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Remembering 1976: Fringe History's Biggest Year

8/25/2016

34 Comments

 
Since it was a rather slow day today, I thought it might be a good idea to mark the fortieth anniversary of a seminal moment in fringe history. 1976 saw a wave of epochal fringe events that set the course for the world of aliens, Atlanteans, and other unusual material we are dealing with today. 
Just before the start of the year, in November 1975, Travis Walton alleged that he had been abducted by aliens following a viewing on an NBC TV-movie about the Betty and Barney Hill abduction. The story reached national attention in December thanks to the National Enquirer and set the template for future alien abduction accounts. The story stayed in the news through the early months of 1976 thanks to the ongoing drama over Walton’s polygraph test, administered by the ARPO UFO group in November 1975 and released in February 1976.
 
Meanwhile, in 1976, Erich von Däniken was riding high due to the success of Chariots of the Gods following the widely seen TV adaptation In Search of Ancient Astronauts in 1973. During the summer of 1976, von Däniken even made an attempt to advise then-president Gerald Ford on his reelection campaign, imagining that his popularity would make his counsel about treating UFO believers as a voting bloc welcome to the incumbent. Ford ignored him and lost the election for unrelated reasons. Forty years later Hillary Clinton now runs ads on Ancient Aliens to reach the UFO audience, in part due to her own stated interest in flying saucers and alien abductions, an interest honed in the 1970s.
 
In 1976, no less a figure than Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, set out for Ecuador to try to confirm von Däniken’s claim in The Gold of the Gods that he had entered an artificial cave full of alien gold. The failure of that expedition to find the cave prompted headlines such as “The Charlatan Makes a Fool of Himself” and “Däniken Unmasked!” The negative publicity contributed to a downturn in the career of a man who had formerly been the toast of the media. The embarrassment prompted von Däniken to start work on According to the Evidence, a book in which he blasted the media for attacking him, and starting ancient astronautics down the road to seeking outlets outside of mainstream media to deliver fringe messages without the risk of challenge. Von Däniken’s career did not fully recover until the 1990s and the fringe revival inaugurated by Graham Hancock.
 
He did get a consolation prize, however. In 1976 Walter Ernsting’s novel The Day the Gods Died featured von Däniken as a character, bravely searching for the “truth.”  Von Däniken also wrote the introduction to the novel.
 
Also in 1976 Zecharia Sitchin published his first book, Twelfth Planet, which was published in the wake of the success of von Däniken. In the book, Sitchin claimed that space aliens landed on the ancient earth to mine gold for their wandering planet Nibiru, claims he supported with eccentric interpretations of Biblical and Mesopotamian texts. Sitchin’s book introduced the Anunnaki into fringe history, and later volumes in his “Earth Chronicles” series would eventually equate the mysterious Mesopotamian gods with the Biblical Nephilim.
 
Sitchin’s books, because of their patina of pseudo-scholarship, became highly influential and resulted in seemingly endless copying and recycling, from Elizabeth Claire Prophet’s New Age spirituality to Ancient Aliens continued rehashing of his ancient mistakes.
 
Sitchin’s claims seemed to find an uncanny echo in a photograph of Mars taken by the Viking orbiter in July 1976. Within a month, news spread that a “face” had been discovered on Mars, launching a wave of conspiracy theories about ancient Martian civilizations and their alleged connection to Egypt.
 
That same year also saw the publication of Robert Temple’s Sirius Mystery, another ancient astronaut text that had pretensions of scholarship. Temple had learned about Erich von Däniken through conversations with Arthur C. Clarke and was inspired to write his own “ancient astronaut” book. While Temple’s book was, in truth, based on secondary sources (such as Robert Graves’s Greek Myths) and an unwavering trust in controversial anthropological reports from preceding decades, many were fooled by his copious footnotes into thinking that Temple had produced the first truly intellectual and serious examination of whether amphibians from another world splashed down in the Persian Gulf thousands of years ago.
 
Temple’s book had strangely positive reviews. Time praised its “sophistication” and its “torrent of arcane information,” while the journal Nature claimed that it was a “fascinating book because the nugget of mystery Temple has mined and polished is from a pure vein. … The Sirius Mystery should be taken seriously.”  These were hardly alone. More than a few scholars, mostly in the humanities, rushed to praise Temple’s book despite its manifest shortcomings. Bernard W. Riley lauded Temple for his “philosophical message” raising the profile of indigenous African achievements in the journal African Arts. Even in dismissing the book as flawed, Ronald W. Davis praised it for being “provocative” in the International Journal of African Historical Studies. It remains the best-reviewed ancient astronaut book of all time, and the one with the widest scholarly acceptance, though this damns it with faint praise.
 
Temple’s book went on to inspire Afrocentrists because of its praise of the Dogon, an African people. But more importantly, his book’s claims about ancient cities mirroring constellations inspired Robert Bauval, by his own admission, to invent The Orion Mystery, through which Graham Hancock and his “lost civilization” gave the old Atlantis myth the aura of science.
 
Speaking of Afrocentrists, 1976 also saw the publication of They Came Before Columbus, Ivan Van Sertima’s seminal Afrocentric account of how Africans dominated the pre-Columbian Americas. His book was not different in kind from earlier Afrocentric texts going back half a century, but it was different in style, aping the look and feel of 1970s “ancient mystery” books and substituting Africans as the protagonists in order to create a (fictional but) empowering prehistory for African-Americans.
 
Christian conservatives, meanwhile, went in search of Noah’s Ark, and an expedition to climb Ararat in search of it prompted concerned cables in the State Department as the U.S. government worked to help investigators get permission to view sensitive military photographs of the mountain. The State Department also responded to a request for information about Josef F. Blumrich’s von Däniken-inspired book on the Spaceships of Ezekiel.
 
During 1976, the author known only as “Simon” began work on the pastiche of Mesopotamian texts that would become known as the Simon Necronomicon, a book that was published the next year and which helped popularize the hitherto fringe notion of Lovecraftian “magick.”
 
Heck, 1976 was also the year that The Six Million Dollar Man invented the “connection” between Bigfoot and flying saucers (S03E16 and E17, “The Secret of Bigfoot”)! This is the origin point for the “interdimensional” or “supernatural” Sasquatch favored by ancient astronaut theorists and seen on Ancient Aliens 35 years later as “nonfiction.” The more direct inspiration for Ancient Aliens, Erich von Däniken did not see any money, though, from the series spawned by In Search of Ancient Astronauts. Following the death of Rod Serling in 1975, producer Alan Landsburg took it upon himself to continue the televised exploration of ancient mysteries by creating a spin off, In Search of..., which he planned, developed, and began producing in 1976, selling it to local TV stations in syndication for a spring 1977 launch.
 
Yes, 1976 was quite the year. Let’s hope we don’t see its like again.
34 Comments
Scott Hamilton
8/25/2016 01:00:56 pm

One correction: Von Daniken isn't the hero of The Day the Gods Died, though he is a character in it. It's written in the first person, and the protagonist is the author, who helped create the Perry Rhodan series. A note at the beginning explains that though the book is presented as fiction, the events as described really happened.

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Jason Colavito link
8/25/2016 01:25:24 pm

I hadn't read the book and was going by a description in a secondary source. I'll get that fixed.

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Clete
8/25/2016 01:47:21 pm

In Utah, 1976 is a year remembered for the landing and election of an alien from the planet of Pittsburgh. He came, he saw, he was elected and now he remains. I am speaking, of course, of Orrin Hatch, who now stalks the halls of the Senate, but has promised, for whatever that is worth, that will not run for re-election and will return to Pittsburgh with the knowledge that people from Utah will elect anyone who is both L.D.S and Republican.

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Kal
8/25/2016 02:03:21 pm

Are ya sure it was LDS and not LSD these people were on? It was the 70s.

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Clete
8/25/2016 02:43:42 pm

No, it was L.D.S. Remember, this is Utah, coffee is though of as evil.

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Bob Jase
8/25/2016 02:10:38 pm

"Yes, 1976 was quite the year. Let’s hope we don’t see its like again."

I dunno about you Jason but I see it every day :(

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Andy White
8/25/2016 02:23:19 pm

1976 also gave us AC/DC's "High Voltage." I was only five a the time so I didn't fully appreciate it until later. But still.

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Day Late and Dollar Short
8/25/2016 03:00:54 pm

And the Ramones' "Ramones." I like to pretend its year zero for punk rock, but I know lots of people don't agree with that.

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Titus pullo
8/25/2016 06:00:22 pm

I usef to turn up blitzkreig bop as loud as i could after cross country practice on my early boom box in 79. Oh the humanity!

Titus pullo
8/25/2016 02:28:48 pm

Josh u are bringing back memories as I was 12 then. I seem to remember a sh of ufo sittings and that summer we would sit outside watching the sky's or at least some so us were the rest were trying to make out with the girls we convinced ufos were real. Seriously there was this feeling that alien contact was around the corner after the Apollo and social upheaval of the previous decade and all the new age crap that was dominating popular fiction. Close encounters was about to come out. You also have to remember demons and demonic possession was also big that year. By 80 it seemed to me all that stuff was passé. Not trying to get political but after Reagan won I honestly think attention was on the Cold War not aliens at least until the x files but that's my memory from a 12 year old to a 25 year old by the end of the 80s

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GEE
8/25/2016 03:15:13 pm

Where would we be without a little fiction ??

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Thomas Schroeder
8/25/2016 06:09:02 pm

"In Search Of..." with Leonard Nimoy will debut the very next year. It seemed like a real hit at the time. I watched it and enjoyed imagining that some of the content, like big foot and spontaneous human combustion, could be real! I think at least one drummer from Spinal Tap spontaneously combusted.

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Titus pullo
8/25/2016 06:36:52 pm

First i heard of oak island was on that show and the di called miney pit

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JaredMithrandir link
8/25/2016 06:47:29 pm

I'm sure the launch of the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show helped inspired Amazon centric fringe theories.

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Shane Sullivan
8/25/2016 06:56:34 pm

It was also the year Fred Savage was born. As we all know, Little Monsters familiarized a generation of kids with the crazy fringe theory that Howie Mandel was a real person.

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Only Me
8/25/2016 08:15:59 pm

Another thing of note is the amount of science fiction that became popular after 1976.

You had the original Star Wars in '77, followed by Star Trek: The Motion Picture in '79. On the small screen, we had Battlestar Galactica in '78 and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century in '79.

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Andy White
8/26/2016 08:47:19 am

And "Space:1999" ran from about 1975-1977. I loved that show as a little kid. I made the mistake of re-watching some episodes as an adult a few years ago. Awful.

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Titus pullo
8/26/2016 03:07:22 pm

Try the andersons it's attempt at real tv called UFO. Not bad and precluded xfiles by 23 years. Aldo the opening theme is a classic and the women were well for a young man I found them very interesting!

GEE
8/26/2016 04:37:45 pm

What about Space: 1999, Buck Rogers n the 25th Century, Dr. Who and my personal favorite.. Land of the Giants. All shows from the 70s. I was born in 68, guess I was watching re-runs.

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GEE
8/26/2016 04:39:39 pm

We cannot forget "Lost in Space"

-- Danger Will Robinson!!

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Graham
8/26/2016 12:15:24 am

I think that the hosts of the ArchyFantasies podcast said it best for Afrocentism (At least the versions that claim Native Americans could not develop civilisation without outside help and that whites are incapable of 'true' creative thought.) "Poor people, all you have are these lies."

Sadly because it's linked to the 'empowerment' of an 'oppressed people' no one was willing to point out that it used exactly the same shoddy research carried out by the likes of James Churchward.

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Maybe Another Kook
8/26/2016 12:41:09 pm

James Churchward did not write the material used by the Muurish Empire Wahitaw to claim the new world as their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLmI2-2nVo

OTOH, they do reference his brother Albert, but that is also a confused reference as well.
http://blog.my-mu.com/?p=2229

And finally, what research is involved in writing a fairy tale?

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bkd69
8/26/2016 01:56:48 am

More information on the Simon Necronomicon is here:

http://www.nypress.com/the-doom-that-came-to-chelsea/

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Susan Dorbeck
8/26/2016 04:38:38 am

Hey, I was playing first generation Dungeons & Dragons in college in 1976 using a blurry xeroxed copy of the first three books. The discipline of scholarly thinking and the joy of story telling were both feeding me. "In Search of" returned the voice, at least, of Leonard Nimoy to the screen, and the first generation of scientists raised on Star Trek, the original, were starting to recreate our world in its image.

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Andy White link
8/26/2016 09:16:03 am

It's interesting how there seems to be a "generation" of us raised at a time when this stuff was enjoying an upswing in popularity. I have a lot fond childhood memories attached to science fiction, unsolved mysteries, "In Search Of . . .", etc., and I'm still interested in the topics today. The younger people in my class (most probably in their mid-twenties or so) appear to have a weaker emotional connection to the material and less interest in watching the History Channel's current programming. The peak of the wave of fascination with these topics is following us into old age, but there's a trough behind us in the millennials. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

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Shane Sullivan
8/26/2016 11:34:12 am

I actually have the same interests, having come of age in the 90s, when Graham Hancock was bringing lost civilizations back into popularity and crop circles were once again making the rounds in the wake of Bower's and Chorley's prank admission. But I'm pushing 30, so I may have just missed the cut-off age for that fringe wave.

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GEE
8/26/2016 04:44:32 pm

I am absolutely surprised, Andy, They are still a generation of Sci-fi. such as "I am Robot", "War of the worlds" (the new version), "Mnority Report". Maybe it is laid out differently, but the meaning is the same. Aliens.

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Susan Dorbeck
8/27/2016 04:44:57 pm

As a professor in archaeology, you are probably mostly teaching students who love history and prehistory and therefore are attracted to it. Sadly, I'm not sure that is true of the majority of American students outside the field. In my experience, most Americans have little use for history and, unfortunately, find it irrelevant. As for not watching television shows on it, well, how we consume mass media has changed greatly in the past two decades. After all, people will binge watch "Breaking Bad" but who would binge watch Ancient Aliens unless you don't have netflix and the Hostory Channel is doing a marathon on it, and nothing else is on the outdated cable system on one's elderly parent's set?

Matt Mc
8/26/2016 09:21:51 am

Jason, I am not sure the need to bring up the Clinton advertising that runs during AA. The way political advertising works has nothing to do with a specific show but rather packages of times slots purchased. I am sure the Clinton campaign (in these cases they are super pacs) purchases a large series of Prime time time slots on all days across the A&E networks and some of those add just happen to run during AA.

It is not really common for advertisers to target specific shows unless it is they are the highest rated shows on broadcast (not cable) networks. I know that I have seen similar adds during River Monsters, Chopped, and other shows.

I just find it a bit of a stretch to say Clinton is targeting the AA crowd, more likely the super pacs are targeting the demographics of History channel, Animal Planet, and Food Network respectively.

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E.P. Grondine
8/28/2016 11:57:33 pm

Hi Matt -

I was not surprised to see Trump advertising on NASA Watch.

It will be interesting to see what happens next.

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Jamie Eckles link
8/28/2016 10:19:04 am

1976 was the year I read Crash Go The Chariots by Clifford Wilson. I also got to dive at the "Bimini Wall" that year and was very disappointed at there being nothing artificial about it. Wilson's book helped confirm my route out of enchantment with fringe subjects and on a path of skepticism. Finding nothing but beach rock at Bimini confirmed it.

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Christine Erikson link
8/28/2016 04:12:58 pm

Jason, you might enjoy this. http://politicallyunclassifiable.blogspot.com/2012/08/sumerian-eunich-on-rampage-ie-nibiru.html

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bezalel
8/28/2016 08:24:46 pm

6 June 1976 also saw the release of The Omen
I was 10 years old
Scared the bejesus out of me

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Andy White
8/28/2016 10:01:51 pm

The 6th of June was also the day mentioned in the song from the movie "Convoy," which wasn't released until 1978.

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