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We're so excited to be able to see this. So, this is it. It's very heavy. It's heavy.
Explore mysterious metal spheres and ancient artifacts suggesting extraterrestrial technology and influence on human history.
Key Takeaways
- Metal spheres like the Betts sphere could be evidence of extraterrestrial technology on Earth.
- Scientific analysis reveals materials and properties not found in known terrestrial elements.
- Government and military interest suggests the objects may have significant implications.
- Ancient myths and artifacts might be interpreted as records of alien encounters.
- The true origin and purpose of these spheres remain a mystery, fueling ongoing investigation and speculation.
What the video covers
- The video investigates mysterious metal spheres found in Vietnam, Spain, Africa, and notably the Betts sphere discovered in Florida in 1974.
- The Betts sphere exhibited unusual properties such as self-movement, magnetic behavior, and internal components with atomic weights beyond known elements.
- The sphere was examined by the U.S. Navy and found to be made of a unique stainless steel alloy with hollow interiors containing superheavy elements.
- Speculation arises that the sphere could be alien technology, possibly artificially intelligent, but it mysteriously disappeared after government interest.
- The video explores the possibility that such artifacts are remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations or advanced ancient technologies.
- It discusses ancient myths and legends, such as those of Atlantis, Norse gods, and mythical figures, as potential evidence of alien intervention.
- The narrative includes interviews with witnesses, journalists, and experts who provide firsthand accounts and scientific observations.
- Skeptics propose alternative explanations like space debris or art sculptures, but these are challenged by the sphere's unique characteristics.
- The video also touches on the broader theme of alien influence on human genetics, culture, and technological advancement throughout history.
- It concludes by suggesting that some ancient artifacts and myths might be misunderstood evidence of extraterrestrial contact.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to Mysterious Metal Spheres
- 05:34Firsthand Accounts and Physical Examination
- 10:55Exploring the Discovery Site
- 16:16Scientific Analysis and Speculation
- 22:31Ancient Artifacts and Alien Technology
- 28:42Mythology and Extraterrestrial Influence
- 36:41Genetic Alterations and Alien Intervention
- 45:41Historical Figures and Alien Connections
- 55:34Mythical Artifacts and Their Powers
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Wow. Could physical evidence of alien visitation have been hiding in plain sight? This is a very strange piece.
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It is a strange piece for us as well. Did part of an alien craft fall from space?
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We acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its composition. So we have a real mystery here.
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Or are we looking at alien technology made right here on Earth? This defies everything we know. Definitely.
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Heat. Tuin Kuang Province, Northern Vietnam. January 2nd, 2016. During the early morning hours, three strange metal spheres are seen falling from the sky.
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Witnesses report that one of the spheres seemed to be flying in a mysterious pattern before crashing to Earth and making a loud thunderlike sound.
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Witnesses saw these spherical-shaped metallic balls which were recovered by the Vietnamese military. We have photographs of them, but we don't know what the objects were.
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Now, of course, the big question is, could they be connected to the UFO phenomenon?
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Numerous similar spheres were seen in Spain in 2015 and in Africa in 2011. The skeptic would argue that this is just simply space debris and nothing else.
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But what's particularly intriguing is that in March 1974, a very strange sphere was found at Fort George Island in Florida. It was found by the Betts family. On March 26th, 1974, on a remote piece of land in Fort George
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Island, Florida, owned by Jerry and Antoine Betts, a wildfire broke out in the middle of the night, burning acres of brush.
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The cause of the fire is unknown. But the next day, as the family was investigating the damage, they came upon a strange object, a metal sphere.
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Jerry Betts and her son Terry went out there, and Terry sees this metallic-looking ball in the ground there, and he picks it up and shows it to his mother, and they take it back to the house.
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And a couple of weeks went by, and Terry had the ball on a table next to his bed, and he took his guitar out. He started strumming it, and the ball started vibrating.
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I was about 10 or 11, and one night they pulled it out. We got, I think it was a mayonnaise lid out, and we were holding it in different places on the sphere, and it would be
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magnetized and stick in some areas and not in others. I can't remember which household member said, "Watch this." And they walked past it. It was sitting on the carpeted floor, and it followed them and moved as they did. They took a few steps
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and turned, and it rolled right behind them and to a stop. I had never seen anything like it before. The Betts sphere began to make headlines in April of 1974.
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One of the first to break the story was a young reporter named Ron Kivitt who conducted an exclusive interview with Jerry Betts just after she had made her amazing discovery.
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When you found it, was it just lying flat on top of the ground? It was lying on the ground like a wooded area, right?
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And we didn't think too much about it. We had it for two weeks.
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And then we noticed it kept slithering. About the best description there is that it's a giant gyroscope sitting there and keeps vibrating and quivering even when you put it on a flat surface.
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I see. And we were going to see them across all over the country.
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I can imagine you would. In February of 2017, investigative journalist Linda Molton Howe traveled to Jacksonville, Florida, just 20 miles from the site where the Betts family made their incredible discovery.
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Hi, Ron. Hi, Linda. Nice to meet you. Thank you. She arranged to meet with Ron Kivitt to get a firsthand account of his experience with this bizarre object.
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And you've actually held this. I have held them all. Right. Talk about what happened. I'm so curious. You get to their house. How was the Betts sphere introduced? How did they show you?
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The ball was on a coffee table, glass top coffee table in a foyer much like this, a little bit larger, but it was windows all the way around almost like an atrium. And I said,
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"Can I pick it up?" And Jerry said, "Oh, sure." So I picked it up.
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And it was heavier than I anticipated it to be. About 20 pounds. Right. That's what they said. Yeah. About 20 pounds. The ball had a much rougher texture to it than I anticipated.
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And if you moved it, you could hear a very faint tinkling inside it. It wasn't a hum or a buzz. So we said tink, tink, tink. Terry had the ball in his room, and he began to notice that
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even when the ball wasn't moving, he could hear this tinkling sound. Well, it would suggest it was conscious or was downloading or uploading information from something that it was involved with.
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Well, the consciousness of it. I decided I wanted to take the ball outside and get some pictures with natural light.
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The ball was back on the table. So, we all get up to leave to go find a spot to shoot it in, and the ball rolled all the way to the edge and stopped, and it was just like, "Don't forget me."
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That's when the hair stood up on my arms. After observing the strange behavior of the sphere for several weeks, the Betts family decided to submit it to the military for examination.
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It got interest from the Navy. It got interest from the United States government. And during the testing of it, they found it was made of a stainless steel metallic alloy, specifically the Ferris alloy number 431.
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And then when it was analyzed with X-ray spectroscopy, the interior of the sphere was hollow and had smaller spherical objects which were analyzed to have an atomic weight of 140. Now, the largest atomic weight that we see in nature is uranium, which
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is 92. So these smaller superheavy balls that were inside with an atomic weight of 140 caused certain scientists to speculate that if anyone actually tried to drill inside the sphere, that it could be the equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon,
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that those elements could go into criticality and create a massive explosion. So the point is this sphere has very peculiar properties that suggest that it is in fact some sort of artificially intelligent technology.
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Do you think that it is a viable hypothesis that at least the Navy, from the work that they did, knew this is not terrestrial?
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Oh, absolutely. And it was after the Navy examination that everything seemed to basically come to a halt.
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Correct. I never got a real clarification on what happened, you know. But now the ball has disappeared.
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Is it possible the Navy discovered evidence that the Betts sphere is of extraterrestrial origin and secretly confiscated it for further examination?
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Jerry and her family are not interested in talking about the sphere anymore. They just don't want to discuss what happened with it.
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Maybe nobody will ever see it again. That's a possibility, you know. I don't know.
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To date, no one has been able to locate the sphere or explain what it was.
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But perhaps further clues may be found by returning to the very site where the mysterious Betts sphere was first discovered.
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Talking with the Betts family, you thought you were dealing with really honest people who are very puzzled about what this sphere is.
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When I first talked to them, I was convinced that all of them were telling me the truth.
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Fort George Island, Florida, February 3rd, 2017. Investigative journalist Linda Molton Howe is traveling with reporter Ron Kivitt to the site where a mysterious metal sphere that displayed the uncanny ability to move on its own was first discovered in 1974 by
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the Betts family following a wildfire on their property. This would have been an area where the fire would have been.
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We're getting closer now. This is the kind of woods they would have found it. But all of this here, you can see where the palmettos, it's thick. It's hard to go through.
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In fact, it's almost amazing. Without the fire, without the fire, they probably never found it. Gosh.
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Wow. Skeptics of [music] the Bet Sphere story claim it was part of a sculpture that fell from an artist truck.
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So this is what it would have all looked like before the fire. But Ron Kibet says this is impossible since the sphere [music] was discovered in the middle of a densely forested area 20 miles from any stretch of main
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highway. You know, now that I'm here where the Betts family found that sphere, it's just so clear that any of the stories about an artist over on the road having something falling off a truck and rolling through all of this thick
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palmetto, it's impossible. Impossible. And the whole idea that they would never have found it if there had not been a fire.
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The fire was integral to finding the ball. What do you think talking with Terry and Jerry?
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I know they found it. I [music] know how they how they found it. They knew right away, you know, after that that first incident or so that they had something special. [music] If it was a hoax, somebody put it there.
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If it was not a hoax, somebody put it there. It's or something or something.
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If this mysterious sphere was of extraterrestrial [music] origin, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, might it have been intentionally placed on the bat's property and even have started the fire that resulted in its discovery.
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Throughout history, similar spheres have appeared in artwork [music] that dates back hundreds of years and are often depicted as coming from the heavens.
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In Christian art, you'll see these incredible examples of angels holding bowling [music] ballsized spheres in their hands. In other examples, Jesus himself holds a metallic sphere.
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God is portrayed holding a [music] sphere. So when you go back to the Betts family and compare it with what we know about [music] these spheres in Christian mythology, you have to ask, are we dealing with something of ancient origin or possibly
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of extraterrestrial origin? Where is that sphere today? My wager, one of our government agencies has this bet sphere. And our government has probably learned a great deal about a sphere that has self-activating software [music] and maybe has been
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sending and receiving the whole time. The concept of a self-activating metal sphere with the ability to communicate is not as far-fetched as it may sound.
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In fact, science is on the verge of discovering a similar technology today. Beijing, China. March 2015.
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Here at Singa University, scientists announced the creation of a self-fueled robot in the form of a small liquid metal sphere that is capable of shapeshifting.
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When energy is applied from the outside externally, the metal would change shape. But they also noticed that it could also produce its own power supply for about an hour. And because of this action, it would move too.
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And of course, most people are considering using it in the field of robotics. Just imagine where that can go.
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We're seeing the first steps that we are making towards having these types of exotic alloys that could in the future give us the ability to emulate the type of extraterrestrial technology that we already see in out ofplace artifacts.
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In addition to creating shape-shifting robots, this new technology may be used by doctors [music] to make repairs inside the body without performing surgery.
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It could also lead to fully flexible electronics as well as major advances [music] in artificial intelligence.
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Some ancient astronaut theorists propose that it was a similar [music] technology that powered the bet sphere.
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This is a possible explanation for what could be going on with the superheavy balls inside the bets sphere.
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they may be using some sort of similar technology in order to roll themselves around inside which then allows the ball to be able to roll around much like a self-propelled bowling ball. So with these new discoveries, we now have a
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plausible explanation for how the bet sphere was able to roll around. As modern scientists develop new alloys, we have to wonder if these artifacts like the bets sphere, they are perhaps there for us to examine and retrogineer and use and create for ourselves and our
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own space industry. Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that objects like [music] the bet sphere have been purposely left behind by extraterrestrials for thousands of years in order to help in the development of mankind's technological evolution.
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As further proof, they point to mysterious metal ingots recently recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily that are unlike any other metal known to exist on Earth.
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Sicily 2015. Archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa excavates a shipwreck less than a mile off the coast which has remained undisturbed for more than 2600 years.
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His team dredges up an ancient payload of 39 metal ingots. Interestingly, specttoraphic analysis of the recovered alloy reveals [music] the compound is unlike anything ever found in the ancient or modern world.
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The interesting part about this is the composition of the ingots that they found. The metal is 80% copper and 20% [music] zinc. There was other things found in it, but that's the majority of the opposition.
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Now, zinc only occurs in nature as [music] spelorite. It's a zinc sulfur complex. In order to create zinc, which didn't come around till about 1,000 years ago, you have to actually process the zinc out of this sulfide. They
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didn't have that technology back then. What was someone doing blending together copper, zinc, lead, nickel, iron? This is a complex alloy. This is nothing easy to do. It suggests the possibility that it could have special electrical or energetic properties that we don't even
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know about. People would not be expected to be making such a complex alloy back then.
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How is it possible that such an advanced alloy was manufactured over 2600 years ago, centuries before man had [music] the technology to manipulate elements like zinc into metals? And what was its purpose? [music] Based on the composition of this alloy,
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scientists believe what they have found is [music] orical, a metal associated with the legendary continent of Atlantis.
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According to Plato's 4th century dialogues, the Tus and Critius, Atlantis [music] possessed a power and technology greater than any other civilization on Earth.
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It was founded [music] and ruled over by the Greek god Poseidon whose temple was covered in a precious [music] metal called oricalum which translates to mountain copper.
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The composition of the alloy is not specified by Plato, but based on its electrical properties, color, and luster. Scientists suggest that if it really [music] did exist, it most likely consisted of copper mixed primarily with zinc, just like the metal found in the
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shipwreck. It was said that the temple of Poseidon on Atlantis flashed with the red light of Oraalum.
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The copper [music] tint of this metal caught the attention of the seekers that came to this sacred place. This is not just an attractive color. This has spiritual implications. There was something about this metal [music] that was said to resonate with the divine.
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Perhaps it was its origin that it had come from heaven. It fell out of the sky.
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According to Plato's story, the Greek god Cadmus, son of Poseidon, came down from Mount Olympus and gave Oricalum to the people of Atlantis.
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An important figure in early Greek mythology was Cadmus, a divine character, the first hero, fifth in the lineage from Zeus of the Greek gods.
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It was Cadmus that brought the making of bronze. He knew how to make alloys, special metals, which in the early days of civilization was the beginning of technology. So, Cadmus is the one who shows us the divine nature of metal work
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and gives this as a [music] gift to the generations. Why are we so quick to dismiss the underlying stories in those myths? Those stories talk about extraterrestrials coming and visiting our culture.
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They talk about gods that walked among us and interacted with humans, but with a severely advanced technology beyond anything that we have today.
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Ancient astronaut theory says that the legends of these Greek gods are not just mythological, but they're actually rooted in actual events.
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Is it possible that the Greek gods were extraterrestrial beings our ancestors witnessed descending from the sky as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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And does the discovery of orical provide physical evidence that the legendary continent of Atlantis truly existed?
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These artifacts could allow you to conclude that the continent of Atlantis was real, that it sank, and that it possessed high technology before it met its tragic fate. According to ancient astronaut theorists, discoveries like the metal ingots found
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off the coast of Sicily provide evidence that extraterrestrials have been fostering mankind's technological evolution for thousands of years.
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And they suggest that even more compelling evidence can be found by examining a mysterious artifact discovered in [music] the tomb of King Tutt.
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Cairo Egypt. At the Egyptian Museum, an entire floor is dedicated to the incredible treasures found in the tomb of King Tuten.
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Among them is a metal dagger that has baffled both scientists and archaeologists because [music] it appears to be made of iron, but dates back to at least 1322 BC. More than a century before Egypt's Iron Age.
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On May 20th, 2016, a new layer was added to the mystery. Researchers from the Journal of Meteorics and Planetary Science announced that they had finally determined the composition of King Tat's dagger.
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After detailed [music] analysis, it was confirmed that the blade is indeed iron forged from metal that originated not on Earth, but in the stars.
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Meteorites are very difficult uh to fashion into objects. [music] Anybody even today who's ever worked with a meteorite will tell you that because of the high nickel content, they're very very brittle and very difficult to work with.
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Considering the difficulties of working with meteoric metal, even with today's technology, how did metallurges 3,300 years ago perform such tasks?
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This dagger is completely out of place in the fact that [music] unlike simple objects like beads that can be simply hammered out and rolled. This has been perfected to a point where it [music] has no hammer marks on it. It's
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completely smooth. It has a nice edge all the way around on it. It almost looks as if it [music] had been cast.
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But in order to achieve that, you would have to reach temperatures of 3,000° in order to melt that meteorite and then of course add the necessary fluxes to get the impurities out and then cast the blade, which brings up even more
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questions for [music] the researchers. If they were smelting iron, it would change our whole outlook on Egyptian history.
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What could explain [music] the presence of this mysterious metal dagger in King Tut's tomb when no other similar artifacts [music] have been found in Egypt dating back to this period?
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Mind Egyptian metallurgists have had help working [music] with this difficult compound? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest stories found [music] throughout the ancient world revealed that extraterrestrials taught our ancestors the secrets of metallurgy in order to help move society forward.
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True metallurgy in the sense of putting different metals together as alloys dates back to maybe 3,800 BC when bronze was first discovered as an alloy of tin and copper. Maybe the second most important development after the harnessing of fire.
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As we think of modern times and our emphasis on technology here is the sacred roots to all of that. stories emerged out of all the religious systems about the gods as metal workers.
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He festus in the Greek imagination made the weapons [music] and the armor for the gods.
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In the Celtic imagination, it was the great [music] goddess Bridget who made beautiful and wonderful and powerful things into [music] metal and then into fabricated form. In Japanese lore, Kaneyago came to earth to teach the people [music] metal working.
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There seems to be a a ubiquitous understanding from ancient cultures [music] that metallurgy is from the heavens.
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Could there be some tie that in the past certain abilities were originally brought to man possibly by extraterrestrials and things we would create had a certain energy or myth about them that still is alive today.
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According to ancient astronaut theorists, the most compelling of these stories originates in the same place as King Tut's mysterious dagger, Egypt, where they worshiped a sacred object called the Benben stone.
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Ancient Egyptian texts [music] describe the Benben stone as a meteoric iron object that belongs to the heavens.
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The original Benben stone mysteriously disappeared, but many [music] ancient depictions of it remain. The Benben stone has a very strange origin.
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It is thought that the Benben stone descended from the sky like a firebird. If you look at the Benben [music] stone, sometimes it is described or depicted with people coming out [music] of this stone.
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Now, to me, this looks very similar to a lunar module. If you have the idea that this firebird is descending from the sky with fire and smoke, well, if you look at a rocket descending, these are firebirds. So our ancestors perhaps
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witnessed some type of a craft descending from the sky out of which these extraterrestrials came which set in motion our technological evolution.
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According to Egyptian texts, their gods were extraterrestrial beings that came to Earth and taught our ancestors the secrets of metal work.
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If true, might this be why we find isolated examples of advanced and sacred metallergy occurring long before mankind [music] was known to have grasped such technology.
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that hidden away in the storage area of a small museum in Eastern Europe is even more astounding evidence. The remnants of what might be an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
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Transylvania Romania. 1970. Workers digging [music] a trench along the banks of the Murees River unearthed two giant bones.
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And with them, a mysterious metal object [music] buried 35 ft beneath the surface. The discovery [music] brings the project to a halt as the crew takes their findings to a nearby museum.
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This strange object known today as the wedge of IU continues to baffle archaeologists because it is an aluminum alloy that appears to have been made thousands of years before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.
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It was 10 m in depth. uh associated with some bones which they later identified as woolly mammoth bones. If they were contemporary all of them then they were in use sometime in the period when Neanderthalss roamed the earth. So they
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were extinct 40,000 years ago. So they must be older than that. The wedge was analyzed three times. To my knowledge, the main uh metal in its composition is aluminum.
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Humans didn't really start working with aluminum until well into the 1800s. So, when you look at this wedge and you analyze it, it really has most of the modern properties we would associate with aluminum.
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This incredible metal artifact was [music] discovered at a time when Romania was behind the iron curtain of the former Soviet Union.
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For decades, government officials refused to reveal where the wedge of Ayute was being held.
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even after the fall of the USSR. But its location has recently [music] come to light. And in January of 2017, ancient astronaut [music] theory pioneer Eric Vonanakin and his protetéé Giorgio Sucilos sought out the wedge to see it
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for themselves. On January 18th, 2017, at the National History Museum of Transylvania, ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Sucilos and [music] Eric Vonanakin were offered a rare opportunity to get a firstirhand look at the wedge of Aayou.
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Museum curator Anagua has taken it out of a storage locker where [music] it has been deliberately hidden from the public since the early 1970s.
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Okay, I'm just going to put my gloves on. This is great. So, this is it.
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Oh, okay. This is strange. It It's very heavy. Georgia, take it. It's It's heavy.
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Wow. This was found at a depth of 10 m, which is about 30 ft in the ground.
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Yes. Yes. And here, this is the where they took the sample out and here to make the analysis.
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And here you see two pieces that are broken off sort of. So maybe it was attached or something, but very strange. So what does the museum have to say about this? This is a very strange piece. It is [music] it is
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a strange piece for us as well as historians. We do not consider it a historical object that we're used to. We don't know what it was used for and [music] we acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its
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composition as well. So for what can you use this? It looks like a hammer or a shuffle. But Jojo, what is the word of in English bucker sha? Oh, an excavator tooth.
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Well, it it looks like this. It could have been something like it. But these excavator tubes are never made out of aluminium.
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No, it's too weak. It's too soft. They are made out of steel, especially hard steel. So, it it could not be that.
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So, we have a real mystery here. But you see this patina over this whole object and this creates another problem.
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Yes. And because you cannot fake a patina. It's impossible to artificially create a patina.
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The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds that forms on [music] the surface of the metal during exposure to atmospheric elements. The older the object, the thicker the patina layer will be.
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It takes hundreds if not thousands of years for a thick layer of patina as this apparently is for it to develop.
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Yes, we agree there are two basic problems. One that aluminum was not invented at the age when we presume this was in use and second [music] it's the patina as you noted which speaks for the date for the
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for the age of it. So we we still have a mystery here. Thank you very much for uh showing us this object because I know that there was a time uh when nobody knew where it was. Somewhere in a box in the back,
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which means present day archaeology has a problem and they're doing magnificent work. [music] But when something like this comes along, you know, we should investigate this and not put it in a box in the back.
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Definitely, it did depend on mentalities and official position. [laughter] it isn't currently exhibited. Uh because we have to admit as historians [music] that we do not know more details about it.
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Mhm. For us, it's just baffling at this this point. But taking the the logic further, um this conflicting information could have just two solutions so far. one that it is really not so old [music] and the context is irrelevant and the patina was
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somehow produced in special circumstances. So it's a new object strangely preserved let's say and the second option is of course that it's not of terrestrial origin.
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In all of your adventures how does this compare to some of the other things that are inexplicable?
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I am helpless. I have no idea. That says it all. right there. [laughter] Very bizarre. Bizarre.
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I've known about this thing since the early 1990s, and I have to tell you that looking at it in person was a dream come true. And it's a very strange thing. I mean, how do you explain this? It certainly looks
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as if it was part of a larger object. And the question is, was it a component of a device? Was it a component of something larger?
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If the wedge of IUD really is over 40,000 years old, then who made it? And what was it used for?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists believe they may have the answer. An aeronautical engineer who saw the Ayude wedge looked at that and said, "That's a piece of a landing gear for a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft." Ancient astronaut theorists have also
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looked at this wedge and surmised that it's possible that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.
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Could the wedge of Ayude really be a remnant of [music] an extraterrestrial craft? Perhaps similar to the one some say the Egyptians represented with the Benben stone. Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest evidence recently recovered from a meteorite in
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Russia may be another gift from our alien ancestors. One that propels us towards the next great technological leap.
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[snorts] Siberia, Russia, 1979. A meteorite crashes into the Corac Mountains. Nearly four decades later, in December 2016, researchers studying pieces of the meteorite at the University of Florence, Caltech, [music] and Princeton announced that it has brought with it an
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incredible rare metal formation called a quasi crystal. This quasi crystal features 60 points of [music] rotational symmetry made up of aluminum, copper, and iron.
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It is an exotic pattern that has never before been found in nature and could lead to the next major technological leap.
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This thing should not exist. And yet there it is on this meteorite. Now quasi crystal alloys violate the known laws of physics completely.
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But what we have heard from whistleblowers is that the surfaces of extraterrestrial vehicles such as the one that crashed in Roswell are made of quasi crystal alloys and certain quasi crystal alloys when electrified generate anti-gravity.
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Exaterrestrial intelligences may have been wanting us to find these quasi crystals and it shows that there could be a whole new world of [music] technology waiting for us to unlock. And what we're looking at is a very likely
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possibility that these out ofplace artifacts are [music] just some of the table scraps from an extraterrestrial civilization that had way more advanced stuff than that.
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Are extraterrestrials giving mankind the tools needed to reach the next level in our technological [music] evolution?
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And if so, where are they leading us? The stories of [music] these very powerful ancient alloys suggest that these are pathways back to our origins.
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That these are ways that we can [music] connect with our original extraterrestrial visitors and also point a way forward for us because as we begin to understand these technologies, perhaps one day we'll even be able to duplicate them.
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As modern scientists develop new alloys, we have to wonder if these ancient artifacts of strange alloys aren't extraterrestrial artifacts that are perhaps there for us to examine and retroengineer and use and create for ourselves and our own space industry.
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There is no question that we are getting closer and closer to whatever technology the extraterrestrials possessed. Are the unexplained metal artifacts found all over the world proof that we have been visited by other worldly beings?
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And did extraterrestrials teach our ancestors secrets of metallergy that we are just now beginning to develop and reproduce?
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Perhaps by examining these strange metal objects, we will begin to not only understand our past, but also be better prepared to face our ultimate destiny.
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Zeus, Surya, Thor. For thousands of years, ancient [music] myths have described gods who came down from the heavens.
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Always you have someone who is descending from the sky with loud noise, with thundering, with fire, with smoke.
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They would have come from the most powerful and magical place possible, from the stars.
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But just who were these mystical beings that ruled the skies with supernatural powers? You could wonder if these tales of Zeus's thunderbolts, Thor's hammer, if these weren't real weapons.
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Did our ancient ancestors [music] create the gods from their own imaginations? Or did they simply report events they believed to be true? Our ancestors misinterpreted extraterrestrials as gods because that was the only way that they could explain away what they witnessed.
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Millions of people [music] around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true? Did ancient aliens [music] really help to shape our history? And were the gods of our ancestors actually visitors from other worlds?
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[music] Truva, Turkey. For over 150 years, this small city has been the center of one of the greatest archaeological finds in modern history, the possible discovery of the legendary city of Troy.
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In 1868, amateur archaeologist Hinrich Schlean set out to find what he believed was the city that [music] served as the basis for the Trojan War, as described in one of the greatest pieces of classical literature. Homer's [music] epic poem,
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The Iliad. Written in the 8th century BC, Homer's Iliad tells the tale of a great war born of feuding and jealous gods.
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While most scholars [music] believe the story of the Trojan War was a work of fiction, Schlean was determined to prove the myth was a reality.
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Hinrich Schlean's discoveries rock the archaeological world. armed with his copy of the Iliad basically, he just decided that he was gonna find Troy. And so he went and just dug a big hole. And when he went, he discovered
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the real Troy. But if Homer's story of Troy was true, what would it say about other Greek stories and myths? Might those also be true?
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Did powerful gods and goddesses [music] actually exist? And if so, where did they come from?
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Helis, also known as Greece. Each day, thousands of tourists visit temples and [music] monuments built to honor the gods of another age, the Acropolis, Deli, the Parthonon, the Temple of Apollo.
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These ancient sites reflect a powerful reverence for beings [music] that supposedly ruled the world thousands of years ago.
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When you look at in many of the mythologies around the world, they have these stories of gods coming down from the sky.
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[music] There's a beautiful description of the way that the gods move. Like when they kind of come down to the earth, you get this sense of them gliding down, but the way that they move is kind of [music]
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beyond time. It just kind of happens. If the ancient Greeks invented the stories of gods as a primitive attempt to [music] explain their universe, how can we account for similar deities found in widely different regions and cultures [music] around the globe?
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Was it mere coincidence? Or was there a common origin for these gods who supposedly travel to Earth from the skies?
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The earliest civilization we have, 3,800 BC. The Sumerians actually give us visual descriptions of these beings and speak of this time that they lived amongst their living gods. They called their gods the Anunnaki and that term simply meant those who from heaven come
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to earth. Mythology is chock full of these episodes of gods coming down to earth. I mean because mythology is so interested in the relationship between gods and humans there is necessarily going to be a lot of communication and communion
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between the two of them. In his book, Odyssey of the Gods, Eric Bonanakin argues that the [music] world's sacred books are full of descriptions not of gods, but of supernatural [music] beings interacting with humans.
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Some thousands of years ago, when our forefathers were still primitive, some extraterrestrials descended to our planet. And because of misunderstanding, lack of technology, our forefathers thought that these extraterrestrials must be some gods.
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Mount Olympus, Greece's highest mountain. According to ancient [music] myths, this site was the home of the gods.
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It was here on Mount Olympus that Zeus sat on his throne and determined the fate of mortal men.
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Whenever we have references to Mount Olympus, it is described to be this magnificent palace on top of Mount Olympus allegedly. And the temple walls were always gleaming of gold or gleaming with silver and a lot of little lights
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that [music] they described as jewels. Well, if you look at that from a modern perspective, what if that place Mount Olympus wasn't necessarily the top of a mountain, but it was in fact a spaceship? Because it is described how sometimes there was a
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big rumbling with Mount Olympus and the entire top lifted off. But if Mount Olympus was home to alien visitors, could Zeus have been their leader?
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According to both the Iliad and the Odyssey, Zeus was often depicted as wielding a lightning bolt.
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that appears to be a very powerful weapon because he could destroy whole cities with this thunderbolt weapon of his.
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Similarly, Zeus's brother Poseidon, the god of the sea, was armed with a trident. He was able to create tsunamis, tidal waves with this weapon. The trident weapon of Poseidon seems to have been something more than just a pitchfork.
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[music] So, is it possible that the lightning bolt and the trident is some type of a direct energy device?
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Arguably one of the most important [music] of the Greek gods was Apollo who rode the skies in his chariot of fire.
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Apollo first was the teacher of the young Greeks living there. He teached them how to make buildings on the mountain on the hillside. He teached them how to make roads. He teached them in astronomy.
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Centuries later, when Rome ruled over Europe and the Mediterranean, from the 1st [music] century BC until the 7th century AD, the Romans paid homage to gods similar to the Greeks.
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Zeus [music] was now known as Jupiter. Poseidon was called Neptune, but Apollo was known to [music] both the Romans and the Greeks. Coincidence?
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or as [music] most ancient astronaut theorists believe was that the historical account of powerful beings that [music] came to Earth thousands of years ago.
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We know that the extraterrestrials more than likely are the source of what they call gods.
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How did they get here? More than likely in some type of craft. What we map into our myths and our legends are incredible stories, incredible events. And any extraterrestrial being, any ancient alien who has come here on Earth will be
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written down into this account because it is such an extraordinary event that it will be marked forever.
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But if the stories of [music] Greek and Roman gods are true, can evidence of their existence be found in other parts of the globe?
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[music] And if so, where did they go? On the northwest coast of France, just south of Britany, lies one of the most important prehistoric sites in Europe.
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At the seaside village of Cararnach, over 3,000 megalithic stones are placed in rows over 2 m long.
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The Carnac stones were heuned from local rock formations [music] and erected between 4500 to 2500 BC at the end of the stone age.
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They are the largest collection of standing stones in the world. Archaeologists are baffled by the many megaliths at [music] Carac here. It's clearly a massive construction project with blocks of granite weighing 50 to 100 to even up to 350 tons.
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Legends here say that giants built Cararnac. But you have to wonder what is the real purpose of these giant megaliths? And why would prehistoric people have moved all of these massive stones and placed them in the many alignments? Here at
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Carneak, thousands of large [music] stones have been arranged in very interesting patterns. They're arranged in intersecting [music] lines that form triangles that could only be visible from above the earth.
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These arrangements of stones may have been a way of communicating [music] with extraterrestrial beings.
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The ancient Greek poet Pinder spoke of a mystical land called Hyperoreia far to the north where the sun shined 24 hours a day.
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Legends claim that Apollo visited Hyperoreia, traveling in his chariot of fire every 20 years.
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Apollo would tell to the Greeks, "Okay, I've got to go see some other people.
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I've got to go and teach them." And they're like, "Well, where are you off to?" And he's like, "Well, I'm actually going to a place that's beyond where the Northwind comes. It's the land of the Hyperburans." Although mainstream archaeologists
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speculate that the Carac stones [music] are most likely tomb markers, ancient astronaut theorists believe these stones are intentionally laid out in a unique geometric formation.
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Many speculations existed since centuries and only a few years ago in France they started to photograph this whole French Britany by helicopters. And when they put the pictures together, all of a sudden, someone realized, hey, this is not coincidence. The distances of the
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lines are always the same, 2,860 m or exactly the half of 2,860 m. The angles are always the same. It's Pythagorean triangles.
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It's all a gigantic geometrical pattern from stone age which is impossible. Our stone age people had no idea of pitagoras triangles. Pagoras was about 420 BC.
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Even though the geometric arrangement of the Carac stones predates the Pythagorean theorem by more than 2,000 years, one question remains. [music] Why were the stones arranged in such a precise pattern?
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The Carne stones are one of the few things on the planet that can actually be seen from space, and they're a perfect marker [music] for any kind of aerial vehicle looking down on the Earth.
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Many of the tourists who come here to Carneck claim that they can actually feel the energy emanating from these granite megaliths.
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How did these ancient people know about this energy? And is it possible that they were able to use this energy to even move and erect these giant stones?
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[snorts] I am of the opinion that they were made on purpose. The extraterrestrials told our ancestor, do this and this. It's not the extraterrestrials who made the stone lines. It's the humans who made it. But by the order of the extraterrestrials.
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But were the Carac stones a signpost for an ancient astronaut called Apollo as he flew his spacecraft high above the land?
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If the Greek god Apollo was really some kind of ancient astronaut, it's possible that the stones here at Carac were a directional finder pointing the way to the far north, to the hyperoreia of the ancient gods.
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Over 1,000 [music] miles north of Carnac lies Scandinavia, home to an ancient people called the Norse.
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The Norse were tribal Germanic people who lived in what is now known as Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway.
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Norse legends record the triumphs of great warriors with advanced weaponry, sophisticated combat techniques and navigational prowess.
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Like the Greeks, Norse mythology includes supernatural beings, other worlds and powerful gods. But like the Romans, could the Norse myths refer [music] not to different gods, but the same gods as those depicted by the ancient Greeks?
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There are a number of similarities between Greek mythology and Norse mythology. And many of the gods are uh almost identical and they do much the same thing.
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Descriptions [music] of the Viking god Odin, the god of war, death, and knowledge, and the Greek god [music] Zeus, bear striking similarities.
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Zeus and Odin are both skyfather gods. They travel through the skies in chariots because they are akin to the solar uh divinities. The precursor to many uh religious beliefs is sun worship. The ancients knew that life came from the sun. So that is a great
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mystery and a source of great awe. What you're getting there is not just some minor deity, but you really are nailing it down to one of the chief deities. This is a very important character. And so, whoever is behind
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Odin or Zeus is obviously a person or a divine entity which is shared by these cultures. [music] And it's clear that whoever inspired the myth of of Zeus or Odin is somehow somebody [music] who had an extremely important contribution to make to both
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civilizations. [music] So this entity was definitely known throughout Europe. Ancient alien theorists also point to similarities between the [music] sophisticated weapons possessed by both the Norse and the Greek gods. Among Odin's weapons was a spear that never missed its [music] target.
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The Norse god Thor, god of storms, strength, and fertility, wielded a powerful hammer. Right there, we have a correlation, a connection, because not only does Zeus have the thunderbolt, but what does Odin have and Thor? They have a hammer. Thor
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has a hammer with which he can smash things, destroy things. And [music] you know, the hammer idea is pretty close with the description to the lightning rod that Zeus has.
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So, you have to wonder if these tales of Zeus's thunderbolts, Thor's hammer, if these weren't real weapons, just like we have today where we have directed [music] energy beam weapons or are developing some kind of literal thunderbolt coming out of a spacecraft.
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But such similarities are not limited to the Greek and Norse myths. In India, the ancient epic of the Mahabarata describes visitations from gods [music] that possess the advanced technology of space travel. There you can read some thousands of years ago gigantic cities
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surrounded our planet. They used the word cities because they had no word for mother spaceship.
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And all of a sudden out of these cities smaller spacecrafts came out. Of course in ancient Indian they had no word like spacecraft. So they called it vimmana.
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The ancient texts of the Hebrew Bible also describes a prophet who traveled the skies in a sophisticated machine.
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Who is Enoch? He was the seventh anti-eluvian prophet in the [music] Old Testament, including in the Torah of the Jewish community. Enoch is only described with the two phrases, that's all. And it says that the Lord took him away in a fiery
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chariot into the heaven. But technology was not the only characteristic these ancient deities had in common. According to legends, the gods enjoyed intimate relations with humans. But if aliens did choose human women as their sexual partners, what was
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their motivation? And just what was the outcome of these very close encounters? [music] Ancient myths are full of stories of gods descending to earth to mate with humans.
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According to many sources including Norse mythology, Greek mythology and even the Bible uh we have the stories of these sons of god or actual gods from Mount Olympus or Valhalla and they're coming to earth. They find uh the
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daughters of men attractive. When all these encounters happened and when women slept with those gods which can [music] be found in multiple texts all around the planet that those women actually had sex with extraterrestrials [music] not with gods, cuz gods do not exist.
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According to Homer's Iliad, the citizens of Sparta were renowned for their heroic warriors and their [music] beautiful women.
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Zeus, the Greek god of the sky, admired a human named Lita. One afternoon, [music] while Lita walked alone in an orchard, Zeus changed into a swan, enveloped [music] her in his powerful wings, and made love to her. Only later did Lita
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realize she had been impregnated by a god. When you look at Greek mythology and and many of the mythologies around the world, they have these stories of gods coming down from the sky and have sexual intercourse with these humans and in a
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sense create a new breed of human. The offspring of these couplings were described by the ancients as demigods or half-gods.
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Experts suggest demigods were supernatural hybrid beings of human and alien [music] origin. Ancient Greeks believe these beings were exceptional and destined to perform extraordinary feats.
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It is a tradition in many civilizations that there were certain human children who were somehow not human but somehow had a connection to the stars [music] to a realm beyond earth and this specialness seems to be there from birth and it somehow seems to
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involve a DNA component which maybe science [music] needs to look at and needs to study.
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Some of the oldest accounts of gods and humans interbreeding can [music] be found in ancient Hindu texts.
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In the ancient Sanskrit writings of India, we find this account. A queen [music] named Kunti mated with a celestial being, an extraterrestrial who was known as the sun god. The product of this mating [music] was Cara, one of the
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heroes of the Indian epic, the Mahabarata. Perhaps the most famous demigod is the Greek hero Heracles, also known as the Roman Hercules.
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Heracles was half man, half god, conceived in the union of Zeus [music] and a mortal woman named Almei.
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Mainstream scholars have often dismissed the tales of demigods [music] as fantasy, but ancient astronaut theorists [music] believe they reflect actual living entities.
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These types of accounts in the ancient wisdom traditions have a modern equivalent in accounts of alien terrestrial hybrids which is part of the modern UFO alien abduction type of account.
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It's remarkable that we find in these [music] modern reports exact equivalents in the ancient accounts that suggests that we're dealing with realities here. We're not just dealing with imaginary stories.
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Ancient astronaut theorists say the term star children is another way to describe the offspring of humans and ancient extraterrestrials.
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They claim that [music] in the early traditions of nearly every major world religion, star children correlate to supernatural beings known as gods.
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Starchild is an often used reference in ancient texts when a woman had a quote unquote divine interaction with one of the gods.
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Often resulting in a woman being pregnant without having slept with anyone. You know is such a thing even possible?
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Yes, it is today artificial insemination. That's what happens today. you no longer have to have sex in order to have babies. We have the exact same description thousands of years ago where women without sleeping with anyone all of a sudden became pregnant. And the
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question is how is that possible? Did aliens that came to Earth in ancient times use advanced fertility technology?
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Within Greek mythology, you have many strange stories of centaurs, uh, Cyclops, weird genetic, halfh human, halfan animal creations.
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And you have to speculate, at least to a point, that there's a possibility of strange genetic engineering going on here and creating what are literal monsters in the past.
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In some of the writings of ancient civilizations, we see accounts of mating between extraterrestrial beings and humans producing monsters or giants or other similar types of beings.
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And why is that? I believe it's because it has actually happened in the past.
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Could these ancient tales of enormous creatures, half human, half beast, be rooted in truth? And if so, is there any evidence these giant hybrids really existed?
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Lovelock Nevada. In the early 1800s, local legends passed down by the Pyute Indians told of a race of giants who were exterminated [music] by their tribe.
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It is said this was done by trapping the giants in a cave, shooting arrows at them, and then [music] starting a large fire at the mouth of the cave.
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Evidence of the slaughter lay undisturbed until the early 20th century. Lovelock Cave was first discovered by local ranchers who were looking for bat guano to use in their fields.
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In need of fertilizer for their crops, the ranchers removed nearly 10 ft of guanoenriched soil from the surface of the cave.
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And then they began finding human remains. They found up to 40 or 50 people inside this cave.
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One was allegedly 7 feet 7 in tall. They all had long red hair and were literal giants.
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If these skeletons were the remains of the legendary red-haired giants, were they visitors [music] from distant continents?
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Throughout the 19th century, [music] many giant skeletons were allegedly discovered in the Midwest, also in parts of California and around Death Valley.
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And the skeletons here found at Lovelock are one of the few that were really excavated by an accredited university.
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Archaeologists from the Nevada [music] Historical Society and the University of California believe the cave was occupied from approximately 1500 BC until a few hundred years before [music] white men appeared in the Nevada territory.
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75 m from the cave site, a local museum has preserved several skulls that [music] some believe are recovered remains of the giants.
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Inside this cabinet here are three skulls from the Love Lock Caves. When you first see these skulls, they seem to be pretty much normal looking skulls.
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However, it's when we really start to compare the jawbones with this modern dental impression of a normal adult male that we see that these jawbones are unusually large.
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And these are really the skulls of giant people who were perhaps seven, even 8 feet tall.
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One of the odd things with these skulls is that they're not actually put on display here at the museum and they're kept hidden in this cabinet. Now, we don't know if that's really uh just out of um respect for the Native Americans
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or whether there's really something unusual about these giant skulls that they don't want them to display.
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Are the Nevada bones evidence of a race of giants that existed all through early human history?
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If so, could the giants be the descendants of extraterrestrials? According to the Hebrew Testament, one such giant appeared in the Valley of El 2500 years ago.
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Each morning for 40 days, a Philistine giant over [music] 9 ft tall challenged the Israelites to a fight.
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His name was Goliath. David and Goliath is one of those episodes in the Bible where you wonder what is going on. [music] Is it just a metaphor or are we dealing with a fundamental interpretation? And in that sense, Goliath [music] has to be a giant
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creature. The question then is, he cannot be human. What is he? David's stunning triumph over Goliath was considered a mere fable until archaeologists turned up evidence that suggests this confrontation really did happen.
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On the outskirts of Telisafath, [music] Israel, scientists discovered a moat that may have once protected the Philistine fortress.
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Nearby, they found shards of pottery inscribed with the name Goliath. Tests indicate [music] the pottery is from the same time period as described in the Bible.
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Ancient astronaut theorists claim this is unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial giants in biblical times and they say there is much more.
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The most common megalithic construction known is the dolman. Believed to be burial chambers, they are found throughout Europe, the Middle East, [music] South America, and Asia. Could these mega structures be the ruins of giants?
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Archaeology likes to use the word dolman, but they were formerly known in folklore as giants graves.
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A dolman is shaped like the the Greek letter pie with a top on it. And they're made of enormous uh blocks of limestone.
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And even today it's [music] we are marveled that anyone could construct those things and wonder how they got the top on top of the uprightes. And those were built during the middle bronze period which is roughly 2,00 to500
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before the common era. So seeing things like that people question those must have been made by giants. I mean ordinary people could not have done that.
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Are we dealing with metaphors or are we dealing with hard evidence? [music] Are these physical creatures which somehow roamed the earth? And I think on volume we have to accept that some of these were real. The question then is how did
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these genetic freaks come about? One of the main tenants [music] of ancient astronaut theory suggests that a long time ago, extraterrestrials changed our genetic [music] makeup through a targeted mutation of our genes essentially in the lab. So they took a
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couple of human beings, altered their DNA, then reinserted those people back into the population. So through procreation, those people would pass on those new genetic alterations to the entire population.
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest the evidence points to one conclusion that aliens changed the genetics of early human DNA.
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For an alien being to work with DNA is so easy that just creating a new type is not at all that difficult. Even today we have the capability to create new types of animals. The question is were we
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created as such as well? But what reason could extraterrestrial visitors have had for populating the earth with mixed species and monstrous hybrids?
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Were they the result of some kind of scientific [music] experiment gone terribly wrong? Did ancient aliens have some [music] reason to experiment with human DNA?
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The Gapos Islands off the coast of South America are known for their [music] unique biodiversity.
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In 1832, [music] a naturalist named Charles Darwin came to these islands to observe and record several species of animals not seen before.
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The result of his studies formed the basis for his controversial book, The Origin of Species. In it, Darwin proposed [music] his theory of evolution, which held that all life evolved over time through a process [music] of natural selection.
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But even Darwin's theories could not explain the developmental gap between apes and man. There was, it [music] was believed, a transitional species that had to exist.
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One which became referred to [music] as the missing link. Homo sapiens have been around for 3 and a,000 years. And only in a few thousand years, our brain size essentially tripled.
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Now that does not jive with ordinary evolution. You need time, a very long time. However, today biologists cannot quite put a finger on how our brain volume tripled in a very short time period. That is still a mystery.
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Could it be, as many ancient astronaut theorists believe, that ancient aliens had a hand in jumpstarting human evolution on our planet?
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Science has been unable to find the missing link. And maybe that's simply because Earth is unable to offer that missing link. Maybe the missing link is not of this earth. Maybe the missing link is somewhere [music] outside extraterrestrial.
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In 1996, medical science took a giant step forward when geneticists successfully cloned a sheep.
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This revolutionary technology marked a significant advancement in our understanding of DNA. But could extraterrestrial visitors have also possessed knowledge of genetics?
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In the Sumerian records of mythology, they explain how they genetically engineered the first human being. And so, it's very possible that extraterrestrials did genetically engineer us. More and more creatures are being discovered as science goes along in little caves or on little islands
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whereby DNA evidence clearly shows that something else has been happening. We're probably going to get to hard scientific fact that something interbred with humans on certain occasions, certain moments in time.
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Could the giants and monsters [music] described in the ancient myths be examples of genetic mutations? And if so, what purpose might they have served?
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[music] There are actually accounts in the ancient Sanskrit writings of India of how in their original attempts to produce living things in the universe, the gods or the extraterrestrial [music] beings made mistakes and produced different types [music] of monsters and
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giants and things like that. Why should the so-called gods first make such mixed creatures? What's the purpose of it?
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They observe a lion and they say to themselves, why don't we mix the strongness of the muscle of the one animal with the heat expellent uh skin of the other animal to use it at some other planet which is different to
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earth. So they start to make breedings. They start to make mixed creatures. Scholars and archaeologists generally agree that sometime around 3000 BC during the megalithic era, mankind took a quantum leap forward with regard to civilization [music] and use of
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technology. According to myths and legends, human beings gave credit to their gods for giving them this knowledge.
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But if the gods were in fact alien visitors, might mankind's quantum leap forward [music] have had a more intergalactic origin.
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It is clear that something affected multiple continents on this planet around 3000 BC. The pyramids began to be built at that moment in time. Why? What was that imperative? Was it a global imperative? Yes. Was it an imperative
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which came from outside of this world? Yes. If aliens intervene to speed the advancement of human beings, is it also possible that they have influenced mankind [music] at other critical junctures in history? And if so, could they have continued to monitor us even
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today? It's very possible that if there was some type of genetic intervention by an extraterrestrial race on humanity, they would be very interested to see their experiment progress.
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I'm often asked the question, is it not ridiculous to believe that extraterrestrials should in a way or other look similar to us or even think similar to us? No, the question is wrong. They are not by coincidence similar to us, but we are similar to
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them because we are the product. But if alien beings did [music] interbreed with humans, why was it to save their own species or perhaps hide the genetic traces [music] of their presence here on Earth? Could there even be aliens living among us?
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Wondrous wizards. Merlin is the authority really, the advisor behind the throne. Mysterious sorcerers. Their job was [music] really to communicate with the sacred in order to bring about change here on earth and heavenly beings possessed of [music] unimaginable power. So what had begun as
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a battle of magic becomes a horrific blood bath. Throughout the [music] ancient world, magic was used for everything from healing to communicating with the gods.
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But did real magic really exist? And if so, could it have come from another worldly source?
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Certain human beings seem to have somehow mastered the power of the universe to an extent [music] that even we don't understand.
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The ancients believed that they learned magic from their gods. And these extraterrestrial gods had taught them these powers.
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Millions of people around the world believe we [music] have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? And will we find proof by exploring the magic of the gods?
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Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009. Magician Steve Hayrick stuns a circle of 40 onlookers as he appears to make a three-tonon Hummer.
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Raise the curtain. vanish in an instant. Everyone join hands. All right, there's 40 people around the Hummer.
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Watch this. do it now. The continued popularity of illusions like these speaks to a worldwide fascination [music] with magic that can be traced back thousands of years.
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We long for some kind of connection to the [music] supernatural and we can have it for a couple of hours on the price of a ticket by attending a magic show.
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When we go to the theater and see a stage magician, we know supernatural events are not happening before our eyes, no matter how much it seems like they are.
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We sometimes think of the people of the ancient world as simple. They lived in a world saturated with magic. There really was no distinction [music] between ordinary life and the supernatural. They were completely embedded in each other.
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So belief in magic was absolutely universal. It was a way of looking at the world as [music] an interconnected whole as well as a technology through which you could make things happen in the everyday material world. Magic offered people an
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opportunity to influence the outcome of important events and to [music] know the will of the gods and to communicate directly with those gods.
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In the ancient times, it is actually said that magic was of the gods, somehow otherworldly, [music] somehow beyond the confines of ordinary reality.
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What we see is that certain human beings seem to have somehow mastered the power of the universe to an extent that even we don't understand.
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Magic in the ancient world was primarily viewed as uh in some ways coercive which is to say people are attempting to [music] control the spiritual realm to do something in their daily lives.
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So whereas modern magic is primarily [music] driven to engage in sort of trickery in the ancient world there was an attempt to sort of coersse spirits [music] to sort of affect one's life and the direction of one's life whether that
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would be one's fate or in some ways nature as well. But did magic [music] really exist in the ancient world? not as a form of theater but as a means of replicating the power of the gods.
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Shani province, China, 7th century AD. The Jongcha mountain range. Here, according to [music] Chinese mythology, live Chong Golo, a Dowist saint thought to possess [music] unique magical abilities and a profound understanding of the secrets of nature.
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He was one of what [music] were referred to as the eight immortals. So, the eight immortals are these semi- mythical figures in Chinese history. The majority of them they're based on people who actually existed [music] and then certain legends occurred around these
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people as time passed. The historical figure of Jungla was thought [music] to have lived in the mid7th to the mid 8th centuries and he was very renown for his magical skills even at the time. Shang Kuo Lao [music] is possibly the most
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interesting of the eight immortals. He is depicted as an old man. He could make himself [music] invisible. He could go without food for days.
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According to Chinese mythology, Jeang Golo first emerged [music] at the very beginning of the universe where he appeared out of chaos in the form of a white bat.
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He was thought to be a gifted alchemist, [music] necromancer, and sorcerer. So, Jung Lao is often depicted as riding a magical [music] mule. And what's peculiar is that he is seated facing backwards on this mule.
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The mule can ride the divine winds and [music] also cross thousands of miles in a single day without [music] ever stopping once for rest. When Jang Wulao finds a place that he wants to settle um for the night, he actually folds up his
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[music] mule as one would fold a piece of paper until it is the size that you can fit in your pocket.
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And then he would reactivate it by sprinkling water on it and it would reappear again.
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So, you have to ask yourself, is this white mule actually some kind of incredible alien technology that allowed him to travel around China?
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It's entirely possible that what they're describing here is some type of a craft and that Changu Lao himself may possibly have been an extraterrestrial. [music] And in order to explain his abilities and technology, our ancestors described him as a magical being.
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[snorts] But is it possible that extraterrestrials could develop a technology in which you have some sort of flying machine that can fold itself into hyperspace? It runs on an advanced energy propulsion source. You can travel with it. It's short. It's compact. And
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when you're done, you just fold it into hyperspace and it's it's something that you hold in your hand. The whole thing just folds up.
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Is it [music] possible that Jeang Golo really existed? And if so, could his amazing powers of transformation have been based on an advanced, [music] perhaps extraterrestrial form of transportation?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe further clues can be found. More than 1,700 miles away in Patna, India, situated on the southern shores of the Ganges [music] River, this ancient city is believed to be the place where the great spiritual leader Buddha embarked
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on an incredible journey in [music] 483 BC. Guatama Buddha was a messenger and sage who was born in what is now Nepal sometime around 500 to 600 before the common era and he was the [music] original figure in the teachings that
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became Buddhism. When the Buddha was born, his father was told by a seer that your son is going to become a great teacher.
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The Buddha's message, his teaching is supposed to bring people out of suffering. He made up a religion to [music] solve what he considered as the basic problems of living.
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The Buddha traveled around India spreading [music] his teachings. his followers and the monastic community uh [music] grew increasingly.
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He was perceived as a human but an extraordinary human. In the process of gaining enlightenment, he had these realizations that were marked by supernatural powers.
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He actually projected and built through pure psychic power this bejeweled walkway up in the sky. And he paced up and down that walkway filled with jewels for about a week.
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According to ancient texts, near the [music] end of his life, Buddha and his many disciples attempted to cross the Ganges but were blocked by raging floodwaters.
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Well, it happened to be the time of the year when the Great River is flooded.
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It's at its high peak. Not only is it very, very wide, almost a mile wide at that time of the year, but it's going very fast, something like 70 mph, a virtual rapid.
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And he sees people on one side of the Ganges trying to build up these frail rafts trying to cross the river.
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And what he does is in an instant and the [music] text says that in the time it takes for a strong man to stretch out his bent arm or to bend his outstretched arm, the Buddha appears on the other
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side of the river. Now there was no boat, no form of transportation whatsoever and people witnessed this. So was this some sort of a miracle? Of course not. So, are we talking about teleportation here? Some type of technology that was
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misinterpreted [music] as a miracle? Might the incredible feats performed by beings like Buddha and Jeong Golo be based on real life extraterrestrial [music] encounters?
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And if so, could they have been the inspiration for what [music] we now call magic?
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Perhaps further evidence can [music] be found by examining the stories of a famous sorcerer whose supernatural powers helped to build a mighty nation.
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Tintagel Island, England, 500 AD. Here, hidden along the rugged Cornwall coastline is the entrance to a mysterious cave thought to have housed [music] the great wizard Merlin.
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We first see Merlin historically in the writings of Jeffrey of Monmouth. He tells this story of this extraordinary character who most famously shows up during the time period of Arthur.
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I think that there's this tendency to think of him as the man in the pointed cap and to be a little bit sort of comical or ridiculous when in fact the real Merlin is a very very serious and
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very important character. According to stories, King Arthur lived around 500 AD and he was advised by this wise man called Merlin.
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Merlin is attributed as having all sorts of miraculous powers. He is said to be able to bring lightning down and thunder. He can levitate rocks.
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He can foresee the future. He can call upon a mist to cover the battlefield.
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Merlin seems to have been based on this idea of the druids. Druids were the sort of religious figures uh in in a lot of this early society. In some cases, we see them associated with the uh more Celtic
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warrior groups where they would might function as a king's adviser. Druids appear as very magical and having various other ways that they could interact with the supernatural world for the benefit of the mundane world.
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There is a manuscript in the British library called the Annals Camre which means the Welsh annals. And in there it refers to a man [music] by the name of Merlin living in a forest somewhere in the north. And the way it refers to this
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Merlin is it could very well be the same Merlin as the [music] Merlin in the stories of Arthur.
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According to legend, it is Merlin who was the mastermind behind a plan which would unite the various kingdoms of Britain into one nation capable of [music] fending off invasion by Saxon forces.
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He launches a quest to install the young Arthur as king using his formidable powers.
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Merlin is stage managing the Union of Britain from before the time Arthur is conceived.
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He essentially manipulates things so that Arthur can be born [music] in a way that has royal blood, but he does not grow up in the castle, which was a dangerous place for a divinely [music] ordained leader to be. He was able to be
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a tutor to Arthur in his childhood, teach him ways of nature. He makes him king by getting Arthur to perform all sorts of feats that no one else can do, like drawing the sword from the stone. And it seems that he wants to
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make Arthur into a sort of immortal figure in the eyes of the people, so that they will readily follow him and make him their one and only king. In other words, Merlin is the authority, really, the advisor behind the throne.
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Did Merlin use supernatural or otherworldly knowledge to empower Arthur and in so doing create the British Empire?
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But why? And who or what was Merlin? Ancient astronaut theorists [music] believe clues can be found in the strange circumstances surrounding Merlin's birth.
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The birth of Merlin is a miraculous tale. His mother was a nun, a virgin who has a steamy, erotic dream, and she wakes up just knowing she is pregnant.
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[music] So Merlin's father could have been an incubus. That would be a dark angel, one of the devil's legion, a monstrous figure who in this case came and had sex with innocent women while they slept in their dreams.
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The most common legends about Merlin say that he got his [music] powers through this demonic father. Merlin was baptized and then the demonic nature melted away, but he maintained all of the magic from the demon father.
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When we're confronted by the story of Merlin, we're looking at a medieval figure who is possibly another example of an otherworldly being who is half human, half extraterrestrial and that he in fact is a representative of this long
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line of other worldly beings. This is the real core of British history. It's very revered. It doesn't seem that someone just made this up out of nowhere. It could be that the stories help cover up the truth, which was that
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human extraterrestrial contact did occur, that Merlin was actually an extraterrestrial being who was sent here to help King Arthur establish his kingdom, and that Merlin's advanced capabilities might be nothing more than the use of technology that he had
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available to him. Is it possible that Merlin had what many believe to have been otherworldly origins?
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If so, might his magic really have been based not on occult forces, but on advanced extraterrestrial technology.
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London 1966. The British Museum acquires an unusual Aztec artifact [music] thought to possess magical powers.
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Known as [music] the devil's looking glass, this mirror made of black volcanic glass [music] once belonged to the influential 16th century scholar John D. D. was a respected mathematician, astrologer, and close adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.
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He was also considered to be a powerful magician and claimed he used the mirror to communicate with angels.
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John D was a famous magician in the Elizabeth and period in England. Probably the most famous Renaissance mage uh at least from England from that time. And he became very obsessed [music] with trying to conjure angels.
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Later magical practitioners start to refer to it as an Nokian magic. John D believed that there was [music] an angelic language that there was a sound a real sound not just a concept a voice that the universe spoken that the
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angels that those with supreme knowledge [music] had their very very own language and he was trying to tap into that. D believes this information [music] was given to him because God originally wanted it to go to mankind throughout all of time.
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This ankian magic was given to man before but has been lost throughout the ages. God originally gave it to Adam, the legend goes, and then to the prophet [music] Enoch, maybe to others in between.
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Did early magicians like John D really have access to extraterrestrial technology? Technology that was mistakenly believed to be of a supernatural or divine origin.
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In the ancient world, magicians [music] were religious specialists whose job was to interact with the spirit world on behalf of their social group. Their job was really to communicate with [music] the sacred in order to bring about real
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and lasting change here on earth. Centers of power would have magicians. [music] The courts of the time whether a king, a Caesar or a pharaoh would have vizars, wizards, magicians advising them, protecting them, using their secret powers to heal, to guide in battle. It
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was an important part of leadership [music] in ancient times. These figures had enormous power and enormous influence. Not only helping a leader but helping a country stay together.
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Is it possible that the early practitioners of what we call magic were really individuals in possession of advanced [music] extraterrestrial knowledge?
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knowledge that could change the course of human history. Ancient astronaut theorists [music] believe that such an audacious notion is in fact possible and believe [music] further evidence may be found in the legends of a mysterious device, one so powerful it could make
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its user disappear. [music] Dallas, Texas, 2011. Researchers at the University of Texas's Nanoch Institute discover a process that can actually make objects invisible.
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These scientists spin tiny carbon fibers into sheets and submerge them into water. An electrical charge heats the material and changes the way the surrounding water [music] bends light, making an object appear to vanish at the turn of a
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switch. We are not actually seeing around the object we're cloaking. What we're doing is we're uh using the heated carbon nanot tube sheet [music] to bend light.
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So when we think we're looking in a particular direction, we're actually looking at neighboring seawater.
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We're using very extraordinary materials to accomplish our mirage cloaking. But as innovative as this remarkable technology is, stories of devices with similar powers can be found throughout history.
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Serifos Greece. It was here on this tiny island in the Aian Sea. The ancient Greeks believed the hero Perseus [music] set off on a seemingly impossible mission to kill the fearsome Gorgon Medusa.
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So Perseus had this incredible challenge because Medusa was powerful and you just look at her and die.
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So it is a true dangerous situation for the hero. According to mythology, Perseus is given a magical helmet that ultimately ensures his success called the helm of darkness, the cap belonged to Hades, the god of the underworld.
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Perseus goes on this adventure with the help of a number of the the Greek gods.
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He is given a number of mythological items that are going to help him on his journey.
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He is given the cap of Hades which will make him invisible. He then successfully kills Medusa and the other two Gorgans try to to find him, but they can't see him because he's wearing the the helm of invisibility.
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Did the helm of darkness really make Perseus disappear? Or might there be another perhaps more scientific explanation?
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This could be an ancient example of an advanced technology using the bendable nature of light and laws of physics that we're now aware of to make something that seems to be impossible very attainable. and with a technology that
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anyone could use if they wanted to. [sighs] Is Hades [music] helmet evidence of an alien technology once used in ancient times?
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And if so, might the tales of other magical devices [music] in the distant past offer proof that our ancestors had access to other even more highly advanced extraterrestrial tools.
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Panza Italy. Located in the Mediterranean Sea, this cresant-shaped island is thought to be [music] the legendary home of the Greek goddess Cersei, a goddess thought to possess a wand with remarkable power.
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But the notion of a wand as an instrument [music] of magic can be traced back even farther, back to the very origins of magic itself.
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The idea of magic comes from the area known as Persia or Iran. This is from Zoroastaster, the Zoroastrian traditions and rituals.
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The magi, the priest of that belief system, would use a a handful of wands as a magical intercession, a way to connect the unseen world and the scene.
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Magicians and leaders of all kind use staffs and verges and rods and and wands, scepters, maces, all from similar traditions.
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The ancient accounts of Cersei's famous wand describe it as a formidable weapon capable of producing astonishing physical transformations. According to Greek mythology, Cersei was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun. And according to those legends, she was
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incredibly beautiful. In fact, she was radiant. She was glowing because she was not of this earth. The ancient Greeks considered her the goddess of magic.
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The stories surrounding Cersei usually refer to her powerful wand with which she was able to transform people into animals.
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And so there's a famous story in the Odyssey where Odysius and his men uh land on a mysterious island and [music] they come upon a house where there's a woman inside who's singing songs. And the songs that she sings sort of lure
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the men into the house and Cersei says that she's going to entertain them. And in the course of her interactions with them, she pulls out a wand and touches them with it. As a result, the men are then [music] transformed into pigs.
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The idea of transformation is fascinating. There was fear in the ancient world that you could be changed into a wolf or some other animal. And then it was imagined that some people with extraordinary [music] powers could do [clears throat] this to
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you against your will. And that was [music] greatly feared. And a good deal of magical practice was to try to avoid such a calamity.
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Was Cersei's magic wand simply a mythological invention? One rooted in mankind's primitive imagination and superstition as mainstream scholars suggest?
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Or might this incredible device [music] have actually existed? Because we all know that all of these myths have a core of truth to them, something that happened in real life.
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And so when we talk about powerful wands that are used in order to transform people into animals, the only thing that something like this could have happened is if it was a technological device.
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Is it possible, however, that an extremely advanced technology could actually somehow generate a shape-shifting effect and completely retool the DNA, the physical tissues, the flesh of a living human being.
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Many different ancient legends describe some sort of handheld device that had incredible capability to do things that would seem to be magical or even impossible.
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We see Vishnu's spear. We see Thor's hammer. We see Zeus's thunderbolt. This could very well all be examples of a handheld technology that extraterrestrial humans who look like us did possess.
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Might [music] Cersei have come from a divine, possibly extraterrestrial lineage? And if so, could her wand [music] have been based on highly advanced alien technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe such an idea is possible and believe more evidence can be found in the stories of one of the most epic and destructive confrontations in religious history.
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Contile Delta, Egypt, 60 mi northeast of Cairo. Many historians believe that beneath these fields lie the ancient ruins of the lost city of Pyramis.
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In the 13th century BC during the reign of Pharaoh Ramsy's II, this city served [music] as the capital of Egypt and according to some theologians was the historical [music] site of the 10 plagues of Egypt as described in the
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biblical book of Exodus. We have the story of the Exodus which is the story of the Hebrew people leaving Egypt. And so Moses is going to be the liberator. He's chosen by God, i.e.
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Yahweh, to go to Pharaoh and say, "Let my people go." Moses is told by this [music] angel inside the burning bush that he must go to Pharaoh and convince him to release 700,000 Hebrews. The next thing that most people know is that he's in [music]
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the court of Pharaoh challenging Pharaoh's magicians. In the very ancient civilization [music] of Egypt, magicians played an important part in the court of the Pharaoh. They protected the pharaoh from uh dark powers. They healed him from time to
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time. They gave him legitimacy with the people. They were vital in the court life in ancient Egypt.
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The Egyptians had no word for religion. For them, magic was their religion. It was around them. It was part of them. It was was the power of their deities. It created their deities. It was a constant force in their life. So to study magic,
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to understand magic was to understand the world. Egyptians were the [music] masters of natural magic.
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They understood how magic really works, how you could use nature [music] and use the power of a human mind to create an effect.
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According to the biblical [music] account, God instructs Moses to give the Pharaoh a demonstration of his divine power, one that will force him to free the Israelite slaves.
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In order to help compel Pharaoh, Moses throws down his staff so it turns into a serpent. The Egyptian magicians, they look at that and they go, "Gosh, we can do this, too." All of the magicians throw their rods down on the ground.
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They all turn into [music] snakes, but Moses snake eats all those other snakes. And that's the beginning of what we know as [music] probably the greatest magic contest ever recorded.
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God is equipping Moses to face off Pharaoh [music] and Pharaoh's magicians. It is a literal battle of sorcerers.
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The confrontation quickly escalates as God proceeds to unleash a series of 10 increasingly devastating plagues on the people of Egypt.
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In the first plague, Moses touches his staff to the Nile River and it becomes blood.
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But the magicians are able to do this as well. In the second plague, Moses multiplies frogs. But so can the magicians, although once they do it, they can't get rid of the frogs. In the third plague, Moses brings about gnats
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or some think lice. So for each of these plagues, they begin to increase in their severity. And up through the third plague, the Egyptian magicians are able to replicate everything Moses is doing.
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But finally, they have to concede that, you know, this is the finger of God. And beyond this, we can't challenge him anymore.
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What we're seeing here is very strange. We're seeing a magic competition that God is continuing forcing a continuence of this and it eventually leads to the death of every firstborn male in Egypt which finally ends the entire thing and
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Moses takes not only the 700,000 Hebrews out but generally considered to be between one and two million Egyptians go with him as well on what we now know as the Exodus.
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So what had begun as a battle of magic tricks turning staffs into serpents becomes really a horrific bloodbath.
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That is as the resistance continues Yahweh keeps upping the ante. The plagues get worse and worse. Now these are supernatural events. We don't know how they were done, how they transpired, but the shift in history happened because of the [music] plagues. So magic
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prevailed. Theologians will say this was God that did this. I have a different theory. I don't think God is mean. I don't think God goes out and kills. And [music] so it could have been extraterrestrial.
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Might the story of the 10 plagues of Egypt really be an account of a deadly contest [music] between humans in possession of extraterrestrial technology? As ancient [music] astronaut theorists believe, the ancient Egyptians believed that they learned magic from their gods and these
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extraterrestrial gods had taught them these powers. Suddenly they found [music] out that they were up against a more powerful force, a more powerful magic than they had.
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We're not dealing with two indigenous human cultures battling it out here on Earth. We're dealing with people on Earth in a war that they could not win against extraterrestrials.
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In many of the ancient texts, it seems apparent that the gods actually took sides. They were involved in battles. So to suggest that they might have been also involved in plagues is plausible.
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So the question is was it really God who unleashed these plagues upon Egypt or was [music] it in fact an extraterrestrial? And according to the ancient astronaut theory, it was a misunderstood, misinterpreted [music] extraterrestrial who in this particular
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case sided with the Israelites. Might the incredible power wielded by Moses against the Egyptians have been of an extraterrestrial [music] origin? A power based as much on science as on an extraordinary knowledge of the powers [music] of the human mind.
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Many ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is yes and that the key to what many perceive as magic can be found not only on other worlds but right within the human body.
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New York City, 2012. Magician David Blaine begins a 72-hour stint [music] standing in the middle of a million volts of electrical current protected by only a suit of armor.
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But is it a mere trick, [music] an illusion? Or is it evidence that what we call magic actually exists?
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We're interested in [music] people like David Blaine because we find those things amazing. It just pushes the boundaries of what human beings are capable of. And I think that we ask ourselves, could we be capable of such a
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thing? We will embrace the endurance effects. We will embrace them because we think this might be real.
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Well, maybe there's something to this. Maybe there isn't a trick. Maybe I can evolve into a person able to do this kind of magic.
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We are quite literally searching for the supernatural in ourself. Izzu Oshima, 60 mi south of Tokyo.
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It was here in the 7th century BC [music] that a legendary Japanese mystic known as En Noyoja was banished for his so-called magical [music] powers.
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En noja was the founder of an aesthetic teaching. Shagendo means the practice [music] of training and testing. This tradition from the 7th century done up in the mountains [music] with great physical arduous exercises and discipline is said to lead to an access
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[music] to supernatural powers beyond our understanding. Enuggio's magic differs from our European concepts of [music] magic in many ways. This is something that you bring out of yourself.
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He would go high into the mountains, less oxygen, isolated, less food. Just one lapse of concentration and you die.
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And then also meditating in the middle of a waterfall. That's where he finds silence. That's where he finds control.
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Even historical records depict En Noyoja as someone who [music] was endowed with magical capacities and the ability to [music] also summon and control demons and spirits. Enoja was also known for his ability to ride five colored clouds.
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He was also said to be executed a number of times and every time the executioner's ax landed on the back of his neck, [music] the axe actually shattered to pieces.
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Still today, we're making ongoing discoveries about the capabilities [music] and potential of the human brain and body. So, it's possible that in the stories and legends of Inogo, we're seeing someone who was able to somehow access knowledge that was already
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hardwired into [music] our own DNA by extraterrestrials. Is it possible that ancient magicians like Eno Yoja were able to tap [music] into incredible extraterrestrial abilities embedded within the human body?
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And might this explain similar [music] feats performed by more modern magicians like Harry Houdini and David Blaine?
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Magic appears to be a derivation of extraterrestrial technology. It's the accessing of the human potential using the technology of the human form.
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Magic derived from extraterrestrial beings seems to be the linkage that they gave us to enable us to become more like them.
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Do ancient accounts of magic really suggest [music] evidence of advanced otherworldly knowledge? A knowledge given to early humans as a means of helping them unlock their own, some might say, divine potential.
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We are drawn to magic. We need something extraordinary that allows us to transcend everyday life and what we sense as profound limits and frustrations to what we would like to be and like to do. It is both a fantasy
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release and to a degree a bit of a map that we might be able to reach further than we think. We might be able to do more than humans have done before. that we might be more than this.
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Magic enables latent potentials that we're not supposed to have. But throughout history, many people have demonstrated those capabilities. They've been witnessed. It's been written down and passed along with great excitement and enthusiasm.
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And then of course the question is where did they get this from? Did they develop this on their own or was it somehow given to them by the gods? In each occasion, we find that our ancestors specifically state that magic [music]
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is given to mankind by the gods, by non-human intelligences, by extraterrestrial beings. Did ancient magic really have another worldly origin? And was it based not on mere trickery, but on advanced knowledge of science and the powers of the human
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brain? Perhaps we will discover the answer when we open our eyes to the possibility [music] that what we think we know is an illusion. And what we think is illusion may very well be real.
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