Ancient Aliens s21e13 Episode Script

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NARRATOR: Thousands of years ago,
people all over the world
described encounters
with enormous, humanlike beings.
WILLIAM HENRY: In ancient mythologies,
from the Greeks to the Nordics
to the Native Americans,
we have these legends of giants.
NARRATOR: Giants can be
found throughout ancient artwork.
You see really interesting
figures depicted
that are infinitely larger
than regular humans.
NARRATOR: And some archaeologists
even claim to have found human bones
of extraordinary size.
JIM VIEIRA:
Smithsonian scientists uncovered
dozens of enormous skeletons.
NARRATOR: Could it be
that the otherworldly giants
of myth and legend truly existed?
ANDREW COLLINS: I think that
what we have today as a civilization
was given to us by the giants.
NARRATOR: Writing in the
French scientific journal Archeologie,
German geophysicist
Jörg Fassbinder and his team
reveal an extraordinary discovery
that they made along the banks
of the Euphrates River.
While mapping the ancient
Mesopotamian city of Uruk,
the archaeologists found
something remarkable
hidden deep underground.
The German archaeological team
used magnetometers
to survey the ground beneath
what is believed to be the city of Uruk.
They found a number
of underground structures,
but the one that got them
the most excited
was the discovery of a very large tomb.
NARRATOR: What makes
this discovery particularly exciting
is its potential connection
to the oldest known story ever written,
called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The more than 4,000-year-old
Sumerian text
describes King Gilgamesh,
who most experts believe
was a historical figure.
And it describes
that Gilgamesh was buried
beneath the ancient Euphrates River
exactly where the German
archaeological team
detected an underground tomb.
German archaeologists thought
that they had actually discovered
the tomb of King Gilgamesh.
It was right down on the riverbed
where it was described to be.
So they were pretty much sure
that they had found the actual
tomb of King Gilgamesh.
NARRATOR: According to some researchers,
finding the remains of King Gilgamesh
might be the greatest
archaeological discovery of all time,
because Gilgamesh
was described as a giant.
HENRY: The ancient texts
say that Gilgamesh stood
an astounding 11 cubits tall,
which means he would be
about 17 feet tall.
Obviously, a giant.
And Sumerian scholars believe
that Gilgamesh was
a real historical figure.
So, if the structure that
the German archaeologists found
is, in fact, the tomb of Gilgamesh,
then what they've discovered
was the tomb of an actual giant.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the tomb of a giant
lies hidden beneath the earth
in southern Iraq?
Before the German archaeologists
could find out,
Iraq became embroiled
in the Second Gulf War,
and the team was forced
to flee the country.
But ancient astronaut theorists
find it intriguing
that the hero of humanity's
oldest known story
is of giant proportions.
In fact, throughout the ancient world,
nearly every culture
told stories of giants.
HENRY: When we look
at the stories of the giants,
it's a global phenomenon.
From North America, South America,
throughout the Middle East,
there are stories
of these enormously powerful,
very tall beings.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Every ancient culture speaks of
a long-lost time
when the so-called giants
still mingled amongst human beings.
For example, the First Nations
people of Australia,
their original creator gods,
the Wandjinas,
are depicted as these giant,
tall beings.
In ancient Greece, we have stories
of the so-called Cyclops,
these giant, tall beings
with one eye in their forehead.
And in the ancient Veda texts,
the original Buddha allegedly
was 12 feet tall
with blue skin
and hands that would go down
below to his knees.
He was this giant man
that imparted knowledge.
The fact that we have
these stories worldwide
illustrates to me
that there had to have been
a common denominator.
NARRATOR: If giants truly
existed in the distant past,
what were they?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that some accounts of giants
reveal that they were
something other than just humans
of extraordinary size,
like the ancient stories
from Ireland that tell
of mysterious visitors
known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.
HENRY: The Tuatha Dé
Danann descended from the sky
in ships and landed upon the mountains.
These mysterious beings
were giant demigods
that possessed some advanced technology
that they ultimately used
to create some of the most incredible
megalithic constructions ever created.
NARRATOR: The Tuatha Dé
Danann are sometimes credited
as being the builders
of enormous passage tombs
like Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth.
And, in fact,
many ancient megalithic sites
around the world
are associated with giants,
like the Ggantija temple in Malta,
which is believed to be
more than 5,000 years old.
In Malta, you have
some of the most ancient
and most gigantic
megalithic sites on Earth.
One of these megalithic
structures in Malta
is called Ggantija,
because it comes from the giant.
In fact, it was a woman giant
that gave birth to giant twins,
and she created some of these structures
in order to protect her children.
NARRATOR: In the 17th century,
a Maltese nobleman
named Gian Francesco Abela
claimed to have found evidence
that these legends
may have been based in fact.
HUGH NEWMAN: Gian Francesco Abela claims
to have found not only giant skeletons
but skulls, teeth
and other bone fragments
all across the island of Malta.
But also, other people
have reported on them, as well,
at this time.
NARRATOR: Other megalithic
sites connected to stories of giants
include the so-called
Tombs of the Giants in Sardinia,
the Greek archaeological site of Mycenae
and Baalbek in Lebanon.
VIEIRA: Traveling the world,
you will find the same story.
It's ubiquitous.
Megalithic sites are
associated with giants,
supernatural beings,
strange technologies,
and the legends are very explicit.
They're unambiguous.
NARRATOR: One ancient site that
has long been associated with giants
is the famous
megalithic structure in England
known as Stonehenge.
VIEIRA: The original
name of Stonehenge was
the Giants' Ring or the Giants' Dance.
That's the Welsh name.
What's noteworthy is
the earliest representation
of Stonehenge
has Merlin, King Ambrosius
and a 12-foot giant building Stonehenge.
NARRATOR: The image appears
in a mid-14th-century manuscript
illustrating an account
in a much earlier text
called The British History.
Written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1136,
the book recounts how the wizard Merlin
used powerful magic
and the help of giants
to transport and construct
the massive Stonehenge monument.
While the story may sound
like the stuff of fantasy,
there have been multiple reports
of giant bones
being discovered near
the ancient stone circle.
NEWMAN: In the general
area around Stonehenge,
numerous skeletons have been unearthed
over the last 600 years
that suggest that giants
actually resided in this immediate area.
In the early 1500s,
Thomas Elyot,
who was a well-known scholar,
discovered with his father Richard Elyot
at a place just south of Stonehenge
a 14-foot, ten-inch skeleton
in a wooden oak coffin.
And it also had
this strange metal disc
very large,
almost like a tabletop disc
made of lead and tin with these
very strange inscriptions on it.
Elyot was very well respected,
a member of Parliament,
and he recorded this several
times in the historical record.
NARRATOR: Was a giant skeleton,
buried with some kind
of mysterious artifact,
really unearthed at Stonehenge?
Could it be that thousands of years ago,
humans encountered otherworldly
beings of enormous proportions?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest there is even evidence
that giants walked the Earth
in much more recent times,
as recorded in the ship logs
of some of history's greatest explorers.
NARRATOR: It is less than three
months since the start of World War I,
and the front page of The New York Times
is dominated by headlines
about the global conflict.
But on page nine, a sensational article
documents the incredible discoveries
recently made in South America
by Australian explorer
Captain James Besley,
which include the bones
of an eight-foot-tall man.
VIEIRA: In 1914, Captain
Besley led an expedition in Peru
where he unearthed a giant skeleton
with a huge, elongated skull.
He wrote about it. He discovered it.
He reported it.
You know, what's interesting is,
in the historical record,
there's many accounts of giant skeletons
being unearthed
in the Lake Titicaca region.
Some were enormous eight-,
nine-, ten-foot-tall skeletons.
Now, sometimes these are animal bones
that at the time were,
uh, misunderstood.
But oftentimes, they are human burials
with human artifacts, elongated skulls,
but a lot of it seems
to be lost to history.
So it's still open-ended as to
what happened to the bones.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that skeletons of giants
standing as much as ten feet tall
were discovered near Lake Titicaca?
While the finds were well-documented,
what happened to these allegedly giant,
humanlike bones remains unknown.
But researchers point out
that when Spanish conquistadors
first arrived
in Peru in the 1500s,
the Native people told them stories
of giants that once inhabited
the entire region.
TSOUKALOS: In 1553, the Spanish
conquistador Pedro Cieza de León
wrote in his chronicles of Peru
that the Native people
told him about giants
who arrived in the area long ago.
And according to local traditions,
their ancestors
encountered people so tall
that an ordinary human
would only come up to their knees.
And Pedro Cieza de León also claimed
that some of the Spaniards
found a giant shin bone
and a giant tooth.
NEWMAN: There are
accounts of giants existing
around the area of Lake Titicaca
in the Peru, Bolivia,
Altiplano area.
The Inca said that there was a tradition
of these giants called Huaris
building sites like Tiahuanaco
and Puma Punku
long before the Inca or any
other cultures existed there.
We also have stories,
even at Tiahuanaco itself,
that the great founder god Viracocha,
who emerged from Lake Titicaca,
created a race of giants
from the earth, from the mud,
and controlled them
so they would build the megalithic sites
in the area,
like Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku,
before they were then vanquished
by a great flood.
The historical record and the legends
seem to be telling us
about giant humanoids
existing in the past
and being associated
with megalithic building.
NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the stories of giants
and alleged discoveries
of giant bones in Peru are compelling.
But even more intriguing is the fact
that some of history's
greatest explorers
claimed to have actually
seen giants in South America
with their own eyes.
Sanlúcar, Spain.
September 8, 1522.
After more than three years
at sea, the Victoria,
a ship launched by Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan,
sails into the harbor.
Its arrival completes the first
circumnavigation of the globe.
As recorded in the ship's log,
Magellan and his crew
faced dangerous storms,
fierce battles and grand receptions.
But for many,
the most intriguing account
detailed an unusual encounter
near the tip of South America.
TSOUKALOS: Ferdinand Magellan
and his crew were approaching land
near the southernmost point
of South America when,
according to the expedition's
official chronicles,
they encountered these towering giants
who apparently stood
twice as tall as a normal human.
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA (dramatized):
We saw a giant,
who was on the shore of the sea,
quite naked, and was dancing
and leaping and singing.
He was so tall that the tallest
of us only came up to his waist.
However, he was well-built.
The captain named
this kind of people Patagon.
NEWMAN: They witnessed
these extremely tall
human Natives of the area,
and he actually named the area Patagonia
because it translates
as "Land of the Big Feet."
And these clearly had very
big feet, as these were giants.
VIEIRA: According to
the logs of the Victoria,
Magellan took back two of
these giants on his voyage home
with the goal of presenting them
to the court in Spain.
But they became so sick and died,
they had to be thrown overboard.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Ferdinand Magellan,
one of history's
most celebrated explorers,
encountered actual giants in Argentina?
Researchers suggest the story
might be more easily dismissed
were it not for the fact that
a similar encounter with giants
was documented by another famous
explorer in South America.
The account came from Dutch
ship captain Jacob Roggeveen
and his crew in 1722
after they arrived at a mysterious spot
off the coast of Chile
that Roggeveen would
later name Easter Island.
NEWMAN: The Dutch
explorers of Easter Island,
not only did they witness
Polynesian types on the island;
they also witnessed
these very tall people,
which they called giants.
And the strange thing about them
they look quite different
to the native Polynesians.
They were much taller.
They had red or auburn hair.
And in some cases, they described them
as having fairer skin
than the Polynesians
of that particular island.
DAVID CHILDRESS: So here we have
people seeing giants in South America.
And you hear stories
in other places, too,
where people encounter what they say are
extremely tall giants.
And it seems incredible,
but it's certainly,
you know, not impossible.
NARRATOR:
Could explorers in South America
have encountered real-life giants
just a few hundred years ago?
While the accounts of men
like Ferdinand Magellan
and Jacob Roggeveen
are truly incredible,
researchers say that evidence
of giants is even more abundant
in North America.
NARRATOR: At Lovelock Cave,
two miners are collecting bat guano
to be used as fertilizer.
One layer of guano they remove
is estimated to weigh 250 tons,
and within it they discover
incredible ancient artifacts.
We know, from the historical record,
that these excavations occurred.
And they began finding artifacts
duck decoys,
huge woven shoes for-for giant feet
and eventually, they found
a number of skeletons,
complete skeletons
of people with red hair
who were almost eight feet tall.
And there were two museums in Nevada
created for these giant skeletons.
Today, we don't know where
any of those skeletons are.
They are not on display.
NARRATOR: Could the
remains of redheaded giants
have been unearthed
within Lovelock Cave?
While the bones
allegedly recovered in 1911
have since gone missing,
researchers find it compelling
that the Native Paiute people
have oral traditions
involving red-haired giants.
NEWMAN: The first account
of these red-haired giants
at Lovelock Cave
was written about
by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins,
who was the daughter of a chief
of the Paiute tribe.
In 1893, Sarah Winnemucca published
a book about Paiute history
in which she recounted
her people's battles
with a giant called Sai-duka'a.
The Sai-duka'a was said
to have been white-complected,
having red hair,
and well over seven foot tall.
The Paiutes explained
that these giants created
so much of a problem that
the Paiutes had 350 warriors
take care of this problem
once and for all.
NARRATOR: While there are
many skeptics who question her story,
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
was a highly respected figure
who even met with U.S. President
Rutherford B. Hayes
to advocate for the humane
treatment of her tribe.
A bronze statue honoring her
stands prominently
in the Capitol Visitor Center's
Emancipation Hall
in Washington, D.C.
Now, what's fascinating
is that Sarah Winnemucca says
that this was an actual battle.
This wasn't folklore.
This was a battle
that actually happened.
JON DOVER: The Paiutes
were warring with them
for many, many years.
The giants were said
to attack tribal members
and take them and devour them.
And so, finally, the, uh, tribe
just decided that's enough
and set out on a major campaign.
And what they found was that
these giants were inhabiting
a large cave.
And they piled up brush
on the outside and set a fire
and directed the smoke into the cave,
thereby suffocating all the inhabitants.
NEWMAN: What is
interesting about the discovery
in 1911 at Lovelock Cave in Nevada
was the fact that it showed
evidence of extreme burning,
like fires had been lit
inside the entrance to the cave.
And this matched the story
of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
from her writings.
NARRATOR: Sarah Winnemucca's
ancestors not only passed down to her
the story of their war with giants
but also a physical relic
taken from their fallen enemies.
NEWMAN: We have evidence of red hair
because she actually saved
some of the hair
and sewed it into a mourning dress,
which she used when she gave lectures.
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
Lovelock Cave
and the stories surrounding it
provide strong evidence
that there were giants on Earth
in the distant past.
And it is just one
of many sites in North America
associated with giants.
In the 19th century,
Jesuit missionaries
traveling through this area
came upon what is now known as
the Painted Cave of El Carmen.
Adorning the cave walls,
they saw giant figures
that somewhat resembled humans
but with extra digits
on their hands and feet.
VIEIRA: What's fascinating is
when the Jesuits showed up
and spoke to the Cochimí people
who lived in the area in the 1700s,
they claimed that a race of
giants made the rock art there.
They said they came from
the north, male and female.
And when you look at the rock art,
you have these giant beings,
and they have six fingers
on their hands,
which is very interesting.
Polydactyly is a rare
genetic condition in humans.
And it causes the growth
of extra digits,
extra fingers, extra toes.
But in the ancient world,
it's associated with the divine,
the supernatural and giants.
In fact, from places
like isolated Pacific islands,
Australia, Botswana, Africa,
Malta, the American Southwest,
you have extra digits
associated with giant beings.
Now, it's pretty specific iconography
to be found in cultures
that had little or no contact.
NARRATOR: Descriptions of
giants with extra fingers and toes
can even be found within the pages
of the Bible's Old Testament.
TSOUKALOS: In 2 Samuel 21:20,
it says there was a war at Gath
where there was a man of great stature
who had six fingers on each hand
and six toes on each foot.
And he also was born to the giants.
So here we have a biblical description
of a giant with six toes
and six fingers,
very similar to what we see
in that petroglyph in Mexico.
NARRATOR: While the mysterious cave art
and the stories told
by the local Cochimí people
are intriguing, for many researchers,
what's most compelling about
the Painted Cave of El Carmen
is that, just like
Lovelock Cave in Nevada,
it was allegedly found to hold
the remains of giants.
The Jesuits, in their records,
actually reported
unearthing giant bones
and believed that giants lived there
because of what the Cochimí told them.
But it's still open-ended as to
what happened to the bones.
What's noteworthy, however,
is that you have a situation
where myth and oral tradition
is lining up
with the Jesuits' own records.
NARRATOR: Do the
oral histories, petroglyphs
and alleged discoveries
of enormous humanlike bones
reveal that giants
once inhabited North America?
While the evidence
is certainly compelling,
for ancient astronaut theorists,
the most convincing accounts
are those that are backed up
with photographs.
NARRATOR: Sonora, Mexico.
The early 1930s.
American explorer Paxson Hayes
is researching local snake species
while living among
the Indigenous Yaqui people.
His studies take place
over several years,
and as he gains the trust of the Yaqui,
they begin to tell him
about strange happenings
in the region.
Paxson Hayes respected their culture,
so he was brought in, and-and
and these oral traditions
of giants were shared with him.
The Yaqui, like so many other tribes,
firmly believed that there were
giant beings that existed.
NARRATOR: The Yaqui said
that according to their traditions,
somewhere nearby was
an entire lost city of giants,
and Hayes set out to find it.
In 1935, he claimed to have succeeded.
According to Hayes,
the city he discovered
appeared to be thousands of years old.
And what he found there was astounding.
VIEIRA: Paxson Hayes reported to find 34
seven-and-a-half-foot mummified giants.
Now, I have the original press release
that show one of the mummified
giants bundled up that he found
and a giant mummified head
and this enormous gourd.
So there's visual proof.
Paxson Hayes was quite blown away
by all these discoveries
that were being made.
But he lost all his funding
to continue
the exploration and research.
And the lost city has never
been found since, incidentally.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the remarkable
claims of Paxson Hayes are true?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining reports of
another extraordinary discovery
made in the American Midwest.
Throughout the Ohio Valley,
we have what's called
the Adena burial mounds.
And these are, in a sense,
pyramids or mounds.
And starting in the mid-1800s or so,
they began to excavate.
And what these early
archaeologists discovered
was quite astonishing.
They were getting skeletal remains
of people who were giants.
Miamisburg Mound in Ohio
is one of the largest
Adena burial mounds in the region.
Numerous digs took place
in this particular mound
and other mounds in the area.
And in 1856, a remarkable
discovery was unearthed
of an eight-foot, two-inch skeleton
within the mound itself.
Now, this caused a kind of
sensation in the local area.
It was reported in great detail.
Medical doctors
and scholars looked at it.
But the Smithsonian
didn't really follow up
and do some proper
research and analysis.
When it comes to studying
the so-called giant remains
of North America,
the Smithsonian,
they just kind of ignore
any anomalies, anything
that's out of the ordinary
that doesn't fit
their preexisting paradigm.
NARRATOR: The Smithsonian
routinely dismissed reported discoveries
of giant bones.
But records filed by the
institute's own archaeologists
document the discovery
of numerous oversized skeletons
throughout the Ohio Valley.
The Smithsonian's own scientists
have dozens
of recorded instances of the unearthing
of eight-foot-tall inhabitants,
36-inch-circumference skull
found by T.M. Perrin in Illinois.
It's all in the record.
NARRATOR: But if the
Smithsonian discovered giant bones,
why would they later
cover up their existence?
Some researchers suggest
scholars are simply unwilling
to entertain the notion
that something long relegated
to the realm of fantasy
could be real.
The idea of giants belongs to this, uh,
mythological, religious realm
of the ideological enemy of science.
So the incredible intellect
of many people are spent
debunking, marginalizing
and mocking these ideas.
But right in the records
we have another story.
NARRATOR: While the
Smithsonian continues to claim
that giants belong
to the realm of fantasy,
many Native American tribes
consider these supposedly mythic beings
as part of their history.
DOVER: Native Americans have a tradition
of oral history.
That history has to be said
exactly as it happened.
It can't be embellished.
Part of this tradition
is that in the past,
there were giants here on the Earth.
In Navajo culture,
you have the Hero Twins
that were specifically trained
to fight giants.
And they were known
as the giant slayers.
HENRY: According to the story,
the twins emerged from an abalone shell
and turquoise that fell from the sky.
They were raised by a local woman.
And when they grew older, they were told
that giants had been
harassing their people.
And they later went on a journey
to defeat these giants.
NARRATOR: According to Navajo mythology,
a powerful sky being named Tsohanoai,
or "the Bearer of the Sun,"
gave the twins powerful weapons
to aid them in their quest.
JASON MARTELL: One of the twins
was given a magical bow and arrow
that could hit its target
with unwielding precision.
The other twin was given a type of staff
that could somehow protect both of them.
Now, these weapons were said
to have been given to them
by a god that descended from the sky.
To me, this doesn't sound like magic.
It sounds like some type of
misrepresentation of technology,
possibly given to them
by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Navajo story of the Hero Twins
is an account of historical events
that involved not only real-life giants
but also extraterrestrial intervention?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining the writings
of a famous 19th-century mystic
who taught that long ago
Earth was ruled
by a towering race of beings
who possessed
highly advanced technology.
NARRATOR: Famous
Russian mystic and philosopher
Madame Helena Blavatsky founds
the Theosophical Society,
an esoteric organization
that explores theories
on the origins of humanity.
The Theosophical Society was, um,
the most influential esoteric
or spiritual organization
in the late 19th century.
One of the earliest people
to join was Thomas Edison,
who was working on
the light bulb at the time.
And W.B. Yeats,
the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet,
was an early member
of the Theosophical Society.
Abner Doubleday,
who was the Civil War hero,
inventor of baseball.
And one person whom Madame Blavatsky had
an enormous impact on
was Mahatma Gandhi.
Blavatsky starts out as a
as a product of her time
in that the spiritualist movement
is spreading across Europe,
and she really takes it to a new level
and in her early adulthood
goes off on these
sort of grand adventures
to discover what's out there
in the world of esoterica.
And these adventures take her to Tibet,
and she begins to communicate
with intelligences
referred to as mahatmas
or masters or ascended masters.
NARRATOR: Madame Blavatsky
claimed to have been contacted
by an ascended master
she called Koot Hoomi,
who lived in the mountains of Tibet.
Madame Blavatsky believes
that she is bringing forth
this ancient wisdom.
And she demonstrates
through a type of channeling,
and she is bringing forth information
from this brotherhood
of ascended masters.
NARRATOR: According to Blavatsky,
Koot Hoomi brought to light
new information
about humankind's ancient past,
which includes ages in which
giants walked the Earth.
She shared these revelations
in her controversial book,
The Secret Doctrine.
GARY LACHMAN: She wrote this
enormous work called The Secret Doctrine.
And this is an occult history
of the universe,
and it includes the notion
that there were
previous civilizations,
what she called root races.
In her view, humanity went through
or will go through
seven epochs or cycles
in its development, beginning
with the first root race,
which she called Polaria.
This was considered to be an astral race
that lived in one of the polar regions.
The second root race,
she referred to as the Hyperboreans.
They lived at the North Pole.
And then she describes
the third root race,
the Lemurians,
who are described as towering figures.
They are this advanced race of giants
that is followed then
by the fourth root race,
the Atlanteans.
And then she describes us
as actually living
in the fifth root race, which is
a combination of a spiritual
and a material being.
NARRATOR: According to Blavatsky's book,
while there is a progression
from one root race to the next,
it is not a straight line of evolution,
and both the third
and fourth root races,
the Lemurians and Atlanteans,
had technology and spiritual awareness
superior to modern-day humans.
A different cosmology that included
giants and normal people,
different races that existed in the past
and then were replaced
by another root race.
NARRATOR: The concept of root races
was also espoused by Edgar Cayce,
a world-famous psychic
in the early 1900s.
He, too, saw giants in Earth's past,
not only among the Lemurians
and Atlanteans
but also in North America.
CHILDRESS: The famous
psychic Edgar Cayce, as well,
talks about kind of root races
and giants.
And with Edgar Cayce,
he talks about them having,
you know, advanced technology.
HENRY: When viewed through
the lens of ancient astronaut theory,
they are very clearly describing
this advanced race of giants
that possessed technology
that was considered to be
superior to what humans
possessed at that time.
You could open up a line of speculation
that these giants had
an extraterrestrial connection,
if not being
extraterrestrials themselves.
NARRATOR: Could it be that highly
evolved beings of giant proportions
were at the heart
of an advanced civilization
that existed on Earth long
before our recorded history?
According to some researchers,
the answers may lie
within a forbidden book
of the Holy Bible.
The Christian church holds
a secret meeting
called the Council of Laodicea
to discuss the removal of certain books
from the biblical canon.
Among them is the Book of Enoch.
Why it was determined that this book
should be stricken from the Bible
is the subject of much debate,
but many biblical scholars
suggest it was due to
controversial stories
involving the Watchers,
a group of 200 angels
who were tasked
with watching over humankind.
COLLINS: The Watchers
came down from heaven
to mix with mortal-kind.
They were said to have revealed
the arts and sciences of heaven,
and this allowed us
the rudiments of civilization.
But what's so interesting
is that these rebel Watchers
were also said
to have taken human wives,
and the wives gave birth
to giants known as Nephilim.
This is handed down in the Book of Enoch
absolutely clearly.
When the sons of the gods
saw that the daughters of man
were beauty, they took them to wife,
and the product of it were giants.
Just look at these old myths
with modern languages.
Change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."
These giants were a mixture
between humans and extraterrestrials.
The Nephilim are this hybrid offspring
that were extremely powerful
and described as very tall.
They were also threatening to humanity.
In fact, we're told
that the flood of Noah
was sent to destroy the giants.
But there were survivors,
and there were eyewitness accounts
of giants after the flood.
In the Book of Numbers,
the sons of Anak were giants.
Goliath is cited as another of
the descendants of these giants,
very tall in stature,
very powerful being.
TSOUKALOS: The Book of
Enoch used to be part of the Bible.
This book contained, in my opinion,
explosive topics.
Because certain books
of the Bible were removed,
and you have to ask the question, why?
NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
the Book of Enoch provides
compelling evidence
for not only the existence
of giants on Earth
but also their extraterrestrial lineage.
What leads me to think that the stories
of the giants may be true
is that not only do we find
stories of giants in the Book of Enoch
and on pretty much every continent,
but the stories are essentially
very similar, if not identical.
NEWMAN: The stories of
giants are generally regarded
by most people
as kind of bedtime stories
you read to your children at night.
But so much has been written
in the academic record
by doctors and town and county histories
and other sources.
And so, there really is
a reality to these giants
that existed throughout history.
This can't be just a case
of cultural diffusion,
that people all over the world
are creating the same stories.
Instead, to me, it suggests
that humanity has been dealing
with beings referred to as
giants for all these millennia.
CHILDRESS: I think the big
question is, here, you know,
is there some extraterrestrial
race that are giants
who have been here in the past
interacting with humans
and that they're even still here today?
NARRATOR: Are stories of giant beings,
repeated in culture after culture,
and reports of enormous human remains
evidence that a lost race
of giants once walked the Earth?
And if so, are certain groups
working to conceal this truth
from the public?
Perhaps hidden in some secret vault
lies the undeniable proof
that giants are real
and provide an important link
to our extraterrestrial origins.
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