In this video, Richard Bangs gives us a few details on the island, mainly focusing on the beauty of the landscape, including a look at the Moai statues. The video features many time lapses and briefly touches upon different questions about the statues such as why were the statues created, and why were they organized the way they were?

I think this video was just to update some of the content that was on the web, with some better visuals in HD and show the island once again to a specific fan base of the creator's, however I would have appreciated it more if there were more content and information being provided in the video.

The page dives into many ranges of topics about the island including the history and civil wars between the populations that used to live there, to theories about the statues carved from volcanic rock called the Moai, to details about the current economy and landscape of the island.

This is a good place to start when familiarizing yourself with the island and about its many topics.

The photo is of an experiment done in July 2012 in Hawaii, led by two archaelogists, Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo. The experiment was to test a method that was described by oral tradition, which was that the statues had walked to their destination.

Now, avoiding taking that literally, it is assumed that it was meant that the creators had tied ropes to the statues at the top of the heads (like in the picture) and it took a considerable amount of people to rock the statue back and forth to its destination.

For this experiment they used a replica statue which weighed 5 tons, and took 30 people to accomplish their task. I do not believe this is the actual method used to transport the Moai, as it would have been too much effort, especially since there are more than 800 reported statues all over the island.

There are many people who believe that this could be true, however just because there is no answer to WHY these things exist, does not mean we should attach unreasonable theories to the mystery. What reason would extraterrestrials have that would require them to leave so many of these statues here? Why would they pick just one island?

If there were aliens behind these Moai statues, I am sure we would have figured it out by now, or as to what purpose the aliens would have left them here for, especially considering the descendants of the origional civilizations have their own ideas about the statues (which were passed down to them orally, of course).

This video breaks down some of the facts that they give us with some extended information that they are leaving out. One example is that there is a theory that to transport the stone statues, the Polynesians used logs and rope to pull them along the surface of the ground. The alien theorists claim that there are no trees on Easter Island and that this belief has been proven false. However, they did not check the land itself which has many remnants of pollen and other natural clues that show that there once was trees way back in the day when these statues were created.

You can find controversies about the island, books to read on the topic, lots of photos, the stories behind the island and even some travel information if you wanted to go see the mystery of Easter Island on your own.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/easter-island/bloch-text

This island has a lot of unique and interesting statues and stories. This national geographic website talks about how the Polynesian settlers arrived and also about Thor Heyerdahl, which was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer that explored Easter Island.