Category: Mythology

Noah's Ark Researchers Claim Normal Geological Scan Is Proof Durupınar Is Ark

8/24/2026

For much of the past year, the group of evangelical Christians working to prove that Turkey’s vaguely boat-shaped Durupınar Formation is the remains of Noah’s Ark has been on a media tour, spreading their inconclusive claims across major media outlets, including the Today show. They also made some bizarre claims recently about petrified trees and early modern maps. This week Noah’s Ark Scans released yet another in an endless series of nearly identical claims, garnering more media coverage for alleging to have new evidence in favor of their belief. This, however, was little more than hot air aimed at the media, since their own findings proved nothing of the sort, as they themselves admitted.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E15: “Africa’s Extraterrestrial Contact”

8/7/2026

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Following on the heels of the last original episode not composed of clips, the Amazon-themed outing from two weeks ago, we return this week to rehashing familiar ancient astronaut claims by geographic proximity. The topic under consideration is “Africa,” the second-largest continent on Earth and one of exceptional geographic and cultural diversity. But for Ancient Aliens, Africa is the mysterious netherworld beyond civilization. In the old Looney Tune “Porky in Wackyland” (1938), Porky flies into Africa and crosses “Dark Africa” and “Darker Africa” en route to “Darkest Africa,” where surreal mysteries await. It’s hard not to think that Ancient Aliens views Africa—and indeed every part of the world outside the U.S. and Europe—in much the same way. If it were not for Egypt being part of Africa, they might have considered it wholly wild.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E13: “Secrets of the Amazon”

7/24/2026

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After I graduated college in 2003, I briefly worked in the anthropology department at the New York State Museum before being transferred to a different unit. Now, this was back in the day when accessing scholarly information was difficult if you weren’t part of a campus community. I can remember talking with one of the archaeologists on staff there about the discovery of platforms and possible cities in the Amazon, and she was able to get me a copy of the Nature report about it, something the Museum had access to but I, as a civilian—and one with little money—did not. I remember being fascinated to learn that there had been a whole civilization I wasn’t aware of, and I mention this because that happened almost a quarter century ago. Since then, a great deal of work has been done on the settlements of the pre-Contact Amazon, and even Graham Hancock wrote a book about it in 2019 (America Before), in my review of which you will find more information and details.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”

6/26/2026

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Do you remember last week’s Ancient Aliens? Well, the show sure hopes you don’t, since they repeat a chunk of last week’s episode in this one, rehashing the same material about Vedic texts and nuclear bombs from last week. In fact, most of this episode is made up of repeats, rehashes, and outtakes from previous episodes, sometimes featuring dead people and sometimes strung together so poorly that Giorgio Tsoukalos occasionally changes clothes and his age while he talks! If putatively the topic is the “wars of the gods,” it is treated as nothing more than a vague theme, with “war” taken to be anything from an all-out nuclear battle to two beings having a disagreement to popping a balloon. One gets the feeling that the producers needed an extra episode and decided to construct one out of leftovers.

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Professor Who Claimed Satan Was an Asteroid Says Dante Predicted Plate Tectonics

6/20/2026

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A couple of months ago, I offered a critique of the presentation English professor Timothy Burbery was scheduled to give to a European space conference in which he claimed that the fall of Satan in Dante’s Inferno offered an early attempt to grapple with the physics of a large, asteroid-type body hitting the Earth, resulting in a “remarkably accurate description” of an impact crater. I noted at the time that Dante’s depiction of Satan’s fall bears scant resemblance to the actual physics of such a collision and that Dante’s poem has too little detail to draw any solid conclusions about his conception of the science involved.

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Read "Secrets of the Serpent," My New Piece in "Archaeology" Magazine

6/5/2026

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My new piece on the secrets of Ohio's Serpent Mound is now available in the July/August issue of Archaeology magazine in print and online for Archaeology subscribers. I examine exciting new research into the cosmology and mythology behind North America's largest effigy mound.

Serpent Mound in southern Ohio stretches some 1,350 feet from its coiled tail to its jaws, which appear to be closing around an oval mound. Archaeologists still debate when the earthwork was first constructed and by which culture. Recently, a team of researchers has suggested that the earthwork embodies a Native American creation narrative.

Read the full story in Archaeology magazine.

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They're Demons! An Infernal Explanation Is Rapidly Becoming a Major UFO Theory

6/2/2026

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I will admit to being surprised by the sudden turn ufology took into Satanic Panic. Over the last few weeks, the leading lights in government ufology appear to have reached a consensus that UFOs are in fact demons. Literal demons. From Hell. After Vice President JD Vance announced his belief that flying saucers are the Prince of the Air’s private jets, all hell—metaphorically—broke loose in the UFO world, with other Republicans jumping on the license to talk about Fallen Angels, Nephilim, and demons. This culminated over the weekend in a New York Times report about the possibility that flying saucers are aerial demons—a claim so absurd that it’s hard to imagine another time when the Paper of Record would openly entertain such a thought.

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Tucker Carlson Discovers Nephilim Theory, Claims Elites Are Demon Hybrids

5/30/2026

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On Friday, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson devoted his show to the Nephilim, interviewing pastor Stephen de Young of the Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Louisiana about the biblical beings, which de Young claims are demonic hybrids who have infiltrated the upper echelons of our society. During the interview, Carlson—allegedly a Christian and a promoter of Christianity—claimed he was unaware of Genesis 6 or the Nephilim narrative until four years ago, when “someone mentioned it to me. And in the subsequent years, I must have had 15, 25 conversations about the Nephilim.”

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Did a Sixteenth Century Map Show Noah's Ark as the Durupinar Formation?

5/28/2026

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Recently, the creationists at Noah’s Ark Scans have been trying to drum up more interest in their claim that the Durupinar formation eighteen miles south of Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the Ark. To that end, the group’s leader, Andrew Jones, has been on a media tour promoting his claim that a scan found a thirteen-foot tunnel running through the Ark-shaped rocks, which geologists insist is actually a natural formation. Genesis 8:4 specifies that the Ark landed upon the mountains of Ararat, but Durupinar is located near the base of Mount Tendürek.

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Professor Claims Dante's "Inferno" Offers "Accurate" Depiction of Asteroid Impact

5/13/2026

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Last week, a professor of English claimed that Satan’s fall to Earth in Dante’s Inferno was an accurate description of a meteor strike on the planet. Timothy Burbery of Marshall University made the claim that Dante engaged in a thought experiment in impact physics to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on Friday, where he claimed that Dante provided a description of the impact crater created by a meteor impact and the resulting shock waves that anticipated modern scientific understanding of “modern meteorics,” including non-Euclidean mathematical modeling.

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Noah's Ark Researchers Claim Normal Geological Scan Is Proof Durupınar Is Ark

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E15: “Africa’s Extraterrestrial Contact”

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E13: “Secrets of the Amazon”

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”

Professor Who Claimed Satan Was an Asteroid Says Dante Predicted Plate Tectonics

Read "Secrets of the Serpent," My New Piece in "Archaeology" Magazine

They're Demons! An Infernal Explanation Is Rapidly Becoming a Major UFO Theory

Tucker Carlson Discovers Nephilim Theory, Claims Elites Are Demon Hybrids

Did a Sixteenth Century Map Show Noah's Ark as the Durupinar Formation?

Professor Claims Dante's "Inferno" Offers "Accurate" Depiction of Asteroid Impact

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