00:00One day after man stepped on the moon, a notarized document was signed in Guayaquil
00:04He claimed that another man had stepped on something equally impossible, a library made of
00:10metal hidden 300 meters below the Amazon rainforest, built by someone, or something,
00:16who left no name. Seven years later, the same Neil Armstrong would descend 70 meters.
00:23Vertically, into absolute darkness, to see with their own eyes what no government
00:30He neither fully confirmed nor denied it. Today, that cave is still there, still closed, and still no one can...
00:37Explain who built what's inside. Welcome to Luigi Vlog.
00:52In southeastern Ecuador, in the province from Morón to Santiago, within the mountain range
00:57At the Condor, there is a crack in the ground where the rock appears to have been precisely cut.
01:02mathematics. It's not just a cave, it's a summit, a 70-meter vertical abyss that
01:09It sells straight into the darkness, without warning, without any preparation.
01:14The Suar, the indigenous people who have inhabited that jungle for centuries, knew it very well.
01:20before any Western explorer. They called it the Cave of the Tayos, in honor
01:26to a nocturnal bird that nests in its depths and only comes out to fly at night, guiding itself
01:31by a sound similar to a human scream in total darkness.
01:35But the Suar knew something else. They knew there were areas of that cave where one shouldn't go.
01:41enter. Areas that, according to their own accounts, had not been made by nature.
01:48A report from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Defense, dated 1976, confirms something disturbing.
01:55The visible peculiarities of this cave were already known in 1915. That is to say, for generations.
02:01Before the whole world was talking about the stems, someone already knew that down there were
02:06something that didn't fit with normal geology. The walls and ceilings of certain sections, located
02:12More than 300 meters underground, they feature blocks that appear carved, not eroded.
02:19carvings.
02:23July 21, 1969. While the whole world was still celebrating that a man had walked
02:31Just 24 hours earlier, something very unusual was happening in a notary's office in Guayaquil.
02:38Few noticed. A Hungarian-Argentine man, passionate about anthropology and languages.
02:43old, he went in to legalize before a notary public a find that sounded, literally,
02:49to science fiction. His name was Juan Morix. In the document, Morix stated that he had found
02:56Inside the cave of the stems, a library made entirely of metal plates.
03:02Not parchment, not carved stone. Metal! According to his account, those plates contained the
03:09chronological account of the history of humanity, the origin of man on earth
03:14and scientific knowledge of a civilization that no longer existed.
03:18In its original description, it mentioned 12 rooms inside the caves. The library
03:24The metal one would occupy only one of them. In the others, he claimed to have seen a second one.
03:30a library made of glass, carved anthropomorphic figures, and most disturbing of all, a coffin
03:37made of glass with a skeleton covered in gold. Morix was no ordinary adventurer seeking
03:42fame. Months earlier, he had already revealed the discovery directly to the then-president
03:48from Ecuador, José María Velasco Ibarra. And in the notarized document, he addressed himself without
03:53roundabout approaches to the government, requesting that an official commission be appointed to oversee the site
03:58exactly where the objects were located. Why would a man who claimed to have made the discovery...
04:03of the century, was he asking for official protection instead of exhibiting what he had found? That
04:09The question, almost 60 years later, has not been fully answered by anyone.
04:16Morix's story could have remained just another anecdote from the Ecuadorian jungle.
04:22But in 1972, a Swiss writer named Eric von Deniken met him at a hotel in
04:28Guayaquil. Von Deniken had the notarized document in his hands and made copies of the material.
04:34photographic and months later published everything in a book that became a phenomenon
04:39The world, the gold of the gods. The book claimed that an extraterrestrial civilization had left
04:45that metal library as a legacy for humanity. The controversy was so great that
04:51Word of the idea reached a Scottish engineer named Stan Hall. Hall decided to organize what would become...
04:57The date marks one of the largest caving expeditions in history. 126 people, 35
05:04scientists from various disciplines, a budget that exceeded 2 million dollars, military personnel
05:11Ecuadorians, British military personnel and, according to records from the time, members of the services
05:16UK intelligence. Why a scientific expedition to a cave in the jungle?
05:21Did it need British military intelligence? And as if history needed any more.
05:27Symbolically, the honorary president of that entire expedition was none other than Neil
05:33Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, now descending into the bowels of the earth.
05:40Armstrong remained inside the cave for three full days, the rest of the expedition
05:4535 days. And what they found, or what they decided to tell us they found, is where this story begins.
05:52It gets even darker.
05:58This is where the story takes a turn that very few documentaries dare to mention.
06:03Julio Goyen Aguado, an Argentine speleologist who participated in the first expeditions to the
06:08stems, he maintained for years something disturbing. That part of the funding behind these
06:14expeditions, he came from the Mormon church. The reason?
06:20The metal plates that Moritz described bore an unsettling resemblance to the sheets
06:25of gold that, according to Joseph Smith's religious account, was given to him by the angel Moroni, the origin
06:31sacred text of the Book of Mormon. And here's the chilling fact. The Ecuadorian province where
06:37The cave is located in a place called Morona, Santiago. Morona, Moroni. Coincidence or not, certain currents
06:44Within Mormonism, some came to believe that the sacred records of their faith might be
06:49Hidden somewhere in the Andes Mountains. And suddenly, a cave in the middle
06:53The Ecuadorian Amazon became a crossroads between archaeology,
06:58Ufology and the religious faith of millions of people.
07:05After 35 days of excavation, with all the scientific and military support imaginable,
07:12Stan Hall's expedition reached an official conclusion. The Cave of Stems did not contain
07:18No metallic library of extraterrestrial origin or from a lost civilization. The only find
07:24The confirmed archaeological find from that expedition was a tomb, located at a spot known as
07:30The Well of Light, where sunlight filters through on certain dates of the year. Inside, a skeleton
07:36surrounded by ceramics, decorations and a spondylus shell, a material that can only be obtained
07:42on the Pacific coast. That is, proof that ancient cultures of the Ecuadorian coast
07:47They traded or traveled to this remote part of the Amazon. That alone was a discovery.
07:53important. Years later, in 1978, Father Pedro Porras conducted a more in-depth investigation and
08:01It was determined that the cave was first inhabited around 1000 BC. No studies
08:09No official has ever confirmed the existence of the metal library that Moritz described with
08:14So much detail. But here's the problem that no report has been able to solve. If it was all one
08:21invention, why did the Ecuadorian government and the British government invest more than 2 million
08:27of dollars, 126 people, and a 35-day military expedition to disprove a single man? And there's something
08:36Furthermore, Father Carlo Crespi, a Salesian priest who lived in Cuenca, owned for decades a
08:42collection of metal objects with engravings remarkably similar to those described
08:48Moritz, objects that, according to him, the Suar community and other peoples of the region had given him.
08:54over the years. That collection almost completely disappeared in a fire in 1962. The little that
09:03It survived but was lost after Father Crespi's death in 1982, allegedly sold piece by piece.
09:11The physical evidence that could have solved this mystery forever was burned, sold, or simply
09:18disappeared.
09:22Today, the Cave of the Tayos is still there. It can be visited with specialized guides. Speleologists like Alex.
09:29Cionetti have continued exploring the system, documenting more than 10 kilometers of tunnels, finding
09:36Engravings on the walls that no one has yet fully deciphered. But the fundamental questions remain.
09:42They remain intact. Why are the blocks that form the walls, more than 300 meters deep,
09:47They appear to be carved with a precision that shouldn't exist in a 200 million-year-old natural formation.
09:53years? What did Juan Moritz really see in that hidden camera that made him draft a notarized document with
10:00Such urgency, one day after man landed on the moon? And why Neil Armstrong,
10:06The man who had already made history by touching another world, decided to spend three days of his life
10:11Descending into the darkness of a cave in Ecuador? No one has explained it. No one, to this day.
10:18It has gone down with the answers. The Cave of the Tayos continues to guard its secret better than any box.
10:25Strong. Not because no one has entered, but because no one who has entered has dared or been able to
10:33Tell us the whole truth. And while the jungle continues to cover that entrance with more and more vegetation,
10:40One question remains, hanging in the darkness. What do we prefer to believe? That there's nothing down there? Or
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