Real-life skull worship inspires new 'Indy' film

“When I am alone at night, at about 2 a.m., it starts to glow, it emits light, and it stays like that for about a minute”

There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth _ a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie.

Experts dismiss the hundreds of existing crystal skulls as fakes that were probably made by colorful antiquities traders in the 19th century. But Mayan priests worship the skulls, even today, and real-life skull hunters still search for them.

The true story of the skulls stretches over continents and hundreds of years, and may be even more extraordinary than the tale portrayed in this fourth installment of the Harrison Ford franchise. Read more