What Lies Beneath Easter Island? 

How was such a small number of inhabitants able to erect so many magnificent monuments? They had plenty of time without distractions like the internet.

It was a much larger Island before sea levels rose.

I wish the original name remained. I hate it when explorers just took things and renamed it. I am always proud of people that fight for their independence.

The sizes and number of the moai make me wonder if they weren't supposed to be "defending" or "protecting" the island's inhabitants from giants. I mean, you don't even have to step foot on the island to see them. I think that if this is the case, the makers of the moai wouldn't have to see giants but only to hear of them, maybe from some traveler/ trader who was also told stories of giants who were murderous and/or cannibals. They certainly would outnumber the occupants of most ships and if they were viewed from the water, they could be seen only as silhouettes, figures that look like huge men/warriors, always on guard. Just my wondering.

To me it remains a mystery that we can only speculate on. The fact that several of the statues weighed in around 150 tons I can't believe they were walked into place especially since the trip was downhill and it would take a army to move them. I'm not convinced that we will ever truly know the answers but it is intriguing.

Polinaisan sailors were great explorers and had many great ideas about the world!

Such silliness mixed with some facts

They were members of the Pulotu Empire from Moturiki Fiji who went to Tonga, then to Tuamotu Islands(whose underworld is Turikiriki) then went on to Rapanui(Easter Islands).. Led by a chief called Hotu Matua nd his crew members. They built all those statues and stone walls. That was the mystery of Rapanui revealed..As you can see a few more small islands near Easter islands called Motu Hiva, Motu One nd Motu Iti.. That Hotu Matua had the same mysterious attractive influence as Ratu Paula of Moturiki and earlier Tui Pulotus/ Tui Davetalevus of Moturiki where fish nd marine lives used to draw closer nd present themselves to the king or chief on dryland. That used to happen to Hotu Matua as well where turtles, lobsters nd other marine lives used to present themselves to him on to the dryland of Rapanui. As theres a chief Moai there on the far right with a crown was called the Tongariki (Tonga-riki)..Even the heavenly cellestial for this eastern Pacific islands was called the Sauriki(Sau-riki). Every Sau in Fiji nd the Pacific islands derived from Koya na Sau(Ratu Levu/Lewanavanua l). Who was the eldest son of Tui Waicalanavanua no.1 of Davetalevu Moturiki. They moved those big Moai statues by levitation powers nd skills on dryland and sailed them as well on their big double hulled canoes. Why the names Waqavatu nd Vatuwaqa still existed in Fiji to this day.

None of the statues on planet Earth where made with primitive tools.

Maybe they had an early B. Gates, who told them CO2 is bad, we have to get rid of those damn trees.

I don't think Atlantis is a fairytale. Especially when there are ruins on the ocean floor near the Azores, where Plato said that Atlantis was.

No one will ever know for sure, it will always be a mystery with those monoliths just with Stonehenge in England.

"Why did they do it?!" "Why did they do it?!" Stares at Mount Rushmore. Idk, why did you do it?

You cannot radiocarbon date stone . No one knows when these statues were carved .From the looks of them and how deep they are now buried you cold be looking at hundreds of thousand years or more .

Omua mua .I love this music I used to listen to the music from my bed when I was little .I don't remember how all I was but they always protect me from above .Just SHOW her historical programme s. Love light Perera .Captain Cook

As a Danish person, with the vikings as my forefathers, they were by far, the best and most impressive group of exploring sailors worldwide. They reached the America's 400 years before Columbus. Without knowing if there was any land ahead. The Easter Islands, are extremely interesting, regarding the giant & strange stone structures. I recently saw the statues is almost destroyed by fire or some other human made destruction.

I can see how they walked or maybe sledded the statues, it worked. But if the Pakua or hats,which were of different stone were added later. How did they put them on, some looked to weigh 5 or more tons. Going up 15 to 30 ft. or more would be be rather difficult with 5 or more tons.😊

It is likely that the Nephelim Giants built the Moai!

Rapa Nui. I did a cartoon of the statues, with bubble expressions like "I lost my hat" and "I can't scratch my foot" and "My underpants are wet!" etc. ha ha

Could this be where the mysterious Easter Bunny lives?!?

The builders of the big pyramids might be part of the same civilisation that built these huge and heavy structures across the world - the fallen angels and their giants hybrid children. Giants can lift heavy things.

You can not discover what was already inhabited.

I find it improbable and unlikely the past known people to inhabit this island are the artisans of these huge statues. The engineering involved to quarry refine , move and up right then into place bespeaks a technological ability they did not possess. And if they did, then it would manifest itself in other aspects to be seen. Not simply the statues themselves

Looks like a fantastic place to visit.

Excellent documentary. Enlightening!❤

This is a magical easter comment, like it and you will have some really good news.

My is the shortened version of Lemuria

They were looking at freshwater sources. The bigger the statue and the more statues looking the same way indicated a larger more reliable water source. Knowing where to get fresh water was one of the main concerns for people on an island surrounded by salt water.

Those Moai have bodies with carvings similar to gobekli tepe……….😮

My 6th grade teacher's great-great-great-...-grandfather was Jacob Roggeveen who "discovered" Easter Island.

As a retired metchant sailor, i agree entirely that you have to ASK the LOCAL PEOPLE their story. It has taught me that a LOT of the stuff you see published is just JUNK!😢

The monsters that were created are stories of myth and legend of the past

The Nephlim from the Biblical story is part of the story.

Assuming or theorizing how 20, 30,50 up to 150 ton statues were transported doesn’t answer the question any better then the natives story of the statues walking over by themselves. Supernatural powers being possessed by the islanders ancestors is more probable than a sketch explaining how it might work since at least the islanders were natives . I’ve seen experiments when they tried to move just a couple of ton rock using boards underneath and grease to offset the friction. What’s even more mysterious than how they moved these statues is why would a primitive culture undertake such an impossible feat living such a simple existence. Most seaside cultures around the world have evolved as everyday fishermen to feed their families. Don’t assume the answer is as easy as accepting the best theories without putting the theory to practice.

I recommend reading KON TIKI by Thor Hyrrydal (sp). It's about Easier island

Like TO hear havaian music and Polynesia n dance. Just the way Lanka did.havaian dance Ohana music from Elvis Presley

The Polynesians were the seafarers navigators and they also built their own canoes. As Samoan called them, PAOPAO.

maybe a volcano erupted and burned all the trees and buried the statues' bodies

What an interesting video.

How many people that live in the Easter island now?

Thor hiadals team dug the first full length statue....re film and photos.

Life must have been extremely boring for people to be like Yea I think im gonna carve this huge rock..

By the rest of the story, I doubt if any of those shots were accidentally fired.

What Lies Beneath Easter Island? Easter Eggs!

A lot of things have changed on Earth since those statues were built 15,000 years ago.

Your usage of stock photography screwed this up !

When it was built the ocean was lower, there was a continent there which we only recently rediscovered.

I've always been of the opinion that the way that the statues came to be situated below ground level was because the soil itself on the island might be a lot softer than most other Islands, that one would think of.

If the statues were moved with ropes walking it, the ground would have to be level. Moving them up or down inclines would have to be 30:00 done with the sled version? Of course I am just guessing.😊

All I can think of when I hear Easter Island is that the toes of these guys form Stonehenge.

Eyes are “windows to the soul.” Never heard of them as “mirrors of the soul.”

The videos are much longer, should be between 20-30 minutes. It's my opinion BTW

HOPEFULLY THEY DONT GO FIRING UPON THE ALIENS...

Easter island sculptures were made to scare off people coming to the island, the sailors/travelers thought they were nephilim. Known for barbarian proclivities any sign of a "giant" was terrifying.

Watching this on Easter

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You have some bad science there . Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) stowed away on those canoes, Hunt and Lipo say, and once they landed, with no enemies and lots of palm roots to eat, they went on a binge, eating and destroying tree after tree, and multiplying at a furious rate.

Silly you. Those statues are Interceptor Cannons. Don't you know the Yugioh card?

Pre younger dryas civilizations. Man has only found 25 near complete trex yet there were literally billions of them on earth over time. Finding humanlike predecessors would be near impossible.

Havaian music Elvis Presley did so many films in Havai .BECAUSE of the Polynesia n Elvis Presley became so popular. From above Ebola limelight

A highly eminent scholar has noticed similarities between a giant statue in India and those in Easter Island!

How embarrassing as a Brit that the british museum has a statue! Why?! How were they able to transport it?

Of course they didn’t destroy their forest. It’s more likely rodents that arrived with the first settlers became feral and ate the seeds and new growth. Thus not allowing the forest to make any new trees. This video explains it really well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7j08gxUcBgc.htmlsi=r6UPSC2zBJhmubM-

I’ll let this documentary speak for itself subscribe coming from James Michael Daniels

Moved by The Giants that made them

Underneath they will find a tunnel complex and possibly a pyramid.

Notice the lack of trees that they would have used as wooden rollers archaeologists say the natives cut down all the trees but a more logical answer would be this was a very tall mountain top and it was so high up no trees grew at that elevation

I heard that there is a huge cave under the island which is filled with Easter eggs. It was apparently carved out by an ancient race of bunnies.

They could have been moved on round stones instead of wood. It would have to be able to hold the weight anyway

They don’t walk.. they don’t see.. that would be scary

Shouldn't LiDAR show us what's underneath?

How did that island look like before it was covered with mud? Are there trees buried? Nowadays it looks like a golf course, but who says it looked that way before the flood?

The universe is a big place. Anything is possible.

A small factoid. There is no basalt on the island. So where did the basalt come from for 150 statues made of it?

Crane hiding somewhere 🕵🏻‍♂️😂

It’s RICO, the long lost relative of AOC.

Some maybe cutting down forest and using the ash to supplement the soil for minerals cause mud slides or mud flood that cover half the statues. They likely didn't make coal to mix in the soil to help buffer the soil for moister and minerals. We face similar problems today with use of Glyphosate; it depletes minerals in the soil and in the produce. Evidence of mud floods are common around the world where often the first story of building are buried underground.

They didn't come to it. They were already there. The planet was inundated by a flood that buried the icons. The water has now abated a bit, but this island was once much larger. The people knew the catastrophe was coming, and built the icons to show that they had the foresight. How else do you communicate across time to different cultures?

North America was not *discovered* by some unwanted visitors, that phrase needs to change. Just because I happen to come upon a strawberry bush at my grandparents house does not mean I *discovered* strawberries 😊 and now they only exist, as they once didn’t, before I came along.

Great and informative video

10:25 watch the fruit in front !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dine have stories to this stones humans like thats all I'll say respect and not yet ❤

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I thought the island sits on a volcano. If a major volcano erupted and burned down all the trees, that would explain a lot😊

Now i heard underground civilization

Interesting………🌞

Pre flood ruins !

Maybe they walked there. It’s possible during the peak of the ice age the oceans levels were very low and land was exposed.

All the islands / places at their discovery had already have people living on them, they weren’t inhabited

They knocked over the statues? Definitely wasn't a tsunami that knocked them over and buried them and destroyed their way of life.

At 4 minutes speaking of Atlantis being in the Atlantic Ocean... In the Ancient World it was understood there was One Global Ocean called the Atlantic, there was no reckoning of the Pacific, it was All Atlantic.

40:16 Deforestation, unsustainable use of resources, infighting and war - a warning for the resst of the world !

Or these could be the actual people. Especially if we don’t have graves

Dirt, rocks and ocean that would be my guess 🤗🤠

Mayby each person that was on the Island had a statue after their own immage. Representative of the population before they vanished.

Wish I had the abs these blokes got in the thumb pic

Are we sure that numerous volcanic eruptions didn't cause the trees to burn? Or maybe even a forest fire. You say that there's charcoal everywhere. That doesn't make sense as far as making fires. Especially whespecially when there couldn't have been that many people living there at the time. I'm thinking that we need to search further to find out if there were ancient volcanic eruptions. Or at least possibly. A forest fire, it's not that big.

The natives ran out of resources and started killing each other

It was originally part of the large continent of Mu... after the cataclysm and great flood Mu broke up. Oh now theyre getting to it lol... anyway the islands that are left are actually the tops of the mountains of Mu.

Love the thumbnail 😂