00:07:39,842 They were not a fantasy of our ancestors' imagination. 97 00:07:39,844 --> 00:07:43,762 ERICH VON DANIKEN: Just imagine there's a mother spaceship traveling 98 00:07:43,763 --> 00:07:47,444 in the universe for centuries and centuries. 99 00:07:47,479 --> 00:07:52,746 Then they find a solar system with a planet with the possibility of life. 100 00:07:52,781 --> 00:07:54,711 Like the Earth, 101 00:07:54,746 --> 00:07:58,553 and they observe on the Nile a crocodile. 102 00:07:58,588 --> 00:08:02,497 A living creature which obviously is resisting to the heat. 103 00:08:02,532 --> 00:08:10,077 They observe a lion with his power, his muscles, and now they start to think 104 00:08:10,112 --> 00:08:15,894 we could use a mixture of these creatures on another planet, 105 00:08:15,895 --> 00:08:22,445 now by genetical design they start to create mixed creatures. 106 00:08:22,446 --> 00:08:26,793 Some of these mixed creatures did exist in the past. 107 00:08:28,659 --> 00:08:31,739 The Griffin was a mythological creature that had the body of a lion, 108 00:08:31,774 --> 00:08:34,249 with the head and wings of an eagle. 109 00:08:35,858 --> 00:08:39,713 Now the lion is the king of the beasts, the eagle is the king of birds, 110 00:08:39,748 --> 00:08:42,716 so the Griffin was the king of all creatures. 111 00:08:43,797 --> 00:08:49,092 The creature is somehow two creatures put together in a way that defies 112 00:08:49,127 --> 00:08:54,736 normal sense, defies normal explanation. So the question then is, how did that happen? 113 00:08:54,771 --> 00:08:57,620 NARRATOR: By the mid-19th century, scientists began to 114 00:08:57,622 --> 00:09:01,557 look at fossil records around the planet to study how 115 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,461 organisms changed over time. 116 00:09:05,463 --> 00:09:10,366 Naturalist Charles Darwin theorized that all life-forms 117 00:09:10,368 --> 00:09:14,370 share a common origin and have evolved over the centuries 118 00:09:14,372 --> 00:09:20,009 through a process called natural selection. 119 00:09:20,011 --> 00:09:24,380 Might the hybrid monsters of ancient religion and myth really 120 00:09:24,382 --> 00:09:28,184 have been the result of evolution? 121 00:09:28,186 --> 00:09:33,225 STANFORD: Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is a mechanism by 122 00:09:33,260 --> 00:09:36,314 which life forms can change from one into another. 123 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,295 It relies on the principal that organisms that have certain traits, 124 00:09:42,330 --> 00:09:46,937 permutations may be advantageous in the struggle for existence 125 00:09:46,972 --> 00:09:48,363 and in the struggle for reproduction. 126 00:09:50,972 --> 00:09:53,958 And those traits are the ones that will be perpetuated over time, 127 00:09:53,993 --> 00:09:55,499 over many, many generations. 128 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,798 Certain different species can breed if they are genetically close, 129 00:10:01,185 --> 00:10:08,424 Like the donkey and the horse. Like the wolf and the dog. 130 00:10:08,426 --> 00:10:13,830 However, cats and dogs will not mate because, first of all, they 131 00:10:13,832 --> 00:10:17,734 don't have the biochemical signatures to mate with each 132 00:10:17,736 --> 00:10:22,004 other, and plus their genes are so different that the 133 00:10:22,006 --> 00:10:25,241 chromosomes just won't line up properly to reproduce. 134 00:10:25,243 --> 00:10:27,910 It's impossible. 135 00:10:29,646 --> 00:10:31,447 NARRATOR: But if Darwin's theories on evolution and 136 00:10:31,449 --> 00:10:35,885 natural selection cannot explain the origins of ancient beasts 137 00:10:35,887 --> 00:10:42,325 and monsters, then where might they have come from? 138 00:10:42,327 --> 00:10:47,096 Perhaps the answer cannot be found on Earth, but in a place 139 00:10:47,098 --> 00:10:51,434 much father away. 140 00:10:56,830 --> 00:10:59,504 Southern Pakistan. 141 00:11:00,564 --> 00:11:06,873 In the middle of the Indus River Valley lie the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro. 142 00:11:06,875 --> 00:11:12,379 This ancient city, whose name means "mound of the dead," was 143 00:11:12,381 --> 00:11:18,385 one of the largest urban settlements in the world in 2600 B.C. 144 00:11:18,387 --> 00:11:23,264 RUEHL: The ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, 145 00:11:23,299 --> 00:11:26,211 we have what appear to be streets that were made up parallel 146 00:11:26,246 --> 00:11:28,473 and perpendicular to each other, like a modern city. 147 00:11:28,508 --> 00:11:33,667 The homes actually had their own toilets and they had a very 148 00:11:33,669 --> 00:11:35,235 sophisticated sewer system. 149 00:11:35,237 --> 00:11:39,673 So it looks like a very advanced city. 150 00:11:39,675 --> 00:11:42,843 NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have long thought this 151 00:11:42,845 --> 00:11:47,414 site was also the epicenter of a nuclear explosion that 152 00:11:47,416 --> 00:11:52,286 occurred more than 4,000 years ago. 153 00:11:52,288 --> 00:11:56,323 RUEHL: Skeletons were found in dead positions as though 154 00:11:56,325 --> 00:11:59,826 there's an instantaneous death, and some of those skeletons, as 155 00:11:59,828 --> 00:12:05,999 measured by Soviet scientists, had 50 times the normal radioactivity. 156 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:10,937 They found pottery that had been fused, then walls were heated to 157 00:12:10,939 --> 00:12:14,941 such an extent they became vitrified or glasslike, 158 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:20,681 suggesting some sort of ancient nuclear weapon involved. 159 00:12:20,683 --> 00:12:24,117 NARRATOR: According to the Mahabharata, the ancient holy 160 00:12:24,119 --> 00:12:28,488 text of the Hindus, white-hot smoke rose in infinite 161 00:12:28,490 --> 00:12:32,859 brilliance and reduced the city to ashes. 162 00:12:32,861 --> 00:12:39,866 Horses were burned by the thousands and corpses were vaporized by intense heat. 163 00:12:39,868 --> 00:12:45,382 TSOUKALOS: And afterwards, a big silence came over the entire land and 164 00:12:45,417 --> 00:12:48,378 people started to have boils under the skin. 165 00:12:48,413 --> 00:12:53,420 Their hair started to fall out, and their nails. There's only one thing 166 00:12:53,455 --> 00:12:54,707 that causes this... 167 00:12:55,645 --> 00:12:58,202 And that is radiation poisoning. 168 00:12:58,237 --> 00:12:59,747 It's radiation fall out. 169 00:13:02,571 --> 00:13:05,435 So the question then becomes, when ** happen, 170 00:13:05,470 --> 00:13:08,571 in this place where there's extreme radiation, 171 00:13:08,606 --> 00:13:13,492 what impact does that have on human life or on other life present there. 172 00:13:14,135 --> 00:13:16,803 Could this explain, for example, why creatures were born 173 00:13:16,838 --> 00:13:19,032 with more than one arm, with more than one leg. 174 00:13:19,067 --> 00:13:22,171 Which then somehow became deified because even to this day, 175 00:13:22,206 --> 00:13:26,135 we know that in civilizations were anomalous human beings out born 176 00:13:26,170 --> 00:13:30,575 somehow the touch of God is seen to be part of this creation. 177 00:13:33,661 --> 00:13:37,289 According to the ancient Hindu texts, after the 178 00:13:37,324 --> 00:13:40,900 ♪♪ Mohenjo-Daro a ♪♪ some flying monster 179 00:13:40,935 --> 00:13:44,786 appeared in the sky, it was called Garuda. 180 00:13:46,311 --> 00:13:50,709 In the Mahabharata the Garuda is a massive bird like creature. 181 00:13:50,744 --> 00:13:55,547 Red face, red wings, it's so huge it would black out the Sun. 182 00:13:55,582 --> 00:14:00,083 There are stories that would let a certain God vision ride on him on occasions. 183 00:14:01,101 --> 00:14:04,763 In each and every time, he would show up descending from the sky 184 00:14:04,798 --> 00:14:11,321 he would create hurricane winds, and a ** descent, the Earth would shake, 185 00:14:11,356 --> 00:14:16,533 dust would flap in the air and everyone in the scene would be absolutely terrified. 186 00:14:18,191 --> 00:14:23,885 Now, here we have a carving of Garuda and if we look at the top, 187 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,301 yes, they look like feathers, but at the same time they could be 188 00:14:28,336 --> 00:14:31,017 interpreted as big gigantic flames. 189 00:14:32,594 --> 00:14:37,708 According to Hindu mythology Garuda is born out of this 190 00:14:37,743 --> 00:14:44,195 cosmic event. There's war and destruction that happens at the end of every age. 191 00:14:45,675 --> 00:14:48,762 COPPENS: Could this have been somehow connected to exposures 192 00:14:48,764 --> 00:14:54,501 or to radiation being borne within a zone of high radiation? 193 00:14:54,503 --> 00:14:57,404 We cannot know the answer, but we do know that within India and 194 00:14:57,406 --> 00:15:01,208 within Pakistan there are known zones of higher radiation than 195 00:15:01,210 --> 00:15:03,777 there are normal. 196 00:15:03,779 --> 00:15:08,381 The logic dictates that somehow, genetic abominations will have 197 00:15:08,383 --> 00:15:10,750 genetic abominations will have been born within those places. 198 00:15:10,752 --> 00:15:19,226 In fact the site of an ancient nuclear attack, could it be 199 00:15:19,228 --> 00:15:24,764 possible that Garuda was a mutant beast created as a by-product of intense 200 00:15:24,766 --> 00:15:28,301 radioactivity? 201 00:15:28,303 --> 00:15:31,686 STANFORD: We tend to have a science fiction view about what mutation is, 202 00:15:31,721 --> 00:15:36,538 we think that mutation is being caused by radiation and they cause outlandish features 203 00:15:36,573 --> 00:15:41,466 and, and, gigantic size insects... But in fact, mutations happen all the time. 204 00:15:43,113 --> 00:15:47,739 There's no recorded evidence of any radiation causing a mutation 205 00:15:47,774 --> 00:15:51,120 which changes at some species into a different species. 206 00:15:52,563 --> 00:15:55,996 Most of the radiation mutations are lethal. 207 00:15:55,998 --> 00:16:01,034 NARRATOR: But if, as modern scientists believe, Garuda was 208 00:16:01,036 --> 00:16:05,605 not likely the result of genetic mutation, then what could 209 00:16:05,607 --> 00:16:08,775 explain its existence? 210 00:16:08,777 --> 00:16:11,578 TSOUKALOS: The Mahabharata states that Garuda was born from 211 00:16:11,580 --> 00:16:13,313 this raging inferno. 212 00:16:13,315 --> 00:16:16,483 And what's really intriguing is the fact that in some text 213 00:16:16,485 --> 00:16:21,688 passages, we can read that the exterior of Garuda did not 214 00:16:21,690 --> 00:16:25,058 consist of feathers, but of metal. 215 00:16:25,060 --> 00:16:27,561 Now what kind of a bird is that? 216 00:16:27,563 --> 00:16:32,999 No bird is made of metal, unless it's a type of machine. 217 00:16:33,001 --> 00:16:41,468 VON DANIKEN: Garuda was a flying vehicle. And Garuda was able to travel to the Moon 218 00:16:41,503 --> 00:16:44,126 and around the Earth with very, very high speed. 219 00:16:44,343 --> 00:16:52,819 Garuda even was able to shock mankind with lightning, which fell from heaven. 220 00:16:52,821 --> 00:16:56,489 TSOUKALOS: Garuda was considered to be a snake killer. 221 00:16:56,491 --> 00:17:01,027 In fact, Garuda needed to eat snakes in order to survive. 222 00:17:01,029 --> 00:17:06,466 Now compare an airplane at the airport today hooked up to a fuel line. 223 00:17:06,468 --> 00:17:09,838 Isn't that airplane eating Isn't that airplane eating a snake? 224 00:17:16,372 --> 00:17:21,281 If you see jets take off in the middle of the night, and there's smoke and 225 00:17:21,283 --> 00:17:27,120 fire coming out of the exhaust, it looks like a dragon. 226 00:17:27,122 --> 00:17:30,724 It looks like some type of a mythical creature, especially if 227 00:17:30,726 --> 00:17:37,831 you don't know what you're witnessing is nuts-and-bolts technology. 228 00:17:37,833 --> 00:17:41,034 So of course you're gonna liken it to a living creature. 229 00:17:41,036 --> 00:17:47,007 Those ancient aliens knew that our ancestors would worship them 230 00:17:47,009 --> 00:17:53,980 as gods because they knew that our ancestors didn't know it was technology. 231 00:17:53,982 --> 00:17:57,817 They thought it was magic, spirituality, divine intervention, which it 232 00:17:57,819 --> 00:17:59,819 never was. 233 00:18:02,679 --> 00:18:08,728 To the East of India, near the village of Wucheng in the Sichuan province 234 00:18:08,730 --> 00:18:13,266 of China, similar tales of flying beasts have also been 235 00:18:13,268 --> 00:18:16,803 found in ancient texts. 236 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,415 In the IV century, historian Chang Qu reported the 237 00:18:23,416 --> 00:18:27,374 discovery of what were then called "dragon bones." 238 00:18:28,817 --> 00:18:32,886 RUEHL: A question occurs as to whether dragons might actually have been actual 239 00:18:32,888 --> 00:18:35,722 dinosaurs that had wings. 240 00:18:35,724 --> 00:18:41,528 I should point out that the wings would have been lost to the fossil record. 241 00:18:41,530 --> 00:18:44,330 We're just recently talking about dinosaurs having feathers 242 00:18:44,332 --> 00:18:45,865 and having evolved into birds. 243 00:18:45,867 --> 00:18:49,335 Well, it's possible that some dinosaurs actually did have 244 00:18:49,337 --> 00:18:51,771 wings and could be described as dragons. 245 00:18:51,773 --> 00:18:54,908 NARRATOR: But while most mainstream scientists believe 246 00:18:54,910 --> 00:18:58,545 the remains found were most likely dinosaur fossils, like 247 00:18:58,547 --> 00:19:03,717 those of the flying pterosaur, ancient astronaut theorists 248 00:19:03,719 --> 00:19:09,522 have another, more provocative explanation. 249 00:19:09,524 --> 00:19:12,358 COPPENS: Now a creature which somehow was able to spit fire 250 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:15,428 obviously is not anyplace in the animal kingdom of today. 251 00:19:15,430 --> 00:19:18,898 So what we have here is either an invention which did indeed 252 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:22,268 spit fire, in which case we're not confronting a creature here, 253 00:19:22,270 --> 00:19:23,903 but somehow a creation. 254 00:19:23,905 --> 00:19:27,807 Something which was either engineered by mankind or which was engineered by 255 00:19:27,809 --> 00:19:31,511 extraterrestrials. 256 00:19:31,513 --> 00:19:35,248 NARRATOR: Machines that fly through the air and spit fire 257 00:19:35,250 --> 00:19:42,789 causing mass destruction, thousands of casualties and radioactive fallout. 258 00:19:42,791 --> 00:19:47,594 Could the Garuda, and other so-called flying dragons, really 259 00:19:47,596 --> 00:19:53,133 have been ancient versions of today's high-tech bomber planes? 260 00:19:53,135 --> 00:19:56,603 Or perhaps something else? 261 00:19:56,605 --> 00:19:59,116 Something even more out Something even more out of this world? 262 00:19:59,117 --> 00:20:02,053 In March 2010 a 263 00:20:02,137 --> 00:20:12,479 panel of 41 international experts concluded that the impact of an asteroid that 264 00:20:12,481 --> 00:20:17,651 smashed into Earth at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65 million 265 00:20:17,653 --> 00:20:22,122 years ago probably triggered the global climate change that 266 00:20:22,124 --> 00:20:27,394 resulted in the mass extinction of the Earth's dinosaurs. 267 00:20:27,396 --> 00:20:33,801 But is there also evidence that some dinosaur species survived? 268 00:20:33,803 --> 00:20:37,738 And if so, might they also have evolved? 269 00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:39,491 CHILDRESS: Paleontologists tell us that all these things 270 00:20:39,526 --> 00:20:43,989 have been extinct for 65 million years. Yet this still crop up. 271 00:20:44,024 --> 00:20:49,083 And they appear to be prehistoric animals, dinosaurs 272 00:20:49,085 --> 00:20:52,553 literally, that have survived right down to today. 273 00:20:52,555 --> 00:20:56,890 Much like the coelacanth and alligators and sharks and 274 00:20:56,892 --> 00:21:01,562 turtles also have survived from those same prehistoric times. 275 00:21:01,564 --> 00:21:04,898 I believe that ancient prehistoric monsters are still 276 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:09,737 living in remote areas of the world, either in oceans and 277 00:21:09,739 --> 00:21:14,375 lakes or jungle areas today. 278 00:21:14,377 --> 00:21:22,549 In the Highlands of Scotland, the legend of the Loch Ness monster has long been part 279 00:21:22,551 --> 00:21:24,985 of Celtic and Norse folklore. 280 00:21:24,987 --> 00:21:30,791 Recorded accounts of sightings can be traced to the year 565, 281 00:21:30,793 --> 00:21:34,161 to the Irish monk St. Columba; 282 00:21:34,163 --> 00:21:39,466 A powerful leader who founded monasteries in both Ireland and Scotland. 283 00:21:39,468 --> 00:21:43,904 In his journals, Columba wrote of an encounter with people 284 00:21:43,906 --> 00:21:48,357 bearing a man near the shores of the now-fabled Loch Ness. 285 00:21:49,745 --> 00:21:54,380 MARTELL: They explained to Father Columba that the man who died had been swimming 286 00:21:54,415 --> 00:21:56,595 in the lake and was attacked by the water beast. 287 00:21:56,630 --> 00:22:00,454 Upon hearing this, Father Columba sent his own follower into the lake, 288 00:22:00,489 --> 00:22:04,572 when the beast came out for this man Father Columba made the sign of a cross 289 00:22:04,607 --> 00:22:07,121 and commanded the beast not to harm the man. 290 00:22:07,296 --> 00:22:12,800 The beast fled and was never seen harming another man again. 291 00:22:16,026 --> 00:22:18,713 A lot of people don't realize how big Loch Ness is. 292 00:22:18,748 --> 00:22:21,849 It's 23 miles long and a mile wide and 293 00:22:21,884 --> 00:22:24,125 it's deepest point it's about 800 feet. 294 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:29,599 And the water is very, very dark. And then since so it is the prime location 295 00:22:29,634 --> 00:22:35,510 where conceivably ** often, they would sor of by pass detection. 296 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:40,539 When we are confronted with the Loch Ness monster or any kind 297 00:22:40,574 --> 00:22:45,144 of anomalous creature the question really is, what does it come from? 298 00:22:45,365 --> 00:22:50,504 Is it a remnant of the dinosaur age or is it something which is 299 00:22:50,506 --> 00:22:51,905 out of this world? 300 00:22:51,907 --> 00:22:53,907 We know that, for example, St. 301 00:22:53,909 --> 00:22:57,344 Columba definitely felt that lake was sacred and that there 302 00:22:57,346 --> 00:23:02,249 was something present there which had a religious connotation, which is why he 303 00:23:02,251 --> 00:23:04,518 went to that place to begin with. 304 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,620 REDFERN: The intriguing thing is that there actually 305 00:23:06,622 --> 00:23:11,058 have been a significant number of UFO sightings over the Loch itself. 306 00:23:11,060 --> 00:23:14,862 Of strange, brightly lit objects hovering over the water late at 307 00:23:14,864 --> 00:23:17,698 night, which clearly aren't helicopters or aircraft or 308 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,267 meteorites or anything like that at all. 309 00:23:20,269 --> 00:23:23,651 So in other words, Loch Ness is a weird and spooky place. 310 00:23:27,243 --> 00:23:30,544 NARRATOR: Could the so-called sea monsters of Loch Ness 311 00:23:30,546 --> 00:23:36,016 possibly be descendants of ancient dinosaurs? 312 00:23:36,018 --> 00:23:41,488 Or might it be of another, perhaps, extraterrestrial origin? 313 00:23:41,490 --> 00:23:46,560 And if so, what might this say about other mythical sea beasts, 314 00:23:46,562 --> 00:23:50,097 like the seven-headed Sumerian sea monster the leviathan? 315 00:23:50,099 --> 00:23:54,611 YOUNG: The leviathan is sometimes describes as a serpent or a crocodile 316 00:23:54,646 --> 00:23:59,772 or a dragon, but it lurks. It is the gatekeeper to a portal to hell. 317 00:24:00,142 --> 00:24:02,643 And this gateway to hell is apparently deep in the ocean, 318 00:24:02,645 --> 00:24:06,580 and the leviathan is there and the leviathan is there forever, lurking. 319 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:15,656 In Greek myths, the Hydra was described as an ancient sea serpent with many heads. 320 00:24:15,658 --> 00:24:21,395 It was said to be a descendant of the Earth goddess Gaia. 321 00:24:21,397 --> 00:24:27,134 YOUNG: Hercules was sent to kill the Hydra, but it was terribly difficult. 322 00:24:27,136 --> 00:24:30,470 He would slice off the head, and two heads would form 323 00:24:30,472 --> 00:24:33,307 And he had to ask help from his nephew. 324 00:24:33,309 --> 00:24:36,743 And his nephew had a brilliant idea, bring a torch. 325 00:24:36,745 --> 00:24:38,946 Fire might keep the heads from forming. 326 00:24:38,948 --> 00:24:42,082 So Hercules would bash off one of the heads, and his nephew 327 00:24:42,084 --> 00:24:46,019 would, essentially, cauterize the neck so another one wouldn't form. 328 00:24:46,021 --> 00:24:49,022 And in this way, the Hydra was finally defeated. 329 00:24:49,024 --> 00:24:51,925 COPPENS: In the case of a Hydra, we have something which 330 00:24:51,927 --> 00:24:56,296 has several heads which is once again a category of a creature 331 00:24:56,298 --> 00:24:58,765 which you would expect not so see. 332 00:24:58,767 --> 00:25:01,935 So we're either confronted here with something which was 333 00:25:01,937 --> 00:25:04,938 genetically engineered or which genetically went wrong, but 334 00:25:04,940 --> 00:25:09,943 clearly it was of such importance that it was adhered to in mythology where it 335 00:25:09,945 --> 00:25:14,114 attained a status over the years, over the centuries, up 336 00:25:14,116 --> 00:25:16,483 years, over the centuries, up until this moment in time. 337 00:25:16,485 --> 00:25:25,158 According to a Scandinavian legend, the Kraken are legendary sea monsters 338 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,796 of gargantuan size and are said to have roamed the seas off the 339 00:25:29,798 --> 00:25:32,866 coasts of Norway and Iceland. 340 00:25:32,868 --> 00:25:38,071 This fearsome beast was infamous for its attacks on sailing ships. 341 00:25:38,073 --> 00:25:40,340 YOUNG: The danger was not only being attacked by the 342 00:25:40,342 --> 00:25:44,177 Kraken, they would come up to the surface, and were enormous; 343 00:25:44,179 --> 00:25:45,612 The size of small islands. 344 00:25:45,614 --> 00:25:50,350 So you could have a collision with a Kraken that wasn't even out to attack you. 345 00:25:50,352 --> 00:25:53,854 Another great danger was that if it submerged suddenly, it formed 346 00:25:53,856 --> 00:25:55,355 such a great whirlpool that it 347 00:25:55,357 --> 00:25:57,691 could pull a ship under. 348 00:25:57,693 --> 00:26:06,433 Could such legendary sea monsters have actually existed? 349 00:26:06,435 --> 00:26:12,172 Might they have escaped extinction in the safety of cold deep waters? 350 00:26:12,174 --> 00:26:15,809 According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is evidence of 351 00:26:15,811 --> 00:26:21,515 the origin of giant sea creatures in the sacred texts of the Hebrew Bible. 352 00:26:21,517 --> 00:26:24,151 YOUNG: A very early account of an encounter with some 353 00:26:24,153 --> 00:26:29,222 kind of monstrous sea creature is found in the Bible, 354 00:26:29,224 --> 00:26:30,490 the story of Jonah. 355 00:26:30,492 --> 00:26:34,594 Here Jonah was not fulfilling his destiny, and his punishment 356 00:26:34,596 --> 00:26:38,065 was to be thrown off a boat into the ocean. 357 00:26:38,067 --> 00:26:41,802 CHILDRESS: Jonah is swallowed by this giant fish sent by God. 358 00:26:41,804 --> 00:26:45,806 He spends three days and three nights inside of this giant 359 00:26:45,808 --> 00:26:50,143 fish, and then is spewed out. 360 00:26:50,145 --> 00:26:53,046 RUEHL: If Jonah, a human being, had been swallowed, he 361 00:26:53,048 --> 00:26:56,149 first of all would have been ripped up by the creature's 362 00:26:56,151 --> 00:27:00,253 teeth, then been crushed as it was swallowed, and perhaps 363 00:27:00,255 --> 00:27:04,958 stomach acids would have destroyed his skin and internal organs. 364 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,894 So I propose there's no way he could have survived being 365 00:27:07,896 --> 00:27:11,898 swallowed by whatever this entity was, if it was a fish or whale. 366 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:16,909 TSOUKALOS: So the question I have, is this truly a description of Jonah 367 00:27:16,944 --> 00:27:20,613 being swallowed up by a biological animal? 368 00:27:20,648 --> 00:27:25,779 Because in some references, we can read that the ribs of that 369 00:27:25,781 --> 00:27:29,750 whale were made out of gleaming bronze. 370 00:27:29,752 --> 00:27:33,587 Now, that, to me, is a description of some type of 371 00:27:33,589 --> 00:27:39,226 technological device that was made of metal. 372 00:27:39,228 --> 00:27:43,497 Jonah was, in fact, not swallowed by a whale, but by a 373 00:27:43,499 --> 00:27:50,604 USO, an unidentified submersible object. 374 00:27:50,606 --> 00:27:53,507 COPPENS: Jonah disappeared into an object which was clearly 375 00:27:53,509 --> 00:27:56,977 of a manmade or extraterrestrial origin, and which was of such a 376 00:27:56,979 --> 00:28:01,148 specific interest that he not only related the story, but that 377 00:28:01,150 --> 00:28:04,718 thousands of years after it occurred, we're still talking about it today. 378 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,294 REDFERN: I think we need to look stories like this at a date level. 379 00:28:08,329 --> 00:28:10,752 Not to real the matter of just mythology 380 00:28:10,766 --> 00:28:15,525 but to determine if the people reporting these things actually had real experiences, 381 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,299 but they were just trying to incorporate into their... 382 00:28:18,334 --> 00:28:20,762 The way they understood the world, the world at that time. 383 00:28:22,195 --> 00:28:25,806 NARRATOR: Could alien beings really have lurked beneath the 384 00:28:25,808 --> 00:28:28,108 seas in submersible machines? 385 00:28:28,110 --> 00:28:31,478 If so, why were they there? 386 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,483 Might they have come to share advanced technology with humans? 387 00:28:36,485 --> 00:28:38,618 Or did they come for another, 388 00:28:38,620 --> 00:28:41,621 perhaps more sinister reason? 389 00:28:48,473 --> 00:28:51,439 Medical University, Russia, 1954. 390 00:28:51,441 --> 00:28:55,643 Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer Vladimir 391 00:28:55,645 --> 00:29:02,550 Demikhov surgically produces a fully functioning two-headed dog. 392 00:29:02,552 --> 00:29:07,589 GLENN: What he did was he took the upper torso of a dog 393 00:29:07,591 --> 00:29:13,395 and grafted it onto the neck of another dog. 394 00:29:13,397 --> 00:29:18,900 And surprisingly, this creature lived for a few weeks. 395 00:29:18,902 --> 00:29:28,141 Demikhov brought it to medical shows as evidence 396 00:29:29,879 --> 00:29:30,587 that he could do this, that these sort of 397 00:29:30,622 --> 00:29:33,248 hybrids, that these sort of things could be done. 398 00:29:33,250 --> 00:29:37,352 NARRATOR: Although, highly controversial, the transplant 399 00:29:37,354 --> 00:29:41,790 pioneer's audacious experiments paved the way for the first 400 00:29:41,792 --> 00:29:46,628 human heart transplant in 1967. 401 00:29:46,630 --> 00:29:50,065 But while the image of Demikhov's dog is disturbing, 402 00:29:50,067 --> 00:29:54,969 ancient astronaut theorists believe our early ancestors also 403 00:29:54,971 --> 00:30:00,742 left behind evidence of equally bizarre creatures. 404 00:30:00,744 --> 00:30:04,317 TSOUKALOS: The great thing about the ancient alien theory 405 00:30:04,352 --> 00:30:11,485 is that we can compare modern achievements with stories from our ancient past. 406 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,959 And so if today we're able to create a two-headed dog with six 407 00:30:17,961 --> 00:30:24,265 legs, is it possible that a similar creature existed thousands of years ago? 408 00:30:24,267 --> 00:30:26,968 And I say yes. 409 00:30:29,576 --> 00:30:34,609 In the Greek epic poems of Homer's Odyssey and the Iliad, a vicious three-headed 410 00:30:34,611 --> 00:30:39,848 dog named Cerberus guards the dog named Cerberus guards the gates of Hades. 411 00:30:43,249 --> 00:30:46,638 According to the myths, Cerberus was descended 412 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,778 from the Greek gods Typhon and Echidna. 413 00:30:51,161 --> 00:30:55,964 But might the so-called gods that created the strange beast 414 00:30:55,966 --> 00:31:00,768 really have been early Earth visitors misinterpreted as gods, 415 00:31:00,770 --> 00:31:05,073 as ancient alien theorists believe? 416 00:31:05,075 --> 00:31:09,671 RADER: The humans and gods were kind of still living among 417 00:31:09,706 --> 00:31:12,583 one another, all of this interbreeding, this fertility 418 00:31:12,618 --> 00:31:18,838 like produces all of these monsters and you do not want to meet these monsters, 419 00:31:18,873 --> 00:31:20,826 it's another kind of thing you don't want to encounter. 420 00:31:20,861 --> 00:31:25,690 And if one guard dog is ferocious and terrifying you can imagine 3 421 00:31:25,725 --> 00:31:28,544 of them, but all on one body. 422 00:31:29,803 --> 00:31:34,361 If Cerberus is a factual creature, then really what we're talking about 423 00:31:34,396 --> 00:31:39,277 here is somebody with the knowledge and technology to create a multi headed animal. 424 00:31:39,372 --> 00:31:43,344 And so we are dealing with extraterrestrial technology. 425 00:31:43,346 --> 00:31:47,148 NARRATOR: Is it possible that Cerberus and other hybrids, like 426 00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:54,055 the griffon, the Egyptian Ammit or the Greek Chimera, were in 427 00:31:54,057 --> 00:31:59,060 fact created through advanced alien transplant procedures we 428 00:31:59,062 --> 00:32:01,329 have yet to discover? 429 00:32:01,331 --> 00:32:04,232 COPPENS: Any civilization which has contacted us in the 430 00:32:04,234 --> 00:32:08,102 past or which is contacting us today, roughly needs to be at 431 00:32:08,104 --> 00:32:13,007 our level of technological advancement. 432 00:32:13,009 --> 00:32:15,076 It's probably going to be a bit beyond that. 433 00:32:15,078 --> 00:32:17,645 And that also means that it's not just the science of space 434 00:32:17,647 --> 00:32:21,816 travel, but all sciences which are going to be somewhat more advanced. 435 00:32:21,818 --> 00:32:24,919 So we know that the extraterrestrial who comes to 436 00:32:24,921 --> 00:32:28,556 Earth from a distant place will have this medical knowledge. 437 00:32:28,558 --> 00:32:31,659 NOORY: There was some kind of experimentation going on. 438 00:32:31,661 --> 00:32:33,528 Novelty, a zoo. 439 00:32:33,562 --> 00:32:37,265 Let's see what we can do. We'll play with these creatures. 440 00:32:37,267 --> 00:32:41,069 Let's take this animal and give him two heads. 441 00:32:41,071 --> 00:32:45,440 Let's take this dragon and give him wings. 442 00:32:45,442 --> 00:32:47,108 Let's let him breathe fire. 443 00:32:47,110 --> 00:32:48,910 Let's have some fun. 444 00:32:48,912 --> 00:32:52,113 Maybe that's what they did. 445 00:32:52,115 --> 00:32:54,482 NARRATOR: Depictions of monsters that are half beast, 446 00:32:54,484 --> 00:33:02,190 half human can be found dating as far back as 5000 B.C. 447 00:33:02,192 --> 00:33:09,097 The centaur, the Minotaur and Medusa are all hybrid creatures 448 00:33:09,099 --> 00:33:14,535 described as being created described as being created by gods. 449 00:33:17,988 --> 00:33:20,311 Researchers point to the origin stories 450 00:33:20,447 --> 00:33:25,947 of these creatures as further evidence of alien contact. 451 00:33:26,048 --> 00:33:29,932 YOUNG: In Greek mythology, the Centaur was half human half horse. 452 00:33:29,967 --> 00:33:33,368 The torso of a human would be joined to a horse at the shoulders. 453 00:33:33,403 --> 00:33:37,386 And this would leave them in perpetual attention between the 454 00:33:37,421 --> 00:33:41,801 row animal instinct of the horse and the more civilized morality 455 00:33:41,836 --> 00:33:43,300 of a human consciousness. 456 00:33:43,333 --> 00:33:47,881 And interesting the enough when we start looking towards mythology 457 00:33:47,916 --> 00:33:50,648 we actually find specifically in the case of the Minotaur 458 00:33:50,683 --> 00:33:55,333 this has to have been done specifically by the Gods. 459 00:33:58,693 --> 00:34:02,220 In India, the epic text the Mahabharatah 460 00:34:02,255 --> 00:34:05,050 details the ancient account of a Naga. 461 00:34:05,085 --> 00:34:07,826 A half human half snake deity. 462 00:34:09,206 --> 00:34:12,228 The Naga was a serpent God in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology. 463 00:34:12,263 --> 00:34:14,959 It was known to have human and serpent like traits. 464 00:34:14,994 --> 00:34:18,111 It was also know to be persecutors of all creatures, 465 00:34:18,146 --> 00:34:20,002 very poisonous and with great strength. 466 00:34:21,784 --> 00:34:25,156 A question that raises as to why ETs might create 467 00:34:25,191 --> 00:34:27,748 these various hybrids. Of course, first of all 468 00:34:27,783 --> 00:34:31,747 point out scientific curiosity. Once you develop the technology, 469 00:34:31,782 --> 00:34:34,178 you wanna see where you can take it. Would humans do that? 470 00:34:34,213 --> 00:34:35,890 I think any intelligent beings would. 471 00:34:35,925 --> 00:34:38,917 But they might have created these very hybrid creatures 472 00:34:38,952 --> 00:34:42,863 tu actually intimidate the existing human population. 473 00:34:42,898 --> 00:34:44,528 So they would give no trouble. 474 00:34:44,563 --> 00:34:48,626 Or perhaps they created these creatures so they would be thought as Gods 475 00:34:48,661 --> 00:34:50,001 and be worshiped. 476 00:34:50,310 --> 00:34:54,384 Even if they know they are advanced aliens, they might ** attention from humans. 477 00:34:54,419 --> 00:35:00,131 Perhaps they wanted some type of slave labor that would just not be 478 00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:05,524 a dumb animal. By adding human intelligence to, let's say, a bull, 479 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:10,351 they could create a creature that would be able to move quite a bit of weight, 480 00:35:10,386 --> 00:35:16,434 and work without exhaustion but still have the intelligence to follow rules. 481 00:35:19,571 --> 00:35:26,215 In 1970, scientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 482 00:35:26,250 --> 00:35:31,599 led by doctor Robert J. White performed the highly controversial operation. 483 00:35:32,929 --> 00:35:38,165 Transplanting the head of one monkey onto the body of another. 484 00:35:40,202 --> 00:35:44,536 He was an excellent surgeon, superior technician and 485 00:35:44,571 --> 00:35:47,787 had come to ** from Mayo clinic, where I think he learnt 486 00:35:47,822 --> 00:35:52,612 a really excellent care in the operating room. 487 00:35:53,682 --> 00:35:58,240 Within this room there's a large amount of items from my dad's original laboratory. 488 00:36:00,086 --> 00:36:04,370 This is a halo, a brain transplant halo device, it would clamp the brain 489 00:36:04,405 --> 00:36:08,251 in here as such and then he could actually put the patient in 490 00:36:08,286 --> 00:36:10,865 and complete the transplant with the body here. 491 00:36:11,644 --> 00:36:14,401 This would hold the brain, the monkey's brain and 492 00:36:14,436 --> 00:36:16,178 then the transplant could occur here 493 00:36:16,213 --> 00:36:19,391 with the spinal connection and the connection to the neck, right here. 494 00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:30,028 They transferred the head, it was essentially a brain transplant, 495 00:36:30,063 --> 00:36:32,109 but taking the whole head. 496 00:36:33,061 --> 00:36:39,460 He was able to resort consciousness to the head of the monkey 497 00:36:39,495 --> 00:36:44,487 who had been transplanted and kept it alive for approximately 3 days. 498 00:36:45,727 --> 00:36:49,606 The monkey was able to open his eyes, he was able to hear, see and smell. 499 00:36:49,641 --> 00:36:53,941 And as a result he could show that this procedure could be done and could work. 500 00:36:54,771 --> 00:36:59,388 Even in our stage on Earth we have the ability to transplant one head 501 00:36:59,423 --> 00:37:04,839 onto another creature. Now, that certainly argues to the possibility at the very santities. 502 00:37:04,874 --> 00:37:12,470 Like the Minotaur, the Hydra, and even the Griffin. 503 00:37:13,470 --> 00:37:16,803 Could be created by advanced transplantology. 504 00:37:21,622 --> 00:37:25,325 If extraterrestrials visited Earth in ancient times 505 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,477 might the tales nd depictions of weird hybrid monsters 506 00:37:29,512 --> 00:37:34,074 actually provide evidence of alien contact? 507 00:37:34,109 --> 00:37:38,318 Or do they provide clues to our own future? 508 00:37:39,270 --> 00:37:42,732 A future that may be closer than we think. 509 00:37:51,513 --> 00:37:58,537 In 2003 Chinese scientist Wishan Cheng at the Shangai 2nd Medical University 510 00:37:59,331 --> 00:38:03,597 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. 511 00:38:04,178 --> 00:38:07,532 The embryos were the first human and animal hybrids 512 00:38:07,918 --> 00:38:10,264 created through genetic engineering. 513 00:38:11,984 --> 00:38:16,654 He took rabbit egg cells and removed all of the nucleus material from them 514 00:38:16,813 --> 00:38:21,463 all the instructions that tells them to develop into a rabbit embryo. 515 00:38:23,178 --> 00:38:27,521 She replaced it with a similar instructions set but from a human cell. 516 00:38:28,448 --> 00:38:33,981 So essentially the embryo was human with small elements of rabbit. 517 00:38:35,796 --> 00:38:41,883 Why would researchers want to combine rabbit DNA and human DNA? 518 00:38:43,087 --> 00:38:47,032 The first reason is for medical research purposes. 519 00:38:47,373 --> 00:38:49,602 Perhaps for organ transplantation... 520 00:38:50,705 --> 00:38:55,492 The second reason is to create an in-hands human. 521 00:38:55,916 --> 00:38:59,928 That is give the human some sort of quality that might not have 522 00:39:00,070 --> 00:39:06,523 unless ***. Although is hard for me to imagine what that would be. 523 00:39:09,827 --> 00:39:15,077 A year later, in 2004 researchers at Minnesota's Mayo clinic 524 00:39:15,817 --> 00:39:19,610 created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies. 525 00:39:20,066 --> 00:39:21,943 One of the animals that is actually quite close to us 526 00:39:22,032 --> 00:39:25,812 surprisingly enough in terms of genetics is the pig. 527 00:39:26,835 --> 00:39:31,012 And one of the ideas these people followed is the idea 528 00:39:31,127 --> 00:39:34,766 of luxury having almost like pig factories to grow hearts. 529 00:39:34,910 --> 00:39:39,064 The people who need heart transplants and lately, you know, you have a pig's heart 530 00:39:39,262 --> 00:39:43,623 inserted into your body and, you know, with certain drugs to prevent the organs 531 00:39:43,727 --> 00:39:46,538 being rejected you could live a full and viable life. 532 00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:53,007 At this moment in time, medical technology is able to 533 00:39:53,110 --> 00:39:58,167 create weird situations, genetic things which shouldn't really happen 534 00:39:58,258 --> 00:40:02,262 and which do not happen unless you start to make genetic modifications. 535 00:40:02,731 --> 00:40:07,712 This is evidence of manipulation of the genetically available material. 536 00:40:09,134 --> 00:40:12,076 We are creating hybrid monsters as we speak. 537 00:40:13,765 --> 00:40:15,989 If modern science today would be able to create 538 00:40:16,132 --> 00:40:20,451 a hybrid being, a mixed being, then that would in essence 539 00:40:20,598 --> 00:40:26,021 corroborate the ancient alien theory because we are merely saying that 540 00:40:26,115 --> 00:40:32,033 what today is being discovered is a rediscovery of what already took place 541 00:40:32,167 --> 00:40:34,075 thousands of years ago. 542 00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:39,047 Meaning genetic experimentation. 543 00:40:39,049 --> 00:40:48,457 But is there any actual evidence of DNA splicing in the ancient past? 544 00:40:48,459 --> 00:40:55,097 In 1849, in what is now Iraq, British archaeologist Austen 545 00:40:55,099 --> 00:40:59,701 Henry Layard uncovered numerous Sumerian clay tablets inscribed 546 00:40:59,703 --> 00:41:05,774 with cuneiform script dating to 4000 B.C. 547 00:41:05,776 --> 00:41:09,511 Based on interpretations of the tablets, ancient astronaut 548 00:41:09,513 --> 00:41:13,849 theorists believe an advanced race of intelligent beings 549 00:41:13,851 --> 00:41:19,654 arrived on Earth 450,000 years ago, during the age of 550 00:41:19,656 --> 00:41:26,128 Neanderthals... and through genetic engineering, they created Homo Sapiens-- 551 00:41:26,130 --> 00:41:31,666 what is commonly referred to as modern-day human beings. 552 00:41:31,668 --> 00:41:36,490 NOORY: The Sumerians talk about a civilization that came here from above 553 00:41:36,525 --> 00:41:39,227 on another planet called Nibiru. 554 00:41:39,262 --> 00:41:42,968 And they called these creatures the Anunnaki. 555 00:41:43,003 --> 00:41:47,492 High level people who came here to mine for gold. 556 00:41:47,547 --> 00:41:51,153 And in order to do it, they need to genetically alter the 557 00:41:51,155 --> 00:41:56,057 species that happened to be on the planet at the time. 558 00:41:56,059 --> 00:41:59,828 They created man according to the Sumerian texts. 559 00:41:59,830 --> 00:42:05,167 ARMSTRONG: It is not impossible that we exist as the 560 00:42:05,169 --> 00:42:10,071 result of gene manipulation experiments. 561 00:42:10,073 --> 00:42:13,708 There are so many stars and galaxies out there in space that 562 00:42:13,710 --> 00:42:18,180 it's impossible for a scientist such as myself to say that there 563 00:42:18,182 --> 00:42:22,517 are not alien species out there who could have visited the Earth 564 00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:24,619 at some point in the distant past. 565 00:42:24,621 --> 00:42:28,623 So it is entirely possible that someone or something could have 566 00:42:28,625 --> 00:42:33,428 come along and manipulated those organisms. 567 00:42:33,430 --> 00:42:37,532 TSOUKALOS: So this inherently means that if extraterrestrials 568 00:42:37,534 --> 00:42:44,072 tampered with our own DNA, they could have also tampered with animal DNA. 569 00:42:44,074 --> 00:42:49,711 They could have used all sorts of DNA from every single animal on planet Earth. 570 00:42:49,713 --> 00:42:53,081 GLENN: The creation of a chimeric monster is certainly 571 00:42:53,083 --> 00:42:59,554 something that will probably be possible within the next 20 to 30 years. 572 00:42:59,556 --> 00:43:06,962 We have the technology now to create these kinds of chimeras, 573 00:43:06,964 --> 00:43:10,632 something that might be perceived as a monster, but what 574 00:43:10,634 --> 00:43:17,639 we don't have right now is the technology to bring such a creature to term. 575 00:43:17,641 --> 00:43:20,809 But that's only a matter of time. 576 00:43:20,811 --> 00:43:23,812 NARRATOR: If the mythical monsters of the ancient past 577 00:43:23,814 --> 00:43:27,883 really did exist, what were they? 578 00:43:27,885 --> 00:43:30,886 Messengers from alien gods? 579 00:43:30,888 --> 00:43:33,989 Products of genetic experimentation? 580 00:43:33,991 --> 00:43:36,591 Biomechanical weapons? 581 00:43:36,593 --> 00:43:41,796 And if they did exist, where is the physical evidence? 582 00:43:41,798 --> 00:43:45,000 Still buried miles beneath our feet? 583 00:43:45,708 --> 00:43:53,430 Or are they, in fact, still out there, somewhere, waiting to return? 584 00:43:53,574 --> 00:43:57,000 Sync by n17t01 www.addic7ed.com