NARRATOR: In recent years, a growing number

of ancient astronaut theorists have suggested that not only

did extraterrestrials influence our ancestors

as to the precise positioning of important structures,

but they did so in a way that was

designed to tap into the Earth's natural energy.

And there are various places around our planet

that are said to be power places,

places of vortex energy.

And they are all connected to this worldwide energy grid

that surrounds our planet and that these places are

areas where energy lines cross.

It might be that extraterrestrials

are also tapping into this worldwide energy grid.

NARRATOR: Curiously, at many mysterious sites

worldwide, researchers have noted yet

another peculiar connection.

Many early depictions of the so-called gods

have been immortalized carrying what appears

to be a type of handbag.

DAVID CHILDRESS: These mysterious handbags

are held by the Sumerian gods.

We find it in Mexico with the Olmecs.

We find it in Mongolia as well.

We find it in Colombia.

It may be some type of misunderstood technology.

Perhaps it was some type of a tool bag

or some type of maybe a breathing apparatus

for extraterrestrials, because it doesn't

look like a fashion item.

It looks more like a transmitter,

an old cell phone, a computer.

If you'll look at our astronauts,

as they are walking from the launch tower

into the spacecraft, they carry a suitcase system.

That's their temporary life support system.

It's very possible that this is something similar.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have also

noted that there appears to be a common narrative

thread amongst the cultures where

the depictions are present.

As we begin to trace this handbag symbol,

we see it appears at Gobekli Tepe,

where there's this sudden spike in civilization.

It reappears in Sumeria, where we suddenly have

this infusion of knowledge.

Same thing virtually every place this handbag appears,

we find this sudden spike or infusion of new knowledge.

There are tales in ancient Mesopotamia of a figure thought

of as the bringer of civilization sometimes called

Adapa or Dagon or Oannes, sometimes described

as fish-tailed or bird-headed.

And this character is carrying a bag.

And in that bag, all of the learning, all of the sciences,

all of the imagination that humanity will ever need.

There is a theory that they had the ability

to levitate through energy that might have

been given to us by an alien.

I mean, it's a science fiction concept.

But we don't know for sure, although we know

that the Aztecs and the Egyptians

and the people that came before them did have some technology.

We don't even know how much technology they might have had.

That's why von Daniken's theory is possible.