Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 5, Episode 11 - The Viking Gods - full transcript

A mighty people worshiping powerful gods.

Thor's hammer was enormously powerful.

It had great accuracy.

It could smash mountains.

A celestial bridge linking
mankind to a divine realm.

Was it possible that this rainbow
bridge was some kind of wormhole

that would take people
literally to another planet?

And epic journeys to
the far ends of the planet.

Very few people would have set sail
across the Atlantic not knowing

that there was something
on the other side.

How were the Vikings
able to develop such an



advanced civilization?

Were their achievements in technology
and exploration their own?

Or did they receive otherworldly help?

Our ancestors thought they were
visited by gods, when in reality

they were visited by none
other than ancient aliens.

Physical beings.

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?

If so, might there be evidence

in the history and
mythology of the Vikings?

# Ancient Aliens 5x11 #
The Viking Gods
Original Air Date on April 12, 2013

Barbarians.



Marauders.

Bloodthirsty bandits...
whose reputation for brutality

would follow them through the centuries.

When people think of the Norse or the

Vikings, they think of crazed
marauders jumping in boats,

where they rape, pillage and plunder.

And it's, uh, an unfortunate
image because it's

one-dimensional.

A lot of these expeditions that
they went on were not purely,

uh, expeditionary or pirate raids.

A lot of these were efforts
to open trade routes.

If we got back to the eighth
century, ninth century,

we find that a lot of the Norse
societies were well-functioning.

They had well-established
agricultural economies, and they

had a culture of technology.

The Vikings, or Norse
people, flourished from

the late eighth century to the
11th century in what is today

Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

But unlike other ancient
civilizations, like Greece,

Rome or Egypt, relatively little
is known about this mysterious

people, as few written records
or hieroglyphs have survived.

People typically don't think of the

Norse as particularly
sophisticated, but they were

enormously sophisticated
in terms of technology.

Ship building, bridge
building, fortress building.

And I'm thinking here primarily of
the circular fortresses in Denmark.

They are absolutely circular.

They consist of ramparts with an
external ditch, gateways at each

of the compass points.

Although their civilization
was divided among

numerous kingdoms, the Norse
Vikings were united in their

belief in the power of the individual.

They had a kind of early
assembly that was very

advanced for its time before the
other areas of Europe had any

kind of democracy.

So they actually came up with
the idea that power belonged to

the people, not the royalty.

They had something of a proto-democracy,

and people would come from that
particular region in order to

argue issues of law or other
kinds of cultural issues of

political significance at that time.

But perhaps most
incredible to historians was

how far the Vikings traveled from
their Scandinavian homeland.

Hundreds of years before their
European counterparts,

the Vikings set out from
Scandinavia to explore

and conquer vast territories in
Europe and even the Middle East.

They were the ones that
invented ships, and they

were the ones that traveled about
much more extensively than

the other German tribes further south.

The Norse criss-crossed half
the world in their long-ships.

In the east, they sailed down
the rivers of Russia to the

Black and the Caspian Sea.

In the west, they sailed down the
coast of Europe, through the

Strait of Gibraltar
into the Mediterranean.

They reached out across the
then-unknown Atlantic ocean.

They went almost everywhere
there was to go.

According to archeologists, artifacts

discovered in Newfoundland,
Canada during the 1960s proved

that the Vikings were the first
Europeans to set foot in North

America... 500 years before
Christopher Columbus.

I remember a time when it was very

contentious about the Norse

getting to America when I was young.

This was a major, major argument.

Now, we have found their
settlements there from about

1,000 A. D., so it's very, very
clear that they made it to

northern North America.

The main advantage of the
Norse was their excellence

in ship-building.

And, indeed, the ship has become
the symbol of the Viking age.

Those who have sailed replicas
of Viking ships have commented

on just how incredibly seaworthy
and fast these ships were.

It's their ship that allowed
them to travel over

these long distances.

They were the ones, uh, that
really sort of perfected the keel,

which meant that the ship
wouldn't flip over when going

across the Atlantic.

The development of the long-ship
was an incredible innovation.

These were very sleek, very
supple craft that could be

equally effective on rivers
and in the high seas.

They were very light and
extremely strong craft that was

also slightly flexible, so in a
high seas or storm or something,

it could survive.

They had a very solid
understanding of hydrodynamics.

In some of the ships, we
also found advanced signs of

metallurgy, smelting and different
types of alloys that they were using.

And this is all out of context
from other cultures they seemed

to be interacting with.

But many researchers remain baffled at

how the Vikings became so
socially, politically and

technologically advanced,
especially while living in the cold,

harsh environment of the north.

When we look at ancient
cultures such as the

Maya and Egyptians, they never
wandered very far from their homeland.

Even the Greeks stayed close.

But the Vikings, they were everywhere.

And you wonder, were they just
extremely curious people?

What motivated them to go to
these extraordinary lengths to

explore the world?

What was it that they were looking for?

Just how were the Norse
Vikings able to manage

such technological and geographical feats?

Are their fortresses and
journeys to unknown continents

evidence that the Vikings had access
to extraterrestrial knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe the proof can

be found by examining the
religious beliefs of this

mysterious people.

Lindisfarne, England.

793 A.D.

Several hundred Viking raiders
make landfall on this small

tidal island off the coast of
Northumbria, to plunder a great

monastery of its rumored treasures.

An account of the attack on
Lindisfarne says the assault

coincided with extraordinary
whirlwinds...lightning...

and fiery dragons crisscrossing the skies.

Could these strange events be coincidence?

Or could it be evidence that
otherworldly forces may have

been allied with the Vikings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found

by examining the divine beings
that form the basis of Norse

religion and mythology.

The Norse gods were worshiped over a very

wide range of time and space
throughout northern Europe,

from the continental German lands
through the British islands,

the far northern islands,
such as Iceland and Greenland,

and all throughout Scandinavia.

Because little information
has survived related

to the origin of the Norse,
or Viking gods, modern scholars

depend on a pair of Icelandic
books written several hundred

years after the Viking
Age called the Eddas.

And so we find that there's the god Odin,

the god Frey, the god Thor.

Those are probably the best known.

But there are a bunch of
other supporting gods

who flesh out this mythology.

The gods live in a world of
their own, but it's closely

connected to the world of men.

The Norse had some
of the richest descriptions

and references to the cosmos.

In fact, they referred to
the cosmos as "Yggdrasil",

meaning the tree of life.

That was the symbol of
their idea of the cosmos.

And they were very specific
in stating that their cosmos

contained nine different worlds,
one of which is ours, the Earth.

We often hear about the Nine Worlds of the

Nordic mythological realm.

There's Asgard... and that's the
home of the gods Thor and Odin.

There's the world of humans.

We call this Middle Earth, or Midgard.

If we go step a little bit further
outside of Asgard and Midgard,

we confront Jotunheimr,
or the land of the giants.

We'll encounter Muspells,
which is an area of fire.

We'll encounter Niflheimr, which is

another world where the frost ogres live.

We'll encounter Alfheimr,
which is where the elves live.

According to the Eddas,
Asgard was home to the

most powerful of the gods.
It is described as a beautiful

and peaceful realm, full of
glimmering halls and fertile

fields cut by shimmering rivers.

Odin is the chief of the gods.

He lives in the highest
of the heavens, Asgard.

He had one eye.

He'd given up an eye to drink
of the water of truth.

So he has this depth of wisdom.

So he's a warrior god able to bring
fury and danger to the enemies.

Odin was the god that gave
people written language

in the runes, he was the god that
gave them the poetic mead,

he was the god that gave them
many aspects of what would be

considered a sort of noble way of life.

But was Odin

perhaps something other
than a mythic deity?

Could he have actually existed?

And if so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe clues to Odin's true

identity may lie in the myths
describing his two ravens...

Huginn and Muninn.

Odin's Ravens were his scouts.

They were his research team.

Huginn and Muninn represent
thought and memory.

So Odin had these scouts, these
spy satellites that would go out

and see what he needed to
learn for today's activities.

According to Norse legends,
every morning Odin sent

out his two magical ravens,
Huginn and Muninn, and at

night those ravens would return
and he would listen to them,

and they would tell him everything
that they observed throughout

the entire day.

Scholars believe Odin's two ravens...
translated

as thought and memory...
were simply mythological creations.

But is it possible that Huginn
and Muninn were actually

something else?

Something perhaps more technological?

Whenever he wanted
to observe other worlds,

find out what they were doing,
he would send these two ravens out,

and they would be like
spy drones or something,

and they would go to these other
countries and then come back to

Odin and report to him what was going on.

And it would seem like what
Odin had was some kind of spy

planes or spy drones that he was
sending out much as we do today.

The question is whether
the Norse really stated

that these were ravens, or
whether they were instead

something else, that they
were somehow flying objects.

So we have details here of
something mythical, of ravens

being able to speak to the gods,

or the ravens are some kind of
spy drone or some other kind of

spy satellite technology
by which Odin is able

to get information.

Could it be that Odin was actually
an extraterrestrial explorer?

One who sent flying machines...
like modern-day drones...

to gather intelligence on
the ancient Scandinavians?

And if so, might there be more
evidence of Odin's otherworldly

technology contained
within other Viking myths?

When Odin sits in Asgard,
it's almost like he's

got total situational awareness.

He's got these ravens who fly
out every day and come back and

tell him the news of the world.

But he can also sit in this high seat.

Odin's high seat,
which is a name that basically

translates as the "watchtower,"

is a place where he can sit and
look out over all the worlds

of creation and see everything
that's happening in the world.

Is it possible that this
high seat, or watchtower,

is yet another example of
advanced extraterrestrial

technology, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?

Some of these stories that come out of our

past of the god Odin, and having
the ability to actually sit

above Midgard, or the Earth, and
see everything from a vast distance,

we have to wonder if this
isn't actually mythological

but potentially technological.

It sounds to me as if Odin was
sitting in some type of a

captain's chair in a spaceship
above the Earth, which allowed

him to have this view.

So the moment we have
stories of gods needing all

this type of equipment in order
to find out first what is going

on leads me to think that we are

not talking about actual gods,
but we are talking about

space travelers who had access
to technology, and our ancestors

witnessed all of this and they said,

well, obviously these guys are gods.

Was Odin's high seat
actually referring to an

orbiting spaceship from which the
chief god could look down on

Earth, as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might this also
help explain the incredible

technologies attributed to
other so-called Viking gods?

As the god of thunder and lightning...

Thor was able to summon
storms and battle giants with

his magical hammer.

Thor is the son of Odin.

He is a sky god.

He is in charge of thunder and lightning.

He has a great hammer.

He is... he's a terrifying
presence, a power god.

Thor was usually seen flying
through the skies in a great

cart pulled by goats.

If Odin was the chief god,
Thor was the god

for all of us.

Thor, in a sense, is the
quintessential sky god.

Our word thunder comes from Thor.

In Swedish, the word for thunder
evokes the idea of driving

Thor's chariots over the vault
of heaven, and you can sort of

see the crashing and the burning
of that chariot going across

heaven as being the lightning
and the thunder that we

experience in a storm.

He's a remarkable character.

He's very strong, uh,
and he's a protector.

He goes out, and he basically
beats up and kills giants.

Not only to protect the gods,
but as an offshoot, kind of

collateral damage,
he protects us humans, as well.

According to Norse mythology,
Thor derived his

power from several
seemingly magical tools.

One was Menginjoro, a belt
that is said to have magically

doubled Thor's already awesome strength.

It was called Thor's power belt.

So the moment I hear stories
about that you put on a belt,

and it doubled your strength?

Then I have to ask myself, well,

is it possible that what we're
talking about here is some type

of a technological device?

Today, we have actually come to the point

whereby these prosthetics are
actually able to listen to brain

commands.

So what we've actually done
is recreate some kind of

exoskeleton, an exterior, an
artificial nervous system,

whereby our brain gives
commands to our limbs.

All of this through technology.

Thor's belt of
strength seems to have a very

similar description to modern
technology where we would call

it a bionic exoskeleton.

The ability for a soldier to put

on a device that would increase
their speed and their strength

is possible today.

So when we look at this
description of Thor's strength

in this belt, it's very
possible, this is some type of

an extraterrestrial technology.

When the ancients are
describing technology,

it's clear that they couldn't
have known exactly what this was,

and it opens the question,
is it possible that what we today

would interpret as bionic
exoskeletons was an actual

advanced technology possessed
by the Vikings or their gods.

Is it really possible that the Viking gods

Odin and Thor were, in fact,
extraterrestrial visitors?

Alien beings who possessed
advanced technology?

If so, where might this advanced
species have come from?

How did they get here?

And what was their agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may be found

in the stories of the other,
lesser known, Viking gods.

And in Nordic legends that tell
of cosmic bridges linking planet

Earth to an otherworldly realm.

Gamla Uppsala, Sweden.

This small town, 40 miles north
of Stockholm, is one of the oldest,

continuously-inhabited
sites in Scandinavia.

Beneath this church,
archaeologists have found what

they believe are the remains of
a famous temple called Ubsola.

According to a fourteenth century
text called The Deeds

of Bishops of the Hamburg Church,
this ornate temple was

built to honor the most powerful
Viking gods, Odin, Thor and Freyr.

Freyr is the main fertility
God in Norse mythology.

The rituals that we do have
evidence of connected to Freyr

seem always to be connected
to peace and prosperity.

So, all of these characteristics

show him in a relationship with
humans that's centered around

prosperity and fertility of various types.

Freyr was believed to control the weather,

and was renowned for his diplomatic
skills, quieting the feuds

among the numerous Viking gods and giants.

And in the Viking pantheon,
it was a deity named Loki who

provoked the most conflict
among these gods.

Loki is actually not a god.

He's a giant who is
counted amongst the gods.

And at the end of time, he
actually leads the dead and the

giants against the gods.

He's that transgressive character who

makes possible all of these
conflicts that the gods then

have to solve.

Without Loki, a lot of
the conflicts disappear,

and you don't have a mythology at all.

According to the stories
compiled within the

books of the Eddas, Loki tries
to atone for one of his many

acts of mischief by giving Freyr

a ship called Skidbladnir.

Freyr's ship, Skidbladnir,
was the most fine

craft that ever was in the water.

It could go anywhere at great
speed, and then, if you needed

it to be small, you could put in a
small pouch to carry it around.

Skidbladnir is remarkable,

because you can fold
it up and stick it in your pocket.

But when you unfold it, it's one
of the greatest Viking ships ever.

It always has a wind.

It always has a fair wind.

So you don't have to tack.

It always gets you where
you're going in a hurry.

And then, once you get it to
shore, you don't have to worry

about where you're going to stow it.

To be able to fold up your boat

and put it in your pocket really
has to be about the greatest

thing that you can imagine if
you're a Viking shipbuilder.

But could it be that
Skidbladnir was not the

product of mythic imagination, but
was, in fact, an actual spacecraft?

One that was witnessed
by early Scandinavians?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe the proof lies
in the legends of a race of

beings who are believed to have

built the magical tools used by the gods.

In Norse mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi

were these dwarfs who made
these special weapons for Thor

and Odin and the other Norse gods.

And so, here were these dwarfs,
these gnomes, these small people.

They're making these special,
very high-tech weapons.

The Norse gods are using them.

So you have to wonder just
who these mini people are.

The Sons of Ivaldi were
the master craftsmen of the

gods in the Norse system.

And they made each of these
special things that are going to

be needed by these heroic
gods to do their deeds.

Might the Sons Ivaldi
actually be the engineers

behind the building of
Skidbladnir, the magical ship

used by the Norse god Freyr?

If so, who, or what were they?

Now the question is,
whether the Sons of Ivaldi are

real dwarfs, the way we know
dwarfs today, or whether they

are somehow more mythical,
or whether the label "dwarf"

actually stuck to them because
they were somehow smaller.

And of course, today, we quite
often describe the Grey alien

archetype as dwarfish, as well,

simply because they are smaller.

Is it possible that these
little people who are

making these high-tech weapons
were really Grey aliens,

and because they didn't known how
to describe them, they were...

called them dwarfs or little people?

And these little people are
the ones who are making these

high-tech weapons for these Norse gods.

It would seem that these weapons
are extraterrestrial in nature.

Now when you think of dwarfs, and think of

extraterrestrials, you think of
little Greys, and I think the

dwarfs might have been alien Greys.

Might the dwarf like Sons of Ivaldi

described in the Viking
mythologies really be the

alien visitors we know today as the Greys?

And is it possible that the
Viking or Norse gods themselves

were in fact entities from another planet?

If so, how did they get here?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the answer lies in a

Viking legend that speaks of a
rainbow bridge called Bifrost,

a portal that links the realm of
the gods with the world of men.

Bifrost is a bridge that
connects Asgard to Midgard.

And the Bifrost conceptually
is very interesting.

It allows there to be a very
clear connection between humans

and their gods.

The gods would travel
along this rainbow bridge to

their meeting, which was by a divine well.

The red in the rainbow bridge was
burning hot, so it was quite

a trick to use this effectively
as a place of transportation.

Some scholars have speculated
that possibly this was inspired

by the Milky Way.

So, here was this rainbow
bridge that-that could

be traveled upon to get to this
home of the gods, land of the gods.

So, is it possible that this
rainbow bridge, the-the Bifrost,

was some kind of wormhole
that would take people from a

star gate on our planet to the
home of the gods, literally to

another planet?

Say you wanted to get from here all the

way around to China.

It's actually longer to go
around the earth than to cut

through the earth.

A straight line is always
the shortest path.

So, you can imagine if you could

make a wormhole, a cut through
space that connects the two

points you want to get to,
you could make the distance

effectively shorter and get
there in a faster time.

Ancient man would not
understand a technological

description to describe a
wormhole, but this path of light

sounds very similar.

Might the mythical bridge
of Bifrost really have

been an interstellar wormhole?

A cosmic tunnel in space through

which the so-called Viking
gods could travel to Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can be

found by a closer examination of
the Viking gods' incredible weaponry.

Balingsta, Sweden.

Just outside this small town
located 40 miles northwest of

Stockholm is an ancient
carved granite block.

Known as the Boksta Runestone,
it is one of the few remaining

relics that depict the mighty god
Odin holding his magical spear:

Gungnir.

The Boksta Runestone
is an extraordinary ancient

relic that has runic inscriptions
which were used by the Vikings.

It shows Odin riding on
horseback with a spear.

So, one of the things
we find with the Norse

gods is they each have
remarkable possessions,

and among those is a spear that Odin
claims for himself called Gungnir.

And Gungnir is a remarkable
spear in that, whatever you

throw it at, it's going to hit.

According to Viking, or Norse, mythology,

Odin's spear was made by the
Sons of Ivaldi, the very same

creatures who built the ship Skidbladnir.

They imbued the spear with
special properties that not only

made it incredibly accurate,
but gave it immense power.

Gungnir was some kind of high-tech weapon.

No matter who he threw
it at, it would hit it.

Like some laser-guided cruise
missile or something like that,

that just simply could not miss
its mark once it had been set

to its target.

And we know that when
he uses this in war,

it always reaches its target.

This is not something which is simplistic.

This is something which
clearly is advanced weaponry.

And to find that a deity has
this at his disposal can be read

in two things: one, it is all made
up; or two, it is actually factual.

And today, we know that
there are such weapons.

Precision weapons, like laser-guided bombs,

cruise missiles and
satellite-guided munitions

are staples in the world's most
sophisticated military arsenals.

Is it possible that Odin
possessed similar technology?

Could Gungnir actually have been
a guided missile created by

otherworldly beings?

When the ancients are
describing technology,

i-it's clear that they couldn't have
known exactly what this was.

And it opens the question,
is it possible that the weapon

Gungnir was an actual advanced

technology, maybe even possessed
by the Vikings or their gods?

If Gungnir was in fact a
precision guided missile

similar to today's so-called
smart bombs, then what might be

the facts behind Thor's
mighty hammer, Mjolnir?

Thor's hammer had interesting origins.

It was made by dwarfs under duress.

So, the handle wasn't quite
as long as a hammer might be.

But it was enormously powerful
and it had great accuracy.

He could throw it and it would
hit anything that he intended it

to hit, and then it would come

back to him, almost in boomerang style.

What Thor's hammer,
like the weapons of many

of the Norse gods, would seem to

be some high-tech real weapon,
perhaps one given to them by

extraterrestrials.

And when he uses it,
it is actually said that this

weapon is able to crush mountains.

Now, imagine a weapon which is able
to destroy an entire mountain.

The hammer does not cause
explosions; it is really the

physical force which destroys the object.

That is something which today we
describe as a kinetic weapon.

At the NASA Ames Research
Center in Mountain

- View, California...
- locked.

scientist Peter Schultz
is studying the enormous

power of kinetic energy using a
device called a vertical gun.

This is a giant cannon, essentially.

Then it goes up on a corkscrew
so we can hit things at

different angles.

This gun gets up to very high speeds,
and if you get really up there,

you'll start melting
and vaporizing material.

In a sense, this is a
kinetic weapon, except we're not

pointing at anything except
the target inside the tank.

To study the effects of
high-speed kinetic impacts,

scientists use the vertical gun range

to fire projectiles into objects
placed in this reinforced steel chamber

at speeds of up to 15,000 miles per hour.

Today, we're gonna
take this small ball bearing,

which is about 1/100 of an
ounce, and we're gonna fire it

at three miles per second.

That's almost 11,000 miles per hour.

And we're gonna send it into this block.

Now, when you go that fast,
with even an object that small,

that's kinetic energy.

And kinetic energy is the mass
times velocity squared.

So if you're going fast enough,
you could do some serious damage.

Let's see what we do.

Using a battery of high-speed cameras,

some capturing images at 40,000
frames per second, Schultz

investigates how speed and
mass can combine to create

devastating force.

5.53 kilometers.

Rolling.

Moving 15 times the speed
of sound, the projectile

slams into the solid stone block.

Oh, my gosh!

Look at this thing.

Blasted to smithereens.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the

destructive power of this gun
displays uncanny similarities to

Thor's hammer.

The question we have to
ask ourselves is whether

the whole concept of kinetic
energy weapons is something new

or if it already existed
in the ancient past.

And with Thor, we have such a reference.

What if Thor's hammer was some
type of a kinetic energy weapon

and what we have here in modern
times is nothing else but

history repeating itself?

Is it possible that
what the ancient Vikings

described in their myths were
in fact alien technologies?

And do the various accounts of
Odin's spear and Thor's hammer

really help to prove that
Vikings were in contact with

extraterrestrial beings?

If so, then where might
these beings have gone?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may lie in

the strange and sometimes violent
burial rituals of the Vikings.

Tonsberg, Norway.

50 miles south of Oslo lie the

ruins of Oseberghaugen,
a Viking burial mound.

During excavations in 1904,
archaeologists unearthed the

remains of two people buried
inside a Viking long-ship.

Dated to the early ninth century,
the discovery revealed

for the first time some of the

Vikings' ancient burial rituals.

What's very interesting about the Oseberg

ship is the fact that the
Vikings actually chose to bury

their dead in these boats.

Now, this seems very similar
to some type of a conveyance,

possibly going into space.

You see similar references in
other cultures, such as the

Egyptians and even the Chinese.

Throughout Scandinavia, the British Isles

and Iceland are similar Viking
burial sites, many containing

boats and other ship-like markers.

Is it possible the Vikings,
like the ancient Egyptians and

Chinese, buried their dead in
boats in an effort to help their

deceased on their journey
to the afterlife?

And if so, why?

According to ancient Norse
mythologies, slain Viking

warriors joined Odin in his
fabled hall, Valhalla.

Odin's hall in Asgard,
the realm of the gods,

is known as Valhalla, which literally
means "the hall of the "slain."

The way that Valhalla itself is
described is that it's a place

where the dead warriors that
Odin has gathered from the

battlefields spend all day
fighting each other and killing

each other and then are brought
back to life to spend the night

in feasting on an endless
supply of meat and pork.

The courage of the Norse
explorers and warriors was

directly related to the
structure of their fables.

Valhalla was this great reward.

If you served well with great
bravery, you found eternal life

in the company of kindred spirits
in a great banquet hall.

Stories and legends about
Odin's enormous palace

describe it as being almost
metallic, with shimmering walls

and a golden roof.

During the day they drink
and they eat along

these long tables and with fires
down the center of the hall.

And then after they've eaten, they
clear the tables and they all battle.

So this must be tens of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands...

the imagination boggles
at how big this hall must be.

But is there evidence
that Valhalla was more

than just a mythic place?

Could it have been an
extraterrestrial spacecraft,

as some ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Valhalla was not a figment
of our ancestors' imagination,

but it might have been
some type of an orbiting

space station.

The reason why I'm saying this
is because whenever we have a

description of Valhalla, it is
an incredible description of a

place that has weird attributes.

Various descriptions
of Valhalla give it the

reference of being some type of
a large metallic ship, but they

actually bury their dead
in the ships as well.

So is this some type of
reference of them actually

trying to replicate sending
their dead to the heavens or

just like their gods would be
returning to the heavens in some

type of a large metallic ship?

Archaeological evidence
as well as contemporary

accounts also indicate, that in
addition to burying their dead in boats,

the Norse Vikings also sent
many of these burial boats

out to sea and burned them.

But why?

Was it simply a fiery tribute,
one meant to honor the deceased?

Or did the ancient Vikings
simply replicate something their

ancestors had once witnessed, perhaps
the launch of an alien spacecraft?

So my question is whether
or not our ancestors

witnessed rockets or spaceships
taking off and landing with all

of this fire and this smoke and
the earth trembling, that they

over time thought that by
burning their dead they would

imitate what they saw in the past.

Were the Norse Vikings
really in contact with

extraterrestrial beings?

And were these beings thought
of by the early Vikings not as

alien visitors but as gods?

If so, then where might these
celestial visitors have gone?

What we know is that
in the tenth century,

the Norse begin a really extensive
exploration of Europe.

We don't know why they begin to explore.

It is also clear that we don't

know whether they were
helped by other beings.

In fact, there is another theory
which suggests that they were

going to go in search of the deities.

It suggests that the Vikings
were absolutely convinced that

the residence of the deities was
physical, somewhere on planet Earth.

Did the Norse gods
return to their homeland,

prompting the Vikings to travel
the Earth in search of them?

Or did the so-called gods simply

inspire their earthly hosts to
explore the planet in an effort

to spread their extraterrestrial

influence to other parts of the globe?

All this knowledge of the
universe according to the

Norse mythologies was given
to them by the shining ones.

And the shining ones were said
to have descended from nowhere

else but the sky.

So is it possible that
extraterrestrials in fact guided

events in our human history?

And the answer of course is yes.

Because we can find stories
like this all around the world.

It was very deliberate in
order to direct our history.

Thor's destructive hammer,
Odin's all-seeing throne

and a mystical bridge
linking Earth to the heavens.

Are the legends of the Viking
gods really evidence that alien

beings visited mankind
in the distant past?

And if so, might these beings
have been instrumental in the

efforts of the Norse to explore the globe?

Perhaps we will find the answer
deep in a Viking burial mound

or carved on the surface
of an ancient stone.

Or possibly the truth will be
revealed to all mankind

on the day when they return.