NARRATOR: Nevsehir
Province, central Turkey.
Hidden 60 meters
below ground lies
Derinkuyu, an ancient
subterranean city
that archeologists believe once
housed more than 20,000 people.
First discovered in 1963, some
ancient astronaut theorists
contend the once
fully-functioning underground
city is evidence that ancient
people really were forced
underground by a great
cataclysmic event,
and that they may have had help
from more advanced beings--
like the watchers.
The amazing thing
about Derinkuyu
is that it was built
around 9000 BC,
just before the last ice age.
And you have to
ask, is it possible
that it was built
by the watchers
as a refuge for
themselves, or perhaps
as a refuge for humanity?
NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that the underground city
of Derinkuyu was
constructed with the help
of extraterrestrials to provide
shelter from a great flood?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that Derinkuyu is just
one of numerous locations where
it appears someone or something
built a fortification
to serve as a refuge
from a great cataclysm.
In a remote area of the
Himalayan mountain range
in Nepal at an elevation
of 14,000 feet,
over 10,000 man-made
caves have been
found carved into sheer cliffs.
Archaeologists believe they
could date back more than 3,000
years and struggle to
explain how ancient people
would have been able
to access these caves,
let alone create them.
It's not easy to
get up there at all.
It's not known why
would people take
the trouble to climb
up a vertical cliff
in the middle of the Himalayas.
But suggests that whoever built
them might have had some sort
of flying craft technology.
NARRATOR: Perhaps
even more baffling
are the Huashan grottos in
the Anhui Province of China.
They are the largest ancient
man-made caves in the country,
containing stone rooms,
bridges, and pavilions.
Archaeologists have no idea
how they were built, by whom,
or why.
Could these ancient sites
that defy explanation
have been built
by alien visitors
in order to survive
the Great Flood?
Ancient astronaut
theorists contend
that perhaps the strongest
proof that the watchers survived
the flood can be found
not in the Middle
East, Asia, or India, but
in the American Southwest.
Northeastern Arizona, sprawled
across this desolate and arid
region lie the Three
Mesas, settlements
of the Native
American Hopi tribe
that some have long believed
align with the stars
of Orion's belt--
Alnilam, Alnitak, and Mintaka.
In addition to their strong ties
to the constellation of Orion,
the Hopi also have
numerous legends
of the Ant People, an
advanced race of beings that
came to the aid of mankind.
I've seen some
of these carvings
on the rock cliffs in Arizona.
The Ant People helped the Hopi
survive two major cataclysms--
the destruction of the
first world by fire,
some kind of asteroid strike, or
perhaps a comet hit the earth.
And the second world by
ice, maybe a pole shift.
But each time, the Ant People
led the Hopi down into caverns
and help them survive
in a subterranean world.
This story is
strikingly similar to that
of the watchers who sought
to protect the humans
that they had interacted with.
You have to wonder, are the
Ant People somehow related
to-- if not the same as--
the watchers of
the biblical story?
NARRATOR: But what ancient
astronaut theorists find
most fascinating about the
story of the Ant People
is what they are called in Hopi.
The Hopi word for ant is anu.
And the Hopi word
for friend is nnaki.
So you put the two together,
the anunakki, the ant friends
that the Hopi have
interacted with for centuries
and millennia.
And this ties in with the Bible
and with Sumerian mythology.
It's all tied in together.
These Ant People are
pervasive in human history.
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