Legends of Strange Creatures | Ancient Aliens
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Mount Everest, November 9th, 1951.
On the Menlung Glacier at an altitude of
18,000 ft, British explorers Eric
Shipton and Michael Ward came across a
mileong trail of unusual footprints.
Not expecting to find humans in this
remote corner of the mountain, the
climbers examined the prince to
determine what made them.
To their surprise, the footprints were
in the shape of a large human-like foot,
one roughly twice the normal size.
The footprints suggest that in fact
we're dealing with a large primate, one
that shares with us the not only the
habit of walking on two legs, but has
some superficial resemblance in its foot
to our footprints, uh, only much larger
scale, but differ from the other great
apes in the lack of a divergent big toe,
suggesting they're adapted to a wholly
terrestrial environment, living on the
ground.
Photographs brought back from the
expedition launched a media sensation
and marked the beginning of the Bigfoot
phenomena.
But where do these giant footprints come
from? Could they be a hoax? Or is there
some mysterious unknown creature living
in the remote wilderness?
According to the histories and myths of
the Himalayan region, one such ape-like
creature is the yeti, more commonly
known as the abominable snowman.
>> The uh notorious Himalayan yeti. It's
often described as being less than 6 ft
in height, much more aggressive when
encountered.
>> All of these sightings really make for a
creature which seems to be hiding from
us. is a creature which is hiding in
plain sight and obviously the direct
evidence comes in the form of its
footprints. Hence why it's quite often
referred to as Bigfoot.
People often ask why don't we catch
Bigfoot? Bigfoot could be some sort of
supernatural creature like a a phantom.
You know, if Bigfoot is however a flesh
and blood animal, then I would have to
say their numbers would have to be few
and far between.
Since the Mount Everest discovery, there
have been numerous sightings of large
ape-like creatures on every continent,
many clustered in the Pacific Northwest
area of the United States, including
Mount Shasta in Northern California.
In 1979, I was up on the side of Mount
Shasta on the foothills, uh, trying to
get to the base of the mountain. It was
so dense and so tough. As we're standing
there, we heard this crashing sound.
Simultaneously, we smelt this awful
smell. I mean, it was foul. But what was
horrifying was whatever it was was
coming at us through this impenetrable
hedge. And then we heard the most blood
curdling combination of a elephant uh
trumpeting a lion roaring
and it was so loud it bounced off the
foothills 2 mi away.
That was probably the most terrified
I've ever been in my life. And the next
thing I knew, we were headed down the
mountain, almost skidding off corners.
I had heard from sheriffs about a
rancher in Montana who had gone out to
go hunting. Comes around a ridge, has an
8-ft tall reddish brown primate looking
long-haired creature standing right in
front of him,
picks up a 30 six and just fires
and the creature disappeared in a flash
of light. If the Sasquatch,
when a bullet is shot at it, disappears
in a flash of light, then what in the
world are we dealing with? And what do
they want?
County, Utah.
Nestled in a deep valley, surrounded by
some of the highest mountain peaks in
North America, is an infamous 512 acre
patch of land known as Skinwalker Ranch.
The native youths warn of a dark
presence that exists in this area where
strange sightings in the sky, encounters
with terrifying creatures, animal
mutilations, and numerous other
paranormal activities have been reported
for centuries.
Skinwalker Ranch has become this nexus
of activity where people are reporting
strange things.
It's in an area in Utah that's very much
like a desert terrain
and what's there now is high desert
prairie kind of area.
Now what it actually is and what's going
on there is a whole other question.
It's a very unique place in the world
where the phenomenon expresses itself in
dramatic form. It's also the most
scientifically studied UFO or paranormal
hot spot in history.
Native American legends say that there
has been an otherworldly presence at
Skinwalker Ranch for as long as humans
have existed in the area, which
according to archaeological evidence is
at least 10,000 years.
And the very first European settlers to
pass through this land in the late 1700s
had their own bizarre experiences
which they recorded in their journals.
The first Europeans to cross the Uenta
basin. The uh Franciscan monks reported
seeing things over their campfires at
night, really weird objects that we
would call UFOs. The Native Americans,
the indigenous tribes have been there,
have had these experiences for
generations.
It has, for as long as humans have lived
there, it's been the site of paranormal
activity, strange things in the sky,
UFOs.
There are so many stories about
Skinwalker Ranch that range from cattle
mutilations going on. There's stories
that if you dig on the property, you'll
get sick.
Even strange stories of cloaked beasts
running out of the woods.
You've seen UFOs. They have seen
different creatures. They have seen
weird things happening up in the sky. So
you have all these different phenomena
that happen on that ranch. So some have
referred to it as a veritable Disneyland
of the paranormal.
The most notorious of the paranormal
phenomena associated with Skinwalker
Ranch is the creature for which the
property is named. The association of
the skinwalker with this mysterious plot
of land can be traced back to the mid
19th century.
In January of 1864,
land disputes between Navajos, Utes, and
the United States military in Utah and
Arizona reached a fateful tipping point.
After decades of conflict, the military
removed the Navajo people from the area,
forcing them to make what became known
as the Long Walk to New Mexico.
The Navos blamed the youths for helping
the military
and so they cursed the land that the
youths lived on up there. And it must
have been a pretty strong curse because
even today there are really interesting
things that happened up there.
Cursing the land, the Navajo witch
doctors attempted to conjure an entity
called a yinol duchi or skinw walker.
The skin walkers, they're sort of
typically 6 to 7t tall, very dangerous.
It's described as being wolflike, but
walking on two limbs. So, inevitably, it
sort of provokes imagery of a werewolf.
The subject of skinwalkers is as serious
as a heart attack. This is not something
to trifle with. Even talking about them
puts it me in some danger.
The skinwalker is somebody who is evil.
They want to control people,
communities, regions, and have that
power over people. And they do this by
fear. The youths to this day are very
respectful. They're very mindful. Matter
of fact, they stay at an arms length um
from the skinwalker ranch. uh they
firmly believe that this ground is
cursed and that not only the una basin
but this concentration of this phenomena
on this host is on the skinwalker ranch
Elizabeth lake southern California
this high desert body of water sits at
the junction of the tectonic plates that
form the powerful San Andreas fault the
Mexicans who colonized California in the
1700s called it Laguna del Diablo, Lake
of the Devil. And it was said that the
devil's own pet would come into this
world through a portal at the bottom of
the lake.
>> Local legend says that at the bottom is
actually an entrance to the underworld.
They call it the lake of the devil. And
as I said that in the middle of the 18th
century from up until about 1880 onwards
something was happening there which
frightened locals.
Some of the rich land owners built
ranches there. These ranchers claimed to
have been harassed and tormented by some
sort of uh monstrous beast that would
come out of the water and steal cattle
and menace the locals.
The ranchers who claimed to have
witnessed this beast called it the
Thunderbird
and their description of it was nearly
identical to that of the giant bird
witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone in
1890.
>> Eventually, one of the landowners uh got
it in his head that he was going to hunt
this creature down and sell it to the
circus. So according to the story, this
rancher was able to actually fire a few
shots at this creature which seemed to
be bulletproof and metallic. The bullets
bounced off and after that uh encounter,
the bird flew east, never to be seen
again in California.
>> Could this so-called Thunderbird really
have been the same creature that cowboy
shot at in Tombstone?
And why was it referred to by locals as
the devil's pet? They didn't have the
vocabulary we had today. So when things
happened that they couldn't explain, it
was called the devil's tower. It was
called the devil's lake. It was called
the devil's this or the devil's that.
>> Take it away from the legend and you
might find that this was a portal to
another dimension which the locals knew
about and might have something to do
with the fact that this mysterious
entity was present at that very specific
location.
If a portal to another dimension or
another part of the universe does lie at
the bottom of Elizabeth Lake, might it
also be possible that the Thunderbird
was not really a creature at all, but
something even more incredible?
>> A Thunderbird was enormous. It made
enormous noises. So, the thunder part of
it uh could sound like a jet engine. Its
eyes was able to literally pierce and
emanate fire.
We have this large flying wing creature
which gives off a thunderous sound and
lights fly from its eyes. That to me
suggests we could be dealing with some
sort of craft.
Native Indians in North America, they
know of course the bird. But now
something differently arrived. An object
which could fly which is bigger than the
eagle but at the same time makes
tremendous noise. So you have the
creation of the Thunderbird. Even when
the airplanes first started going out up
in the sky here in the southwest they
referred them to as metal birds. As a
matter of fact, one of the first
fixedwing craft landed in Zouri,
the Indians over there actually went out
there and worshiped the airplane.
It makes me think of a concept called
cultural tracking, which is the idea
that UFOs can mask themselves to appear
as almost anything. You go back to
ancient China and they talk about the
flying dragons. You go back to the
ancient Egyptians, they talk about
flying boats. You go to the Roman times
and they're talking about flying
shields. Perhaps that was just their
interpretation or perhaps that's what
they actually saw.
In March 2010, a panel of 41
international experts concluded that the
impact of an asteroid that smashed into
Earth at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65
million years ago probably triggered the
global climate change that resulted in
the mass extinction of the Earth's
dinosaurs.
But is there also evidence that some
dinosaur species survived?
And if so, might they also have evolved?
>> Paleontologists tell us that, oh, these
things have been extinct for for 65
million years, yet they still crop up.
And they appear to be prehistoric
animals, dinosaurs literally, that have
survived right down to today. Much like
the celacanth and uh alligators and
sharks and turtles also have survived
from those same prehistoric times. I
believe that ancient prehistoric
monsters are still living in remote
areas of the world, either in oceans and
lakes or jungle areas to today.
In the highlands of Scotland, the legend
of the Loch Ness monster has long been
part of Celtic and Norse folklore.
Recorded accounts of sightings can be
traced to the year 565
to the Irish monk St. Columba, a
powerful leader who founded monasteries
in both Ireland and Scotland.
In his journals, Columba wrote of an
encounter with people bearing a man near
the shores of the now fabled Loch Ness.
They explained to Father Columba that
the man who had died had been swimming
in the lake and was attacked by the
water beast. Upon hearing this, Father
Columba sent his own follower into the
lake. When the beast came after this
man, Father Columba made the sign of a
cross and commanded the beast not to
harm the man. The beast fled and was
never seen harming another man again.
A lot of people don't realize how big
Loch Ness is. It's 23 mi long, a mile
wide, and at its deepest point about 800
ft. And the water is very, very dark and
dense. And so it is the prime location
where conceivably they didn't need to
surface that often. They would sort of
bypass detection.
When we're confronted with the Loch Ness
monster or any kind of anomalous
creature, the question really is where
does it come from?
Is it a remnant of the dinosaur age or
is it something which is out of this
world? We know that for example St.
Columba definitely felt that lake was
sacred and that there was something
present there which had a religious
connotation which is why he went to that
place to begin with.
The intriguing thing is that there
actually have been a significant number
of UFO sightings over the lock itself of
strange brightly lit objects hovering
over the water late at night which
clearly aren't helicopters or aircraft
or meteorites or anything like that at
all. So in other words, Loch Ness is a
weird and spooky place.
Could the so-called sea monsters of Loch
Ness possibly be descendants of ancient
dinosaurs?
Or might it be of another perhaps
extraterrestrial origin? And if so, what
might this say about other mythical sea
beasts like the sevenheaded Samrian sea
monster, the Leviathan?
>> The Leviathan is sometimes described as
a a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon,
but it lurks. It is the gatekeeper to a
portal to hell. And this gateway to hell
is apparently deep in the ocean. And the
Leviathan is there forever lurking.
In Greek myths, the hydra was described
as an ancient sea serpent with many
heads. It was said to be a descendant of
the earth goddess Gaia.
Hercules was sent to kill the hydra,
but it was terribly difficult. He would
slice off the head
and two heads would form. He had to ask
help from his nephew. And his nephew had
a brilliant idea. Bring a torch. Fire
might keep the heads from forming. So
Hercules would bash off one of the heads
and his his nephew would essentially
cauterize the neck so that another one
wouldn't form. And in this way, the
hydro was finally defeated.
In the case of a hydra, we have
something which has several heads, which
is once again a category of a creature
which you would expect not to see. So we
either confronted here with something
which was genetically engineered or
which genetically went wrong. But
clearly it was of such importance that
it was adhered to in mythology where it
attained a status over the years, over
the centuries up until this moment in
time.
According
to Scandinavian legend, the Kraken are
legendary sea monsters of gargantuan
size and are said to have roamed the
seas off the coasts of Norway and
Iceland.
This fearsome beast was infamous for its
attacks on sailing ships. The danger was
not only being attacked by the Kraken,
they would come up to the surface and
were enormous, the size of small
islands. So you could you could have a
collision with a a Kraken that wasn't
even uh out to attack you. Another great
danger was that if it submerged
suddenly, it formed such a great
whirlpool that it could pull a ship
under.
Hong Kong 1935
in a small medicinal shop, German
paleontologist Dr. Gustaf Von Konikvald
purchased a set of giant mers thought to
be the teeth of an ancient dragon.
After further study, Bon Konoval
determined that he had stumbled upon the
first fossil evidence of an extinct
species of ape called Giganopythecus.
Standing 10 feet tall and weighing up
to,200 lb, this gigantic ape believed to
have lived alongside several early
homminid species for tens of thousands
of years is the largest known primate to
ever walk the earth.
Might the creature known as Bigfoot be a
descendant of this ancient beast?
A popular theory for the origins of
Sasquatch is that it may be descended
from a known great ape giganopythecus, a
giant ape that lived during the latter
part of the pleaene and achieved along
with many other animals gigantic
proportions. As an ape with a small
brain, it had extra crests and ridges of
bone to provide attachment for the
massive muscles to drive these very
heavy heavy jaws.
By comparison, the gorilla has the
crests and ridges that are found on
Giganopythecus or Bigfoot presumably to
support the muscles attaching to a very
small brain with a small uh cranial
covering.
>> The skulls of Giganopythecus and the
modern-day gorilla are typical of large
primates.
But the human skull, a species also
believed to have descended from large
primates, is very different.
>> And the human skull is remarkably
smaller. Our distinction being the much
greater cranial capacity, smaller jaws,
smaller muscles to drive these jaws.
>> What can account for such significant
differences in related species? And why
are humans relatively hairless and
possess brains far more advanced than
other primates? Are we really the result
of evolution? Or might the truth be that
the real alien hybrid is not Bigfoot but
man?
What today is referred to as the missing
link is extraterrestrial intervention.
Because without that extraterrestrial
intervention,
evolution did not take place the way
we're told in school.
Right after we shed our fur, for
millennia, we had to keep warm by
wearing furs. Yet, we used to have fur
all over our body. So, something doesn't
make sense. Our ancient ancestors here
may well be in a sense aliens from some
other solar system, perhaps the grays.
What they've done is manipulate what
were already humanoids on this planet,
but brute humanoids,
hairy, brutish people, the the caveman
of ancient times, but we're being
genetically manipulated and given the
DNA of these extraterrestrials.
the progression of the Darwinian
evolution. Looking at the Neanderthal
man, the Estrellopiththesine, all the
way up to Cro-Magn, it's very possible
that that missing link is still being
looked into. Now, I don't think they're
ever going to find it because the
missing link more than likely was a
genetic alteration on that homminid to
make us.
Could Homo sapiens really be a species
not indigenous to planet Earth?
And if humans are the result of genetic
engineering by alien beings, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
might Bigfoot creatures really be the
last surviving examples of prehistoric
homminids? Creatures who would have
originally dominated this planet?
Is it possible that during the genetic
manipulation of human beings, we at one
point started out as Sasquatch and
Bigfoot and yetis?
One of the stories in the Sumerian myths
is how the gods came into contact with
this ape-like creature here on Earth and
said, "We can put our genetic marker on
this creature and make man in our image
and after our likeness."
These ape-like hairy creatures existed
here naturally on Earth and are possibly
the origins of how humanity was spliced
by the Anunnaki into creating us that
still exists today.
Might the legend of Bigfoot really be
the story of Earth creatures who escaped
experimentation by ancient aliens?
And could this help explain why they
have been hiding from man for thousands
of years?
>> I think out of all the so-called
paranormal phenomena that is scoffed at
by science, we at some point in the not
too distant future are going to have
real irrefutable evidence of the
existence of these creatures. The fact
that Bigfoot have been able to skirt
about on the periphery and remain hidden
and remain secretive and be seldom seen
means that they're intelligent. But what
happens when populations keep expanding,
remote areas start getting settled and
Bigfoot starts to lose more and more of
its territory? What's going to happen?
Where is Bigfoot going to go?
I think this is extraordinary powerful
information to suggest that we were
indeed engineered by ancient
extraterrestrial beings and Bigfoot
might just be the first intelligent life
here on Earth.
Is it possible that the legends of
Bigfoot creatures are real?
Could they have been the product of
genetic manipulation by other worldly
beings?
Or are humans the real alien creatures
manufactured by using alien and homminid
DNA?
If so, it might help to explain why
Bigfoot is so elusive.
Not because we are afraid of them, but
because they are afraid of us.
Elizabeth Lake, Southern California.
This high desert body of water sits at
the junction of the tectonic plates that
form the powerful San Andreas fault. The
Mexicans who colonized California in the
1700s
called it Lagona del Diablo, Lake of the
Devil. And it was said that the devil's
own pet would come into this world
through a portal at the bottom of the
lake. Local legend says that at the
bottom is actually an entrance to the
underworld. They call it the lake of the
devil. And that's said that in the
middle of the 18th century from up until
about 1880 onwards, something was
happening there which frightened locals.
Some of the rich landowners built
ranches there. These ranchers claimed to
have been harassed and tormented by some
sort of uh monstrous beast that would
come out of the water and steal cattle
and menace the locals.
The ranchers who claimed to have
witnessed this beast called it the
Thunderbird,
and their description of it was nearly
identical to that of the giant bird
witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone in
1890.
Eventually, one of the land owners uh
got it in his head that he was going to
hunt this creature down and sell it to
the circus. So, according to the story,
this rancher was able to actually fire a
few shots at this creature which seemed
to be bulletproof and metallic. The
bullets bounced off and after that uh
encounter, the bird flew east, never to
be seen again in California. Could this
so-called Thunderbird really have been
the same creature that cowboys shot at
in Tombstone?
And why was it referred to by locals as
the devil's pet?
>> They didn't have the vocabulary we have
today. So when things happened that they
couldn't explain, it was called the
devil's tower. It was called the devil's
lake. It was called the devil's this or
the devil's that. Take it away from the
legend and you might find that this was
a portal to another dimension which the
locals knew about and might have
something to do with the fact that this
mysterious entity was present at that
very specific location.
If a portal to another dimension or
another part of the universe does lie at
the bottom of Elizabeth Lake, might it
also be possible that the Thunderbird
was not really a creature at all, but
something even more incredible?
>> A Thunderbird was enormous. It made
enormous noises. So, the thunder part of
it uh could sound like a jet engine.
>> His eyes was able to literally pierce
and emanate fire.
We have this large flying wing creature
which gives off a thunderous sound and
lights fly from its eyes. That to me
suggests that we could be dealing with
some sort of craft.
Native Indians in North America, they
know of course the bird. But now
something differently arrived. An object
which could fly, which is bigger than
the eagle. but at the same time makes
tremendous noise. So you have the
creation of the Thunderbird.
>> Even when the airplanes first started
going out up in the sky here in the
southwest, they referred them to as
metal birds. As a matter of fact, when
the first fixed wing craft landed in
Zouri,
the Indians over there actually went out
there and worshiped the airplane.
It makes me think of a concept called
cultural tracking, which is the idea
that UFOs can mask themselves to appear
as almost anything. You go back to
ancient China and they talk about the
flying dragons. You go back to the
ancient Egyptians, they talk about
flying boats. You go to the Roman times
and they're talking about flying
shields. Perhaps that was just their
interpretation. Or perhaps that's what
they actually saw.
Iraq, site of ancient Mesopotamia and
the cradle of civilization.
In the remains of the ancient city of
Nineveh, Sumerian tablets dating back to
as early as 1800 BC tell the story of
King Gilgamesh.
In this epic poem, Gilgamesh has a
companion named Enkadoo
who is described as a hairy wild man
living outside human society.
What is fascinating about the epic of
Gilgamesh is the fact that it relates to
us a story of Enkadu
who allegedly was a giant. It is
possible that Enkidu, this wild hairy
beast, this giant could have been of
extraterrestrial
origin because that is what the ancient
Samrian texts are saying.
>> Enkidu is described in the the epic of
Gilgamesh as being a hairy manlike
monster with great strength.
And when you read that story and you
have to think that Enkadoo is some kind
of Bigfoot Sasquatch,
this is the actual first fashion being
by the gods
where they put their genetic marker on
it to make a new being that would be
their slave. And they called this being
the Ankydoo.
Is it possible, as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest, that the epic of
Gilgamesh actually describes a homminid
creature created by extraterrestrial
beings?
Samrian texts also describe ancient sky
gods who came to Earth called the
Anunnaki.
The ancient astronaut theory explains
how these gods were probably
extraterrestrials
and put their genetic marker on this
beast, but that beast would still exist
and probably went on its own
evolutionary path to be the Bigfoot and
the Sasquatch that we have today.
Do ancient accounts of such humanlike
beasts provide further evidence that
this otherworldly being may have really
existed throughout our history?
Some believe the giant in the Old
Testament story of David and Goliath may
also be an early representation of
Bigfoot.
>> If you think about the story of David
and Goliath from the Bible, Goliath is
huge and he's big and he's hairy, but he
doesn't live on the edge of civilization
or avoid people. He's really being used
as a weapon almost a weapon of terror
against the Israelites.
>> When you start reading the Bible in more
detail and descriptions of these giants,
there were various other big creatures
in our ancestors uh world which we no
longer are aware of and Bigfoot might
just be one category which somehow has
been able to survive.
Whether or not Goliath is a Bigfoot,
they definitely sit within the same
category of a creature which clearly is
not human but clearly is also present
here and which is taller than our
ancestors were.
My question is what is the truth behind
this particular story? And it is
possible, as some scholars have
suggested, that Goliath might have been
an extraterrestrial, that he was a type
of giant, a human abomination, a half
alien, halfhuman creature that was so
terrifying, so horrendous that David
took it upon himself to vanquish that
beast.
All cultures across the world, whether
it's South America, Native American
Indians, Europe, Russia, China, Tibet,
Australia,
all these nations have legends and tales
of giant hairy wild men. Now, you know,
people say, "Well, legends are just
legends." But when you have cultures and
countries separated by oceans all
talking about very similar things, to me
this does suggest that in times past
these things were very very prevalent
and widespread across the world.
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The video explores various unexplained phenomena, beginning with the 1951 discovery of large, human-like footprints on Mount Everest, which launched the Bigfoot phenomenon. It discusses the Himalayan Yeti, accounts of ape-like creatures, and theories proposing they might be surviving Giganopithecus or supernatural entities. The narrative then shifts to Skinwalker Ranch, detailing its paranormal activities, creature sightings, and its origin linked to a Navajo curse and the skinwalker entity. Elizabeth Lake is presented as another mysterious location, known for the
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