Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - Underground Aliens - full transcript
If extraterrestrials influenced human history, can evidence of their existence be found in hidden tunnels and caverns around the world? Could a cave in Ecuador contain metallic books ...
A temple of the dead in the Yucat?n...
an underground city in Turkey...
And a South American cave said
to contain a treasure from
beyond the stars.
For centuries, people have told
tales of caves and tunnels deep
inside the Earth.
Subterranean passageways that
lead to lands of gods and monsters.
But is there a surprising truth
behind these legends?
I have stood in
front of drawings on the rocks
and wondered, "am I looking at a
extra-terrestrial biological "entity?"
Could there really
be mysterious places far
beneath our feet?
Places whose origins might not
be of this Earth?
There were
certain aspects of the caves for
which geology could not provide an answer.
Millions of people
around the world believe we
have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
And if so, should we be looking
for proof of their existence
not in the heavens above but in
mysterious worlds deep beneath
the surface?
# Ancient Aliens 2x04 #
Underground Aliens
Original Air Date on November 18, 2010
Bordered on the north by the
black sea, and by the Taurus
mountains to the South, lies
Cappadocia in central Turkey.
Here, wind and water have
sculpted strange shapes out of
the soft volcanic rock... rock
which ancient peoples once
turned into small, primitive dwellings.
In more recent years, the site
has seen the construction of
more modern structures.
But in 1963, a simple home
renovation in the town of
Derinkuyu led to an
extraordinary discovery when a
cave wall was opened, revealing
a passageway to an underground
city thousands of years old and
more than 280 feet deep.
I've been there on multiple occasions, and
it's incredible because there's
13 stories that go deep into
the ground, with ventilation
shafts and 15,000 little shafts
that bring air to even the
deepest of levels.
Incredibly, the
number of rock rooms that were
found could hold an estimated
20,000 men, women and children.
There was even evidence of
religious centers, storerooms,
winepresses and stables for livestock.
Oh,
Derinkuyu would've been a
massive undertaking for anyone,
even in modern times with modern
equipment.
But in those days, it would've
been, um... stupendous.
Equal to the pyramids.
At Derinkuyu, because of the
softness of the stone, you had
to be very careful that you
provided enough pillar strength
to support the floors above,
otherwise you'd have
catastrophic cave-ins.
Surprisingly, there's no
evidence of any catastrophic
cave-ins, so they were
apparently extremely clever and
knew their material.
We're talking deep antiquity.
It is mind boggling to
understand how they could've
done this.
Perhaps they had help from some
other civilization.
But just who built
this massive underground city?
And what mysterious force drove
them to live underground?
Why would people want to live deep
underground in these weird
caverns like that?
It seems kind of scary, really.
According to many
archaeologists and scholars,
Derinkuyu was most likely
intended to serve as a
temporary shelter from
invasion... built around 800 b.C.
By the Phrygians, a bronze age
people related to the trojans.
Others believe it was built by
the hittites, a warrior people
mentioned in the Bible who
flourished hundreds of years earlier.
But could the underground city
be even older?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, it is, perhaps by
many thousands of years.
The Cappadocia region of Turkey
was part of the zoroastrian
empire, which was persian in nature.
And it's one of the oldest
religious traditions on the face of the Earth.
The zoroastrian
religion... an ancient faith
based on opposing forces of
good and evil... is widely
believed to have influenced
both hinduism and
judeo-christianity.
Founded sometime
before the sixth century b.C.,
its chief God is the creator, Ahura Mazda.
And in the second chapter of
the zoroastrian sacred text,
the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves
mankind from a worldwide
environmental disaster... much
like the story of Noah in the
Hebrew testament.
The great prophet
Yima was instructed to build a
kind of underground refuge
similar to Derinkuyu by the sky
God Ahura Mazda.
According to the
sacred texts, Yima built a
multilevel underground city to
protect a select group of
people and animals, not from a
flood but from a global ice age.
The Vendidad calls this "the
evil winters."
According to many mainstream
climatologists, the last ice
age peaked around 18,000 years
ago and ended around 10,000 b.C.
Is it possible that Derinkuyu
was built as a refuge from a
devastating global winter?
Since you cannot carbon date stone, it's
anybody's guess how old
Derinkuyu really is.
And my question is: If we have
a zoroastrian story that's very
similar, could it be that both
that place and Derinkuyu are
much, much older than what
we've believed so far?
But if Derinkuyu
is in fact the underground
city that Ahura Mazda told his
followers to build, could there
be a stunning truth behind the legend?
If so, who or what was the God
Ahura Mazda?
Ahura Mazda does
appear to be responsible for
the management of whatever is
happening here on Earth.
There are various ways to read
this, one of which is that it
does represent some sort of
higher universal form of consciousness.
But another is that it would
represent an overseeing
extraterrestrial intelligence.
Several sacred texts from antiquity
speak of knowledge given to
mankind from extraterrestrials,
but also known as gods from antiquity.
Could the sky God
Ahura Mazda really have been an
advanced being from another world?
So, did he provide the
technology needed for his
followers to build this complex
labyrinth as protection from
environmental disaster?
Or is there possibly a more ominous
reason for Derinkuyu's existence?
Some say a clue lies in the
underground city's unusual
security system: 1,000-pound
doors on rollers that allow
them to be moved by a single
person, but only from one side.
The Derinkuyu doors...
they're very cleverly constructed.
You can basically only open it
and leverage it from the inside.
So obviously,
whoever inhabited Derinkuyu was
hiding from someone or something.
According to the
ancient zoroastrian texts,
Ahura Mazda soared through the
sky in a divine chariot and
waged war against his eternal enemy,
Angra Mainyu, the demon of destruction.
But could this really be-. As
many ancient astronaut
theorists believe... a depiction
of two extraterrestrial forces
battling over control of the
Earth and its resources?
The aerial enemies were extraterrestrials,
because they were the ones who
had the capability of flight.
They had access to those types
of machines that we can read
about in every single ancient
culture around the world.
When you look at
the zoroastrian tradition, you
also see clear evidence that
there was some sort of
extraterrestrial battle going
on between warring factions.
Therefore, it is certainly
possible that the original
caves may have been used as
shelters against possible
aerial bombardment from
extraterrestrials that were
warring with each other during that time.
Derinkuyu was
built out of fear of an aerial
enemy, because if something
flies over you very, very fast,
you can't see the ventilation shafts.
Some suggest 30,000 people used
to live underground at Derinkuyu.
During recorded
history, many different peoples
did in fact hide in the
underground city of Derinkuyu
to escape everything from
desert raiders to Roman legions.
But some experts wonder whether
such conventional attacks can
really explain why Derinkuyu
was built in the first place.
If it were an enemy that was on horseback,
it would be easy for them to
just smother everyone inside by
just closing all the ventilation shafts.
We had the phrase in the defense
department studies that I
participated in: "The cave is a
grave to a well-prepared "adversary."
Once you find it, it is highly vulnerable.
But did the people of Derinkuyu really go
underground to avoid becoming
casualties in an
extraterrestrial battle in the skies?
And, if so, might there be other such cities
from the distant past?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are.
And they can be found much
nearer to home... deep in the
caves of the American southwest.
The majestic mesas
and rugged mountains of the
American southwest are home to
many native peoples, including
the navajo, zuni, pueblo, hopi and Apache.
These tribes have many
different beliefs, but their
creation myths all share
something quite remarkable.
When we talk about
our origin, you know, you hear
the stories about us coming down
from Alaska through the Bering strait.
But what we believe is we
came up from the ground.
The Apaches and
other pueblo Indians, such as
the Zunis and the hopi Indians,
all have this legend that they
emerged from some underground
world into today's world.
In some legends,
the southwestern peoples went
back underground for safety.
The hopi of Arizona say their
ancestors escaped a deadly
storm of falling stars with the
help of the snake people, who
took them to shelters deep in the Earth.
Another hopi legend speaks of
the ant people who protected
them from storms of fire and ice.
The hopi Indians
survived cataclysms by living
in this underground world with
the ant people for a certain
period of time, and then
eventually they emerged from
the underground world back into
the surface world.
Ant people?
Snake people?
Could these stories be based on
ancestral tales of people
actually living underground...
possibly during the last ice age?
Or could the ancestors of
today's southwestern tribes
have taken refuge in
sub-surface dwellings similar
to the underground city of
Derinkuyu in Turkey?
If so, over the centuries,
might they have developed
physical traits... like large
eyes and fingers... that made
them more closely resemble
actual Earth-dwelling creatures?
The shamans, and
the elders of native Americans,
they will tell you that before
these people were able to
emerge out of planet Earth,
they were brought here by the
star-people, the star-gods,
which arrived from outer space.
I have stood in front
of what are called the ant
people and some of the very
strange, large-eyed drawings on
the rocks and wondered, "am I
looking at native American
interpretation of what today is called
a extraterrestrial "biological entity?"
If extraterrestrials were here in
the remote past, there are
multiple species out there, is
it possible that they might've
looked lizard-like and ant-like?
And the answer is yes.
Is it possible that
these underground creatures of
native American legend were
actually alien visitors?
If so, could some of them still
be living beneath the surface
of the southwestern desert?
For decades, stories of
encounters with UFOs and alien
beings have been told among the
people of new Mexico's
Jicarilla Apache reservation.
Some of the aliens in these
stories bear a strange
resemblance to the ancient
tales of the ant-like and
snake-like beings from the hopi legends.
There is things up here
that no one can explain.
The Jicarilla
Apache reservation is located
next to the small town of Dulce,
nestled in the shadow of the
over 9,000-foot-high Archuleta mesa.
It is from this mesa and mountain that
people claim they have seen
UFOs flying out of the mountain.
It was a spaceship we saw right there.
And it was big... like maybe the
size of a football field.
And then we seen this dome on
top that was all glassed in.
And then my husband was looking
at it with the binoculars and
he saw two small people.
Well, we don't know what it is.
If we stayed here and they came
down I don't know what they
would have done to us.
Could the native tales of spaceships
and strange creatures be true?
Some ufo researchers and
conspiracy theorists believe
that these eyewitness accounts
are not only true, but are
evidence of a secret collaboration between
underground aliens and the U.S.
Military.
The amount of
military traffic over Dulce, the
unmarked helicopters, the black
helicopters, the heavy-duty chinooks.
All these helicopters spend a
lot more time in Dulce than
they should if nothing were going on here.
Among the stories that we've
heard from the Jicarilla Apache
is that they discovered vents,
actually right here on the mesa.
Awhile back, when
my brother was still alive we
used to come up here in the
back, and he sHowed us this
shaft and that thing was bigger
than... bigger than me.
But we walked in, and I didn't
want to go any further.
The vents were here maybe 25 years ago.
You'd hear strange noises.
Groans.
Sighs.
Human groans.
And this lent a lot of credence
to stories that human beings
were being vivisected, experimented on.
And thus the legend of strange
creatures and strange noises
coming out of this mesa grew and expanded.
Aliens living underground.
Strange, secret government cover-ups.
Could native American legends
of underground beings help
unEarth the truth behind these
incredible stories?
Some think the answer might be
found deep beneath the surface
of north America, but others
believe the truth lies hidden
in a mysterious cave...
thousands of Miles to the South.
A cave that hides proof of
alien visitors who journeyed
beyond the stars.
South America.
The andes mountain range in Ecuador.
For thousands of years, this
rain forest... high on the
eastern slopes... has been the
land of the Shuar, headhunters
who are fiercely protective of
their homeland, and its secrets.
And of all the Shuar's secrets,
perhaps none has been so
carefully guarded as the location
and entrance of the cave of Tayos.
But why?
Perhaps the answer can be found
in the story of an Italian
catholic missionary named
father Crespi, who lived in the
region in the middle of the last century.
Father Paolo Carlo Crespi.
He was loved by the Indians.
He helped them without, uh,
asking for money.
And the Indians made him some presents.
But what was unique
about the "presents" or gifts
given to father Crespi was that
they often took the forms of
elaborately-carved artifacts...
some made of gold or other
precious metals.
Often these objects featured
elaborate carvings and
symbols... not known to be
associated with the Shuar culture.
In his 1973 book, gold of the
gods, ancient astronaut
theorist erich Von Daniken
wrote of father Crespi's
incredible collection... which
he believed to come from the
cave of Tayos and which were,
in his opinion, treasures from
an unknown and highly-advanced culture.
The startling questions posed
in Von Daniken's book soon
inspired Scottish explorer
Stanley Hall to try and solve
the mystery himself.
In 1975, Hall traveled to
Cuenca to see father Crespi's
collection with his own eyes.
I had for years
been researching South America
as the missing page of pre-history.
I first heard of the Tayos
caves in erich Von Daniken's
book and followed it through from there.
And one of the presents which the old
priest received is a tablet
with 36 writings.
It's metallic tablet.
No one until today was able to
translate these writings.
In 1976, Stanley
Hall mounted an expedition
of more than 100 people to explore Tayos.
Among them was American
astronaut Neil Armstrong, the
first man to walk on the moon.
Entering the cave through a
jungle entrance known to the
Ecuadorian army, the explorers
were fascinated by what they
encountered... especially large
areas that appeared to have
been excavated by someone...
Or something.
The head of the
British geological group, Dr.
Brian Kelly, in 1976, he
admitted that it was difficult
for him to explain the actual
large doorways that you see in
these caves.
Although Stan Hall's expedition did find a
tomb chamber with items dating
to 1500 bc...
A ring! A stone ring!
The expedition
found no treasure and no trace
of anything that looked like
the artifacts in father Crespi's collection.
But if Tayos was not the secret
origin of father Crespi's
amazing collection, where did
it come from?
Undaunted, Hall didn't give up his search.
15 years later, in 1991, the
explorer tracked down an
Ecuadorian named Petronio
Jaramillo who claimed to have
entered the cave of Tayos
through a secret entrance back
in 1946.
And apparently,
Petronio had visited this cave
for the very first time when he
was very young.
When he was in his teens.
He said that he had to dive
underwater, go in... in this
underwater tunnel, and then come up.
Jaramillo told Hall
he wandered through chamber
after chamber of ancient relics,
including a vast room of books
made from gold and other
metals... books with
unrecognizable writing...
Possibly like that on one of the
metal tablets in father Crespi's
collection.
The other things looked like formulas,
and so on, and so on.
So it was one spectacular
statement after another.
Some argue whether
or not an ancient civilization
had come down to Earth and had
used this cave system to leave
certain artifacts of their
civilization behind for us
to recover.
Unfortunately,
before he could guide Stanley
Hall to the underwater cave
entrance, Petronio jaramillo
died, taking the secret to his grave.
Stanley Hall himself died in
2008 before he was able to renew
his search for the so-called
metal library.
Fortunately, Stanley Hall's
daughter Eileen has decided to
continue her father's work.
Unless we find
this treasure, unless we can
see, translate the writing, it's
still a big question mark over
who wrote it, why they put it
there and who put it there.
But when Eileen Hall began to look for the
location of father Crespi's
original artifacts, she learned
that much of the priest's
collection had mysteriously
vanished shortly before his death in 1982.
But why?
Had Crespi's artifacts fallen
prey to thieves?
Or might the Shuar have taken
their treasure back into the
cave where they found them?
Whatever the answer, Eileen
Hall has continued to research
other artifacts from elsewhere in Ecuador.
And like father Crespi's
objects, some seem to have
uncanny resemblances to other
cultures that, according to
mainstream archeology, ancient
Ecuadorians could not have had
any knowledge of.
This collection
is made up of what my father
believed to be the formative
cultures of Ecuador.
This is from the coastal culture
from 600 bc to 1600 ad, and this
is very humanlike, but at the
same time, some features have
been exaggerated.
Here, you've got the smaller
face with the kind of bigger
ears, and the elongated skull
shape on the head.
The top of this
head looks like an elongated
cranium, an elongated skull,
and it is identical to this
Egyptian statue that we find
all over Egypt.
To see this picture right here
and compare it to the Egyptian
bust we see right here, it's
uncanny... the head shape is identical.
Do Stanley Hall's
artifacts show evidence that
Egyptian cultures could have
crossed the oceans to influence
South American culture?
Or is it possible that both were
influenced by another culture...
one from beyond our world?
If so, were the strange writings
inscribed on father Crespi's now
missing metal tablets actual
messages from an alien world?
My father went
as far as saying it was possibly
an advanced civilization, but
we can't know for certain until
this library is found.
So this metallic library is still there in
Ecuador in a subterranean cave.
There are still Indian tribes
living there.
They are still protecting the
old treasure.
So it's going to
push the boundaries of academia
once this cave system has been found.
And whether it is Inca or
extraterrestrial, it doesn't
really matter at this moment in time.
Let's get to this cave and see
what is in there.
Perhaps Tayos has yet to reveal all of its
secrets, but more than 700 Miles
to the north, there is another
cave... one that may prove that
the Mayan underworld and the
terrifying gods who ruled it
were not only very real, but
thirsty for human blood.
The Yucat?n peninsula...
One of Mexico's premier
tourist destinations.
Besides scenic beaches, the area
is covered by thick jungle and
pockmarked by massive sinkholes
known as Cenotes.
The ground beneath the jungle is
also honeycombed with caves.
But here, in 2007, Mexican
archaeologist Guillermo de Anda
found a cave like no other.
Following clues in the records
of 17th-century Spanish priests
that hinted at the existence of
a mysterious underground Mayan
temple deep in the jungle,
de Anda found a series of caves
near the village of Tahtzibichen...
Caves not seen for hundreds of
years, and with entrances
submerged beneath centuries of floodwater.
Sometimes we have to
dive into these caves.
Sometimes they go very deep.
The average depth of our
research is about 140, 150 feet,
but we know of caves much deeper
than that.
At first, de Anda
and his team found carved stone
heads and broken pillars with
1,900-year-old Mayan inscriptions.
We have found columns under the water, and
these columns are amazing
because some of them are five
feet high and at least ten feet wide.
But as de Anda
surfaced in the dry areas of the
cave, he found what he believed
to be the remains of a massive
underground temple complex,
including a concrete road,
a crumbled pyramid and bones.
But why was it here?
The Mayans themselves have, uh, very
intriguing legends of an
underground world called Xibalba.
And it's believed now by
archaeologists that what they
found is what the Mayans thought
was the entrance to this
legendary underground world that
features prominently in the Popol Vuh.
Could this dark and
mysterious cave really be the
underground world mentioned
in the Mayan legends?
According to the Popol Vuh, the
written record of Mayan
mythology, the underworld
kingdom of Xibalba, meaning
"the place of fear," was ruled
by the cruel lords of the dead,
who made those who entered their
realm pass through a series
of torture chambers, involving
blood, darkness, cold, knives,
bats and jaguars.
We see here in this
one archaeological spot an
actual physical representation
of what the Mayans felt the soul
had to go through.
Might, perhaps,
this cave of stalactites, sharp
enough to pierce flesh,
represent the "room of knives"
in the Popol Vuh?
There is also, arguably, a
"room of bats," and a trench
that might once have been
filled with blood, like the
river of blood in the story that
Mayan pilgrims had to cross over.
There are places of cold and darkness...
and even a room with carvings of jaguars.
These caves were
littered with large patches of
spiders and reptiles and all
types of tumultuous things that
a human really wouldn't want to
be exposed to.
Although some archaeologists claim this
unique site was simply modeled
after the description of
Xibalba in the Popol Vuh, de
Anda insists that items from
the cave date back to a time
centuries before the Mayan holy
book was written.
It's not that there was this document and
they, uh, tried to, uh, imitate
what the document said.
I think it's all the other way around.
We believe that we have found
the particular Xibalba of the
central part of the Yucat?n.
This is why we do believe it was
a real place.
But if Xibalba is real, were the
lords of the dead also real?
And if so, who or what were they?
According to the
Chilam Balam book, which is the
book of the Jaguar priests, it
says in there, that at that
time "the road to the stars
descended from the sky, and the
"13 and nine gods came to Earth."
I'm sorry.
"Road to the stars," "descended
from the sky."
Can it be more clear?
I don't think so.
Right there we have a direct
reference to someone that has
arrived from outer space, and
we have a written record about this.
Could the "lords of
Xibalba" and other Mayan gods
really have been
extraterrestrial travelers?
If so, why did they display such
a thirst for blood and torture?
I do not believe human sacrifice was
originally taught by the ets.
I believe it came in the
aftermath of when the original
teachers of humankind had arrived.
The ancient gods, which were
really just humans from
another world, withdrew from the
area, and the people became distraught.
The more they became
distraught, the more they took
the original mythology and interpreted
it in a much more literal way.
So what might have started out
as the myth about the sun dying
and being reborn when it sinks
below the horizon, becomes
literally the idea of killing
people to make sure that the
sun is gonna come back up.
As archaeologists
and explorers continue to
ununcover sites where legend and
reality meet, could there be
even more evidence that
mankind's history on this planet
is much more profound than what
we currently understand?
There are those who believe the secret
lies even deeper within the Earth...
As deep as its very core.
The north pole...
a seemingly endless wasteland of
arctic ice, shrouded in darkness
for six months of every year.
Here, there is no food, no
shelter, not even a cave to
hide from the slashing winds
and temperatures that can dive
to 90 degrees below zero.
But according to mainstream
geology, beneath the pole and
the arctic ocean lies the Earth's mostly
rocky crust, up to 30 miles thick.
Below this is molten rock,
heated by the planet's spinning
core, with a solid center of iron
and nickel the size of the moon.
Scientists have deduced this
information from measurements
of Earth's gravity, magnetism
and seismic waves.
But no one has ever seen these areas.
Could the frozen surface of the
pole be hiding a gateway to a
world within our surface world?
There are those who believe the
answer is, "yes."
And what they believe is known
as the hollow Earth theory.
The hollow Earth theory is that,
this Earth is not molten inside.
It is actually hollow, and that
suspended in the hollow of the
Earth is an inner sun.
Surprisingly, the
notion of a hollow Earth was
first given scientific credence
by one of the founders of
modern astronomy.
The idea that
the Earth might be hollow, as a
scientific notion, dates back
to the astronomer Edmund Halley
who is best known for his comet.
In 1691 he presented to the
London royal society his
hypothesis that the Earth is
hollow and contains several
little spheres inside.
Sort of like those Russian
Matryoshska dolls.
He was hypothesizing this for a
very practical reason.
The Earth's magnetic pole moved
a little bit every year to the
west, and his idea was that our
outer sphere had inner spheres
that turned independently of
the outer one.
He also suggested that these
interior spheres would also be
able to support life.
In 1818, former
U.S. army Captain John Cleves
Symmes, Jr., announced that
there were vast openings at each
pole where we could enter inner Earth.
With Symmes, the
idea of a hollow Earth gets tied
into exploring for the pole.
At this point, nobody had actually seen
Antarctica, for instance.
The hollow Earth theory again captured the
public's imagination in 1864
with the release of Jules
Verne's second novel, a journey
to the center of the Earth.
The novel takes an
Icelandic guide and a Professor
and a young man down into the
center of the Earth.
Journey to the center of the
Earth could really have been
called a journey to the center of geology.
Geology and paleontology were a
very hot topic in the early
1860's and there's a lot of
discussion of that in journey
to the center of the Earth.
Narrator but while Verne
popularized the idea that
extinct life forms might still
exist inside the Earth, others
envisioned that the Earth contained
advanced underground civilizations.
Supposedly, they have advanced technology.
They've got ray guns and special weapons.
And even they have flying
saucers, other craft like that.
But is there any
evidence that such fantastic
claims could be true?
And has anyone actually been to
the world within our Earth?
Proponents of the hollow Earth
theory say, "yes," and that
one of the explorers was no
less a luminary than famed
polar pioneer admiral Richard e.
Byrd.
In the 1920s, byrd made world
headlines by flying over the
north pole, and by becoming the
first man to fly solo over the
South pole.
But hollow Earth theorists
believe that the famous
explorer went even farther, and
that, on February 19, 1947,
admiral byrd piloted a plane
through a hole near the north
pole into the interior of the Earth.
A flying saucer type
craft took control of his
airplane, with some kind of
tractor beam... and they landed
him near an inner Earth city.
And the message that they had
for us was that they consider
themselves the guardians of
this planet, okay?
He says, "we don't approve of you
people using nuclear weapons."
We had just blown up a couple
of cities in Japan a couple of
years before, so this was the
message that he was given.
But when he got to Washington,
they put a lid of secrecy on
this, that this was not to go out.
Some say admiral
Byrd's own account of this
flight into the hollow Earth is
detailed in his secret diary,
published in the 1990s, almost
four decades after his death.
But skeptics claim the diary is
a forgery and point out that in
February 1947, at the time
admiral Byrd was supposedly
visiting this other world
underneath the north pole,
he was actually part of a vast
4,700-man naval exploration
called "operation high jump,"
12,000 Miles away, near the South pole.
But could Byrd's inclusion in
this large military operation
at the South pole have been
merely a cover story?
Some people claim it was, and
this allowed him to slip away
to the other end of the planet,
unnoticed by the media.
Admiral Byrd, the rumor was, found a
world of flying machines, and
people, and... more advanced than us...
And that they helped him, and
then he left again.
It's a myth.
Nobody's really been able to
prove it, but it's a great myth.
Could there really
be vast, open spaces within the
Earth where advanced civilizations live?
Could extraterrestrial gods
really have come to Earth,
centuries ago, and hidden the
evidence of their journeys deep
within caves and tunnels?
Perhaps we have only just
scratched the surface of our
planet's underground mysteries.
If so, what clues to our
distant past might still be
waiting to be found, and
hiding in the darkness?
an underground city in Turkey...
And a South American cave said
to contain a treasure from
beyond the stars.
For centuries, people have told
tales of caves and tunnels deep
inside the Earth.
Subterranean passageways that
lead to lands of gods and monsters.
But is there a surprising truth
behind these legends?
I have stood in
front of drawings on the rocks
and wondered, "am I looking at a
extra-terrestrial biological "entity?"
Could there really
be mysterious places far
beneath our feet?
Places whose origins might not
be of this Earth?
There were
certain aspects of the caves for
which geology could not provide an answer.
Millions of people
around the world believe we
have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
And if so, should we be looking
for proof of their existence
not in the heavens above but in
mysterious worlds deep beneath
the surface?
# Ancient Aliens 2x04 #
Underground Aliens
Original Air Date on November 18, 2010
Bordered on the north by the
black sea, and by the Taurus
mountains to the South, lies
Cappadocia in central Turkey.
Here, wind and water have
sculpted strange shapes out of
the soft volcanic rock... rock
which ancient peoples once
turned into small, primitive dwellings.
In more recent years, the site
has seen the construction of
more modern structures.
But in 1963, a simple home
renovation in the town of
Derinkuyu led to an
extraordinary discovery when a
cave wall was opened, revealing
a passageway to an underground
city thousands of years old and
more than 280 feet deep.
I've been there on multiple occasions, and
it's incredible because there's
13 stories that go deep into
the ground, with ventilation
shafts and 15,000 little shafts
that bring air to even the
deepest of levels.
Incredibly, the
number of rock rooms that were
found could hold an estimated
20,000 men, women and children.
There was even evidence of
religious centers, storerooms,
winepresses and stables for livestock.
Oh,
Derinkuyu would've been a
massive undertaking for anyone,
even in modern times with modern
equipment.
But in those days, it would've
been, um... stupendous.
Equal to the pyramids.
At Derinkuyu, because of the
softness of the stone, you had
to be very careful that you
provided enough pillar strength
to support the floors above,
otherwise you'd have
catastrophic cave-ins.
Surprisingly, there's no
evidence of any catastrophic
cave-ins, so they were
apparently extremely clever and
knew their material.
We're talking deep antiquity.
It is mind boggling to
understand how they could've
done this.
Perhaps they had help from some
other civilization.
But just who built
this massive underground city?
And what mysterious force drove
them to live underground?
Why would people want to live deep
underground in these weird
caverns like that?
It seems kind of scary, really.
According to many
archaeologists and scholars,
Derinkuyu was most likely
intended to serve as a
temporary shelter from
invasion... built around 800 b.C.
By the Phrygians, a bronze age
people related to the trojans.
Others believe it was built by
the hittites, a warrior people
mentioned in the Bible who
flourished hundreds of years earlier.
But could the underground city
be even older?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, it is, perhaps by
many thousands of years.
The Cappadocia region of Turkey
was part of the zoroastrian
empire, which was persian in nature.
And it's one of the oldest
religious traditions on the face of the Earth.
The zoroastrian
religion... an ancient faith
based on opposing forces of
good and evil... is widely
believed to have influenced
both hinduism and
judeo-christianity.
Founded sometime
before the sixth century b.C.,
its chief God is the creator, Ahura Mazda.
And in the second chapter of
the zoroastrian sacred text,
the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves
mankind from a worldwide
environmental disaster... much
like the story of Noah in the
Hebrew testament.
The great prophet
Yima was instructed to build a
kind of underground refuge
similar to Derinkuyu by the sky
God Ahura Mazda.
According to the
sacred texts, Yima built a
multilevel underground city to
protect a select group of
people and animals, not from a
flood but from a global ice age.
The Vendidad calls this "the
evil winters."
According to many mainstream
climatologists, the last ice
age peaked around 18,000 years
ago and ended around 10,000 b.C.
Is it possible that Derinkuyu
was built as a refuge from a
devastating global winter?
Since you cannot carbon date stone, it's
anybody's guess how old
Derinkuyu really is.
And my question is: If we have
a zoroastrian story that's very
similar, could it be that both
that place and Derinkuyu are
much, much older than what
we've believed so far?
But if Derinkuyu
is in fact the underground
city that Ahura Mazda told his
followers to build, could there
be a stunning truth behind the legend?
If so, who or what was the God
Ahura Mazda?
Ahura Mazda does
appear to be responsible for
the management of whatever is
happening here on Earth.
There are various ways to read
this, one of which is that it
does represent some sort of
higher universal form of consciousness.
But another is that it would
represent an overseeing
extraterrestrial intelligence.
Several sacred texts from antiquity
speak of knowledge given to
mankind from extraterrestrials,
but also known as gods from antiquity.
Could the sky God
Ahura Mazda really have been an
advanced being from another world?
So, did he provide the
technology needed for his
followers to build this complex
labyrinth as protection from
environmental disaster?
Or is there possibly a more ominous
reason for Derinkuyu's existence?
Some say a clue lies in the
underground city's unusual
security system: 1,000-pound
doors on rollers that allow
them to be moved by a single
person, but only from one side.
The Derinkuyu doors...
they're very cleverly constructed.
You can basically only open it
and leverage it from the inside.
So obviously,
whoever inhabited Derinkuyu was
hiding from someone or something.
According to the
ancient zoroastrian texts,
Ahura Mazda soared through the
sky in a divine chariot and
waged war against his eternal enemy,
Angra Mainyu, the demon of destruction.
But could this really be-. As
many ancient astronaut
theorists believe... a depiction
of two extraterrestrial forces
battling over control of the
Earth and its resources?
The aerial enemies were extraterrestrials,
because they were the ones who
had the capability of flight.
They had access to those types
of machines that we can read
about in every single ancient
culture around the world.
When you look at
the zoroastrian tradition, you
also see clear evidence that
there was some sort of
extraterrestrial battle going
on between warring factions.
Therefore, it is certainly
possible that the original
caves may have been used as
shelters against possible
aerial bombardment from
extraterrestrials that were
warring with each other during that time.
Derinkuyu was
built out of fear of an aerial
enemy, because if something
flies over you very, very fast,
you can't see the ventilation shafts.
Some suggest 30,000 people used
to live underground at Derinkuyu.
During recorded
history, many different peoples
did in fact hide in the
underground city of Derinkuyu
to escape everything from
desert raiders to Roman legions.
But some experts wonder whether
such conventional attacks can
really explain why Derinkuyu
was built in the first place.
If it were an enemy that was on horseback,
it would be easy for them to
just smother everyone inside by
just closing all the ventilation shafts.
We had the phrase in the defense
department studies that I
participated in: "The cave is a
grave to a well-prepared "adversary."
Once you find it, it is highly vulnerable.
But did the people of Derinkuyu really go
underground to avoid becoming
casualties in an
extraterrestrial battle in the skies?
And, if so, might there be other such cities
from the distant past?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there are.
And they can be found much
nearer to home... deep in the
caves of the American southwest.
The majestic mesas
and rugged mountains of the
American southwest are home to
many native peoples, including
the navajo, zuni, pueblo, hopi and Apache.
These tribes have many
different beliefs, but their
creation myths all share
something quite remarkable.
When we talk about
our origin, you know, you hear
the stories about us coming down
from Alaska through the Bering strait.
But what we believe is we
came up from the ground.
The Apaches and
other pueblo Indians, such as
the Zunis and the hopi Indians,
all have this legend that they
emerged from some underground
world into today's world.
In some legends,
the southwestern peoples went
back underground for safety.
The hopi of Arizona say their
ancestors escaped a deadly
storm of falling stars with the
help of the snake people, who
took them to shelters deep in the Earth.
Another hopi legend speaks of
the ant people who protected
them from storms of fire and ice.
The hopi Indians
survived cataclysms by living
in this underground world with
the ant people for a certain
period of time, and then
eventually they emerged from
the underground world back into
the surface world.
Ant people?
Snake people?
Could these stories be based on
ancestral tales of people
actually living underground...
possibly during the last ice age?
Or could the ancestors of
today's southwestern tribes
have taken refuge in
sub-surface dwellings similar
to the underground city of
Derinkuyu in Turkey?
If so, over the centuries,
might they have developed
physical traits... like large
eyes and fingers... that made
them more closely resemble
actual Earth-dwelling creatures?
The shamans, and
the elders of native Americans,
they will tell you that before
these people were able to
emerge out of planet Earth,
they were brought here by the
star-people, the star-gods,
which arrived from outer space.
I have stood in front
of what are called the ant
people and some of the very
strange, large-eyed drawings on
the rocks and wondered, "am I
looking at native American
interpretation of what today is called
a extraterrestrial "biological entity?"
If extraterrestrials were here in
the remote past, there are
multiple species out there, is
it possible that they might've
looked lizard-like and ant-like?
And the answer is yes.
Is it possible that
these underground creatures of
native American legend were
actually alien visitors?
If so, could some of them still
be living beneath the surface
of the southwestern desert?
For decades, stories of
encounters with UFOs and alien
beings have been told among the
people of new Mexico's
Jicarilla Apache reservation.
Some of the aliens in these
stories bear a strange
resemblance to the ancient
tales of the ant-like and
snake-like beings from the hopi legends.
There is things up here
that no one can explain.
The Jicarilla
Apache reservation is located
next to the small town of Dulce,
nestled in the shadow of the
over 9,000-foot-high Archuleta mesa.
It is from this mesa and mountain that
people claim they have seen
UFOs flying out of the mountain.
It was a spaceship we saw right there.
And it was big... like maybe the
size of a football field.
And then we seen this dome on
top that was all glassed in.
And then my husband was looking
at it with the binoculars and
he saw two small people.
Well, we don't know what it is.
If we stayed here and they came
down I don't know what they
would have done to us.
Could the native tales of spaceships
and strange creatures be true?
Some ufo researchers and
conspiracy theorists believe
that these eyewitness accounts
are not only true, but are
evidence of a secret collaboration between
underground aliens and the U.S.
Military.
The amount of
military traffic over Dulce, the
unmarked helicopters, the black
helicopters, the heavy-duty chinooks.
All these helicopters spend a
lot more time in Dulce than
they should if nothing were going on here.
Among the stories that we've
heard from the Jicarilla Apache
is that they discovered vents,
actually right here on the mesa.
Awhile back, when
my brother was still alive we
used to come up here in the
back, and he sHowed us this
shaft and that thing was bigger
than... bigger than me.
But we walked in, and I didn't
want to go any further.
The vents were here maybe 25 years ago.
You'd hear strange noises.
Groans.
Sighs.
Human groans.
And this lent a lot of credence
to stories that human beings
were being vivisected, experimented on.
And thus the legend of strange
creatures and strange noises
coming out of this mesa grew and expanded.
Aliens living underground.
Strange, secret government cover-ups.
Could native American legends
of underground beings help
unEarth the truth behind these
incredible stories?
Some think the answer might be
found deep beneath the surface
of north America, but others
believe the truth lies hidden
in a mysterious cave...
thousands of Miles to the South.
A cave that hides proof of
alien visitors who journeyed
beyond the stars.
South America.
The andes mountain range in Ecuador.
For thousands of years, this
rain forest... high on the
eastern slopes... has been the
land of the Shuar, headhunters
who are fiercely protective of
their homeland, and its secrets.
And of all the Shuar's secrets,
perhaps none has been so
carefully guarded as the location
and entrance of the cave of Tayos.
But why?
Perhaps the answer can be found
in the story of an Italian
catholic missionary named
father Crespi, who lived in the
region in the middle of the last century.
Father Paolo Carlo Crespi.
He was loved by the Indians.
He helped them without, uh,
asking for money.
And the Indians made him some presents.
But what was unique
about the "presents" or gifts
given to father Crespi was that
they often took the forms of
elaborately-carved artifacts...
some made of gold or other
precious metals.
Often these objects featured
elaborate carvings and
symbols... not known to be
associated with the Shuar culture.
In his 1973 book, gold of the
gods, ancient astronaut
theorist erich Von Daniken
wrote of father Crespi's
incredible collection... which
he believed to come from the
cave of Tayos and which were,
in his opinion, treasures from
an unknown and highly-advanced culture.
The startling questions posed
in Von Daniken's book soon
inspired Scottish explorer
Stanley Hall to try and solve
the mystery himself.
In 1975, Hall traveled to
Cuenca to see father Crespi's
collection with his own eyes.
I had for years
been researching South America
as the missing page of pre-history.
I first heard of the Tayos
caves in erich Von Daniken's
book and followed it through from there.
And one of the presents which the old
priest received is a tablet
with 36 writings.
It's metallic tablet.
No one until today was able to
translate these writings.
In 1976, Stanley
Hall mounted an expedition
of more than 100 people to explore Tayos.
Among them was American
astronaut Neil Armstrong, the
first man to walk on the moon.
Entering the cave through a
jungle entrance known to the
Ecuadorian army, the explorers
were fascinated by what they
encountered... especially large
areas that appeared to have
been excavated by someone...
Or something.
The head of the
British geological group, Dr.
Brian Kelly, in 1976, he
admitted that it was difficult
for him to explain the actual
large doorways that you see in
these caves.
Although Stan Hall's expedition did find a
tomb chamber with items dating
to 1500 bc...
A ring! A stone ring!
The expedition
found no treasure and no trace
of anything that looked like
the artifacts in father Crespi's collection.
But if Tayos was not the secret
origin of father Crespi's
amazing collection, where did
it come from?
Undaunted, Hall didn't give up his search.
15 years later, in 1991, the
explorer tracked down an
Ecuadorian named Petronio
Jaramillo who claimed to have
entered the cave of Tayos
through a secret entrance back
in 1946.
And apparently,
Petronio had visited this cave
for the very first time when he
was very young.
When he was in his teens.
He said that he had to dive
underwater, go in... in this
underwater tunnel, and then come up.
Jaramillo told Hall
he wandered through chamber
after chamber of ancient relics,
including a vast room of books
made from gold and other
metals... books with
unrecognizable writing...
Possibly like that on one of the
metal tablets in father Crespi's
collection.
The other things looked like formulas,
and so on, and so on.
So it was one spectacular
statement after another.
Some argue whether
or not an ancient civilization
had come down to Earth and had
used this cave system to leave
certain artifacts of their
civilization behind for us
to recover.
Unfortunately,
before he could guide Stanley
Hall to the underwater cave
entrance, Petronio jaramillo
died, taking the secret to his grave.
Stanley Hall himself died in
2008 before he was able to renew
his search for the so-called
metal library.
Fortunately, Stanley Hall's
daughter Eileen has decided to
continue her father's work.
Unless we find
this treasure, unless we can
see, translate the writing, it's
still a big question mark over
who wrote it, why they put it
there and who put it there.
But when Eileen Hall began to look for the
location of father Crespi's
original artifacts, she learned
that much of the priest's
collection had mysteriously
vanished shortly before his death in 1982.
But why?
Had Crespi's artifacts fallen
prey to thieves?
Or might the Shuar have taken
their treasure back into the
cave where they found them?
Whatever the answer, Eileen
Hall has continued to research
other artifacts from elsewhere in Ecuador.
And like father Crespi's
objects, some seem to have
uncanny resemblances to other
cultures that, according to
mainstream archeology, ancient
Ecuadorians could not have had
any knowledge of.
This collection
is made up of what my father
believed to be the formative
cultures of Ecuador.
This is from the coastal culture
from 600 bc to 1600 ad, and this
is very humanlike, but at the
same time, some features have
been exaggerated.
Here, you've got the smaller
face with the kind of bigger
ears, and the elongated skull
shape on the head.
The top of this
head looks like an elongated
cranium, an elongated skull,
and it is identical to this
Egyptian statue that we find
all over Egypt.
To see this picture right here
and compare it to the Egyptian
bust we see right here, it's
uncanny... the head shape is identical.
Do Stanley Hall's
artifacts show evidence that
Egyptian cultures could have
crossed the oceans to influence
South American culture?
Or is it possible that both were
influenced by another culture...
one from beyond our world?
If so, were the strange writings
inscribed on father Crespi's now
missing metal tablets actual
messages from an alien world?
My father went
as far as saying it was possibly
an advanced civilization, but
we can't know for certain until
this library is found.
So this metallic library is still there in
Ecuador in a subterranean cave.
There are still Indian tribes
living there.
They are still protecting the
old treasure.
So it's going to
push the boundaries of academia
once this cave system has been found.
And whether it is Inca or
extraterrestrial, it doesn't
really matter at this moment in time.
Let's get to this cave and see
what is in there.
Perhaps Tayos has yet to reveal all of its
secrets, but more than 700 Miles
to the north, there is another
cave... one that may prove that
the Mayan underworld and the
terrifying gods who ruled it
were not only very real, but
thirsty for human blood.
The Yucat?n peninsula...
One of Mexico's premier
tourist destinations.
Besides scenic beaches, the area
is covered by thick jungle and
pockmarked by massive sinkholes
known as Cenotes.
The ground beneath the jungle is
also honeycombed with caves.
But here, in 2007, Mexican
archaeologist Guillermo de Anda
found a cave like no other.
Following clues in the records
of 17th-century Spanish priests
that hinted at the existence of
a mysterious underground Mayan
temple deep in the jungle,
de Anda found a series of caves
near the village of Tahtzibichen...
Caves not seen for hundreds of
years, and with entrances
submerged beneath centuries of floodwater.
Sometimes we have to
dive into these caves.
Sometimes they go very deep.
The average depth of our
research is about 140, 150 feet,
but we know of caves much deeper
than that.
At first, de Anda
and his team found carved stone
heads and broken pillars with
1,900-year-old Mayan inscriptions.
We have found columns under the water, and
these columns are amazing
because some of them are five
feet high and at least ten feet wide.
But as de Anda
surfaced in the dry areas of the
cave, he found what he believed
to be the remains of a massive
underground temple complex,
including a concrete road,
a crumbled pyramid and bones.
But why was it here?
The Mayans themselves have, uh, very
intriguing legends of an
underground world called Xibalba.
And it's believed now by
archaeologists that what they
found is what the Mayans thought
was the entrance to this
legendary underground world that
features prominently in the Popol Vuh.
Could this dark and
mysterious cave really be the
underground world mentioned
in the Mayan legends?
According to the Popol Vuh, the
written record of Mayan
mythology, the underworld
kingdom of Xibalba, meaning
"the place of fear," was ruled
by the cruel lords of the dead,
who made those who entered their
realm pass through a series
of torture chambers, involving
blood, darkness, cold, knives,
bats and jaguars.
We see here in this
one archaeological spot an
actual physical representation
of what the Mayans felt the soul
had to go through.
Might, perhaps,
this cave of stalactites, sharp
enough to pierce flesh,
represent the "room of knives"
in the Popol Vuh?
There is also, arguably, a
"room of bats," and a trench
that might once have been
filled with blood, like the
river of blood in the story that
Mayan pilgrims had to cross over.
There are places of cold and darkness...
and even a room with carvings of jaguars.
These caves were
littered with large patches of
spiders and reptiles and all
types of tumultuous things that
a human really wouldn't want to
be exposed to.
Although some archaeologists claim this
unique site was simply modeled
after the description of
Xibalba in the Popol Vuh, de
Anda insists that items from
the cave date back to a time
centuries before the Mayan holy
book was written.
It's not that there was this document and
they, uh, tried to, uh, imitate
what the document said.
I think it's all the other way around.
We believe that we have found
the particular Xibalba of the
central part of the Yucat?n.
This is why we do believe it was
a real place.
But if Xibalba is real, were the
lords of the dead also real?
And if so, who or what were they?
According to the
Chilam Balam book, which is the
book of the Jaguar priests, it
says in there, that at that
time "the road to the stars
descended from the sky, and the
"13 and nine gods came to Earth."
I'm sorry.
"Road to the stars," "descended
from the sky."
Can it be more clear?
I don't think so.
Right there we have a direct
reference to someone that has
arrived from outer space, and
we have a written record about this.
Could the "lords of
Xibalba" and other Mayan gods
really have been
extraterrestrial travelers?
If so, why did they display such
a thirst for blood and torture?
I do not believe human sacrifice was
originally taught by the ets.
I believe it came in the
aftermath of when the original
teachers of humankind had arrived.
The ancient gods, which were
really just humans from
another world, withdrew from the
area, and the people became distraught.
The more they became
distraught, the more they took
the original mythology and interpreted
it in a much more literal way.
So what might have started out
as the myth about the sun dying
and being reborn when it sinks
below the horizon, becomes
literally the idea of killing
people to make sure that the
sun is gonna come back up.
As archaeologists
and explorers continue to
ununcover sites where legend and
reality meet, could there be
even more evidence that
mankind's history on this planet
is much more profound than what
we currently understand?
There are those who believe the secret
lies even deeper within the Earth...
As deep as its very core.
The north pole...
a seemingly endless wasteland of
arctic ice, shrouded in darkness
for six months of every year.
Here, there is no food, no
shelter, not even a cave to
hide from the slashing winds
and temperatures that can dive
to 90 degrees below zero.
But according to mainstream
geology, beneath the pole and
the arctic ocean lies the Earth's mostly
rocky crust, up to 30 miles thick.
Below this is molten rock,
heated by the planet's spinning
core, with a solid center of iron
and nickel the size of the moon.
Scientists have deduced this
information from measurements
of Earth's gravity, magnetism
and seismic waves.
But no one has ever seen these areas.
Could the frozen surface of the
pole be hiding a gateway to a
world within our surface world?
There are those who believe the
answer is, "yes."
And what they believe is known
as the hollow Earth theory.
The hollow Earth theory is that,
this Earth is not molten inside.
It is actually hollow, and that
suspended in the hollow of the
Earth is an inner sun.
Surprisingly, the
notion of a hollow Earth was
first given scientific credence
by one of the founders of
modern astronomy.
The idea that
the Earth might be hollow, as a
scientific notion, dates back
to the astronomer Edmund Halley
who is best known for his comet.
In 1691 he presented to the
London royal society his
hypothesis that the Earth is
hollow and contains several
little spheres inside.
Sort of like those Russian
Matryoshska dolls.
He was hypothesizing this for a
very practical reason.
The Earth's magnetic pole moved
a little bit every year to the
west, and his idea was that our
outer sphere had inner spheres
that turned independently of
the outer one.
He also suggested that these
interior spheres would also be
able to support life.
In 1818, former
U.S. army Captain John Cleves
Symmes, Jr., announced that
there were vast openings at each
pole where we could enter inner Earth.
With Symmes, the
idea of a hollow Earth gets tied
into exploring for the pole.
At this point, nobody had actually seen
Antarctica, for instance.
The hollow Earth theory again captured the
public's imagination in 1864
with the release of Jules
Verne's second novel, a journey
to the center of the Earth.
The novel takes an
Icelandic guide and a Professor
and a young man down into the
center of the Earth.
Journey to the center of the
Earth could really have been
called a journey to the center of geology.
Geology and paleontology were a
very hot topic in the early
1860's and there's a lot of
discussion of that in journey
to the center of the Earth.
Narrator but while Verne
popularized the idea that
extinct life forms might still
exist inside the Earth, others
envisioned that the Earth contained
advanced underground civilizations.
Supposedly, they have advanced technology.
They've got ray guns and special weapons.
And even they have flying
saucers, other craft like that.
But is there any
evidence that such fantastic
claims could be true?
And has anyone actually been to
the world within our Earth?
Proponents of the hollow Earth
theory say, "yes," and that
one of the explorers was no
less a luminary than famed
polar pioneer admiral Richard e.
Byrd.
In the 1920s, byrd made world
headlines by flying over the
north pole, and by becoming the
first man to fly solo over the
South pole.
But hollow Earth theorists
believe that the famous
explorer went even farther, and
that, on February 19, 1947,
admiral byrd piloted a plane
through a hole near the north
pole into the interior of the Earth.
A flying saucer type
craft took control of his
airplane, with some kind of
tractor beam... and they landed
him near an inner Earth city.
And the message that they had
for us was that they consider
themselves the guardians of
this planet, okay?
He says, "we don't approve of you
people using nuclear weapons."
We had just blown up a couple
of cities in Japan a couple of
years before, so this was the
message that he was given.
But when he got to Washington,
they put a lid of secrecy on
this, that this was not to go out.
Some say admiral
Byrd's own account of this
flight into the hollow Earth is
detailed in his secret diary,
published in the 1990s, almost
four decades after his death.
But skeptics claim the diary is
a forgery and point out that in
February 1947, at the time
admiral Byrd was supposedly
visiting this other world
underneath the north pole,
he was actually part of a vast
4,700-man naval exploration
called "operation high jump,"
12,000 Miles away, near the South pole.
But could Byrd's inclusion in
this large military operation
at the South pole have been
merely a cover story?
Some people claim it was, and
this allowed him to slip away
to the other end of the planet,
unnoticed by the media.
Admiral Byrd, the rumor was, found a
world of flying machines, and
people, and... more advanced than us...
And that they helped him, and
then he left again.
It's a myth.
Nobody's really been able to
prove it, but it's a great myth.
Could there really
be vast, open spaces within the
Earth where advanced civilizations live?
Could extraterrestrial gods
really have come to Earth,
centuries ago, and hidden the
evidence of their journeys deep
within caves and tunnels?
Perhaps we have only just
scratched the surface of our
planet's underground mysteries.
If so, what clues to our
distant past might still be
waiting to be found, and
hiding in the darkness?