P ARAVIEW S ERIES 4: MAN S O RIGINS 201 Dr. Richard Thompson / co-author "Forbidden Archeology" 3:22 14:00:00:00 14:03:37:20 Charlton Heston asks "What happens when you find a modern human skull in rock strata far beneath the oldest of man's ancestors?" Author Richard Thompson answers that a large body of evidence suggests that modern man is millions of years older than we are taught. One bizarre example is the discovery of hundreds of metallic spheres; found in South Africa, which show obvious signs of human workmanship, yet the strata they were in dates to an astounding 2.8 billion years! Although the finds were well documented, most scientists have never heard of them because of a fundamental feature of science that Thompson calls a "knowledge filter." 202 Graham Hancock / Author "Fingerprints of the Gods" 1:50 14:03:37:06 14:05:42:14 Charlton Heston poses the question, "Was there an advanced civilization on earth thousands of years before history tells us?" Graham Hancock visits Stonehenge, in England, and tells why it reveals the presence of an advanced civilization that existed "long before history began". Evidence of their achievements is found all over the world, yet "we seem to have forgotten something important from our own past." 203 Dr. Richard Thompson and Michael Cremo / Co-authors "Forbidden Archeology" 2:35 14:05:42:14 14:08:32:16 According to standard accounts, human beings like us have only been around a hundred thousand years or so, yet there is evidence that takes human history back hundreds of millions of years. A bolas stone, used for hunting, was found imbedded in a cliff in South Africa, which dated to 2 to 3 million years ago. The scientist who made the discovery experienced a surprising reaction from the experts who actually witnessed its removal. -1-
204 Michael Cremo / Co-author "Forbidden Archeology" 1:41 14:08:32:16 14:10:29:14 Cremo tells of the discovery by Mary Leakey, wife of famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, of a set of modern human footprints in volcanic ash known to be 3 million years old. The reaction from other scientists at the time was, according to Cremo, an example of how a mindset can prevent one from seeing the obvious. They concluded that whatever type of "ape-man" that was around at that time must have had very "human-like" feet! 205 Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre / Geological Society of America 2:50 14:10:29:20 14:13:34:25 Dr. McIntyre was commissioned to date some spearpoints found in Mexico in 1966. The archeologist in charge of the dig thought they could be as much as 20,000 years old, but she was not prepared for the date revealed in three seperate types of tests done by Dr. McIntyre. All three tests agreed on the date of 250,000 years old. According to Dr. McIntyre, "they could not handle" such an old date for man in the New World. It would mean re-writing all the history books. What happened next for Dr. McIntyre would alter her life, and her opinion of the scientific establishment. 206 Carl Baugh / Anthropologist 3:51 10:00:00:01 10:04:06:19 Is it possible that man could have lived at the time of the dinosaurs? Anthropologist Carl Baugh thinks so. We see his team in action removing limestone slabs; exposing what he claims are human footprints along side dinosaur footprints. We examine the famous Burdick Print; a human footprint reportedly found in the same rock strata as dinosaur footprints. Judge for yourself whether man really lived at the time of the dinosaurs. -2-
207 David Hatcher Childress/ Author 1:36 10:04:00:19 10:05:43:47 Author and researcher David Hatcher Childress theorizes how it is possible that man and dinosaurs could have co-existed. Basing his model in what is known as Cataclysmic Geology, he explains how our time scale could be millions of years off. He even suggests that in remote regions of the world, cryptozoologists have discovered evidence that dinosaurs still exist. We see what appears to be the body of a plesiosaurus, caught in the nets of a Japanese fishing trawler. This supports the idea, he claims, that man and dinosaurs could still be living together. 208 Richard Milton/ Science Investigator 5:11 10:05:43:17 10:10:57:27 Does Darwin s theory of evolution accurately describe the way man evolved? According to Science Investigator Richard Milton, it does not. Milton takes us on a tour through the British Museum in order to point out what he believes are major problems with the current theory of man s evolution. We see a model of Lucy, the so-called missing link and hear the reasons why Milton says the missing link is still missing. 209 Neil Steede/ Archeologist 5:51 10:10:57:27 10:16:58:26 Traditionally, the path to civilization is said to have progressed from the Old World (Europe and Asia) to the New World (North and South America). Neil Steede, a Mesoamerican archeologist, thinks that this theory needs to be revised. We visit the ancient city of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, to explore evidence that suggests it could be twice as old as any other city in the world. If this is true, the path of civilization could be radically different than what we currently believe. -3-
210 Robert Bauval/ Author The Orion Mystery 1:08 10:16:58:26 10:18:16:22 How old is the Sphinx? Traditional Egyptology claims that the Pharaoh Chephren built it around 2,500BC. We hear Robert Bauval s findings that the Sphinx and surrounding pyramids were aligned to astronomical points and by using a computer model, he calculates that the Sphinx could be as old as 10,000 BC. This supports the geological evidence found by John Anthony West, an independent Egyptologist, that the Sphinx predates Dynastic Egypt and is evidence of a civilization as yet identified. 211 Montage of artifacts from Old World and New World 0:59 10:18:16:22 10:19:30:20 We see compelling evidence from both Egypt and the Americas which suggests that an ancient sea faring people crossed the ocean thousands of years before Columbus reached the New World. 212 Graham Hancock/ Author Fingerprints of the Gods 3:44 10:19:30:20 10:23:29:15 Author Graham Hancock describes ancient maps, which describe in great detail, features of the earth that no one in 1500 should have known. Hancock tells us his theory of who could have made these maps and where the information might have come from. The maps themselves offer a clue; the continent of Antarctica is correctly rendered on some of the maps, although it is now covered with a thick layer of ice. This is testimony, he says, of a remote and as yet unidentified civilization from pre-history. 213 Rand Flem-Ath/ Author When the Sky Fell 3:49 10:23:29:15 10:27:33:21 If an advanced civilization did exist thousands of years ago, what happened to them?? Rand Flem-Ath believes that the civilization called Atlantis was buried under two miles of ice at the South Pole! He explains the theory of pole-shift and how it is possible that large groups of Woolly Mammoths could have been frozen instantly. -4-
213B Graham Hancock/ Author Fingerprints of the Gods 0:54 10:27:33:21 10:28:42:16 Author Graham Hancock comments on the implications of Pole Shifts and how we could have progressed from the Stone Age to high civilization, then been wiped out by a worldwide cataclysm. This could have happened more than once in Earth s history. 214 Juan Armenta (represented by his daughter Celine)/ Archeologist 1:19 10:28:42:16 10:30:18:26 We hear the gripping story, from Armenta s daughter, of what happened when Archeologist Juan Armenta excavated a man-made spearpoint embedded in the jaw of an ancient Woolly Mammoth. The authorities shut down the site and Armenta s career was ruined forever, tells his daughter. 215 Dr. Richard Thompson/ Co-author Forbidden Archeology 2:42 11:00:00:00 11:02:53:29 Dr. Thompson follows a paper trail of how evidence is suppressed. We hear how scientific papers are published and how controversial subjects are often not published because of their content. In this way, much scientific evidence is kept from the public. It s a closed system, says geologist Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre, and if you are outside of the system, you can t get the information out. 216 Carl Baugh/ Anthropologist 3:02 11:02:53:29 11:06:07:09 Carl shows us a strange iron hammer he claims was found in the same geological strata as dinosaur footprints. He points out a number of features about the hammer and its attached handle, which point to its authenticity. This piece of evidence, in combination with the human footprints and a fossilized human finger, leads him to believe that man lived at the time of the dinosaurs. 217 David Hatcher Childress / Author-Researcher and Carl Baugh/ Anthropologist 3:01 11:06:07:09 11:09:21:21 Two researchers recount some amazing reports of Pterodactyls living today. Some of the most interesting and credible stories are those coming out of Namibia, in South Western Africa. These sightings suggest that our geological time scale might have to be drastically adjusted. 218A David Hatcher Childress / Author-Researcher 3:10 11:09:21:21 11:12:47:19 Childress explains how it is possible that men and dinosaurs could have lived together at the same time. Our estimates of geological time should be revised, he says. Geological change can occur much faster than we realize, causing the fossils found in the resulting strata to be much closer together in time. -5-
218B Richard Milton/ Author Shattering the Myths of Darwinism 3:21 11:12:47:19 11:26:24:00 Science writer Richard Milton explains how we date the earth and how inaccurate the method really is. He makes a compelling argument that the earth, using accepted scientific methods, could be much younger that we think. 219 Richard Milton/ Author Shattering the Myths of Darwinism 2:33 11:26:24:00 11:19:12:21 Milton brings up the many problems with Darwin s Theory of Evolution. He claims there is no conclusive evidence for the theory and uses the peppered moth case as an example of how theorists slant the evidence to support their claims. 220 Richard Milton/ Author Shattering the Myths of Darwinism 2:17 11:19:12:21 11:21:41:25 Darwin s theory purports that specific animals can evolve into an entirely different species. Milton tells how every plant and animal-breeding experiment for the past 50 years contradicts this central tenet. He questions how it is possible that a theory as well accepted as Evolution can remain when no evidence can substantiate one species evolving into another. 221 Graham Hancock / Author Fingerprints of the Gods 3:33 11:21:29:25 11:25:29:25 Monuments all over the world, such as the Pyramids in Egypt and Central America, are built with such accuracy they would be hard to duplicate today. Hancock shares with us why he believes these monuments are the remnants of a lost civilization, or what he calls fingerprints of the gods. We visit the ancient Bolivian site of Tiahuanaco, where we look at evidence of ancient stone molds for casting metal and hear how this evidence could be the key to finding out how sophisticated this lost culture could have been. -6-
222 Robert Bauval / Author The Orion Mystery, Neil Steede / Mesoamerican Archeologist 4:44 12:00:00:00 12:04:59:01 If there was a lost civilization, as some theories propose, then how old is it? Steede describes to us how archeological sites are dated and how we use their astronomical alignments to date their age. Robert Bauval, an engineer and author, recounts how astronomy helps us date the Sphinx and the Pyramids and the possibility that they were built thousands of years before history tells us. This is another clue that an older civilization may have preceded our own. 223 Rand Flem-Ath / Author When the Sky Fell 4:34 12:04:59:01 12:09:48:28 If there was a civilization that preceded ours, then what happened to it? One theory suggests that a great cataclysmic event occurred, called crustal displacement. Flem-Ath explores the theory of Earth Crust Displacement and how it could explain the annihilation of a whole civilization. He explains why agriculture sprung up around the world at about the same time and how a new civilization: our own, was re-born once again. 224 Graham Hancock / Author Fingerprints of the Gods 1:24 12:09:48:28 12:11:27:23 Hancock poses the question: If you survived a great cataclysmic event, such as a Crustal Displacement, what would you do next? He surmises that the megalithic monuments found around the world were our ancestor s solution. He also shares his belief that their great attention to astronomy was a possible attempt to calculate when the next cataclysm would occur. 225 Linda Moulton Howe / Author Glimpses of Other Realities 6:04 12:11:27:23 12:17:46:29 If evolution is not the answer, then how did man get here? Ms. Howe, a producer and investigative journalist, recounts her incredible story of reading top secret documents at an American Air Force base and what they said about ET s and man s evolution. Having produced her award-winning documentary Strange Harvest on the cattle mutilation phenomenon, she shares her beliefs on man s origins and the possibility that ET s played a role in our evolution. 226 Linda Moulton Howe / Author Glimpses of Other Realities 3:12 12:17:46:29 12:21:13:14 Howe recounts her research into the ET phenomenon and gives the reasons why she believes they exist and what it means for the future of the human race. Compelling evidence supports her delivery and her conclusions are inspiring. -7-