CHRIS MORTON:
According to
Native American legend,
there are 13 crystal skulls
that are the same size and shape
as human skulls.
And these crystal skulls
were left behind
by the earliest ancestors
from way back
in the mists of time.
The skulls are containers
of great knowledge,
great wisdom,
information that is important
to mankind.
In fact,
the legend also prophesies
that at a time of great need,
all of these crystal skulls
will be brought
back together again
and that when that happens,
they will divulge the knowledge,
the wisdom that the Native
American elders believe
is actually vital
to the very survival
of the human race.
The Mitchell-Hedges
crystal skull
was considered the Rolls-Royce
of the crystal skulls.
It was the most beautiful
crystal skull.
It was discovered in 1920s
by the explorer
F.A. Mitchell-Hedges
in Central America.
MORTON:
Mitchell-Hedges loaned
the crystal skull
to scientists at
the Hewlett Packard laboratory
back in the 1970s,
and they were unable to find
any kind of tool marks on it.
One of the most interesting
things that they discovered
was that the crystal skull
was not made
of just any old bit of crystal,
but it was made
from a type of crystal
known as
piezoelectric silicon dioxide.
And this is exactly the type
of quartz crystal
that we now use inside all
our information storage devices
and all
our communication devices.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Any quartz crystal object,
including a crystal skull,
can be encoded with information.
And, in fact, a quartz crystal
can hold more information
than a computer chip can.
So any crystal object--
and crystal skulls--
is, in a sense,
a small,
mini computer storage device.
And just a small quartz crystal
can hold more computer data
than even, uh,
the largest thumb drive
that you're able to buy today.
MORTON:
When you think of the legend
that said
that the crystal skulls
were containers
of great knowledge,
then, perhaps, if you think
how much information
we now store
inside a tiny
silicon crystal chip,
then maybe there is vast amounts
of information,
as the Native American
elders say,
inside a crystal skull.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
Mitchell-Hedges was told
by the locals that this skull
was given to them
by their ancestors.
Now, it was said
that their ancestors
were the sky people.
Now, whenever I hear references
to sky people,
are we really talking
about invisible things
that somebody just came up with?
Or a being descending
from the sky
in some type
of a flying machine?
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