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02:34The Big Apple.
02:36Out of the 8 million people that live in this city, I wonder how many of them stop to think
02:41about the history all around them.
02:46Wall Street is named after a barricade that used to be there, one built by Dutch settlers in 1624 to
02:53keep the English out.
02:58Back then, Manhattan was actually called New Amsterdam until the English finally broke through and gained complete control of the
03:05island, renaming it New York.
03:12Clues to the past are hidden amongst the skyscrapers, subways and street signs.
03:20I'm here because one New Yorker says she's discovered a mystery right in Central Park.
03:28A centuries-old tie between this modern city and ancient Egypt.
03:36That's a beautiful pendant.
03:45That's a beautiful pendant.
04:02You must be Dorothy.
04:02And they were often carved into stone and found inside the tombs of many of these pharaohs.
04:09And for archaeologists, they're very important because they can use them for dating.
04:14I don't think I know who that is, but I'll bet you do.
04:17It's Tithmosis III.
04:18He actually is one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt because he expanded Egypt to its greatest size ever.
04:25And I did some research and lo and behold, I found out that there's a monument in Central Park with
04:32this cartouche.
04:33Really?
04:33Here in Central Park?
04:34Here in Central Park.
04:35Why don't we go and take a look?
04:37Sounds great.
04:54So your monument, it's an obelisk.
04:57Many people in the city of New York and elsewhere don't even know that there is an Egyptian obelisk here.
05:04So is this a real Egyptian obelisk?
05:08Yes, it is known as Cleopatra's Needle.
05:11It's covered in scaffolding.
05:12What's that all about?
05:14Well, what happened was about two and a half years ago, an associate and I, we sent some photographs of
05:20the obelisk and its current condition to the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.
05:27So what exactly were you concerned about?
05:29We saw some cracks.
05:31The hieroglyphs were eroded.
05:33We were concerned that this was a condition that was going to continue unless some attention was paid to it.
05:40All you have to do is look at it.
05:41You can see that the corners at the base are very degraded.
05:44And on the second level of scaffolding, you can't even see the hieroglyphics.
05:49And even though this thing is a granite, which is generally a very hard and durable rock, in a climate
05:55like New York with many freeze-thaw cycles, if you don't take care of it, it's going to fall apart.
06:00That's right.
06:01You mentioned something about that cartouche being on here.
06:05Since the scaffolding is up there, we really can't see it.
06:08So I do have some photos here that you can see the cartouche right there.
06:14So we know that this is the cartouche for Thutmose III.
06:19That's correct.
06:19But what does the rest of the hieroglyphics say on this oboist?
06:22What it generally says is that Thutmose was a great pharaoh and that he extends his gratitude to Amun-Ra
06:31for his greatness.
06:32Amun-Ra, that's the sun god.
06:34Yes.
06:35The most important god of all of Egypt, for the simple reason that without the sun, there would be nothing.
06:41That's right.
06:42And they understood that energy.
06:44Sure.
06:44During the time of Thutmose, the top of the pyramid, what's called the capstone, would have been covered in gold.
06:50And that would have radiated all over.
06:53And there actually were over a hundred obelisks.
06:56And these all would have been lighting up all of ancient Egypt.
07:02When Dorothy mentioned there were more obelisks like this and that some were capped in gold, I remembered one I
07:08saw on a recent vacation in Paris.
07:10The obelisk of Luxor is located at the Place de la Concorde, which means place of peace.
07:17This obelisk was erected to symbolize peace and placed at the spot where a guillotine used to stand.
07:23The same guillotine used to kill King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
07:28The placement of this obelisk is very significant to Paris' history.
07:33But now I'm wondering if the placement of New York's obelisk also has meaning.
07:38When I look at this obelisk here that came from Egypt, my question is, why here?
07:44Why did they place it at this spot in Central Park?
07:47It's no accident that the obelisk is here.
07:50I don't think it's an accident either.
07:52How long has it been here in the park?
07:54It's been here for 135 years, since the 1880s.
07:58It's 3,500 years old.
08:00That's 1,500 years before Jesus' time.
08:03That's correct.
08:04Tuthmosis had two of them made.
08:06The other one is in London, and they were outside of his temple in Heliopolis.
08:11Heliopolis was the Harvard of ancient Egypt.
08:14It's where all the important pharaohs went to school.
08:17They learned what are known as the ancient mysteries,
08:19lessons we now call the seven classic arts and sciences,
08:23which included mathematics, geometry, and astronomy.
08:28Today, all that's left of Heliopolis are ruins in Cairo,
08:32an obelisk in London, and this obelisk in New York City.
08:36So this obelisk here in Central Park, how did it get over here from Egypt?
08:42Well, it's a really interesting story, Scott.
08:45The New York Masons, from the transporting to the paying to the actual erecting,
08:51they're responsible for the obelisk being here.
08:54So they were involved from start to finish.
08:57End to end, yes.
08:58The Freemasons, interesting.
08:59And 9,000 of them marched up Fifth Avenue in full regalia.
09:03Really?
09:04Yes, and I have some pictures here that you can see.
09:08This is a big group.
09:09They've got their Masonic aprons.
09:11This was important to them.
09:13But that begs the question for me,
09:16why would the modern Freemasons be at a cornerstone-laying ceremony
09:20for an Egyptian obelisk?
09:23Because the Freemason that went to Alexandria in Egypt
09:26found artifacts inside the foundation stone
09:30that link right to Masonic symbols.
09:33Wait a minute.
09:34You're saying these are tangible artifacts
09:36that connect directly to Freemasonry?
09:38Yes.
09:39Now, a lot of people believe that modern Freemasonry started in 1717,
09:43but is there a connection going back to ancient Egypt?
09:46The symbolism of obelisks in Egypt are very important,
09:50but also the placement geographically,
09:53where they put them, is also important.
09:55And I'm wondering,
09:57why did they put this particular obelisk
09:59right here in this spot in Central Park?
10:02You know, Dorothy, I don't think it's an accident.
10:05I'm going to find out why.
10:22New York is one of America's oldest cities,
10:26but there's something inside Central Park
10:28that's much, much older than the United States.
10:33I was surprised to learn
10:35that there's an ancient Egyptian obelisk here
10:37and more surprised to hear
10:39that artifacts tied to Freemasonry
10:41were found under it
10:42at its original location in Egypt.
10:47That doesn't make any sense,
10:49since modern Freemasonry didn't get started
10:52until 3,000 years after this obelisk was finished.
10:56That is, unless there was a form of Freemasonry
10:59that existed much earlier.
11:02This could mean that the men who built the pyramids
11:05were intimately tied to the men who built this country.
11:23I have a lot of questions about the obelisk.
11:26What were the Masonic artifacts found underneath it?
11:30Is there a reason the obelisk was placed in Central Park?
11:33Could this New York connection to ancient Egypt
11:37redefine the history of our country?
11:40Hi, Jan, how you doing?
11:41Doing fine.
11:43Good.
11:43I just came from Central Park,
11:44and I looked at the obelisk.
11:46Yeah?
11:46Well, I'm wondering if you could do a little research
11:49and see if you could find anything out
11:51about the geographic location of that obelisk.
11:54You know, I just don't think it's a coincidence
11:56that they put it at that spot in Central Park.
12:00Sure, I can do that.
12:01That'd be great.
12:02It is one more thing.
12:03Do you remember that Freemason that we met in New York?
12:06What was his name?
12:07Uh, yeah.
12:08Brendan Green.
12:10Brendan Green.
12:11That's it.
12:11Okay.
12:12Thanks for that.
12:13Let me know what you find out.
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12:38Good news.
12:39I heard back from Brendan.
12:40We're going to meet up in Brooklyn later this afternoon.
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13:09Hey, Brendan.
13:09Good to see you again.
13:10Scott, how are you?
13:11Hey, I was just in Central Park, and I saw the ancient Egyptian obelisk that was brought
13:16here back here back in the 1800s.
13:18And one of the things I learned is that the Freemasons were involved in getting it over here from Egypt.
13:23And you being a New York Freemason, I thought, who better to ask?
13:27Absolutely.
13:28I was brought over here by a fellow brother, Henry Honeychurch Garinge, who, of course, is
13:32a Freemason.
13:32It was a Herculean task, weighs over 200 tons, and it's about 70 feet tall.
13:37Henry Honeychurch Garinge was a Civil War veteran and a lieutenant in the United States
13:42Navy.
13:43He arranged a furlough just so he could lead the effort to bring the obelisk from Egypt
13:47to New York's Central Park.
13:49Why don't we walk over here to Lady Liberty for a comparison?
13:51Okay.
13:55Well, there she is, Lady Liberty.
13:57I never get tired of looking at her.
14:00Likewise.
14:00You know, some differences.
14:02The obelisk is 70 feet, and Lady Liberty is 305 feet.
14:07Liberty was sent here in over 200 cartons.
14:09Meanwhile, the obelisk was sent here in one piece.
14:11You know, that's amazing.
14:13Think about it.
14:13200 crates, and then she was assembled, and the obelisk was brought over in one piece.
14:19Around 96th Street, they had built the trestle bridge, and it was only used for that one time.
14:24Just for the obelisk to get it to Central Park.
14:26Exactly right.
14:27Wow.
14:28So there was a lot of money spent.
14:29A little over $100,000, and William H. Vanderbilt funded the entire thing.
14:34The Vanderbilt family, they were the ones that made their money in the railroad business.
14:39When Cornelius Vanderbilt died, he left his son William $100 million.
14:45That would be worth $2 billion in today's dollars.
14:48Today, there are still a couple Vanderbilts in the public eye.
14:51Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt and her son, journalist Anderson Cooper.
14:57But the question is, why would a family founded by railroad tycoons pay a fortune to bring this obelisk to
15:04America?
15:07So that begs a question.
15:08Do we know if William Vanderbilt was a Freemason?
15:12There are many that speculate that he was, but it's an unanswered question.
15:15But his father was, right?
15:17From what we're told, yes.
15:19You know, ironically enough, most of the famous Freemasons are publicly known.
15:22But some of them, when you start searching and looking for it, they kind of don't show up.
15:26You know, Brendan, when you think about this, to bring a 200-ton massive piece of stone over from Egypt
15:33here to America, that was an engineering marvel that Garinge did.
15:37And involved some pretty fantastic elements of geometry and mathematics.
15:43And these concepts were very important to the ancient Egyptians, of course, and to modern Freemasons.
15:49Exactly right.
15:50So how did they get these two obelisks to England and the U.S.?
15:55Here, let me show you.
16:00Ah, okay.
16:02This is the transportation of the England obelisk.
16:04Well, Freemason John Dixon, who was an engineer by trade, designed this submarine-like vessel.
16:09This vessel was actually towed behind a much bigger ship.
16:12The storm hit them in the middle of the voyage, and this sunk to the bottom of the Biscayne Bay.
16:17You're kidding. How'd they get it up?
16:19The towing ship, Olga, had to come back and save them.
16:22And six sailors were lost.
16:23Really?
16:24Absolutely, yes.
16:25How long did it take for them to get this up? It sank to the bottom, right?
16:28Within four to five days after that happened.
16:30It's amazing that it even survived.
16:32So how'd they get the American obelisk over here?
16:35Honeychurch Garinge actually bored a hole through his vessel because the obelisk was too long to fit within it.
16:41Then they back welded around the encasement of it.
16:44Okay.
16:44And they transported that all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
16:46So the obelisk was sticking out the front of the ship.
16:49Absolutely.
16:50Brendan, this is really an incredible story.
16:52Egypt allows two important obelisk standing in the front of the temple at Heliopolis.
16:58One to go to England, one to come to the United States.
17:01But if you stop and think about it, this was one of the most amazing engineering feats of the time.
17:38Ancient Egyptians not only developed the first forms of writing, but were also instrumental in the way we use medicine
17:45and mathematics today.
17:48A 3500-year-old obelisk being restored in Central Park has set me on a journey to find out if
17:54the Freemasons, a secret order that was largely responsible for establishing America, could have existed during the time of the
18:01pharaohs in ancient Egypt.
18:06If this is true, then it's possible that one of America's most powerful cities could have roots stretching all the
18:13way back to the ancient pyramids of Giza.
18:21You know, Brendan, one of the interesting things that Dorothy told me is that when the New York obelisk was
18:27taken out of its original place in Egypt, they found artifacts underneath it that some say might be connected to
18:35Freemasonry.
18:36Do you know anything about that?
18:37Yes, sir.
18:37In fact, Henry Grange himself found those artifacts.
18:40Oh, really?
18:40Yeah, he had to call on the Grand Lodge of Egypt to come out and validate that these were Freemasonic
18:45symbols and tools that he found.
18:47So they verified that these artifacts were absolutely legitimate.
18:51Exactly right.
18:52What were these artifacts?
18:53One was a builder square, one was a trowel, and the other was a lead-lined plump.
18:58Okay.
18:58I have some examples of that here for you.
18:59As Brendan and I spoke more, he revealed the significance of the artifacts to Freemasons.
19:05A trowel to spread the mortar that symbolically binds the Brotherhood together.
19:10A builder square and lead plumb line are reminders to square their actions towards what is honest and true.
19:19But versions of these physical tools were also used to build the pyramids in Egypt.
19:26Archaeologists have discovered that the pyramids were not built by slaves, as many people think, but by master architects.
19:33These men were experts in stone masonry, and upon their death were buried ceremoniously.
19:39Their bodies would be entombed in the fetal position with their heads pointing toward the setting sun.
19:45But the question remains, were the ideals of the master architects and ancient pharaohs also buried in ancient Egypt?
19:53Or were they brought here, to the United States?
20:07Let's talk about the obelisk for a second itself.
20:10I've learned a little bit about the symbolism of it.
20:12It's a phallic symbol. It's also representing a ray of the sun.
20:17And essentially, it's also a sundial.
20:19So really, there are aspects of astronomy here that are connected to the obelisk.
20:24And of course, astronomy is important to Freemasonry, is it not?
20:27It's one of our seven arts and sciences.
20:29When you think about it, at the top of an obelisk, what you have is really a pyramid, right?
20:34Yes, sir.
20:34You know, that reminds me of something.
20:37We all see this every day, for that matter.
20:40On the back of a dollar bill, we have a pyramid.
20:43Now, the thing that I'm not really clear on is why is it that the top is separated from the
20:49rest of the pyramid?
20:50And why is there an eye in the middle?
20:53Masons would say, some Masons, that the eye is the all-seeing eye or the eye of Providence.
20:59But the unfinished capping stone represents an unfinished work.
21:02This is a symbol that the work of America is never done.
21:07Never done.
21:08Like the pyramid, I think the all-seeing eye is a symbol that may have Egyptian origins.
21:14I think it's connected to the eye of Horus, which was an ancient Egyptian symbol that stood for protection, royal
21:21power, and good health.
21:24So, if this all-seeing eye here represents the eye of Horus, in essence, the eye of God or the
21:30eye of the sun, that takes us back to Egypt as well.
21:35It's 100% correct.
21:36You know, as I think about this obelisk in Central Park, do you think that the placement of it in
21:42Central Park at that spot has some type of meaning?
21:46I would say absolutely.
21:47I would also venture to say it's not by any coincidence at all.
21:56I know a lot more after talking to Brendan.
21:59Trouble is, he took a vow of secrecy when he joined the Freemasons.
22:04And that vow prevents him from telling me any more about the specific placement of the obelisk in Central Park.
22:12This investigation reminds me of another American obelisk connected to the Freemasons.
22:18The Washington Monument.
22:21When I was in D.C. investigating secrets about the city's design, the Washington Monument was also under restoration.
22:30I found out that the city was laid out in accordance with a precise plan dictated by Freemason George Washington
22:37to an architect named Pierre L'Enfant.
22:41Structures like the Washington Monument and the White House were designed by Freemasons.
22:48And were placed in very specific spots which create alignments and Masonic symbols when seen from above.
22:57I feel like the obelisk the Masons placed here in New York must be part of something bigger as well.
23:03But what?
23:15Hi, Jan.
23:16What's up?
23:18Well, I think I found something really interesting.
23:21Oh yeah?
23:21What's that?
23:22You remember that William Vanderbilt paid for the obelisk to come to New York?
23:27I do?
23:28He was also the one who got to decide where to place it once it got there.
23:33Oh really?
23:33I haven't figured out why he chose Central Park yet, but I did find something else.
23:38What's that?
23:39The Vanderbilt family was responsible for building Grand Central Station.
23:43Really?
23:45Yes, and there's something in there that's amazing.
23:49The ceiling has a mural painted on it that's huge.
23:53And it seems to have something to do with astronomy.
24:13When I heard there was an Egyptian artifact I needed to check out in New York City, I assumed it
24:19was something sitting in a museum.
24:21Instead, it was a real Egyptian obelisk standing inside Central Park, brought here by the Freemasons.
24:30The obelisk has eroded over time.
24:33It's being restored today.
24:35But I think the obelisk's secrets have eroded too.
24:38Not only could this monument prove that aspects of Freemasonry existed during the times of the ancient pharaohs in Egypt,
24:45but it could also reveal an unexplored history of New York City.
24:51I'm trying to figure out why William H. Vanderbilt, one of the wealthiest men in America during the 1800s,
24:57would have placed this obelisk in Central Park, a desolate part of Manhattan at the time.
25:07Oddly enough, the Vanderbilts were also instrumental in building another New York landmark, Grand Central Station.
25:16My wife says that our next clue in this Masonic mystery could be on Grand Central's ceiling.
25:25Half a million people walk through here every day, but hardly anyone ever looks up.
25:34On the ceiling are astronomical constellations similar to the night sky.
25:45But the ones here are not quite right.
25:51All of them appear to be reversed, like Pegasus, the winged horse.
25:57Orion the hunter also appears to be reversed.
26:00But if you look closely, you see that the stars in his belt are actually in the right position,
26:06even though he's facing in a different direction.
26:11It's almost like I'm looking at the view God would have from above.
26:16But it's like Orion is calling out to us here on Earth.
26:21Why?
26:31Hi, Scott.
26:32I found some additional information online that actually points to two other obelisks in New York
26:37that may be related to the one in Central Park.
26:40Both seem to have Masonic connections.
26:42I hope this helps.
26:44Janet.
26:46Janet's email pointed out two more obelisks.
26:49The first is at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in the cemetery of an old church.
26:55There also seems to be another at the corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
27:01I gotta check out these other obelisks sites.
27:04And I bet Dorothy will want to join me.
27:44Dorothy, I'm so glad you came.
27:46St. Paul's Church is one of the oldest churches in New York City.
27:50My wife, Janet, sent me an email.
27:52What she found on Google Earth is that there are three obelisks.
27:57Remember, we started up at Central Park with Cleopatra's Needle.
28:01Absolutely.
28:02Well, there are two more obelisks in New York City, and they appear to line up.
28:09The second one is right here at St. Paul's Church.
28:13Oh, that's amazing.
28:14It's weird to see an obelisk rising up in the middle of a church cemetery.
28:19The monument honors Thomas Addis Emmett, an immigrant who was exiled from Ireland
28:24and made himself an American success.
28:27He wasn't a Freemason, but there is someone else at this church who was.
28:31And I think Freemasonry is what connects this obelisk to the one in Central Park.
28:38Recognize that face?
28:40George Washington.
28:41Yes, George Washington.
28:42This is where he attended church.
28:45When he became president, this was where he prayed.
28:49And after his inauguration, just a couple blocks down the street, he came here to pray.
28:55So there's obviously some very strong Masonic connections here.
28:59And there's another person that you might find very curious that has a connection to St. Paul's Church here.
29:05Pierre Lafont, the one who designed Washington, D.C.
29:09He also designed parts of this church as well.
29:12He was a Mason for sure.
29:14Oh, absolutely.
29:15So there are strong connections here with Freemasonry.
29:19You know, there's one more obelisk.
29:21And if you have some time, I'd love to have you come with me and we'll go take a look
29:24at that last one.
29:25Well, let's go.
29:26Let's grab a cab.
30:04Today, an ancient Egyptian obelisk sits in New York City's Central Park.
30:10Out of the 40 million people who visit the park each year, I bet few of them know that this
30:16obelisk is actually part of a series of obelisks that may tie Freemasonry to the ancient Egyptians.
30:23Both groups use mathematics, geometry and astronomy to track the movements of the heavenly bodies.
30:33But history says that both groups were also separated by nearly 3000 years and couldn't have had contact.
30:41If the Freemasons did in fact carry on traditions from the ancient Egyptians, this could mean that many of our
30:48country's oldest cities, including this one, could have hidden alignments, cryptic symbols and a forgotten history that stretched back to
30:571400 B.C.
30:59Dorothy, I want to show you something I think you're going to find interesting.
31:03Take a look at this picture.
31:05See these three points?
31:06Yes.
31:07This first point you'll recognize that's where the Egyptian obelisk was, you know so well.
31:12The second point is St. Paul's Chapel.
31:15Now where we're going is to a third obelisk.
31:19Look at how they form a line.
31:22That's stunning.
31:23And I don't think it's a coincidence, do you?
31:25No, not at all.
31:27This third obelisk is really interesting because this is an obelisk which is a monument to General William Worth.
31:35I'm sure he was a Mason.
31:37Here you see him.
31:38If you take a look at the blanket on the horse, see the five pointed star.
31:42I think that's confirmation that he was indeed a Freemason.
31:46There's another thing, Dorothy, that's very surprising.
31:49Worth's body is buried at the obelisk.
31:53Well, that's highly unusual to have someone buried in the middle of Manhattan.
31:58It really is.
31:59My understanding is that the obelisk is right near the Flatiron building, so we have to be looking for that.
32:14There it is.
32:15All right.
32:22As long as I've been in New York City, I've never noticed it.
32:24Well, you know, this General Worth is an interesting character.
32:28He was assigned to be the Secretary of War in Texas, so you've heard of Fort Worth, Texas, right?
32:34Absolutely.
32:34Well, now you know why it's named that.
32:36Why is he buried here?
32:38Why isn't he buried in Fort Worth?
32:40That's a good question, and the reason is he's a native New Yorker.
32:43Ah, well, there you go.
32:46Okay, Dorothy, let's think about this for a second.
32:48We've got three points on our line.
32:51The first one that was put down was St. Paul's Church, and this is significant to Freemasons because at St.
32:59Paul's Church, this is where George Washington prayed and LaFont had a hand in its design.
33:04That's correct, yes.
33:05Now, the second one that was put down is the Worth obelisk.
33:08General Worth was a Freemason.
33:11And the last one to be put down is the real Egyptian obelisk connected to Freemasonry without question because you
33:19had 9,000 Freemasons that traveled right up 5th Avenue here, walked right by the Worth obelisk to Central Park
33:26for that ceremony.
33:28That's correct.
33:29I assumed that these three were in a line, a straight line.
33:33And when I looked at it closely, they're not straight.
33:36There's a little bit of a jog here.
33:38The question is, why?
33:39And to your point, all of this area did not have all of these buildings, so it would have been
33:46very easy for surveyors to make a straight line from Central Park all the way down to St. Paul's, and
33:52they didn't.
33:53Back in those days, almost all the surveyors were Freemasons.
33:57And if they wanted to make a straight line, that would be no problem for them.
34:01But because this is not, there has to be a reason for that.
34:19Alignments have always been very important to people.
34:23Freemasons, the Egyptians, and even modern New Yorkers.
34:28Twice a year, the setting sun lines up perfectly with Manhattan's east-west streets.
34:34A phenomenon that locals call Manhattanhenge, which is supposed to happen today.
34:40The reality is that it happens in any city laid out on a grid.
34:45But New Yorkers have really embraced the event.
34:49I can't believe how early photographers line up to get a good spot on the Tudor City Bridge over 42nd
34:56Street.
34:56Some of these guys have been here since noon.
35:01Trouble is, there are some clouds on the horizon.
35:06Despite the weather, people are everywhere, hoping to get a glimpse.
35:10Hoping for a break in the clouds.
35:23It's not gonna happen.
35:26This is what Manhattanhenge looks like when clouds don't get in the way.
35:30The star we can't live without, the sun, shines right between the city's buildings.
35:35And people get excited about it.
35:39The name of this New York phenomenon is connected not to Egyptians, but to the people who built Stonehenge.
35:46An ancient structure in England that I've examined.
35:49There's disagreement about when Stonehenge was built, maybe as early as 1600 B.C.
35:55But we know with certainty that Stonehenge was built, in large part, to track the sun.
36:01I'm glad I got to see people turn out for Manhattanhenge.
36:05But now I need to figure out the mystery behind the three obelisks.
36:09And why they're placed where they are.
36:13Some people may think it's just a coincidence that the Central Park, Emmett, and Worth obelisks are laid out the
36:21way they are.
36:22Not me.
36:23I think there's a reason for their placement in a row just shy of a straight line.
36:28And I intend to figure out what it is.
36:58The skyline of this.
37:00New York City was developed over hundreds of years.
37:05But three things hidden within it may reveal a forgotten history of the city.
37:12My investigation into an old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park has led to a bigger mystery.
37:19Which involves two other obelisks carefully placed by Freemasons into the layout of the Big Apple.
37:27I think the specific locations of these three obelisks could reveal that an ancient Egyptian alignment is present right here
37:35in Manhattan.
37:36But why?
37:39I've asked a friend of mine who's a designer to help me determine why the Freemasons would have placed these
37:45obelisks the way they did nearly a hundred years ago.
37:52Wow.
37:54That is awesome.
37:56I tried to put some landmarks just to kind of give you a picture of where things are and, you
38:01know, set up a little atmosphere.
38:03You did a great job.
38:04Thanks.
38:04Empire State Building.
38:05That one I know is the Flatiron Building.
38:08It's pointing right at the Worth obelisk.
38:10And, of course, the Freedom Tower.
38:13They're not to scale, but it kind of just gives you an idea of where things are located.
38:17Well, what about the obelisks?
38:19I have those, too.
38:20They're much bigger so that you can get some detail in them, so it doesn't get confusing.
38:25Let's pull these off and then we'll pull out the obelisks.
38:27Let's do it.
38:29Here's the first one.
38:30Well, this is the real Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, which is right by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right
38:37about there.
38:38The Worth obelisk.
38:43Where's the last one?
38:44This is the Emmet obelisk.
38:46And this one goes to St. Paul's Chapel right here.
38:50Okay, now when you look at this, what does it look like?
38:55A line.
38:56A straight line.
38:57That's what I thought.
38:59But actually, it's not a straight line.
39:02And I want to check that to see if indeed it is off.
39:05Why don't we start by marking these three points.
39:09Here's St. Paul's Chapel.
39:12Here is the Worth.
39:14And then Central Park Egyptian obelisk.
39:19So I have a straight edge here.
39:20Perfect.
39:23It's off.
39:24Yeah, just slightly.
39:27We've got three points.
39:29And the one that's off is the Worth obelisk.
39:34The question is, why is it not straight?
39:38Why does it take this bend?
39:45Carrie, you know what?
39:47Something just occurred to me.
39:50Hold on a sec.
39:51I've got some pictures here that I took of New York.
39:56This is in Grand Central Station.
39:58And when I was in there, I noticed something very unusual.
40:02There are a number of constellations that are depicted on the ceiling.
40:06And what's unusual about them is they're not depicted as we look up at the stars.
40:11They're actually depicted looking down from space or what God would see.
40:17Except for the stars in Orion.
40:21Take a look at these three stars right here.
40:24These are the three stars in Orion's belt.
40:26And they're not straight.
40:28They're almost straight.
40:29Just like these three obelisks are almost straight.
40:33This has got to be a depiction of Orion's belt.
40:36So why would anyone spend this much energy recreating Orion's belt in Manhattan?
40:42You know what?
40:43There is a precedent.
40:43And it goes back over 5,000 years.
40:46In Egypt, we see the same thing.
40:48The great pyramids in Giza are laid out like Orion's belt.
40:52This was discovered not that long ago.
40:55So what's so special about Orion's belt?
40:57Well, in Egyptian mythology, Orion symbolized Osiris, the male god.
41:03These three stars in Orion's belt point to the star Sirius.
41:08Sirius, in ancient Egyptian mythology, symbolized the goddess Isis.
41:13And you know what?
41:14If you notice, these three obelisks point out into the harbor at what?
41:20The Statue of Liberty.
41:21The Statue of Liberty.
41:22She symbolizes the goddess Isis amongst many other goddesses.
41:27So I do think we are onto something here.
41:29And I think this is Orion's belt.
41:31And this is exactly the type of thing that the Freemasons would do.
41:35So really what these three obelisks represent is a piece of Egypt here in Manhattan.
41:43The Central Park obelisk.
41:46Manhattan hedge.
41:48Orion's belt.
41:49These are all clues that tie to one sacred subject.
41:53Astronomy.
41:54It was one of the ancient mysteries taught to the pharaohs in Egypt.
41:59But today, it is inscribed in nearly every Freemasonic lodge around the world.
42:05Understanding the way our world fits within the universe was not only important for ancient cultures, but still holds great
42:12importance today.
42:13This investigation proves that the bonds between Freemasons and the ancient Egyptians were much stronger than I ever suspected.
42:22I wonder if there are other old structures like the Central Park obelisk holding secrets of our country's past.
42:28I'm sure they're out there.
42:30And I can't wait to find them.
42:34Next time on America Unearthed.
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42:42You actually have some Bigfoot here?
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