Ancient Aliens: Rick and Marty Lagina’s BEST Moments!

NARRATOR:
Sardinia, Italy.
Today, this Mediterranean island
off the west coast
of the Italian mainland
is well known as the playground
of the rich and famous.
But 2,000 years ago,
Sardinia was home to one
of the most mysterious cultures
in all of the ancient world.
There’s actually
tens of thousands of sites
on that particular island,
and even a pyramid.
This is quite rare in Europe.
And so, it’s got
a vast megalithic culture
going back
several thousand years.
And it really
is an overlooked place
when it comes to archaeology.

ALBERINO:
Sardinia was once home
to a very mysterious
and arcane culture
called
“the Nuragic civilization.”
The island is replete
with the residue
of megalithic constructions.
All over the island, you find
these megalithic stone towers
called “nuraghe,”
which were constructed
sometime in the distant past.
You also have the megalithic
tombs of the giants.

NARRATOR:
Giants?
Is it possible that Sardinia
was once the home
of an ancient race strangely
different from our own?
But if so,
where did they come from?
And, perhaps more importantly,
where did they go?
It was to find answers
to these intriguing questions
that ancient astronaut theorist
and publisher Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to Sardinia
in May of 2018.
Giorgio.

• Hey.
• How crazy is this place?
• Isn’t this something?
• So great to meet you
• here in Sardinia.
• Great to meet you.

NARRATOR:
He had also
taken advantage of the trip
to meet up with Oak Island
treasure hunter Marty Lagina,
who, over the years, has been
a frequent visitor to the island
and shares Giorgio’s
fascination with it.
You know, I’ve been here; the
last time, about 35 years ago

• with my parents…
• Really?
• …on summer vacation.
• No kidding.
  I am, uh, of Italian ancestry,
  and I came here,
  I think it was four years ago,
  and I was here
  on an Italian language course.
  So, in the process, I find out
  about these nuraghes,
  and I find out
  about these ancient things,
  and I find out that nobody seems
  to know anything about them.
  And very seriously, I’d like
  your opinion
  about all this stuff.
• Right.
• I don’t know whether
  this means anything,
  but when I was talking
  to some of the locals, you know,
  they talk that there are
  a lot of legends of giants,
• you know, giants.
• Really?
• Does that mean anything?
• Absolutely, because only
  a few years ago,
  I was exploring on Malta,
  and there,
  the entire civilization
  is based on the idea of giants.
• LAGINA: Really?
• And some have suggested,
  according to the ancient
  astronaut theory,
  that when the gods descended
  and mated with
  the beautiful women of Earth,
  they produced giants.
  So every time there are stories
  and legends of giants,
  I find that very interesting.
  Well, there’s a lot
  of material here,
• so let’s-let’s have a look.
• All right,
  let’s do it.

NARRATOR:
To begin their investigation,
Giorgio and Marty travel
to the National Archaeological
Museum in Cagliari,
where some of Sardinia’s
oldest and strangest artifacts
are on display.

TSOUKALOS:
It’s just all weird.
And that this helmet on,
those weird eyes.

NARRATOR:
Featured
in the museum’s collection
are a number
of enormous stone statues known
as the Giants of Mont’e Prama.
They were first discovered
in 1974,
when a local farmer stumbled
upon a large carved stone
protruding from the ground.
Archaeologists quickly
took over the site,
recovering more than
5,000 broken remnants.
Mainstream historians suggest
the statues were carved
by the Nuragic people,
a civilization that is believed
to have inhabited
the island for 2,000 years,
emerging in 1800 BC
and mysteriously disappearing
around 200 AD.
But what also makes
the statues so mysterious
is the strange way
in which the faces are carved–
not so much resembling humans,
but what some
might describe as robots.

JASON OSEQUEDA:
The Giant
statues found at Mont’e Prama
are approximately seven
and a half to eight feet tall.
You have warriors
and boxers and archers.
The statues themselves
are just noted for their size.
And it’s thought that they
represent the Nuragic people,
that this is actually what we
might have that looks like them.

LAGINA:
If he’s a model of that,
why doesn’t he have disc eyes?
‘Cause he doesn’t have disc eyes
and he certainly could.
What I find intriguing is that
the giants of Mont’e Prama–
although they were discovered
in the 1970s–
were not put on display until
sometime near the year 2000.
And I believe that these statues
simply do not conform
to the conventional
archaeological narrative
on the island, and instead,
point to the reality that there
was something very unusual
happening on this island.
This is very human,
except it has weird eyes.

• TSOUKALOS:
  And disproportionate.
• And disproportions.

COLLINS:
When you look
at these stone figurines,
they are extremely peculiar,
and they give the impression
of actually being giants.
The strangest things
about the statues
is that they have
these very strange circular eyes
that almost give them
an otherworldly feel.

In 2018, astrophysicist
Travis Taylor
traveled to Oak Island,
off the coast
of Nova Scotia, Canada,
where, according to legend,
a treasure was buried
more than 200 years ago.
Travis met up with the island’s
current caretakers,
Rick and Marty Lagina,
to test his theory
that a band of warrior monks
called the Knights Templar
was behind the mystery,
and that they recorded
the location of the treasure
with a star map.

MARTY LAGINA:
So, you’ve done
some investigative work

• and you have some stuff
  to show us, I understand.
• TAYLOR: Right. Yeah, I do.
  I got to thinking,
  is there something
  that archaeoastronomy might
  have to do with the island?
  So I overlaid the constellation
  of Taurus on the island.
  What we have
  are all of the stars
  aligning onto the island.
  This is a star map.
  Not only are the stars
  used for navigation;
  you can look at
  the constellations in the sky
  and also use those to map out
  points on the ground,
  and that can also act
  as like a treasure map.
  There’s a huge boulder
  over here.
  We walked across the island
  to those GPS coordinates,
  and interestingly enough,
  six out of seven of the points
  we went to…
  Is that not a giant stone
  right there?
  …there was a large boulder,
  uh, that weighed several tons,
  that was right where
  the star coincided
  with the map on the island.

JACK BEGLEY:
This is one of your points,
and there was
a stone feature here.

• A very obvious one.
• That’s-that’s wild.

TAYLOR:
The boulders,
they weren’t indigenously there.
They were put there on purpose.
So, the constellation
was drawn out on the island.
The question is, why?

LAGINA:
Yeah, you can’t deny
that you’re hitting
on all cylinders,
so that’s cool.
On to the next.
Could those stones that we saw
be markers that were put there
by some human beings
a long, long time ago
to correspond with a star map?
The answer is–
of course they could.

NARRATOR:
While the Oak Island treasure
has yet to be found,
many experts believe
that constellations
can be used as a type of code.
It’s possible that other
information could also be used,
uh, by laying star maps
on the surface.
They could be leaving a message,
like, whoever built this,
that’s where they came from.
It’s also possible
that this could be a message
on how to build or do something.

NARRATOR:
Paulilatino, Sardinia.
May 2018.

• Here we go.
• Are you excited?
• Yeah.
• Oh, very. Very much so.
• Yes. So follow me, please.

NARRATOR:
Giorgio Tsoukalos,
Marty Lagina,
and archeological guide
Ivana Malu
travel to the sacred
Well of Santa Cristina,
an ancient structure
believed to have been built
sometime around 1800 BC–
not for the purpose
of withdrawing water,
but to track a very specific
celestial event
with incredible precision.
Upon their arrival,
they meet with
archeoastronomer and author
Mauro Peppino Zedda.
Now, wait a minute,
wait a minute, uh…

• MALU: Yes. Yeah, prego.
• These are modern, right?
• This is reproduction?
  No, no, I mean it.
• (laughs)
  No, I know, I know, I know.
• LAGINA:
  This is reproduction.
  MALU: It’s what people say
  when they are here.
  They say, oh, Ivana,
  that’s a fake.
  What is that here?
  Can you imagine the well here
  is 3,000 years old?
• LAGINA: No, honestly,
  these are the original stones?
• MALU:
  Really, believe me.
• LAGINA: Wow.
• MALU: 100%.
  That is built to last
  for the eternity.
  Well, this is spectacular.

NARRATOR:
The Well
of Santa Cristina demonstrates
such incredible masonry skill
that archaeologists struggle
to explain how it was built
by so-called primitive people.
Based on his years of research,
Giorgio believes
that both the stonework
and the well’s connection
to celestial events
may provide important clues
for the theory
that a race of
extraterrestrial giants
once inhabited the island.

TSOUKALOS:
Do you want to touch
with your hand

• the sophistication of the wall?
• LAGINA: Yes.
• Yes.
• We want to go down there.
• Let’s go down…
• Yes, of course. We have to.
  ♪
  MALU: You can touch it
  with your hands.
• LAGINA: Unbelievable.
• TSOUKALOS: This is crazy.
  I mean, look at this.
  It is round.
  It’s a perfect circle.
  You can’t put
  a piece of paper…
  There’s no mortar used
  to put this stuff together.
  I mean…
• MALU: It’s amazing.
• Incredibile è questo.
• LAGINA: Not only is it
  constructed beautifully,
  the foundation is below
  the water table, okay?
  That’s very hard to do.
  I could tell you
  from Oak Island…
• TSOUKALOS: Right?
• …working in the water
• is difficult.
• TSOUKALOS: Yes.
• LAGINA:
  This is spectacular.
  (speaking Italian)
  MALU (translating):
  And this cupola
  is really built
  to observe the Moon
  in its highest light.
  (Zedda speaking Italian)
  MALU (translating):
  Its maximum…
  (speaking Italian)
  I get it.
  (translating):
  …is every 18.6 years.
  The full Moon reflects its light
  in the deep water over there.

NARRATOR:
What Ivana is describing
is a celestial event known as
“The Lunar Standstill,”
the time when the Moon reaches
its highest point
in the night sky
and appears to stay there
for hours
until it finally descends.
But how was
an ancient civilization,
supposedly one
without mathematics
or even a written language,
able to conceive of such
a precise and ingenious method
of tracking such a rare
lunar cycle,
one that likely occurred
no more than once or twice
in an average lifetime?
The question is,
there was no written language.
How was this planned?
(speaks Italian)
(translating): You can…
You can build without any plan.
Even if you are not
an architect, he said.
You’re gonna build your house
without a blueprint?

• No.
• (laughter)
  MALU:
  No.
  Well, clearly, someone
  told the local people
  how to place these stones
  into different areas
  because it was a connection
  to the celestial realm.
  And then, afterwards,
  this became a place of worship.
  The place of worship only begins
  after something
  extraordinary happens,
• not before.
• LAGINA: So you’re surmising
  the technology was given
  to these people.
• The engineering knowledge.
• LAGINA: Yeah.
  Because this screams
  mathematics.
• LAGINA: Yes, it does.
  I will certainly concur
  to this extent:
  someone or some ones had
  extraordinary knowledge here.
• This is not easy to build.
• No.

NARRATOR:
Oak Island