NARRATOR: Luminous relics in the shape of human skulls.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The skull was cut against its grain.
This skull should not exist. NARRATOR: Otherworldly
artifacts believed to harness the secrets of the universe.
CHRIS MORTON: The skulls are containers of great knowledge,
great wisdom, information vital to the very survival of the
human race. NARRATOR: Are they part of an
elaborate hoax? GEORGE NOORY: These crystal
skulls may have some kind of very strange mystical powers.
NARRATOR: Or do they reveal a extraterrestrial agenda?
PHILIP COPPENS: Crystal skulls are very much a powerful
weapon. NARRATOR: 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 the proof be found when we examine the
mysterious power of the crystal skulls?
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Episode 02 The Crystal Skulls
NARRATOR: December 12, 2012. Miami, Florida.
Just days before the Mayan calendar is set to end, hundreds
converge here at the Miami Circle, an archaeological site
that was once a sacred center for the Native American Tequesta
tribe. They are gathered to witness a
native ritual involving an ancient relic known as the
crystal skull.
Similar events centered around these mysterious crystal
artifacts continue to draw large crowds.
But why? What is it about the crystal
skulls that has fascinated mankind for centuries?
WILLIAM HENRY: Part of the lore or prophecy of the crystal
skulls is that at certain times of strife or perhaps impending
catastrophe, people will be able to use the power of the skulls
to forestall that cataclysm.
Maybe events like we see throughout the world at specific
dates are times when these skulls can be brought back
together and their power can be amplified.
MORTON: And according to the legend, the skulls are
containers of great knowledge, great wisdom, information.
Common to all of these legends is that these crystal skulls are
something particularly special and actually, they believe, very
important to humanity.
NARRATOR: Although there have been literally hundreds of
crystal skulls found throughout the world, according to legend,
there are only 13 which are believed to possess an awesome,
mystical power. COPPENS: The crystal skulls
have become so famous that the field has been flooded with
dozens of modern skulls.
And on a number of occasions, people who have possessed these
skulls are trying to pretend as if their skull is ancient.
And this, of course, is very difficult because, at the same
time, we have the skeptics, the scientists, who basically say it
is all fake. And so, as a result of which,
we're really confronted with a mixture of crystal skulls and a
very difficult situation. NARRATOR: According to
crystal skulls enthusiasts, as many as 12 of the 13 authentic
skulls have been discovered and are in private collections.
But where did these so-called authentic skulls come from?
And how were they discovered? In the late 19th century,
museums in London and Paris displayed crystal skulls as
genuine Mesoamerican religious relics.
But today, mainstream scientists argue they are all modern
creations. They also insist that any
analysis of the skulls is incomplete, as quartz crystal
cannot be carbon-dated.
MICHAEL DENNIN: Quartz has no carbon.
Quartz actually has no radioactive elements in it.
It's pretty much pure silicon. So the quartz itself has no real
signature that can be used to do dating.
Even getting within 1,000 years or 10,000 years, it gets almost
impossible to actually date it. ROBERT SCHOCH: Authenticity
is something difficult to determine when they've been
analyzed using modern scientific techniques.
In some cases, there are suggestions that modern tools
were being used. Other people have suggested,
however, they were using very sophisticated tools back in
ancient times. MORTON: Some people believe
that because there are tool markings on the teeth of some of
the crystal skulls that therefore they are relatively
modern fakes. However, there are others who
point out that actually the ancient Maya had wheel-carving
technologies. COPPENS: But to jump to the
conclusion that simply because there are tool marks that
somehow this means it is a 19th century fake is simply
unscientific. NARRATOR: Like crystal skulls
enthusiasts, many ancient astronaut theorists believe that
the 12 known ancient quartz skulls do, in fact, have ancient
origins and believe they may possess a great, perhaps even
otherworldly power, one that has yet to be fully revealed.
HUGH NEWMAN: There is something definitely ancient
about these skulls, and they're not modern carvings.
There were suggestions that these skulls may have been from
a nonhuman source. The evidence for this is scarce,
but the-the mythologies and the legends do suggest they were
known about in prehistoric times and they were revered.
MORTON: Several Native American tribes have similar
stories about ancient crystal skulls that were said to have
been left behind by the earliest ancestors way back in the mists
of time. Some believe that these are
ancient artifacts left behind by extraterrestrials or that they
were remnants left over from the lost civilizations.
NARRATOR: According to legend, the secret of the skulls
will be revealed when the original 13 skulls come together
to form a global grid. In fact, there are many who
believe that this so-called "reunion of the skulls" will
awaken sacred knowledge of the gods, knowledge that has been
hidden from mankind for thousands of years.
TSOUKALOS: According to some Native American myths, there are
12 inhabited planets out there, and each one of those skulls
contains the information from one of these planets, including
Earth. And the reason why there's a
13th skull is because the 13th skull contains the knowledge of
all those planets. It's basically a backup.
DAVID CHILDRESS: It's genuinely possible that some of
these crystal skulls are many, many thousands of years old.
People have suggested, too, that some crystal skulls aren't from
this planet and that they have been brought here from other
solar systems. And, of course, if that were the
case, they would have been brought here by
extraterrestrials. NARRATOR: Crystal skulls with
extraterrestrial origins? Is such a profound theory even
possible? Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining one of the oldest and most enigmatic crystal
skulls ever found.
Lubaantun, Belize, Central America.
Here in the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula lay the ruins
of an ancient pre-Columbian city that thrived in the eighth
century A.D. In 1924, explorer Frederick
Albert Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter Anna discover a
human-sized skull made of clear quartz crystal.
It has a detachable jaw, making it one of the most unique and
anatomically accurate of all the crystal skulls.
HENRY: Mitchell-Hedges was told by the Mayans that his
skull was over 3,600 years old.
This is fascinating because this would predate Mayan
civilization. NARRATOR: When
Mitchell-Hedges passed away in 1959, the skull was bestowed to
his daughter Anna. She guarded the skull for more
than a decade before allowing it to be studied.
CHILDRESS: And it was studied by a guy named Frank Dorland,
and what he found was that the skull was completely baffling to
him. He would come down at night to
find the room completely glowing, and the crystal skull
was literally lighting up itself a dark room like it was a light.
All kinds of strange phenomena would happen around the skull,
including people would hear strange sounds and smell things
like sudden flowers and things like that in the room with no
explanation but that it was coming from the skull.
So all kinds of unusual things were happening around the skull,
and Dorland himself couldn't figure out how the skull had
been made. COPPENS: When it comes to the
Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, it has been analyzed on a number
of occasions: Frank Dorland in the 1960s did it as a private
individual; Hewlett-Packard did it as well; and the British
Museum did a very short analysis in 1980 as well.
So this skull has been subjected to a number of detailed
scientific analyses. In all of those occasions, what
was found was that it was almost impossible for a human being to
make this. MORTON: One of the scientists
that examined the skull actually said, "This skull shouldn't even
exist." And that is really what led to
the idea that perhaps these crystal skulls were not made by
humans at all. And many people to this day
still believe that to be the case.
TSOUKALOS: The entire mythology of the Mayans is based
on extraterrestrial encounters in the past.
Mitchell-Hedges was told by the locals that their ancestors gave
that skull to them. My question is, who were those
ancestors, and is their origin out there?
And the answer, of course, is yes.
NARRATOR: Could the Mitchell-Hedges skull really be
an ancient, extraterrestrial relic, as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest? And if so, might this skull and
others like it around the world really possess supernatural
powers? Perhaps further evidence can be
found by examining the history of another crystal skull, one
linked to an ancient aboriginal tribe half a world away.
NARRATOR: The Melanesian islands off the coast of Papua
New Guinea. Eighth century A.D.
According to legend, aboriginal tribal leaders set sail east
toward the Hawaiian Islands. They carry with them a highly
revered ancestral crystal skull. Today, that skull, known as
Synergy, is under the care of guardian Sherry Whitfield.
It was given to her as a gift by a European businessman.
SHERRY WHITFIELD: When I first got the skull, I only knew
a little bit of the history of it.
I knew that it had come across the Pacific in a reed canoe.
It had been in Hawaii, on Easter Island, with the people of the
sky.
In the 1600s, the skull was given to a young nun in Peru.
On her deathbed in 1720, she passed the skull to a native
family and said, "Keep the skull until the right person comes."
And she gave them the history. And they disappeared into the
jungle.
NARRATOR: In 2005, Whitfield was contacted by a
representative of the aboriginal tribe who saw a photograph of
Synergy in a newspaper. WHITFIELD: And he said he
brought the photos and he brought the little skull to the
shaman and the chief, and everything stopped.
And they declared 24 hours of feasting and telling stories
about the skulls. It was really cool because,
really, they don't talk that much about the skulls in their
everyday life. It's part of their sacred
secrets and their teachings. Now, they say that they didn't
make the skull, that it was passed to them as a legacy, so
it's an ancestral object. Their legend is that their tribe
was started by a white man and a black man, twins.
Their whole religion revolves around twins.
And they have the twin of this skull.
Their legends are that there were two of these skulls made
identical. There's a powerful spirit in
crystal skulls.
MICHAEL HAMSON: Melanesia is populated by all different
classifications of spirits, of ancestral spirits, meaning
spirits of the remote ancestors that have to do with a
particular group's creation story or recently dead
ancestors.
Spiritual energy in Melanesian society is just not for people.
It can be in places, in objects, in plants and animals.
NARRATOR: The notion of a spiritual energy that resides in
inanimate objects is widespread throughout the South Pacific.
Anthropologists who studied Melanesian societies in the 19th
and early 20th centuries termed this supernatural force "mana."
JONATHAN YOUNG: The idea of mana is that there is a divine
magical energy that is both the source of life and a kind of
animating presence in things, in places, in people.
There is reverence for specific objects because they seem
particularly strong in this magical power.
Some believe that the power comes from ancestral sources and
that the older the ancestors, the greater the power.
HAMSON: These things are incredibly important to the
people in all aspects of life like warfare, hunting,
gardening, fishing, any type of thing that normal human beings
can't control. And these objects with this
ancestral spirit energy, if you control them right and access
them right and speak to them right and get their permission
and get their aid and get their help, they can, in effect,
pre-kill your enemy prior to battle.
NARRATOR: Is it really possible for objects like
crystal skulls to be possessed by otherworldly spirits, as
South Pacific islanders believe? And if so, where do these
spirits come from? TSOUKALOS: In the South
Pacific, their ancestral myths talk about people descending
from the sky.
One of the mythologies talks about two brothers descending
from the sky, Barkulkul and Marelul.
And the time in which they spent, it was considered to be
the Golden Age. After that time ended, guess
what, the two of them went back up into the sky to return where
they came from, the stars. COPPENS: The core message of
crystal skulls is that-- our ancestors are very specific--
that these are divine, that these are ancient.
Some of them are definitely known to be used for divination,
whereby somebody basically makes contact with an intelligence who
is either contactable or resident within this crystal
skull.
NARRATOR: Could crystal skulls really provide a link to
mankind's extraterrestrial ancestors, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe? And if so, is there something
unique about the properties of these translucent objects that
could enable them to contain supernatural powers?
Anglesey, British Isles. 60 A.D.
Roman soldiers conquer the last stronghold of the Druids, a
class of mystics and priests whose roots stretch back to the
dawn of European civilization.
SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Everything that we know about the Druids,
we know through their enemies, the Romans, who went to a great
deal of trouble to exterminate the Druids because they saw
them, rightly, as social organizers, as important leaders
around whom the Celtic tribes coalesced.
Many powers get attributed to the Druids-- for example, that
the Druids held mystical knowledge.
The Druids had a philosophy of reincarnation.
YOUNG: The Druids used crystal to tell fortunes, to
read the future, to do ecstatic mystical rituals.
The Scot Highlanders called these "stones of power."
There's something about the crystal clarity, the strange
experience of staring into it, the things one can imagine.
And the crystal ball that grew out of this and used by more
recent seers really helped a person slip into a sort of
trance state from which they're able to imagine or hear or
experience or see something that is taken as important
information. The information was considered
to come from the gods or the spirits.
COPPENS: Gazing into a crystal ball was another means
in medieval times as to how to come into contact with the world
of the divine, to make contact with otherworldly intelligences.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient cultures accessed other
dimensions through the use of crystal objects, as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest? And if so, might there be a
scientific reason why divination objects like crystal skulls are
made of this unique material?
HENRY: Crystal has a unique lattice structure, and some
people believe that it has an other-dimensional quality.
It can transmit and receive messages from other dimensions
and is actually other-dimensional substance
itself. Crystal's ability to communicate
inter-dimensionally could explain why people throughout
history have used crystal balls to foretell the future or even
to look into the past. MORTON: And it's interesting
because when you think of the legend that crystal skulls were
containers of great knowledge, then perhaps there is vast
amounts of information, as the Native American elders say,
inside a crystal skull. CHILDRESS: Ancient people
were very much aware of how important crystals are and how
they are, in a sense, a high-tech object.
But how would they know that? They had to have these high-tech
objects in the past, either used by the ancient people or, in a
sense, brought to us by extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Could the inherent properties in crystal allow for
inter-dimensional communications and assistance, as some
researchers suggest? And might this extraordinary
power be used for other, possibly more sinister
purposes? Perhaps the answers can be found
by examining the tales surrounding another quartz
crystal skull, one possessed by one of the most brutal leaders
in human history.
NARRATOR: Lhasa, Tibet. March 1959.
As the Chinese begin to invade this capital city, the Dalai
Lama and a small group of high lamas flee into the treacherous
Himalayan mountains, risking imprisonment, torture and even
death to make the 14-day trek to Nepal.
According to reports, in their possession was a 22-pound
crystal skull named Amar. JOHN DESALVO: I've heard
many stories about a high lama who fled from China, took a
large crystal skull. Other Tibetan monks who risked
their lives hiding crystal skulls when the Chinese came.
So, that tells me there also is something more than just a
physical infatuation with these objects, that there's some
spiritual component. DAVID WILCOCK: We have a
Tibetan priest who hauls a 22-pound crystal skull out of
Tibet, specifically to stop it from getting into the wrong
hands. Building a human skull out of
crystal could serve as a sort of antenna for the consciousness of
someone who is a highly-adept meditator to be able to focus
their minds for the purposes of healing, or potentially, for
destructive purposes.
NARRATOR: If the stories are true, why did the skull's
caretakers go to such great lengths to protect the 22-pound
object? Could there really be a
potentially dangerous component to the Amar skull and other
crystal skulls, especially if one were to fall into the wrong
hands?
Bavaria, Germany. March 2011.
A 20-pound crystal skull is discovered at the former home of
a high-ranking Nazi SS officer. Some researchers believe the
skull was once owned by Heinrich Himmler, the sinister henchman
of Adolf Hitler and the man who oversaw the extermination of
millions of people during World War II.
KEN STORCH: I, for one, think that probably Heinrich
Himmler, uh, had procured a crystal skull.
The Nazis were really obsessed with procuring ancient
knowledge, and part of that ancient knowledge was with the
crystal skull. In the waning days of World War
II, the Nazis were heavily involved in the wonder weapon
that was going to change the course of the war and pronounce
them as victorious.
NOORY: Nazis, specifically Hitler, loved the occult.
There's no question that Adolf Hitler, as barbaric and as
insane as he was, was into the occult and desperately wanted to
possess all these things, because he believed that they
would give the Nazis incredible powers.
NICK REDFERN: They basically went on the hunt for as many of
these relics and artifacts as they could find to try and find
out if these ancient religious relics contained fantastic
powers that could be used against the Allies during the
Second World War. HENRY: The Nazis were
obsessed with skulls and skull imagery, and especially the
knowledge of the ancestors. It's not a stretch, with their
interest in ancient occult legends and lore, that the Nazis
knew of the tremendous power of the crystal skull.
NARRATOR: Is it possible, as many ancient astronaut theorists
believe, that Hitler's henchman, Heinrich Himmler, acquired a
crystal skull in an effort to direct its power against those
who opposed the Third Reich? MORTON: The legend says that
mankind has to be sufficiently prepared for the knowledge that
the crystal skulls contain, because, apparently, this is
knowledge that can either be abused or used for good.
COPPENS: In the case of Heinrich Himmler, what we're
seeing is a man who is going to will his power over everybody
else. And the question is whether he
used the skull into trying to get people to do certain things.
Crystal skulls are said to somehow be able to transform the
intention of a human being. And this is very much a powerful
weapon. This is something which can be
used against other human beings.
NARRATOR: Are ancient crystal skulls, like the one possessed
by Heinrich Himmler, really amplifiers of energy, both
positive and negative? And, if so, could the possession
of a skull really give its owner potentially destructive powers?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the possible reason
why these mysterious crystal relics were fashioned in the
shape of human skulls in the first place.
WILCOCK: It may be that building a crystal in the exact
shape of the human cranium does have some sort of energetic
quality. The crystallized form of the
human skull was believed to represent the eminence of the
soul upon death. It may even be possible that
that crystal skull, when it focuses this human energy field,
could be used as a form of propelling the aspirant into an
out-of-body experience, to resonate with their own skull,
to raise the frequency of their bioenergy field, so that they
can achieve this out-of-body state.
YOUNG: One interesting thing about a crystal skull is a
crystal is a clear thing, and the idea of a skull is a very
dark idea. So you have light and dark
combined in the same symbol, and a kind of wisdom comes out of
seeing something combined, a holistic bridging of the light
and the dark. MAGLIOCCO: Skull motifs are
common really throughout the world to signify death and
another world, the world of the dead.
In these mythologies, there was another world-- a death world--
to which everybody went, really, when they died.
And it was very parallel to our own world.
DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: In Tibetan Buddhism, the skull is very
powerful. It has a deep, deep meaning,
because it stands for death. It also stands for the
transcendence of death, overcoming of death.
So it's a symbol that also represents impermanence of life.
NARRATOR: Were 13 ancient crystal objects shaped like
human skulls in an effort to suggest they might have the
power of life and death? If so, what is the source of
such an awesome ability? And why has it been lost to
mankind for centuries? Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers might be found in a mythical lost
civilization, one that vanished overnight.
In two of his famous dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, the fourth
century B.C. Greek philosopher Plato describes this "lost
continent" as an island founded by Poseidon, the god of the sea.
RICHARD RADER: Atlantis, at least as imagined by Plato, was
very advanced technologically.
Had very advanced and progressive ideas about justice,
of law. In addition to being a sort of
technological marvel, it's also a model of ethical,
philosophical and moral civilization, as well.
NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the Atlantians also used objects made of crystal, not only as a
means of harnessing energy, but as a means to store important
information, much like a computer.
HENRY: Part of the lore and legend of Atlantis is that the
priests had taken the ancient relics and sacred knowledge of
Atlantis and deposited it, or perhaps even encoded it, into
crystal objects, including skulls.
NARRATOR: According to legend, the continent of
Atlantis mysteriously disappeared thousands of years
ago. But if Atlantis actually
existed, is it possible that a handful of its citizens
survived? And might crystal skulls be
among the objects that survived with them?
Could this explain why 12 of what are thought to be the
original 13 skulls were found in nearly every part of the world?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and for evidence, point to
the curious similarities that exist between the ancient Mayans
and modern-day Tibetans.
COPPENS: What we're finding is that in those places across
the world which have said to have been a place of refuge, in
those places, we have crystal skulls, specifically Tibet,
specifically the Mayan world. Those two areas are specifically
linked as being identified as refuges of the Atlantis
civilization.
NARRATOR: But what would be so important about the crystal
skulls that would compel the doomed citizens of Atlantis to
risk their lives in an effort to escape with them?
Tokyo, Japan. 2012.
The engineering and electronics company, Hitachi, reveals a
revolutionary data storage device, a quartz glass chip,
which will preserve encoded information for millions of
years. DENNIN: Hitachi announced
some very exciting breakthroughs in etching data into actual
quartz crystal type materials.
And so, by figuring out a way to burn little holes in the quartz
using high-powered lasers, you've now created your ones and
zeros, and they were actually doing it at a scale where you
can just look at it with a microscope and see the ones and
zeroes and read it out. TSOUKALOS: That chip, if
intact, can be read a million years from now.
But that also takes into question, how do you read the
chip? Because you need to have the
device with which to actually access the information.
And that is the problem we are experiencing with the crystal
skulls. If they contain knowledge, we
don't know where the "on" button is.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: I would not exclude that in a crystal
skull, there is a message, because we can make the most
modern little chips out of crystals.
So, I really suggest it has to do something with
extraterrestrials. Maybe there is information in
the crystal skull. But we have not the technology
to reach this information. This is a question of the
future. NARRATOR: Modern science has
researched and explored the use of quartz crystal in
cutting-edge technology and communication.
But some ancient astronaut theorists believe that there is
evidence that the ancients also recognized the potential of this
uniquely conductive mineral.
SCHOCH: Quartz is said to be able to hold power, to be able
to absorb energy. It's been suggested that maybe
the ancients used quartz to somehow record things in some
way that we don't quite understand, or possibly not to
record so much, but to tap into other realms.
Or to be able to use as communication devices.
CHILDRESS: Certain types of receivers, crystal radios,
television sets, other types of communication, and even power
for spaceships, can be done through quartz crystals.
NASA even does special experiments in space where they
want to grow perfect quartz crystals.
So, the idea of quartz crystal technology being used by
extraterrestrials as kind of high-tech technology makes a lot
of sense. COPPENS: What we know as a
fact is that crystal is able to store information.
So, what we need to ask ourselves is whether crystal
skulls were made out of crystal because our ancestors wanted to
put information in them. While we might not have a means
of extracting it, I think we really require it, for
ourselves, to try and make an effort to see what kind of
information might be present within these crystal skulls.
TSOUKALOS: When we hear these stories about having to
bring together all those crystal skulls, where does this premise
come from, this idea that they have to come together, and then,
something important happens? Well, could it be that each
crystal skull might be some type of a computer chip, and that
they belong to some motherboard of some extraterrestrial
computer, and that the only way it works, if all those skulls
come together? NARRATOR: Might crystal
skulls really be part of an elaborate ancient computer
system? Could they be data-gathering
devices, used for both recording and transmitting information?
Perhaps further evidence can be found by measuring the
electromagnetic energy field, or aura, surrounding an actual
crystal skull... named Einstein.
NARRATOR: This is Einstein, believed to be the largest
ancient crystal skull as yet discovered.
Its owner, Carolyn Ford, says she obtained the 33-pound
crystal object more than 20 years ago, and that she was
unaware that it possessed any strange abilities until the day
when, she claims, it actually communicated with her.
FORD: It was revealed to me by Einstein the moment that
I got him, when I knew nothing about crystal skulls, he said,
"I'm an ancient computer. In fact, I'm a master computer.
And we record everything, like a live feed 24/7.
And that's our purpose." He's been recording history on
this planet since the beginning of time, so indeed, he was in
Atlantis. A lot of the ancient crystal
skulls have been in Atlantis, and even before that time.
NARRATOR: Could the so-called "Einstein skull" really be an
artifact from the lost civilization of Atlantis, as
its owner claims?
(bird screeching) Sedona, Arizona.
2013. CHILDRESS: It's very clear
down here, and then it gets cloudy.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress enlists
the help of aura photography expert Jamie Jones in an effort
to test the Einstein skull for unusual energy pulses or auras.
These auras appear as colors that correspond to various
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states.
JONES: With aura technology, we're able to use biofeedback
imaging to pick up electromagnetic energy field
around the human body, and by looking at this, it's amazing.
It's like our blueprint for our life.
And these energies are represented in colors.
I'm not expecting any energy to be coming out of the inanimate
object.
So, I'm a little skeptical in that I'm not sure, um, what to
expect when I photograph the skull.
And, um, I've been told a lot of things about skulls, as far
as information that they're holding, what civilizations
they're from, or if they're actually from the
extraterrestrials. So, I'm kind of excited to see
this particular skull and what it emits.
CHILDRESS: Hi, Jamie. JONES: Hi.
FORD: Hey. CHILDRESS: And this is
Carolyn, and wow, here is the skull.
JONES: Wow. This is fabulous. CHILDRESS: So what do we do?
JONES: These are biofeedback censors.
FORD: Okay. JONES: And they're gonna be
reading the energy, if there's energy around the skull, so
you're gonna place it on here for me. Perfect.
CHILDRESS: So it has to go on both of the two sensors?
FORD: This section here. JONES: Yes, because both
sensors are picking up energy, so we want as much coverage as
possible. Okay, that's perfect. All right.
CHILDRESS: All right, and now, um, you just take a photo
of it, huh? JONES: We're gonna take a
picture. All right.
CHILDRESS: I don't have really big expectations,
honestly, but I think there is some energy in the skull, so
maybe this aura camera can pick it up.
(beeping) JONES: All right, and here is
the aura of the skull. FORD: Wow.
Oh, look at those colors! CHILDRESS: Okay. Wow.
JONES: That is amazing. It's amazing.
FORD: Really? CHILDRESS: So... so what are
we looking at here? I mean, here we can see the
skull. JONES: It seems to be very
strong, warrior-type protective energy, and if you look closely,
that energy is arced over. FORD: Right.
JONES: Literal arc of protection over the skull.
FORD: Yeah, that's beautiful. JONES: Now, the blue that we
see throughout the entire picture is wisdom and knowledge
from traveling many lifetimes and many dimensions.
Obviously, this skull has some consciousness and energy around
it... FORD: Right, yes.
JONES: ...that it emanates quite strongly, and these other
beings with it, as well. FORD: 'Cause he calls himself
the Skull of Consciousness. JONES: Oh, there you go, see?
CHILDRESS: Ah, is that right? FORD: Yeah, yeah, so, um...
JONES: See? Quite profound. CHILDRESS: I was surprised
really that the aura camera would pick up so much energy
from the skull and the different colors.
There's something there. NARRATOR: Does the
photographed energy field surrounding Einstein help to
prove that the crystal skull could, in fact, be some sort of
recording device? An extraterrestrial object used
to harness both energy and information?
Perhaps until all 13 legendary skulls are discovered, their
true power will remain a mystery.
STORCH: You got to ask yourself, what happens when we
do find those crystal skulls that have been around for eons,
and we put all 13 together? Is the legend going to come
true?
CHILDRESS: Part of this legend is that, yes, these 13
crystal skulls are extraterrestrial skulls.
And when the 13 skulls are together, it'll create a new
epoch for planet Earth.
NOORY: I think this planet is up in arms.
So, if the legend's true that the crystal skulls are gonna
join together and create this incredible power to help us, it
better be sooner than later. MORTON: There is certainly a
belief amongst certain Native American tribes, when humanity
is at its most desperate, all of these original ancient
crystal skulls will come back together, and that they will
divulge their knowledge and wisdom that can help the human
race survive. They specifically say that what
will come out of the crystal skulls is the lesson that we are
all connected. WILCOCK: So, perhaps the
journey to find these crystal skulls is going to help unravel
the truth of ancient human origins, which may include the
fact that we are not indigenous to this planet and that the
human form is far more sacred than we believe.
NARRATOR: Could there really be a network of crystal skulls
that will, when reunited, harness powerful forces?
And, if so, will they reveal the truth about mankind's purpose?
There are many who believe the answer is a profound "yes" and
that the evidence is right before our eyes.
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