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Evidence of the Gods – Islands in the Pacific

By on January 19, 2013 in News 2

Ancient humans had the natural urge to document the world in which they lived, a fact that is evident in the cave paintings from various sites around the world that all seem to depict the same things. Did the peoples of the prehistoric world have contact with each other? Is it possible that some were transported to far-flung locations in what our ancestors could only have described as “flying chariots”? Here is an excerpt from Erich von Däniken’s latest book, Evidence of the Gods: A Visual Tour of Alien Influence in the Ancient World.

Boulders on the Beach

North of Dunedin in New Zealand, there are about 100 spherical boulders lying on Moeraki Beach. The largest has a diameter of 3.16 meters. These giant geodes are literally flushed out of the rock, roll a few meters, come to a halt, and are then washed over by the daily tides. Many have broken apart, crumbling away as the result of the action of wind and waves.… Read the rest

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Enter the Uncanny Valley with Animated Giorgio Tsoukalos

By on October 25, 2012 in News 4

There’s already something endearingly cartoon-like about Ancient Aliens star Giorgio Tsoukalos: his hair alone has launched a thousand memes, to say nothing of some of his Cosmic Love God fashion sense and compulsive quotability. (To his great credit, Giorgio is very much aware of his internet-fame and has a wonderful attitude about it. When I met him two separate kids approached and asked if he “was the guy from the memes.” Giorgio responded with a friendly smile and struck this pose long enough for each of them to snap a photo.)

Well, anyway, now Tsoukalos isn’t just cartoon-like, thanks to the efforts of one animator. Check out this (admittedly creepy) animated take on Giorgio. (It seems to be a one-off effort, but I wouldn’t mind seeing a Tsoukalos & Pals cartoon in my local television listings….)

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Debunker Takes on ‘Ancient Aliens’ in New Video

By on October 6, 2012 in News 13

I always kind of liked the “Gods from Outer Space” mythology propagated by writers like Erich Von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchen: it’s a perfect hybrid of science and religion, a wondrous answer to our deepest existential quandaries. It’s not necessarily comforting, mind you, but it’s relief to think that we’re not alone and that we’re here for a reason. Of course, if that reason is to serve as meat-slaves to Zeta Reticulans, then we’ve got an entirely new problem.

However, liking the mythology doesn’t mean I necessarily believe it. I think it’s possible that we’ve been visited by intelligent non-human entities from space (or time, or some other dimension), but for a scoffer like me, the old adage “seeing is believing” holds true. I’ve just not seen any compelling evidence. (I’d certainly like to, though.)

I’m not really in the debunking business (whatever gets you through the night, brother), but this video targeted at the Ancient Aliens television program is pretty compelling. Be warned, though: it’s pretty long.

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Cargo Cults And Ancient Astronauts

By on August 5, 2010 in News 75
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

[disinformation ed.'s note: The following is the foreword from the new book by Erich von Däniken, Twilight of the Gods: The Mayan Calendar and the Return of the Extraterrestrials, courtesy of New Page Books.]

What is a “cargo cult”? The term refers to the real-life ethnological phenomenon of what happens when a technologically primitive society comes in contact with a technologically more advanced society. On countless documented occasions, ethnologists have observed that if technologically advanced visitors live among technologically – not intellectually! – primitive cultures for short periods of time and then leave, soon thereafter, the visitors’ advanced nuts-and-bolts technologies causes the native population to view these rather ordinary humans as gods and begin to worship them. On many occasions during their stay, the visitors would interact with the native population, giving them goods and food – cargo! After the departure of these “gods,” the native culture surmised that they would return if they practiced intense worship, sacrifice and emulation.… Read the rest

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