Ancient Aliens

Enormous man-made caves.

Nobody knows what on earth

these things are.

Unexplainable structures.

You ask them, "How did you build these?"

And they'll say, "We didn't build this."

And underwater discoveries

that challenge everything we know about the past.

That's amazing.

I'm convinced. Something's going on down there.

Is it possible that an advanced civilization

inhabited the earth thousands of years ago?

And if so, were they human

or something out of this world?

Extraterrestrials

colonized Planet Earth

thousands of years ago.

The more we uncover,

it will all point in one direction.

We are not the first.

Since the dawn of civilization,

mankind has credited its origins to gods

and other visitors from the stars.

What if it were true?

Did extraterrestrial beings

really help to shape our history?

And if so...

what might we learn from the study of aliens BC?

Traverse City, Michigan.

May 22, 2015.

At an undisclosed location

in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan,

author and explorer David CHILDRESS

has teamed up with sonar technician Brian Abbott

and underwater photographer Chris Doyal

to investigate a series of strange

underwater rock alignments

they first discovered in 2007.

So you don't bring very many people out here, do you?

No, you're one of the first we've brought out to this site.

We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret.

Chris has been out here a few times.

Well, it's a pretty sensitive site,

so we try to keep traffic to a minimum.

Well, how did you find this site, anyway?

Uh, we were actually out looking for shipwrecks

and we put our sonar down off the side

and I started to see stones line up on my rose compass.

Okay, and then you deploy this sonar and take a picture, huh?

Yeah, we, uh, we can get that done here real quick,

we can deploy the sonar off the side

and, uh, start getting some images

and show you what we've got on the screen.

All right, great, let's do it.

Excellent.

When I first found these on the computer screen,

I started to laugh, because it was like,

this can't be true,

and I jokingly said,

"Hey, we have our own Stonehenge underwater,"

and everyone, "Ha, ha, ha,"

and I started looking at it farther and I'm going, "Wow."

We might have something here."

Set the cable here, we'll be all set.

So we'll take a look at the computer screen.

Okay?

All right. So the sonar's spinning around.

So as you can see in this, uh, deployment location,

we have, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six stones.

And what's really interesting about this

is, these stones all measure the same distance across.

Yeah, this does look like an artificial alignment...

This stone circle and then this line of stones there.

Yeah, that was unique to me,

because as an engineer, when I look at stuff

that's square or rectangular or circle in nature,

it-it kind of makes it jump out, because Mother Nature

generally doesn't do things like that.

What I saw on the sonar

looked a lot like stone circles

and stone alignments that I've seen in England,

or Carnac in France,

and it makes me wonder what's going on here

in Ancient North America.

So have you actually, uh, been down here

in scuba equipment?

No, I haven't, but Chris has.

Yeah, we went down

and I actually took some still photographs of it

and we noticed on one of the stones

there's some really interesting carvings on the surface of it.

Some people have even said

that it appears to resemble a mastodon.

- Really? - Really.

- Wow. Can we go down there now and see it? - Yeah, absolutely.

Taking an underwater camera

down to the mastodon rock,

Chris Doyal will send up a live feed

to a monitor on the boat.

As he descends, he's gonna pick out the stone here.

Okay.

What's that?

That's the stone.

Is-is this the stone that has the carvings on it?

Yes, it is. So he's moving slowly in on it.

So you can see the head, right through there.

There's a tusk.

So we have one leg coming down.

It does look like the stone has been carved, and...

Yeah. -Yeah, you can see the legs and a trunk on it.

Wow! That's amazing.

- I'm... - Yeah, it truly is.

Yeah, I-I'm convinced.

Uh, something's going on down there.

Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago,

mastodons went extinct.

So we've got a carving on a rock formation

at, you know, a depth of water

that, uh, you know, probably shouldn't be here, but is here.

This rock is probably made out of granite,

which is very, very hard,

and if you look up close at these markings,

you can see that these were made by percussion marks.

These weren't just scratched into the surface,

that each line was individually pecked out.

That rock looks like it has a carving of a mastodon on it.

And that would mean that that carving was made

before the extinction of these mastodons.

So you have to wonder

what was going on here in North America

at the time of the last ice age.

The carved image of a mastodon?

An animal that has been extinct

for over 10,000 years?

But what is it doing at the bottom of Lake Michigan?

Could it really be part

of an artificially created rock formation,

like Stonehenge in England?

If so, it would have to have been created

before the end of the last ice age, when the lake bed was dry...

Over 12,000 years ago...

And that would contradict the currently held belief

that early humans were not capable

of erecting monumental structures in North America,

or anywhere else, at that time.

You never know when something's going to pop up

that's going to totally change

your whole view of a, of a period

or even of human development.

One of the main trends that I've noticed in archeology

is that the dates for things tend to go back all the time;

The earliest pottery in a place,

the earliest arrival of people in a place.

They always turn out to be earlier

than we traditionally thought.

Today we know that there was a monument

on the site of Stonehenge at least 10,000 years ago.

And this is not speculation.

The archaeologists are saying this today.

And the same thing seems to be going on

in other parts of the world.

New dating techniques

done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza

indicate that it was carved before 10,000 BC.

So more and more, as we make new discoveries in archeology,

it's pushing mankind and civilization

back farther and farther.

Earth has a much deeper

prehistory than what we read about in textbooks today.

You can read that Puma Punku or Tiahuanaco, for example,

was built between 500 and 800 AD.

Some archaeologists have suggested

that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco

might date back as far as 12,000 years BC,

so around 14,000 years ago.

Could it be

that a sophisticated culture existed on Earth

thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago?

But if so, who built it?

What happened to it?

And might there still be remnants of it,

standing boldly, right before our eyes?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

many of the answers can be found by looking no further

than the Old Testament of the Bible.

Throughout the world,

there are incredible man-made structures

that have been found to date back thousands of years earlier

than archaeologists initially thought.

Is it possible that an advanced civilization really existed

on Earth in mankind's prehistory?

A close examination of the so-called "Old Testament"

of the Judeo-Christian Bible suggests

that although Adam and Eve are

presumably the first humans created by God,

their son Cain later went on

to marry and join a thriving community.

There are a number of biblical stories

which make us suspect

that perhaps Homo sapiens were not the only species on Earth