The Eight-Sided Pyramid Mystery (Season 1) ｜ Ancient Aliens

Egypt, 1940. While flying above the Giza Plateau, a British Air Force pilot photographs one of the most amazing features of the Great Pyramid. The structure actually has eight sides instead of four. This baffling phenomenon is only detectable from the air at dawn and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes, when the sun casts shadows on the pyramid that reveal the eight-sided, slightly concaved construction. This is a light show whereby the ancestors who built this knew that something visually spectacular would be seen on these important calendar days. We realized that whoever built this was aware of the solar cycle. And we also know that the person who built it had extraordinary understanding of mathematics. All of these things make it clear that of all pyramids, the Great Pyramid really is in a league of its own. Why is the Great Pyramid's true shape only visible from above at the equinox? And how did ancient man create such an intricate design that is exposed just twice a year and can only be seen from the sky? Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found by examining the unique geographical and architectural characteristics of the towering structure. According to scholars, the Great Pyramid was built on what is considered to be the center of all the landmasses of Earth. The massive structure is almost perfectly aligned to magnetic north. Inside the pyramid, the designers added small shafts aligned towards two specific constellations, Orion and Sirius. The four shafts are not only aligned perfectly on a north-south axis, but one shaft also points directly toward Orion's belt. Mainstream scientists believe shafts like these were simply used as ventilation during construction. But might there be another reason why they align with the stars? They used to call it an air shaft, but the Great Pyramid is known to be a star shaft. It's known to have been oriented to the passage of Orion's belt. And it's thought to have represented the release of the soul back to its origin. There is much to suggest that this correlation is not a coincidence. We know that the ancient Egyptian pyramid builders believed that the king was going to become a star in Orion. The whole concept that the three pyramids at Giza are in a special alignment of Orion's belt is very interesting. The Mayans constructed hundreds of thousands of pyramids throughout Central America. Many of these pyramids may be designed to reflect certain constellations in the sky, like the Orion constellations or others. The old saying is, as above, so below. But why would the pyramid builders design their pyramids to reflect star constellations? Might the reason for specific placement of the pyramids on Earth be something that only the ancients understood? Pyramids in general tend to be very large in scale and can only be truly seen from above. So it's quite possible that the earliest pyramids were made as beacons, as a way for those not of this world to connect with those of this world. Maybe they were moving around the Earth and using these places, not just as sacred places, but in order to know where they were. Well, these pyramids are like geodetic markers, marking power spots around the planet. They really can be seen from the air. They're almost designed from above. I believe that there's a deep mystery with them and we really have to look at it from a different perspective to try and find the answer to that mystery.