1 00:00:00,552 --> 00:00:10,548 This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. 2 00:00:10,548 --> 00:00:20,543 The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones to the mysteries we will examine. 3 00:00:21,543 --> 00:00:33,537 On a mysterious pinpoint in the Pacific Ocean called Easter Island, a gathering of stone giants guards the shore. 4 00:00:33,537 --> 00:00:41,534 No one knows who carved them, why they exist, or how the 50 ton monsters were put into place. 5 00:00:41,534 --> 00:00:47,531 Yet they're here, unexplainable gargantuan pieces in affling mystery. 6 00:00:51,529 --> 00:01:01,525 In the jungles of Central America, colossal stone heads were discovered 80 miles from where they were originally carved. 7 00:01:01,525 --> 00:01:12,520 Weighing 100 tons, there is no clue as to how they were transported through dense swamp, nor do we know who moved them to this remote jungle. 8 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:21,516 Long before the Egyptians built the pyramids, someone constructed a vast stone city atop a peak in the Andes. 9 00:01:21,516 --> 00:01:33,511 The ruins stand empty and silent. Each carving is a disconnected figure from the past, yet some common origin might join them together. 10 00:01:34,510 --> 00:01:43,506 The earth itself bears the portraits of still other giants, scratched onto a plateau in California 10,000 years ago. 11 00:01:46,505 --> 00:01:53,502 Others were esched with precision into an English hillside, long before the building of Stonehenge. 12 00:01:54,502 --> 00:02:00,499 The tools to carve and move the giants indicate an advanced technology. 13 00:02:00,499 --> 00:02:09,495 There is a place where the knowledge and skills to create the giants may be found, the Kingdom of Atlantis. 14 00:02:09,495 --> 00:02:15,492 Never before have explorers been so close to finding Atlantis. 15 00:02:16,492 --> 00:02:28,487 Never have we possessed as many clues, nor have we been able to bring the detection equipment of modern science to the search, until now. 16 00:02:28,487 --> 00:02:39,482 There occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea. 17 00:02:39,482 --> 00:02:44,479 So wrote the Greek philosopher Plato in the year 421 BC. 18 00:02:44,479 --> 00:02:53,475 Since then, adventurers obsessed by the tale of the ancient and ancient gods of the world have been able to find Atlantis. 19 00:02:53,475 --> 00:03:00,472 Atlantis was said to have been a great city-state ruled by a race of men supposedly descended from the gods. 20 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:09,468 Was it a real city, a wondrous land, or a myth, a tale created by someone's wild imagination? 21 00:03:09,468 --> 00:03:14,466 If Atlantis was a real city, it would be a great city-state. 22 00:03:14,466 --> 00:03:22,463 Was it a real city, a wondrous land, or a myth, a tale created by someone's wild imagination? 23 00:03:22,463 --> 00:03:29,460 If Atlantis existed, it would have been a place where technology was far more advanced than anywhere else on Earth. 24 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:38,456 To discover such a city, we may use as clues descriptions that can be found in the writings of the great Greek philosopher Plato. 25 00:03:38,456 --> 00:03:48,451 At first, a small Greek island in the Aegean seemed an unlikely place to start the search, for Plato had written of a great and wonderful empire. 26 00:03:48,451 --> 00:03:54,449 They had conquered almost all of Africa, he reported, and more than half of Europe. 27 00:03:54,449 --> 00:04:00,446 Such a kingdom hardly fits the image of a tiny island like Santorini. 28 00:04:00,446 --> 00:04:09,442 In 1966, however, the remains of an ancient building would dug from beneath 250 feet of ash in lava. 29 00:04:09,442 --> 00:04:14,440 Its broken walls signaled the first discovery of a great city. 30 00:04:23,436 --> 00:04:28,433 Today, only small villages cling to the Santorini mountain sides. 31 00:04:28,433 --> 00:04:33,431 But the island was once a large, circular landmass. 32 00:04:33,431 --> 00:04:41,428 3,500 years ago, it was shattered by an incredible volcanic explosion. 33 00:04:41,428 --> 00:04:50,424 All the remains is a thin crescent of mountain and a sullen, smoldering volcano that erupts at least twice a century. 34 00:04:50,424 --> 00:04:58,420 The volcano that destroyed the island Plato knew as Thera may also have hidden all evidence of Atlantis. 35 00:04:58,420 --> 00:05:05,417 In many ways, the ruins are like those found elsewhere in the Aegean, reminiscent of the Minoan civilization. 36 00:05:05,417 --> 00:05:13,414 Then, reading Plato and viewing the broken walls and shattered pots, a sudden chilling discovery is made. 37 00:05:13,414 --> 00:05:21,410 These ruins fit Plato's description of Atlantis with an uncanny accuracy. 38 00:05:21,410 --> 00:05:33,405 They constructed buildings about them and planted suitable trees, wrote Plato. 39 00:05:33,405 --> 00:05:44,400 Whatever fragrant things there now are in the earth or woods, or essences which distill from fruit and flower, grew and thrived in that land. 40 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:54,395 They had such an amount of wealth as was never possessed by kings and potentates and is not likely ever to be again. 41 00:05:55,395 --> 00:06:07,390 The entire area was densely crowded and kept up a multitudinous sound of human voices of din and clatter of all sorts, night and day. 42 00:06:07,390 --> 00:06:16,386 There were the king's baths and there were separate baths for women, and to each of them they gave as much adornment as possible. 43 00:06:16,386 --> 00:06:27,381 There were many temples built and dedicated to the gods, also gardens and places of exercise. 44 00:06:27,381 --> 00:06:33,378 Plato tells us the citizens of Atlantis were skilled engineers, astronomers and architects. 45 00:06:33,378 --> 00:06:45,373 He describes buildings and tools, and time after time we see in the ruins of Santorini the almost eye-witness accuracy of his account. 46 00:06:45,373 --> 00:06:50,371 The clockwork gears fished from the Aegean Sea are part of an ancient computer. 47 00:06:50,371 --> 00:06:58,367 It was used to plot the course of the planets and stars across the skies of Greece. 48 00:06:58,367 --> 00:07:06,364 The first modern computer was built in 1930, yet these gears were fashioned 2,000 years earlier. 49 00:07:06,364 --> 00:07:14,360 Based on a highly advanced understanding of physics, mathematics and astronomy, there's nothing else like it in classical Greek technology. 50 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:25,355 But it may have derived its origin from Plato's Atlantis. 51 00:07:25,355 --> 00:07:33,352 The ruins on Santorini match Plato's description, but one piece of the puzzle refuses to fall into place. 52 00:07:33,352 --> 00:07:46,346 Despite the opinion of some experts that here indeed are the remains of Atlantis, Plato himself seems to suggest it lies elsewhere. 53 00:07:46,346 --> 00:07:50,344 We must search, he tells us, beyond the Pillars of Hercules. 54 00:07:50,344 --> 00:07:54,342 The Pillars of Hercules are today known as the Rock of Gibraltar. 55 00:07:54,342 --> 00:08:01,339 Therefore, Santorini, an island in the Aegean east of Gibraltar, could not be Atlantis. 56 00:08:01,339 --> 00:08:07,337 It must lie to the west in the Atlantic Ocean. 57 00:08:07,337 --> 00:08:17,332 In a moment we shall continue our search for Atlantis beneath the oceans thousands of miles from Plato's ancient Greece. 58 00:08:17,332 --> 00:08:21,330 The geography of the earth is not constant. 59 00:08:21,330 --> 00:08:24,329 Dry land was once covered by ocean. 60 00:08:24,329 --> 00:08:28,327 What is now seabed was once mountain and forest. 61 00:08:28,327 --> 00:08:39,322 The Atlantic Ocean that now separates the Americas from Europe and Africa is so familiar, it's hard to imagine a time when it was not always there. 62 00:08:39,322 --> 00:08:48,318 But once a great land mass stretched over what is now the Atlantic Ocean, bridging the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. 63 00:08:48,318 --> 00:08:55,315 Beneath the surface of both of those seas are the broken remains of ancient cities. 64 00:08:55,315 --> 00:09:02,312 They may represent the eastern and western ports of Atlantis. 65 00:09:02,312 --> 00:09:12,308 The search for the eastern border of Atlantis begins just beyond Gibraltar in the Spanish city of Cadiz. 66 00:09:12,308 --> 00:09:17,306 Once a Phoenician port, Cadiz is among the oldest cities in Europe. 67 00:09:17,306 --> 00:09:30,300 Here Dr. Maxine Asher of the Ancient Mediterranean Research Association met Spanish diver Francisco Salazar Casero. 68 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:39,296 Two and a half miles offshore and 95 feet deep on the continental shelf, Casero found an ancient amphora. 69 00:09:39,296 --> 00:09:51,291 It had lain among the ruins of a city, older he said, than any of the Greek and Phoenician remains in the area. 70 00:09:51,291 --> 00:09:56,288 And here the mystery of Atlantis is complicated by the modern world. 71 00:09:56,288 --> 00:10:02,286 According to Dr. Asher, the Spanish government revoked their permission to dive at the site. 72 00:10:02,286 --> 00:10:09,283 Spanish politics, she says, have prevented further underwater exploration of Cadiz. 73 00:10:09,283 --> 00:10:14,280 Although halted, the Asher expedition produced a significant find. 74 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:26,275 It indicates that the east coast of Atlantis might have been precisely where Plato had placed it, as he said, beyond the pillars of Hercules. 75 00:10:26,275 --> 00:10:39,269 There is other evidence to support Plato's description of an island that was greater than Africa and Asia together. 76 00:10:39,269 --> 00:10:50,265 Ancient maps have led geographers to explore the possibility that the Antarctic slowly drifted south in the wake of a massive upheaval. 77 00:10:50,265 --> 00:10:58,261 Whatever the reason, we know that once it was part of a much larger land mass. 78 00:10:58,261 --> 00:11:05,258 The western edge of that land may lie here, beneath the crystal waters of the Caribbean. 79 00:11:05,258 --> 00:11:15,253 The actual discovery, however, is no more astonishing than the man who predicted its very existence. 80 00:11:15,253 --> 00:11:25,249 These strange blocks were first seen in a vision by the most remarkable mystic of all time, Edgar Cayce. 81 00:11:25,249 --> 00:11:29,247 Edgar Cayce was known as the sleeping prophet. 82 00:11:29,247 --> 00:11:38,243 Hundreds of astonishingly accurate predictions are catalogued in the archives of the foundation which bears his name. 83 00:11:38,243 --> 00:11:44,241 In 1939, Edgar Cayce predicted the end of World War II and his own death. 84 00:11:44,241 --> 00:11:49,238 Both events, he said, would take place in 1945. He was right. 85 00:11:49,238 --> 00:11:58,234 He foresaw the freedom of India from England, the death of John Kennedy, and a number of geological changes that are still to take place. 86 00:11:58,234 --> 00:12:04,232 Edgar Cayce's most remarkable prophecy, however, concerns a lost kingdom. 87 00:12:04,232 --> 00:12:12,228 Geological upheavals, he said, would bring about the rediscovery of Atlantis. 88 00:12:12,228 --> 00:12:18,226 Cayce saw Atlantis breaking up into five islands, the largest he called Poseidia. 89 00:12:18,226 --> 00:12:27,222 And Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again, expected in 68 or 69. 90 00:12:27,222 --> 00:12:31,220 That prediction was made in 1940. 91 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:40,216 In 1967, a pilot flying over the Bahamas slid at a rectangular structure beneath the crystal clear waters. 92 00:12:40,216 --> 00:12:54,210 It was precisely where Cayce had said Atlantis would be, under the slime of ages of seawater, near what is known as Bimini, off the coast of Florida. 93 00:12:54,210 --> 00:13:04,205 And here they lie, huge white blocks chiseled with incredible precision and covering a large area of ocean bottom. 94 00:13:04,205 --> 00:13:14,201 No one knows how they got here 35 feet beneath the sea off the coast of Bimini, but here they are found. 95 00:13:14,201 --> 00:13:17,200 Two possible explanations exist. 96 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,197 One, the stones are the remains of a network of paved roads. 97 00:13:22,197 --> 00:13:29,194 Two, they are the tops of huge stone walls that once enclosed the palaces of Atlantis. 98 00:13:35,192 --> 00:13:43,188 Author Peter Tompkins filmed the work of an expedition that hoped to locate Atlantis using clues from Cayce's writings. 99 00:13:43,188 --> 00:13:54,183 A board were Count Pinot Tirola, an Italian archaeologist, underwater explorer Dmitry Revikov, and archaeologist Dr. David Zink. 100 00:13:54,183 --> 00:14:00,180 This expedition was to produce one of the most startling finds ever made in the search for Atlantis. 101 00:14:04,179 --> 00:14:09,177 Beyond the giant blocks, the divers discovered the remains of several ships. 102 00:14:09,177 --> 00:14:12,175 One had gone down in the year 1830. 103 00:14:12,175 --> 00:14:20,172 Beneath it lay the fragments of still another ship, one that had sailed the seas more than 3,000 years ago. 104 00:14:20,172 --> 00:14:29,168 Not a ship of Atlantis certainly, but according to Yale's Dr. J. Manson Ballantine, a voyager from Phoenicia. 105 00:14:29,168 --> 00:14:33,166 The Phoenicians were the greatest sea traders of ancient times. 106 00:14:33,166 --> 00:14:37,164 Their ships called at every port in the known world. 107 00:14:37,164 --> 00:14:48,159 Could it be that Phoenician traders came more than 5,000 miles from the site of classical Mediterranean civilization to deal with a rich and fabled kingdom? 108 00:14:49,159 --> 00:15:08,150 The question posed by the wrecks and the blocks of the Bimini Wall remained unanswered as the expedition continued to explore the waters off Bimini. 109 00:15:08,150 --> 00:15:17,146 South of the wall, Pinot Tirola, a leading underwater explorer, discovered four marble columns. 110 00:15:17,146 --> 00:15:21,145 At first it was thought they were bits of ballast from a wrecked ship. 111 00:15:21,145 --> 00:15:27,142 After days of diving and investigation, Tirola developed a different theory. 112 00:15:27,142 --> 00:15:36,138 He believes that the columns could be 12,000 years old, actual relics of a center constructed in stone and marble. 113 00:15:36,138 --> 00:15:38,137 There are more tests to be made. 114 00:15:38,137 --> 00:15:47,133 Geologic dating of these and the expedition's other finds could confirm the explorer's theory that here is Atlantis. 115 00:15:47,133 --> 00:15:50,132 Here is the fabled world. 116 00:15:57,129 --> 00:16:00,127 Here ships may have visited a crowded port. 117 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:08,124 Here, marketplaces may have been filled with the multitudinous sound of human voices that Plato told us about. 118 00:16:08,124 --> 00:16:12,122 The din and clatter of all sorts, night and day. 119 00:16:12,122 --> 00:16:36,112 The broken columns may be all the remains of an entire civilization blasted apart by an incredible explosion. 120 00:16:43,108 --> 00:16:53,104 At every one of the sites we have investigated, there are artifacts of a remarkable civilization. 121 00:16:53,104 --> 00:16:59,101 But nowhere can we find the remains of the people who once lived in Atlantis. 122 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:07,098 Plato may have explained that when he said the people of Atlantis were warned of impending disaster and they fled. 123 00:17:08,097 --> 00:17:12,096 No one has ever investigated this aspect of Plato's account. 124 00:17:12,096 --> 00:17:22,091 But if it is correct, the clues to where the Atlanteans went next may be contained in the giant megaliths that guard the lonely outposts of the world. 125 00:17:23,091 --> 00:17:29,088 At Easter Island, atop the Andes at Tiawanaco. 126 00:17:30,088 --> 00:17:37,085 In the jungles of Central America at La Venta, we can find the final clues to the mystery. 127 00:17:37,085 --> 00:17:48,080 These monoliths may tell us where the refugees, the engineers, astronomers and architects fled, carrying the technology and culture of Atlantis. 128 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:56,076 If so, we can begin to understand why the great cultures of the past bear such striking similarities. 129 00:17:57,076 --> 00:18:04,073 Egypt, one of the greatest of ancient civilizations, is symbolized by its pyramids. 130 00:18:05,072 --> 00:18:10,070 So too does the pyramid mark the ruins of this highly advanced Mayan society. 131 00:18:13,069 --> 00:18:15,068 There are other similarities. 132 00:18:15,068 --> 00:18:20,066 The Egyptian temple of Amenra at Karnak is aligned with the sun. 133 00:18:20,066 --> 00:18:31,061 Only at the time of the summer solstice, the sun strikes the central chamber of the temple, known to the ancient Egyptians as the high room of the sun. 134 00:18:34,059 --> 00:18:41,056 8,000 miles away, in the remote peaks of the Andes, the Inca marked the seasonal solstices with this monument. 135 00:18:41,056 --> 00:18:48,053 Using almost the same words as the Egyptians, they called it the hitching post of the sun. 136 00:18:51,052 --> 00:19:02,047 Perhaps the most remarkable record of the exodus from Atlantis is preserved in the 1500-year-old pottery of a Peruvian tribe called the Mochica. 137 00:19:02,047 --> 00:19:15,041 In their vases and utensils, they depicted Orientals and Negroes, Arabs, Indians, Egyptians and Greeks, people who might have been known to each other in Atlantis. 138 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:25,037 In the stones and bones of the past, we've made a startling discovery. 139 00:19:25,037 --> 00:19:30,035 There is a common origin for many widely dispersed ancient civilizations. 140 00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:37,031 In the tombs of Peru, we see similarities with other cultures, with the Mayans, with the Egyptians. 141 00:19:37,031 --> 00:19:45,028 In the development of mathematics and astronomy, we see links that may reach back to a common origin in Atlantis. 142 00:19:45,028 --> 00:19:50,026 And most startling of all is the shared belief in eternal life. 143 00:19:54,024 --> 00:20:04,020 In fragrant linen, buried amidst the treasures of their world, they seek the hereafter, guided by their ancestral traditions. 144 00:20:05,019 --> 00:20:08,018 Perhaps their ancestors were the people of Atlantis. 145 00:20:09,017 --> 00:20:16,014 We have attempted to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of history that has been scattered by disaster. 146 00:20:16,014 --> 00:20:23,011 In so doing, we've found what may be the only remaining traces of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. 147 00:20:23,011 --> 00:20:31,008 Of one thing we can be certain, the memory of Atlantis is no myth. It is history. 148 00:20:32,007 --> 00:20:38,004 The tale of Atlantis was first told by the priests of Egypt to a Greek poet named Solon. 149 00:20:38,004 --> 00:20:43,002 They assured him that the original archive containing the tale of Atlantis still existed. 150 00:20:43,002 --> 00:20:46,001 That was 3,000 years ago. 151 00:20:46,001 --> 00:20:52,998 In one of his last prophecies, Edgar Cayce said that the archives of Atlantis would one day be revealed in Egypt. 152 00:20:53,997 --> 00:20:58,995 Soon, a new expedition will begin the re-exploration of the pyramids of Egypt, 153 00:20:58,995 --> 00:21:04,993 searching among the hieroglyphs and tomb paintings for the absolute proof that once, 154 00:21:04,993 --> 00:21:10,990 back before the beginnings of history, a marvelously advanced civilization of human beings 155 00:21:10,990 --> 00:21:16,987 once ruled the earth from an island continent called Atlantis. 156 00:21:17,987 --> 00:21:21,985 Coming up next on FBI, The Untold Stories, 157 00:21:21,985 --> 00:21:26,983 an extortionist plants an 1100 pound bomb in an avalanche of a giant giant. 158 00:21:26,983 --> 00:21:31,981 The bomb is a bomb that is used to destroy the entire planet. 159 00:21:31,981 --> 00:21:36,978 The bomb is a bomb that is used to destroy the entire planet. 160 00:21:36,978 --> 00:21:41,976 The bomb is a bomb that is used to destroy the entire planet. 161 00:21:41,976 --> 00:21:47,974 The Untold Stories, an extortionist plants an 1100 pound bomb in an avalanche of a giant. 162 00:21:47,974 --> 00:21:52,971 Then history's crimes and trials brings you the story of one of England's most famous cases 163 00:21:52,971 --> 00:21:57,969 and what could have been the perfect crime the Bambur family murders.