Enormous megalithic structures of mysterious origins. There are huge walls, gigantic limestone blocks. They've been there for thousands of years. A vast underground complex. This is a remarkable structure, hewn from solid rocks. Containing the remains of what some believe to be otherworldly beings. We find this enormous collection of elongated skulls. Are we dealing with extraterrestrials? Could the ancient mysteries that exist on the Mediterranean islands of Malta be connected to local legends of alien visitation and giant hybrid beings? This right here is a smoking gun. We have to accept the fact that there were teachers from the sky. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. In the center of the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Africa, lies a three-island archipelago that makes up the Republic of Malta. Lynn Picknett is an author and researcher. Malta is this really small island nation, just south of Sicily, and it's so small it's only 122 square miles in its entirety. but because it's a dead center of the Mediterranean Sea. Malta really packs a punch historically. Malta has been a strategic outpost for many of the most powerful cultures in the world, from the Phoenicians to the Romans and even the British Empire. But what makes Malta one of the most unique locations on Earth are its massive stone ruins, whose origins could date back thousands of years before any known civilization ever set foot on her shores. This is Mediterranean historian Jason Osekeda, Ph.D. It was assumed that Malta was a long-lost Greek colony from the Mycenaean period. And this goes from, you know, maybe 800 B.C. to sometime before 1200 B.C. However, because of radiocarbon dating in the mid-20th century, we discover that Malta is actually one of the oldest megalithic sites in the world. Mainstream archaeologists now know that Malta's oldest megalithic structures were built at least 5,600 years ago. But little is known about who these ancient builders were and how long their culture existed. One of the most pressing questions about the megalithic builders is what happened to these amazing super smart guys who built all this stuff? Because the last known evidence of them being there is about 3,000 years ago. They were there one minute, archaeologically speaking, and gone the next. While the world's first known human civilization, the Sumerians, is said to have emerged in Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, some researchers believe the ancient inhabitants of Malta lived on the Mediterranean islands thousands of years earlier. As evidence, they point to mysterious carvings found throughout the area called cart ruts. Robert Schock, PhD, is a planetary geologist. Something that Malta is very well known for archaeologically, besides the megalithic temples, are the cart ruts. These are ruts literally in the limestone rock. The traditional view is that they were eroded into the rock, literally by carts being pulled over the soft rock. We don't know what these cart ruts are. You could speculate it was for a wagon, for a chariot. No, it was not, because sometimes they come together. The width changes all the time, so it cannot be for chariot. What are the footsteps of the animals, etc.? We have many theories what these cart ruts are, and we have no finally scientifically clear answer. The fact is, these cart ruts also go underwater. Here is ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos. We have cart ruts that go into the Mediterranean Sea, and then they also come out on the other side. How is this possible? Some of the cart ruts that extend from dry land down into the sea have reportedly been found at depths as much as 140 feet. This presents a critical clue as to just how long ago they must have been created. I suspect that some of these cart ruts are really ancient. And when I say really ancient, that is going back to before the end of the last ice age. Approximately 12,000 years ago, the ice age ended, we know, by incredible warming, incredible rises in sea level. So if some of these cart ruts go back to an early enough period, what looks like it's going into the water, that would have been dry land when sea levels were much lower. If you propose the idea that 12,000 years ago, which is a fact, the worldwide water levels were lower, then all of a sudden these cart ruts that go into the Mediterranean Sea make sense. The last time that area was free of water and when also Malta was connected to Sicily and to Italy with a land bridge, that was 12,000 years ago. So the fact that these cart ruts exist, to me, illustrates that an advanced civilization must have existed at that time. Could the cart ruts provide evidence that civilization existed on the islands of Malta as much as 12,000 years ago? Until recently, mainstream scholars would have considered such a notion to be impossible. But then, in 1994, archaeologists discovered the ruins of Gobekli Tepe in southeast Turkey. It is the first archaeological site in the world that proves its age dating as far back as 12,000 years, around 10,000 BC. The discovery and the official acceptance of Gobekli Tepe's dating has changed the history of archaeology. Here is Hugh Newman, author of Megalith Studies in Stone. Gobekli Tepe is a series of kind of oval-shaped stone circles that have T-shaped pillars as the stones with two central pillars in the center. The thing is, many of these stones are over 20 feet tall, huge, they're serious monoliths. And this was the era of hunter-gatherers. So who could have done it? We really don't know. I've studied Gobekli Tepe in great detail. The Malta temples by conventional dating go back maybe 6,000 years ago. But I wonder, and this is based on my own work analysis, if the origins of the Malta temples may go back to a much earlier period also. William Henry is an author and investigative mythologist. We have to be open to the possibility that whoever built the structures on Malta were not in fact human beings, but were perhaps a separate race and their existence and even their origins is completely shrouded in mystery. Could it be that the incredible megalithic structures on Malta are as much as 12,000 years old? If so, who created them? Perhaps further clues can be found by closely examining the island's mysterious temples, and local traditions about a giant being who came from the stars. The Republic of Malta Situated across the island nation's 122 square miles, sit the remains of seven megalithic sites. These include the two temples of Gigantia, Hajarim, Imnidra, Tarshan, Tahajrat, and Skorba. These marvels of ancient construction were all built with the same type of Maltese limestone, which was extracted from local quarries. The fact that they were moving around these multi-ton blocks, building these temples, and actually when you look at them, moving the blocks within very, very narrow confines. Okay, it's one thing to move a block out in the open that's that's multi-ton, but to then place it systematically and very carefully next to another one, next to another one, next to another one, to form these beautiful temple structures, that's a real engineering feat While there are some researchers who believe that Malta megalithic temples could be as much as 12 years old mainstream scholars believe they were created no earlier than 3600 BC during what is known as the Neolithic Age. And they also theorize that the massive structures were built by a human culture that only used primitive stone tools. Archaeology suggests at the time, we barely invented the wheel, we barely had tools, there was no known language, and we had no writing. Well, let's step back for a moment and think about this. From an evolutionary and technology perspective, that makes no sense because you begin with simple, you continue bigger, bigger, and then biggest. But you start small. What we have in the case of the multistructures is that the biggest are the oldest. So that makes zero sense from a logical perspective, because there was no evolution in technology. The archaeologists, they agree with this. To construct similar temple after similar temple with the same material, without evidence of writing, shows a high degree of communication, and we find terracotta models, in fact, of temples. And archaeologists have suggested perhaps that this is an early architecture rendering. This is more evidence of the high-level thought and ability that went into the construction of these temples. No written records have ever been discovered to explain who built the megalithic temples in Malta. However, local traditions of the Maltese people have offered a stunning possibility. They claim that the massive structures were built by a race of giant beings who came to Earth from the stars. Jonathan Young, Ph.D., is the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. There is a story that a meteorite came down from the heavens and turned into a goddess, a giant named Sansuna. And the locals, of course, were terrified of this giant. But at a place called Giantia, she started building a temple and moved stones much larger than any human could ever move and assembled this structure that was so massive, it remains to this day still a place of mystery, still a giant's construction. When you see these Cyclopean stones, some of them weighing as much as 50 tons. You can appreciate why we have the story of this giantess Sansuna. The local legends of Sansuna may sound incredible to some. However, in the 17th century, a Maltese nobleman named Gianfrancesco Abella claimed to have found forensic evidence that these legends may have been based in fact. In the early 1600s, Gianfrancesco Abella was living on the island of Malta, and he actually wrote about the fact that giants were involved in the construction of these sites. One of the reasons he wrote this is because he said he found bones, skulls, and even giant teeth all across the island. And there were other reports of them coming forth at this time. In order to investigate the local legends connecting giant extraterrestrial beings to the massive structures on Malta, in 2022, ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Sucolos traveled to Malta's oldest megalithic structures, the temples of Gigantia on the island of Gozo. There he met with Franz von Avendank, an expert in Maltese history, who has lived on the island since 1991. Gigantia means the giant goddess. And it makes sense. Why? Because right now, I feel like an ant. We are so small, and especially when you're right next to it. It's very impressive. And in my opinion, still a massive question mark. There are still questions, yeah, definitely. What can you tell us about the dating? Well, when it was excavated, because we don't talk about discovery, it was always visible. People thought it was a Phoenician temple. Much later, they realized it must have been prehistoric. So it was put in the 2000s before Christ. Then it moves back to the 3000s. Now we're saying 3600 at least. Technology has improved, different ways of looking at things. So therefore, they're getting older. They were built much earlier than we thought before. When viewed from above, the two adjacent temples of Gigantia are designed with large abscess resembling a cloverleaf. Each housed an altar, and artifacts suggest a wooden roof covered the entire temple. Many of the stone blocks stand 20 feet tall, and some weigh in excess of 50 tons. Is it possible that we've lost some type of masonry knowledge? Because you could create it using smaller stones. Clearly, this required planning. It required logistics. Yes. In my opinion, master builders were at work here, and mainstream archaeologists are suggesting that whoever built this did not have any writing. Well, not only would it require writing, but you have to have calculations. And leadership. Exactly. With the evidence of how old or when it was built, who built it, and how it was built. Might be there, but we haven't found it yet. I can imagine that people saw this and thought, and thought this must have been the work of a giant. Right. Throughout the Mediterranean, you see an association with giants constructing megaliths. For instance, in Mycenaean Greece, there's a structure called the Lion's Gate. Aristotle mentioned that this construction style was called Cyclopean masonry because of the large stones. The ancient Greeks figured that only a giant called Cyclops could have had the strength to move these. The same sort of Cyclopean masonry is present in the Maltese temples as well. These stories of giants have been an integral part of our entire human history since the beginning of time. So, is it possible that the reason why we have these stories of these giants is because at one point they actually existed. And the answer to that is yes. Could it be possible that the temples at Gigantia were built by gigantic otherworldly beings who inhabited the islands of Malta thousands of years ago? To search for further clues, Giorgio will next visit one of Malta's most mysterious megalithic complexes, where he is joined by his longtime friend and mentor, Eric Von Daniken. The Island of Malta, 2022 While investigating local legends that a race of giant extraterrestrial beings once inhabited the area more than 5,000 years ago, Giorgio Tsuglos meets with his longtime friend, Eric Von Daniken. author of the 1968 international bestseller Chariots of the Gods, which established the foundation for the ancient astronaut theory. They have arranged to visit one of the most mysterious sites on the islands, called Hajarim, which archaeologists believe might be Malta's second oldest megalithic structure, built shortly after Gigantia. Hajar Aqim is a Maltese temple complex that has multiple temples on it as well. The oldest one in the northern temple dates to the mid-fourth millennium B.C. Here is David Childress. You see colossal, huge stones, huge walls and doorways, and it's clear that it's very, very old. It's something that would be almost indestructible. And in fact, it's been there for thousands of years. Located near Malta's southern shores, the temples of Hajarim are believed by mainstream archaeologists to have been constructed by the same primitive culture who created the temples of Gigantia on the neighboring island of Gozo. Joining Giorgio once again is local historian Franz von Avendank. Incredible. Look at this. So, what are we talking about here? How tall is it? About six meters. Wow. So that's about 17, 18 feet, yeah? Something like that. Maybe it was even bigger because of the erosion. It could have been a bit higher, and it surely had a roof. Mm-hmm. I mean, just incredible. Now, whether it was a stone roof or a wooden roof, there is still discussion about it. But it was covered, and the whole wall must have reached at least this height. And the whole temple is orientated astronomically. Yeah, so at the sunrise on the winter solstice, and you'll be here at the back, you would see the sun coming up over the horizon through the entrance. And if you are patient, you stay here till the evening, you'll see over there another temple, which will have a light phenomena during the sunset of the same day It all oriented So it had to do something with the stars with the universe definitely This must have been a very important building for them and that's why they put so much effort in creating the building. Mainstream historians continue to debate what purpose the temples of Hajarim may have served. But a recent discovery has led some to suggest that the site has an otherworldly connection. This is known as the Oracle Room, and the room has something special. Look at the oval inside. There is a very strong magnetic field inside that oval. It's believed that women went in there, and they would have certain experiences, hear sounds, see flashes. There was contact with the gods. The so-called Oracle Chamber is believed to have been used thousands of years ago as a place where worshippers communicated with their goddesses. And it is here that a statue was discovered, which is believed to represent one of these deities. In this room behind the partition, they found a number of statues. Among them the famous Venus of Malta, which is a statue of the goddess. Mainstream researchers believe the Venus of Malta is approximately 5,000 years old and was used in fertility rituals. But ancient astronaut theorists suggest it served an even more profound purpose and depicts an otherworldly being. As evidence, they point to similar effigies of Sansuna, the giant goddess who is said to have built the Temple of Gigantia. Sansuna was this huge person, a giant, and she was carrying a half-human, half-giant child of hers. So she's a giant like the extraterrestrials, but she's mating with a human. We also have the same story found in other areas as well. Curiously, similar accounts of giant beings mating with humans can be found in traditions of ancient civilizations all around the world, including those of Mesoamerica, India, Egypt, and even in scriptures contained in the Holy Bible. There are tales of giants in all corners of the earth. Various monumental structures have been attributed to giants. But we have scriptures that there were giants among men. In the Bible, these giants are called the Nephilim. This is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of the Gods. When we first meet the Nephilim in the book of Genesis, chapter 6, and where it tells us that the sons of God came upon the daughters of men and that they beget these giant children called the Nephilim. This is mentioned in several books, the story of David fighting against Goliath. Goliath was a giant. In the fourth book of the Baruch, there it says, at those days there were 4,0091,000 giants on earth. So obviously giants were on Earth and giants were on Malta. Is it possible that Malta was once home to a race of extraterrestrial giants, as ancient traditions suggest? Perhaps further evidence can be found by examining another of Malta's engineering masterpieces. One that doesn't tower above ground, but tunnels deep beneath it. The Island of Malta, 1902 While constructing a new housing development in the town of Paola, a team of laborers make a perplexing discovery. They uncover the entrance to a massive underground cavern system that has been ingeniously carved out of the bedrock. The accidental discovery is considered by many to be the greatest engineering feat of the entire Neolithic age, and comes to be known as the Hypogeum of House Safliani. Archaeologists realized that this was a huge underground network of chambers and corridors. You enter down into it, and there are a series of three different levels. All of them are interconnected. The three levels of the hypogeum descend more than 30 feet below ground. The connecting chambers, halls, and passageways cover more than 5,000 square feet. This is a remarkable structure, particularly when you bear in mind they didn't have metal tools, but it's subterranean, hewn from solid rocks somehow, and it's just mind-boggling. Based on pottery sample analysis and examination of human remains, mainstream archaeologists have dated the Hypogeum to around 3700 BC and believe it was made by the same people who built Malta's above-ground structures. However, ancient astronaut theorists suggest, just like with the megalithic temples, there is evidence that the Hypogeum could be more than 12,000 years old. There was this bull fresco that was painted in black, was actually recorded and written about by various archaeologists up into the 1970s and 80s. It has been noted that this bull fresco resembles Paleolithic cave art that goes back to 15,000 to 20,000 years in places such as Spain and other European countries. And this particular design, which was made of black manganese oxide, which we know was used in Paleolithic times, was actually cleaned away and rubbed out, if you like, by just one of the workers there in the 1980s. So these sites could be much older than what the archaeologists are telling us. For reasons of preservation, access to the Hypogeum is currently restricted by the Maltese government. So, to learn more about the subterranean structure, Georgio Sucolos and Eric von Daniken, traveled to Malta's National Museum of Archaeology. There, they are once again joined by local historian Franz von Avendank to examine a miniature scale model of the structure. Has anybody figured out why any of these chambers existed and was there chambers that existed earlier or did all of this happen at once? They started with a cave, and on top of the cave, a surface temple was built. And then they started expanding the cave, slowly, slowly downwards, and also horizontally. And they developed a maze of chambers of different sizes and different functions. Look at this. You have a spiral staircase going down. And I remember being there in the late 80s. And if you stood back there and you whispered, and you had another person over here, they could hear you perfectly. So the acoustics in there are amazing. Yes, there are very special acoustics. Voices of a certain timbre are heard magnified by others. They are not audible inside other parts of the underground structure. Why they did it like that, we can't explain. In February 2014, archaeoacoustics researcher Linda Enix assembled a team of audio, geology and archaeology experts to test the acoustic properties of the Hypogeum Oracle Room. Archeoacoustics is a multidisciplinary study to explore what was going on with sound in ancient places and how people were using it. I was very familiar with Malta's Hypogeum and the sound effects that were quite peculiar in that place. And when I learned about Archeoacoustics, it sort of lit a fire. What Linda and her team discovered while examining the hypogeum room was sensational. The oracle chamber resonates at several frequencies that are very close to 110 hertz. The number 110 hertz can be identified clearly with a note with A on the musical scale at a lower octave within the baritone range. In 2013, Dr. Ian Cook, The associate director of the UCLA Laboratory of Brain, Behavior and Pharmacology conducted an experiment to determine if the 110 hertz sound frequency has any effect on the human brain. His tests were on a group of volunteers at 110 hertz. He found something happened. There was a shift in brain activity. That frequency will deaden certain brain patterns and bring alive others, and there is a sense of connection with the otherworldly. So it would seem that whoever created the Hypogeum did this with the specific reason of whoever went in there could attain communion with the gods themselves. Is it possible that the Hypogeum of House Cephalieni functioned as a place where humans could interact with otherworldly beings thousands of years ago? And was this subterranean structure connected to Malta's ancient legends of giants that came down from the stars? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining an incredible discovery that was made deep within the Hypogeum Thousands of elongated skulls Paola, Malta, 1907. Five years after the discovery of the Hypogeum of House Athliani, archaeologists excavating the subterranean chambers began to uncover human remains. In total, they find an estimated 7,000 skeletons, and reportedly, a great many of them have skulls that are noticeably elongated. It was found that some of the skulls were actually elongated. They were almost like the head going backwards rather than upwards. Does that represent the fact that they were doing head binding? They were pressed into shape when these people were babies. Head binding, also known as artificial cranial deformation, has been a practice of numerous primitive cultures around the world, dating from prehistoric times all the way into the 20th century. It involves tightly wrapping the heads of infants before their skulls fully harden, resulting in an elongated shape. Archaeologists and anthropologists agree that this was done because of worshipping some type of deity. A deity with an elongated skull? That's interesting. Where did they get this inspiration from? So I am suggesting that our ancestors were visited by beings, flesh and blood beings, that had actual elongated skulls and that that was their natural appearance. Our ancestors wanted to imitate their gods, and so they did artificial headbinding so that the skull would grow in this elongated fashion. And this happened on all continents around the world, including Europe and on the island of Malta. Who could these elongated skulls have belonged to? Are they the result of headbinding? Or could they have belonged to beings who were of otherworldly origin? Today, only a handful of the elongated skulls that were discovered in the Hypogeum still exist. They now belong to Maltus National Museum of Archaeology, where Giorgio and Eric have been examining the model of the Hypogeum. Although the skulls have been temporarily removed for scientific study, Eric and Giorgio are given rare access to a custom piece of the museum's collection. We previously had an exhibit of the original skulls, but at the moment it's being studied. But these are a perfect replica that you can handle and examine. The museum replica is modeled after one of the actual elongated skulls Giorgio had the opportunity to examine in person on a previous trip to Malta in 2014. And something is wrong here. Something is wrong here. Look at this. You're missing the sagittal suture. The sagittal suture connects to the sides and roof of the cranium. This structure is open when a person is born and closes around the age of 35. So I actually brought a picture of what a human sagittal suture would look like, which would go across here and it is missing. This is not, in our opinion, the result of artificial head binding, but this is authentic, it's real. So the ones that do not have the sutures, in my opinion, could be the extraterrestrials. The conclusion is so easy. The facts are facts, and these skulls are not human. The extraterrestrials, they had elongated heads. And in my opinion, the extraterrestrials were the giants, and they had sex with humans. And slowly, for generation, generation, we became smaller. Do the skulls represent a genetic trait possibly linked with giants intermingling with the local population and these genetic alterations then occur. And so we're looking at possibly almost like a different type of human existing in ancient Malta. Could the few elongated skulls that have survived from the excavation of the hypogeum provide a clear link to giant extraterrestrial beings that may have once inhabited Malta? For Giorgio Suclos and Eric von Daniken, there is one site on the island that may tell the story of Malta's otherworldly past better than any other. The Megalithic Temple of Imnidra For more than 5,000 years, Malta's megalithic temples and incredible underground structures have stood as a testament to a once great culture, of whom very little is known. And some researchers believe that this civilization existed on the islands thousands of years earlier than mainstream archaeologists suggest. To further investigate this intriguing theory, Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von Daniken, along with local historian Franz von Avendank, have traveled to another one of Malta's most mysterious ancient sites, the Temple of Imnidra. So what are we looking at here with this corridor here? It is believed this is one of the oldest solar calendars in the world. We find that that stone, at the winter solstice, the right edge is lit up. Alternatively, this is the summer solstice stone. So at sunrise, light will fall through the entrance and touch upon this stone. Now if you look at it today, the alignments are maybe different than it was in the past. very very far past. But the oldest culture roughly four or five thousand are according to archaeology. According to archaeology this is around 3,300 before modern era. But then we have another solution which one of your local doctor Mikalev came forward to. Right and Mikalev calculated that with one of these stones for it to line up correctly you would have to correspond to a date of 10,200 B.C. In his 1992 paper, Imnidra, a Calendar in Stone, Maltese land surveyor and cartographer Paul Mikaleff proposed that based on celestial alignments, the temple of Imnidra appears to have been built far earlier than mainstream archaeologists claim. We know for a fact that the tilt of the earth has changed, But with modern-day computer technology, we can sort of rewind the night sky to the time as it was back then. And he determined that was 10,200 BC when the light on both the winter and the summer solstice would actually line up exactly on both ends of that slab. So clearly we have another connection to the stars, a celestial bridge, so to speak. And you know, Franz said, this is the oldest part of the temple, which means far back, maybe 5,000 years or more, these people were watching the stars. They were looking for something. They were hoping for something. Maybe they were waiting for the return of the gods. The old question remains, which gods? Right. While excavations of ancient sites continue throughout Malta, many scholars agree that the archaeological wonders found both above ground and below provide an unparalleled glimpse into the planet's earliest human societies. And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, Malta holds the secrets of a profound past that we have only begun to uncover. When you put all the pieces together of what we see in these temples on Malta, the engineering knowledge that was required, the astronomical knowledge that's encoded within them. And you realize you're dealing with a primitive time. Someone had to have brought it from somewhere. Who were these beings? And if we can ultimately answer this question, it's going to lead to a revelation of perhaps some of the greatest mysteries of all of human history. Malta is one of these islands which is not understandable. why on such a small island so many temples? I think they were extraterrestrials. They were a race of giants. The reality is we are just one of the intelligent species in the universe. There are many other species. Extraterrestrials were here thousands of years ago. Extraterrestrials are here today. We are under observation. Is it possible that Malta was once home to giant beings who were part human and part extraterrestrial? And might the most extraordinary evidence of all lie hidden in some ancient underground chamber still waiting to be discovered? Perhaps the latest excavations on Malta will lead to the profound revelation that the island's megalithic temples serve not as monuments to the gods, but to our alien origins.
