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00:00:00of years, alien creatures lurking beneath our seas, and unidentified objects emerging
00:00:09from the depths of the ocean. For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe
00:00:18exploring towering megalithic structures, mysterious artifacts, and stories of other
00:00:25worldly beings in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial
00:00:32origins. It's fascinating to think of stories from around the world of disc-shaped crab coming
00:00:39up out of the water. Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens archives to the
00:00:46show's very origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone. We have never been
00:00:54alone.
00:01:03You know, in ancient aliens, we often talk about what people have seen in the sky, but there
00:01:07are many accounts of strange beings and craft coming up out of the water.
00:01:11Yeah, and when you consider the fact that two-thirds of our planet is covered in water, you have
00:01:15to imagine that there are things hidden in the oceans and lakes that we know nothing about.
00:01:20And in fact, we're finding entire cities in the depths of the ocean.
00:01:24Oh, absolutely. That's why we start this episode with Atlantis, the legendary island that sank into
00:01:31the ocean. And let me tell you, if we find Atlantis, then I know we'll find more proof of ET
00:01:38visitation. We covered it in season two in Underwater Worlds.
00:01:42Covering more than 71% of the planet, the Earth's oceans are a vast and largely unexplored mystery.
00:01:53For most of recorded history, man could only guess at what lay beneath the ocean's surface.
00:02:01But new technologies are reaching new depths. Researchers around the world are finding the
00:02:09unexpected. Underwater complexes and sophisticated monuments that defy the conventional historical
00:02:17record. There are remains of urban civilizations on parts of the Earth that were exposed on land
00:02:2910,000 and more years ago. And this means that urban civilization is far older by many thousands
00:02:40of years than many scientists now believe possible. Scientific theory suggests that during Earth's last
00:02:52ice age, ocean levels were once much lower than they are today. You have to envisage a world in which
00:02:59there are two mile deep ice caps sitting on top of Northern Europe and North America, in which are
00:03:07accumulated enormous quantities of water. And we know that this water began to melt about 21,000 years ago,
00:03:17and finished melting about 10,000 years ago. As a result, rich coastal lands were slowly submerged by rising sea levels.
00:03:2810 million square miles of land was flooded all around the world. That's roughly the size of Europe
00:03:35and China added together. We're just rubbed from the record. They just disappear from the story. And in my opinion,
00:03:45archaeology is not doing enough work to investigate those lost and submerged lands.
00:03:51While much of the ocean's floor remains unexplored, for thousands of years, philosophers and scientists
00:03:58have been drawn to one of the greatest mysteries of the sea, the legend of the lost city of Atlantis.
00:04:06It's been said that more books have been written about Atlantis than any other subject. But most of what we know
00:04:18comes from the Greek philosopher Plato, who wrote two books about Atlantis, the Timaeus and the Critias.
00:04:25Written in 360 BC, Plato described Atlantis as a highly advanced city, ringed by concentric walls,
00:04:34which flourished 9,000 years before his own time.
00:04:38There are descriptions of huge palaces for kings. It's stated that Atlantis had huge naval forces,
00:04:51which it used to conquer other parts of the world. It was an urban civilization.
00:04:57According to the ancient Greek texts, Atlantis was connected with extraterrestrials from the beginning.
00:05:06It was founded by the Greek god Poseidon.
00:05:13Poseidon can be regarded as an extraterrestrial in the sense of not being of this earth.
00:05:21According to the legend, after a failed attempt to invade Athens, disaster struck the island.
00:05:32According to Plato, Atlantis was destroyed in a day and a night.
00:05:42In a cataclysmic destruction that sank the entire island and its capital city.
00:05:49Some researchers believe that the Atlanteans somehow destroyed themselves.
00:05:58According to Plato, Atlantis was located in front of the Pillars of Hercules,
00:06:04a location beyond what some scholars attribute to modern Gibraltar.
00:06:09And to the ancients, as they left the Mediterranean Sea to go into the larger Atlantic Ocean,
00:06:16this was where they went beyond the Pillars of Hercules between Spain and Morocco.
00:06:23Across the Atlantic lies the island chain of the Bahamas, just southeast of Florida.
00:06:30Here in 1968, archaeologist Jay Manson Valentine believed he found part of Atlantis when he discovered an unusual rock formation off the coast of North Bimini Island.
00:06:44It's only in about 12 to 18 feet of water, so you can view it easily.
00:06:51First scientists thought this was just beach rock, but then several other scientists exploring the Bimini Road noticed that the beach rock was on top of other beach rock with balancing stones wedged in between.
00:07:03And they said, nature doesn't do that, man does, and they realized this is a harbor, a breakwater for a harbor.
00:07:16From the shallow edges of Bimini, all the way to the Gulf Stream in 300 feet of water, we have found many fascinating complexities that look like remnants of ancient cities or structures.
00:07:32Roads, pathways, structures covered in coral.
00:07:36Could the Bimini ruins be remnants of Atlantis? And if so, could these roads lead to other sites buried under sand and water?
00:07:49In the year 2000, while mapping the sea floor off the western coast of Cuba, a research expedition led by Russian-Canadian oceanographer Paulina Zalitsky spotted symmetrical stone structures deep below the water.
00:08:04Remarkably, they were over a half mile down.
00:08:08Divers cannot do this kind of investigation, so we have to use a remote operating vehicle.
00:08:15And this vehicle is equipped with video cameras and manipulators, and it's controlled from the deck of the ship.
00:08:23The expedition was also armed with side-scan sonar equipment, used to create images of large areas of the sea floor and underwater objects.
00:08:37So I was in control room on the board of the ship, and we were receiving that image coming from side-scan.
00:08:44And this is just one of the many other images that we were obtaining of the area of structures made of large stones placed one on top of another.
00:08:59Well, what do they end up with? It is an image that shows these rectangular, 90-degree angles over and over and over on very large structures that seem to have wide avenues.
00:09:18The exploration found huge stone blocks in pyramid shapes, others more circular.
00:09:25Most were gigantic, reaching 16 feet in height and weighing several tons.
00:09:32Thirty geometric structures emerged, appearing to be the remains of streets, buildings, tunnels and pyramids, all at a depth of 2,200 feet below the surface of the water.
00:09:46We might well have here the evidence of a prehistoric culture that would probably go back tens of thousands of years, and that's very exciting indeed.
00:09:58Using dating techniques based on the presence of nearby volcanic ash, geologists estimated the underwater city sank over 6,000 years ago.
00:10:11Could this be a half mile down some part of the sunken Atlantis from 9,000, 10,000 years ago that Plato talked about?
00:10:23Well, the Atlantis myth is integrally related with the area of the Caribbean and the Bahamas.
00:10:30In particular, Cuba. Plato talks about an island empire.
00:10:34He's probably talking about dozens of different islands of different sizes, not just in the western Atlantic, but probably stretching out right into the central Atlantic area.
00:10:45Both the Cuban and the Bahaman ruins lie on the western edge of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of ocean covering over 500,000 square miles known for magnetic anomalies, extraterrestrial sightings and unexplained disappearances of aircraft and ships.
00:11:06Could there be a connection between Atlantis and the area known as the Devil's Triangle?
00:11:16On the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, there are underwater ruins of the ancient city of Atlantis, the prehistoric city of Atlantis.
00:11:25So, yes, there is a theory that Atlantis lies not near Greece, but in the Bermuda Triangle.
00:11:35If Plato's texts are true, then other Greek myths may provide a hint of the true fate of Atlantis.
00:11:42One myth tells of the Titan goddess named Asteria, who fell from the sky and became an island.
00:11:52In ancient Greece, we have a number of myths which describe islands, bronze gleaming islands that fell from the sky and landed in water.
00:12:05I don't think that Atlantis, therefore, was an actual stationary physical island.
00:12:14Atlantis, according to Plato, disappeared in one night with a lot of fire and a lot of smoke.
00:12:23See, I don't think that Atlantis sank. I think Atlantis lifted off.
00:12:30Was Atlantis a safe haven for ancient aliens before the end of Earth's last ice age?
00:12:42And if so, could there be other alien cities submerged deep underwater?
00:12:53Yonaguni, Japan.
00:12:55This small island is at the westernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago.
00:13:02Scholars believe the first inhabitants migrated here from Southeast Asia during prehistoric times.
00:13:09In 1987, in nearby waters, dive tour operator Kichiro Arataki made a shocking discovery.
00:13:26A massive complex of stone formations lay hidden a mere 60 feet beneath the ocean surface.
00:13:34Experts call it one of the greatest discoveries in the history of underwater archaeology.
00:13:41What's intriguing about the complex at Yonaguni is that there are a whole range of monuments pretty much side by side.
00:13:55And this, to my eye, looks unmistakably to be the work of human beings, not the random action of the ocean on differential layers of stone.
00:14:04There are several reasons why I think this is not a natural formation.
00:14:17A number of tools and numerous engraved stones were found at the site.
00:14:23Because of these things, there is no doubt to me that this was made artificially.
00:14:29Submerged beneath 60 to 100 feet of water, the largest of the formations resemble a massive five-layered stepped pyramid.
00:14:42The size of two football fields.
00:14:45You see unambiguous carvings that clearly are geometric in nature, tons of right angles.
00:14:55We see channels that you can walk through with stairwells at the end that are perfectly rectangular in shape.
00:15:01There are places where you find megaliths piled on top of one another to create a tunnel through which you can swim.
00:15:10There is a set of megaliths positioned side by side against the side of the cliff.
00:15:16There's a gigantic human face carved underwater.
00:15:20There is a stone in which is carved a face almost 23 feet tall.
00:15:29Our first impression was that it looked a lot like the moai on Easter Island.
00:15:35Then we began to realize that it strongly resembled the Sphinx which guarded the pyramids.
00:15:41We wondered if that might be the function the face is also serving here.
00:15:46It's the whole combination of all these structures together which convinced me that we're looking at a ceremonial complex.
00:15:56The mystery surrounding the Yonaguni underwater structure is when did it go underwater?
00:16:03The geological evidence is that it was submerged during the meltdown of the last ice age.
00:16:11All around the world, whether it is France, India or Japan, there are man-made structures that lie underwater.
00:16:28Two ways how our ancestors could have done this.
00:16:32Either they had scuba gear, I don't think so, or this stuff was built when the ocean levels were lower.
00:16:43And that was over 14,000 years ago.
00:16:47And 14,000 years ago, according to mainstream archaeology, we were just dwelling in caves, hunter-gatherers.
00:16:54Could the Yonaguni structures have been built by such primitive people?
00:16:59And what evidence exists of the people who inhabited this island?
00:17:04Human fossils were found, so I'm sure there were people living on the island.
00:17:10But there's some question about whether or not they had the technology to create structures or anything like this.
00:17:16It's not so much the question of could the stone have been chipped away and removed.
00:17:21It's a question of the vision, of the scale of the complex, of thinking in those kind of terms.
00:17:29And we know of no other Stone Age culture that thought in those kind of terms of creating a gigantic, seemingly ceremonial complex.
00:17:39If, according to scholars, the ancient Japanese people could not have built this monument, who did?
00:17:49And how did it get here?
00:17:52Speculation is that extraterrestrials created the Yonaguni monument.
00:17:57The engineering is just beyond the capacity of Stone Age civilizations.
00:18:02Ancient astronaut theorists also believe the key to the Yonaguni mystery is found in its global positioning.
00:18:16Strangely, the complex lies within an area of the Pacific, long suspected of extraterrestrial activity.
00:18:25It's called the Dragon's Triangle.
00:18:31Just south of Japan, you have a mysterious area called the Dragon's Triangle,
00:18:36which is very similar to the Bermuda Triangle because you have planes that have disappeared from the air,
00:18:42ships that have disappeared from the ocean.
00:18:44In fact, Japan has declared this a disaster area.
00:18:52Don't fly through it.
00:18:54Stay the heck away, because if you go in there, terrible things can happen to you.
00:19:00In ancient Japan, and even into the relatively modern era, there are stories about the Dragon's Sea,
00:19:10in which objects rise out of the water and sail through the air.
00:19:14In ancient Japan, these were winged monsters breathing fire.
00:19:19In more modern times, these took on the appearance of actual machines.
00:19:26When you compare those descriptions of these devices with the description that Columbus gave of a craft nearing the Bermuda Triangle actually rising out of the water,
00:19:38a light that followed the ship, you realize there's a similarity in both of these locations to things, objects,
00:19:45that are in the water and rise out of the water and fly through the air.
00:19:51But why are the two submerged structures found within the perimeter of these strange regions of the planet where so much unusual activity occurs?
00:20:01Is it coincidence that the Earth's 25th parallel north cuts through both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon's Triangle?
00:20:10They lie on a plane along the same line, and both of them have the same magnetic phenomena in which compass bearings are lost and instruments go down.
00:20:25People wonder if there's a real strange UFO connection.
00:20:30If UFOs and flying saucers do exist, then we should suspect that they could originally come from an ancient super-civilization.
00:20:38It makes you wonder if flying saucers, UFOs, whatever you want to call them, actually use the area of the Triangle as their major base,
00:20:45and perhaps are even coming back to the remnants of a civilization that they were familiar with.
00:20:50What if the sunken monuments at Yanaguni and near Cuba had alien origins?
00:20:57Might they have been used as alien bases?
00:21:01And if we believe extraterrestrials functioned on land, could they have also functioned underwater?
00:21:08Could there be more evidence lying in the vast Pacific?
00:21:13When we talk about things hidden in our oceans, it's fascinating to think of stories from around the world of disc-shaped craft coming up out of the water.
00:21:27Yeah, and these stories have happened throughout history.
00:21:30One of my most favorites comes out of Japan, where a craft washed up on shore, and it is said that it had strange inscriptions all around it.
00:21:40Yeah, and they said there was a being inside the craft holding some kind of a box.
00:21:44Mm-hmm.
00:21:45And this was documented by multiple witnesses.
00:21:50As an island nation, it should come as no mystery that much of Japan's rich history is tied to the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
00:21:59But although many of Japan's legends are largely unknown to the West, some are drawing the attention of ancient astronaut theorists.
00:22:12One such legend dates back to 1803 and traces its origins to a beach north of Tokyo.
00:22:20Allegedly, a craft that was quite large in size, washed up on the shore in Japan.
00:22:29Strange round ship lifted ashore in this area, and the people investigate the inside of the ship.
00:22:38They found a young, beautiful woman inside the boat.
00:22:43The woman did not speak any language they could identify.
00:22:46There were written inscriptions inside her craft that they could not identify.
00:22:50And she's clutching this box that she didn't want anybody to touch.
00:22:55In some reason, the box was used for severed lover's head.
00:23:01However, the shape of the box is a little bit different from the box that is traditionally used for severed head in Japan.
00:23:11So I have no idea the function of this box.
00:23:16So it's an interesting mystery.
00:23:18Known as the legend of the Utsurubune, or hollow ship, the details of the story have puzzled historians for centuries.
00:23:28Where, for example, did the mysterious hollow ship come from?
00:23:32Could it have come from the area of the submerged Yonaguni Monument?
00:23:37Who was the strange woman?
00:23:39And what were the contents of the box she guarded so carefully?
00:23:44Was it a human head?
00:23:46Or was it, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe, a type of brain or other form of extraterrestrial intelligence?
00:23:55If so, could it have been intended as a gift to the early Japanese by an ancient space traveler?
00:24:06There's five different drawings that have survived from completely different regions of Japan.
00:24:11They're almost identical to modern UFO reports.
00:24:14The motif of this legend is the same as that of modern UFO legend.
00:24:19That is the visitors from outer world in the disc-shaped craft.
00:24:25I think that this legend may have a key to solve the modern UFO legend.
00:24:33As evidence to support their claims, ancient astronaut theorists point to early Japanese carvings and statuary, each suggesting a variety of extraterrestrial encounters.
00:24:47This is a dogoo figure, and it comes from Japan.
00:24:51Even to the untrained eye, you look at this, and it's as if this being is wearing some type of a suit with a helmet, some goggles.
00:25:01On the back, there are all these weird buckles and circles, you know, straps.
00:25:08Very similar to a modern day space suit.
00:25:12In my opinion, this is a likeness of a possible extraterrestrial that visited Earth thousands of years ago.
00:25:20Archaeologists have catalogued the existence of more than 15,000 dogoo figures made during the Jomon period of prehistoric Japan, dating from approximately 14,000 to 300 years BC.
00:25:39But could, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, these strange dogoo figures really be a primitive interpretation of a pressurized space suit or diving apparel?
00:25:52The story behind those dogoo figures is very clear.
00:25:57And anyone can go and read translations of the ancient texts that the dogoo a long time ago descended from the sky and taught the first Japanese people in various disciplines.
00:26:10And the whole Japanese culture, including the timono, the tea ceremony, the use of wasabi and ginger for eating sushi, the way that they build their architecture, the written language, everything they say came from these visitors, from these gods, from the universe.
00:26:30The picture shows beings who look like astronauts.
00:26:34They are dressed like an astronaut.
00:26:36They have the helmet as an astronaut.
00:26:38They have some strange tools in their hands.
00:26:41Tools which we don't understand.
00:26:43Now, there is a link.
00:26:45The Japanese call it dogus.
00:26:48In North America, we have still the Hopi tribe in Arizona.
00:26:54And the Hopi Indians are still making today kachina dolls.
00:27:01Kachina dolls look similar to the Japanese dogoo figures.
00:27:08Further back, in the Sahara Desert, Africa, we found cave paintings.
00:27:18When you see the picture, you see definitely an astronaut suit.
00:27:25No doubt.
00:27:26Absolutely.
00:27:27Now you compare these cave paintings with the kachina dolls of the Hopi and with the dogoo of Japan.
00:27:36You have one line.
00:27:37Do the mysterious dogoo figures provide tangible evidence of extraterrestrial encounters in Japan's ancient past?
00:27:49And does the legend of the Utsuru Brunei suggest that the Earth's oceans may be hiding even more proof of alien contact?
00:28:02Perhaps further clues can be found by examining ancient accounts detailing otherworldly entities that inhabit our oceans.
00:28:11What I find intriguing is that there are multiple ancient cultures that describe encounters with amphibious human-like beings.
00:28:24In other words, fish people.
00:28:26Yeah, like the Greek stories of the Telkinese.
00:28:28These fish-like beings who are sometimes described as the children of Poseidon.
00:28:32Yeah, what's interesting is they're described as master metallurgists with high technology.
00:28:37We featured the Telkinese in a Season 3 episode called Aliens, Gods, and Heroes.
00:28:42Cape Sunion, Greece.
00:28:49Perched on the headland, surrounded on three sides by the sea, lies the ruins of the Temple of Poseidon, built in 440 BC.
00:28:59The second son of the Titan King Cronus, Poseidon was worshipped throughout Greece, almost as much as his younger brother, Zeus.
00:29:09Poseidon was the god of the sea.
00:29:12He was also the god of earthquakes and, strangely, horses.
00:29:16When Poseidon was in a good mood, he created new lands out of the sea.
00:29:20He gave calm waters for good voyages.
00:29:23When he was in a bad mood, he destroyed ships and brought storms.
00:29:32Poseidon does rule over the kingdom of the sea.
00:29:35It is envisioned as a kind of a place where people live.
00:29:38And when he comes out of that place, yes, he rides this spectacular kind of like water chariot that is driven by dolphins and he holds onto a really big trident.
00:29:47In Greek mythology, Cronus eats all of his children, except for Zeus, who eventually rescues his siblings, including Poseidon, from the belly of his father.
00:29:58A potion is prepared that makes him heave up all the other siblings of Zeus and they become the gods of Olympus.
00:30:07But ancient astronaut theorists believe this Greek myth is actually a metaphor for an extraterrestrial event.
00:30:15They believe the notion of gods being vomited up from the belly of their father actually describes mutinous aliens being expelled from the mothership.
00:30:26Any being which is swallowed up into a living creature will not be able to survive for three days.
00:30:35It will die from suffocation and will begin to decay.
00:30:39What we have here is not a creature but something else.
00:30:44It could have been an object which was clearly of a man-made or extraterrestrial origin.
00:30:49A mutiny took place. Some of the extraterrestrials, they had sex with wonderful earthly females, women.
00:30:59They were not allowed to do this. So one of these extraterrestrials who were not allowed to go back with the Mother's Day ship had the name of Poseidon.
00:31:09Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful human girl and he made her pregnant.
00:31:18Poseidon is married, right? He's got a child. He's got some grandchildren, right?
00:31:25There's a whole cast of sea nymphs as well. All of them presumably like live in this place.
00:31:31Poseidon has the power of the deep, the unseen place.
00:31:35If you look out of the sea, you see a surface and you're aware there's a whole world below that suggesting powers beyond that which meet the eye.
00:31:43Among the mythical creatures associated with Poseidon are the Telkines, a race of advanced fish children.
00:31:54These human-like beings could live both in and out of water.
00:31:59There are masters of technology and seem to match up with the fish gods of ancient Sumeria who worked for Enki, the great god of alchemy and technology in Smithcraft.
00:32:11The Telkines are also kind of in the shadowy territory of god, human, monster things.
00:32:18They're just these kind of figures who are not gods but were like human beings.
00:32:24There's one story about the Roman version of Zeus, Jupiter, trying to destroy them.
00:32:29Now, we don't know whether they are actually all destroyed but it's possibly because of their relationship to the magic.
00:32:42In Greek legend, the Telkines were also metallurgists.
00:32:47They were said to have created Poseidon's magical trident and to have cast the first bronze statues of the gods of Olympus.
00:32:58And according to some historians, the Telkines may not have been creatures of myth but were beings who actually existed.
00:33:11There were people called Telkines.
00:33:13We do actually have evidence of these beings.
00:33:15They were actual ancient Greeks who had specific tasks and trades like metallurgy, like smithing and so on.
00:33:23And so you could see how it is that a being like Telkines, that these things could in fact not just be these mythological beings but like actual people.
00:33:33So the way that we look at the ancient Greeks and Romans would have been the way that they would have looked at the stories that are being told about the Iliad.
00:33:39We've got the stories of the Telkines and they were able to survive underwater for unlimited amounts of time.
00:33:52Now, how is such a thing possible?
00:33:54Could the ancient Greek myths really be based on actual events?
00:34:00Were the Telkines, early humans, enabled with godlike abilities?
00:34:05According to some researchers, these entities, along with other legendary underwater creatures, were not fictional creations, but aliens of the sea.
00:34:19Myazaki Prefecture, Japan, May 2014.
00:34:32At the historic Miyakonojo Shimazoo residence, the mummified remains of a sea animal with webbed hands and feet are put on public display.
00:34:42Discovered in 1818, the bones are the first of their kind to be exhibited and are purported to be from the legendary Kappa, a species of amphibious humanoid creatures believed to lurk in the waters of Japan.
00:34:57These remains were from allegedly a kappa that had been shot in 1818 near a local river.
00:35:06The kappa, which translates as water child, is a creature that is usually about five feet in height, has scaly skin, and is usually blue or green in color.
00:35:23It has a turtle shell on its back and a beak, as well as a kind of plate on the top of its head, in which it always has to carry water.
00:35:35If it spills this water, then it loses all of its power and it can die within a very short period of time.
00:35:42So the kappa is basically a water demon.
00:35:48The kappa is perceived to be a very malevolent and quite violent creature.
00:35:53And in fact, children are warned to stay away from bodies of water because the kappa will actually drag them in and drown them.
00:35:59While accounts of the kappa are rare in modern times, there are still sightings in remote areas, like the Fukuoka prefecture.
00:36:13In fact, to this day, signs can be found posted near bodies of water throughout Japan, warning of the kappa.
00:36:21For ancient astronaut theorists, the kappa are not only real, but their existence is proof of otherworldly beings inhabiting the Earth's waters.
00:36:35These kappa are reported as having an unusual intelligence.
00:36:40Apparently, they can speak even though they have a bird-like beak.
00:36:43And now, physical, tangible artifacts of the body of the kappa have gone on display.
00:36:50Will we find genetic markers that clearly show that it could not be something from Earth?
00:36:56Could it be that the kappa are indigenous to planet Earth?
00:37:05Or did they come here by some extraterrestrial means?
00:37:11Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the many historical accounts of mermaids.
00:37:22The very earliest accounts of mermaid-like creatures reveal a connection with beings that come from the sky.
00:37:30A story from ancient Syria that dates back to 1000 BC relates that the goddess Atargetus came down from the sky and dove into a lake to become a half-fish, half-human creature.
00:37:45And in Greek mythology, the goddess Aphrodite is sometimes associated with mermaid-like beings.
00:37:54If you look at some of the ancient classic authors from the Greeks, from the Sumerians, you see tales of mermaids in which there is a very direct connection with the heavens, with a fish-like creature that comes from outer space.
00:38:11There's something out there that may not even be connected to our known biological world.
00:38:21For ancient astronaut theorists, the strongest evidence that humanoid sea creatures not only existed, but came from somewhere beyond our Earth, can be found in the origin tale of yet another aquatic creature with human traits.
00:38:36The West African Dogons worship ancestral spirits they call the Namo, the first living creatures created by their sky god, Ama.
00:38:49Described as amphibious, hermaphroditic, fish-like creatures, they descended from the stars in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder.
00:38:58There's a really incredible story of Namo that descended from the sky in a loud, noisy whirlwind that made the Earth shake when it landed.
00:39:13And their knowledge of everything was given to them by that being that descended from the sky.
00:39:22Now this is interesting because we have so many traditions of extraterrestrial beings riding upon clouds that you have to ask, did the Namo come from the stars?
00:39:32Were they extraterrestrial beings that came to Earth to teach the Dogon? Is this perhaps why they called them the monitors and the teachers?
00:39:40The legend said they described the star Sirius as being their point of origin and had very accurate information about a dwarf star called Sirius B that wasn't even known at the time.
00:39:55The Dogon said that when the Namo landed and came out of this craft that they arrived in, they almost immediately got into the water because they were essentially fish-like humanoids.
00:40:09It seems that they needed to be in the water.
00:40:12We are definitely dealing with some sort of intelligent aquatic humanoid species that came here as an extraterrestrial visitor from outer space.
00:40:22Might the detailed descriptions of the Namo suggest that they were extraterrestrials that came from space to inhabit our oceans?
00:40:37And might these be the same beings that are described in the accounts of the Kappa and mermaids?
00:40:43Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest this otherworldly connection may also explain the existence of legendary sea monsters.
00:40:58You know, just like we have these multiple accounts of these humanoid amphibious creatures around the world, we also have stories of sea monsters.
00:41:10Right, for example, these giant octopus creatures like the Kraken or, for example, the Loch Ness monster.
00:41:17Yeah, and we have reports of UFOs over Loch Ness.
00:41:21So you have to wonder if there's not a connection between extraterrestrials and these monsters.
00:41:26We covered this in a Season 3 episode called Aliens and Monsters.
00:41:30In March 2010, a panel of 41 international experts concluded that the impact of an asteroid that smashed into Earth at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago
00:41:49probably triggered the global climate change that resulted in the mass extinction of the Earth's dinosaurs.
00:41:58But is there also evidence that some dinosaur species survived?
00:42:04And if so, might they also have evolved?
00:42:08Paleontologists tell us that, oh, these things have been extinct for 65 million years, yet they still crop up.
00:42:14And they appear to be prehistoric animals, dinosaurs literally, that have survived right down to today.
00:42:23Much like the coelacanth and alligators and sharks and turtles also have survived from those same prehistoric times.
00:42:32I believe that ancient prehistoric monsters are still living in remote areas of the world, either in oceans and lakes or jungle areas to today.
00:42:43In the Highlands of Scotland, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster has long been part of Celtic and Norse folklore.
00:42:55Recorded accounts of sightings can be traced to the year 565, to the Irish monk Saint Columba, a powerful leader who founded monasteries in both Ireland and Scotland.
00:43:09In his journals, Columba wrote of an encounter with people bearing a man near the shores of the now fabled Loch Ness.
00:43:21They explained to Father Columba that the man who had died had been swimming in the lake and was attacked by the water beast.
00:43:27Upon hearing this, Father Columba sent his own follower into the lake.
00:43:31When the beast came after this man, Father Columba made the sign of a cross and commanded the beast not to harm the man.
00:43:37The beast fled and was never seen harming another man again.
00:43:41A lot of people don't realize how big Loch Ness is. It's 23 miles long, a mile wide and at its deepest point about 800 feet.
00:43:54And the water is very, very dark and dense. And so it is the prime location where conceivably they didn't need to surface that often.
00:44:03They would sort of bypass detection.
00:44:08When we're confronted with the Loch Ness monster or any kind of anomalous creature, the question really is where does it come from?
00:44:16Is it a remnant of the dinosaur age or is it something which is out of this world?
00:44:22We know that, for example, Saint Columba definitely felt that the lake was sacred and that there was something present there which had a religious connotation,
00:44:31which is why he went to that place to begin with.
00:44:35The intriguing thing is that there actually have been a significant number of UFO sightings over the Loch itself,
00:44:41of strange brightly lit objects hovering over the water late at night, which clearly aren't helicopters or aircraft or meteorites or anything like that at all.
00:44:50So, in other words, Loch Ness is a weird and spooky place.
00:44:57Could the so-called sea monsters of Loch Ness possibly be descendants of ancient dinosaurs?
00:45:07Or might it be of another, perhaps, extraterrestrial origin?
00:45:11And if so, what might this say about other mythical sea beasts, like the seven-headed Sumerian sea monster, the Leviathan?
00:45:20The Leviathan is sometimes described as a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon, but it lurks.
00:45:26It is the gatekeeper to a portal to hell.
00:45:30And this gateway to hell is apparently deep in the ocean, and the Leviathan is there forever lurking.
00:45:36In Greek myths, the Hydra was described as an ancient sea serpent with many heads.
00:45:47It was said to be a descendant of the Earth goddess, Gaia.
00:45:51Hercules was sent to kill the Hydra, but it was terribly difficult.
00:45:57He would slice off the head, and two heads would form.
00:46:01He had to ask help from his nephew, and his nephew had a brilliant idea.
00:46:06Bring a torch. Fire might keep the heads from forming, so Hercules would bash off one of the heads,
00:46:12and his nephew would essentially cauterize the neck so that another one wouldn't form.
00:46:16And in this way, the Hydra was finally defeated.
00:46:20In the case of a Hydra, we have something which has several heads,
00:46:24which is once again a category of a creature which you would expect not to see.
00:46:29So we are either confronted here with something which was genetically engineered,
00:46:33or which genetically went wrong, but clearly it was of such importance
00:46:37that it was adhered to in mythology, where it attained a status over the years,
00:46:43over the centuries, up until this moment in time.
00:46:50According to Scandinavian legend, the kraken are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size,
00:46:57and are said to have roamed the seas off the coasts of Norway and Iceland.
00:47:02This fearsome beast was infamous for its attacks on sailing ships.
00:47:09The danger was not only being attacked by the kraken,
00:47:12they would come up to the surface and were enormous, the size of small islands,
00:47:16so you could have a collision with a kraken that wasn't even out to attack you.
00:47:21Another great danger was that if it submerged suddenly,
00:47:24it formed such a great whirlpool that it could pull a ship under.
00:47:27Could such legendary sea monsters have actually existed?
00:47:37Might they have escaped extinction in the safety of cold, deep waters?
00:47:43And if so, what other alien life might be lurking beneath the surface?
00:47:49When we talk about strange underwater creatures, it's not just, you know, things we find in mythology.
00:47:58And in fact, there are some really bizarre underwater creatures that we know really exist.
00:48:03Yeah, we now have the technology to explore the deepest parts of our oceans.
00:48:07We're finding creatures that are so strange that even some scientists are calling them aliens of the sea.
00:48:13Right, and what's even more mind-blowing is that astronauts have found evidence
00:48:18that some of these aquatic life forms can survive in the vacuum of space.
00:48:24Now, how exciting is that?
00:48:26August 19th, 2014.
00:48:36During a routine cleaning, Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station
00:48:41discover something incredibly unexpected covering parts of the windows, living sea plankton.
00:48:48According to some mainstream scientists, the tiny organisms may have been carried to the station on air currents from the Earth's oceans,
00:48:58or perhaps launched into space on a contaminated rocket.
00:49:03But many say these are both highly improbable scenarios.
00:49:09In the previous episode of cleaning, which was only about a few weeks prior to that particular date, there was nothing found.
00:49:18And the space station was in orbit, there was no connection with the ground.
00:49:23So I really think that there's absolutely no chance that these are microorganisms that were somehow lifted from the Earth.
00:49:31Astrobiologist Chandra Wickromasinghe believes the plankton is of extraterrestrial origin and evidence of panspermia,
00:49:41the idea that life exists throughout the universe and is spread by comets and asteroids.
00:49:48I think what happened was that a small fragment of a comet that carried microorganisms, including plankton,
00:49:58landed on the window of the International Space Station.
00:50:02It's not surprising if one accepts the idea that life is continuing to arrive at the Earth from space.
00:50:11There's always been a problem about life on Earth.
00:50:15Did it actually start here on Earth or come here from somewhere else?
00:50:19Seeing as we don't know how life began, it's up for grabs.
00:50:25But whether life originated on Earth or somewhere else in the universe, one thing is now certain.
00:50:32Sea plankton can survive in outer space.
00:50:37Surviving space is very difficult, obviously, primarily because of the vacuum of space
00:50:42and then the intense radiation.
00:50:44And so those things, in general, were sort of rip apart tissues.
00:50:48So the presence of plankton on the space station is remarkable.
00:50:54The discovery of plankton on the International Space Station has led ancient astronaut theorists to ask the question,
00:51:02If sea life can thrive in the furthest reaches of space, could the reverse be true as well?
00:51:10Might there be undiscovered alien life forms dwelling in the deepest regions of our oceans?
00:51:16Portsmouth, England, December 21st, 1872.
00:51:28The HMS Challenger sets out on a three-year scientific expedition to survey the Earth's oceans and search for new marine life.
00:51:37At the time of its departure, the mainstream scientific viewpoint is that life cannot exist more than 1,800 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.
00:51:51But in March of 1875, after more than two years at sea, the crew of the HMS Challenger makes a remarkable discovery.
00:52:01Using a deep-sea dredge, they uncover an abundance of life at depths well beyond 1,800 feet.
00:52:10Every time they dredged the waters of the ocean, they kept bringing up weirder and weirder creatures at deeper and deeper levels.
00:52:18It quickly became apparent that the oceans are teeming with life.
00:52:23Throughout time, we tend to sort of impose our own limitations and our own perspectives on sort of our view of the universe, right?
00:52:32And so our idea of the deep ocean was similar to that too.
00:52:35We thought that probably nothing else could live at great depths because we certainly couldn't survive.
00:52:40Our bodies couldn't take the pressure.
00:52:42Sort of biased, I think, our interpretation of life in the deep ocean.
00:52:46They found over 4,700 different types of new life.
00:52:53It was a wealth of data so vast that it filled 50 volumes with 30,000 pages of information.
00:53:02And was essentially a scientific revolution for its time.
00:53:06It was fascinating that it only was five scientists, 220-plus crew, only five scientists.
00:53:15And only five scientists in about three years, they made oceanography.
00:53:20They made modern science.
00:53:22And the reason for that, why they did it, is because they blindly go where no man goes before.
00:53:26And this is what scientists should do.
00:53:28In addition to finding new species of marine life, the Challenger crew also made the first discovery of what are called cosmic spherules, nickel-iron micrometeorites from outer space.
00:53:45According to some scientists, these spherules could be capable of carrying extraterrestrial life.
00:53:52A lot of those rocks would have carried a microbial cargo.
00:53:57Cocooned inside of rocks, a microbe could be quite happy in the harsh conditions of space.
00:54:02In particular, it would be shielded from radiation by the depth of rock.
00:54:06It could probably stay in a dormant phase out in space for certainly thousands, if not millions of years.
00:54:14When scientists explored these nickel-iron spherules in depth, they discovered that they contained iron.
00:54:20It contained iron that was extraterrestrial in origin.
00:54:25Is it possible that these extraterrestrial substances were brought here by alien beings and deposited in the oceans of Earth, along with other forms of life?
00:54:35Is it possible that the Challenger discovered the conveyance of extraterrestrial life on the sea floor?
00:54:51Might the deepest parts of the ocean be as alien to us as the farthest reaches of outer space?
00:54:57Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is a resounding yes, and point to other strange creatures that have recently been found in the seemingly inhospitable deep.
00:55:11March 2005, scientists off the coast of Easter Island discover the Yeti crab, a furry crustacean that thrives on the sea floor near hydrothermal vents.
00:55:28Fissures that release geothermally heated water.
00:55:31Using the hair that covers its body, the crab is able to filter out the toxic minerals the vents excrete.
00:55:41But as extraordinary as the Yeti crab is, it is just one of many forms of marine life known to be able to exist in such extreme conditions.
00:55:53Because of the unique conditions that exist in the hydrothermal vents, some really interesting and remarkable organisms can be found there.
00:56:06Another newly discovered organism that puzzles scientists is the tenophor, or comb jelly.
00:56:12When neurobiologist Leonid Moroz sequenced the DNA of this translucent creature at the University of Florida in 2007, he discovered they possess a complex nervous system completely different from the entire animal kingdom.
00:56:31In fact, ctenophores have two neurosystems, not only one.
00:56:37And each of these neurosystems is different from our neurosystems.
00:56:42And apparently it's evolved independently from the neurosystems and the rest of the animals.
00:56:47So ctenophores are a master of regenerations.
00:56:51They can regenerate their brain.
00:56:54In one of the animals, I did it four times.
00:56:56I removed the sprains, let it live for two days.
00:57:01It's regenerated.
00:57:03Then I remove it again, and it grows back again.
00:57:06But what is most interesting is they can also heal wounds in two and a half hours and no scar left.
00:57:13So in fact, they not only can make neurons independently from us, they can make it fast.
00:57:20And they can make it different.
00:57:22How comb jellies function continues to baffle scientists.
00:57:27And their unique properties have led Dr. Moroz to dub them, quote, aliens of the sea.
00:57:34I call them aliens of the sea in terms of their reference to another animals.
00:57:40They're different from the rest of the animals much more than you different from a sponge.
00:57:45We're still finding incredible creatures in the ocean.
00:57:49Creatures that we never even knew existed.
00:57:52Could be extraterrestrial life.
00:57:54It's a big planet and there are a lot of mysteries still here.
00:57:58Could there really be alien life thriving in Earth's oceans?
00:58:02And if so, might our waters harbor not only extraterrestrial marine life, but also advanced intelligent beings?
00:58:14Perhaps further evidence can be found in the accounts of mysterious flying objects rising from the depth of the sea.
00:58:23You know, we really live in the most exciting of times because for the first time ever, we get to see video that was shot by Navy pilots showing unidentified craft flying into and out of the ocean.
00:58:41Yeah, and that's really exciting footage. And what we call USOs or unidentified submerged objects have been reported by the military going back decades.
00:58:51Right. And there was one case where they detected a USO at a depth of more than 20,000 feet.
00:58:57We featured this in a 2013 episode, Aliens and Forbidden Islands.
00:59:03March 1963, 75 miles off the coast of Puerto Rico.
00:59:12While training in anti-submarine maneuvers, the United States Navy's fleet, led by the USS Wasp aircraft carrier, detects an unknown sonar target moving in the nearby waters.
00:59:25For four days, the fleet tracked the unknown object, recording its speed at more than 150 knots or 170 miles per hour.
00:59:41There is nothing in any naval inventory anywhere in the world that can approach anything remotely that speed, not then, not now.
00:59:51Moreover, the object descended to a depth of something like 27,000 feet. Again, another impossibility. The pressures down there are vastly too much. They would crush any vessel that went down that deep.
01:00:04That time, the technology that we had, the best that we could do underwater was about 45 knots and a maximum depth of about 3,000 feet.
01:00:14For the last 100, 200 years, there have been many, many accounts of objects that have been seen underwater. But exactly what they are, we still do not know.
01:00:27There has been a tremendous surge of UFO sightings in Puerto Rico since the early 1990s. And for many of the Puerto Rican witnesses, they're absolutely convinced that there's some sort of massive futuristic installation deep below Puerto Rico under the ocean bed.
01:00:46Is it possible that aliens have bases here on Earth hidden deep underwater and off the coasts of islands? Could this explain why so many islands around the world have stories of unexplained sightings of objects both overhead and beneath the sea?
01:01:13Isolated islands would be a perfect location for say extraterrestrial beings to make their base of operations. Radar could spot any kind of craft in orbit very quickly. However, if you had your base underwater near an island, a lot more difficult to be discovered.
01:01:36Islands are essentially mountains that are mostly underwater. What they are in essence is energetic upwellings of the energy of the Earth pushing higher and higher and higher.
01:01:48Logically, these types of locations would be very attractive to visitors from another world, especially visitors that would be looking for an ideal place to set up a base or a landing spot or simply a place where they could draw some of the Earth's energy.
01:02:03The Aleutian Islands. Just off the Alaskan coast, this chain of more than 100 small islands extends west for 1,100 miles, separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean.
01:02:25Here, in the summer of 1945, 14 crew members of the United States Army Transport Delaroff reported seeing what they believed to be a large UFO emerge from the waters near the island of Adak.
01:02:45It's reported that a round object that appeared dark against the setting sun at the time actually rose up vertically into the air and then circled the boat two or possibly three times and was visible for about seven or eight minutes before it vanished.
01:03:07Something that comes out of the water circles around and then takes off like that. That's well beyond anything we're supposed to have.
01:03:14And they're in the middle of the ocean. That's the important thing to remember here. There's just nothing, nothing that's supposed to be there. And yet there's activity being reported there.
01:03:24UFO sightings around the Aleutian Islands continue to this day. But why? Is it perhaps more than mere coincidence that the native people known as the Aleuts believe this is the exact spot where their ancestors first descended from the skies?
01:03:46The Aleuts believe they descended from a creature that had come from the sky.
01:03:56Dog actually had fallen to the island of Umnak and had had two pups with paws. But the children that came from those two were perfect humans.
01:04:09So by way of this descent from the heavens and by way of animal form, we get the Aleutian people.
01:04:16I find it intriguing that the Aleuts origin story has something to do with them having arrived from the sky.
01:04:26Essentially saying that they have been seated. So the fact that to this day that area of the world is considered a hotspot for UFOs is not coincidence.
01:04:38There have been rumors that there is an underground alien or UFO base in the Aleutian Islands.
01:04:48The question is, could a base really exist there? And the answer is yeah.
01:04:53There's plenty of places, knolls, atolls, volcanoes, where if hollowed out, they would pretty much make ideal bases for UFOs to use to come and go as they please and to investigate that area.
01:05:07Could there really be a connection between the high number of UFO sightings and the Aleut's origin story?
01:05:17And if these sacred accounts are rooted in reality, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, might evidence be found underwater?
01:05:26Perhaps the undeniable proof lies on the other side of the world with the extraordinary discovery of a submerged city.
01:05:36You know, to me, some of the most exciting discoveries come when we find that a story we thought was fiction is actually based on historical fact.
01:05:46Right.
01:05:47One of the best examples of that is the discovery of Dwarka.
01:05:49Oh, absolutely. And according to the ancient Hindu texts, that was a site where a cosmic battle between rival gods happened who had access to flying machines and the most incredible of weaponry.
01:06:04And what's so cool is that archaeologists found underwater ruins that many believe are the remnants of exactly that city.
01:06:13Right. And this shows you that some of the best evidence for ancient astronaut theory is actually underwater.
01:06:20In 2001, researchers from India's Oceanic Institute detected anomalies on the bottom of the Gulf of Combat, seven miles from shore.
01:06:35They had been commissioned by the Indian government to do a survey of pollution in the Gulf of Combat, up in the northwest of India.
01:06:45And they were not expecting to find anything except a mess down there.
01:06:49But suddenly, their side scan sonar started returning images of regular structures.
01:06:58The images revealed an enormous network of stone buildings, now shrouded in mud and sand, and covering an area of five square miles.
01:07:09What we're looking at in the Gulf of Combat are the remains of cities.
01:07:14There's actually two of them. And it turns out that they are positioned on the side of ancient river channels.
01:07:20They look like cities that have been submerged for a very long time, at a time when mainstream archaeology tells us there were no cities anywhere in the world.
01:07:30Powerful cross-currents made it nearly impossible to dive the 170 feet to the bottom.
01:07:38Still, scientists retrieved dozens of artifacts, including wood and pottery shards.
01:07:45Some of the dates on some of the human artifacts that were brought up extended as far back as 32,000 years.
01:07:58But the oceanographers concluded that the area had been covered by water about 9,000 years ago.
01:08:06So this city had apparently existed from 32,000 to about 9,000 years ago.
01:08:14Mainstream scholars today claim that ancient Indian civilization only goes back 4,000 or 5,000 years.
01:08:23Yet Hindu scholars themselves say that Hindu civilization is going back many tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years.
01:08:33Might the ruins below the Gulf of Combat prove the Hindu scholars right?
01:08:39Another recent discovery may support their claims.
01:08:47200 miles to the northwest lies the modern city of Tuwarka.
01:08:53Archaeologists digging deep under the city found signs of a settlement once inundated by the sea.
01:09:00Inspired by this clue, they began searching for more ruins in waters just off the coast.
01:09:09In only 70 feet of water, divers discovered sandstone walls, cobblestone streets, and evidence of a prosperous seaport.
01:09:22Scholars declared these ruins to be remains of the ancient and legendary city of Duwarka.
01:09:33Ancient Hindu texts explain that the legendary city of Duwarka was said to be the dwelling place of Lord Krishna,
01:09:41a deity worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism.
01:09:46Imagine what it would mean for the Christian world to all of a sudden discover the actual Holy Grail,
01:09:53the actual Ark of the Covenant.
01:09:56That would be akin for the Indian population to discover an actual Dwaraka.
01:10:05This was a very powerful city which was ruled by Lord Krishna.
01:10:09And Krishna is still revered until today.
01:10:13It's one of the highest gods that we have in Hindu culture.
01:10:17Hindu texts explain that a king named Shalva attacked Lord Krishna in the mythical Duwarka.
01:10:27Ancient astronaut theorists believe the descriptions of the battle suggest the use of alien technology and even spacecraft.
01:10:38According to the ancient Sanskrit texts, with this spacecraft, Shalva attacked the city, raining down energy weapons that resemble lightning.
01:10:50He destroyed large parts of the city in this way.
01:10:56When this happened, the king of the city, the god Krishna, responded by firing weapons at this spacecraft.
01:11:09The weapons are described as arrows, but they're not ordinary arrows.
01:11:13It's said that they roared like thunder when they were launched and resembled bolts of lightning or rays of the sun.
01:11:21In response, it is said that the spacecraft began to appear in different places simultaneously.
01:11:32It appeared to be moving in ways that resemble modern descriptions of UFOs.
01:11:40So what I find interesting about this account is there's a spacecraft made of metal that is firing down weapons on a city on earth.
01:11:53The legend says that Krishna eventually departed earth and the ocean consumed his city of Duwarka.
01:12:01For many people, the description of fabulous ancient cities and the Sanskrit writings of India were simply mythology.
01:12:11But with the discovery of the remains of a sunken city off the coast of India and the location of Dwaraka, all that has changed.
01:12:22People are beginning to look at these ancient writings in a new light and see them not simply as mythology but as actual historical records.
01:12:35Did India's ancestors witness a war between extraterrestrial entities?
01:12:43If the mythical cities cited in the Hindu texts turned out to be real, could there also be evidence of Krishna and his supernatural powers?
01:13:00Ancient alien theorists believe a link between the submerged ruins and extraterrestrials can be found in another set of texts known as India's Sangam literature.
01:13:12Sangams were assemblies of sages.
01:13:18It says that the first two Sangams took place on a sunken land mass called Kumari Kandam.
01:13:27This area was once above water thousands of years ago, according to the accounts, but it's now under water.
01:13:37It's also interesting that these assemblies of sages included extraterrestrial beings as well.
01:13:44And this fits in with evidence discovered in the Gulf of Kambay and off the coast of the present city of Dwaraka.
01:13:56Are the interpretations of India's ancient texts proof of alien contact in Earth's past?
01:14:11And are the descriptions of gods actually descriptions of extraterrestrials?
01:14:18Perhaps another discovery, one beneath a mysterious lake, will yield even more evidence of alien visitors in the remote past.
01:14:32The Andes Mountains, Peru.
01:14:38Here, at an elevation of 12,500 feet, lie the dark waters of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable body of water in the world.
01:14:49In August of 2000, an Italian team of divers and archaeologists launched an underwater investigation of the legendary lake.
01:14:59There, submerged under 100 feet of water, the team uncovered traces of a paved road, a stone terrace, and a wall nearly a half mile long.
01:15:12For centuries, local legends have spoken of a lost underwater city called Wanaku.
01:15:19Could these ruins provide proof that such a city did, in fact, exist?
01:15:25Then, another shocking discovery.
01:15:29Lying on the lake bed was a large sculptured stone head.
01:15:35Could this ancient relic offer a clue to the origins of this incredible archaeological find?
01:15:46Comparisons were quickly made to similar stone work found at the nearby ancient city of Tijuanaco, just 12 miles south of Lake Titicaca.
01:15:55A city long thought by ancient astronaut theorists to have extraterrestrial origins.
01:16:02When the early conquistadors talked to the local Amara Indians, they were told that giants at the beginning of creation had created Tijuanaco.
01:16:17The Spanish, too, were amazed by the gigantic blocks of stone.
01:16:23They felt that the devil had built this building.
01:16:26If you look at some of the rock cut and megalithic structures in the site of Tijuanaco, I personally believe very strongly that we are looking at an older episode of construction and the traces of a forgotten episode in the human story.
01:16:45But if the ruins found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca are from the legendary lost city of Wanaku, what happened to it?
01:16:56Did it fall prey to a major earthquake or other natural disaster?
01:17:02Or was the city, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe, deliberately flooded?
01:17:10The more you know about Lake Titicaca, the stranger it gets.
01:17:15Archaeologists have problems in really explaining why there are sunken ruins there, because they're saying that the ruins aren't that old.
01:17:26They're only 1,500 years old.
01:17:29And that would mean that Lake Titicaca has gone through a number of major changes in that period.
01:17:37And it's possible that somehow the lake itself and its shorelines were manipulated, so that certain areas of Lake Titicaca were flooded in a sort of artificial way.
01:17:49There is a type of seahorse that lives in Lake Titicaca, and seahorses are coming from salt water and oceans.
01:18:00Yet these seahorses are living at nearly 13,000 feet in the Andes.
01:18:06But just how could an ancient people have artificially created South America's largest lake, a lake that is 118 miles long and 50 miles wide?
01:18:19When you ask the local population, how did all of this come into being, the Aymara Indians will tell you that all of this has existed since before the beginning of time.
01:18:35In the Aymara legends, the lake is like the place of Genesis, the place where it starts all the civilizations in our continent.
01:18:46These very, very, very old roads.
01:18:49I mean, we're not talking only about this civilization, this humanity.
01:18:53We are talking about our seeds, the roots of the stars.
01:18:58Some people believe that extraterrestrial build, but what I believe is that the Space Brothers help us, direct us, teach us, because they had the experience in many ways.
01:19:17The legend says that once the Space Brothers came to this planet, and they used to live with us, and they were very important in our lives, and they used to be very powerful people.
01:19:32But is it possible that the lost city of Wanaku was really built or inhabited by the ancient ancestors of the indigenous Aymara people?
01:19:49And if so, could it have been deliberately flooded to avoid detection from the outside world?
01:19:59The elders, they used to talk about the underwater city.
01:20:02The elders, they used to talk about the underwater city.
01:20:05They talk about the lights like stars connecting with the lake.
01:20:10The stars, when they come down to the lake, there is changes in the temperatures.
01:20:17There is many legends with lights coming from the underground of the lake.
01:20:26It seems they come, they go, and they return in the different moments.
01:20:31You'd start to get the idea that there's some kind of ancient alien underwater base.
01:20:38And it's possible that some of these sunken ruins are somehow part of that base.
01:20:47Could the ancient city of Wanaku really have been built by alien visitors?
01:20:54And if so, why?
01:20:57What was their purpose?
01:20:59Could the discovery of this and other sunken cities provide the evidence that mankind has been seeking for centuries?
01:21:08Evidence that proves we are not alone.
01:21:13These mysterious underwater structures really don't have any context or any background, but just seem to come from nowhere.
01:21:20They seem to stand out as being out of place in time.
01:21:24So there's some question marks, some mysteries surrounding them that might shed new light on human history.
01:21:30Atlantis, Lake Titicaca, Dwarka.
01:21:36All those ancient mystery places always have had a connection to the gods.
01:21:44The gods who, in the ancient astronaut opinion, were flesh and blood extraterrestrials.
01:21:51And in the end, the ancient astronaut theory will be proven right.
01:21:57The more we'll discover on our ocean floor, the more we'll understand that our history goes way far deeper into our past than what we've been told because it's right there.
01:22:14It's right there, but it's being ignored.
01:22:16Yeah, there's so much more out there to discover.
01:22:19I mean, we've only just scratched the surface.
01:22:21Yeah, so humanity is more and more being forced to face that we have this lost history, this lost ancient past, and it's underwater.
01:22:28And these stories make it really clear that maybe we should be concentrating our effort on going deeper into our oceans instead of trying to go deeper into space.
01:22:37We'll see you next time.
01:22:38See you next time.
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