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when we think of UFOs aliens and the possibility of abduction we tend to gravitate towards Hollywood movies perotic and cartoonish sketches or listen skeptically to the stories from those who claim to have had a direct encounter with an extraterrestrial it would be fair to say that for the majority such claims are easily squashed or redirected towards a claimant mental instability alcohol or drug dependency or perhaps the characteristics of an attention-seeking obsessive regardless of a person's mental state the concept of alien abduction is something that has never been taken seriously despite ongoing investigations sightings and government disclosures into UFO sightings which have sparked Global Intrigue over the last two years and yet there are a handful of stories sightings and investigative reports which have remained at the Forefront of the UFO and conspiracy communities for decades and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon the Roswell crash of 1947 the Aurora Texas UFO incident of 1897. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis apparent dabbling into the occult as well as other landmark cases have kept the conversation on such Mysteries very much alive one of these cases centers on a happily married couple whose mysterious encounter little would they know at the time would thrust them into the spotlight and would forever attribute their faces to what has become known as The Fourth Kind who were Barney and Betty Hill what happened to them and what does their story tell us about alien abduction society as a whole and the importance of listening towards someone anyone has to say regardless of how crazy they may seem in this documentary we'll travel back in time to the late 1950s when the American dream was reborn and flourishing to a time when unfortunately for Barney and Betty Hill the American Nightmare was about to begin before we begin our entail of what happened to this now famous couple it's worth taking a few moments to understand who they were before the night in question occurred Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who were no strangers to gossip suspicion and ridicule having been one of the few mixed-raced married couples in their hometown of Portsmouth New Hampshire Barney a black man born in 1922 worked as an employee at the United States Postal Service whilst Betty who was white and three years older than her husband worked as a social worker the couple were extremely fond of their dog dalzi who is often seen in pictures and portraits of the couple and was with them at the time of their encounter having endured numerous comments Slayers and insults for being in a mixed race relationship the hills did not deter from their obligations to the church and their community being regular attendees of the local Unitarian congregation both husband and wife are also proud members of the National Association for the advancement of colored people which was and still is a civil rights organization formed in 1909 Barney was also on the board for his local Commission on civil rights though the couple remain childless until their deaths their legacy would remain very much alive after both claimed to have been abducted by alien beings somewhere in the outskirts of New Hampshire on September 19 1961 the hills names and faces would become synonymous with that of extraterrestrials UFOs and the discussions ran in Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind abduction after countless interviews hypnosis sessions and public disclosures the occurrence would become known as the hill induction and The Zeta reticuli incident due to a star map which was recognized and described in detail by Betty Hill in relation to the Zeta reticuli star system later after many had made up their minds on the story their Fame would remain in the public domain with an adaptation of their encounter being presented as a best-selling 1966 book called The interrupted journey and a subsequent 1970 film the UFO incident with the rise of the internet UFO conspiracy communities and Collective evidence to support the theory that we are not alone in the universe the story of bani and Betty Hill remains one of the most interesting accounts of alien abduction in the last 100 years it is known that the majority of Betty Hill's notes recordings and other items are logged within the vaults of the University of New Hampshire in July 2011 the New Hampshire division of historical resources marked the site of the alleged Craft's first approach with a historical marker as a dedication to the couple and their story yeah the encounter so where do we start the tale of Barney and Betty Hill as recounted in the A4 mentioned 1966 book by John G Fuller started off as a happy scene back in 1961. the reason for the couple being on the road in the first place was that they needed a well-earned rest from their busy lives on a road trip sounded like a great idea the couple decided to visit Montreal Canada in what they considered to be their delayed honeymoon having been married more than 16 months and never setting aside time to celebrate their wedding previously Barney had been working countless night shifts at his job in the post office and is said to have driven 60 miles to and from his house in Portsmouth to tend to his responsibilities likewise Bethy was working hard in her job and was already finding it difficult to spend quality time with her new husband so it was decided after dropping everything on a whim scooping up the dog and grabbing the seventy dollars that they had on the counter Barney and Betty took off on their Adventure enjoying a wonderful three-day trip to Canada visiting the lights of Niagara Falls and more importantly taking the time to appreciate how special their relationship was to one another it was reported that a hurricane was due to cut directly to the couple's route home so it was decided they should head back a little earlier than planned having stopped for a quick coffee at a diner in Vermont the hills took to the road again at 10 pm on the 19th of September with the intention of reaching their house around 2 am in the morning their plan would be short-lived however as a mere 30 minutes into their Journey something happened it has been frequently stated and documented at the supposed encounter began at approximately 10 30 PM just as the hills were easing into their journey home and approaching a large town of Lancaster New Hampshire from the south end it was Betty Who spotted it first claiming to have seen a luminous beacon in the skies above a light that seemed to be moving from the vicinity of the Moon towards the planet Jupiter initially thinking nothing of it they proceeded on their Journey however Betty's eyes continued to glance up at the object as it seemingly grew brighter and larger in the night sky as they approached it from the south directing his gaze from the road to the Stars Barney decided to have a look and inspect what it was that was worrying his wife despite having an interest and knowledge of Aviation mechanics and having served in the second world war Barney came to the passive conclusion but the entity was nothing more than a wayward satellite from there things quite literally took a bizarre turn as Barney round that a mountainous Road the Light began to follow the cars bends and turns remaining high enough not to pose a threat but low enough to hold their attention sphere would navigate with Precision ensuring that it avoided any trees and mountain tops while steadily zoning in on the couple's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air still undeterred by the mysterious orb Betty and Barney decided to get a better look at it by pulling over to the side of the road somewhere near Twin Mountain allowing dalzi to have a short walk and stretch her legs luckily Betty had packed a pair of binoculars for their sightseeing trip in Canada so decided to put them to good use what she described as an odd-shaped craft seemingly hung in the sky still emitting its radiant light and becoming ever clearer through the magnifying lens of the binoculars according to the startled social worker the orm was in fact a solid object that was spinning in mid-air in an unrecognizable Manner and displaying multi-colored flashes of light that would have been difficult to notice without the assistance of the binoculars startled by this spectacle Betty instructed her husband to take a look still assuming that the crowd was a satellite or militarized aircraft Barney did as used hold and quickly regretted his decision as the entity was now making its way directly towards them at a steady pace it was now the turn of the recently married couple to navigate with intelligence and precision making their way through Franconia Notch a mountain pass traversed by a unique Parkway which extends from The Flume Gorge at the South to Echo Lake in the North the hills kept track of the object's movements it was at this point that Barney Holsted his handgun from the glove compartment and Betty took the time to estimate the size of the UFO as it passed over Cannon Mountain as being approximately 40 feet long by now the craft was extremely visible and its looming presence was beginning to intimidate all three of them taking his pistol in his hand bani kept a fixed Gaze on the craft as he attempted to confront him by stopping the car again and peering through the binoculars steadying himself in the event of a standoff it was at this point the Barney claimed to have seen between 8 and 11 humanoid shapes within the aircraft's capsule most of them were looking out of its windows and down towards the terrified onlooker shockingly the figures moved around shuffling themselves into a collective formation before one of the aliens approached the front of the ship and according to Barney decided to communicate with him telepathically for what seemed like an eternity for the postal worker the creature stared at him intensely before sending a message to his subconscious telling him to stay where you are and keep looking Instinct was also telling him to raise his gun Take Aim and fire yet when bani tried to do what his body was yearning to do he found that he couldn't he was frozen by fear and something else that he could not explain something which was forced upon him by the humanoid creature unable to protect himself his wife and his dog Barney was completely at the mercy of this strange Starship and its inhabitants the creatures themselves were described as wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps craft then descended towards the ground and winged latches opened up from the science and front producing a long structural slide from the bottom of the ship's body luckily and for some strange reason the spout was briefly broken and so using all the energy in his body Barney was able to break away from the hypnotic trance of the visitors and sprinted back to the car with Betty and dousey sat in Terror before they could take off and drive away from the object and its colonists the last thing they could remember was a series of loud measured beeping noises and vibrations surrounding the trunk of their vehicle and feeling an instant lethargic sensation consuming them which quickly rendered them unconscious exactly two hours later Barney and Betty Hill regained consciousness to their surprise in horror they found themselves approximately 35 miles from where they remembered passing out not wanting to linger any longer and with the UFOs seemingly out of sight they started at the car and drove as fast as they could back to their home in Portsmouth only when they arrived did they notice that they were covered in dirt and both their watches had stopped working although the encounter itself was now over little did they know just how important and significant their terrifying tale would become in the months and years that follow arriving home upon arrival back at their home in Portsmouth Barney and Betty Hill would spend the rest of the day attempting to put the pieces together in determining what had just occurred why did they feel a strong urge to keep their luggage packed and near the back door of their home why did Barney constantly check his genital area why did they continuously wash themselves obsessively it could have been due to fear of radiation or the possibility of being violated in all sorts of heinous ways Betty noticed her horror but her dress had been torn the stitching and zippers burst open uncovered in a mysterious pink powder that ever since has been unable to decipher even after various lab tests were conducted unable to understand what had happened and what was happening to them the couple attempted to draw images of what they saw at fateful night as well as connecting the dots in chronological order as best they could but to no avail they describe their car as having obscure circular markings carved onto the Bonnet and was surprised to find the way Compass was laid next to them the needle would spin erratically it was then that the dream started dreams or nightmares approximately 10 days after the encounter with the spacecraft and its inhabitants Betty Hill began to suffer from extreme lucid dreams over the course of five nights dreams that would initially be dismissed as Mind Tricks but would eventually overwhelm Betty's paranoid mindset try not to worry a husband she began to document the dreams in a diary as they were so vivid and clear that she couldn't ignore them anymore in one of the dreams she and Bonnie came across a dead end Road whilst driving in their car almost immediately a group of men appear from nowhere and surround the car before it jumps ahead to another Moment In Time the next scene is of Betty being led into a wooded area by two relatively small men wearing blue colored uniforms whose skin was a mixture of blue and gray and she is followed by her husband who is in some sort of uncommunicative hypnotic state this specific dream ends with the couple being led back to their car and left motionless as they watched the men enter a similar shaped craft that they saw the previous week before it takes off into the sky above reminiscent and eerily similar to the events that took place on their journey home the loss of time between encountering the gray creatures and their craft to regain Consciousness in the car terrified Betty to her core the initial report unable to shift the sense of dread paranoia and fear in the months following their strange encounter with the UFO Betty still referencing her dreams and becoming obsessed with finding the truth came across the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena at the local library after discussing her concerns with Barney it was agreed that they report the sighting to the group and to the U.S Air Force for fear of radiation or infection and in the hope that they may be able to provide answers on October 22nd 1961 Barney would go on record to the committee to state that what they saw that night was out of this world and the creatures Were Somehow not human case was assigned to Walter and Webb a boston-based astronomer an nicap member who decided to conduct an extensive interview with the couple that lasted over six hours whereby any and all information was discussed and recorded as the interview progressed it became obvious that Barney was frustrated confused and afraid that he was losing his mind due to the loss of time vagueness of memory and the possibility that his subconscience was hiding memories from him luckily for the hills Mr Webb would also go on records to state that in his opinion they were telling the truth and the incident probably occurred exactly as reported except for some minor uncertainties and technicalities that must be tolerated in any such observations where human judgment is involved EG exact time and length of visibility apparent sizes of object and occupants distance and height of objects Etc finally getting closer to the truth hypnosis after Walter Webb's report was concluded filed and peer-reviewed it was recommended to the hills that perhaps a few sessions of hypnotic therapy would assist them in coming to terms with what had happened and possibly provide additional evidence and Clarity of the events one of the burning questions for both Benjamin Simon the psychiatrist and the hills was the concept of missing time and why the newly married couple could not account for the hours and distance that was accumulated during their apparent blackout the only thing they could recall was the image of a blazing orb that was sitting stationary on the ground somewhere on Route 35 this along with Barney's concerns for his wife's dreams and mental state was enough information to begin the sessions they began with Barney who after weeks of therapy sessions was able to recall being led into the alien capsule not long after passing out from the pressure and disorientation fouled by the vibrations bani was able to describe a small examination room with bright lights odd-shaped walls and a very small table to which he was fastened stripped and experimented on by the humanoid beings through hypnosis he described to Simon how he and his wife had hair nail and skin samples extracted from them as well as having wires connected to various parts of their bodies most worryingly was when one of the creatures supposedly inserted a large needle into his wife's belly to apparently test for pregnancy causing Betty to Rife and scream in pain interestingly Barney then recalls being in the middle of a forest and coming across a group of men who approached his car and led him blindly through the wooden lands with his wife in front of him he stated I was told to close my eyes because I saw two eyes coming close to mine and I felt that the eyes had pushed into my eyes Betty concurred but the aliens were using some sort of telepathy to communicate with them as they spoke in a language that they didn't understand but were able to do so as instructed by the so-called leader of the Extraterrestrial group although they were notable but minor differences in Betty's Recollections during her sessions the general account of what happened to the couple was quite clearly coherent after multiple neurological tests interviews and hypnotic sessions the hills record of what occurred that night was collected and reviewed extensively Benjamin Simon would confirm his findings publishing a full report on his conclusions in psychiatric opinion a medical journal which focused on various mental illnesses and Mysteries of the Mind he attributed the case of Barney and Betty Hill to that of psychological aberration which is considered to be a deviation from normal mental activity resulting in derangement and or psychopathy although he did not believe that they were lying Simon was able to diagnose them through a variety of symptoms and reasons this unfortunate decision was backed by members of Project Blue Book the top secret study of unidentified flying objects by the United States Air Force which ran from March 1952 to December 17 1969 who dismissed the story and their mental state as being down to natural causes however the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena would come to their defense supporting the couple's assertions but they may in fact have been abducted by deeming their account as credible x marks the spot one of the most significant not to mention bizarre descriptions came from Betty whilst under hypnosis in which she drew a star map that initially was considered an insignificant doodled sketch but would later be the talking point of a 1966 book named the interrupted Journey two lost hours aboard a flying saucer after hearing of the couple's testimony and becoming fascinated with their story John G Fuller a new england-based American Author gained approval from both the hills and Benjamin Simon to write and publish their strange Adventure in print already an established columnist and author of multiple articles and books on the supernatural Fuller took the project seriously and gathered as much information no matter how irrelevant to form the basis of his book including the illustrations the star map drawn by Betty after his publication in 1966 the interrupted Journey became a success and helped reignite the debate to surrounding UFO phenomena and that of the various kinds of Close Encounters however for Marjorie fish an elementary school teacher and amateur astronomer it was the picture of the star map that led to her personal fascination with the couple's story having read Fuller's book in 1968 fish took it upon herself to try and analyze and decode the drawing in relation to the cosmological blueprint of space to try and understand with a craft and the alien creatures had originated she was able to construct a 3D model of sun-like stars using various materials to measure the distances in comparison to the same Stars which were documented in the 1969 gleesy star catalog fish concluded that the drawing was extremely similar to that to The Zeta reticuli star system as the illustration supposedly shows the sky as seen for a planet orbiting the Zeta reticuli this large Southern system within reticulum a small faint constellation in the southern sky can be seen with the naked eye as a double star in very dark skies and is located approximately 39.3 light years away from Earth after an in-depth analysis and conclusive report were issued to Walter Webb both parties agreed that the drawing was indeed that of The Zeta reticuli star system something Betty Hill knew nothing of though many subsequent reports investigations and astronomers would reject the hypothesis posed by fish it certainly got people talking how could someone with a basic knowledge of space stars and planets be able to draw under hypnotic therapy an advanced star system 39 light years from Earth in 1989 the hippocar satellite at the European space agency was launched deemed to be the first of its kind this satellite's obligation was to document and analyze the measurements of the positions of celestial objects in the sky three combination of radial velocity measurements from spectroscopy those involved in the project were able to calculate the relative information needed to determine the motion of stars the mission ended in 1993 however whilst in space astronomers decided to put fish's Theory to the test and use their technology to take measurements of the zatar ratakuli unfortunately for the teacher the hippocus's findings showed that some of the stars on her blueprint were much further away than previously thought resulting in fish publicly renouncing her theories and assumptions Skeptics and so with this public rejection we now look at a few Skeptics who weighed in on the story hypotheses and the married couple themselves Robert Shafer of the skeptical Inquirer took to printing his review of the account after attending the National UFO conference in 1980 the event which took place in New York was attended by Betty Hill herself who spoke of the incident and presented the audience with supposed photographs that she had taken of UFOs according to Betty those mostly blurred images were evidence but the extraterrestrials were still haunting her watching her every move and continuously experimenting on her and her environment for Robert and the audience at large this was the final straw as he states that after her talk had exceeded about twice its allotted time Betty was literally jeered off the stage by what had been at first a sympathetic audience this incident witnessed by many of ufology's leaders and top activists removed any lingering doubts about Betty's credibility she had none the columnist noted that in the Years following her husband's death Betty would go on UFO vigils on a regular basis throughout the week it was apparent that she was becoming frantically obsessed with the concept of UFOs aliens and possibly attempting to relive or at least make sense of what happened that fateful night in 1961 one of these patrols was attended by John Oswald a local resident who had a keen interest in the UFO phenomenon however when he was quizzed on the event and Betty Hill's state of mind he responded Mrs Hill was unable to distinguish between a landed UFO and a street light another critic of the Hill's version of events came from another local resident named Jim McDonald who felt obliged to propose an alternative Theory based on his knowledge of the landing and adjoining roads after fully analyzing the account paying particular attention to the supposed route of the couple took on their way home from Canada McDonald was able to deduce the spacecraft as being nothing more than an aircraft warning Beacon that sits atop Cannon Mountain having traveled the specific route many times himself McDonald states that the warning Beacon intermittently appears and reappears throughout the high mountainous Skyline at exactly the same time the couple claimed to have been chased by the UFO this information though helpful is somewhat diminished when McDonald proposed his theory on the subsequent events of the night and the possible abduction relating it simply to stress sleep deprivation and false memories the word stress appeared quite often by those who didn't believe the abduction Theory being a mixed race couple during a time of social unrest throughout the United States would have certainly played a major factor in the couple's relationship as well as their safety undoubtedly they would have encountered racial abuse ridicule and threats from those who adopted the close-minded mentality at the time and would have put unquestionable strain on their relationship at some point with their workload and responsibility to the community and local church taking up most of their time and resources the possibility of hallucinations caused by burnout cannot be overlooked it has been declared by Leading psychologists that false memories forced the brain to conjure up stories sometimes highly elaborate stories to fill in the blanks in order to piece together the mysterious events or timelines that took place some say that the social financial and emotional pressures faced by the hills resulted in the couple using the rise of the UFO phenomenon and that of the Cold War to take advantage of growing paranoia to make money via a carefully calculated and coordinated scam perhaps this opportunity mixed with a mental breakdown LED Betty Hill to pursue her obsession with unidentified flying objects and photographing the so-called evidence of her captor's aircrafts throughout the rest of her life Legacy Bonnie Hill died of cerebral hemorrhage on February 25 1969 age 46. Betty would live on to the age of 85 passing away on October 17 2004 due to cancer having never remarried or bearing children and yet even to this Bright Day the events that took place in September 1961 the Barney and Betty Hill remain a Fascination for UFO enthusiasts filmmakers and investigators as they continuously fixate on the mysteriousness of the evening in question film was made in 1975 for television audiences and starred James L Jones as Barney and Estella Parsons as Betty and focused on the couple's story as well as their relationship to one another in 2015 the reports of a film and television series based on the incident an adaptation of renowned American nuclear physicist Stanton T Friedman's 2007 book captured the Betty and Barney Hill UFO experience the true story of the world's first documented alien abduction though many documentaries have been shelved the latest report as of late 2022 is that the streaming giant Netflix will be producing an in-depth documentary on the couple and the occurrence a roadside marker on Daniel Webster Highway on Route 3 in Lincoln New Hampshire was also erected to commemorate the incident and the couple's Legacy [Music] so what do you think here were Betty and Barney held the victims of a terrifying ordeal abducted by extraterrestrial beings as test subjects for their invasive hideous experiments did they really experience a close encounter of The Fourth Kind only to be ridiculed and ousted from many within their community and humiliated by those to whom they were seeking help or could it be that Bonnie and Betty Hill were mere scam artists looking for a loophole in a world that was slowly losing its mind to paranoia fear and confusion perhaps we'll never know the truth is we live in a world where technology and scientific advancement is constantly ingraining itself within our society our relationships and into the exploration of our surrounding planets and that of the cosmos television social media and the internet gives one the opportunity to seek out the truth and discuss many of life's mysteries and yet despite this massive step towards infinite knowledge and information there are still those stories that are worth retelling and remain unsolved for Barney and Betty Hill their case will forever be cause for speculation investigation and argument all we know for sure is that something happened that night which made us question who we are and who else is out there we hope you enjoyed this video take care and as always keep searching
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UNVEILING THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT
we all know about stonehenge one of the ancient world's great mysteries but one discovery right here in north america has raised a provocative theory that something similar might exist at the bottom of lake michigan 2007 near traverse bay michigan underwater archaeologist dr mark holly and his team of divers are scouring the lake bottom we were out looking for a specific shipwreck it's just flat sand for as far as you can go and it's just very eerie instead of a wreck they stumble across something much older at first glance it's just a line of stones but holly says there's more to it i knew that we'd found something that shouldn't be there but we had no idea what it was one set of stones forms a circle and strangest of all look at this one of the stones appears to have a detailed carving of a mastodon here outlined with red chalk holly estimates the site was constructed around 10 000 years ago before the glaciers melted to create the lake of course holly's video goes viral almost immediately people described it as a fake nothing like this had ever been found in the great lakes before real or not the discovery becomes known as the lake michigan stonehenge and raises the question was it made by the same people who built england's fame structure professor of anthropology michael masters raises a controversial theory that ancient europeans migrated to the americas long before columbus this tool technology associated with groups largely in france indicates that they came across between twenty thousand and fifteen thousand years ago paleolithic europeans in america while some scholars are open to the idea others point out that ancient native americans created their own astounding sites like those of the mound builders in the mississippi valley so who made it and how and what does it mean one more thing to ponder there's a region known for strange disappearances and anomalous sightings called the lake michigan triangle early reports put the find there but holly now says it's north and grand traverse bay so what do our experts have to say about this fascinating find first we asked archaeologist peter campbell if this could all be a hoax he points to the moss and algae on the stones if they had been placed recently then there would be no marine growth on them whatsoever the formation as well appears to be a genuine archaeological site campbell thinks the find is ancient and man-made and if the mastodon carving is real it might provide a window into a long-lost culture it's possible but this really had some sort of religious connotation and perhaps a religious offering or ritual related to the hunt but still how did they carve that image into granite rock anthropologist kathy strain says it would have been difficult but very doable so in order to make a petroglyph it's a very simple process it is taking a rock and pecking at the patina that's on the outside of the target rocks granite is a hard substance but no special tools would have been needed rock art appears around the world using a similar method and none of those people had anything other than a rock as far as comparisons to the english stonehenge stone edge is a group of rocks put into a circle for a religious purpose and we're very heavy to move and we're still not entirely certain how they accomplished it the rocks at the bottom of lake michigan are more in a line take another look at the arrangement of the lake michigan stones strain says it's very revealing this is likely what we call a drive line and you use it to herd animals into either over a cliff or into some kind of fenced area so it's a very efficient way of hunting it would be the oldest drive or hunting line ever found when the glaciers melted more than 10 000 years ago they submerged the site at the bottom of lake michigan preserving it to this day and campbell thinks it could be groundbreaking in other ways if this is in fact a mastodon drawn on this rock then it is a monumental discovery because this would be the earliest paleo-indian art that's been discovered so far our verdict well mark holly definitely discovered something man-made we think by early native american tribes not early european immigrants but whether it was built for hunting or some other purpose we can't know until it's studied further prehistoric cave paintings often depict common animals encountered by early man like bison and mammoths but some newly discovered images are so unusual many are wondering if they are evidence some early tribe was visited by something otherworldly it's july 2014 in the indian state of chattisgarh where there are a number of caves and paintings made by hunter-gatherer populations going back as far as ten thousand years archaeologist j.r bhagat claims he recently made a while giving a tour to reporters bhagat shows a rock face on which there are half a dozen dark red and yellow painted beings standing together in a group in this particular painting which looks quite strange we have some individuals with larger heads different colored arms and hands and they don't look like the other people depicted on these cave walls so we have a lot of people believing that the ancient humans who painted these drawings were actually painting images of aliens from another world the theory that these are depictions of extraterrestrials is bolstered by another painting of what appears to be a mechanical looking disc painted on the cave ceiling it resembles a saucer-shaped object which became kind of the pop cultural representation of ufos in the 1950s and 60s these aren't the only ancient representations of allegedly extraterrestrial beings we also have a number of other ancient civilizations who have created similar things for instance we have the wagina figures and a rock shelter in australia we also have petroglyphs in capitol reef state park here in the united states let's take another look at this disc shaped object from india these three lines right here again right here and right here have alternately been described as beams or legs of a tripod and these apparent portholes right here and right here match with contemporary representations of alien spacecraft so what can our experts unearth about this peculiar cave art [Music] first anthropologist kathy strange says these ancient drawings must have marked a significant event or encounter they're not just doodles cave walls are very valuable so for them to paint this it must have been something important to them as a people they're trying to represent something that they want to pass on to the next generation these bulbous-headed figures do indeed resemble the humanoid depictions of aliens that eventually dominated in the 20th century so a connection seems possible however archaeologist ed barnhart believes they are documentation of a different kind of cosmic trip these ancient cultures relied upon people called shamans who would typically go into altered states of consciousness to receive information and those were induced by hallucinogenic drugs or starvation or sleep deprivation what they painted on the walls were their experiences they were having during their hallucinogenic trances in those caves they would feel like they're floating outside of their body and they would show themselves elongated and the floor falling out below them it's not that the figures heads were extra large but that the bodies were stretched as they felt they were floating up and as for the ufo-like object that's also more likely something else from the heavens instead of it being a beam from an alien ship it actually is just sun rays and they're projecting that the sun is at its full potential probably noon right above your head there's other examples in the general area in india and other places in the world that show a very similar object our verdict these well-preserved indian rock paintings are most likely the work of shamans from prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies who made them well in an altered state of consciousness even if these ancient artists weren't seeing aliens they were definitely experiencing something truly out of this world medieval legend tells us that king arthur received the sword excalibur from a magical lady of the lake in other versions he pulls the sword from a stone well what if this legend is based on facts a recent discovery might make you believe [Music] october 2019 near the verbose river in bosnia archaeology professor ivana panzik is studying the ruins of a medieval fortress but the discovery of a relic under the choppy rapids shocks ponzik and her team it's a sword lodged straight into a stone in the riverbed about 36 feet below the surface despite being down there for probably hundreds of years the sword is remarkably well preserved we did several dives to decide what we're gonna use during the excavation the whole process of excavating the sword took us two days the team manages to free the blade but how this sword got in this stone in the first place is a mystery could it be the very excalibur from the king arthur legend no concrete evidence exists that a real king arthur actually ruled parts of england beyond what was written about him centuries later some historians think he could be based on a real 5th century romano british leader named romatheus who fought invading goths details are scarce but even if arthur is entirely fictional that the story of excalibur have inspired medieval copycats it's possible that if this legend of king arthur did make its way into bosnia-herzegovina that individuals were attempting to recreate this story to encase a sword in stone so that the rightful heir of this kingdom could pull the sword out in the same way that king arthur did or maybe it's the other way around could this real sword in the stone be the inspiration for the king arthur legend so the big question is could a sword really penetrate a rock look that's a tough one most rocks are much harder than any pointed steel blade so how can we explain this strange find it's time to convene our own knights of the round table maritime archaeologist peter campbell says based on the testing done by the museum in bosnia the dates don't line up for it to have belonged to king arthur or to have inspired his legend this sword dates to the 13th to 15th century a.d the legendary king arthur pre-dates this sword by nearly a thousand years so we can definitely discard the notion that the sword is in any way excalibur and what about the notion that the noblemen of the nearby fortress could have an arthur copycat yes it would be strange to do such a thing in a river and campbell agrees one hypothesis that's been raised is the sword was put in the stone deliberately as part of some sort of king making ceremony we can effectively discard this notion because the sword was found at 36 feet which is far deeper than they would have been able to dive in the 13th and 15th century a.d still he believes based on what he sees the sword belonged to someone important we can see that it is finally crafted it was very expensive metal used in his manufacture and all of that indicates that this was probably the sword of a noble person and that leads him to think there is some ritualistic reason it's in the water there's actually a very well-developed tradition especially in europe of discarding of swords and armor in rivers lakes and bogs and this dates from the bronze age all the way up through the medieval period if somebody wins a major battle they can discard the sword into the river as some sort of ritual offering and as to how it ended up lodged in the stone frequently we see heavy objects deposited in rivers that work their way down with the current into sediment or into rocks and then it has many centuries of wiggling and burrowing down into the cracks the metal is also corroding attaching it to the rocks and sediment is filling in and it's becoming rock itself this explains why the sword appeared to be stuck in the rock in fact these are normal sight formation processes as we call them for river environments [Music] so our verdict this is a geological phenomenon the sword didn't penetrate the stone the stone built up around the sword however the sword's true origin and owners still remain a mystery perhaps it was wielded by another legendary king we've all heard of the lost city of atlantis which according to tradition lies somewhere in the bermuda triangle but you probably didn't know that japan has its own legendary lost kingdom called yamatai or that some believe it's been found japan's ryuku islands extend almost to taiwan and they've long been an attraction to divers most come to see hammerhead sharks but in 1986 debra dixon smith came for another reason she was there to get a special tour of the official site known as jonah gooney you go in this dramatic entrance it was like stepping back in time once out through the other side a whole city seems to appear it really just was one of those wow moments and when you look over the edge you can see down into this very very deep alley it was very dramatic let's take another look at the details here there are straight lines steps and sharp angles it seems to be that whatever this structure is somebody built it there and sea levels rose enough that it got submerged in this artist's rendering it looks like a small city or a compound with a pyramid and as debra learned the site may be connected to an ancient legend there's a theory that the video is evidence of an ancient japanese civilization known as yamatai it's said to have been a large powerful nation that was wiped off the face of the world when sea waters rose and their cities were buried under ocean water yamatai is said to have been ruled by a secretive sorceress named tamiko its location has never been determined much less the reasons for its disappearance here's the thing unlike atlantis the existence of yamatai shows up in historic documents from around 300 a.d there's even a record of their queen himiko sending an envoy to the chinese emperor the theory is that yamatai sank due to the shifting tectonic plates in the region but what's the real story let's see how our experts tell it geologist bob anderson says it's not unreasonable to think this site was once on dry land if you go back 20 000 years ago the shorelines moved around to different places so you can't rule out that that was above water but did humans build it the strongest evidence are those angles and steps they seem too perfect to be formed by nature at least to our eye but it turns out that can happen naturally these are the sorts of things that geologic formations can break into because of earthquakes or tsunamis as they move those plates break in very very geometric forms there's no reason to believe that they had to be cut by man but if this is all natural wouldn't we expect to see similar structures all over the planet this site is a geological phenomena i don't know of another area where that largest stones have been moved in that kind of formation but that does not make it a structure one big issue barnhart says these massive steps are actually larger than anything ever sculpted carved or constructed in the ancient world and even though this is the most seismically active area of the entire planet you'd still expect to find more evidence of a prior civilization if one had been here these large slabs you'd expect at least in the cracks to find some sort of evidence of human occupation if it indeed was some sort of sunken place there's nothing like that whatsoever archaeology calls those things geofacts they look like artifacts but in fact they're naturally formed based on barnhart and anderson's expertise we're going to conclude that this site is a natural phenomenon that means it's not the lost kingdom of yamatai its location is still a mystery so if you're diving off the coast of japan keep your eyes open remember that giant rolling boulder from raiders of the lost ark the scene was inspired by a very real archaeological mystery the likes of which even indiana jones might find unsolvable take a look 1939 dq delta costa rica the united fruit company was clearing an area of the costa rican jungle to start a banana plantation and suddenly they discovered something truly mysterious at sites all across the area workers uncover these stones that have been carved into near-perfect spheres of all sizes the largest one was nine feet in diameter and 16 tons it would take an incredible amount of craftsmanship and masterful engineering to create especially the large spheres many of the stones are within five percent of being perfect spheres a difficult task to execute precisely even when using calibrated machinery this is a remarkable feat if carved from a larger rock by hand when the first western people came to costa rica and saw these spheres they had never seen anything like it archaeologists believe they were carved by a tribe known as the declise which flourished from ad700 to 1500 they produced at least 300 of these stones but the d keys faded away hundreds of years ago and how they made the stones disappeared with him by the 1940s local indigenous tribes believed the stones were of divine origin the native costa rican people believed that these spheres are actually from their god tara who was the thunder god used them with a blow pipe in defense of the native costa ricans they believe tara shot the stones of the gods of wind and hurricanes to keep them at bay some have speculated that these battles between terra and the other gods were actually a titanic shooting match between ufos with the stones some sort of spent weapon they point to the sphere's near perfect roundness as proof of alien creation but if we assume humans made them not gods the question is why in the 1930s and 40s rumors spread they'd been made to store gold in the sphere's cores so workers blew up several and found nothing another possibility is that the spheres serve a scientific purpose one theory that has been posited is that they are somehow a representation of our solar system that they represent celestial bodies somehow they might have been placed to track the seasons or rolled around to reflect the shifting night sky there's also a theory that an advanced civilization even older than the dekeys built an entire complex of cities here it wouldn't be a surprise if we uncovered other temples or other places out there that we just haven't found yet that may represent an older civilization that was there here's a twist the costa rican stone spheres aren't alone in 2016 an archaeologist uncovered this massive sphere in bosnia then also there are these in new zealand let's see if our experts can solve this mystery without blowing anything up we turn to archaeologist ed barnhart who has seen the spheres himself most of them in costa rica now have been rolled into parks or they're in front of government buildings it's part of the difficulty interpreting of what they are is the fact that they've all been rolled out of context so if they once lined up with the stars sun and moon we will never know why people made them may remain a mystery but barnhart thinks he knows how they were made when i visited this location i stopped on the bridge and looked down on the river and i could see circular stones just like this they're called concretions a concretion is when minerals build up around a core like a pebble and then over years layer on concentrically creating around hard rock geologists think this is exactly how the spheres in bosnia and others around the world likely form but barnhart sees the hand of man and just how smooth and round the costa rican stones are they weren't always perfectly circular so they chipped it here they chipped it there and made it more circular it took hundreds even thousands of hours of scraping and polishing then they had to roll these rocks some weighing 15 tons to their sites 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