NARRATOR: Southern Pakistan-- in the middle
of the Indus River Valley lie the ruins of Mohenjo-daro.
This ancient city, whose name means Mound of the Dead,
was one of the largest urban settlements
in the world in 2600 BC.
FRANKLIN RUEHL: The ancient city of Mohenjo-daro had what
appeared to be streets that were laid
out parallel and perpendicular to each other
like a modern city.
The homes actually had their own toilets,
and they had a very sophisticated sewer system.
So it looks like a very advanced city.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have long
thought this site was also the epicenter
of a nuclear explosion that occurred
more than 4,000 years ago.
FRANKLIN RUEHL: Skeletons were found in dead positions,
as though there's an instantaneous death.
And some of those skeletons, as measured by Soviet scientists,
had 50 times the normal radioactivity.
They found pottery that had been fused.
Then walls were heated to such an extent they became
vitrified, or glass-like, suggesting
some sort of ancient nuclear weapon involved.
NARRATOR: According to the Mahabharata,
the ancient holy text of the Hindus,
white hot smoke rose in infinite brilliance
and reduced the city to ashes.
Horses were burned by the thousands,
and corpses were vaporized by intense heat.
And afterwards, a big silence came over the entire land,
and people start to have boils on their skin.
Their hair started to fall out, and their nails.
There's only one thing that causes this,
and that is radiation poisoning.
It's radiation fallout.
PHILIP COPPENS: So the question then becomes when events happen
in a place where there is extreme radiation, what
impact does that have on human life or on other life present
there.
Could this explain, for example, why creatures were born
with more than one arm, or more than one leg,
which then somehow became deified?
Because even to this day, we know that in civilizations
where anomalous human beings are born, somehow the touch of God
is seen to be part of this creation.
NARRATOR: According to the ancient Hindu texts,
after the carnage at Mohenjo-daro,
a fearsome flying monster appeared in the sky.
It was called Garuda.
In the Mahabharata, the Garuda is
a massive bird-like creature.
It has a red-faced, red wings, talon.
It's so huge, it would block out the sun.
There are stories that it would let a certain god
Vishnu ride on him on occasion.
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: And each and every time
he would show up descending from the sky,
he would create hurricane winds.
And upon his descent, the Earth would shake,
dust would flap in the air, and everyone in the vicinity
would be absolutely terrified.
Now, here we have a carving of Garuda.
And if we look at the top, yes, they look like feathers,
but at the same time, they could be interpreted
as big, gigantic flames.
DAVID CHILDRESS: According to Hindu mythology,
Garuda's born out of this cosmic event,
this war and destruction that happens
at the end of every age.
PHILIP COPPENS: Could this have been somehow connected
to exposure or to radiation-- being born within a zone
of high radiation?
We cannot know the answer, but we do know that within India
and within Pakistan, there are known zones of higher radiation
than there are normal.
The logic dictates that somehow, genetic abominations will have
been born within those places.