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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