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NARRATOR: Sunken continents
said to have once been home

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to advanced civilizations.

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An ancient shipwreck

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containing what might be
evidence of Atlantis.

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And unidentified
submersible objects

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moving through our oceans.

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For more than a decade,
Ancient Aliens

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has traveled the globe
to investigate

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some of the most
puzzling discoveries

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made in the depths
of our oceans.

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Now we're exploring

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the top ten
mysteries of the deep

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that just may hold the proof

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that Earth has been visited
by extraterrestrials.

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The ocean is the most
mysterious place on Earth.

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It covers 70% of our planet,

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but less than 10% of it
has been explored.

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In fact, we know more
about the surface of Mars

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than we do about
the bottom of our own oceans.

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But what we have
discovered in the depths

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is a treasure trove of evidence

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for the ancient
astronaut theory.

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Like an incredible
underwater formation

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that was found off the coast
of Japan in the 1980s.

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Number ten on our countdown

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of the top ten mysteries
of the deep:

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The Yonaguni Monument.

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NARRATOR:
In the Pacific Ocean,

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at the westernmost tip
of the Japanese archipelago,

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lies the small
island of Yonaguni.

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In 1987, in nearby waters,

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dive tour operator
Kihachiro Aratake

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made a shocking discovery.

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He found a massive complex
of stone formations

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that lay hidden a mere 60 feet
beneath the ocean's surface.

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ROBERT SCHOCH:
It's an absolutely
incredible structure.

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It looks like a giant staircase.

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There are steps
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The symmetry and the regularity
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just makes
a astounding impression.

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HUGH NEWMAN:
It looks like a huge,
multifaceted pyramid platform

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that stretches over a huge area

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with all these details
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There's areas where monoliths
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There's even dolmens,
or large slabs like lintels

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covering areas and creating
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NARRATOR:
Although some
researchers suggest

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that the so-called
Yonaguni Monument

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is simply a rock formation,

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many experts, including
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Masaaki Kimura,
have come to believe

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it is an artificial structure

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that was built
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(speaking Japanese)

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TRANSLATOR: There are
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I think this is not
a natural formation.

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A number of tools and
numerous engraved stones

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were found at the site.

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Because of these things,
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that this was made artificially.

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TSOUKALOS:
There are all these different
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of artificial origin
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...because it's too precise.

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Was Yonaguni artificially
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when the water levels
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We know that this happened
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during the last ice age,
which was 14,000 years ago.

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NARRATOR:
Could this massive
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really be the remnants
of an advanced civilization

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that existed here on Earth
more than 10,000 years ago?

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And if so, who built it?

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ROB SIMONE:
The Yonaguni Monument is
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because some of
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this was built 20,000 years ago.

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So the question is
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with this limited ability
of these people

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that were known to have
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If they had
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it would solve a lot of problems

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in trying to understand
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could mount
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without what we see are
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Was Yonaguni built
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with the help of
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Perhaps clues about
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can be found in the mythology
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It was said in ancient Japan,

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that the dragon god lived
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His daughter had a daughter,

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and her child was Jimmu,
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To be descended from a dragon

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is to be from the divine
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but also from the stars.

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DAVID CHILDRESS:
When these underwater structures
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the Japanese became thrilled.

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They believed that evidence
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was right there
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To me, the Yonaguni Monument
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that an advanced society
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long before our earliest
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And, in fact,
numerous ancient cultures

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around the world tell similar
stories of lost civilizations,

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including one that ended up
submerged beneath the sea.

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Number nine on our countdown

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of the top ten
mysteries of the deep:

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The Lost Continent of Mu.

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NARRATOR:
The Pacific Ocean.

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This body of water
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covering more than
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Curiously, many ancient peoples

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living throughout
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share the same story

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of a long-lost
sunken civilization

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often referred
to as Lemuria, or Mu.

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Mu was this huge continent

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that supposedly existed

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down to Easter Island
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right the way across
to Micronesia in the west.

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It thrived perhaps
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and was sunk beneath the waves,

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possibly at the end
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NARRATOR:
Among the many legends
expressed by Polynesians

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and native Hawaiians,

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one is that
the lost continent of Mu

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was home to visitors
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We have all kind of
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but we call it,
uh, ka po'e o ka lani,

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"the people of the heaven."

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WILLIAM HENRY:
The Hawaiians believed
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were originally part of Mu,

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and the belief
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were the original
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NARRATOR:
While most mainstream scholars

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dismiss the stories of Mu

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as being little more
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ancient astronaut theorists
claim that remnants of Mu

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can still be found today

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in the mysterious
ruins of Nan Madol.

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Nan Madol is a huge basalt city

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that sits on the edge

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of the island of Pohnpei

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in Micronesia
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It's made up of
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potentially millions,
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and much of the site

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is still submerged in the water,

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suggesting it must
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many thousands of years ago.

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SCHOCH:
Some people actually suggested
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was the last remnant of Mu

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that was still above water,

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and it was simply indicative

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of what had sunk
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from this advanced civilization.

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NARRATOR:
Could it be that
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are ruins of an ancient
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known as Mu?

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According to Rufino Mauricio,

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the Director of the Federal
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Office of National Archives,
it's a distinct possibility.

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Legends of lost civilizations
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can be found in cultures
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But one has captured
the public's imagination

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more than any other.

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And some believe
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evidence of its existence
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Number eight on our top ten
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Atlantis.

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NARRATOR:
For over 2,000 years,

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the lost continent of Atlantis

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has sparked the imaginations
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The first reference
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is in Plato's dialogues
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In the very end of Timaeus,
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this mythical place
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from where any and all
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And so, some people
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that the first civilization on
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CHILDRESS:
According to legend,

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Atlantis was founded
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He fell in love with
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and they had five sets of twins.

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And these twins went on
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YOUNG:
Atlantis is thought to be

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a great civilization
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and technological achievement.

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They had robotics at
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The power of levitation,
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they built
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They had achieved things

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that we still
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NARRATOR:
According to Plato,

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Atlantis was destroyed
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by a cataclysmic flood,

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which some identify
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described in the Bible.

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But where the famous city
was located remains a mystery.

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Atlantis was allegedly
this land mass that existed

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beyond the Pillars of Hercules,

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which is today's
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and to this day,
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we have no idea
where exactly Atlantis was.

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NARRATOR:
While most mainstream historians

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dismiss the story
of the sunken civilization

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of Atlantis as a myth,

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ancient astronaut theorists
believe it really existed.

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And as evidence, they point
to a remarkable discovery

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made off the coast of Cuba.

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Canadian explorer
Paulina Zelitsky and her team

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are conducting an oceanic
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when they detect
curious formations

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more than 2,000 feet underwater.

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PAULINA ZELITSKY:
I was in control room
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There suddenly appeared

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a very large, very dark images

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of, uh, perfect
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NEWMAN:
They found, when
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some kind of
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and other structures.

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There were circular areas,

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there was what appeared to be

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some kind of city
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It was about two square
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And so, this is something
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if this is, you know, a reality.

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COLLINS:
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this dates back
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and arguably even earlier,

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and is part of
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NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the underwater ruins

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off the coast of Cuba are
the actual remains of Atlantis?

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Ancient astronaut
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and as further evidence,

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they point to their location
near the Bermuda Triangle,

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a region notorious
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strange disappearances

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and unexplained phenomena.

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CHILDRESS:
It's speculated
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they were creating huge pyramids
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The idea is that there is
still one of these pyramids,

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and it's active beneath
the Bermuda Triangle

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on the ocean floor,

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and it's creating
these anomalies

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that are sometimes seen there
at the Bermuda Triangle.

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If you are a researcher
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this is exactly
the kind of discovery

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that you are looking for.

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Some kind of pyramid
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And in fact, this may well be,

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really, the evidence
for Atlantis that we need.

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Did Atlantis really exist?

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Recently, a mysterious
metal alloy was recovered

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from the depths of the ocean

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that may offer further evidence.

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Number seven on our countdown:

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Orichalcum.

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NARRATOR:
Sicily. 2015.

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Archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa

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excavates a shipwreck
less than a mile off the coast,

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which has remained undisturbed
for more than 2,600 years.

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His team dredges up
an ancient payload

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of 39 metal ingots.

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Spectrographic analysis
of the recovered alloy

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reveals the compound
is unlike anything

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ever found in the ancient

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or modern world.

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The interesting part about this

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is the composition
of the ingots that they found.

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The metal is 80% copper,
and 20% zinc.

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There was other things
found in it,

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but that's the majority
of the composition.

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What's interesting about this

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is that zinc doesn't
naturally occur.

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We didn't have zinc until
about a thousand years ago,

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and this is 2,600 years old.

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NARRATOR:
How is it possible
that such an advanced alloy

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was produced
thousands of years ago,

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centuries before man had
the technology to create it?

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After conducting an analysis,

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scientists believe
the mysterious alloy

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is orichalcum,
a metal associated

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with the legendary
continent of Atlantis.

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CHILDRESS:
According to Plato,

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orichalcum was
an orangish gold-type metal

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that was used in Atlantis.

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It's thought that orichalcum

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was some kind of
alloy of copper and gold,

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and the walls of Atlantis
were wallpapered,

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literally,
with this reddish-gold metal.

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NARRATOR:
According to Plato,

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this metal was given
to the people of Atlantis

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by the Greek god Cadmus.

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JASON MARTELL:
The actual discovery
of the orichalcum metal

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lends credence
to the idea that Cadmus

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did exist at one time,

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passing this knowledge
to humanity.

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And Atlantis could be
an actual physical location,

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possibly harnessing and
utilizing other advanced metals.

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The reason why this ties in to
the ancient astronaut theory

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is based on an idea

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that the ancient gods of Greece

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were visiting extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
Could this mysterious metal,

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found deep beneath
the ocean's surface,

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be proof that humans
lived side by side

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with otherworldly beings
thousands of years ago?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

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and suggest that
further evidence

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of extraterrestrial contact
can be found submerged

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in the waters
off the coast of India.

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India is a treasure trove

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for the ancient
astronaut theory.

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Its mythology is chock-full
of stories of flying chariots

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and god-like beings
descending from the sky.

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And every so often,
the ocean offers us evidence

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that these stories
could be true.

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At number six on our list

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of the top ten mysteries
of the deep:

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The Lost Pagodas
of Mahabalipuram.

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NARRATOR:
Mahabalipuram, India.

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On December 26, 2004,

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a powerful tsunami

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caused the water levels
in the city's harbor to drop.

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As the waters receded,

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residents noticed
something astonishing

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emerging from the sea:

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the ruins of several
ancient buildings.

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SCHOCH:
The ocean receded
about 500 or so meters,

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and people that were there,

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they said they saw walls,
they saw structures

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that they'd never seen before
'cause now the water was gone.

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NARRATOR:
For the more than
one billion Hindus

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around the world,

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the discovery of
these underwater ruins

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was remarkable because
they may provide evidence

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that a sensational story

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contained in ancient sacred
texts called the Puranas

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is not mythological
but historical.

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According to the story,
thousands of years ago,

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seven pagodas stood
at Mahabalipuram,

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but six of them became
submerged beneath the sea

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after the city
was attacked by a god

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who came down from the sky.

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CHILDRESS:
The legend at Mahabalipuram

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says that the god Indra
became jealous

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of the special treatment of the
other gods depicted at the site.

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And that he then sent
a flood against the city.

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Hindu mythology
really reads like

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the wildest
science fiction of today.

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It's filled with
all kinds of magic stones,

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flying spaceships.

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TSOUKALOS:
In fact, ancient India,

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their entire pantheon
of gods is based

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exclusively on a cosmic origin,

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that they arrived
from deep space.

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NARRATOR:
For centuries,
many Hindus believed

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that the Shore Temple
at Mahabalipuram

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represented the one surviving
pagoda from Indra's attack.

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Could the structures
that were revealed

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by the receding
ocean levels in 2004

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be the remnants
of the other six pagodas,

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proving that
the incredible story is true?

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CHILDRESS:
At Mahabalipuram, you have
evidence that the legends

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are really correct
about this place.

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That it's far more ancient
than archeologists assumed.

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And it would seem
to be an indication

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that this was a real event,

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one that perhaps
included extraterrestrials.

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If you leave Mahabalipuram

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and travel
1,000 miles northwest,

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you will find
another mysterious site

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off the coast of India.

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20 feet beneath the waves
are the ruins of an ancient city

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that some believe was the home
of an extraterrestrial being.

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Number five on our list:

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The Sunken City of Dwarka.

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NARRATOR:
Dwarka, northwest India.

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April 1983.

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Marine archeologist Dr. S.R. Rao

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begins a seven-year
underwater exploration

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just off the coast
of this ancient fishing town,

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and what he finds is stunning.

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Submerged 20 feet beneath
the surface of the ocean,

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he finds sandstone walls,
cobblestone streets,

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and further evidence
of a prosperous ancient city

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that sank into the sea.

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At Dwarka, what has been
found so far under the ocean

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is incredibly tantalizing.

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For instance,
there's this huge wall,

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estimated about 580 meters long.

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Pottery has been found,
anchors have been found,

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so this seems to have been
a maritime city.

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COLLINS:
The remains that have been
discovered beneath the waters

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have been radiocarbon dated

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to at least 9,500 years.

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So, this was
many thousands of years

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older than that of Sumeria,

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Egypt and China.

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So, what exactly was going on

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in India at this time?

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NARRATOR:
For centuries,

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the modern-day city of Dwarka

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was thought by many Hindus

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to be the Dwarka
described in the Mahabharata

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as the ancient kingdom
of the god Krishna.

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According to the text,
during the Kurukshetra war,

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a rival to Krishna,
Lord Salva,

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attacked Dwarka
from a flying chariot.

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He actually,
uh, flew over Dwarka,

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using his chariot,

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and he started bombarding
the city of Dwarka,

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throwing down
all kinds of weapons.

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Shortly after the great war,
Krishna is killed.

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And the city,
this magnificent city

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built on land that
came out of the sea,

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sank back into the ocean again.

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It only existed during the time
that Krishna lived there.

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COLLINS:
Is it possible

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that the pre-Vedic
cultures of India

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really did have high technology?

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And I think, from
the ancient accounts

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and what's now been
discovered at Dwarka,

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the answer has to be yes.

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The discoveries at
Dwarka and Mahabalipuram

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provide sensational evidence
that ancient Hindu stories

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of advanced technology
are not works of fiction.

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And there is yet another
incredible underwater structure

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located between
India and Sri Lanka

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that may offer further proof.

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Number four on our list:

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Rama's Bridge.

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NARRATOR:
Just off the southeastern
tip of India lies Sri Lanka.

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This island nation has been
an important trading hub

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for thousands of years,

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but it is nearly impossible

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for ships to pass between
Sri Lanka and India

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due to a more than 30-mile-long
underwater barrier

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that links the two landmasses.

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TSOUKALOS:
If you look at satellite
imagery, you can see

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that there seems to be some
sort of a connector, a road.

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This is referred to
as Rama's Bridge.

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NARRATOR:
The mainstream viewpoint
is that Rama's Bridge

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is a chain of natural
limestone shoals.

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But millions of Hindus
believe the barrier is,

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in fact, an ancient bridge,

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one that was built by the god
for whom it is named.

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Rama is a major Hindu deity,

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considered by some
to be the supreme being.

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According to the ancient
Sanskrit text the Ramayana,

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Rama's wife was kidnapped and
taken to the kingdom of Lanka.

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To rescue her, Rama used
magical construction techniques

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to build a bridge to Lanka.

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Some of the interesting details
of the building of Rama's Bridge

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is that they were writing
Rama's name on these stones

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and that would magically
levitate the stones.

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And some of these
were very big stones, too.

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SHIMKHADA:
According to the mythology,

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you know, Rama lived
around 6,000 years ago,

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and there is interesting fact
that some geologists

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carbon-date the material
on the bottom

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approximately dating
around the same time.

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So that kind of corroborates
whether or not

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this story is connected
to the mythology

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because the age of Rama
is around that period.

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NARRATOR:
In 2018, government
officials in India

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voted against plans
to cut a shipping lane

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through the middle
of the barrier,

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showing their support
for the notion

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that the underwater structure
known as Rama's Bridge

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was, in fact,
built by the Hindu deity.

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CHILDRESS:
Rama's Bridge
to Sri Lanka is real.

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And you have to ask
yourself, was it built

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artificially by levitating
stones and putting them there?

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That's what
the Ramayana tells us.

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Some of the mysteries
we've investigated

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on Ancient Aliens
are so baffling,

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we can only guess at
what might explain them.

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And perhaps one of
the most mystifying

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lies on the islands of Malta.

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Number three on our countdown

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of the top ten
mysteries of the deep:

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The Malta Cart Ruts.

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NARRATOR:
In the middle of
the Mediterranean Sea,

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just south of Sicily,
lies the Republic of Malta.

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This tiny island nation

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boasts some of the most
impressive megalithic structures

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on the planet.

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And crisscrossing the islands

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is something even
more mysterious:

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a complex network of grooves
carved into the bedrock

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known simply as the "cart ruts."

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SCHOCH:
Something that Malta

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is very well known for
archaeologically,

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besides the megalithic temples,

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are the cart ruts.

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These are ruts literally
in the limestone rock.

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TSOUKALOS:
If you have grooves

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that were created by some sort
of a transportation device,

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well, it had to have been
pulled by something,

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so where are the footprints?

502
00:28:24,042 --> 00:28:27,333
There are no footprints.

503
00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:32,958
NARRATOR:
How and why the cart ruts
were formed remains a mystery,

504
00:28:33,042 --> 00:28:37,208
but their existence
poses a profound possibility,

505
00:28:37,292 --> 00:28:39,375
because some believe

506
00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:42,708
they may reveal that there
was human activity on Malta

507
00:28:42,833 --> 00:28:45,167
many thousands of years before

508
00:28:45,250 --> 00:28:48,417
what has been suggested
by mainstream archaeology.

509
00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:52,125
TSOUKALOS:
We have cart ruts

510
00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:55,833
that go into
the Mediterranean Sea.

511
00:28:55,917 --> 00:28:58,375
And then they also
come out on the other side.

512
00:28:59,708 --> 00:29:01,500
How is this possible?

513
00:29:05,333 --> 00:29:08,083
NARRATOR:
Some of the cart ruts
that extend from dry land

514
00:29:08,167 --> 00:29:10,958
down into the sea
have reportedly been found

515
00:29:11,042 --> 00:29:14,292
at depths
of as much as 140 feet.

516
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,333
This presents a critical clue

517
00:29:17,417 --> 00:29:20,625
as to just how long ago
they must have been created.

518
00:29:21,667 --> 00:29:25,417
I suspect that some of these
cart ruts are really ancient,

519
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:27,292
and when I say "really ancient,"

520
00:29:27,375 --> 00:29:29,375
that is going back

521
00:29:29,458 --> 00:29:32,917
to before the end
of the last ice age.

522
00:29:34,083 --> 00:29:38,500
So, approximately,
uh, 12,000 years or so,

523
00:29:38,583 --> 00:29:40,333
the ice age ended, we know.

524
00:29:42,042 --> 00:29:45,583
Some of these cart ruts
going into the water,

525
00:29:45,667 --> 00:29:50,333
that would've been dry land
when sea levels were much lower.

526
00:29:51,833 --> 00:29:54,917
If you propose the idea
that 12,000 years ago,

527
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,167
which is a fact, the worldwide
water levels were lower,

528
00:29:59,292 --> 00:30:01,458
then all of a sudden,
these cart ruts

529
00:30:01,542 --> 00:30:04,333
that go into the Mediterranean
Sea make sense.

530
00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:08,000
The fact that
these cart ruts exist,

531
00:30:08,125 --> 00:30:12,833
to me, illustrates that
an advanced civilization

532
00:30:12,958 --> 00:30:15,292
must have existed at that time.

533
00:30:16,375 --> 00:30:20,000
NARRATOR:
If the cart ruts are
more than 12,000 years old,

534
00:30:20,042 --> 00:30:22,167
as some researchers suggest,

535
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:24,375
who would have been
around to create them?

536
00:30:25,833 --> 00:30:28,333
It's a question
that continues to baffle

537
00:30:28,458 --> 00:30:30,083
mainstream archaeologists.

538
00:30:30,167 --> 00:30:33,167
But according
to local traditions,

539
00:30:33,208 --> 00:30:35,875
the megalithic
structures on Malta

540
00:30:35,958 --> 00:30:37,833
were built by
a race of giant beings

541
00:30:37,917 --> 00:30:40,542
who came to Earth
from the stars.

542
00:30:42,083 --> 00:30:43,875
HENRY:
We have to be open
to the possibility

543
00:30:43,958 --> 00:30:45,708
that whoever built these

544
00:30:45,792 --> 00:30:47,750
were not, in fact, human beings,

545
00:30:47,833 --> 00:30:49,375
but were perhaps
a separate race,

546
00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,833
and their existence
and even their origins,

547
00:30:51,958 --> 00:30:54,083
is completely
shrouded in mystery.

548
00:30:55,375 --> 00:30:57,625
NARRATOR:
Are the so-called "cart ruts,"

549
00:30:57,708 --> 00:30:59,333
that not only crisscross Malta

550
00:30:59,375 --> 00:31:02,375
but extend deep into
the Mediterranean Sea,

551
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:06,083
evidence of advanced,
otherworldly visitors?

552
00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:09,000
For ancient astronaut theorists,

553
00:31:09,125 --> 00:31:12,208
the answer is a resounding yes.

554
00:31:13,375 --> 00:31:16,750
And they suggest
that the waters of our oceans

555
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:18,167
not only contain evidence

556
00:31:18,250 --> 00:31:22,000
of extraterrestrial visitation
in the distant past,

557
00:31:22,083 --> 00:31:24,875
but they are the location
of encounters

558
00:31:24,958 --> 00:31:28,917
that are happening
to this very day.

559
00:31:38,083 --> 00:31:43,208
Most people assume that UFOs
are only seen up in the sky.

560
00:31:43,292 --> 00:31:46,083
But what if I told you
that some of the most

561
00:31:46,167 --> 00:31:49,875
widely reported sightings
involve mysterious craft

562
00:31:49,958 --> 00:31:53,125
flying in and out of our oceans?

563
00:31:53,208 --> 00:31:55,167
Number two on our countdown

564
00:31:55,250 --> 00:31:57,833
of the top ten mysteries
of the deep:

565
00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,708
Unidentified
Submersible Objects.

566
00:32:06,958 --> 00:32:09,500
NARRATOR:
Hitachi Province, Japan.

567
00:32:09,625 --> 00:32:11,208
1803.

568
00:32:13,458 --> 00:32:17,792
Local fishermen are astonished
when a mysterious metal craft

569
00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:22,083
washes ashore that is unlike
anything they have ever seen.

570
00:32:24,250 --> 00:32:26,167
NICK POPE:
This craft was likened

571
00:32:26,292 --> 00:32:29,375
to the shape of
a Japanese incense burner.

572
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:34,083
It is almost literally
a flying disk, a flying saucer.

573
00:32:34,167 --> 00:32:36,875
On the outside of this craft

574
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,917
were multiple
small metal plates,

575
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,292
not too dissimilar
to heat-resistant tiles

576
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:47,000
that you'd find, say,
on a space shuttle.

577
00:32:49,375 --> 00:32:51,375
NICK REDFERN:
A hatch opened,

578
00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,125
and a young woman
came out of the craft

579
00:32:54,208 --> 00:32:58,125
dressed in clothes that
had never been seen before,

580
00:32:58,208 --> 00:33:00,083
and speaking a language

581
00:33:00,208 --> 00:33:02,542
that nobody understood
in the slightest.

582
00:33:03,958 --> 00:33:06,000
POPE:
The story of the strange craft

583
00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:10,000
appears in three
different Japanese texts.

584
00:33:10,125 --> 00:33:12,500
Even today, modern historians

585
00:33:12,542 --> 00:33:16,167
struggle to understand
what this means.

586
00:33:17,208 --> 00:33:19,167
NARRATOR:
Another famous incident

587
00:33:19,250 --> 00:33:22,875
involving a strange craft
emerging from underwater

588
00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:25,000
occurred in
Yunnan Province, China,

589
00:33:25,083 --> 00:33:28,333
on October 24, 1991.

590
00:33:28,417 --> 00:33:31,958
A local man was fishing
on Fuxian Lake

591
00:33:32,042 --> 00:33:34,250
on a clear and tranquil day

592
00:33:34,375 --> 00:33:37,333
when a large disc suddenly
flew out of the water.

593
00:33:37,375 --> 00:33:40,042
POPE:
This strange craft

594
00:33:40,125 --> 00:33:43,833
actually emerged from
the waters of the lake.

595
00:33:43,958 --> 00:33:46,458
He described it
as a shining disc.

596
00:33:47,542 --> 00:33:50,958
This UFO was so close
and so powerful

597
00:33:51,042 --> 00:33:53,542
that it actually
tossed the boat around.

598
00:33:54,958 --> 00:33:56,875
And then, rapidly, this craft

599
00:33:56,958 --> 00:33:59,417
just disappeared
up into the sky.

600
00:34:06,667 --> 00:34:10,000
NARRATOR:
Navy personnel
aboard the USS Omaha

601
00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:13,667
capture footage
of a mysterious round object

602
00:34:13,792 --> 00:34:15,667
flying into the ocean.

603
00:34:15,708 --> 00:34:17,333
TAYLOR:
Night footage

604
00:34:17,375 --> 00:34:19,292
actually shows a craft

605
00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:21,625
that is spherical and
it's flying through the air...

606
00:34:23,042 --> 00:34:25,375
...and then suddenly
it flies into the water

607
00:34:25,458 --> 00:34:27,208
without making a splash.

608
00:34:28,708 --> 00:34:31,333
NARRATOR:
Japan. China.

609
00:34:31,458 --> 00:34:32,792
San Diego.

610
00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:36,208
These are just three
out of hundreds of reports

611
00:34:36,292 --> 00:34:38,417
of what are known as "USOs."

612
00:34:38,542 --> 00:34:43,625
BILL BIRNES:
A USO is an "unidentified
submerged object."

613
00:34:44,792 --> 00:34:46,417
It's the same thing as a UFO,

614
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,167
except this one's in the water,

615
00:34:48,292 --> 00:34:49,667
and a UFO is a flying object.

616
00:34:51,083 --> 00:34:53,083
You see them off
the coast of California,

617
00:34:53,208 --> 00:34:55,417
you see them a lot
in the Gulf of Mexico.

618
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:59,375
Spend some time on
the Florida Gulf Coast,

619
00:34:59,375 --> 00:35:01,375
you will see a USO.

620
00:35:02,542 --> 00:35:04,292
TAYLOR:
These objects are flying along,

621
00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:06,042
uh, through the atmosphere,

622
00:35:06,125 --> 00:35:08,375
and then suddenly,
they go into the ocean.

623
00:35:08,458 --> 00:35:10,958
No splash, no wake, nothing.

624
00:35:11,042 --> 00:35:12,542
They just go
right into the water

625
00:35:12,667 --> 00:35:15,542
and then come out of the water
in many cases, and fly away.

626
00:35:15,625 --> 00:35:17,625
Now, one such never
came out of the water,

627
00:35:17,708 --> 00:35:20,583
and a submarine was actually
dispatched to look for a craft

628
00:35:20,667 --> 00:35:22,792
that may have crashed,
but never found anything.

629
00:35:24,042 --> 00:35:25,542
KAKU:
The stresses and strains

630
00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:27,583
by flying through
the atmosphere,

631
00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:30,625
in outer space and then
plunging into the oceans

632
00:35:30,708 --> 00:35:34,250
would be enough to rupture
any of our known aircraft.

633
00:35:35,292 --> 00:35:37,042
NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

634
00:35:37,167 --> 00:35:38,667
perhaps the most
compelling story

635
00:35:38,792 --> 00:35:41,458
of an extraterrestrial
presence in Earth's oceans

636
00:35:41,542 --> 00:35:43,792
can be found in an account

637
00:35:43,875 --> 00:35:46,333
from 1492,

638
00:35:46,417 --> 00:35:49,167
recorded by
Christopher Columbus.

639
00:35:50,667 --> 00:35:53,500
There's a famous story
about Christopher Columbus

640
00:35:53,625 --> 00:35:55,417
and he wrote this
in his journals...

641
00:35:56,708 --> 00:36:00,333
...that as he was moving
west across the Atlantic,

642
00:36:00,417 --> 00:36:02,833
towards the Caribbean,
in his first voyage,

643
00:36:02,917 --> 00:36:06,958
he saw a light out
in the ocean to the west,

644
00:36:07,042 --> 00:36:09,500
hovering over the water.

645
00:36:09,583 --> 00:36:14,292
And this light then
descended into the water.

646
00:36:14,375 --> 00:36:18,583
So, he's perhaps one of
the first witnesses to describe

647
00:36:18,667 --> 00:36:20,667
a trans-medium craft like this,

648
00:36:20,792 --> 00:36:23,667
which could hover,
uh, above the water

649
00:36:23,792 --> 00:36:25,833
and then disappear
into it like a submarine.

650
00:36:27,792 --> 00:36:32,500
BIRNES:
Stories of undersea objects,
glowing objects

651
00:36:32,583 --> 00:36:34,500
that fly out of the water,
have been around

652
00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:37,167
for well over
thousands of years.

653
00:36:37,208 --> 00:36:41,333
Are these machines
that the extraterrestrials

654
00:36:41,458 --> 00:36:43,208
have under the water?

655
00:36:45,292 --> 00:36:47,917
There is only one mystery
left on our countdown,

656
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,375
and you don't want to miss it
because what was discovered

657
00:36:51,458 --> 00:36:56,458
just may be evidence of
an underwater alien base.

658
00:37:05,792 --> 00:37:08,875
On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated

659
00:37:08,958 --> 00:37:10,875
the ocean's biggest mysteries

660
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,500
for evidence of extraterrestrial
contact in the distant past.

661
00:37:15,542 --> 00:37:17,667
But recent satellite images

662
00:37:17,750 --> 00:37:20,625
may suggest that
otherworldly beings

663
00:37:20,708 --> 00:37:23,500
are inhabiting our oceans today.

664
00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:26,542
Number one on our list

665
00:37:26,625 --> 00:37:28,375
of the top ten
mysteries of the deep:

666
00:37:28,458 --> 00:37:30,792
Underwater Alien Bases.

667
00:37:35,375 --> 00:37:37,833
NARRATOR: With almost
200 miles of coastline,

668
00:37:37,917 --> 00:37:41,167
this picturesque region
is famous for its beaches,

669
00:37:41,250 --> 00:37:45,083
surfing and abundant sea life.

670
00:37:45,208 --> 00:37:46,917
It is also a hotspot

671
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,417
for sightings of mysterious
lights in the water.

672
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:53,917
BIRNES:
Folks have seen lights

673
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,292
in the water outside Point Dume

674
00:37:56,375 --> 00:37:57,708
off the Malibu coast.

675
00:37:59,125 --> 00:38:02,333
There is this
very strange 911 call

676
00:38:02,375 --> 00:38:05,375
from an observer
near Point Dume,

677
00:38:05,458 --> 00:38:07,708
saying he saw a light
coming out of the water

678
00:38:07,792 --> 00:38:09,667
and calling it into
the sheriff's station.

679
00:38:10,833 --> 00:38:13,667
POPE:
One theory about this
trans-medium travel

680
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:17,333
and these USOs
is that what we're seeing

681
00:38:17,417 --> 00:38:20,750
is evidence of underwater bases.

682
00:38:20,833 --> 00:38:23,875
They're operating here,
but under the oceans,

683
00:38:23,958 --> 00:38:25,583
right under our noses.

684
00:38:26,750 --> 00:38:29,792
NARRATOR:
While the idea of
underwater alien bases

685
00:38:29,875 --> 00:38:33,333
in Earth's oceans may
sound like science fiction,

686
00:38:33,375 --> 00:38:36,833
in 2014, satellite imagery

687
00:38:36,958 --> 00:38:40,167
revealed a very curious
formation on the seabed

688
00:38:40,208 --> 00:38:43,000
six miles off
the coast of Malibu.

689
00:38:44,208 --> 00:38:47,417
CHILDRESS:
The satellite photos
show what seems to be

690
00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:50,833
an oval, flat-topped structure

691
00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:55,375
that's got legs coming
down that are holding it up.

692
00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:59,750
It's about
2,000 feet underwater.

693
00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:04,083
POPE:
A lot of people got
very excited by this discovery.

694
00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:05,750
It's really quite striking,

695
00:39:05,875 --> 00:39:08,542
and it really does
look artificial.

696
00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:12,000
And it makes you
wonder, is this,

697
00:39:12,042 --> 00:39:14,542
as some believe,
an extraterrestrial base?

698
00:39:15,708 --> 00:39:18,667
NARRATOR:
Is there a connection
between the strange lights

699
00:39:18,750 --> 00:39:22,333
seen in the waters off
the coast of Southern California

700
00:39:22,333 --> 00:39:24,417
and the mysterious
undersea structure

701
00:39:24,542 --> 00:39:26,792
captured in the satellite image?

702
00:39:26,875 --> 00:39:30,417
For some scientists,
it's a distinct possibility.

703
00:39:31,958 --> 00:39:34,708
KAKU:
If all these objects
are buzzing our aircraft,

704
00:39:34,792 --> 00:39:38,000
they must have
a base of operations.

705
00:39:38,125 --> 00:39:40,708
But you see, if they have
a base of operations

706
00:39:40,833 --> 00:39:43,500
that's easily detected
by us humans,

707
00:39:43,583 --> 00:39:46,500
it would sort of defeat
the purpose of observing us.

708
00:39:46,625 --> 00:39:49,333
So, perhaps there's
an underwater base

709
00:39:49,375 --> 00:39:52,500
that is away from
prying eyes of humans

710
00:39:52,542 --> 00:39:55,542
so that we don't
interfere with their plans.

711
00:39:55,625 --> 00:39:58,083
That cannot be ruled out.

712
00:40:00,375 --> 00:40:03,292
NARRATOR:
While the formation
discovered deep in the ocean

713
00:40:03,375 --> 00:40:05,667
off the coast of Malibu
is highly unusual,

714
00:40:05,750 --> 00:40:08,000
it is not entirely unique.

715
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,625
Across the globe,
mysterious anomalies

716
00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:14,875
have been detected on the seabed

717
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,833
that some suggest are
underwater alien structures.

718
00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:21,708
The under ocean
geological survey

719
00:40:21,792 --> 00:40:24,542
determined that there were
dome-like structures

720
00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:27,958
between Cuba and
the coast of Florida.

721
00:40:28,042 --> 00:40:30,500
Was that a USO base?

722
00:40:31,542 --> 00:40:34,083
Because underwater,
underneath our oceans,

723
00:40:34,167 --> 00:40:36,583
best place,

724
00:40:36,708 --> 00:40:39,000
the very best place
to conceal yourself.

725
00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,333
COLLINS:
Absolutely anything
could be hiding within

726
00:40:43,458 --> 00:40:45,042
the oceans themself.

727
00:40:45,125 --> 00:40:48,792
And the depths of them
could hide vehicles,

728
00:40:48,875 --> 00:40:51,917
could even hide bases,

729
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,458
uh, for hundreds,
if not thousands of years.

730
00:40:54,542 --> 00:40:56,667
We would not be aware
of their presence.

731
00:40:58,542 --> 00:41:00,042
CHILDRESS:
The oceans have everything

732
00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:04,417
that the crew of a ship
would need to survive.

733
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:09,208
It's got plants and animals
that can be harvested for food.

734
00:41:09,292 --> 00:41:11,333
There's minerals and salt

735
00:41:11,417 --> 00:41:13,208
that can be taken
from the water.

736
00:41:14,458 --> 00:41:18,250
You can even
separate the hydrogen

737
00:41:18,333 --> 00:41:20,875
from the oxygen in the water

738
00:41:20,958 --> 00:41:24,208
to create fuels
and-and air to breathe.

739
00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:29,167
Everything that is
necessary for life

740
00:41:29,208 --> 00:41:31,458
can be found in the oceans,

741
00:41:31,542 --> 00:41:34,167
and it may be that
if extraterrestrials

742
00:41:34,292 --> 00:41:37,417
are in our oceans,
they're not just hiding there,

743
00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:39,708
this may be
their preferred environment.

744
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:45,917
The idea that alien
bases might be hidden

745
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,583
on the ocean floor
is incredibly thrilling.

746
00:41:50,625 --> 00:41:52,625
But while much of
the ocean's depths

747
00:41:52,625 --> 00:41:54,750
remain impossible to explore,

748
00:41:54,833 --> 00:41:57,542
ancient astronaut
theorists believe

749
00:41:57,625 --> 00:41:59,333
that the deeper we go,

750
00:41:59,375 --> 00:42:01,875
the closer
we'll get to the truth

751
00:42:01,958 --> 00:42:05,583
about mankind's
extraterrestrial past.

752
00:42:05,667 --> 00:42:08,000
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