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Josh Gates "Sadly" Concedes Atlantis Wasn't Real on "Expedition Files"

4/30/2026

This week, Josh Gates’s Expedition Files, the Expedition Unknown spinoff composed of CGI and stock footage as Gates narrates rehashed content against a greenscreen, devoted its final half-hour to “new” discoveries that allegedly suggest Atlantis is a real place. Or, rather, Gates teased a possibility he knew he could not confirm, for as we will see, thinking about Atlantis not being real makes Gates sad.

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Tim Gallaudet Tells "The Free Press" That "Atlantis Is Not Just Real But Findable"

4/29/2026

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Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet had a distinguished career in the Navy and in oceanography before he became obsessed with UFOs and the paranormal. Now he’s better known for his frequent appearances on the UFO podcast circuit and on cable news channels to promote UFO conspiracy theories, especially his pet idea that UFOs part in underwater bases. He also participated in a 2016 episode of the Travel Channel’s The Dead Files claiming that his house is haunted and that his daughter communicates with ghosts. Now Gallaudet has a new memoir to flog, so he’s once again touring the podcasts to drum up sales—and making some wild claims along the way. One that caught my attention was a claim he made to The Free Press that Atlantis is real.

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News Roundup: Second Sphinx, Ancient UFOs, North Korean Alien Tech, and More!

4/27/2026

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It’s been a busy couple of days across across the world of lost civilization, ancient astronaut, and UFO conspiracies. Scott Wolter put out a new conspiracy theory on Facebook, bringing in the dubious Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis to now claim that the comet that believers imagine struck the earth in the Ice Age separate a unified European-North American antediluvian civilization. It was this prehistoric foundation of shared symbols, he said, that let the Knights Templar communicate with Native Americans when Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney arrived among the Mi’kmaq in the 1100s CE—an event that, of course, never happened but was invented by Johann Reinhold in the 1700s and promoted by Richard Henry Major in the 1800s.

But that wasn’t all that happened this weekend.

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David Grusch Claims to Be Advising Trump Administration on UFOs

4/26/2026

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The shooting at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner overshadowed a new claim from so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch, who claimed in a podcast appearance on Weaponized with Jeremy Corbell this weekend that he is advising the Trump Administration on UFOs and personally briefed Pres. Trump on the non-existent evidence he claims not to have ever seen firsthand. “I certainly have advised the Administration over the last year or so, and I spent a lot of time with high-level officials working for the President to try to provide my sage advice on it,” Grusch said, adding that Trump will “go down in history as a great figure, historically, regardless of your political persuasion or personal opinion of the President” for sharing Grusch’s UFO claims.

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Reports: David Wilcock, Former Star of "Ancient Aliens," Dead at 53

4/22/2026

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In the wake of an FBI investigation into the statistically unremarkable deaths and disappearances of a handful of government scientists linked to nuclear secrets and UFOs, I sarcastically observed in an earlier blog post that proportionally more cast members from Ancient Aliens had died this year than government scientists. Sadly, my prescient comment became still more accurate with the news that David Wilcock, an early cast member of Ancient Aliens, who left the show following controversy, died April 20 at the age of 53, according to social media posts from Wilcock’s friend and onetime media partner Corey Goode and from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a congressional UFO advocate who has also posted ancient astronaut content. [UPDATE: The Boulder County Sheriff's Department confirmed the deceased was Wilcock on Wednesday evening.]

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The Surprising History of the Sea Monsters That Destroyed Alexandria

4/20/2026

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This weekend, I worked on translating chapters from ibn ’Abd al-Hakam and al-Mas‘udi on the foundation of Alexandria. These chapters contain a mixture of history, legends associated with the Alexander Romance, and fossilized bits of more ancient mythology, particularly references to the Arabian myth cycle of Shaddād bin ’Ād, the legendary builder of Iram of the Pillars and the pyramids. In Arabic myths, Alexandria wasn’t merely the city Alexander built but rather the successor to a marvelous ancient city called Raqūdah. As al-Marqizi put it in a marginal note found in his personal manuscript of his book Al-Ḫabar, “Alexander did not found the city of Alexandria as it already existed, being known as Raqūdah (Rhacotis). He rather restored the city and made it the capital instead of Memphis” (trans. Mayte Penelas).

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In Brief: D.C. Politicians Insinuate Conspiracy in Deaths of UFO-Linked Scientists

4/18/2026

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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said he would have his administration look into the deaths of ten scientists with ties to nuclear research and UFOs over the past three years. "I hope it's random, but we're going to know in the next week and a half," Trump said on Thursday. Concern over the deaths arose after William Neil McCasland, who was facing cognitive decline, disappeared, planning not to be found. McCasland gave advice to Tom DeLong when he was looking to started To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science back in 2015 to 2016, and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) began suggesting UFOs were the reason for McCasland's disappearance. Then, the claim ballooned from UFO-linked to nuclear-linked to something vaguer. Mick West explained in detail this week why the deaths and disappearances are statistically within the expected range for normal events, even including murder, and do not form a concerning pattern. I highly recommend reading his piece. It's also worth noting that, in terms of percentages, more cast members from Ancient Aliens have died this year than government UFO scientists, and no one is claiming a plot against the ancient astronaut theory.

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In Brief: Eric W. Davis Says Our Space Alien Masters Are "Anglo" and "Caucasian"

4/17/2026

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In a new interview, Eric W. Davis went all-in on the Holloman Air Force Base alien encounter claim that was fabricated by Robert Emenegger back in the 1970s for a movie commissioned by Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. In an interview on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, Davis alleged that the alien that emerged from the craft at the Air Force Base was "Nordic" in appearance and went all in on how Aryan our alien overlords are: “Out came what looked like a very tall, Caucasian, Homo sapiens-type guy, big in stature, somewhat. It looked like he had an Anglo face, somebody from Europe. People call them the Northern, the Nordics. He did look Nordic-looking--Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian type. And he had a cover over his mouth and nose, and it was surmised that that was a breathing apparatus. Perhaps he couldn't breathe Earth’s air. And then he was holding an unusual staff in his hand that was more than a foot long.”

Davis also claimed that the late former president George H. W. Bush had personally confirmed to him that the U.S. government was in contact with visiting space aliens. He added that the United States has almost forty alien spaceships, most recovered from the ocean.

Naturally, Davis did not provide any evidence for his claims, which amplify tales he has told many times in recent years.

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Social Media Influencer Claims Space Aliens Helped Egyptians Colonize Kentucky

4/14/2026

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Social media user Scott Whitehead made headlines earlier this month when he posted a short video to Facebook and YouTube falsely claiming that Roman helmets had been discovered in North Carolina. Whitehead has 877,000 followers, so his prank, which was posted April 1, spread faster than many social media users were able to process what day it was—prompting an article from Snopes debunking the claim. However, this April Fool’s Day prank is not Whitehead’s only video making outrageous claims about history, and it is distinguished from the others only by how obvious he made the lies. Most of his content is sensational clickbait made up of AI-generated videos, conspiracy theories, and animal videos—much of fake, and all voiced with borderline illiterate narration. And every so often he throws out a false history claim with implications of conspiracy.

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New in My Library: Texts on the Antichrist and the End Times

4/9/2026

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I wanted to share with you a little of what I have been working on this week. In my Library, you'll find a number of new entries, including a brand new section devoted to the Alexander Romance, the Late Antique novel that changed literature forever. I have included a number of public domain translations of the Romance and its offshoots, including my translation of the Coptic fragments, and summaries of the major texts that have never been translated into English.

I became interested in the myth included in some version of the Romance about Alexander locking the tribes of Gog and Magog behind impenetrable gates in the north. This myth found its way into the prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl, which I had previously translated, and then into the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius, which I have translated since, to my surprise, it was only translated into English in the 21st century, in a translation that remains under copyright. Since these latter texts also revolve around the End Times and the Antichrist, I also added my translation of the early and late versions of the letter Adso sent to the Queen of France around 950 CE, The Origin and Time of the Antichrist, providing the first biography of the Antichrist.

This text was highly influential in both content and form, and it's all the more relevant now because Peter Thiel is traveling the world delivering lectures on the biography of the Antichrist, which in turn are influencing the tech industry and Thiel's acolytes in government.

I have some ideas about possibly working this into a book, but I am not sure whether it is worth the time and effort, given how little money books make.

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Josh Gates "Sadly" Concedes Atlantis Wasn't Real on "Expedition Files"

Tim Gallaudet Tells "The Free Press" That "Atlantis Is Not Just Real But Findable"

News Roundup: Second Sphinx, Ancient UFOs, North Korean Alien Tech, and More!

David Grusch Claims to Be Advising Trump Administration on UFOs

Reports: David Wilcock, Former Star of "Ancient Aliens," Dead at 53

The Surprising History of the Sea Monsters That Destroyed Alexandria

In Brief: D.C. Politicians Insinuate Conspiracy in Deaths of UFO-Linked Scientists

In Brief: Eric W. Davis Says Our Space Alien Masters Are "Anglo" and "Caucasian"

Social Media Influencer Claims Space Aliens Helped Egyptians Colonize Kentucky

New in My Library: Texts on the Antichrist and the End Times

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