Perhaps a good place to start would be with the Gate of the Gods. Carved into the rock of Hayu Marca Mountain in the Andes Mountains of Peru near Lake Titicaca, the Aramu Muru – or Puerta de Hayu Marca, The Gate of the Gods – is one of the most intriguing and mysterious archaeological sites in South America. The mountain itself is believed to have been a place of worship or other importance to the Inca civilization, and so Aramu Muru is thought by many to have also been of great importance to them. We should note that some researchers have questioned whether the Incas created the Gate of the Gods, or whether it was created much earlier by an unknown civilization and then simply “used” by the Incas.

The Gate of the Gods was discovered in 1996 by Jose Luis Delgado Mamani, who stumbled upon the archaeological marvel while attempting to learn the area's layout, anticipating a new job as a tour guide. In a further strange twist, Mamani even stated that he had a peculiar recurring dream about this enigmatic location in the years leading up to its discovery. In this dream, Mamani would find himself on a pink marble pathway that led him to a large doorway in the rock. However, upon arriving at this doorway, he would see a second, smaller door open with a “brilliant blue light coming from what looked like a shimmering tunnel”.

In reality, this “doorway” is two separate T-shaped doorways carved into the rock of the mountain, with the larger one being 23 feet high and 23 feet across at its widest point, while the other, smaller door is just short of 7 feet high and across. According to legends of the region, the larger doorway was once used by the gods themselves to come and go from this world to their own realm of existence, while the smaller doorway was for “mortals” to pass through, although only very select mortals, with those who crossed then becoming immortal.

We might question whether this reference to “Immortality” is one that we should take at face value or not. Is it referring to the passing of a person into another dimension, a realm where they will truly exist forever? Or might the reference be to a person passing into the afterlife—essentially, the “soul” passing into the realm of the dead? And if the latter is true, might we consider that the site was some kind of funerary location?

One particularly interesting legend about the doorway, however, comes from the sixteenth century when Spanish explorers arrived in the region. As they made their way inland – looting Incan gold and riches as they did so – an Incan priest named Amaru Muru decided to flee his temple, taking with him a mysterious golden disk – The Key of the Gods of the Seven Rays.

Muru made his way to the Gate of the Gods, finding a Shaman priest guarding the entrance. He presented the golden disc to the priest, who then proceeded to perform a ritual with it before inserting it against the rocky wall beside the doorway. Upon doing so, the smaller doorway opened. According to the legend, a tunnel of shimmering blue light stretched beyond this doorway, and Amaru Muru then stepped inside, never to be seen again.

What is further interesting about this legend is that when archaeologists and investigators examined the Gate of the Gods following its discovery, they located a small, round indentation on the right side of the smaller doorway. Even more remarkable, the impressions were such that if a metallic disc like that described in the legend of Amaru Muru was placed in this indentation, it would almost certainly be held in place there, almost as if this indentation had been purposely made.

It is also worth mentioning another Incan ruin across the border with Peru that some have put forward could be another portal to the land of the gods – the Gate of the Sun in Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. This gate is shaped as a square arch and made from a single piece of stone, and it shows not only remarkable workmanship but also intriguing depictions of strange beams of light that could very well be interpreted as a portal.

In fact, legends state that the Sun God, Virachocha, first appeared at Tiahuanaco and began the human race. Of particular interest to us is that legend also states that he used the Gate of the Sun to travel between his world and ours. When the gate was discovered, there was a large crack in the top section near the archway, with one part toppled over. This has led many to believe that it was operational until this damage occurred, either intentionally or due to some kind of natural event (such as an earthquake). Of further interest to us here, the Gate of the Sun sits along the same grid line as the Gate of the Gods in Haya Marca. Something which, given the similarities of their design and equally similar legends, can’t be simply dismissed purely as a coincidence.

According to the Native American tribes that called the region home for hundreds of years, Sedona, a small town in Arizona that they called Nawanda, was once a sacred city. Furthermore, the Red Rock deserts that surrounded the town were “spiritually charged” and capable of creating “vortexes” that could transport a person immediately from one location to another, including to other dimensions or another world. Making these legends even stranger and unsettling are reports from many people of strange, haunting sounds coming from the desert at night, as well as strange, floating lights.

Perhaps strangest of all, though, is an alleged stone archway somewhere in the mountains around the town of Sedona known as the Doorway of the Gods – said to be a portal to another destination in spacetime.

One particularly thought-provoking encounter involving this archway occurred in 1956, when two treasure hunters, Rob and Chuck Quinn, ventured into the surrounding rocky desert in search of gold and lost treasure. After several days in the wilderness – during which time they too spotted strange floating lights during the night hours – they came across a strange stone archway.

They estimated that the archway was around seven feet high and five feet wide and contained columns of andesite around it. The pair further noted that around the bottom of the archway were many broken geodes that glittered brightly as they reflected the sun. They made a note of the archway and went on their way. When they returned to town, however, they learned much more about it.

A Native American guide known only as “John” heard the two treasure hunters speaking of the stone archway following their arrival back in Sedona, and he was more than happy to tell them what he knew of it.

He told of multiple stories of people throwing stones through the archway that would simply not fall at the other side and seemingly vanish, as well as a blue, shimmering light sometimes appearing within the arch.

One particularly disturbing tale dates back to the 1800s, when three members of his tribe stumbled onto the archway while out in the desert. According to John, one of the tribesmen walked through the arch and simply disappeared, never to be seen again. After seeing this, the remaining two tribesmen turned and ran, fearing they had encroached on sacred land.

John also offered that he had had his own bizarre encounter at the archway. He recalled that he was in the desert when a sudden rainstorm swept over the area. With previously bright blue skies now a dark grey, John turned to leave. However, as he did, he caught sight of the archway. To his amazement, the skies through the archway were a bright blue, as if it were a doorway to another world. Cautiously, he walked closer to the arch and peered through it. The scenery on the other side of it was completely the same as that he could see around the arch, with the only difference being the difference in the skies. At this point, he became fearful that something terrible would happen to him, and he turned and set out for home.

Now even more intrigued than ever, Rob and Chuck, along with several other men, decided to return to the area. They quickly located the archway once more and began to perform various experiments. They would throw rocks through it, for example, and even put their arms through. However, nothing out of the ordinary occurred, and they began to wonder if there was anything to John’s seemingly tall tales.  

The following day, though, while investigating the site further, Rob and one of the other men saw a bizarre “shimmering” within the archway – a sight they would later describe as looking like a heat mirage. This lasted for several minutes, during which time both men could feel a pressure steadily building in their ears. Then, as soon as it had appeared, the shimmering stopped, and the archway returned to normal.

Although this was the only strange incident the men witnessed themselves, during the trip, they met with another group of treasure hunters who had their own story to tell about the archway. They claimed to have been camping near the archway several days previously when a barrage of stones rained down on them out of nowhere. They left the area not long after.

Just short of two decades later, in 1973, Chuck decided to return to the site once more. As he hiked into the desert, he suddenly had the realization that he could see a canyon that had not been there previously. A little confused, he climbed back down and found an alternative entrance into the canyon. When he entered from this different direction, he suddenly realized that he wasn’t seeing a different canyon, but that he had somehow been transported to the other side of the canyon – a distance of around 250 yards – and was facing a completely different direction. Needless to say, he was more than perplexed by these events, although he eventually concluded that he had somehow stepped through a portal that had immediately transported him from one part of the canyon to the other.

Not only are there claims of some kind of ancient portal existing somewhere deep in Davelis Cave just outside of Athens in Greece, but for several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the American and Greek military were involved in some kind of top-secret operation there. The cave and the surrounding Davelis Mountains have a long history of strange goings-on, with the Ancient Greeks dedicating the cave to their God of Nature, Pan. The Ancient Greeks also used the cave and the surrounding area of Penteli Mountain to quarry marble that was used to build the Parthenon in Athens. This rock, incidentally, contains quartz crystal, something we will return to later.

Over the centuries, there have been many reports of strange, shadowy figures being seen in the area, as well as the sound of strange voices emanating from the cave. In fact, all manner of paranormal activity has been noted in and around the cave as the decades have progressed, with reports still being made today in the early twenty-first century.

In 1977, a mystery military unit – who, incidentally, never officially identified themselves – suddenly arrived and put the area around the cave off-limits. The Greek magazine Tachydromos reported this mysterious activity in their October 6th, 1977 edition, highlighting that armed guards patrolled the barbed-wire fence around the area.

It didn’t take long for the locals to take an interest in the activities of this suddenly appearing group, and onlookers would regularly venture to the area. Rumors quickly began to circulate of heavy-duty machinery and explosives being taken into the cave, as well as suggestions that this unit was made up of American, Greek, and various other NATO soldiers.

One person who took an interest in the strange goings-on at Davelis Cave was Greek paranormal researcher Giorgos Balanos, who had been researching strange events on Penteli Mountain, including Davelis Cave, since the late 1960s. He documented many of these in the book The Riddle Of Penteli, with these events ranging from sightings of strange lights to suffering bizarre confusion and memory loss while in the cave.

He also revealed the existence of intricate tunnel networks and how they connected to the alleged NATO military presence. He made connections with the storage of nuclear weapons, as well as top-secret mind-control projects taking place inside Davelis Cave. Some people even began to question if the military had discovered the existence of an ancient portal in the cave, or if they were attempting to manipulate the naturally occurring energy there to open some kind of gateway for unknown reasons.

One further thing of interest regarding Girogos Balanos is that, in 1977, just before the military unit arrived in the area, Balanos was part of a television documentary about the mysteries of the Davelis Cave and Penteli Mountain. The documentary, however, never aired, and a short time after its cancellation, the entrance to the cave was behind barbed wire fencing.

Writing in an article titled The Riddle of Pendeli’s Cave: A Never Ending Saga in December 2002, Thanassis Vempos stated that the situation around Davelis Cace was “total chaos” with “Greek Air Force, Navy, Army, various secret agencies, NATO and the Americans, various technical companies” all being involved, “but nobody was officially responsible”.

Whatever was going on in Davelis Cave, in 1983, after six years of top-secret activity, the unit packed up the operation and abandoned the location almost literally overnight. In fact, they were seemingly in such a hurry to vacate the area that some of their equipment was left behind.

Following this sudden departure, many conspiracy enthusiasts and adventure seekers descended on the cave. They did indeed discover a network of tunnels, some of them “ruined”, perhaps even purposely. There were also several bunker-like chambers that had been carved into the rock, with some of these chambers appearing to be incomplete, as if they were half-finished when the location was suddenly abandoned.

It is worth noting that these tunnel systems were sealed shut over the years that followed, with the official reason being for the “protection of the public”.

There are several suggestions that have been put forward. Some researchers have suggested that nuclear weapons were stored in the cave in some kind of secure underground compound, and if we keep in mind the climate of the Cold War, such suggestions make a certain amount of sense. However, many experts have stated that the location was simply not at all suited for the storing of such weapons, and so it would be unlikely, at best, if this were the case. This is further corroborated by the fact that the cave and the area around it are of absolute archeological interest, so much so that the Greek authorities would almost certainly have refused permission for such storage simply due to the risk, however minimal, of the location being destroyed.

The fact is, though, the Greek authorities did give permission for some kind of activity involving the American military. Interestingly or not, when asked to comment on the secretive activity at Davelis Cave, the Greek government stated only that it was a “matter of national security”.

With that last point in mind, another suggestion was that the activity surrounding Davelis Cave revolved around mind control. And what’s more, at least according to some suggestions, the participants in these speculative mind control experiments were unwitting ones, to say the least.

According to some observations, after an initially tight security around Davelis Cave after the mystery military unit took it over in 1977, security suddenly began to become lapse after several years, almost too lapse for some. It was noted that many people who ventured into the grounds managed to get in remarkably easily, and once inside, often witnessed strange figures or heard bizarre voices and even music coming from nowhere around them, while others observed strange lights and orbs. Perhaps of most concern, many people reported how they felt sudden despair and fear, as if something was taking over their very emotions.

One particularly intriguing account featured a husband and wife who happened to be hiking in the area when they stumbled onto the cave’s entrance. However, what really captured their attention was the presence of a mysterious car that appeared to be parked above the cave’s entrance on a ledge.

They stared at the car for some time, viewing it from different locations and perspectives below. However, they couldn’t understand or work out just how someone had managed to drive the vehicle to its current location. The only sensible explanation, as bizarre as it sounded, even to them, would be if something had picked the car up and placed it above the entrance to the cave.

Out of curiosity, the couple went on the same hike for the next few days, each time noting that the mysterious car was in the same place above the cave’s entrance. One particular day, curiosity got the better of them, and they made the decision to climb up to the ledge and inspect the vehicle more closely.

They ventured up to the ledge and approached the car. They could immediately see that the vehicle was in brand new, pristine condition, almost as if it had been placed there straight off the factory production line. Literally every part of the vehicle appeared brand new, even the tires, as if it had never even been driven.

The gentleman walked toward the car to take a look inside. No sooner had he left his wife’s side, however, than she let out a piercing scream. He spun around to face her, turning his attention to where she was looking. Although he couldn’t see exactly what had terrified her, he could see movement in the nearby bushes.

After taking a few moments to compose herself, she eventually told her husband that she had seen a strange and menacing “oval-shaped creature” with a pair of large, red, glowing eyes. She further stated that the creature had rushed at her out of the bushes before retreating into them a second or so later.

Incidentally, several days later, the husband found himself in the middle of another unsettling encounter. He claimed that while he was near the cave, he witnessed a “black disc-shaped object” hovering overhead. Strangely, as soon as he set his eyes on the strange craft, he was filled with a sudden feeling of absolute dread. Equally bizarrely, when the object disappeared, the feeling of dread immediately left him.

Some have suggested that this sudden lapse of security was to encourage adventure-seekers to the land around the cave, so whatever technology was inside could be unleashed upon them and the results noted. While there is little proof of this, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that intelligence agencies have used small groups of people as test subjects without their permission or knowledge.

Of course, other suggestions for the mysterious activity are that the cave was conducive to creating some kind of portal, either because of the discovery of some kind of ancient technology, or because of the unique composition of the marble rock in the region. Could the strange, paranormal behavior in the region have somehow alerted the United States military to the potential weaponization of such capabilities?

Could the large amount of ancient crystal in the mountainous region, coupled with the long history stretching back to antiquity of strange powers attributed to the area, as well as the many paranormal encounters reported in the modern age, have alerted the military or the powers that controlled them, to the possibility of utilizing the energy within the cave to create – or recreate – some kind of portal. Further rumors even suggested that the US military intelligence had worked out a connection between the ancient cave and an undisclosed location in West Virginia, in the United States.

What is interesting is that the latter two suggestions (mind control or a portal) could both be achieved, at least in theory, by the use of the manipulation of electromagnetic energy.  

Could some kind of naturally occurring electromagnetic energy exist within the confines of Davelis Cave? Or perhaps the environment inside the cave is conducive to such energies being manipulated or tapped into. If this is the case, were the American military, with the Greek authorities, experimenting with opening portals to another realm of existence?

Abu Ghurab, known as the Place of the Gods, is a site steeped in intrigue, mystery, and controversy. While mainstream historians place its creation around the time of the fifth dynasty (around 2400 BC), other researchers, like William Henry, argue for a much older origin. In fact, Henry’s research suggests that Abu Ghurab, according to ancient Khemetian oral tradition, predates the fifth dynasty, making it one of the oldest ceremonial sites on Earth. This was purportedly a place where the Pharaoh could commune with the gods themselves.

This took place at the heart of Abu Ghurab, where there is an ancient platform consisting of ultra-precise circular markings – so precise, in fact, that it suggests to some researchers the use of advanced technology. Furthermore, this platform is made from alabaster, or Egyptian crystal, which is said to react in sympathy with the vibration of the Earth itself (we will return to the potential importance of crystal a little later). It is thought that by being on this alabaster platform, a person’s senses will be opened, allowing them to be “at one” with higher, sacred energies – or the Neters, otherwise known as The Gods.

Interestingly, these descriptions bear a striking resemblance to our modern understanding of portals or gateways. This similarity is further underscored by indigenous tradition, which claims that the Neters once materialized in physical form at Abu Grurab.

There are a few things of interest to keep in mind in relation to the above claims. Many Native American legends speak of similar communication with otherworldly entities, with some of the Cherokee legends being particularly interesting. They speak, for example, of formless “thought beings” who can travel to Earth on “waves of sound” from their home planet in the Pleiades Star System. The great Nikola Tesla also appeared to speak about the importance of energies and frequency. He stated:

“…If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration…”

Was Tesla correct, and did the Ancient Egyptians know this also? And might our collective understanding of energies, frequencies, and vibrations help us to understand the potential reality of stargates and portals to other worlds?  

Another intriguing location in ancient Egypt is the ancient city of Abydos, and perhaps specifically, the Temple of Seti I, not least because of some of the hieroglyphics that at least some people have interpreted as looking like modern flying machines, such as a helicopter, and even a saucer-shaped UFO.

Abydos is around six miles from the River Nile in Upper Egypt and was a necropolis for the earliest kings of the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Even more fascinating than that, in relatively recent years, private pilot and military aerospace historian, Michael Schratt, claimed that in 2003, the United States military was not only aware of a naturally occurring stargate or portal existing under the ancient city of Abydos, but that they utilized it to send an extraterrestrial entity back to its own realm of existence. Is this what Ben Rich, the one-time Lockheed Skunkworks Director, meant when he offered that “we now have the technology to send ET home”?

Schratt, incidentally, did make some intriguing references to the infamous Area 51. He claimed that the location didn’t house any extraterrestrials or UFOs, but was instead home to highly advanced experimental technologies – many of which were at least 50 years ahead of where we are today. In fact, he stated publicly that the “things you saw in Star Wars and Star Trek – we’ve been there, done that – and either put it to good use or realized it is not worth the effort”.

While some of this advanced technology is indeed experimental aircraft – including some that are similar to the advanced aerial craft described in ancient Hindu texts – other technologies revolve around the harnessing of natural energies to create portals and gateways to other worlds – just one of which resides at Abydos.

Schratt further offered that the government allowed, encouraged, and used the widespread belief in UFOs and alien visitors to hide any evidence or sightings of this technology. Schratt has conducted many talks on this subject at various conferences. And as we might imagine, his claims divide opinion somewhat.

The legends of the Sumerians are also some of the most thought-provoking of the ancient world, not least as they also hint very heavily at some kind of influence from “the gods” who were said to have arrived on Earth from elsewhere.

One researcher who firmly believes the kings, queens, and gods of the Ancient Sumerians were not only aware of such portals but actively used them is Elizabeth Vegh. She believes an ancient stargate is buried under the Euphrates River, likely lost under the ruins of the ancient city of Eridu thousands of years ago. Moreover, Vegh even points to a verse in Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation as further proof of the existence of Stargate. The verse reads:

“…Then, the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from Heaven to Earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss. The star opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the some from the pit. And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth…”

Vegh argues – against scholarly agreement – that the word “abyss” likely doesn’t refer to a body of water but to a portal or gateway to elsewhere.

It is also worth noting some of the Sumerian seals that appear to show, at least according to some interpretations of them, gateways to other worlds. One such seal shows a Sumerian god standing in a doorway with some kind of staircase appearing to stretch away from them on the other side of it. Around the edges of this doorway, there appears to be something shimmering. Another seal shows the Sumerian god, Ninurta, who is standing in a doorway and appears to be pressing a button on the wall, perhaps manipulating the potential portal.

As outlandish as the suggestion undoubtedly is, we should highlight that there have been persistent rumors for years of an “Iraqi Stargate”. Although we should treat the claims with a pinch of salt, the stargate in question was discovered in the 1920s and was said to have sent shockwaves around the archaeological world. As the 1930s progressed and war looked increasingly likely, it appeared that many governments around the world had taken a keen if discreet interest in the alleged stargate, not least the Third Reich.

Against this backdrop, several attempted recovery missions took place, usually under the guise of other military operations. One of these was said to be the 1941 Anglo-Iraqi war—a conflict that ultimately involved Britain fighting Germany and Italy, both of whom had aligned themselves with the Iraqi nationalists. To many, though, the real goal of the conflict was to provide cover for an attempted recovery operation.

There is, of course, no proof of this. We should note, though, that it is well-documented that the Third Reich had an active interest in hunting down and recovering ancient relics, and so considering that they might attempt to locate the Iraqi Stargate is not that much of a stretch of the imagination.

Of course, whatever the truth might be, we can assume that neither the Allies nor the Third Reich were successful in recovering the Iraqi Stargate when we consider some of the claims of the early twenty-first century, specifically that the Stargate was in the possession of Saddam Hussein at the time of the second Gulf conflict.

What’s more, an apparent whistleblower named Dan Burisch even claimed that he was part of an elite unit sent on a secret mission in the country to find and retrieve the portal. Burisch claims that information on creating artificial stargates from “cylinder seals” the military retrieved during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars – information that some researchers claim is extraterrestrial in nature and was given to the ancient Sumerians, who then transferred this information to cuneiform texts. These artificial stargates are said to “tap into” the many natural stargates around the world.

He further asserts that, as well as transporting a person from one place to another, these stargates – of which he claims there are around 50 around the planet – allow people to “physically enter or move material through time and into different time streams”. He even goes as far as to say that extraterrestrials used this stargate technology to “enter into Earth’s timelines”.

This last detail is worth pondering for a moment or so. Most researchers agree, if there is an alien presence on Earth, then it has very likely been here for thousands of years, long before the start of the Modern UFO era that began in the late 1940s. Might that presence stretch across time in a different way than we might think – that is, rather than a prolonged presence, these alien beings are “landing” at different points in time? Might this explain their supposedly extraordinarily long lifetimes, for example?

Burisch himself did state that at least some alien entities were, for all intents and purposes, time-travelers, not least those involved in the Roswell UFO crash in July 1947. He claimed that the occupants of the Roswell crash were, in fact, humans from a future Earth, and that they had traveled back in time in order to alter the timelines due to an upcoming event in their history.

It is perhaps interesting to note here that there have been several other specific UFO events that have had claims of human occupants from the future connected to them. The alleged 1936 UFO crash in the Black Forest in Germany, for example, while a case that should be treated with a pinch of salt, is one such case. According to one researcher, who used “channeling” in order to obtain his information, the occupants of this downed craft were humans from the future. He elaborated that he had obtained a pair of field glasses worn by an SS officer who had attended the crash site, and used the glasses to channel the information, including that all of these human crew were “shot on sight”.

Perhaps more credible is the UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest in England in December 1980. One of the key witnesses to the events was US soldier Jim Penniston. Ultimately, upon investigating strange lights in the woods that night, he claimed a UFO landed in a clearing in the forest. Furthermore, he managed to get close to the object, even reaching out and touching it. When he did so, a surge of information rushed through him.

A little later, back at the base, he began to write a series of 1s and 0s that simply came to him in his mind. When this apparent binary code was analyzed, parts of it contained what appeared to be a message that the occupants of the vehicle were sending from the “Eyes of your Eyes” from the year 8100. This would mean that they were not only human but had traveled from 6000 years in the future.  

Burisch makes further remarkable claims regarding stargate technology and different timelines. He claimed that a consequence of the discovery of these stargates was the program, Project Looking Glass, the technology of which came from the reverse-engineering of this ancient stargate technology. Bursich also spoke about the technology retrieved from these stargates enabled the development of a device that allowed people to see into the future. Not only that, but it allows the user to “view into different probabilities of future events or different time streams”.

It was worth noting other alleged advanced devices, such as Die Glocke of the Third Reich, which was said to also allow the viewer to see future and past events. Very similar details are offered for the Chronovisor, said to be developed by the Vatican. While we should treat the claims of these advanced devices with a pinch of salt, it is interesting that persistent claims surface about some kind of long-hidden technology allowing, at the very least, the ability to see upcoming future events, with some even claiming actual traveling in time.

It is further worth highlighting that another whistleblower – a man using the name Henry Deacon – specifically stated that the information given by Burisch on stargates was very accurate. In fact, he would corroborate several details offered by Burisch. It should be stressed that while much of what Dan Burisch says resonates with other apparent whistleblowers, many urge caution with his claims.

With this in mind, however, it is also worth noting the claims of Dr. Michael Salla, who also puts forward that a stargate does indeed exist in Iraq, and that the real reason for the 2003 invasion of the country by the United States was to obtain the ancient device for themselves.

It is claimed that the Stargate had been placed somewhere beneath Saddam’s palace, and so we might assume, if this were the case, American forces would have located it shortly after the fall of the Saddam regime. What is further interesting is that the location where the Stargate was said to reside sits inside what became known as The Green Zone following American forces taking control of Baghdad. This was a diplomatic area and one of the most heavily guarded in the country, leading many familiar with the Stargate claims to question just what was being guarded.

One thing is certain: following the invasion of Iraq in early 2003, widespread looting took place. Within days of the fall of the Saddam regime, something akin to lawlessness engulfed much of Iraq. What followed were days upon days of looting, with many museums and cultural institutions targeted and many archaeological sites destroyed and stripped of any valuable materials.

However, reports soon began to leak out that much of this looting was not done by rioting residents but by highly organized groups, with some people even going as far as to describe them as military units. Further reports mentioned that at many of the sites targeted, heavy-duty military-style trucks were seen near entrances to the respective buildings, with a team of people systematically loading vast amounts of boxes and ancient artifacts onto them.

Further still, many of these locations were not simply looted out of opportunism but had clearly been the subject of intricate planning. Many items, for example, were removed from hidden vaults deep inside the respective buildings, while others were so heavy that it would have taken a team of people to move them and heavy-duty vehicles to transport them (much like the heavy-duty vehicles many people claim to have seen).

Suppose we assume that at least some of these looters were highly organized military units that seemingly targeted specific buildings and locations. Might we also consider that at least one of the items removed was somehow connected to the Iraqi Stargate and that, at the very least, such lootings provided perfect cover for the speculative relocation of the Stargate from beneath Saddam’s palace?

We should also note some of the further statements from Dr. Michael Salla. He claims, for example, that the location of the Stargate was the ancient city of Babylon, around 50 miles to the south of Baghdad. Furthermore, this part of the country sustained some of the heaviest bombardments during the invasion, and this region remains heavily censored on Google Earth.

Salla further offers that “these technologies (stargates) are used quite regularly” and are “found all over the planet”. He elaborated that they are located, for example, in “places like Iran and Syria”, which is why, he asserts, “there is a push for America to go into Iran and (to) intervene in the Syrian civil war”. He described these events as “very significant in what drives international conflict”.

In the caves of Ranmasu Uyana (also known as Gold Fish Park) in Sri Lanka, curious symbols are carved into the stone in what appears to be an ancient star chart or star map. Opposite this stone star map are four stone seats. Some say these symbols are some kind of code that, if cracked, will open the stargate and provide access to another world or realm of existence.

Interestingly or not, this star map – if that’s what it is – is called Sakwala Chakraya, which translates to “The Rotating Circle of the Universe”. What is interesting here is that many depictions of portals or stargates are of rotating, swirling circles – many Native American cave art features such depictions, for example. Perhaps what makes this particular location all the more interesting is that little is known about its origins, age, or purpose. In light of the other locations we have explored here, though, and in terms of potential reference to portals in antiquity, it is certainly worthy of future study.

Perhaps one of the most controversial ancient sites of recent times, not least because its apparent age would alter what we know about civilization, is Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. And while there are no ancient writings of whatever culture inhabited the site to suggest so, some researchers have put forward that a portal existing, or having once existed at the ancient site, is, at the very least, a possibility. Some researchers, for example, point to how the T-shaped columns appear similar to an archway, much like the archways in South America. Furthermore, they point to the fact that the Pleiades star system appears in the shape of T, perhaps suggesting a possible otherworldly destination (we might also recall that many Native American legends speak of “gods” who came from the Pleiades star system). What’s more, the site is said to reside right where multiple ley lines meet, perhaps suggesting a purposeful attempt to harness the energy of the Earth.

In fact, many of these ancient locations sit along ley lines or a convergence of ley lines. In its most basic form, leylines are lines of energy that appear to criss-cross the Earth. What makes these lines particularly interesting is that many ancient sites sit in locations where these ley lines are said to cross. These include almost all of the sites we have explored above, perhaps particularly so with Stonehenge, for example, which has, according to some reckoning, as many as 14 ley lines running through it, making it a particularly potentially powerful location.  

Taking this a stage further, it is the belief of some researchers that the ancient world was somehow aware of and tapped into an ancient energy grid, and that these leylines, as part of this grid, somehow connected many of these ancient sites. Indeed, we might ask just how these civilizations of the ancient world, many of whom were supposedly largely unaware of each other’s existence, all appeared to tap into the same lines of energy as each other for the same apparent purpose. Was this by pure chance, or does the recognition of these leylines and convergences of energy where they meet stretch much further back into pre-history – perhaps to an unknown, global civilization?

With all of this in mind, it is worth mentioning that NASA offered in 2014 that portals do appear to exist in the Earth’s magnetic field. According to plasma physicist Jack Scudder, these portals exist at “X-points” high above the planet and are created when the magnetic fields of the Earth and the sun meet. This “joining of magnetic fields can propel jets of charged particles from the X-point, creating an electron diffusion region – or a portal. Of course, where these portals might lead – if anywhere – remains open for debate.

With the suggestions of NASA in mind, might we contemplate that these naturally occurring portals could also exist on the Earth itself, if only temporarily? Could that be the reason so many people go missing without a trace and are, more often than not, never seen again? Could these temporary portals also explain why some people reappear just as mysteriously as when they vanished, often in places that have already been searched? Might this also be why these strange disappearances are often in cluster spots – because they occur near naturally occurring portals that come into existence along leylines of naturally converging energy?

Taking this a stage further, we might also consider that many of these cluster spots are also UFO hotspots and areas with increased Bigfoot sightings. If we consider for a moment that Bigfoot is a supernatural or interdimensional creature, might they, and UFOs, be gaining access to our world through these naturally occurring portals, hence why they are considered hotspots, because they are entry and exit points. Might that be why both UFOs and Bigfoot creatures are seen one minute and then are gone the next?

While the notion of portals and gateways to other dimensions existing at the locations of ancient sites might be far from being established as fact, the idea is perhaps not one that can be fully dismissed without further study. At the very least, the fact that many of these locations do appear to be connected by ley lines suggests a greater understanding of the power of the planet in antiquity than we perhaps have today. Did civilizations from the ancient world purposely tap into the natural energy of the Earth, building monuments and temples at key locations in order to enhance, harness, and manipulate that energy for their own ends, including, perhaps, the creation and utilization of portals? And if so, are these portals depicted in ancient seals and artwork, as well as spoken of in the legends and writings of the ancient world?  

Perhaps of more concern to us in our modern world, we might ask just what our respective governments around the world know of this speculative ancient technology. Indeed, if there is any truth to the idea of recovered stargates from the Middle East and the utilization of portals at sites of Ancient Egypt, we might ask just what else this technology has been used for and what it might be used for in the future? The fact is, whatever might be going on behind closed doors, the possible existence of portals and other dimensions is openly discussed in mainstream science today. Indeed, we just might find that if we should understand this area of our very mysterious universe, then that understanding will likely shine a light on other areas of our enigmatic and nuanced reality.