America Unearthed Coverage Plans

11/30/2013

I know many of you are eagerly anticipating my review of tonight's new episode of America Unearthed. I will be working on reviewing the program tonight and tomorrow morning, and as was my practice during season one, I will have my review up around midday tomorrow, December 1. I am not a machine. I can't go faster.

In the meantime, I've already pre-debunked some of the episode's claims in this blog post from November 19, and I've posted in my Library the full text of F. R. A. Glover's England, Remnant of Judah (1861), the British-Israel text that introduced the myth that Jacob's Pillar traveled to Ireland and to Scotland.

10 Comments

Russell Neal link

11/30/2013 09:58:41 am

I wanted to take a minute to tell you that I really enjoy reading your material. I am actually a student of many of the mysterious, the paranormal, and the alternative.

However, I refuse to believe something just because it represents an idea that I want to believe in. While it is a novel concept that aliens visited our ancestors, or that there really was an Atlantis, wishing it were so does not make it so.

Honestly, I do hope that someday I find concrete evidence that the world is more full of wonder and mystery than an exclusively empirical/ traditional timeline of history would suggest. However, until that day, I want to continue reading the works of skeptics like yourself in order to keep my mind firmly balanced in the ordinary reality within which we must all exist, make a living, and hopefully get along.

The last thing I would want is to spin off into cookoo-ville and end up one of these people who just makes up information in order to be on TV.

Thank you again for your fair-mindedness and sober view of the world.

Varika

11/30/2013 02:09:03 pm

Dearheart, the world IS full of wonder and mystery. Stop and think about it. I can make light as bright as sunlight in the middle of the night just by walking into my kitchen. I can travel over 3,000 miles in the space of a few HOURS. I can talk to people who are on the exact opposite side of the world from me in real-time and even SEE them. Aren't all of these the same things that are described in ancient myth and legend?

But if it can't be something that "an exclusively empirical/traditional timeline" would have on it, then the moment you find your "concrete evidence," it will cease to be "wonderful and mysterious," so I hope you don't find it.

Butter and marzipan

11/30/2013 06:06:27 pm

Shucks, there's nothing like being addicted to something that doesn't exist and going on wild goose chases

Invisible Man

11/30/2013 11:44:38 am

But people will always be disposed towards the fantastic. It's a problem that goes back to Ancient Greece and beyond. It's not something like an illness, that can be cured, or a problem that can be rehabilitated. If it's in the DNA of the brain, it's beyond control.

The Other J.

11/30/2013 12:09:11 pm

Given how much back-and-forth traffic runs from that show to your site and back to that show -- by believers and skeptics -- H2 should probably be sending you tapes of the show prior to air. Then they could capitalize on that traffic somehow.

Coridan

11/30/2013 02:56:17 pm

Watching it on my DVR now. Already I am irritated by the presentation simply because of the overly sensational music.

Preview for next week looked interesting, denver airport/mason connection and he is interviewing someone from the airport who is saying how ridiculous it is.

Carl

11/30/2013 03:13:01 pm

The Ark of the Covenant is an ancient myth. Plain and simple. Looking for something whose existence has never been proven in the first place is stupidity. Unfortunately, America Unearthed is too hopefully irrational NOT to be popular.

Shane Sullivan

11/30/2013 05:38:39 pm

I've watched America Unearthed exactly once, and that was more than enough for me. But I know Scott's demoralizing treatment of Rock Lake is slated to show up sometime this season, and I don't think I can resist that. It looks like I'll be subjecting myself to this academic abortion at least once more.

TThom

11/30/2013 06:17:42 pm

What a waste of time. The "Ark" episode is devoid of anything resembling factual evidence to support the host's premise that the Ark came to America.

The big build-up to the microscopic analysis of rock samples - the tension was palpable. The music enhanced the drama.

Spoiler alert - there was no match and no proof, just as there is never a shred of proof to any of the host's hypotheses.

How a program such as this was renewed for a second season is beyond me.

Truth Be Told

12/7/2013 08:02:35 pm

America Unearthed is just showing what history really is. People are just afraid to except the truth. At least Scott Wolter isn't afraid or being led around by the nose of the so-called historians telling you what history should be.

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