what if i told you that america has its own stonehenge these giant stones suddenly appeared on a hillside outside of all places atlanta in 1980. the man who had the bill remains anonymous as does the monument's true purpose in fact other than their half million dollar price tag almost nothing is known about the stones at all they're composed of 107 tons of solid granite and they have coded messages that are engraved into them in the world's eight most commonly spoken languages these rectangular pillars are also precisely crafted to track astrological and solar cycles there are some that interpret the messages here as a sign of the end of days others theorize that they're a call for genocide on a massive scale whatever their message is i want to know who built them why they're located on a remote hillside in georgia and what they really mean i'm brad meltzer i've spent my life collecting stories the best includes signs symbols and codes secret meanings that are hidden in plain sight some have become the basis for my novels but i've only scratched the surface of what's out there and now history has given me the resources to investigate the rest [Music] this is decoded [Music] what better way to do something mysterious than to have a granite monolith you know rising up in the middle of a field so how long we've been driving from atlanta it's been about two hours oh there it is it's isolated why here in the countryside of rural georgia well if they wanted the middle of nowhere for guide stones they got it [Music] it looks like a little mini stonehenge rising up in the middle of somebody's corn field there's no corn out there i was looking at the stone hedge not the vegetation that's a city boy hey scott be cool somebody's watching us that's a little creepy isn't it who's watching us i don't know it isn't a control room somewhere making sure we don't mess with their monuments see the hieroglyphics up at the top wow look at this there's a whole mac right here buddy goes through the thing you can see right up through this oh that is very cool looks like there's a bunch of different languages i just googled this and and we've got english spanish swahili hindi hebrew arabic chinese and russian they're the eight most common languages in the world seems like to me it seems like a weird new ten commandments is it ten ten that's weird isn't it yeah good catch how and why the guide stones were built has never been answered here's what we do know a man using the alias rc christian shows up at the elberton granite finishing company on a summer day in 1979 and he tells them he wants to build the georgia guidestones now this guy's got money a lot of money the only thing he absolutely demands is that he remained completely anonymous to this day no one has been able to figure out who he is the stones were unveiled during a public ceremony in 1980 they were controversial immediately supporters like yoko ono and come on of course yokono supports him right praise their message as a stirring call to rational thinking but opponents attack them calling them the ten commandments of the antichrist the first nine seem to be a benign call to higher thinking don't be a cancer on the earth seek harmony balance personal rights with social duties avoid petty laws resolve international conflicts in a world court protect people with fair laws rule with reason unite humanity with a new language guide reproduction wisely but it's the final directive on the stones that sets off everyone's spider sense maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature wow that's interesting that's a directive the directive makes some believe that the guidestones are calling for the mass murder of billions of innocent people so buddy mack and scott are meeting with raymond wiley who's researched the stones for many years in fact while he's even written a book about them i might be able to shed some light on the story for you guys what do you want to know who built it well uh we don't know exactly who he was i mean the biggest clue that we have is his pseudonym rc christian which seems to harken back to this guy christian rosencrooms which connects this monument to the idea of the rose cross or the rosicrucian fraternity does this particular design have a purpose yes it's designed primarily for the astrological alignments that the guidestones mark so if you'll notice the stones as they face out this way those are to mark the sun rising at the extreme points of its east or west progress the male slot meant marked as the winter or the summer solstice a shaft cut through the center stone marks polaris any night of the year a slit cut through the top of the capstone will mark perfect noon time throughout the year so you've got a calendar you've got a compass you've got a translator a guide right it's a granite swiss army knife yes some people believe that it's merely a publicity stunt by the granite industry here to try to bring tourism in so yeah it's so much cheaper it just seems like so well thought out for a tourist stunt this to us looks like a modern day ten commandments and everything on there there's nothing to be offended by except that first one that says we need to limit population to 500 million so with six and a half billion people in the world somehow six billion of them have to be eradicated there are people that believe that the georgia guidestones represent the plans of a malthusian new world order that's going to take over the western world yeah i started looking at some of those things and thinking wait that means like an oppressive government is going to start telling me what to do well this is many people's fears and this is a lot of the reason why there's been so much vandalism here on the side many people have called for it to be torn down even from the very beginning if you try to deface this you can go to jail yes if you'll notice the albert county sheriff's department has some surveillance cameras set up we thought the rosicrucians were right keeping an eye on it oh no they've got the satellite for that now i get it yeah [Music] so what do you think of that there's some unsettled business for me one is who was rc christian is there anything to find out about him and is rc christian connected to the rosicrucian order don't you wonder what's running through the mind of a person that conceived of that idea i have to admit i think it's brilliant i think it kind of looks cute and maybe it won't be needed on the off chance that it is needed it saved humanity so you know what though there's so much arrogance in that because the people who are against this thing are going to say well so are you playing god we may be talking about a group of people who are tapped in to a knowledge that modern technology can't get you you know i mean this stuff is like will be around after computers are gone i don't want computers to ever be gone i can't live without my cell phone people think that the freemasons are fascinating let me tell you about the rosicrucians christian rosencrudes is said to have founded the secretive rosicrucian society in germany in the early 15th century but some dispute that the man even lived at all some people say he's not even real some people say he's more than one person to the members of the society rosencruts was a doctor who'd spent a lifetime gathering what he called sacred knowledge he formed the rosicrucians to pass on the learning to make sure that it didn't die with him so at first all the members were doctors each one took an oath to heal the sick without payment to maintain the secrecy of the fellowship and to find the replacement for rosencruz before he died the sacred knowledge is said to include elements of alchemy and just wait for this psychic manipulation modern rosicrucians are believed to have even been able to tap the ultimate power of the human mind some think the sect has evolved and they now seek to protect and guide humanity away from its own destruction others have accused the rosicrucians of being out and out evil to be clear there are offshoots of rosicrucians everywhere their main symbol is this a cross with a white rose at its center they call it a rosy cross the r and the c from words rosie cross undoubtedly represent the founder's last name rosencruz and some believe are a link to the r and the c in the guidestones benefactor pseudonym r c christian interestingly enough if you look at the georgia guidestones from above they do form what appears to be a rosy cross journalist van smith claims to have proof of the rosicrucian's evil deeds so buddy mack and scott are now on their way to meet with him the georgia guidestones contain hard evidence that humanity is currently under a very dire threat from a small cabal of cultists now the georgia guidestones were built explicitly to survive an apocalypse i believe that this apocalypse is going to be man-made the most controversial commandment of all on the guidestones is the statement to restrict global population to 500 million people that would mean 6. 5 billion of us roughly would have to go it's going to occur probably within the next few years the guide stones themselves don't look like they're espousing evil pretty innocuous what it really is is humanity's tombstone and if you really want hard evidence that the rosicrucians can be evil look at robert kennedy's assassin sir han sirhan the rosicrucians have been accused of practicing something called assumption the psychic ability to take over the minds of other people and astral projection astral projection the ability to project your soul outward to distant areas and even move things with their minds psychokinesis if anyone was under mind-controlled sirhan sirhan was if you read his diary it is extremely chilling this man was rambling and incoherent for months leading into the assassination of bobby kennedy it looks like his mind was completely taken over and he had no control over his actions okay no offense to van here but i've got to disagree sure sir han sirhan was technically a rosicrucian but he became one by mail order mail order i can be a bride by mail order so that doesn't count to me and it doesn't seem as if sarhan represented anybody or anything but himself look at the historical record during sirhan's trial five different mental health experts all testified that this guy was a paranoid schizophrenic and the idea that the rosicrucians were somehow controlling his mind mentally manipulating him to shoot senator kennedy that's just preposterous to me i see this dark cloud looming over all of humanity just on the horizon and the evidence that i have uncovered in the georgia guidestones is so serious that if i had the time and resources i would devote my life to uncover these bastards you're really scared yes the next she was going to fall any day now sirhan sirhan's a rosicrucian okay that's one rosicrucian to represent the whole that's problematic i don't think for a minute that sirhan surhan was under some sort of mind control which is basically what we were just told well the point is some of these groups the rosicrucians the illuminati the freemasons were interested in esoteric knowledge that that's given so this kind of stuff is they were thinking about it okay buddy seems pretty intrigued by the idea of all things mind control you know my mom used to say about mind control but he's been reading a book written by the rosicrucians about how to unleash the power of his mind so if we're serious about finding out what the rosicrucians really stand for sure i'll play along let's test the power of mind control because you have no idea where the truth might be unless you look for it you know what's weird though i'm looking at this some of these titles and the chapters this is the mystics developing your psychic powers i think this is the stuff the rosacea christians believe well he was saying that this is some of the stuff they really work to augment in their lives so check this out there are a couple exercises to increase your psychic ability i'm going to be practicing these because i actually want to work on my psychic powers this one multiply two two digit numbers in your head like 24 times 67 the mental focus it takes to get the correct answer increases your psychic ability 24 times they said you just go well the engineer can do that right yeah you just go 20 times 60.
so you get 1200 and then you take seven times that's really hard actually yeah here's how i increase my psyche so the georgia guidestones may have been built by a secret society known as the rosicrucians the big question though is why some say the rosacea christians are evil and that they're planning to murder billions of people so they can somehow maintain the world population of 500 million i do not believe for one second that's true just use common logic but the question remains what's the rosicrucian's real agenda here on a remote hillside in georgia a giant set of stones are said to be the key to the future of humanity others argue however that the stones are no less than a call to genocide on a massive scale [Music] hey brad how's everybody doing how goes the adventure it's getting interesting i have someone i think you should go speak to okay the person says it's reverend benner and uh she is a rose crucian and this is your chance to ask the rosacrucian right to her face this is your chance to get your answer you're going to meet her actually in all places i thought it would be great at the albertson church hello hello we want to learn more about rosicrucianism and we understand that you are a rosicrucian is that correct not exactly if anybody comes up to you and says i'm a rosicrucian the one thing you know is that they're not what we usually say is that we're students of the philosophy so what exactly is the rosicrucian philosophy before the roman church took over and decided that jesus was a god who had become man they actually were teaching and believing that jesus was a man who became god and the repercussions of that are huge because if jesus is a god who became man then there's really nothing for us to do but worship him because he's unique if he is a man who became god then we truly can follow him we truly can do as he did and greater things as he said we should jesus was one of those absolutely and they were he was probably the highest initiate we've ever had on this planet then he's a template rather than just something to be worshipped right when we say we're going to worship him you know all we have to do is believe and we're we're fine right we don't have to evolve into we believe that faith without works is dead and if you read in revelation it says you shall be judged by your works never once says you'll be judged by your faith first we're told that rosicrucians are evil and now we're being told that jesus was a rosicrucian i don't know if it's true but it certainly makes me look at rosicrucians in a different way so what are the origins of the secrecy in rosicrucianism well because the church was you know condemning to death anybody who didn't agree with them because that sounds what to them sacrilegious if you have the capability of of connecting with the divine within yourself you don't need the pope you don't need the church you become self-sufficient when it comes to religious teachings and the roman church wasn't about to let go of that so it really just drove it underground one of the reasons we're here is to learn as much as we can about the guide stones and we wondered were they built by rosicrucians it's possible it's probably more likely that it's an individual remember this is a very individual thing so it could be somebody reading rosicrucian manuscripts and practicing on their own i kept finding myself asking the question who is going to impose this right and if it's going to be imposed by somebody that goes way against our tradition of of uh individual liberty there are people that have a different view towards rose egruthism than the one you've just given us they believe that they practice mind control and can control people do you have any feelings about that basically we do talk about the power of the mind we teach as you believe so shall it be unto you but as far as using it to control other people that would be totally against our beliefs was sir han sirhan a rosicrucian we heard you heard that not to my knowledge if he did he certainly went astray didn't he absolutely if he was a christian he was a terrible one yeah okay does that look like a woman who wants to murder six billion people to you just about as threatening as mr rogers as usual when you actually go to speak to someone as opposed to believing what you read on the internet they're rarely the boogeyman they're accused of being the rose of christians seem to be more about helping people than killing them but do i agree with everything that reverend betty benner said of course not but i can tell you one thing the modern rosicrucians don't seem to be mass murderous to me but i'm still confused as to why they're so secretive does it mean there's another message we don't know about interestingly one documentary filmmaker who's been studying them for decades says the rosicrucians built the guide stones for the good of humanity to actually warn us and scott's going right now to find out where this theory is coming from so are the rosicrucians looking to mass murder six billion people absolutely not they'd have knowledge of a periodic solar catastrophe and they know that there's going to be a great loss of life that there is a solar cycle that lasts 11 to 13 000 years when the sun goes through a magnetic reversal and begins emitting gigantic solar flares which bake the earth and we know this is true because we're giant forest fires in north america 13 000 years ago the great extinctions happened about 12 to 13 000 years ago and so they built the georgia guidestone for what purpose why would they do that they're trying to set forth some rules so that the people who survive this coming catastrophe can remake the world in a better way people then think that the rose accretions are an evil satanic group that's trying to destroy the world instead of just trying to warn us so according to jay weidner the sacred knowledge that the rose of christians knew was that every 13 000 years the sun shoots gigantic solar flares of the earth and that these flares have the potential to drastically alter the physical makeup of our planet he says they built the guide stones to warn us of this pending tragedy wedner believes they're also meant as a guide to allow those who survive to rebuild civilization as we know it again this is theoretically part of the rosicrucian sacred knowledge that they want to pass on and yes it sounds a bit wacky to me too but here's what's scary a recent study by archaeologists from universities in the u. s found that yes 13 000 years ago a cataclysmic event wiped out most of humanity in north america but it wasn't solar flares according to the study it was a swarm of comets that rained down and obliterated everything they're really concerned and the world is in danger and it sounds like this is what they believe why don't they just come out and say it you know have a news conference and say here's what's coming get prepared hey you wouldn't believe them b all the conspiracy theorists would say they're just trying to scare us the other thing though is what nasa is beginning to find this periodic solar cycle is true and then in 2012 the part of the sun that emits the largest solar flares is going to be pointed straight at the earth like the barrel of a shotgun wow here's where i start laying in bed at night staring at the ceiling terrified to think that all this might actually happen is more than a little scary but what's worse is this nasa released a report earlier this year warning of a major solar flare increase in 2012 and that doesn't even include what the mayan calendar predicts trust me i don't like relying on prophecies either but maybe the rosicrucians and their secret society know something that we don't the rose of christians are a secret society that was formed to gather ancient knowledge from around the world and one of their predictions tells of great physical change coming to the planet as a result the group built a giant permanent guide on a hilltop in georgia for how humanity can rebuild the earth the group believes that these events might be triggered by solar flares of all things which are due to hit the earth in 2012. on top of that nasa recently predicted that the earth would see an increase in solar flare activity in 2012 tick tock tick tock buddy and mac are headed to find out just how precise these predictions are and what increased solar activity really means [Music] basically a solar flare is a magnetic storm on the sun it's amazing it looks explosive and big they are explosive events that's right so what's the concern i read briefly about some kind of report by nasa that there's some worry about these there's this phenomenon called coronal mass ejections you get a huge lump of charged particles in this big plasma blob and when those guys impact the earth they can disrupt communications and cause damage to the power grid so charged particles are coming at us what are they what do they do to us to us personally nothing is because the earth's magnetic field protects us but they would shut down our electricity our cell phones okay for that you need a catastrophic coronal mass ejection but once every 500 to a thousand years you could get a catastrophic event which might cause a lot of damage to the power grid i don't think it'll be the end of civilization i think i think that's unduly alarmist so what would these uh coronal ejections look like if you were seeing them from earth a giant ball of gas well you wouldn't see it charged particles don't emit light because they travel in the near vacuum of space like that and there's no way to predict them no the sun is a cycle of activity we are heading towards the normal solar maximum it comes on average every 11 years but it can be as short as seven or as long as 17 if it comes on schedule be around 2012 2013.
heard that number a lot what keeps you up at night if i were to worry about things that i can't control okay the thing that i would really worry about is an asteroid that could come with very little notice there'd be almost nothing we could do about it and if it was one of the big ones no that's the end of civilization as we know it now a scientist is saying that it's impossible that a huge asteroid will hit the earth that's when i usually yell bruce willis save us the thing is it might be thousands or even millions of years in the future when this accident happens but it might be sooner bruce willis save us so you don't think just sending ben affleck and bruce willis up there is enough well that would be a good idea but not to save civilization oh man that's brutal okay what we really need to do now is uncover the true identity of rc christian who was this guy when he arrived in elberton back in 1979 everyone said that only two people met with him one was the owner of the granite company and he died the other was a local banker wyatt martin who handled rc christian's money the thing is martin took an oath to take r.
