Ancient Aliens

Gateways to other dimensions.

To the Mayans, this represented the passageway to another world.

Hidden dwellings for strange beings.

They were the first inhabitants of the planet Earth.

Secret vaults of cosmic knowledge.

it's almost as though they're opening a doorway...

to communicate with these divine beings.

Since the dawn of man...

caves have been a source of great mystery.

But could the darkest recesses of our planet...

really be hiding some mysterious power?

And within their depths...

might we find evidence of extraterrestrial visitors?

In some ways...

exploring the underground cavern world of planet Earth...

is the final frontier.

Millions of people around the world...

believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might there be a connection...

between aliens and the earth's forbidden caves?

Central India.

July, 2014.

While exploring caves in the region of Charama...

which are known to contain prehistoric artwork...

dating as far back as 10,000 years...

an Indian archaeologist, J.R. Bhagat, makes a stunning discovery.

The Indian government and Times of India had a major story...

about rock paintings found recently in Central India...

that seem to show these tall beings...

and they do not seem to have a nose or a mouth...

and nearby is this three-legged disk.

The Times of India actually proposed the idea-

what if what we have depicted here...

are some type of extraterrestrials or at least some type of flying craft?

Because it's the basis for much of the Hindu pantheon of gods.

Ancient Hindu texts...

like the Vedas and the Puranas...

record stories about extraterrestrials existing on other planets...

and the Mahabharata...

one of ancient India's two major Sanskrit epics...

contains stories about gods coming to Earth in flying machines.

Even the legends specific to this region...

tell of a mysterious race of beings known as the “rohela”...

who descended from the sky and abducted local villagers.

Could the newly unearthed cave an' be a visual record...

that extraterrestrials really visited here?

There was an obsession of ancient human beings...

to depict things that they saw...

and I think they did it with carvings on caves...

because that's what they saw.

But what is it about caves that made them the ideal canvases...

for ancient peoples to chronicle their experiences?

Caves are hugely significant in ancient mythology and legends...

especially about the gods.

They seem to be kind of a luminal point...

a boundary place where the gods and humans can meet.

There is a whole hidden underground world of planet Earth...

that we're only just now beginning to discover.

We don't know what's there.

We could be discovering all kinds of amazing things...

and it's possible...

that there are entire cities under the earth-

whole cavern metropolises...

that are talked about in legends.

But while ancient cave art...

often reveals the type of animals our earliest ancestors encountered...

and their means for hunting them...

there is a surprising number of depictions of strange-looking figures and objects...

that defy any conventional explanation.

In Australia, the Wandjina people, they painted images on their caves...

which eerily looks like the so-called Greys of alien abduction lore today.

You have the strange petroglyphs...

in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria.

Uh, you've got strange rock art too, in the American Southwest...

and when you look at it, and even have the natives explain it to you...

they say things like, “Oh, yes, he's Martian god,” or...

“These are the star people coming from the sky.”

How do we explain so many different cultures...

across thousands of years and thousands of miles...

producing such consistent visual representations?

The ones that were discovered in some of the African caves-

it's too similar...

to what has been discovered on every continent...

for it to be complete coincidence.

So, it's this whole idea of the spark of initial inspiration.

What is it that they witnessed?

And could it be that they witnessed extraterrestrials?

One of the more intriguing aspects...

of the cave paintings that seem to show aliens...

is why are they inside caves?

This has sort of given rise to the theory that maybe these aliens...

perhaps have permanent bases on the planet underground.

Maybe ancient man saw them coming out of some of these caves and caverns...

and then realized there was a relationship between the aliens and the caves.

In ancient times, caves were places of shelter.

But is it possible our ancestors were also using caves...

to record and protect information...

about extraterrestrial beings who played a role in our existence?

Perhaps the answer can be found...

halfway around the world, in the American Southwest.

The Grand Canyon.

This epic, 277 mile-long, one mile-deep fissure...

exposes millions of years of geologic strata.

Imprinted onto this dramatic landscape...

are petroglyphs that depict everyday life...

as experienced by the first inhabitants of the region.

But in one of the most remote corners of the canyon...

is a small cave covered with artwork that mystifies experts.

Some refer to it as the Shaman's Panel...

because it appears to depict scenes of the supernatural.

All around the Grand Canyon are unusual sites and sacred sites.

And then you have the Shaman's Panel there in the Grand Canyon...

which seems to show these long, tall extraterrestrial-type figures.

Like the strange-looking beings found in the cave in Charama, India...

the figures depicted on the Shaman's Panel...

are oddly elongated...

and are also thought to have been created as many as 10,000 years ago.

And just as in Charama...

the native Hopi people here also have detailed accounts...

of extraterrestrials who came down to Earth.

In the Southwest, the Pueblo Indians, such as the Zuni and the Hopi...

believe that there is an entrance into an underground world...

and it is located in the Grand Canyon.

And it's this mythological underworld...

uh, of caves and extraterrestrials, the ant people.

The Hopi have this concept of the ant people.

Uh, the ant people are very thin.

They have elongated heads.

And the ancestral Hopi people...

did make pictures of these ant people which still survive today.

Is it possible the rock art found here...

and elsewhere around the world...

is evidence that the earth's first inhabitants...

had contact with otherworldly beings?

And if so, might there be some significance to the fact...

that many of these strange petroglyphs are found in and around caves?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest further evidence can be found...

by examining the ritualistic practices...

that continue to be performed inside caves even to this day.

The Himalayas, Northern India.

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Every summer, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims...

brave an arduous journey.

They cross many miles of deadly terrain...

to reach the Amarnath Cave-

a place of worship for thousands of years.

12,756 feet above sea level in the Himalayas...

is the most revered holy pilgrimage site...

for all of the people who follow the Hindu faith.

People die because of high-altitude sickness.

Others simply fall off the cliff.

And still, people go there...

because it is considered to be the most holiest, uh, shrine.

According to local lore...

this massive cave is where the god Shiva...

revealed the secrets of immortality and the creation of the universe...

to his wife, Parvati.

To honor Shiva, worshipers pay their respects to a sacred relic inside...

an ice lingam...

which they believe is a physical manifestation of his generative power.

To reveal the secret to transcending the flesh...

the secret to true immortality...

makes that site of extreme importance to the people in the Hindu faith.

To the Hindu faithful...

who risk life and limb to reach the Amarnath Cave...

this story is a real account of an otherworldly being. - .

Who was at this exact location here on Earth.

But why would Lord Shiva choose to divulge his divine secrets in a cave?

Could caves really hold special properties...

that have made them places of worship throughout history?

Interestingly, the Amarnath Cave...

is only one of hundreds of caves around the world...

that have been, at one time, considered sacred.

Archaeologists believe...

a 20-foot long serpentine rock carving in Botswana's Rhino Cave...

was the focus of religious ritual as far back as 70,000 years ago.

And cave monasteries can be found in France...

Russia...

Thailand...

Ethiopia...

and Hungary. . .

Just to name a few.

I don't think that this is a coincidence...

that places of refuge, spiritual refuge, are inside caves.

This is where one can contemplate...

one can hear one's inner voice...

without the distractions of the day.

One thing about caves is they're underground. They're unseen.

Well, religion is about unseen things.

Going into a cave is going into holy ground.

Is the mysterious nature of caves...

enough to explain why they have been revered as sacred places...

by different cultures and religions all over the World?

Ancient' astronaut theorists suggest there may be a more profound reason...

which can be found by examining the stories behind our ancestors' rituals.

Yucatan, Mexico, 2008.

Mexican archaeologists exploring just outside the capital of Merida...