Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 17, Episode 4 - #DUPE# - full transcript
Narrator: It is a mountain
that inspires both awe and fear.
Jack "walking eagle" thom: There's
things around in this mountain here
That people are
really unaware of.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
Narrator: For centuries,
Extraordinary sightings have
been reported both on its slopes
And in the sky above.
Nick pope: There are multiple
Strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
paranormal events,
Strange disappearances,
that go back throughout history.
Dustin naef: I've seen people
In this very cave walk
right into a wall and vanish.
That's incredible.
Narrator: But are
these just stories
Or something more?
Giorgio tsoukalos: What makes
mount shasta fascinating to me
Are the questions.
Narrator: Ancient astronaut
theorist giorgio tsoukalos,
Author david childress,
And investigative
mythologist william henry
Have come together to
examine incredible evidence
That suggests mount shasta
May have a connection
to otherworldly beings.
David childress:
Perhaps it will be
At mount shasta where
the extraterrestrials
Finally reveal themselves.
Narrator: There is a doorway
In the universe.
Beyond it is the
promise of truth.
It demands we
question everything
We have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right
before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
I'm really delighted to be
here with you guys because
I'm curious to learn
what the truth is
Behind mount shasta.
I used to live up
in san francisco,
And I drove that
road countless times.
And what struck
me is the fact that
Mount shasta sticks
out like a sore thumb.
- Henry: Sure does.
- Childress: It really does stand out.
Henry: I do have
to admit driving up
From sacramento and
catching my first glimpse of it
Off in the distance
with the sun setting on it,
My heart skips a beat.
I mean, it is majestic.
Tsoukalos: Oh, it is
beautiful. Absolutely.
Henry: You can
tell that there's really
An allure to it.
What makes mount
shasta fascinating to me
- Are the legends and the mythologies of that place.
- Henry: Yep.
Childress: Probably
more weird books
Have been written about
Mount shasta than
any other mountain.
What do you want? Giants?
Do you want star people?
Do you want lost civilizations?
It all converges at shasta.
And everyone who
lives in that area
Is familiar with these stories.
Narrator: Rising to an elevation
Of 14,179 feet,
Mount shasta in
northern california
Lies at an intriguing
crossroads of folklore,
Geology and the paranormal.
This majestic peak,
Which is also a dormant volcano,
Features
breathtaking waterfalls,
Pristine lakes, and
spectacular alpine vistas
That attract more than
26,000 visitors each year.
But the native americans
who are indigenous to this area
Warn that mount shasta is
as dangerous as it is beautiful.
And for very unnatural reasons.
For centuries, the
mountain has been known
As a place where people
report strange events in the sky,
Encounter terrifying creatures,
And sometimes have even
vanished without a trace.
Pope: Mount shasta is a location
Where there are multiple
strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
Paranormal events,
Strange disappearances...
That go back throughout history.
And, indeed, one can look to
Certain native american
legends, for example,
To say that mount
shasta has always
Been associated
with strange goings-on.
There's things around
in this mountain here
That people are
really unaware of.
Some people don't
even want to believe it.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
I've witnessed it.
Narrator: Local
native american tribes,
Such as the shasta, wintu,
Modoc and karuk,
have inhabited the area
Dating back as
much as 12 centuries.
Each revere mount
shasta as a place
That possesses mystical powers.
Walking eagle: I was told
By my grandmother
and grandfather
That, you know, that we
didn't go above the tree line.
That belongs to
"grandfather" up there.
So I try to stay as
far away as I can.
There was a native american
author there, lucy thompson,
1916, she writes a book
All about the native
american legends
Of the star people,
All that activity
at mount shasta.
And this isn't some, like,
kooky book or something.
She's writing the history of
her people, the yurok tribe.
All these legends
are incredible.
And this has been
going on at mount shasta
For hundreds of years.
So can we attribute all these
legends to mere coincidence?
- That's the big question.
- Henry: I don't think so.
Another layer to this mystery
is that shasta is very close
To petroglyph point,
where we find some of
What are considered
to be some of the oldest
Petroglyphs in north america.
Narrator: 60 miles
northeast of mount shasta,
At lava beds national monument,
A curious record of
native american traditions
Can be found.
Hundreds of stone carvings,
known as petroglyphs,
That were created as
much as 6000 years ago
By ancestors of the modoc tribe.
The lava beds petroglyphs
Include ancient calendars,
Depictions of animals, humans,
And celestial beings
also referred to
As "sky people."
In various native
american traditions,
We have different
spiritual beings, uh, located
On these sort of different
planes of existence.
And there's a wonderful
range of stories
In many, many native
american groups that talk
About some of the
adventures and interactions
With the sky people, uh,
with the humans on earth.
Narrator: One of the
petroglyphs depicts
A large, winged creature
emerging from inside
Of mount shasta.
It is believed to
represent a sky being
Who the modoc people
worship as their creator
Known as skell.
The local people believe
that in ancient times,
The great sky chief skell
Came down from the
sky to live in shasta
And has been there
ever since and protects it.
Narrator: Could this
petroglyph of skell
Be, as some believe,
An actual depiction of
an extraterrestrial being
That the modoc people
encountered centuries ago?
So we know there's been
humans going through this area
For a long time and
creating these petroglyphs
With these mystery
teachings on them.
So it's got all of that
mythology attached to it
And has all kinds of
ufo sightings as well.
Certain mountains are
associated with ufos,
And mount shasta's
definitely one of them.
It's interesting to me that
we have modern accounts
Of ufo sightings, for example,
Right here at mount shasta,
But what's fascinating
to me is that there are
Many, many ancient stories
of so-called ufo encounters
That we consider
today ufo encounters.
And are ufos particularly
are seen kind of coming
From the top, the
crater of mount shasta
And going up or are they
coming out of the side?
- What are... What are the beliefs there?
- Henry: They're from all over.
It's like-it's like they're
coming out of the mountain
Or that-that they're
seen hovering above it.
It's very strange.
Narrator: Over the past century,
There have been
more than 50 reports
Of ufo sightings
around mount shasta
With an increasing number
in just the last decade.
Almost everyone who lives there
Has-has seen something unusual.
One of the most
remarkable ufo sightings
I've heard of, it
took place in 2008.
Witnesses in the town
of mccloud saw a ufo
That looked like a
giant glowing jellyfish
Move over the town and
then fly off into the distance.
Walking eagle: I
was driving back
From, uh, klamath
falls, eh, around 7:00,
6:30, 7:00 in the evening
In the summertime.
All of the sudden I
looked up on the mountain,
And I seen the whole mountain
Toward yreka side open up.
And then this big ship came
And sat there hovered for a
minute and then went right in.
And next thing you
know, the mountain closed,
And I was like,
"what is going on?"
I never let things like
that bother me, though.
I've seen things
like that all the time.
And, you know, what's
interesting about it, too,
Is that the native
americans... There was a group
Of spiritual beings
called the waga
That first came to shasta
and-and started instructing
The local native americans.
And they told this story
that there were giants
That lived in mount shasta.
Giants are often
associated with the stories
- Of bigfoot.
- Henry: Absolutely.
- And mount shasta is also famous for bigfoot sightings.
- Yes, it is.
In fact, the earliest, uh,
Really popular
sightings of bigfoot
And where the name
bigfoot comes from
Is from northern california
- And around redding.
- Mm-hmm.
Narrator: Giants? Bigfoot?
Incredibly, similar
stories have been reported
In this area for
hundreds of years.
And in October 1930,
several newspapers detailed
The discovery of a mysteriously
large humanoid skeleton
In the town of redding,
60 miles south of mount shasta.
There are traditions
of giants linked
With mount shasta, which
absolutely fascinate me.
And one of these, uh,
goes back quite a long way,
And it's part of
the modoc tribe,
Who are kind of
part of this area.
And they say the sky spirit's
daughter was abducted by a bear,
And she actually gave
birth to a race of giants.
Some people suggest that
these are actually hairy beasts,
Sasquatch-like beings,
connected with mount shasta.
So you've got this
convergence of-of these stories
Of-of massive ufo
sightings, giants, star beings.
This is, like, a hotbed
area up here. It is incredible.
Native americans in the
area around mount shasta
Warned people of the
number of disappearances
- That have taken place up there.
- So mount shasta
Is one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Native americans in the area
around mount shasta say that
The area above the
tree line is sacred.
- And they warn people, "do not go up there."
- is that so?
Right, which makes it
not surprising to learn
Of the number of disappearances
that have taken place up there.
So mount shasta is
one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Yes, siskiyou
county is the location
That carl disappeared in.
Narrator: Since 2009,
Former police detective
dave paulides has been
Applying his professional
investigative training
Attempting to solve mysterious
missing persons cases
All around the country.
In ten-plus years,
I've looked at over
5,000 search and rescue cases.
And in those, 1,200
are unexplained.
And I mean that cases
Of possible animal predation
have been vetted out.
Incidents of mental health,
suicide, were vetted out.
And what you're left with
Is a complete void of
rational explanation.
The area around mount shasta
has many unusual disappearances.
Narrator: One of the most
baffling disappearances
That dave has been focusing on
Was reported on
mount shasta in 1999.
On may 25, three
experienced hikers...
Carl landers, milt gaines
and barry gilmore...
Set off from mount
shasta's bunny flat trailhead
Towards the summit.
The guys got up to
a place called 50/50.
It was a place where
hikers that wanted to summit
Would either camp
there or at the next stop,
Called lake
helen, for the night.
The next morning, they
get up, the wind is howling.
The guys were
putting the tent together
And were stashing
it for their climb,
And they saw that
carl was looking cold.
And so they said, "hey, why
don't you go to lake helen's,
And we'll meet you there."
And carl took off walking.
Narrator: Shortly after carl
Left the 50/50 campsite,
Milt and barry followed.
But when they
arrived at lake helen,
Just 650 feet away,
Carl was nowhere to be found.
Paulides: Milt
gaines, carl's partner,
Got there, and
he didn't see carl.
And now he's confused
Because there's no
place between 50/50
And lake helen to disappear.
There's no obstructions,
you're above timber line,
There's no big, huge boulders
That are gonna get in your way,
And it's a solid snow
field with no crevasses.
That started a week-long
search and rescue
That would rival any
anyone knew about.
Now, one of the things that
was done on the landers case
Is that they checked with
u.S. Geological survey
For seismic activity
on the mountain.
The reason they did
that is that sometimes
There's a... An
avalanche of rock
And maybe the
climber was covered
By the rock and you
wouldn't find them.
During the time
that carl was gone,
There was no seismic activity.
So they know that carl
wasn't covered by rocks.
Narrator: Remarkably,
in the more than 20 years
Since carl's disappearance,
No one has found any clues
That could explain
what happened to him.
Milt gaines: I don't
know how many people
Have been up avalanche gulch.
But, uh, nothing has been found.
No metal ice axe.
No metal crampons.
No colorful nylon pack or coat
Or black pants or plastic boots.
Nothing.
Paulides: The search and
rescue coordinator on this event
Was an individual
named grizz adams.
Grizz had been doing
this for 30-plus years.
Grizz said, "dave, I guarantee
carl isn't on that mountain.
He either went up or he
went in, but he isn't on."
Those were his words.
I think that the
comment tells you
That there were few options
for a rational explanation.
And so they-they
never found him,
They have no explanation
for what happened.
(stammers)
everyone's just baffled?
Yeah. Yeah, he's
hiking up the mountain
In sight of his friends
and suddenly disappears.
And do they see him disappear
Or they just look away and
they turn around and he's gone?
Typically, in those
stories, people
Don't actually see them
disappear, but they're
Nearby and they never call
out for help or anything like that.
Then there's the story
of a three-year-old boy.
He's camping with
his parents on shasta,
And he wanders off, disappears.
Narrator: Another very
unusual disappearance
That dave paulides
investigated near mount shasta
Occurred on September 2, 2011.
Paulides: A three-year-old
boy disappeared
On a camping trip.
And he was later found
by search and rescue,
At one of the first places
they would have looked.
Right next to a trail.
One of the first things search
and rescue people do is,
As they're walking down a trail,
they're calling the boy's name.
- Tommy!
- Hey, tommy!
Hey, tommy, where are you?
Now, if he was near the trail
And he heard that, chances are
he's gonna come and get help.
Cause he'd been
out there overnight.
So to think that he
was next that trail
The whole time is
really hard to understand.
Another unusual aspect
to that story is that this boy
Told a story of,
after going missing,
He was down in some
kind of underground cave...
And a woman that
he thought was a robot
Was there asking him if he
was okay and comfortable.
It was all a very strange story,
Something I've
never heard before.
Narrator: While
the story may sound
Like the product of
a child's imagination,
The search and rescue team
could provide no explanation
For how the boy went
missing for five hours
Only to suddenly turn
up right next to the trail.
Many people say
these disappearances
Are-are just accidents.
But the idea that
somebody disappears
In a location where
there are ufo sightings
And sometimes
reports of entities
Mirrors the idea, perhaps,
of the alien abduction.
Narrator: Is it possible
that carl landers and others
Who mysteriously disappeared
around mount shasta
Were abducted by
extraterrestrial beings?
Or might there be an even
more profound explanation?
Uh, people are still
disappearing on mount shasta.
- Right.
- This is not something that has,
- You know, stopped.
- Right.
And it's an open area where,
You know, there's not
that many places to hide,
- E-except by going inside the mountain.
- Absolutely.
But, once again, this affirms
the... Kind of the mystery,
The strangeness of
mount shasta and says
This is... There's a lot
more going on there than...
Than we really realize.
People are called to mount
shasta and they don't know why.
Mount shasta is also
apparently on a major ley line.
They're a telluric current
of energy going from
Different grid spots
and power spots.
What's going on in mount
shasta is not just in north america.
All over the world are
these power spot mountains
Like mount shasta.
Mount shasta is sometimes said
To be one of the
chakras of the planet, too.
Narrator: The ancient
sanskrit term "chakra"
Refers to energy centers
in the human body.
In his 1967 book earth chakras,
Author robert coon
proposed that the planet
Also has energy
centers, and that these
Act as connection points
to otherworldly dimensions.
His list included
mount sinai in egypt,
Mount kailash in tibet,
And mount shasta.
Hugh newman:
There were traditions
Of sacred mountains
all over the world.
This is where the gods
came down, started civilization.
But it's also thought to be
Where communication
with the gods took place
And potentially
where interstellar travel
May have taken place between
this world and other worlds.
It seems that mount shasta
is on some energy line
That's perhaps
connected even to cusco
And lake titicaca,
the great pyramids.
- You know, power spots and sacred spaces.
- Sure.
Yeah, it's important to bring
up the great pyramid because
It reminds me of mount shasta.
Really? Okay.
Henry: First of
all, it's a volcano,
And the word "pyramid"
means "fire in the middle."
And underneath the
great pyramid are tunnels.
Same thing here at shasta.
And it makes me think, well,
maybe shasta could've been like
The natural origin of
the idea of the pyramid
As, like, a power center.
But the pyramid is an
artificial construction.
- A lava tube is not artificial, that's nature.
- Exactly. And what I'm saying is
That perhaps the
pyramid is kind of like
A technological version
of a naturally-occurring
Power center, like a volcano.
Narrator: The great
pyramid of giza,
A power center?
Modeled after a volcano
like mount shasta?
In his 1998 book,
the giza power plant,
Renowned master craftsman
and engineer christopher dunn
Proposed that the great
pyramid was originally designed
And functioned as a power plant.
Two years later, based
on curious erosion patterns
Within the pyramid, maritime
engineer john cadman
Lent his support to this theory.
In the subterranean chamber,
there is some evidence
That shows that there
had been water present in it.
There's water
erosion on the floor,
And then there's also
cavitation damage on the ceiling
Right above the pit, and
that had to have been
From a compression wave.
Narrator: Cadman concluded
that the great pyramid
Was a gigantic hydraulic pump
That drew water from
the nearby nile river
To generate power.
But if the great pyramid
functioned as a power plant,
What purpose
might it have served?
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
Clues can be found in
scared egyptian writings.
Henry: The pyramid
texts describe
The ancient egyptian
gods as extraterrestrials
Coming and going
from two places:
Sirius and orion.
The pyramid itself, according
to the ancient egyptians,
Functioned as an
ascension device,
So everything that we
discover about the great pyramid
Has to be related
to its original function
As a portal to
other star systems
Or other dimensions.
Narrator: Is it possible that
the great pyramid was designed
By otherworldly visitors to
function as some kind of portal?
And, if so, could there
have been others?
Interestingly, while
the great pyramid
Is a man-made structure,
geologist dr. Robert schoch
Has identified
compelling similarities
That it shares
with mount shasta.
I see many similarities between
mount shasta geologically
And the natural features
It's associated
with and artificial,
Human-constructed pyramids.
Underground flowing water
Can carry a charge,
Build up charge in
certain areas that can then
Migrate to the surface
along faults and fissures
And, in some cases, then escape
As, basically, balls of charge.
Narrator: Might the unique
geology of mount shasta
Make it the perfect
location for alien beings
To create a portal to
other parts of the universe
Or even other dimensions?
So then, in a sense, it's like
an interdimensional portal
Where beings and craft can shift
To other dimensions,
go to other planets, even?
- Exactly.
- And is it possible that some of these people
Have disappeared,
have-have actually even
- Been taken off planet or something?
- That would make sense to me.
I mean, given what
we're-we're hearing about this,
That they could have just
stumbled into some kind of
Portal, as you're suggesting.
I mean, seriously, we've got
Tremendous magnetic
energy there, disappearances,
All kinds of mysterious
incidences like that.
That's fascinating.
William, you went up to
Mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us about
your experience?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
William, you went upto
mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us about your
experience and what you learned?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
Went up there to
meet dustin naef.
He's a local historian.
He-he's one of these guys
That was called to the mountain.
He kept hearing about
the legends and so forth.
He's been investigating
it for many, many years.
Yeah, I've-I've read his books.
And so, you went
to mount shasta, too,
Because of these strange
disappearances, huh?
Absolutely. What's interesting
about this to me is that maybe
It's a case of some kind of
Interdimensional
portal opening up.
This is a very mysterious
part of the world,
Northern california,
where giants were there,
Star people, lost civilizations.
It's magical.
Narrator: In November 2020,
William henry traveled
to weed, california,
To investigate firsthand
if he could document
Any evidence to help
explain the many ufo sightings,
Baffling disappearances, and
encounters with strange beings
That have been
reported at mount shasta.
And also to explore
the incredible notion
That the mountain might actually
Contain a portal
through space and time.
- Hi, dustin. I'm william henry.
- Hi, william. Glad to meet you.
Local author dustin
naef has spent years
Investigating the
mysteries of mount shasta.
One story that I think I'm
most excited and interested in
Is these light beings
that are also described
As living within mount shasta.
Can we now tie that
into mu or lemuria?
Yeah, there's a lot of, you
know, supporting evidence,
And I-I think there's
something to the stories.
Lemuria is a civilization
That was quite an advanced
civilization for its time.
And it existed somewhere
Off the pacific coast
of north america.
Narrator: The existence of a
lost continent named lemuria
Was first proposed by
zoologist philip sclater in 1864.
Curiously, this
theory is corroborated
By the ancient oral traditions
of the native hawaiian people,
Which say that the
pacific islands of the region
Were once part of
a giant continent,
One that was home
to a highly advanced,
Otherworldly civilization.
We do know that there were
some people who got lost,
And this is who we call the
mu or the lemurian people
You might refer to.
They existed at one
time, and then we lost them
Under the ocean.
Mitch horowitz:
In the 19th century,
There were various
occult and esoteric writers,
Including madame h.P. Blavatsky,
Who identified lemuria
As this primordial
human civilization.
And the idea was that some of
Humanity's hidden and occult
roots could be traced back
To this so-called
continent of lemuria.
Pope: Mount shasta ties in
To the idea of the lost
continent of lemuria.
They were thought to be
Very technologically
advanced ancestors.
Maybe gods, maybe
extraterrestrials.
Whoever these people were,
Some calamity befell them.
And the legend is
That the survivors
of this cataclysm
Took refuge in mount shasta.
Narrator: Could
there really have been
A highly advanced
civilization that existed
On earth thousands of years ago?
And, if so, could
there be any truth
To the notion that
they took refuge
From a devastating cataclysm
in the caves of mount shasta?
One man who was
convinced the story was true
Was prospector j.C. Brown,
Who, in the early 20th century,
Made it his mission
to find the proof.
You know, j.C. Brown
Became really enamored
With the theories
of lemuria and mu.
- Mm-hmm.
- J.C. Brown claims to have been up here
In 1906 prospecting for gold
When he accidentally unearthed
A tunnel which he describes
as a man-made tunnel.
And about a couple miles in,
He found what he describes
as some kind of, uh, reliquary
Containing all kinds of
records of a lost civilization,
And he describes
finding the bodies
- Of mummified giants.
- Wow.
And one of the things miners
did was they would mark
The environment
with, uh, symbols.
- Mm-hmm.
- And there's a place
Not far from mount shasta
Where I've found
a whole collection
Of these glyphs that have
been carved into rocks.
We know they were made sometime
Between the early
1900s and the 1940s.
- Mm-hmm.
- And that would have been the period of time
That j.C. Brown would
have been up in this area
Looking around for things.
Henry: This reminds me of, uh,
in-in rennes-le-château in France,
Northwest arkansas, oak island,
We find similar kind
of symbols appearing
In these various places
Associated with
treasuries, deposits.
And then this looks like...
Almost like two peaks or a peak
Within a peak, like he's
trying to point you inward
Into the mountain almost.
There's an interesting
twist to this story.
About 30 years later,
J.C. Brown, uh,
returned to stockton,
And his intention was
to raise an expedition
To go back up to this site
and catalog what he found.
And he raised a party of
about 80 different people,
And on the day that they
were supposed to depart
To go up to this site,
Um, he just
mysteriously vanished.
He just vanishes?
Yeah, no one ever
heard from him again.
I wonder if there could be
Some advanced ancient technology
That he didn't fully understand
Associated with portals,
The light beings,
and that sort of thing.
So there are actual tunnels
that we can access today?
Yeah, I can take you to
a place called pluto's cave
Where people
report and experience
A lot of this phenomena
that we've been talking about.
Fantastic. Let's go.
Dustin is very intrigued,
as I am, about the lava tubes
That run underneath shasta
that extend into the inner earth.
But we went into the
pluto cave... this lava tube.
- It's about 20 miles from mount shasta.
- Okay.
- Childress: Okay, so...
- So these extend for miles.
And how big is
the tube? I mean...
Yeah, were you
able to stand upright?
Henry: No. This was
one was huge. I mean,
These are giant caverns.
- Really?
- And this... the pluto cave... massive.
- You could drive a truck through there.
- Really?
- Childress: Okay. Wow.
- Absolutely.
- That's interesting.
- Childress: And people around there think that if you find
The right lava lube or
something, you can get
Into this city and into...
- Inside mount shasta.
- Exactly. Right.
Narrator: In November 2020,
William henry along
with author dustin naef...
- Naef: It's down this path here.
- Set out to explore what is
Known as pluto's
cave several miles north
Of mount shasta.
Henry: That is just spectacular.
Narrator: It is here where
numerous eyewitnesses
Claim to have encountered
mysterious beings...
As well as seen evidence
Of possible
interdimensional portals.
Pluto's cave is one of
several natural wonders,
Known as lava tubes,
that crisscross the region.
Schoch: Mount shasta
is a volcanic mountain.
So volcanic lava
tubes are formed
When you have fast-flowing lava.
And it cools on the
surface of the flow,
So it actually builds a crust,
But the lava continues
to flow in the middle,
And it forms literally a tube.
And these tubes, in some
cases, are very small.
They might only
be a few feet across.
In other cases,
They've been documented
to be 50 feet across.
And some of them have
been documented to be
Not just miles long
but tens of miles long.
Henry: Check it out, man.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Naef: So almost all of the mythology
and legends around the place...
It all takes place underground
in the caves and tunnels
Which surround the area.
If you were able to
look underground,
You would just see tunnels
Radiating out in
every direction.
There are actually
native-authored stories
That you could travel
clear into oregon
Completely underground.
Henry: Yeah.
Look at that, dustin.
That's awesome.
Beautiful skylight.
- Naef: This almost makes like an eye-like symbol.
- Henry: Absolutely. Do you think
- J.C. Brown might have discovered a cave like this?
- Yeah.
If it was in this area,
it would be very similar
To the cave we're in now.
There's a really
big subculture here
In mount shasta that
has always believed that
These caves and tunnels
contain a civilization
Full of people
just like you and I.
And they come back
and forth through portals
Hidden in these caves.
I've had people actually
Contact me and tell
me they've seen people
In this very cave walk
right into a wall and vanish.
What-what were
these people like?
What did they look like?
They look just like us.
That's how they're able
to travel back and forth
And mingle with humans.
Wow.
Narrator: One of the
most famous reports
Of a being emerging
from within mount shasta
Was made in 1930
by guy warren ballard.
Ballard, a mining engineer
who worked in the area,
Claimed he was surveying
the slopes of the mountain
When he encountered a
mysterious, glowing figure.
Guy reported that when he
was hiking on mount shasta
In the early 1930s,
He encountered
some extraordinary,
Mysterious teacher,
Which he later identified
as the ascended master.
Young: This is a radiant
being dressed in white.
And they get into
a long conversation.
And this teacher, this guru,
This otherworldly
character teaches ballard
The secrets of enlightenment.
Narrator: For ancient
astronaut theorists,
Ballard's description
of a radiant being
Is reminiscent of
accounts from ancient times
Of similarly luminous figures.
In irish legend, we learn
of the tuatha dé danann,
Or the tua dé dán.
These are luminous
humanoid beings
Who are considered to be
beings of immense wisdom
Who are also called
the shining ones.
Narrator: Similar to the shining
ones of the celtic tradition,
The ancient sumerian
gods, known as the anunnaki,
Were also described
as glowing figures.
Might these accounts, including
those made about mount shasta,
Be true?
If so, can william
henry find any evidence
To help verify them?
If you look on the usgs charts,
There's an immense
negative magnetic anomaly
That surrounds mount shasta.
Henry: That's the ley line
they describe here, right?
Naef: Yeah, a lot of psychic
and paranormal phenomena
Actually occurs in places
that have magnetic anomalies.
And used as a, as a portal
Between the inner earth
realm and the stars?
Yeah, yeah. It... Anything
capable of generating
Energy like that
could be a portal.
Narrator: Some
theoretical physicists believe
That strong variations
of electromagnetic fields
May create areas that give rise
To exotic phenomena
Like portals through
space and time.
There appears to be, in nature,
The possibility of
crossing thresholds
Of energy, of vorticity,
Of electromagnetic phenomenon...
That can perhaps
Open up portals in space-time
That we never would
have thought possible.
This is, uh, where
I've seen people
- Get readings before.
- Okay.
Well, let's take a
look. See what we got.
I brought my meter
with me just to see
If we can detect any
magnetic energy here.
Okay. It's jumping all over.
Got some movement here.
All right. We got
a reading here.
Very interesting.
Narrator: Several miles north
In northern california,
william henry
And author dustin naef have just
Detected a mysterious
energy spike in pluto's cave,
A giant lava tube
connected to the mountain.
Yeah, we're getting a
lot of movement here
On the magnetic side.
I can personally feel
it, and then now we got
The readings here
that are backing that up.
And sensitive psychic people
Could follow that
line, follow the trail
- Where, wherever it leads.
- Yeah, a lot of psychic
And paranormal phenomena
actually occurs in places
- That have magnetic anomalies.
- Right.
Naef: Mount shasta,
It's basically made of
a type of, um, geology
That conducts electricity.
And if you were to look
underneath mount shasta,
You would find reservoirs
of churning water,
Just millions and
millions of gallons of water,
Just churning.
And that creates energy.
And that's one of the
theories about the pyramid...
Is that the tunnels were
used as conduits for water,
That the pyramid is a
power plant and somehow
Water was used
to facilitate that.
Naef: Exactly. But the same thing
is happening here at mount shasta.
It's just being driven
by natural forces.
So that could explain, if
the pyramid is a machine,
Which is the way
they describe it,
That would explain how people
Can come and go
from mount shasta.
It's like an
interdimensional portal.
Naef: I-it does go a
long ways to explain
The energy people feel up here.
Because it's a...
Basically an energetic site.
So now that you've returned
from mount shasta,
Did you come to any conclusions?
In the end, I really don't have
a conclusion about mount shasta.
For me, it's a beginning
Because I realize
how much is going on there.
You've got the portal aspect,
you've got the light beings,
You've got the ufos,
You've got the natural geologic
possibilities that are there.
And you've got lemuria.
What makes mount shasta
Fascinating to me
are the questions.
Because clearly there are
so many stories,
So many legends,
So many events
That have been
witnessed by people.
Something clearly
is happening there.
You've got
all this lore and stories
That's coming out of it.
It is rooted
in eyewitness accounts,
It's rooted
in historical accounts,
It's not the stuff of legend.
It's tremendously exciting that
this is in our own backyard.
It's not peru
or the amazon or egypt.
I-it's right here
in northern california.
And what's interesting here,
too, is we have all the stories
Going into antiquity
and-and beginning of time,
But this is something
that's still going on.
Well, gentlemen, this has been
a fascinating conversation,
And this is what science
And the ancient astronaut theory
is all about:
The investigation.
Because, sure, one could just
dismiss the whole thing and say,
"oh, come on. It's nothing."
But something clearly
is happening at mount shasta.
And I think that this merits
even further investigation
Because what if
mount shasta is part
Of this giant riddle
that we're all investigating?
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that inspires both awe and fear.
Jack "walking eagle" thom: There's
things around in this mountain here
That people are
really unaware of.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
Narrator: For centuries,
Extraordinary sightings have
been reported both on its slopes
And in the sky above.
Nick pope: There are multiple
Strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
paranormal events,
Strange disappearances,
that go back throughout history.
Dustin naef: I've seen people
In this very cave walk
right into a wall and vanish.
That's incredible.
Narrator: But are
these just stories
Or something more?
Giorgio tsoukalos: What makes
mount shasta fascinating to me
Are the questions.
Narrator: Ancient astronaut
theorist giorgio tsoukalos,
Author david childress,
And investigative
mythologist william henry
Have come together to
examine incredible evidence
That suggests mount shasta
May have a connection
to otherworldly beings.
David childress:
Perhaps it will be
At mount shasta where
the extraterrestrials
Finally reveal themselves.
Narrator: There is a doorway
In the universe.
Beyond it is the
promise of truth.
It demands we
question everything
We have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right
before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
I'm really delighted to be
here with you guys because
I'm curious to learn
what the truth is
Behind mount shasta.
I used to live up
in san francisco,
And I drove that
road countless times.
And what struck
me is the fact that
Mount shasta sticks
out like a sore thumb.
- Henry: Sure does.
- Childress: It really does stand out.
Henry: I do have
to admit driving up
From sacramento and
catching my first glimpse of it
Off in the distance
with the sun setting on it,
My heart skips a beat.
I mean, it is majestic.
Tsoukalos: Oh, it is
beautiful. Absolutely.
Henry: You can
tell that there's really
An allure to it.
What makes mount
shasta fascinating to me
- Are the legends and the mythologies of that place.
- Henry: Yep.
Childress: Probably
more weird books
Have been written about
Mount shasta than
any other mountain.
What do you want? Giants?
Do you want star people?
Do you want lost civilizations?
It all converges at shasta.
And everyone who
lives in that area
Is familiar with these stories.
Narrator: Rising to an elevation
Of 14,179 feet,
Mount shasta in
northern california
Lies at an intriguing
crossroads of folklore,
Geology and the paranormal.
This majestic peak,
Which is also a dormant volcano,
Features
breathtaking waterfalls,
Pristine lakes, and
spectacular alpine vistas
That attract more than
26,000 visitors each year.
But the native americans
who are indigenous to this area
Warn that mount shasta is
as dangerous as it is beautiful.
And for very unnatural reasons.
For centuries, the
mountain has been known
As a place where people
report strange events in the sky,
Encounter terrifying creatures,
And sometimes have even
vanished without a trace.
Pope: Mount shasta is a location
Where there are multiple
strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
Paranormal events,
Strange disappearances...
That go back throughout history.
And, indeed, one can look to
Certain native american
legends, for example,
To say that mount
shasta has always
Been associated
with strange goings-on.
There's things around
in this mountain here
That people are
really unaware of.
Some people don't
even want to believe it.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
I've witnessed it.
Narrator: Local
native american tribes,
Such as the shasta, wintu,
Modoc and karuk,
have inhabited the area
Dating back as
much as 12 centuries.
Each revere mount
shasta as a place
That possesses mystical powers.
Walking eagle: I was told
By my grandmother
and grandfather
That, you know, that we
didn't go above the tree line.
That belongs to
"grandfather" up there.
So I try to stay as
far away as I can.
There was a native american
author there, lucy thompson,
1916, she writes a book
All about the native
american legends
Of the star people,
All that activity
at mount shasta.
And this isn't some, like,
kooky book or something.
She's writing the history of
her people, the yurok tribe.
All these legends
are incredible.
And this has been
going on at mount shasta
For hundreds of years.
So can we attribute all these
legends to mere coincidence?
- That's the big question.
- Henry: I don't think so.
Another layer to this mystery
is that shasta is very close
To petroglyph point,
where we find some of
What are considered
to be some of the oldest
Petroglyphs in north america.
Narrator: 60 miles
northeast of mount shasta,
At lava beds national monument,
A curious record of
native american traditions
Can be found.
Hundreds of stone carvings,
known as petroglyphs,
That were created as
much as 6000 years ago
By ancestors of the modoc tribe.
The lava beds petroglyphs
Include ancient calendars,
Depictions of animals, humans,
And celestial beings
also referred to
As "sky people."
In various native
american traditions,
We have different
spiritual beings, uh, located
On these sort of different
planes of existence.
And there's a wonderful
range of stories
In many, many native
american groups that talk
About some of the
adventures and interactions
With the sky people, uh,
with the humans on earth.
Narrator: One of the
petroglyphs depicts
A large, winged creature
emerging from inside
Of mount shasta.
It is believed to
represent a sky being
Who the modoc people
worship as their creator
Known as skell.
The local people believe
that in ancient times,
The great sky chief skell
Came down from the
sky to live in shasta
And has been there
ever since and protects it.
Narrator: Could this
petroglyph of skell
Be, as some believe,
An actual depiction of
an extraterrestrial being
That the modoc people
encountered centuries ago?
So we know there's been
humans going through this area
For a long time and
creating these petroglyphs
With these mystery
teachings on them.
So it's got all of that
mythology attached to it
And has all kinds of
ufo sightings as well.
Certain mountains are
associated with ufos,
And mount shasta's
definitely one of them.
It's interesting to me that
we have modern accounts
Of ufo sightings, for example,
Right here at mount shasta,
But what's fascinating
to me is that there are
Many, many ancient stories
of so-called ufo encounters
That we consider
today ufo encounters.
And are ufos particularly
are seen kind of coming
From the top, the
crater of mount shasta
And going up or are they
coming out of the side?
- What are... What are the beliefs there?
- Henry: They're from all over.
It's like-it's like they're
coming out of the mountain
Or that-that they're
seen hovering above it.
It's very strange.
Narrator: Over the past century,
There have been
more than 50 reports
Of ufo sightings
around mount shasta
With an increasing number
in just the last decade.
Almost everyone who lives there
Has-has seen something unusual.
One of the most
remarkable ufo sightings
I've heard of, it
took place in 2008.
Witnesses in the town
of mccloud saw a ufo
That looked like a
giant glowing jellyfish
Move over the town and
then fly off into the distance.
Walking eagle: I
was driving back
From, uh, klamath
falls, eh, around 7:00,
6:30, 7:00 in the evening
In the summertime.
All of the sudden I
looked up on the mountain,
And I seen the whole mountain
Toward yreka side open up.
And then this big ship came
And sat there hovered for a
minute and then went right in.
And next thing you
know, the mountain closed,
And I was like,
"what is going on?"
I never let things like
that bother me, though.
I've seen things
like that all the time.
And, you know, what's
interesting about it, too,
Is that the native
americans... There was a group
Of spiritual beings
called the waga
That first came to shasta
and-and started instructing
The local native americans.
And they told this story
that there were giants
That lived in mount shasta.
Giants are often
associated with the stories
- Of bigfoot.
- Henry: Absolutely.
- And mount shasta is also famous for bigfoot sightings.
- Yes, it is.
In fact, the earliest, uh,
Really popular
sightings of bigfoot
And where the name
bigfoot comes from
Is from northern california
- And around redding.
- Mm-hmm.
Narrator: Giants? Bigfoot?
Incredibly, similar
stories have been reported
In this area for
hundreds of years.
And in October 1930,
several newspapers detailed
The discovery of a mysteriously
large humanoid skeleton
In the town of redding,
60 miles south of mount shasta.
There are traditions
of giants linked
With mount shasta, which
absolutely fascinate me.
And one of these, uh,
goes back quite a long way,
And it's part of
the modoc tribe,
Who are kind of
part of this area.
And they say the sky spirit's
daughter was abducted by a bear,
And she actually gave
birth to a race of giants.
Some people suggest that
these are actually hairy beasts,
Sasquatch-like beings,
connected with mount shasta.
So you've got this
convergence of-of these stories
Of-of massive ufo
sightings, giants, star beings.
This is, like, a hotbed
area up here. It is incredible.
Native americans in the
area around mount shasta
Warned people of the
number of disappearances
- That have taken place up there.
- So mount shasta
Is one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Native americans in the area
around mount shasta say that
The area above the
tree line is sacred.
- And they warn people, "do not go up there."
- is that so?
Right, which makes it
not surprising to learn
Of the number of disappearances
that have taken place up there.
So mount shasta is
one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Yes, siskiyou
county is the location
That carl disappeared in.
Narrator: Since 2009,
Former police detective
dave paulides has been
Applying his professional
investigative training
Attempting to solve mysterious
missing persons cases
All around the country.
In ten-plus years,
I've looked at over
5,000 search and rescue cases.
And in those, 1,200
are unexplained.
And I mean that cases
Of possible animal predation
have been vetted out.
Incidents of mental health,
suicide, were vetted out.
And what you're left with
Is a complete void of
rational explanation.
The area around mount shasta
has many unusual disappearances.
Narrator: One of the most
baffling disappearances
That dave has been focusing on
Was reported on
mount shasta in 1999.
On may 25, three
experienced hikers...
Carl landers, milt gaines
and barry gilmore...
Set off from mount
shasta's bunny flat trailhead
Towards the summit.
The guys got up to
a place called 50/50.
It was a place where
hikers that wanted to summit
Would either camp
there or at the next stop,
Called lake
helen, for the night.
The next morning, they
get up, the wind is howling.
The guys were
putting the tent together
And were stashing
it for their climb,
And they saw that
carl was looking cold.
And so they said, "hey, why
don't you go to lake helen's,
And we'll meet you there."
And carl took off walking.
Narrator: Shortly after carl
Left the 50/50 campsite,
Milt and barry followed.
But when they
arrived at lake helen,
Just 650 feet away,
Carl was nowhere to be found.
Paulides: Milt
gaines, carl's partner,
Got there, and
he didn't see carl.
And now he's confused
Because there's no
place between 50/50
And lake helen to disappear.
There's no obstructions,
you're above timber line,
There's no big, huge boulders
That are gonna get in your way,
And it's a solid snow
field with no crevasses.
That started a week-long
search and rescue
That would rival any
anyone knew about.
Now, one of the things that
was done on the landers case
Is that they checked with
u.S. Geological survey
For seismic activity
on the mountain.
The reason they did
that is that sometimes
There's a... An
avalanche of rock
And maybe the
climber was covered
By the rock and you
wouldn't find them.
During the time
that carl was gone,
There was no seismic activity.
So they know that carl
wasn't covered by rocks.
Narrator: Remarkably,
in the more than 20 years
Since carl's disappearance,
No one has found any clues
That could explain
what happened to him.
Milt gaines: I don't
know how many people
Have been up avalanche gulch.
But, uh, nothing has been found.
No metal ice axe.
No metal crampons.
No colorful nylon pack or coat
Or black pants or plastic boots.
Nothing.
Paulides: The search and
rescue coordinator on this event
Was an individual
named grizz adams.
Grizz had been doing
this for 30-plus years.
Grizz said, "dave, I guarantee
carl isn't on that mountain.
He either went up or he
went in, but he isn't on."
Those were his words.
I think that the
comment tells you
That there were few options
for a rational explanation.
And so they-they
never found him,
They have no explanation
for what happened.
(stammers)
everyone's just baffled?
Yeah. Yeah, he's
hiking up the mountain
In sight of his friends
and suddenly disappears.
And do they see him disappear
Or they just look away and
they turn around and he's gone?
Typically, in those
stories, people
Don't actually see them
disappear, but they're
Nearby and they never call
out for help or anything like that.
Then there's the story
of a three-year-old boy.
He's camping with
his parents on shasta,
And he wanders off, disappears.
Narrator: Another very
unusual disappearance
That dave paulides
investigated near mount shasta
Occurred on September 2, 2011.
Paulides: A three-year-old
boy disappeared
On a camping trip.
And he was later found
by search and rescue,
At one of the first places
they would have looked.
Right next to a trail.
One of the first things search
and rescue people do is,
As they're walking down a trail,
they're calling the boy's name.
- Tommy!
- Hey, tommy!
Hey, tommy, where are you?
Now, if he was near the trail
And he heard that, chances are
he's gonna come and get help.
Cause he'd been
out there overnight.
So to think that he
was next that trail
The whole time is
really hard to understand.
Another unusual aspect
to that story is that this boy
Told a story of,
after going missing,
He was down in some
kind of underground cave...
And a woman that
he thought was a robot
Was there asking him if he
was okay and comfortable.
It was all a very strange story,
Something I've
never heard before.
Narrator: While
the story may sound
Like the product of
a child's imagination,
The search and rescue team
could provide no explanation
For how the boy went
missing for five hours
Only to suddenly turn
up right next to the trail.
Many people say
these disappearances
Are-are just accidents.
But the idea that
somebody disappears
In a location where
there are ufo sightings
And sometimes
reports of entities
Mirrors the idea, perhaps,
of the alien abduction.
Narrator: Is it possible
that carl landers and others
Who mysteriously disappeared
around mount shasta
Were abducted by
extraterrestrial beings?
Or might there be an even
more profound explanation?
Uh, people are still
disappearing on mount shasta.
- Right.
- This is not something that has,
- You know, stopped.
- Right.
And it's an open area where,
You know, there's not
that many places to hide,
- E-except by going inside the mountain.
- Absolutely.
But, once again, this affirms
the... Kind of the mystery,
The strangeness of
mount shasta and says
This is... There's a lot
more going on there than...
Than we really realize.
People are called to mount
shasta and they don't know why.
Mount shasta is also
apparently on a major ley line.
They're a telluric current
of energy going from
Different grid spots
and power spots.
What's going on in mount
shasta is not just in north america.
All over the world are
these power spot mountains
Like mount shasta.
Mount shasta is sometimes said
To be one of the
chakras of the planet, too.
Narrator: The ancient
sanskrit term "chakra"
Refers to energy centers
in the human body.
In his 1967 book earth chakras,
Author robert coon
proposed that the planet
Also has energy
centers, and that these
Act as connection points
to otherworldly dimensions.
His list included
mount sinai in egypt,
Mount kailash in tibet,
And mount shasta.
Hugh newman:
There were traditions
Of sacred mountains
all over the world.
This is where the gods
came down, started civilization.
But it's also thought to be
Where communication
with the gods took place
And potentially
where interstellar travel
May have taken place between
this world and other worlds.
It seems that mount shasta
is on some energy line
That's perhaps
connected even to cusco
And lake titicaca,
the great pyramids.
- You know, power spots and sacred spaces.
- Sure.
Yeah, it's important to bring
up the great pyramid because
It reminds me of mount shasta.
Really? Okay.
Henry: First of
all, it's a volcano,
And the word "pyramid"
means "fire in the middle."
And underneath the
great pyramid are tunnels.
Same thing here at shasta.
And it makes me think, well,
maybe shasta could've been like
The natural origin of
the idea of the pyramid
As, like, a power center.
But the pyramid is an
artificial construction.
- A lava tube is not artificial, that's nature.
- Exactly. And what I'm saying is
That perhaps the
pyramid is kind of like
A technological version
of a naturally-occurring
Power center, like a volcano.
Narrator: The great
pyramid of giza,
A power center?
Modeled after a volcano
like mount shasta?
In his 1998 book,
the giza power plant,
Renowned master craftsman
and engineer christopher dunn
Proposed that the great
pyramid was originally designed
And functioned as a power plant.
Two years later, based
on curious erosion patterns
Within the pyramid, maritime
engineer john cadman
Lent his support to this theory.
In the subterranean chamber,
there is some evidence
That shows that there
had been water present in it.
There's water
erosion on the floor,
And then there's also
cavitation damage on the ceiling
Right above the pit, and
that had to have been
From a compression wave.
Narrator: Cadman concluded
that the great pyramid
Was a gigantic hydraulic pump
That drew water from
the nearby nile river
To generate power.
But if the great pyramid
functioned as a power plant,
What purpose
might it have served?
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
Clues can be found in
scared egyptian writings.
Henry: The pyramid
texts describe
The ancient egyptian
gods as extraterrestrials
Coming and going
from two places:
Sirius and orion.
The pyramid itself, according
to the ancient egyptians,
Functioned as an
ascension device,
So everything that we
discover about the great pyramid
Has to be related
to its original function
As a portal to
other star systems
Or other dimensions.
Narrator: Is it possible that
the great pyramid was designed
By otherworldly visitors to
function as some kind of portal?
And, if so, could there
have been others?
Interestingly, while
the great pyramid
Is a man-made structure,
geologist dr. Robert schoch
Has identified
compelling similarities
That it shares
with mount shasta.
I see many similarities between
mount shasta geologically
And the natural features
It's associated
with and artificial,
Human-constructed pyramids.
Underground flowing water
Can carry a charge,
Build up charge in
certain areas that can then
Migrate to the surface
along faults and fissures
And, in some cases, then escape
As, basically, balls of charge.
Narrator: Might the unique
geology of mount shasta
Make it the perfect
location for alien beings
To create a portal to
other parts of the universe
Or even other dimensions?
So then, in a sense, it's like
an interdimensional portal
Where beings and craft can shift
To other dimensions,
go to other planets, even?
- Exactly.
- And is it possible that some of these people
Have disappeared,
have-have actually even
- Been taken off planet or something?
- That would make sense to me.
I mean, given what
we're-we're hearing about this,
That they could have just
stumbled into some kind of
Portal, as you're suggesting.
I mean, seriously, we've got
Tremendous magnetic
energy there, disappearances,
All kinds of mysterious
incidences like that.
That's fascinating.
William, you went up to
Mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us about
your experience?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
William, you went upto
mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us about your
experience and what you learned?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
Went up there to
meet dustin naef.
He's a local historian.
He-he's one of these guys
That was called to the mountain.
He kept hearing about
the legends and so forth.
He's been investigating
it for many, many years.
Yeah, I've-I've read his books.
And so, you went
to mount shasta, too,
Because of these strange
disappearances, huh?
Absolutely. What's interesting
about this to me is that maybe
It's a case of some kind of
Interdimensional
portal opening up.
This is a very mysterious
part of the world,
Northern california,
where giants were there,
Star people, lost civilizations.
It's magical.
Narrator: In November 2020,
William henry traveled
to weed, california,
To investigate firsthand
if he could document
Any evidence to help
explain the many ufo sightings,
Baffling disappearances, and
encounters with strange beings
That have been
reported at mount shasta.
And also to explore
the incredible notion
That the mountain might actually
Contain a portal
through space and time.
- Hi, dustin. I'm william henry.
- Hi, william. Glad to meet you.
Local author dustin
naef has spent years
Investigating the
mysteries of mount shasta.
One story that I think I'm
most excited and interested in
Is these light beings
that are also described
As living within mount shasta.
Can we now tie that
into mu or lemuria?
Yeah, there's a lot of, you
know, supporting evidence,
And I-I think there's
something to the stories.
Lemuria is a civilization
That was quite an advanced
civilization for its time.
And it existed somewhere
Off the pacific coast
of north america.
Narrator: The existence of a
lost continent named lemuria
Was first proposed by
zoologist philip sclater in 1864.
Curiously, this
theory is corroborated
By the ancient oral traditions
of the native hawaiian people,
Which say that the
pacific islands of the region
Were once part of
a giant continent,
One that was home
to a highly advanced,
Otherworldly civilization.
We do know that there were
some people who got lost,
And this is who we call the
mu or the lemurian people
You might refer to.
They existed at one
time, and then we lost them
Under the ocean.
Mitch horowitz:
In the 19th century,
There were various
occult and esoteric writers,
Including madame h.P. Blavatsky,
Who identified lemuria
As this primordial
human civilization.
And the idea was that some of
Humanity's hidden and occult
roots could be traced back
To this so-called
continent of lemuria.
Pope: Mount shasta ties in
To the idea of the lost
continent of lemuria.
They were thought to be
Very technologically
advanced ancestors.
Maybe gods, maybe
extraterrestrials.
Whoever these people were,
Some calamity befell them.
And the legend is
That the survivors
of this cataclysm
Took refuge in mount shasta.
Narrator: Could
there really have been
A highly advanced
civilization that existed
On earth thousands of years ago?
And, if so, could
there be any truth
To the notion that
they took refuge
From a devastating cataclysm
in the caves of mount shasta?
One man who was
convinced the story was true
Was prospector j.C. Brown,
Who, in the early 20th century,
Made it his mission
to find the proof.
You know, j.C. Brown
Became really enamored
With the theories
of lemuria and mu.
- Mm-hmm.
- J.C. Brown claims to have been up here
In 1906 prospecting for gold
When he accidentally unearthed
A tunnel which he describes
as a man-made tunnel.
And about a couple miles in,
He found what he describes
as some kind of, uh, reliquary
Containing all kinds of
records of a lost civilization,
And he describes
finding the bodies
- Of mummified giants.
- Wow.
And one of the things miners
did was they would mark
The environment
with, uh, symbols.
- Mm-hmm.
- And there's a place
Not far from mount shasta
Where I've found
a whole collection
Of these glyphs that have
been carved into rocks.
We know they were made sometime
Between the early
1900s and the 1940s.
- Mm-hmm.
- And that would have been the period of time
That j.C. Brown would
have been up in this area
Looking around for things.
Henry: This reminds me of, uh,
in-in rennes-le-château in France,
Northwest arkansas, oak island,
We find similar kind
of symbols appearing
In these various places
Associated with
treasuries, deposits.
And then this looks like...
Almost like two peaks or a peak
Within a peak, like he's
trying to point you inward
Into the mountain almost.
There's an interesting
twist to this story.
About 30 years later,
J.C. Brown, uh,
returned to stockton,
And his intention was
to raise an expedition
To go back up to this site
and catalog what he found.
And he raised a party of
about 80 different people,
And on the day that they
were supposed to depart
To go up to this site,
Um, he just
mysteriously vanished.
He just vanishes?
Yeah, no one ever
heard from him again.
I wonder if there could be
Some advanced ancient technology
That he didn't fully understand
Associated with portals,
The light beings,
and that sort of thing.
So there are actual tunnels
that we can access today?
Yeah, I can take you to
a place called pluto's cave
Where people
report and experience
A lot of this phenomena
that we've been talking about.
Fantastic. Let's go.
Dustin is very intrigued,
as I am, about the lava tubes
That run underneath shasta
that extend into the inner earth.
But we went into the
pluto cave... this lava tube.
- It's about 20 miles from mount shasta.
- Okay.
- Childress: Okay, so...
- So these extend for miles.
And how big is
the tube? I mean...
Yeah, were you
able to stand upright?
Henry: No. This was
one was huge. I mean,
These are giant caverns.
- Really?
- And this... the pluto cave... massive.
- You could drive a truck through there.
- Really?
- Childress: Okay. Wow.
- Absolutely.
- That's interesting.
- Childress: And people around there think that if you find
The right lava lube or
something, you can get
Into this city and into...
- Inside mount shasta.
- Exactly. Right.
Narrator: In November 2020,
William henry along
with author dustin naef...
- Naef: It's down this path here.
- Set out to explore what is
Known as pluto's
cave several miles north
Of mount shasta.
Henry: That is just spectacular.
Narrator: It is here where
numerous eyewitnesses
Claim to have encountered
mysterious beings...
As well as seen evidence
Of possible
interdimensional portals.
Pluto's cave is one of
several natural wonders,
Known as lava tubes,
that crisscross the region.
Schoch: Mount shasta
is a volcanic mountain.
So volcanic lava
tubes are formed
When you have fast-flowing lava.
And it cools on the
surface of the flow,
So it actually builds a crust,
But the lava continues
to flow in the middle,
And it forms literally a tube.
And these tubes, in some
cases, are very small.
They might only
be a few feet across.
In other cases,
They've been documented
to be 50 feet across.
And some of them have
been documented to be
Not just miles long
but tens of miles long.
Henry: Check it out, man.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Naef: So almost all of the mythology
and legends around the place...
It all takes place underground
in the caves and tunnels
Which surround the area.
If you were able to
look underground,
You would just see tunnels
Radiating out in
every direction.
There are actually
native-authored stories
That you could travel
clear into oregon
Completely underground.
Henry: Yeah.
Look at that, dustin.
That's awesome.
Beautiful skylight.
- Naef: This almost makes like an eye-like symbol.
- Henry: Absolutely. Do you think
- J.C. Brown might have discovered a cave like this?
- Yeah.
If it was in this area,
it would be very similar
To the cave we're in now.
There's a really
big subculture here
In mount shasta that
has always believed that
These caves and tunnels
contain a civilization
Full of people
just like you and I.
And they come back
and forth through portals
Hidden in these caves.
I've had people actually
Contact me and tell
me they've seen people
In this very cave walk
right into a wall and vanish.
What-what were
these people like?
What did they look like?
They look just like us.
That's how they're able
to travel back and forth
And mingle with humans.
Wow.
Narrator: One of the
most famous reports
Of a being emerging
from within mount shasta
Was made in 1930
by guy warren ballard.
Ballard, a mining engineer
who worked in the area,
Claimed he was surveying
the slopes of the mountain
When he encountered a
mysterious, glowing figure.
Guy reported that when he
was hiking on mount shasta
In the early 1930s,
He encountered
some extraordinary,
Mysterious teacher,
Which he later identified
as the ascended master.
Young: This is a radiant
being dressed in white.
And they get into
a long conversation.
And this teacher, this guru,
This otherworldly
character teaches ballard
The secrets of enlightenment.
Narrator: For ancient
astronaut theorists,
Ballard's description
of a radiant being
Is reminiscent of
accounts from ancient times
Of similarly luminous figures.
In irish legend, we learn
of the tuatha dé danann,
Or the tua dé dán.
These are luminous
humanoid beings
Who are considered to be
beings of immense wisdom
Who are also called
the shining ones.
Narrator: Similar to the shining
ones of the celtic tradition,
The ancient sumerian
gods, known as the anunnaki,
Were also described
as glowing figures.
Might these accounts, including
those made about mount shasta,
Be true?
If so, can william
henry find any evidence
To help verify them?
If you look on the usgs charts,
There's an immense
negative magnetic anomaly
That surrounds mount shasta.
Henry: That's the ley line
they describe here, right?
Naef: Yeah, a lot of psychic
and paranormal phenomena
Actually occurs in places
that have magnetic anomalies.
And used as a, as a portal
Between the inner earth
realm and the stars?
Yeah, yeah. It... Anything
capable of generating
Energy like that
could be a portal.
Narrator: Some
theoretical physicists believe
That strong variations
of electromagnetic fields
May create areas that give rise
To exotic phenomena
Like portals through
space and time.
There appears to be, in nature,
The possibility of
crossing thresholds
Of energy, of vorticity,
Of electromagnetic phenomenon...
That can perhaps
Open up portals in space-time
That we never would
have thought possible.
This is, uh, where
I've seen people
- Get readings before.
- Okay.
Well, let's take a
look. See what we got.
I brought my meter
with me just to see
If we can detect any
magnetic energy here.
Okay. It's jumping all over.
Got some movement here.
All right. We got
a reading here.
Very interesting.
Narrator: Several miles north
In northern california,
william henry
And author dustin naef have just
Detected a mysterious
energy spike in pluto's cave,
A giant lava tube
connected to the mountain.
Yeah, we're getting a
lot of movement here
On the magnetic side.
I can personally feel
it, and then now we got
The readings here
that are backing that up.
And sensitive psychic people
Could follow that
line, follow the trail
- Where, wherever it leads.
- Yeah, a lot of psychic
And paranormal phenomena
actually occurs in places
- That have magnetic anomalies.
- Right.
Naef: Mount shasta,
It's basically made of
a type of, um, geology
That conducts electricity.
And if you were to look
underneath mount shasta,
You would find reservoirs
of churning water,
Just millions and
millions of gallons of water,
Just churning.
And that creates energy.
And that's one of the
theories about the pyramid...
Is that the tunnels were
used as conduits for water,
That the pyramid is a
power plant and somehow
Water was used
to facilitate that.
Naef: Exactly. But the same thing
is happening here at mount shasta.
It's just being driven
by natural forces.
So that could explain, if
the pyramid is a machine,
Which is the way
they describe it,
That would explain how people
Can come and go
from mount shasta.
It's like an
interdimensional portal.
Naef: I-it does go a
long ways to explain
The energy people feel up here.
Because it's a...
Basically an energetic site.
So now that you've returned
from mount shasta,
Did you come to any conclusions?
In the end, I really don't have
a conclusion about mount shasta.
For me, it's a beginning
Because I realize
how much is going on there.
You've got the portal aspect,
you've got the light beings,
You've got the ufos,
You've got the natural geologic
possibilities that are there.
And you've got lemuria.
What makes mount shasta
Fascinating to me
are the questions.
Because clearly there are
so many stories,
So many legends,
So many events
That have been
witnessed by people.
Something clearly
is happening there.
You've got
all this lore and stories
That's coming out of it.
It is rooted
in eyewitness accounts,
It's rooted
in historical accounts,
It's not the stuff of legend.
It's tremendously exciting that
this is in our own backyard.
It's not peru
or the amazon or egypt.
I-it's right here
in northern california.
And what's interesting here,
too, is we have all the stories
Going into antiquity
and-and beginning of time,
But this is something
that's still going on.
Well, gentlemen, this has been
a fascinating conversation,
And this is what science
And the ancient astronaut theory
is all about:
The investigation.
Because, sure, one could just
dismiss the whole thing and say,
"oh, come on. It's nothing."
But something clearly
is happening at mount shasta.
And I think that this merits
even further investigation
Because what if
mount shasta is part
Of this giant riddle
that we're all investigating?
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