Category: Atlantis

Graham Hancock Appears on Podcast to Defend Life's Work Ahead of Heart Surgery

6/11/2026

Graham Hancock appeared on The Diary of a CEO podcast today to discuss his life and work ahead of what he says is very serious heart surgery. Hancock said there is a 15 percent chance he will not survive the surgery, and he did not want an upcoming feature about him that he suspects will be hostile to be the last word on his claims about a lost civilization. “One of the failed valves in my heart is causing blood to regurgitate inside the heart rather than pumping it through the body. And that means that oxygenated blood is not getting to my lungs,” Hancock said. “I probably would live another two or three years without the surgery, maybe even five, but the quality of life would be very low. I can’t even walk up three stairs without being exhausted at the moment.”

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

4/30/2026

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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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Graham Hancock Claims Ancient Secret Society “Is Involved in Making Civilizations”

1/19/2026

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In a new interview with Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock claimed that “secret societies” survived the Great Flood, maintain the traditions of the antediluvian world, and continue to influence civilization today. “The mysteries in our past that remain to be exposed do concern secret societies,” Hancock said. “They do concern a behind-the-scenes organization that is somehow involved in making civilizations.” Carlson and Hancock agree that “someone” had “foreknowledge” of the Flood and therefore took precautions to save knowledge.

Graham Hancock reveals that a secret society of elites knows the truth about an ancient flood that wiped out civilization.

But they don’t just know the truth.

They survived the flood.

They’ve controlled civilization for thousands of years.

And they’re preparing to control… pic.twitter.com/KDDxzRlxQt
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) January 19, 2026

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A Dark Carnival: 2025 in Review

12/27/2025

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When I started writing year in review columns in 2017, I intended those columns to be an amusing look back at the follies of the year. But somehow, they have grown into a chronicle of an incipient Dark Age, with each year’s rundown becoming a bit gloomier than that of the year before. This year was an especially depressing chronicle of the growing influence of irrational, paranormal, and conspiratorial thought at the highest levels of power, with Congress, the White House, and the billionaire class joining the major media in promoting—and apparently believing—insane notions ranging from space alien visitation to the imminent arrival of the Antichrist. By contrast, the traditional sources of occult and pseudohistorical claims—cable TV and book publishing—all but closed up shop, conceding the ground to Washington, D.C.

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Filmmaker Claims "New Evidence" of Egyptian Atlantis Knowledge, But It's Just Plato

11/5/2025

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Giorgio Tsoukalos recently started referring to the December 2017 New York Times story that launched the current wave of Congressional UFO interest as “the Pentagon Papers,” and that wasn’t even the dumbest thing a fringe pseudo-historian said this past week. When I saw the Daily Mail headline promising “Astonishing New Evidence of Atlantis Reveals Advanced Civilization Preserved by Ancient Egypt’s Priests,” I will admit that I did not have terribly high hopes. It is the Daily Mail after all. But, truly, the article, available only to premium subscribers (a free version is archived here), boggles the mind. You will never believe that the Mail considers “new”—or pretends to, since it’s obvious that reporter Stacy Liberatore understands that it’s bullshit but had to write it anyway.

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Another New Documentary Claims to Reveal the True Location of Atlantis ... Again

6/4/2025

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A new three-part documentary series claims to have found the lost continent of Atlantis, but producers say that they won’t tell you where they found it until the film series premieres at some unspecified future date. “I’ve seen documentaries that are conjectures,” one member of the film team said. “We have something physical, which matches what Plato described.” Atlántica producers plan to present their film at the Cosmic Summit 2025, taking place on June 20. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait that long because the team behind Atlántica already shared their findings in 2018 and again in 2023, and they were, let’s say, not conclusive.

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André Thevet and the "Evidence" for Atlantis in America

4/26/2025

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As you know, tracking down primary sources is one of the rabbit holes I can’t escape, so when I started flipping through Lewis Spence’s 1925 book Atlantis in America and came across his evidence that the Native peoples of the Americas had Atlantis traditions, I of course wanted to see the originals for myself. I was particularly taken by a quotation he gave on page 68, which Spence says comes from the “Tupi-Guarani of Brazil” and was recorded by “Thevet.” No other information is given to identify the source of an interesting take about a heavenly fire and a subsequent flood—a story later writers would identify as a comet that destroyed Atlantis:

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A Dull Slog: 2024 in Review

12/27/2024

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Each year, it’s a little more difficult to write a seemingly lighthearted review of the year in weird. This year was both personally and professionally a bit of a struggle as A.I. continues to eat away at my day job and the closure or collapse of a number of media outlets has made it more difficult place stories in paying publications. I lost my gig as a CNN Opinion columnist right when it was starting because CNN shuttered the entire division. As the year came to an end, about one-third of my income for the year remains outstanding from businesses that are dragging their feet on payments and have been since early fall. That has made it difficult to devote too much energy to caring about whatever old claims the usual cadre of kooks and weirdos are recycling on any given day.

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Graham Hancock Defender Claims Proof of the Atlantis Myth's Egyptian Origin

7/18/2024

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In a posting on X today, Graham Hancock announced that “archaeologists aren't going to like” a new article Hancock posted to his website, implying that the argument convincingly challenges scholarly views. Written by Manu Seyfzadeh, a dermatologist who hunts for the Atlantean Hall of Records, the article seeks to prove that Plato drew on a genuine ancient Egyptian tradition of Atlantis when he ascribed the allegory of Atlantis to a story the Egyptians told his distant ancestor Solon in the sixth century BCE. However, Seyfzadeh admits to having no training in Classics or Egyptology, and his arguments are rather transparently ignorant of the broader context of Near Eastern cultures.

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Graham Hancock Appears on Podcast to Defend Life's Work Ahead of Heart Surgery

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"

Graham Hancock Claims Ancient Secret Society “Is Involved in Making Civilizations”

A Dark Carnival: 2025 in Review

Filmmaker Claims "New Evidence" of Egyptian Atlantis Knowledge, But It's Just Plato

Another New Documentary Claims to Reveal the True Location of Atlantis ... Again

André Thevet and the "Evidence" for Atlantis in America

A Dull Slog: 2024 in Review

Graham Hancock Defender Claims Proof of the Atlantis Myth's Egyptian Origin

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