Are you familiar with the story of Piltdown man? Someone took a human skull and an orangutan jaw, treated them chemically to look very old, and placed them in a paleontological dig in Wales. For decades scientists believed the "fossil" to be the real deal, most convenient because it provided a "missing link" between modern man and the old forms already known as true fossils.
Piltdown Man was a hoax ... a practical joke that went bad.
The photos associated with the Russian segment could be the same - photos of entirely unrelated corpses used to spice up a tale, uncertain by itself, of a lost expedition. I consider that sort of explanation, while not provable, much more likely than the actions of some mysterious, unnatural, powerful force that hits Ghost Story markers with suspicious efficiency.
The churches in Ethiopia are cool, but sandstone is easily worked. I see nothing remarkable about them except that someone dedicated a fair amount of labor to their construction, or rather selective excavation.
As for Baalbek, they carved huge rocks and emplaced them. It's impressive but not eerie. A modern team has successfully used our best guess at Bronze Age technology to move and erect an obelisk weighing hundreds of tons. There is something about scale that amazes the kid in us, but not the engineer.
The presenters of that steaming pile of telejournalism knew what they were doing. It takes both some training and a willingness to be skeptical to dismantle their sales tactics. Once one does that, the story falls apart ime. The fact that they did use such hard-sell propagandist methods makes me have a very poor opinion of their characters as well as their story. They want to dupe people! cn
