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Strange buildings: the Egyptian Pyramids, Lalibela Ethiopian stone underground churches, and the Winchester mansion are featured.
几个世纪以来，考古学家们一直试图揭开那些令人惊叹的建筑——如吉萨大金字塔、洛雷托教堂的楼梯以及珊瑚城堡——究竟是如何建造的，以及为何建造这些谜团。
几个世纪以来，考古学家们一直试图揭开那些令人惊叹的建筑——如吉萨大金字塔、洛雷托教堂的楼梯以及珊瑚城堡——究竟是如何建造的，以及为何建造这些谜团。
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00:01Hidden churches cut from the depths of the earth.
00:07Staircases that defy the laws of physics.
00:10And mansions where visitors become lost in an endless maze.
00:19Mysterious structures fascinate us because they're like puzzles waiting to be solved.
00:26What appears on the surface to be a church or a mansion can actually be more than that.
00:40Could a pyramid have been a power plant, for example?
00:44Well, that is what we'll try and find out.
01:04High in the mountains of northern Ethiopia, a mile and a half above sea level, lies the city of Lalibela.
01:12Each year, tens of thousands of worshippers make the arduous journey here, despite its remote location, to visit 11 of
01:23the strangest holy places on earth.
01:29Lalibela is one of Africa's most mysterious sites.
01:36It's a complex of 11 monolithic churches that are hewn right out of the bedrock.
01:42Most churches are built on the surface and they're built from the bottom up.
01:47Whereas in Lalibela, they're built from the top down.
01:51It's the only place on the earth that has cathedrals that are built underground as opposed to being built on
01:57the surface.
02:00What makes the Lalibela churches so unique is not just their building construction, which is unlike anything else in the
02:12world, but also the otherworldly feel of the complexes where these different monuments can be found.
02:23Entering into the complex of churches was almost like entering another realm.
02:35Almost as if those who constructed Lalibela had a ritual function and that was to bring themselves closer to God.
02:49It's an incredible piece of engineering.
02:52This idea that you build 11 churches below ground.
02:56But it creates its own unique problems.
02:58How do people get down there?
03:00How did they move all of the rock out and where did it go?
03:04Those are the things that start running through my mind.
03:09Dating back to the 12th century AD, each of Lalibela's 11 churches was painstakingly carved by hand.
03:16And from the outside, like enormous sculptures.
03:22The complex also includes an extensive system of tunnels and catacombs, all carved out of solid bedrock.
03:31But why?
03:32Why build a magnificent series of structures in the toughest way possible?
03:40The builder of Lalibela was a king by this very name, Lalibela.
03:47And it is said that in the 12th century, he was living in Jerusalem and decided to come back into
03:57Ethiopia and create these monolithic churches.
04:02And it's very clear that Lalibela, in the design of these different churches, was trying to replicate Jerusalem.
04:15Indeed, he was trying to create a new Jerusalem.
04:18So, by entering into this complex, it's almost like you were entering into Jerusalem itself, which was considered to be
04:28the most holy shrine in the world.
04:32It is described that Lalibela had a dream.
04:36And in the dream, he was instructed by God to go back and make a copy of Jerusalem at the
04:44site.
04:45And in order to fulfill God's request, King Lalibela and others who were involved worked night and day for 20
04:54years.
04:55So, in their minds, right at the beginning, they had a three-dimensional structure in mind.
05:00Because when they started, it was just a big piece of rock.
05:04And how did they know that if they were going to go 150 feet down into the ground, that everything
05:10was okay?
05:10Because the worst possible thing would be that you'd almost finished, and then you found that there was a massive
05:16problem at the bottom.
05:19Eleven underground churches, some over 100 feet deep, each carved from a single block of stone in only 20 years'
05:30time.
05:33Archaeologists date the churches back nearly a thousand years.
05:36But even with today's modern technology, such an incredible architectural feat would be considered impossible.
05:45So, how was it accomplished?
05:48If we go and build a big structure today, a skyscraper, we have blueprints, we have engineering design pathways, and
05:55we have a construction plan.
05:56It tells us how we will do every step of the way where every screw, nut, bolt, weld, poured concrete
06:02goes.
06:03None of that exists for these large ancient structures.
06:07So, we really got to think outside the box and try to find how they were done, why they were
06:14done, and who built them.
06:18A very curious thing at Lalibala is that there are some very unique carvings there.
06:24It's very interesting symbols that are carved into these churches.
06:27Do they mean something if you put them together?
06:29In the church of St. Mary at Lalibala, there is the Star of David.
06:36And this, along with a number of other mementos and designs, are extremely indicative of the presence of the Knights
06:46Templar.
06:46This has suggested to many that they may well have been present during the construction of the churches at Lalibala.
07:00Now, the Knights Templar were a very interesting religious order that became very powerful during the Middle Ages.
07:06But what people don't often realize is they were very interested in building, in geometry, in numerology.
07:15And so, they were once very practical and pragmatic, on the other hand, also very spiritual and mystic.
07:21The Knights Templar had a great amount of knowledge in masonry and architecture and building structures.
07:28Now, it's debated as to whether or not the Knights Templar would have been in Ethiopia at this time.
07:33But there's some interesting evidence that an Armenian geographer at the time documented seeing men with red and white regalia,
07:43blonde or reddish hair, long hair, which could indicate that he's talking about Templars.
07:48So, it could be that the Templars themselves were the ones that built Lalibala, or that they helped King Lalibala
07:56build the site.
07:59Could Templar stonemasons have influenced the construction of the churches at Lalibala?
08:05And if so, for what purpose?
08:09If you look around Lalibala, there are altars there that have spaces in them that would precisely fit the Ark
08:19of the Covenant,
08:20which was approximately four feet in length, two feet wide, and around two feet in height.
08:28It has been suggested that the rock-cut churches at Lalibala were built to house the Ark of the Covenant.
08:39The lost Ark of the Covenant, the gold box which contained the original Ten Commandments,
08:45could it have been hidden at Lalibala centuries ago?
08:50During the Crusades, we know that the Templars occupied the Temple of Solomon.
08:54And so, it could be that they were the keepers of the Ark of the Covenant.
08:59And the more you look at Lalibala, and given the fact that we see that it's built underground,
09:05you start to think, here we have these churches that are hewn out of these megalithic rocks.
09:10They're built like defensive structures.
09:13They have all kinds of interesting symbolism there that indicate Templars.
09:18And you start getting the impression that this is actually some kind of defensive fortress to protect something.
09:26Was Lalibala originally built to house and hide the Ark of the Covenant?
09:32And if so, why only eleven churches?
09:36Jesus had twelve apostles.
09:38So, wouldn't it seem likely that there were twelve churches built?
09:43One for each of them?
09:45There are many who believe the answer to that question is yes,
09:49and that the Ark is still hidden in an undiscovered church.
09:53Incredible, you say?
09:55Perhaps not as incredible as a stairway in New Mexico,
10:00whose builder wasn't only divinely inspired,
10:03but may have actually been sent directly from heaven.
10:12February 11th, 2019.
10:15Investigative journalist and radio host David Whitehead
10:19travels to the Loreto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
10:22I'm here to investigate a really mysterious structure.
10:26The famous Loreto staircase.
10:29We don't know who built it.
10:30We don't understand the physics behind it.
10:32And we don't even have a good indication as to what it's made of.
10:41Oh, wow.
10:45This place is beautiful.
10:48Meeting with David is chapel curator Richard Lindsley.
10:52So this is it?
10:54Absolutely.
10:56A miraculous staircase.
10:58I've heard so much about it.
11:00I've read so many theories about it,
11:02and it's amazing to actually be here to see it.
11:06In 1873, the Sisters of Loreto commissioned the construction of the chapel
11:11for their new girls' school.
11:13Officially consecrated five years later,
11:16the Loreto Chapel is a triumph of Gothic revival design,
11:20with its high spires, soaring buttresses,
11:24and enormous stained glass windows.
11:27But as construction was nearing completion,
11:30the project's architect suddenly died,
11:33before he could build what was considered the most ambitious part of the job,
11:38the staircase, leading up to the choir loft.
11:45The mystery of the staircase actually begins with this mysterious carpenter.
11:51The Sisters asked the local carpenters to build one,
11:55but they failed. They didn't know how to do it.
11:58The Sisters, they decided to turn to prayer
12:01and said a nine-day novena asking St. Joseph,
12:05the patron of carpenters, to help them with their problem.
12:08At the last day of their prayer,
12:11it said that a knock came at these doors.
12:14This elderly man was standing there with a donkey by his side,
12:18and he told the Sister that he had come to build their staircase.
12:23Was it St. Joseph, like the Sisters believed?
12:26Some pious people think it was an angel.
12:29But he was very reclusive,
12:31and insisted upon working inside this chapel by himself,
12:36never allowing anyone to see him work on the staircase.
12:40Throughout the Christian and Catholic world,
12:43we have a tremendous amount of these stories of miraculous help from saints.
12:47And this is a part of the Catholic belief system.
12:50You can pray to saints, and they're supposed to try to help.
12:54So it's a built-in part of the package, this idea of an intercessory,
12:58closer to people and yet closer to God.
13:04After three months, the Sisters came into the chapel and the man was gone.
13:09And when they could not find him to even pay him for his labor,
13:12they went to the only lumberyard in town
13:15and asked them how much they owed for the materials.
13:19And the lumberyard told the Sisters that the man never got any materials from them at all.
13:29So what material is this staircase made of?
13:32I gave a core sample of the wood from the inner stringer to a U.S. naval scientist,
13:38and he determined right away that it was a form of Pisces spruce.
13:43Is this form of spruce local to Santa Fe?
13:47The wood in this staircase did not match up with any other Pisces spruce known to science.
13:53This wood does not match up with any other quite like it on Earth.
13:59The staircase at Loreto Chapel is amazing.
14:02It's a double spiral system. There's no glue, there's no nails, there's no screws.
14:06It's put together in a way that how it's just sitting on itself is holding it together.
14:12So Richard, an interesting thing about this design is the double helix.
14:18The double helix, or the double spiral, is that it's an incredibly unique design.
14:24Well, we had a world-renowned physicist come visit us,
14:28and he was convinced that the double helix design was integral to its inner strength.
14:35Mind if I go up?
14:36Please be my guest. This is a very special privilege.
14:39I definitely feel very privileged. I've waited for this moment for so long.
14:52Oh, wow. Yeah, it's a unique feeling just right on that first step.
14:57I almost feel like a vibration.
15:06Feeling like I'm floating, like there's nothing underneath my feet.
15:11It's truly a remarkable feeling.
15:15Now, how many stairs have we got here?
15:17There are 33 steps to the staircase, which reminded the sisters of our Lord,
15:22because he lived 33 years.
15:25Well, I find it very interesting that here we are in this chapel in Santa Fe,
15:30and we're seeing the motif of the sacred number 33.
15:33And this number is important to the Templars.
15:3933 steps?
15:40One of the most sacred numbers to the fraternal order of builders known as Freemasons,
15:45who in turn are thought to be the spiritual descendants of the Knights Templar.
15:51Could this number of steps really provide an important clue as to who built the stairway?
15:59And how?
16:01So the number 33 is a sacred number in Templarism.
16:05So they would have encoded that number, whether it be in staircases or artwork in the stained glass windows,
16:13or even the mathematical dimensions of some of these structures.
16:17To the Templars, they don't just see a staircase or a stained glass window,
16:21or a layout of a church design.
16:24They see an esoteric number, the number of a master builder,
16:29the manifestation of the divine on earth,
16:31and it's very deeply rooted in the entire Templar tradition.
16:35I think the quality of construction and detailing show that somebody who did it was highly skilled,
16:42and they must have learned that.
16:43So the person who built that staircase, apprenticed with somebody,
16:48they learned some things, they applied those things later in Santa Fe.
16:51So there's no doubt they could have been working with a mason,
16:55but they were way too skilled to have been the first time they did something like that.
17:03The construction of this staircase defies all conventional construction practices,
17:08any kind of rational, conventional explanation.
17:11Where did the materials come from?
17:13Who built it?
17:16It seems like we just have more questions than we do answers,
17:20but we do know that it's a mystery, and hopefully one day we'll be able to solve it.
17:27Could the stairway of the Loreto Chapel really be the product of a miracle?
17:32Or is it just the work of a gifted builder who preferred to keep his identity and his methods a
17:38well-guarded secret?
17:40To millions of the faithful, the answer is clear.
17:45Which is more than can be said for an architectural curiosity located some 1,000 miles from Loreto Chapel.
17:53One that many believe was not inspired by heaven,
17:59but by the fires of hell.
18:05Strange.
18:06Strange.
18:09Macabre.
18:13Disturbing.
18:16In San Jose, California, stands one of the largest and most bizarre private residences in the United States.
18:25Known as the Winchester Mystery House, this 24,000-square-foot Victorian-style mansion contains an astonishing 160 rooms,
18:3717 chimneys, 47 fireplaces, two basements, three elevators, and more than 10,000 panes of glass.
18:49And those are just the ones we know about.
18:53But why?
18:55Well, the Winchester Mystery House is a very special place.
18:58It was built with no master plan, but there are a lot of architectural oddities that remain a mystery as
19:04to why they're here.
19:06Most buildings start with some drawings, some blueprints, some documents that say,
19:11this is what it's going to look like when it was finished.
19:15That building looks like they made it up as they went.
19:17There are doors that open to 12-foot drops outside.
19:23There's doors that you step through them, you'll land in a kitchen sink on the first floor.
19:26It's almost like an Escher picture in some ways.
19:30The mastermind behind this architectural jigsaw puzzle was Sarah Winchester, the widow of the man who manufactured the Winchester Repeating
19:40Rifle.
19:41It was famously known as the gun that won the West, because it could kill more people faster than any
19:50gun previously invented.
19:53The Winchester rifle was special because it could fire up to 15 rounds without being reloaded, which was very different
20:00from most of the smoothbores used in the Civil War, say, which were, you loaded it, you fired one shot,
20:06and that was it.
20:07So you could imagine the advantage that you would have, being able to shoot round after round after round without
20:12reloading.
20:14When Sarah's husband died in 1881, she became the heir to his massive fortune.
20:20Three years later, she began construction on a mansion that would take 38 years to complete.
20:28She just added things on her. She had a great idea.
20:31So everybody had to listen and say, oh, okay, you want a large ballroom up there?
20:36And then they'd figure it out as they went.
20:39Even to this day, they're still finding new rooms and new features to this house.
20:44Was Sarah just working off of her whims? Was she just an eccentric, crazy lady?
20:50Or is there some other unknown explanation that we have yet to understand?
20:56It is suspected that one reason Sarah kept building and building around the clock for 38 years is that she
21:04was trying to protect herself from all the dead souls.
21:06The Winchester rifles had killed.
21:10Perhaps, it was thought, if the house was built as a giant maze, the ghosts would never be able to
21:18find her.
21:21The story is that Sarah Winchester went through a long period of grief.
21:25She unfortunately lost a child, only weeks old, and she lost her husband to tuberculosis.
21:32And she started wondering, why are all these terrible things happening to me?
21:36And what was common at the time was to seek out a medium or a spiritualist for guidance.
21:42And that person said that the karma of this gun that won the West and all of these terrible things
21:49associated with this firearm is kind of haunting you.
21:54The spiritualist medium told her that in order to pacify these spirits who were very offended at having been killed
22:01by Winchester rifles, she needed to build a house.
22:04And she should never stop building.
22:06And the idea also was that the constant sound of the saws and hammers would drive the bad spirits away.
22:12Some of the design features were specifically built to confuse evil or malicious spirits.
22:19So if stairs led to the ceiling or if a door led to the outside, possibly they would be confused
22:24and leave the property.
22:30Did Sarah Winchester spend nearly 40 years and the equivalent of more than 60 million dollars constructing a bizarre labyrinth
22:39of stairs, halls and doors in order to keep the vengeful dead at bay?
22:48Perhaps.
22:49Perhaps.
22:50But some have suggested that she built the house, not to guard against the dead, but to fool the living.
23:00There's an even deeper mystery in the house, and that is the numerology.
23:06In the Winchester Mystery House, there's a number that appears everywhere in light fittings, in mirrors, in all sorts of
23:13things.
23:13And it's the number 13.
23:15We have the number 13 encoded all over the place in the walls, in the flooring, in the stairways.
23:23We've got 13 bedrooms.
23:26We've got 13 bathrooms.
23:28There are 13 wall panels in some of the rooms.
23:31And on and on we could go.
23:33So there may have been another motive here for why Sarah built this house this way.
23:39A lot of people have put forth theories that there was some sort of complex puzzle going on here, that
23:45she was leaving clues.
23:47It's possible that the number 13 could be a puzzle that could possibly unlock some secret as to why it
23:54was so prominently featured as a design element in the house.
23:59An interesting symbol that you see all throughout the house is the symbol of the sun.
24:05In astrology and astral theology, you have the idea of the zodiac, which is you have the 12 houses of
24:11the zodiac, and the number 13 is the sun at the front gates of the house.
24:16And on each gate you have a symbol of the sun. And the rays of the sun add up to
24:2116 on each sun.
24:22So when you put the 16 and the 16 together, you have the date that William Shakespeare died.
24:29The two most cryptic windows, stained glass windows in the house, are Sarah's ballroom windows.
24:34They're the only ones that have any text in them.
24:37And they're two quotes from different Shakespearean plays.
24:41And they read, wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts.
24:45And then the other one says, these same thoughts people this little world.
24:50We don't know exactly what that meant to Sarah. She took that secret with her to her grave.
24:55Sarah Winchester passed away September 1922.
24:59As you can imagine, there was great excitement to see this incredible home that everyone in the town had seen
25:05being built up over so many years.
25:07All the furnishings were sold anonymously at auction, but what was left was one large safe in the grand ballroom.
25:14Sarah put a safe in the grand ballroom, which is an odd place to put a safe.
25:20And the safe itself is very odd.
25:23It's basically, you open up the safe, and then you find another safe, and you have to open up another
25:28safe.
25:29And it's a safe within a safe within a safe.
25:31People were kind of just mystified, like, what's in the safe?
25:34They were hoping for maybe treasure, gold bars, or jewelry.
25:38After they finally got inside, they found us two things.
25:42No gold, no silver, no diamonds.
25:44A lock of hair from her baby Annie, who passed away just a few weeks old.
25:48And the obituary of her husband, who passed away to tuberculosis very young.
25:54A lock of hair?
25:56And an obituary?
25:58Are we really to believe that Sarah Winchester had nothing of value?
26:04Safely hidden somewhere in the house?
26:09What if it was built as a giant puzzle?
26:13One that protects a vast treasure that still lies hidden behind one of the houses' hundreds of walls?
26:19Something to ponder.
26:21While we investigate yet another architectural mystery.
26:26One whose building method has baffled everyone.
26:29Who has not only wondered why, but how.
26:38Helmstead, Florida.
26:40In this small town, tucked away between Miami and Everglades National Park,
26:45stands an elaborate stone edifice.
26:51The locals call it Coral Castle.
26:55Sculpted from massive blocks of coral, this incredible structure features a five-ton heart-shaped table,
27:03a 28-ton obelisk,
27:06and a perfectly balanced nine-ton door that opens with the touch of a finger.
27:13And even more incredible than this marvel of design and engineering is the fact that it was built by just
27:19one man.
27:22And nobody knows how he did it.
27:26Ed Liedskolan was an immigrant from Latvia who immigrated to the United States,
27:31and he built the only modern megalithic structure ever known.
27:37The Coral Castle is 1,100 tons of coral bedrock that he dug out of the property on which it
27:44rests.
27:44He was only about five feet tall, but he managed to move hundreds of tons of coral rock into this
27:52megalithic modern temple.
27:54He had no technology there that could have lifted these stones or cut the stones, and yet it's there to
28:00this day.
28:02And the story goes that Ed Liedskolan built this incredible megalithic site using only a few pulleys, a tripod.
28:11He did it all by himself, and he worked at night, and he was very secretive.
28:16The blocks of stone used to build Coral Castle are tons and tons, yet this guy was able to construct
28:25this place by himself without any heavy equipment.
28:31Some kids, years later, watched Ed Liedskolan constructing and moving the blocks.
28:38They kind of peeked over and watched him. He spotted them and chased them away, but they said he was
28:44working all by himself.
28:47From 1923 until 1951, Liedskolan perfectly shaped, lifted, fitted, and stacked over two million pounds of limestone.
28:59For decades, hundreds of the world's top architects and engineers have come to this place to solve the mystery of
29:06its construction.
29:08The tripods, for instance, were three pieces of Florida pine, about the same size as a telephone pole.
29:15He used five-ton chains. He used a ten-ton chain hoist, yet somehow was able to impossibly lift stones
29:23that were wider than the tripods' diameter,
29:27that were taller than the tripods' stood, that weighed more than the chains were rated for.
29:33He didn't lift a twenty-ton stone with a five-ton block and tackle, but he definitely found a way
29:39to lever the stone up.
29:41There has to be some other technology being used here, or this is one of the best magic tricks ever
29:47pulled over on mankind.
29:49So what could it have been? Did he learn some unique mechanical trick, or did he learn some new physics?
29:59He was found often at the public library, studying the Egyptians, studying ancient megalithic structures.
30:07Ed said he knew the secrets of the pyramids. I believe this to be accurate.
30:11He was able to replicate their accomplishments, which enabled him to be able to create something which, by any other
30:18standard, you cannot do.
30:21Did Edward Lietzkanen actually crack the engineering secrets of the Great Pyramids?
30:27There are those who believe the answer is yes, and that one of the secrets involves magnetism.
30:36One of the most curious things that Ed designed was called a perpetual motion holder.
30:41You can find a drawing of it on the cover of his booklet Magnetic Current.
30:46He created something that is made from a one-and-a-half-inch thick steel bar, a mile of coil
30:51of copper wire with a bar on top.
30:55And if you lock these coils together with current, this current will run through this device forever and never leave
31:02it.
31:04Magnetism can, in fact, levitate very large objects, but you have to have what is called superconducting technology.
31:11You have to cool down, cool down helium, for example, to near, near absolute zero before you get superconducting magnets.
31:22Ed claims in his notes that he used reverse energy or anti-gravity.
31:27The question is, what did he mean by this?
31:29The device that Ed used, or allegedly used, to move these rocks were an old-school tripod that had a
31:35large black box on top of it.
31:38We don't know what was in that box, and Ed never says what was in that box.
31:41We can speculate that it's some device that he's created that enables him to lift more weight than he should
31:47be able to lift with this rudimentary tripod, fulcrum, and lever system.
31:52But we have no idea what it was he did.
31:57What makes the Coral Castle so unique and mysterious is that no one has ever been able to replicate his
32:03results using his methods.
32:05What this means is that he knew something that we do not know.
32:13Whatever secrets Edward Leedskalnin used to build Coral Castle, he took to his grave.
32:19But why?
32:21Perhaps the answer can be found 6,500 miles away,
32:24inside the ultimate engineering marvel of all time.
32:29The Great Pyramid at Giza.
32:37Just outside of Cairo, Egypt, stands what is arguably the most famous structure on Earth.
32:44The Great Pyramid of Giza.
32:48481 feet high.
32:51756 feet long on each side.
32:542.3 million blocks of limestone and granite weighing 6.5 million tons.
33:02But, incredibly, thousands of years after its first stones were laid, there are still three important questions that have yet
33:11to be answered.
33:14What was its purpose?
33:16Who built it?
33:18And how?
33:22The Great Pyramid is completely bizarre.
33:25Hundreds and hundreds of brilliant engineers have made many various attempts with different technologies to actually uncover its secrets.
33:34And yet, so far, we've been unable to.
33:37Mainstream archaeologists have long maintained that the Great Pyramid was built some 4,500 years ago as a tomb for
33:44the pharaoh Khufu.
33:46But that assertion has come under scrutiny in recent years, owing largely to the fact that no mummy was ever
33:53found in its chambers.
33:55And there are no hieroglyphics to be found on its massive granite walls.
34:01This extraordinary monument contains the most profound mathematics and geometry.
34:08Now, why would this be incorporated in such a structure if it was simply a tomb?
34:14There's obviously more to this story than meets the eye.
34:20The Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau in Egypt is one of the most magnificent sites on the planet.
34:26One of the seven wonders of the world.
34:29And I don't believe it's a tomb. I think it's much more than that.
34:35So, could the Great Pyramid have been built for another, arguably more useful purpose?
34:41One that would make more sense, given the size and complexity of its construction?
34:49In a paper published by the Journal of Applied Physics in 2018, a team of scientists did some research on
34:57the Great Pyramid and found that electromagnetic energy was present in some of the chambers when stimulated.
35:05This experiment used very long wavelength radio waves and it actually caused these waves to be focused into certain regions.
35:13They realized that the pyramid shape might actually act as a lens or a focusing mechanism for radio frequency energy.
35:23One of the things that's interesting, of course, when looking at the Great Pyramid as a possible coupling to energy
35:29sources, is to ask, could it have been coupling somehow to seismic or sound vibrations in the Earth?
35:35I think the real question would be what type of energy were they trying to focus or how would they
35:40leverage it?
35:42The Great Pyramid sits very close to a fault line, so almost like it absorbs seismic energy and then gives
35:49it back out again.
35:50So it could have been a generator of Earth energies that then would spread out through the landscape.
35:58Was the Great Pyramid constructed to channel power from the Earth?
36:02While the idea may sound fantastic, it is one that was pursued by a man who is credited as one
36:09of the inventors of modern electricity, Nikola Tesla.
36:14Nikola Tesla is one of the great geniuses of the last century.
36:19He wanted to create wireless technology, not with radio, but through the planet Earth.
36:25And that's why he built this gigantic tower in Shoreham, Long Island.
36:31Some people think that maybe he got inspiration for his gigantic antenna from the pyramids of Giza.
36:39There are a lot of parallels between what Nikola Tesla was doing at Wardenclyffe and the Great Pyramids.
36:47The pyramids don't look today the way they did thousands of years ago when they were first built.
36:52But they had on the top of the pyramid some conductive material that made it shiny on the top.
37:00And that's very much like the Wardenclyffe Tower transmitters, that you had a conductive surface on the top of the
37:06tower.
37:07And it's really interesting that the height of the pyramid to the base of the pyramid is the height that
37:12Tesla wanted to build his Wardenclyffe Tower.
37:16Well, due to monetary reasons, he built a scaled version of it and he didn't build it as high as
37:21he wanted it to and as large as he wanted to.
37:25Tesla wanted it built over a flowing aquifer.
37:28He said this allowed him to grip the Earth in order to transmit this power from one location to another.
37:35I find it intriguing that the pyramids are very similar.
37:39So it's very likely that if the pyramids were built for some purpose of absorbing and capturing and harnessing energy
37:46from the Earth, that that's what Tesla was trying to reproduce.
37:53Sometimes we have to look beyond what might seem like logical and think illogically.
37:58The question is, did Tesla get knowledge from the pyramids or are the pyramids there for other purposes?
38:09Ancient Egyptian pyramids with the ability to harness the raw power of the Earth itself.
38:16Preposterous? Perhaps.
38:20But there are other structures whose purpose is so baffling, we have no idea why they were constructed.
38:33Not all mysterious structures are as vast as a mansion or as ingeniously constructed as a pyramid.
38:41Some are much smaller and appear at first glance to be rather simple.
38:46That is, until you look closely and realize that sometimes the simplest structures can be among the most astounding.
38:58In the Decis Delta of Costa Rica, there are over 300 stone spheres of various sizes scattered across 25 acres
39:07of jungle.
39:09Archaeological evidence dates the earliest to approximately 200 BC.
39:15But why they were made, and who made them, remains a mystery.
39:23All of the spheres in Costa Rica are carved and shaped, created from different types of rock.
39:31Over 300 have been discovered.
39:34These range from the size of a tennis ball, all the way up to nine feet in diameter.
39:42They're very precise, they're very abstract, they're bizarre in their own right.
39:50The spheres in Costa Rica are fabulous and fabulously interesting.
39:56They almost sort of demand a story, like there has to be a story behind this.
40:00And so this, of course, has caused people to wonder a great deal about where these come from.
40:06Are they man-made or natural-made?
40:11Some people believe that the ancient spheres of Costa Rica are from Atlantis or from other lost civilizations.
40:20Different people say they are navigational tools.
40:25Some people suggest that even mapping the stars on the ground, as the stars and the planets moved around, you'd
40:31move the spheres around to match it.
40:34One of the traditions that goes way, way back with the Costa Rica stone spheres is the idea that at
40:41the center of the spheres, there's a black stone.
40:45Many of the stones got cracked open to find that there was nothing in them, but some of them actually
40:51did have a black stone in the center.
40:54How they would know that, how they would know indeed that there was a black stone in the center, is
40:59another mystery in itself.
41:03Just what are the Costa Rican spheres?
41:09Even with all our knowledge of the past, all our modern technology, we still don't know why they were carved
41:19so perfectly in stone.
41:25Were the Costa Rican spheres intended as weapons?
41:30Were the churches at Lali Bella, carved deep underground because there were no other building materials available?
41:38And what about the Winchester Mystery House?
41:41Perhaps like the Great Pyramid, they were built in such a way that their very construction would be considered a
41:48miracle.
41:49Bait for mankind's insatiable curiosity.
41:52Something deliberately wondrous and intended to be among the unexplained.