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Is a New Name from the Bible Really to Be Found on the Mesha Stele?

5/11/2019

A couple of weeks ago, I received an embargoed press release announcing a radical new interpretation of the ninth century Mesha Stele, which a team of researchers now claims could represent the first and only independent confirmation of the existence of King Balak outside of the Bible (Numbers 22-24). I honestly don’t care whether Balak existed or not, but I found the reasoning used to make the claim to be somewhat lacking.

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Tom DeLonge Promises His New Music Will Make His UFO Work "Come to Life"

5/10/2019

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It continues to be a slow week in the world of fringe history and occult aeronautics, presumably because many branches of the media and our favorite fringe personalities are planning massive project releases for the summer, including a half dozen television series, some new books, and the usual array of web videos and conference appearances. So, for the time being we are in a bit of a holding pattern as we await the launch of the summer’s fringe media assault.

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Science Fiction / Horror Short "Occupant" Treads Waters Familiar to "Us"

5/9/2019

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Yesterday was a busy day for me and a slow day for fringe history, so I do not have much to say today. Instead of trying to come up with something just for the sake of writing, I will present you with a short film that is being released today. I received a screener for it prior to its release with a request to review the film. The short, called Occupant, stars Dan O'Brien of Grey's Anatomy and is being released by Gunpowder & Sky. I cannot imagine how one reviews a 4-minute short, but here goes: It's a minor effort that delivers an eerie feeling but is ultimately far too short to have anything real to say. The plot is unfortunately far too similar to the Jordan Peele film Us from only a few weeks ago, and the comparisons make this look like a deleted scene from the movie, and not necessarily in a good way.

The YouTube video link will become active at 10 AM ET and can be viewed directly on YouTube here.

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Micah Hanks and Ufology's Longing for Government Approval

5/8/2019

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Today is going to be one of those days when my blog post will be brief, as I mentioned yesterday. I’d like to highlight a logical fallacy that has been making the rounds since the recent disclosure that the U.S. Navy will make it easier for its pilots to report sightings of aerial phenomena that they do not recognize, a move characterized in the media as a new UFO reporting program, though it isn’t quite that. Anyway, Micah Hanks presents the fallacy in unalloyed form in a recent Mysterious Universe posting piggybacking on the Navy announcement. He starts by saying that he doesn’t know what UFOs really are.

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Peter Levenda Returns to Ancient Astronaut Theory in New Interview

5/7/2019

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Due to a series of upcoming life events, including upcoming book deadlines as well as personal responsibilities, I’m going to have much less time for writing blog posts between now and the end of summer. As a result, there will be days when I will not be able to post and many days where posts will be significantly shorter than normal. Today is going to be a mid-length day, but I hope not less interesting for it.

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Garry Nolan Gives an "Alien" Metals Update and Shares His Postmodern UFO Views

5/4/2019

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This past week, Dr. Garry Nolan, the Stanford researcher best known for his work analyzing the stillborn corpse of a Chilean fetus alleged to be a space alien, spoke with researcher M. J. Banias about various Fortean phenomena and their connection to genetics. Nolan was an advisory board member for Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science from its founding until he resigned last summer citing conflicts of interest between To the Stars and Stanford University. Nolan continues to support To the Stars and to promote its mission and goals. Nolan suggests that the evidence for a UFO phenomenon is “overwhelming,” which is surprising since there remains not a single shred of demonstrable evidence for the presence of space aliens or interdimensional demons on Earth

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Travel Channel Releases Episode Descriptions for Revived "America Unearthed"

5/3/2019

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Graham Hancock’s America Before entered the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list this week at #6. Hancock took to Twitter to congratulate Joe Rogan for driving sales with his three-hour interview of Hancock last week, and he said that the success of the book was a rejoinder to the “mainstream” who preferred to see the book “ignored.” Hancock’s America Before is one of the rare archaeology-theme titles to make the Times’s list, and it is the first book by a major fringe history writer to have cracked the top ten that I can remember seeing in several years.

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L. A. Marzulli and Fritz Zimmerman Hunt Giants in the Grave Creek Mound

5/2/2019

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It’s been a while since we checked in with Nephilim theorist L. A. Marzulli, who has spent much of the past few months promoting radical right-wing conspiracy theories about politics. But he’s back with a new DVD in his series On the Trail of the Nephilim. This video, billed as Episode 2, covers the “Mathematical Mysteries of the Moundbuilders.” Coming on the heels of Graham Hancock’s new book America Before, which covers much of the same material, it’s like looking to a funhouse mirror version of Hancock, where all of Hancock’s efforts to give credit to Native Americans for at least building on the inheritance of Atlantis have been replaced with an unalloyed Victorian insistence that barbarous Natives couldn’t possibly have piled dirt into earthworks without help from fallen angels and giants.

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"Ancient Origins" Suggests Giza Pyramids Used Color to Form Cosmic Tableau

5/1/2019

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I’m going to give Ancient Origins a little bit credit for their recent article on colored stones at the Giza Pyramids. At least the article, by writer Morgan Smith, took a different approach to developing an unusual claim about the pyramids. I hadn’t heard anyone try to claim that the colors of the stone used on the pyramids’ casings were tied to astrological and astronomical symbolism. So, I award points for at least a bit of originality. However, that doesn’t make the claim any better evidenced.

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Scott Wolter Announces Publication of New Book on Secret Templar Code

4/30/2019

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Unfortunately, a plumbing problem took up most of my day yesterday and left little time for writing. Let’s just say that I am not happy about having had to cancel all of my plans for yesterday while the issue got repaired. Anyway, after a very long day, I thought I would share with you the promotional book description for America Unearthed host Scott Wolter’s new book Cryptic Code: The Templars in America and the Origins of the Hooked X, a self-published sequel to From Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers due out in September. Here is what the self-publishing service has to say about the book:

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