Name: Ancient Aliens: The Easter Island Mystery (Season 12) | Exclusive | History
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is in eastern Polynesia within the Pacific Ocean.

And what it's most famous for is the many hundreds

of these human forms, oversized human heads

with bodies that are almost always partially

And these statues would seem to represent deified ancestors.

They're manufactured from local volcanic rock.

In size, they can be as much as 30 or more feet in height.

And they can weigh anything up to 80 tons apiece.

PAUL BAHN: The Moai are enormous blocks of stone.

And they moved several hundred of them from the quarry

around the edge of the island and there have been

many theories over the years as to how they were moved.

The first theory is thought that they must have been

dragged horizontally on sledges or rollers or something

of that kind. On the other hand, many people

including myself would say we think it's more likely

they were moved vertically. It would be very dangerous

to lower a standing statue down to the ground, then drag it

for how many miles and then have to raise it again

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The idea that the trees

were cut down at some point falls by the wayside

because wooden rollers would not be able to support

So you have to wonder, how were these Moai

of something called mana on Easter Island,

...which was supposed to be imbued, actually,

into the stone Moai themselves and some of the traditions,

uh, describe them walking from the quarry to their platforms.

was some type of extraterrestrial technology

that allowed these stones to be levitated into place.