Narrator: It is a mountain that
inspires both awe and fear.
Jack "walking eagle" Thom:
There's things around
in this mountain here
That people
are really unaware of.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
Narrator:
For centuries,
Extraordinary sightings have
been reported both on its slopes
And in the sky above.
Nick pope:
There are multiple
Strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
paranormal events,
Strange disappearances,
that go back throughout history.
Dustin Naef:
I've seen people
In this very cave walk right
into a wall and vanish.
That's incredible.
Narrator:
But are these just stories
Or something more?
Giorgio Tsoukalos:
What makes mount shasta
fascinating to me
Are the questions.
Narrator:
Ancient astronaut theorist
giorgio Tsoukalos,
Author david Childress,
And investigative
mythologist william henry
Have come together
to examine incredible evidence
That suggests mount shasta
May have a connection
to otherworldly beings.
David Childress:
Perhaps it will be
At mount shasta
where the extraterrestrials
Finally reveal themselves.
Narrator:
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.
I'm really delighted to be
here with you guys because
I'm curious to learn
what the truth is
Behind mount shasta.
I used to live up
in san francisco,
And I drove
that road countless times.
And what struck me
is the fact that
Mount shasta sticks
out like a sore thumb.
- Henry: Sure does.
- Childress: It really does
stand out.
Henry:
I do have to admit driving up
From sacramento and catching
my first glimpse of it
Off in the distance
with the sun setting on it,
My heart skips a b*at.
I mean, it is majestic.
Tsoukalos:
Oh, it is beautiful. Absolutely.
Henry:
You can tell that there's really
An allure to it.
What makes mount shasta
fascinating to me
- Are the legends and the
mythologies of that place.
- Henry: Yep.
Childress:
Probably more weird books
Have been written about
Mount shasta
than any other mountain.
What do you want? Giants?
Do you want star people?
Do you want lost civilizations?
It all converges at shasta.
And everyone
who lives in that area
Is familiar with these stories.
Narrator:
Rising to an elevation
Of 14,179 feet,
Mount shasta
in northern california
Lies at an intriguing
crossroads of folklore,
Geology and the paranormal.
This majestic peak,
Which is also a dormant volcano,
Features
breathtaking waterfalls,
Pristine lakes,
and spectacular alpine vistas
That attract more than
But the native americans
who are indigenous to this area
Warn that mount shasta is as
dangerous as it is beautiful.
And for very unnatural reasons.
For centuries,
the mountain has been known
As a place where people report
strange events in the sky,
Encounter terrifying creatures,
And sometimes have even
vanished without a trace.
Pope:
Mount shasta is a location
Where there are multiple
strange events taking place.
Ufo sightings,
Paranormal events,
Strange disappearances...
That go back throughout history.
And, indeed, one can look to
Certain native american legends,
for example,
To say that
mount shasta has always
Been associated
with strange goings-on.
There's things around
in this mountain here
That people
are really unaware of.
Some people don't even
want to believe it.
But I believe it
cause I seen it.
I've witnessed it.
Narrator:
Local native american tribes,
Such as the shasta, wintu,
Modoc and karuk,
have inhabited the area
Dating back as much
as 12 centuries.
Each revere
mount shasta as a place
That possesses mystical powers.
Walking eagle:
I was told
By my grandmother
and grandfather
That, you know, that we didn't
go above the tree line.
That belongs to
"grandfather" up there.
So I try to stay
as far away as I can.
There was a native american
author there, lucy thompson,
All about
the native american legends
Of the star people,
All that
activity at mount shasta.
And this isn't some, like,
kooky book or something.
She's writing the history
of her people, the yurok tribe.
All these legends
are incredible.
And this has been going on
at mount shasta
For hundreds of years.
So can we attribute all these
legends to mere coincidence?
- That's the big question.
- Henry: I don't think so.
Another layer to this mystery
is that shasta is very close
To petroglyph point,
where we find some of
What are considered to be
some of the oldest
Petroglyphs in north america.
Narrator: 60 miles
northeast of mount shasta,
At lava beds national monument,
A curious record
of native american traditions
Can be found.
Hundreds of stone carvings,
known as petroglyphs,
That were created
as much as 6000 years ago
By ancestors of the modoc tribe.
The lava beds petroglyphs
Include ancient calendars,
Depictions of animals, humans,
And celestial beings
also referred to
As "sky people."
In various native american
traditions,
We have different spiritual
beings, uh, located
On these sort of different
planes of existence.
And there's a wonderful
range of stories
In many, many native american
groups that talk
About some of the adventures
and interactions
With the sky people, uh,
with the humans on earth.
Narrator:
One of the petroglyphs depicts
A large, winged creature
emerging from inside
Of mount shasta.
It is believed
to represent a sky being
Who the modoc people
worship as their creator
Known as skell.
The local people believe
that in ancient times,
The great sky chief skell
Came down from the sky
to live in shasta
And has been there
ever since and protects it.
Narrator:
Could this petroglyph of skell
Be, as some believe,
An actual depiction
of an extraterrestrial being
That the modoc people
encountered centuries ago?
So we know there's been humans
going through this area
For a long time
and creating these petroglyphs
With these
mystery teachings on them.
So it's got all of
that mythology attached to it
And has all kinds
of ufo sightings as well.
Certain mountains
are associated with ufos,
And mount shasta's
definitely one of them.
It's interesting to me
that we have modern accounts
Of ufo sightings, for example,
Right here at mount shasta,
But what's fascinating
to me is that there are
Many, many ancient stories
of so-called ufo encounters
That we consider today
ufo encounters.
And are ufos particularly
are seen kind of coming
From the top,
the crater of mount shasta
And going up or are they
coming out of the side?
- What are... What are
the beliefs there?
- Henry: They're from all over.
It's like-it's like they're
coming out of the mountain
Or that-that they're seen
hovering above it.
It's very strange.
Narrator:
Over the past century,
There have been
more than 50 reports
Of ufo sightings
around mount shasta
With an increasing number
in just the last decade.
Almost everyone who lives there
Has-has seen something unusual.
One of the most remarkable
ufo sightings
I've heard of,
it took place in 2008.
Witnesses in the town of mccloud
saw a ufo
That looked like
a giant glowing jellyfish
Move over the town and then
fly off into the distance.
Walking eagle:
I was driving back
From, uh, klamath falls,
eh, around 7:00,
In the summertime.
All of the sudden
I looked up on the mountain,
And I seen the whole mountain
Toward yreka side open up.
And then this big ship came
And sat there hovered for
a minute and then went right in.
And next thing you know,
the mountain closed,
And I was like,
"what is going on?"
I never let things like that
bother me, though.
I've seen things like that
all the time.
And, you know, what's
interesting about it, too,
Is that the native americans...
There was a group
Of spiritual beings
called the waga
That first came to shasta
and-and started instructing
The local native americans.
And they told this story
that there were giants
That lived in mount shasta.
Giants are often
associated with the stories
- Of bigfoot.
- Henry: Absolutely.
- And mount shasta is also famous
for bigfoot sightings.
- Yes, it is.
In fact, the earliest, uh,
Really popular sightings
of bigfoot
And where the name
bigfoot comes from
Is from northern california
- And around redding.
- Mm-hmm.
Narrator:
Giants? Bigfoot?
Incredibly, similar stories
have been reported
In this area
for hundreds of years.
And in October 1930,
several newspapers detailed
The discovery of a mysteriously
large humanoid skeleton
In the town of redding,
There are traditions
of giants linked
With mount shasta,
which absolutely fascinate me.
And one of these, uh,
goes back quite a long way,
And it's part
of the modoc tribe,
Who are kind of
part of this area.
And they say the sky spirit's
daughter was abducted by a bear,
And she actually gave birth
to a race of giants.
Some people suggest that these
are actually hairy beasts,
Sasquatch-like beings,
connected with mount shasta.
So you've got this
convergence of-of these stories
Of-of massive ufo
sightings, giants, star beings.
This is, like, a hotbed area
up here. It is incredible.
Native americans
in the area around mount shasta
Warned people of
the number of disappearances
- That have taken place up there.
- So mount shasta
Is one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Native americans in the area
around mount shasta say that
The area above the tree line
is sacred.
- And they warn people,
"do not go up there."
- is that so?
Right, which makes it
not surprising to learn
Of the number of disappearances
that have taken place up there.
So mount shasta
is one of these hot spots
- For disappearing people, then?
- Exactly.
Yes, siskiyou county
is the location
That carl disappeared in.
Narrator:
Since 2009,
Former police detective
dave paulides has been
Applying his professional
investigative training
Attempting to solve mysterious
missing persons cases
All around the country.
In ten-plus years,
I've looked at over
And in those,
And I mean that cases
Of possible animal predation
have been vetted out.
Incidents of mental health,
su1c1de, were vetted out.
And what you're left with
Is a complete void
of rational explanation.
The area around mount shasta
has many unusual disappearances.
Narrator:
One of the most
baffling disappearances
That dave has been focusing on
Was reported
on mount shasta in 1999.
On may 25,
three experienced hikers...
Carl landers, milt gaines
and barry gilmore...
Set off from mount shasta's
bunny flat trailhead
Towards the summit.
The guys got up
to a place called 50/50.
It was a place where hikers
that wanted to summit
Would either camp there
or at the next stop,
Called lake helen,
for the night.
The next morning, they get up,
the wind is howling.
The guys were
putting the tent together
And were stashing it
for their climb,
And they saw
that carl was looking cold.
And so they said, "hey, why
don't you go to lake helen's,
And we'll meet you there."
And carl took off walking.
Narrator:
Shortly after carl
Left the 50/50 campsite,
Milt and barry followed.
But when they arrived
at lake helen,
Just 650 feet away,
Carl was nowhere to be found.
Paulides:
Milt gaines, carl's partner,
Got there,
and he didn't see carl.
And now he's confused
Because there's no place
between 50/50
And lake helen to disappear.
There's no obstructions,
you're above timber line,
There's no big, huge boulders
That are gonna get in your way,
And it's a solid snow field
with no crevasses.
That started a week-long
search and rescue
That would rival any
anyone knew about.
Now, one of the things that
was done on the landers case
Is that they checked
with u.S. Geological survey
For seismic activity
on the mountain.
The reason they did that
is that sometimes
There's a...
An avalanche of rock
And maybe the climber
was covered
By the rock
and you wouldn't find them.
During the time
that carl was gone,
There was no seismic activity.
So they know that carl
wasn't covered by rocks.
Narrator:
Remarkably,
in the more than 20 years
Since carl's disappearance,
No one has found any clues
That could explain
what happened to him.
Milt gaines:
I don't know how many people
Have been up avalanche gulch.
But, uh, nothing has been found.
No metal ice axe.
No metal crampons.
No colorful nylon pack or coat
Or black pants or plastic boots.
Nothing.
Paulides:
The search and rescue
coordinator on this event
Was an individual
named grizz adams.
Grizz had been doing
this for 30-plus years.
Grizz said, "dave, I guarantee
carl isn't on that mountain.
He either went up or he went in,
but he isn't on."
Those were his words.
I think that
the comment tells you
That there were few options
for a rational explanation.
And so they-they
never found him,
They have no explanation
for what happened.
[stammers]
everyone's just baffled?
Yeah. Yeah, he's hiking up
the mountain
In sight of his friends
and suddenly disappears.
And do they see him disappear
Or they just look away and they
turn around and he's gone?
Typically,
in those stories, people
Don't actually see them
disappear, but they're
Nearby and they never call out
for help or anything like that.
Then there's the story
of a three-year-old boy.
He's camping
with his parents on shasta,
And he wanders off, disappears.
Narrator:
Another very
unusual disappearance
That dave paulides
investigated near mount shasta
Occurred on September 2, 2011.
Paulides:
A three-year-old boy disappeared
On a camping trip.
And he was later found
by search and rescue,
At one of the first places
they would have looked.
Right next to a trail.
One of the first things
search and rescue people do is,
As they're walking down a trail,
they're calling the boy's name.
- Tommy!
- Hey, tommy!
Hey, tommy, where are you?
Now, if he was near the trail
And he heard that, chances are
he's gonna come and get help.
Cause he'd been
out there overnight.
So to think that
he was next that trail
The whole time
is really hard to understand.
Another unusual aspect
to that story is that this boy
Told a story of,
after going missing,
He was down in some kind
of underground cave...
And a woman
that he thought was a robot
Was there asking him
if he was okay and comfortable.
It was all a very strange story,
Something
I've never heard before.
Narrator:
While the story may sound
Like the product
of a child's imagination,
The search and rescue team
could provide no explanation
For how the boy
went missing for five hours
Only to suddenly turn up
right next to the trail.
Many people
say these disappearances
Are-are just accidents.
But the idea
that somebody disappears
In a location where
there are ufo sightings
And sometimes
reports of entities
Mirrors the idea, perhaps,
of the alien abduction.
Narrator:
Is it possible
that carl landers and others
Who mysteriously disappeared
around mount shasta
Were abducted
by extraterrestrial beings?
Or might there be an even
more profound explanation?
Uh, people are still
disappearing on mount shasta.
- Right.
- This is not something
that has,
- You know, stopped.
- Right.
And it's an open area where,
You know, there's not
that many places to hide,
- E-except by going
inside the mountain.
- Absolutely.
But, once again, this affirms
the... Kind of the mystery,
The strangeness
of mount shasta and says
This is... There's a lot more
going on there than...
Than we really realize.
People are called to mount
shasta and they don't know why.
Mount shasta is also apparently
on a major ley line.
They're a telluric current
of energy going from
Different grid spots
and power spots.
What's going on in mount shasta
is not just in north america.
All over the world
are these power spot mountains
Like mount shasta.
Mount shasta is sometimes said
To be one of the chakras
of the planet, too.
Narrator:
The ancient
sanskrit term "chakra"
Refers to energy centers
in the human body.
In his 1967 book earth chakras,
Author robert co*n
proposed that the planet
Also has energy centers,
and that these
Act as connection points
to otherworldly dimensions.
His list included
mount sinai in egypt,
Mount kailash in tibet,
And mount shasta.
Hugh newman:
There were traditions
Of sacred mountains
all over the world.
This is where the gods
came down, started civilization.
But it's also thought to be
Where communication
with the gods took place
And potentially
where interstellar travel
May have taken place between
this world and other worlds.
It seems that mount shasta
is on some energy line
That's perhaps
connected even to cusco
And lake titicaca,
the great pyramids.
- You know, power spots
and sacred spaces.
- Sure.
Yeah, it's important to bring
up the great pyramid because
It reminds me of mount shasta.
Really?
Okay.
Henry:
First of all, it's a volcano,
And the word "pyramid"
means "fire in the middle."
And underneath
the great pyramid are tunnels.
Same thing here at shasta.
And it makes me think, well,
maybe shasta could've been like
The natural origin
of the idea of the pyramid
As, like, a power center.
But the pyramid is
an artificial construction.
- A lava tube is not artificial,
that's nature.
- Exactly. And what I'm saying is
That perhaps the pyramid
is kind of like
A technological version
of a naturally-occurring
Power center, like a volcano.
Narrator:
The great pyramid of giza,
A power center?
Modeled after a volcano
like mount shasta?
In his 1998 book,
the giza power plant,
Renowned master craftsman
and engineer christopher dunn
Proposed that the great pyramid
was originally designed
And functioned as a power plant.
Two years later, based on
curious erosion patterns
Within the pyramid,
maritime engineer john cadman
Lent his support to this theory.
In the subterranean chamber,
there is some evidence
That shows that there had
been water present in it.
There's water erosion
on the floor,
And then there's also
cavitation damage on the ceiling
Right above the pit,
and that had to have been
From a compression wave.
Narrator:
Cadman concluded
that the great pyramid
Was a gigantic hydraulic pump
That drew water
from the nearby nile river
To generate power.
But if the great pyramid
functioned as a power plant,
What purpose
might it have served?
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
Clues can be found
in scared egyptian writings.
Henry:
The pyramid texts describe
The ancient egyptian gods
as extraterrestrials
Coming and going
from two places:
Sirius and orion.
The pyramid itself, according
to the ancient egyptians,
Functioned
as an ascension device,
So everything that we discover
about the great pyramid
Has to be related
to its original function
As a portal
to other star systems
Or other dimensions.
Narrator:
Is it possible that
the great pyramid was designed
By otherworldly visitors to
function as some kind of portal?
And, if so,
could there have been others?
Interestingly,
while the great pyramid
Is a man-made structure,
geologist dr. Robert schoch
Has identified
compelling similarities
That it shares
with mount shasta.
I see many similarities between
mount shasta geologically
And the natural features
It's associated with
and artificial,
Human-constructed pyramids.
Underground flowing water
Can carry a charge,
Build up charge
in certain areas that can then
Migrate to the surface
along faults and fissures
And, in some cases, then escape
As, basically, balls of charge.
Narrator:
Might the unique
geology of mount shasta
Make it the perfect
location for alien beings
To create a portal to other
parts of the universe
Or even other dimensions?
So then, in a sense, it's like
an interdimensional portal
Where beings and craft can shift
To other dimensions,
go to other planets, even?
- Exactly.
- And is it possible
that some of these people
Have disappeared,
have-have actually even
- Been taken off planet
or something?
- That would make sense to me.
I mean, given what
we're-we're hearing about this,
That they could have just
stumbled into some kind of
Portal, as you're suggesting.
I mean, seriously, we've got
Tremendous magnetic energy
there, disappearances,
All kinds of mysterious
incidences like that.
That's fascinating.
William, you went up to
Mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us
about your experience?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
William, you went upto
mount shasta just recently.
Can you tell us about your
experience and what you learned?
Oh, it was absolutely
mind-blowing.
Went up there
to meet dustin Naef.
He's a local historian.
He-he's one of these guys
That was called to the mountain.
He kept hearing about
the legends and so forth.
He's been investigating it
for many, many years.
Yeah, I've-I've read his books.
And so, you went
to mount shasta, too,
Because of these strange
disappearances, huh?
Absolutely. What's interesting
about this to me is that maybe
It's a case of some kind of
Interdimensional portal
opening up.
This is a very mysterious
part of the world,
Northern california,
where giants were there,
Star people, lost civilizations.
It's magical.
Narrator:
In November 2020,
William henry traveled
to weed, california,
To investigate firsthand
if he could document
Any evidence to help explain
the many ufo sightings,
Baffling disappearances, and
encounters with strange beings
That have been reported
at mount shasta.
And also to explore
the incredible notion
That the mountain might actually
Contain a portal
through space and time.
- Hi, dustin. I'm william henry.
- Hi, william. Glad to meet you.
Local author dustin Naef
has spent years
Investigating the mysteries
of mount shasta.
One story that I think I'm most
excited and interested in
Is these light beings
that are also described
As living within mount shasta.
Can we now tie that
into mu or lemuria?
Yeah, there's a lot of,
you know, supporting evidence,
And I-I think there's
something to the stories.
Lemuria is a civilization
That was quite an advanced
civilization for its time.
And it existed somewhere
Off the pacific coast
of north america.
Narrator:
The existence of a lost
continent named lemuria
Was first proposed by zoologist
philip sclater in 1864.
Curiously, this theory
is corroborated
By the ancient oral traditions
of the native hawaiian people,
Which say that the pacific
islands of the region
Were once part
of a giant continent,
One that was home
to a highly advanced,
Otherworldly civilization.
We do know that there were
some people who got lost,
And this is who we call
the mu or the lemurian people
You might refer to.
They existed at one time,
and then we lost them
Under the ocean.
Mitch horowitz:
In the 19th century,
There were various occult
and esoteric writers,
Including madame h.P. Blavatsky,
Who identified lemuria
As this primordial
human civilization.
And the idea was that some of
Humanity's hidden and occult
roots could be traced back
To this so-called
continent of lemuria.
Pope:
Mount shasta ties in
To the idea of
the lost continent of lemuria.
They were thought to be
Very technologically advanced
ancestors.
Maybe gods,
maybe extraterrestrials.
Whoever these people were,
Some calamity befell them.
And the legend is
That the survivors
of this cataclysm
Took refuge in mount shasta.
Narrator:
Could there really have been
A highly advanced
civilization that existed
On earth thousands of years ago?
And, if so,
could there be any truth
To the notion
that they took refuge
From a devastating cataclysm
in the caves of mount shasta?
One man who was
convinced the story was true
Was prospector j.C. Brown,
Who, in the early 20th century,
Made it his mission
to find the proof.
You know, j.C. Brown
Became really enamored
With the theories
of lemuria and mu.
- Mm-hmm.
- J.C. Brown claims
to have been up here
In 1906 prospecting for gold
When he accidentally unearthed
A tunnel which he describes
as a man-made tunnel.
And about a couple miles in,
He found what he describes
as some kind of, uh, reliquary
Containing all kinds of records
of a lost civilization,
And he describes
finding the bodies
- Of mummified giants.
- Wow.
And one of the things
miners did was they would mark
The environment
with, uh, symbols.
- Mm-hmm.
- And there's a place
Not far from mount shasta
Where I've found
a whole collection
Of these glyphs that
have been carved into rocks.
We know they were made sometime
Between the early 1900s
and the 1940s.
- Mm-hmm.
- And that would have been
the period of time
That j.C. Brown would have been
up in this area
Looking around for things.
Henry:
This reminds me of, uh, in-in
rennes-le-château in France,
Northwest arkansas, oak island,
We find similar
kind of symbols appearing
In these various places
Associated with
treasuries, deposits.
And then this looks like...
Almost like two peaks or a peak
Within a peak, like he's trying
to point you inward
Into the mountain almost.
There's an interesting
twist to this story.
About 30 years later,
J.C. Brown, uh,
returned to stockton,
And his intention
was to raise an expedition
To go back up to this site
and catalog what he found.
And he raised a party
of about 80 different people,
And on the day that
they were supposed to depart
To go up to this site,
Um, he just
mysteriously vanished.
He just vanishes?
Yeah, no one ever
heard from him again.
I wonder if there could be
Some advanced ancient technology
That he didn't fully understand
Associated with portals,
The light beings,
and that sort of thing.
So there are actual tunnels
that we can access today?
Yeah, I can take you to
a place called pluto's cave
Where people report
and experience
A lot of this phenomena
that we've been talking about.
Fantastic. Let's go.
Dustin is very intrigued,
as I am, about the lava tubes
That run underneath shasta that
extend into the inner earth.
But we went into
the pluto cave... this lava tube.
- It's about 20 miles
from mount shasta.
- Okay.
- Childress: Okay, so...
- So these extend for miles.
And how big is the tube?
I mean...
Yeah, were you able
to stand upright?
Henry: No. This was one
was huge. I mean,
These are giant caverns.
-Really?
-And this... the pluto cave...
massive.
- You could drive
a truck through there.
- Really?
- Childress: Okay. Wow.
- Absolutely.
- That's interesting.
- Childress: And people around
there think that if you find
The right lava lube
or something, you can get
Into this city and into...
- Inside mount shasta.
- Exactly. Right.
Narrator:
In November 2020,
William henry along with
author dustin Naef...
- Naef: It's down this path here.
- Set out to explore what is
Known as pluto's cave
several miles north
Of mount shasta.
Henry:
That is just spectacular.
Narrator:
It is here where
numerous eyewitnesses
Claim to have encountered
mysterious beings...
As well as seen evidence
Of possible
interdimensional portals.
Pluto's cave is one
of several natural wonders,
Known as lava tubes,
that crisscross the region.
Schoch:
Mount shasta
is a volcanic mountain.
So volcanic lava tubes
are formed
When you have fast-flowing lava.
And it cools
on the surface of the flow,
So it actually builds a crust,
But the lava continues
to flow in the middle,
And it forms literally a tube.
And these tubes, in some cases,
are very small.
They might
only be a few feet across.
In other cases,
They've been documented
to be 50 feet across.
And some of them
have been documented to be
Not just miles long
but tens of miles long.
Henry:
Check it out, man.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Naef:
So almost all of the mythology
and legends around the place...
It all takes place underground
in the caves and tunnels
Which surround the area.
If you were able
to look underground,
You would just see tunnels
Radiating out
in every direction.
There are actually
native-authored stories
That you could travel
clear into oregon
Completely underground.
Henry:
Yeah. Look at that, dustin.
That's awesome.
Beautiful skylight.
- Naef: This almost makes
like an eye-like symbol.
- Henry: Absolutely. Do you think
- J.C. Brown might have
discovered a cave like this?
- Yeah.
If it was in this area,
it would be very similar
To the cave we're in now.
There's a really big
subculture here
In mount shasta
that has always believed that
These caves and tunnels
contain a civilization
Full of people
just like you and I.
And they come
back and forth through portals
Hidden in these caves.
I've had people actually
Contact me and tell me
they've seen people
In this very cave walk right
into a wall and vanish.
What-what were
these people like?
What did they look like?
They look just like us.
That's how they're able
to travel back and forth
And mingle with humans.
Wow.
Narrator:
One of the most famous reports
Of a being emerging
from within mount shasta
Was made in 1930
by guy warren ballard.
Ballard, a mining engineer
who worked in the area,
Claimed he was surveying
the slopes of the mountain
When he encountered
a mysterious, glowing figure.
Guy reported that when
he was hiking on mount shasta
In the early 1930s,
He encountered
some extraordinary,
Mysterious teacher,
Which he later identified
as the ascended master.
Young:
This is a radiant being
dressed in white.
And they get into
a long conversation.
And this teacher, this guru,
This otherworldly character
teaches ballard
The secrets of enlightenment.
Narrator:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
Ballard's description
of a radiant being
Is reminiscent
of accounts from ancient times
Of similarly luminous figures.
In irish legend, we learn
of the tuatha dé danann,
Or the tua dé dán.
These are luminous
humanoid beings
Who are considered
to be beings of immense wisdom
Who are also called
the shining ones.
Narrator:
Similar to the shining ones
of the celtic tradition,
The ancient sumerian gods,
known as the anunnaki,
Were also described
as glowing figures.
Might these accounts, including
those made about mount shasta,
Be true?
If so, can william henry
find any evidence
To help verify them?
If you look on the usgs charts,
There's an immense
negative magnetic anomaly
That surrounds mount shasta.
Henry:
That's the ley line
they describe here, right?
Naef:
Yeah, a lot of psychic
and paranormal phenomena
Actually occurs in places
that have magnetic anomalies.
And used as a, as a portal
Between the inner
earth realm and the stars?
Yeah, yeah. It... Anything
capable of generating
Energy like that
could be a portal.
Narrator:
Some theoretical
physicists believe
That strong variations
of electromagnetic fields
May create areas that give rise
To exotic phenomena
Like portals
through space and time.
There appears to be, in nature,
The possibility
of crossing thresholds
Of energy, of vorticity,
Of electromagnetic phenomenon...
That can perhaps
Open up portals in space-time
That we never would
have thought possible.
This is, uh,
where I've seen people
- Get readings before.
- Okay.
Well, let's take a look.
See what we got.
I brought my meter with me
just to see
If we can detect
any magnetic energy here.
Okay. It's jumping all over.
Got some movement here.
All right.
We got a reading here.
Very interesting.
Narrator: Several miles north
In northern california,
william henry
And author dustin Naef have just
Detected a mysterious energy
spike in pluto's cave,
A giant lava tube
connected to the mountain.
Yeah, we're getting
a lot of movement here
On the magnetic side.
I can personally feel it,
and then now we got
The readings here
that are backing that up.
And sensitive psychic people
Could follow that line,
follow the trail
- Where, wherever it leads.
- Yeah, a lot of psychic
And paranormal phenomena
actually occurs in places
- That have magnetic anomalies.
- Right.
Naef:
Mount shasta,
It's basically made
of a type of, um, geology
That conducts electricity.
And if you were to look
underneath mount shasta,
You would find reservoirs
of churning water,
Just millions and millions
of gallons of water,
Just churning.
And that creates energy.
And that's one of the theories
about the pyramid...
Is that the tunnels
were used as conduits for water,
That the pyramid is
a power plant and somehow
Water was used
to facilitate that.
Naef:
Exactly. But the same thing is
happening here at mount shasta.
It's just being driven
by natural forces.
So that could explain,
if the pyramid is a machine,
Which is the way
they describe it,
That would explain how people
Can come and go
from mount shasta.
It's like
an interdimensional portal.
Naef:
I-it does go
a long ways to explain
The energy people feel up here.
Because it's a...
Basically an energetic site.
So now that you've returned
from mount shasta,
Did you come to any conclusions?
In the end, I really don't have
a conclusion about mount shasta.
For me, it's a beginning
Because I realize
how much is going on there.
You've got the portal aspect,
you've got the light beings,
You've got the ufos,
You've got the natural geologic
possibilities that are there.
And you've got lemuria.
What makes mount shasta
Fascinating to me
are the questions.
Because clearly there are
so many stories,
So many legends,
So many events
That have been
witnessed by people.
Something clearly
is happening there.
You've got
all this lore and stories
That's coming out of it.
It is rooted
in eyewitness accounts,
It's rooted
in historical accounts,
It's not the stuff of legend.
It's tremendously exciting that
this is in our own backyard.
It's not peru
or the amazon or egypt.
I-it's right here
in northern california.
And what's interesting here,
too, is we have all the stories
Going into antiquity
and-and beginning of time,
But this is something
that's still going on.
Well, gentlemen, this has been
a fascinating conversation,
And this is what science
And the ancient astronaut theory
is all about:
The investigation.
Because, sure, one could just
dismiss the whole thing and say,
"oh, come on. It's nothing."
But something clearly
is happening at mount shasta.
And I think that this merits
even further investigation
Because what if
mount shasta is part
Of this giant riddle
that we're all investigating?
17x04 - The Mystery of Mount Shasta
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Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.
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