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Historian Claims 16-Foot "Giants" Are Buried off Malacca

12/20/2016

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It looks like Kanye West is the latest celebrity to fall prey to the pernicious myths promulgated by Ancient Aliens and its fringe history ilk. According to Life & Style magazine, the hip hop artist reportedly declared himself a “star-seed” during his recent hospitalization, telling hospital staff that he is a space alien sent to Earth to save humanity. The term “star seed” is frequently used by New Age types to refer to people who are allegedly from the Pleiades, and it is closely related to the “star children” discussed on Ancient Aliens. Like most New Age claims, it originates in twentieth century, with some accounts suggesting that Brad Steiger introduced it. The only reference to the “starseed” I found from Steiger was from a 1975 discussion of the “Starseed project,” but that referred to planned manned voyages into space. It seems that the next year, in his Gods of Aquarius, Steiger introduced the “Star People” as “humans who come from a special gene pool linked to visits by extraterrestrials.” Sometime around 1980 the references became conflated and the Star People became Star Seed, and later Star Children. Anyway, West must be a fan of New Age and/or UFO material to have internalized such claims.

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"Christian Truther" Alleges That Scientists Are Working to Resurrect Nephilim, Summon Demons to Earth

12/19/2016

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Alt-Right Supporter Uses Atlantis and ESP to Defend "Aryan Heritage," Blames Muslims for "White Genocide"

12/18/2016

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Today I intend to discuss the flawed intellectualism proffered by the so-called alt-right, a term I use here in contravention of recommended media usage because the example I will discuss comes from an intellectual of the alt-right school who denies being a white nationalist while writing approvingly of “Aryan heritage” and of “my support for the Alt-Right’s struggle to prevent another white genocide.” I will forestall efforts to dismiss my critique with arguments over the terminology of white nationalism in order to focus on the faulty arguments and bad history used to erect an alt-right philosophy.

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The Mystical City of Adocentyn: How a Medieval Editing Choice Created an Occult Legend

12/17/2016

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You might remember that a year and a half ago I discussed the story of the 85 statues that Hermes Trismegistus allegedly built at the Mountains of the Moon in order to regulate the flow of the Nile. In reading a book about the history of Hermes Trismegistus, I found that the author made reference to this story, but seemed to know it only from its appearance in the Picatrix, a Latin translation of an eleventh century Arabic text called Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm. The book has an odd history, having been written sometime in the 1000s before being translated into a now-lost Spanish text by order of Alfonso X around 1256-1258, and then from Spanish to Latin sometime thereafter. As a result of its retranslation, the book acquired some odd readings, but what is more interesting is that, like its near-contemporary, the Akhbar al-zaman, it is not an original work so much as a composite of older material.

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There Are Fun Cthulhu Mythos References in IFC's Creepy Comedy "The Mirror"

12/16/2016

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For a bit of a change of pace today, I thought I’d call your attention to a strange new comedy series airing on IFC and available for streaming online called The Mirror. The six-part series is composed of a five-minute video “lessons” created by a cult calling themselves “The Children of the Mirror.” The videos begin as a parody of Christian televangelist programming but degenerate quickly into a bizarre world of paranoia and fear. Personally, I was a little cold toward the show and didn’t quite get on its wavelength, but the reason I mention the series is because of its Lovecraftian references

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Stephen C. Jett Argues for Multiple and Repeated Pre-Columbian Contacts with the Old World in New Article

12/15/2016

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Stephen C. Jett, a retired professor of geography, has been an advocate for hyper-diffusionism for most of his life. A quarter century ago, he appeared in the New York Times as part of an article profiling the “America Before Columbus” convention alongside the usual suspects, who, all these decades later, remain advocates of the same claims with the same evidence and the same arguments: J. Huston McCulloch, Carl L. Johannessen, Nancy Yaw Davis, etc. It’s rather astonishing than in 25 years, the ambiguous evidence and inconclusive arguments have changed nary a lick. Anyway, this is a long way around saying that Jett has a new article in the current edition of EdgeScience to promote his new book Ancient Ocean Crossings in which the 78-year-old editor of the diffusionist journal Pre-Columbiana claims that science is shackled by what he calls “blinder beliefs” that prevent mainstream historians and archaeologists from accepting the truth about pre-Norse transoceanic cultural diffusion.

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Nephilim Theorists Say Donald Trump Is God's Instrument, Claim Rabbis Believe He Is the Messiah

12/14/2016

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One of the minor notes of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was the exposure of the Religious Right’s utter hypocrisy in happily abandoning their claims to moral and ethical superiority in order to gain the momentary political advantage of aligning themselves with the hedonistic Donald Trump. But even I was surprised at the lengths that these pious hypocrites will go to in order to justify the frisson of joy they feel that a sexually amoral vulgarian has become their strength and shield. And they plan to use bizarre efforts to rewrite ancient history in order to glorify Trump as the harbinger of Christ’s Second Coming

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David Wilcock and Corey Goode Hail Trump as Hero Purging Evil Satanic Freemason Liberal Democrats

12/13/2016

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Before we dive into David Wilcock’s bizarre claims about Atlantis and Antarctica (which have now spread to the mainstream tabloid media via repetition across the internet), I want to share something I read in the December 20 issue of Forbes magazine. In an interview with Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the New York Observer publisher told the magazine that politicians recognize that particular television shows attract individuals with specific political opinions:

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Review of "Alien World Order" by Len Kasten: Feminazi Aliens Are Coming for Your Precious Bodily Fluids!

12/12/2016

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Len Kasten is a ufologist who came to the field after he claimed to experience a personal transformation following an encounter with a UFO sometime in the 1960s, when he was in his 20s. (Yes, that would put him on the grayest end of the ufologist spectrum.) He said that he didn’t realize that the UFO had changed him until years after the fact, a claim made both ironic and somewhat depressing by the fact that he holds a degree in psychology from Cornell University. He is also a former acolyte of Edgar Cayce and a one-time Theosophist. One of his previous books reported his alleged conversations with government agents about a secret U.S. exchange program with lizard-people from the planet Serpo. With a pedigree like that, I didn’t hold out much hope for his forthcoming book Alien World Order (Bear & Company, 2017), a volume dedicated to documenting the role of Reptilians in world history, from Atlantis to his fever-dream of a Nazi, Reptilian, and Illuminati occupation of America.

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Scott Wolter on Doing the Work of an Archaeologist: "Really? Why Can't I?"

12/11/2016

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Early Saturday morning, in the wee hours, former television personality Scott Wolter appeared on Coast to Coast A.M. (audio behind paywall) to discuss the so-called Jesus Ossuary, a first century funeral box inscribed with a name some interpret to be that of Jesus, with guest host David Schrader. I must admit that I don’t get the appeal of these kinds of talk radio shows. What do they sound like to people who aren’t already steeped in fringe history? If I didn’t already know about Scott Wolter and his work, I don’t think that the interview would have made any sense at all. Are listeners expected to come to shows like these already up to date on the latest crazy-quilt of claims?

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Historian Claims 16-Foot "Giants" Are Buried off Malacca

"Christian Truther" Alleges That Scientists Are Working to Resurrect Nephilim, Summon Demons to Earth

Alt-Right Supporter Uses Atlantis and ESP to Defend "Aryan Heritage," Blames Muslims for "White Genocide"

The Mystical City of Adocentyn: How a Medieval Editing Choice Created an Occult Legend

There Are Fun Cthulhu Mythos References in IFC's Creepy Comedy "The Mirror"

Stephen C. Jett Argues for Multiple and Repeated Pre-Columbian Contacts with the Old World in New Article

Nephilim Theorists Say Donald Trump Is God's Instrument, Claim Rabbis Believe He Is the Messiah

David Wilcock and Corey Goode Hail Trump as Hero Purging Evil Satanic Freemason Liberal Democrats

Review of "Alien World Order" by Len Kasten: Feminazi Aliens Are Coming for Your Precious Bodily Fluids!

Scott Wolter on Doing the Work of an Archaeologist: "Really? Why Can't I?"

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