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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E23 "Faces of the Gods" (Special Edition) and S07E01 "The Reptilians"

7/25/2014

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The H2 network knows where its bread is buttered, and there is a good reason that so much of its schedule is devoted to day-long blocks of Ancient Aliens reruns. Tonight H2 makes explicit the network’s almost complete dependence on fringe history programs to sustain itself as an independently profitable arm of its parent, History, and their shared overlord, A+E Networks. In the course of the three hours of primetime, H2 showed a new episode of Ancient Aliens: Special Edition followed by the seventh season premiere of Ancient Aliens and the first entry in Ancient Aliens star and consulting producer Giorgio Tsoukalos’s new ancient astronaut series In Search of Aliens. This is too much even for my seemingly boundless patience for fringe history.

This blog post will review Ancient Aliens S06E23 “Faces of the Gods” (Special Edition) briefly and then Ancient Aliens S07E01 “The Reptilians” in a bit more depth. A separate post will review In Search of Aliens, but tomorrow. I can only take so much at once.

Faces of the Gods

“Faces of the Gods” is the latest Ancient Aliens “Special Edition” clip show made up of parts of earlier episodes from the show’s first six seasons. In my previous reviews of the Special Edition episodes, I took the opportunity to comment on some of the material I had not covered in earlier reviews, particularly claims from the show’s first two seasons, which I did not review at the time that they aired. (It was before I was blogging regularly.) Since “Faces of the Gods” is yet another clip show, there isn’t really a lot of new material to comment on.

The show looked at the Nazca culture from an early episode and asked why elongated skulls exist. We all know about head binding, which has existed for millennia and was still practiced in historic times. Even the old segment notes this. This leaves only the claim that skulls were bound in honor of the aliens, specifically the Greys, which is unprovable. Robert Schoch thought that the skulls were elongated to indicate greater mental powers, which implies an understanding of the brain as the seat of thought that did not necessarily exist in every ancient culture. (The Egyptians thought we think with our hearts, for example.) He also doesn’t believe that humans can come up with ideas independently; therefore, everything is connected somehow.

Nick Pope is seen in this episode from a clip from an early appearance. He’s reused here shortly after he claimed that the show was “borderline racist.” What does that make his participation?

After the break, we discuss the Lovelock “giants,” which I have written about before. As always, the claim is less than Ancient Aliens claims, particularly in the fact that there were no “red haired” Caucasian giants, and the actual skeletons excavated at the cave were normal sized. We see again the infamous clip in which David Childress compares a normal sized skull to a dental impression of teeth, not recognizing the jaw bones and gums are not the same thing. I’ve criticized this segment before. The show then discusses other giants, such as Goliath.

After another break, the show discusses whether angels are really aliens since they can fly. Funny how ancient aliens can float about in the air, but modern aliens need spaceships with doors and ramps. Angels, the show said, had jet packs. This segment was filmed before the show discovered antigravity conspiracy theories.

The next segment after the commercial takes up Dean Winchester’s mantra that “angels are dicks” and explains various conspiracy theories about why evil angel-demon-aliens like Lillith want to do us harm. To do this, we cover various gods who demanded human sacrifice and blood rituals. I was surprised to see David Skal show up to discuss one of these blood gods. Skal wrote The Monster Show (2001), a history of the horror genre founded on Freudian sex claims (werewolves as masturbation panic—hair palms—for example) that enraged me enough that I wrote Knowing Fear in response to it. The show decides vampires are aliens, too. It’s all in my review of the episode from which this came.

After the break, we talk about mermaids and fish people. One might think fish people from under the sea wouldn’t be associated with aliens from outer space, but you’d be wrong. You see, Poseidon was a horny fish alien, and fish people are his hybrid offspring. The show claims that the myth of Kronos vomiting forth the Olympians refers to the aliens (i.e. the Watchers) who had sex with human women (Genesis 6:4) being expelled from the starship Kronos, with Poseidon being among these Watchers. Go figure. The story of the Telchines, metallurgist sea creatures destroyed for misusing magic, is told most fully in Ovid, Metamorphoses 7 but can be found in many other sources, with the oldest allusion (though not by name) in Pindar in Olympian 7.

The show concludes by talking about fallen angels and djinn and discussing, in Tsoukalos’s words, the fact that good and evil “permeate the entire universe” in a Manichean dichotomy. Apparently our ethnocentric view of the world is shared by space aliens. Oh, and genies in bottles are really holograms.

The Reptilians

Now we can turn to the first episode of Season Seven, “The Reptilians.” It’s strange to think that that Ancient Aliens has aired seven seasons over five calendar years, but as I learned from the History networks themselves last year, the public can’t get enough of the show. Even if ratings for original episodes have declined more than 50% from their season two peak (when the show aired on the History channel proper), it’s still the most consistent draw on H2. However, the show’s audience has apparently solidified into a consistent core, and this means that fewer curious viewers are coming new to the show, and fewer are seeking out my reviews of the show. In fact, as Ancient Aliens has grown long in the tooth and foolish in its claims, my reviews of the show have declined steadily in readership.

As a result, I don’t feel it’s really worth the effort to discuss each new episode point for point as I have done in seasons past. It takes a long time, and with fewer people reading these reviews, it doesn’t make sense to devote so much effort. Instead, for this season, I’m going to try to summarize more and focus primarily on claims and material that I have not covered before in reviewing the series. If I do it right, it should mean shorter but sharper reviews. Of course, I tend to overdo everything, so chances are the reviews will still come out longer than I want. We’ll see.

Before we begin, I’ll point to an earlier essay I wrote about the history of the Reptilians to save myself the trouble of repeating material about how the claims originated in Victorian ideas about global serpent worship as filtered through Theosophy’s root races and Robert E. Howard’s pulp fiction. It’s worth noting at this point that episode S04E03 “The Greys” had a lengthy segment on the Reptilians, which the show at that point claimed were the hybrid offspring of Greys and dinosaurs. In both episodes we get David Icke himself opining on the lizard people. Funny how their control of the media fails to stop him from appearing on TV.

We open with a creature encounter story from South Carolina in 1988, which touched off a Lizard Man scare. This is probably just as credible as the Mothman scare and other similar claims. No Lizard Man or evidence of one (footprints, scales, bodies, etc.) were ever found. The show notes that similar stories have been told recently all over the world—not coincidentally after the rise of Reptilian mythology in UFO circles and science fiction.

Jason Martell and Giorgio Tsoukalos tell us that this is somehow connected to serpent gods like Quetzalcoatl and Medusa. The show does not care to distinguish between anthropoid lizards and giant snakes—or just plain snakes, frankly. They mix and match at will without establishing the criteria for declaring various snakes as “Reptilians.” Tsoukalos also falsely asserts that the snakes came from the sky when in fact most myths have them come up from the earth.  The show claims that the Serpent of Genesis was a Reptilian alien, and the djinn are also asserted to be Reptilians although Islam considers them fiery spirits (Qur’an 15:27). The show’s experts are right that snakes were considered magical, but this is usually explained as deriving from the fact that snakes shed their skin and therefore appeared to rejuvenate themselves.

After the first break, we talk about G. Warren Shufelt, a hoaxer who claimed in 1934 to know the location of the lizard people’s underground city after talking to a Hopi elder. He convinced the city of Los Angeles to let him dig under the city for the lizards’ tunnels, finding nothing. Shufelt attributed the story to the wrong Native people, however. There is nothing in Hopi myth about Reptilians, as Brian Dunning found in trying (and failing) to locate the origin of the story. The story, as I reported, is first seen in a book about the Zuni, who explained their myth this way:
Men and creatures were more alike then than now. Our fathers were black, like the caves they came from; their skins were cold and scaly like those of mud creatures; their eyes were goggled like an owl’s; their ears were like those of cave bats; their feet were webbed like those of walkers in wet and soft places; they had tails, long or short, as they were old or young. Men crouched when they walked, or crawled along the ground like lizards. They feared to walk straight, but crouched as before time they had in their cave worlds, that they might not stumble or fall in the uncertain light.

 Source: Katharine Berry Judson (ed.), Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912), 24.
No one explains what this has to do with aliens from the sky, but the show likens this story to the naga serpents of Indian myth, who are snakes, not anthropomorphic lizards. At this point, we get a classic ancient astronaut claim—they show Sumerian figures with slanted eyes that Erich von Däniken likened to aliens decades ago. The trouble is that such claims are plausible only if one denies that Sumerians were capable of drawing on natural imagery in anything more than literal copying of what they saw. Did the Egyptians literally see ibis-headed people? Only Erich von Däniken thinks so.

After the break, the show revisits its earlier discussion of aliens and dinosaurs from S04E10 and suggests that dinosaurs could have evolved into humanoids, all without leaving a trace in the fossil record for 65 million years. Nick Redfern even goes so far as to say that the Reptilians are not extraterrestrials! Then what are they doing on this show? The show wants us to believe that because dinosaurs evolved into birds, then they could also have evolved into humanoids. So why did the bird ancestors leave fossils but not the Reptilians? One suggestion given is that the Reptilians evolved on another planet from dinosaur samples taken from the earth. All of this crap was discussed in S04E10 “Aliens and Dinosaurs,” and I am disappointed that in the first episode of the seventh season, they are blatantly repurposing earlier material.

Jason Martell tells us that the Reptilians have an “agenda,” though he doesn’t say what it is, and the show goes to commercial asserting that human DNA could contain alien-reptile secrets.

After the break, the show examines human vestigial tails and, in what I guess is progress, accepts the idea of evolution. Humans and reptiles shared a common ancestor 320 million years ago, but the show more or less decides that genetic errors that lead to the occasional human with webbed fingers or scaly skin could have Reptilian ancestors. The show falsely claims Alexander the Great was sired by a dragon. That is not quite true; Alexander himself claimed his father was Zeus—not a snake. The dragon myth is a very late version from the Late Antique and medieval Alexander Romances. The point of all this is to get David Icke on screen to claim that royal families and superior bloodlines have hidden Reptilian blood. But this is more repeat material, this time from S04E03 “The Greys,” and the show does nothing with the claim. Apparently even Ancient Aliens shies away from claims of pure and impure bloodlines.

After the break, the show talks about the “reptilian brain,” the primitive part of our own brain, which is thematically connected to the Reptilians only in name. The show seems to want to situate the Reptilians—now long forgotten—millions of years in the past, but basically the show is pretty much just talking about reptiles at this point. There is an uncomfortable part where we hear from a woman whose name I missed that the reptilian brain would have men raping women for sex because, apparently, rape is an “instinct.” The narrator, ignoring this, asks if reptilian parts of our brain mean that there were Reptilians who had whole reptile brains. You see, the show seems to think that the “reptilian brain” is actually derived directly from reptiles and represents the cold, unemotional, evil nature of the Reptilians, or Rape-tilians, if we believe what we’ve heard tonight. David Icke asserts that this reptilian brain was “infused” into us by the Archons, Gnostic servants of the Demiurge, whom Icke says were Reptilian, though this is not at all clear from Gnostic texts where they are spiritual beings associated with the stars and the spheres.

We finish the hour with additional recent alien abduction stories featuring Reptilians. As Nick Redfern accidentally makes plain in describing the contactees as waking up in the middle of the night paralyzed while lizard people look at them, these encounters are almost certainly waking dreams during periods of sleep paralysis. I encountered this once myself. Many years ago I woke up paralyzed and saw a reptile-like “alien” crawling on me. But being somewhat less convinced of the reality of monsters than this crowd, I forced myself to touch the creature, which vanished. And then I woke up. It was a realistic dream, but a dream nonetheless, unless the alien had the courtesy of replacing the blankets I removed in the dream as it vanished.

Icke and Childress tell us that the Reptilians want to take over the world, but Redfern thinks we are cattle being farmed for their use. Tsoukalos doesn’t believe we are the Reptilians’ slaves and opposes claims of an evil Reptilian agenda, which is rather self-serving since Icke’s paranoid, dark version of events competes directly with the Tsoukalos-Von Däniken sunnier horny-alien hypothesis whereby the aliens are our friends, not our enemies. We are meant to worship the aliens and pay their high priests (i.e. ancient astronaut theorists), not fear the aliens! Who would pay money for that?

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.
7/25/2014 03:49:47 pm

Jason --- Luv --- good review --- toss in a few LYSERGICs
as in LSDetc and thee bee almost Hunter Thompson
GONZO! okaaaaayy --- is AE about to really tank this fall or
is AA going to go off the public FCC approved airwaves and
only be a SETI signal to the stars out there in Carl Sagan's
COSMOS? can AA, AE + GT's spin-off of AA all turn a profit?
does one of the three tank to the degree we see a cancellation?

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.
7/25/2014 03:58:28 pm

BABYLON FIVE as a TV series was very well written by JMS.
many STAR TREK novels from the 1970s onwards were
for the " trekkie" or trekker fans. the tv series "V" implies
there are "good" reptile alien who are sapient an' there
are very clever "bad" ones who like to munch on human
flesh about as often as the Zombies of THE WALKING DEAD.

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Scott Hamilton
7/25/2014 04:39:59 pm

It's bad enough when fringe types take legitimate scientific concepts and misinterpret or exaggerate them for their own purposes, like quantum mechanics or "Mitochondrial Eve." But when a scientist says something kinda stupid, like Dale Russell and his "dinosauroid," it's even more frustrating to me when it becomes such a standard part of fringe scholarship.

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BillUSA
7/25/2014 05:52:53 pm

Pardon me, sir. But I hope you used the word "scholarship" lightly here.

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Only Me
7/25/2014 05:26:59 pm

Those damn "extah-terrestrials"!

I eagerly await the first use of the Reptilian Defense in a future rape case. Not to be confused with the more common Chewbacca Defense, by the way.

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EP
7/25/2014 06:48:38 pm

Fear the Rape-tilians of Uranus!

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Only Me
7/26/2014 08:08:58 am

He's climbin in your windows
He's snatchin your people up
Tryna rape em so y'all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife

And hide your husband cuz they're rapin everybody out here

EP
7/25/2014 06:18:13 pm

"Robert Schoch thought that the skulls were elongated to indicate greater mental powers, which implies an understanding of the brain that did not exist until modern times."

Not sure I get how it implies what you say it does... What am I missing?

" Nick Pope is... reused here shortly after he claimed that the show was “borderline racist.” What does that make his participation?"

Did he say that before or after the episode was produced? If the latter, would they have the rights to do that just to spite him?

"Funny how ancient aliens can float about in the air, but modern aliens need spaceships with doors and ramps."

Not in Kentucky they don't!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

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Clint Knapp
7/25/2014 08:11:22 pm

I believe the bit about "an understanding of the brain that did not exist until modern times" is an allusion to Egyptian burial rites in which the brain is essentially discarded as a useless lump and emphasis is placed on the heart as the center of thought and seat of the soul.

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Jason Colavito link
7/26/2014 12:56:36 am

Yes, that was what I was referring to. I've clarified it in the post above. It was late, and I was writing fast and wasn't as clear as I could have been. Two hours of Ancient Aliens will do that to a person.

EP
7/26/2014 05:46:25 am

That's not quite what's giving me trouble. I assumed Jason had something like this in mind. What's giving me trouble is how one goes from that to the claim that association of intelligence with brain or skull features implies modern understanding of the brain.

(1) It's one thing to think that intelligence resides in the heart (Egyptians) or lungs (ancient Greeks) and another to fail to notice that intelligence has something to do with what goes on in the head. Presumably, people didn't need ancient Egyptian or Greek science to associate head trauma with cognitive impairment...

(2) Association of intelligence with the head is implied by modern knowledge of human biology. However, it may be made on the basis of a number of other theories, or simply be observation-based bit of forlk wisdom. Therefore, Jason *still* reads as though he's getting the direction of implication wrong.

(3) Finally, we do not, as far as I'm aware, know enough about the Nazca culture to tell what their beliefs were about the metaphysics of the soul or the physiology of intelligence. Association of head binding with intelligence is obviously merely conjectural. However, when treated as such it's not at all unreasonable for reasons I already mentioned.

Jason's criticism is therefore both too strong and mistaken in detail (direction of implication).

Jason Colavito link
7/26/2014 06:23:54 am

Since Schoch was describing brain power as producing psychic phenomena and/or alien wisdom, I'm not sure there is a serious way to critique his idea. Nor is it clear that anyone in those days believed a "bigger" brain led to greater mental powers.

EP
7/26/2014 07:08:21 am

Something along the lines of "Schoch's attempt to conntect skull shape to psychic powers or alien wisdom is supported neither by what we know about the Nazca nor by what we know about the brain", perhaps?

Don't get me wrong - the only reason I go on about this is to help you protect yourself from gotcha criticisms from people who are all too eager to score easy points against the skeptics :)

EP
7/25/2014 06:38:24 pm

"denies that Sumerians were incapable"

I think you meant "capable"...

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Jason Colavito link
7/26/2014 12:53:19 am

Fixed.

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spookyparadigm
7/26/2014 07:57:43 am

If you're talking about heads and Nazca, you should look at the work of Proulx and others on trophy heads as material elements of farming fertility rituals.

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EP
7/26/2014 08:52:40 am

You know what bugs me about his discussion? He doesn't really motivate the suggestion that a central purpose of warfare for the Nazca was acquisition of trophy heads for propitiating nature spirits. In fact, he doesn't really give any argument for their use in fertiluty rituals other than that shamans are sometimes depicted handling them.

As far as I can tell, the mass burials of heads are just as likely to be something like the trophies set up by ancient Greeks at cites of victories as they are to be what Prolux proposes they are.

I wonder if he isn't implicitly assuming parallels with Meso-American cultures, which aren't really supported by positive evidence...

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spookyparadigm
7/26/2014 02:59:22 pm

If I remember correctly, Proulx's work is primarily based on iconography. I also don't remember mass burials of Nazca heads, though I could be wrong about that. They're associated not just with shamans, but with the elongated beasties in the iconography.

By contrast, Mesoamerican use of heads is exactly like the trophies you suggest. The tzompantli was a trophy rack and terror instrument, and sections of a number of them have been found (not just the bases, but the heads), going back to the Late Preclassic in the Cuicatlan Canada of Oaxaca, IIRC.

You're right that without a writing system, it's a little harder to interpret Andean ideology through ethnohistory and iconography.

spookyparadigm
7/26/2014 03:02:49 pm

Here, for example, he does in fact suggest that actual heads were used as trophies, as amulets, and so on. But that they had a meaning informed by association with fertility, as seen in the iconography.

http://people.umass.edu/proulx/online_pubs/Nasca_Iconography.pdf

EP
7/26/2014 03:21:44 pm

The Meso-American analogy is with the role of war, not with the use of heads. The Nazca treatment of heads is quite specific. (And Prolux himself discusses mass burials. Indeed, in at least some of his work, it is an important part of the case for the fertility association.)

I am agnostic about the question of their use. But if we are going to accept that they had talisman-like function, then the claim that "they had a meaning informed by association with fertility" strikes me as theoretically both intert and unmotivated.

If the only thing remaining of Christianity was a few crucifixes, the claim that Christians practiced human sacrifice would be admissible as a hypothesis but hardly supported by evidence. The fertility association strikes me as something like that...

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Shane Sullivan
7/26/2014 11:19:08 am

"Tsoukalos also falsely asserts that the snakes came from the sky when in fact most myths have them come up from the earth."

Not only that, but I'm pretty sure he's stated in the past that stories of snakes and serpentine dragons in the sky were really poetic descriptions of spaceships. Now they're reptilians. Mercurial, this ancient astronaut theory, ain't it?

"Did the Egyptians literally see ibis-headed people? Only Erich von Däniken thinks so."

Correction: Ibis-headed people who were sometimes baboons. You know, just like aliens!

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.
7/26/2014 12:01:05 pm

E Wallis Budge 101 --- Horus's head is like that of a falcon
or an eagle or a hawk, he does not look at all IBIS or baboon.
Assuming that DNA splicing prior to Imhotep's pyramid design
let the E.Ts create humans who could Chimera morph what is our current & modern categories we have 4 species + genus
and this is in tandem to leaping across solar systems is AA's
$64,000 breadwinner question! Shamanism is often in tandem
with magical spells and totemic identifiers for kinship units. we
can assume its easier for sapient humans to create masks,
modern labs that let one DNA splice are a quantum leap
past Clovis flint knapping. Some of the legendary prehistoric
cave paintings had abstract art. Today's tribal cultures had ritual
masks that inspired the artist's of Paris's Left Bank about a
century ago. Our species since the arrival of Homo Erectus
had a highly developed sense of culture. Brain size has been
a loose plateau for 300,ooo years. We've been hunter/gatherer
and into endurance hunting for easily 2.5 million years. Classic
STAR TREK postulates a galaxy of evolved beings much like us.
GT has been in rarefied form. Drakes Equation is a loose rule
and aptly done from a sociological 'soft science" assumption.

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.
7/26/2014 12:11:32 pm

random thought --- itz a SNAKENADO instead of Sharknado?
Aurora Borealis was once global? Mr.GT is not into forest
canopies? or even Survivalist YouTubes? --- he has a gig.
back to thinking of worms, snakes and wurms or even old
fossils of lungfish, let alone 5 billion years of Gaia's geology.
Whales were once brighter than our ancestors prior to bold
PROCONSUL, they once walked about on four limbs. we may
have been bipedal for ten million years, or perhaps not. we
most likely were bipedal five million years ago. Snakes do not
have fins, whereas fish do. skySerphants = auroraBorealis???

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John
7/26/2014 12:17:33 pm

The History Channel itself just sunk to an all time low by putting David Icke on there.

Icke has been using his crazy conspiracy theories about aliens for a while now to make himself rich. He shows absolutely zero proof of his wild and bogus claims, it's always some excuse "they don't want you to see the truth" that usually goes down the conspiracy lane of the usual suspects (Illuminati, Free masons, Jews rule the world, etc etc)

Putting him on your show is like taking a fictional author and taking them seriously, which is exactly what they've been doing with this entire series.

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Zach
7/26/2014 01:46:56 pm

I've always seen David Icke as being like the Ed Wood of the fringe community. Anytime he comes on screen I just crack up.

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EP
7/26/2014 03:24:54 pm

Unlike Ed Wood, David Icke manages to make money in spite of being the bottom of the barrel.

David Icke is the Eddie Murphy of the fringe community.

Zach
7/26/2014 03:39:45 pm

Thats a bit harsh on Eddie Murphy. At least he at one point in his career was a top comedian. If I'm going to base it on him still making money while being at the bottom of the barrel, then comparing David Icke to Tyler Perry is the better analogy.

EP
7/26/2014 03:55:32 pm

David Icke used to be a decent sports announcer (or something).

Holy shit, Icke is the Steven Segal of the fringe community!

.
7/26/2014 11:23:29 pm

i am thinking over the intense eruption of Santorini, the fall
of the Minoan Empire, and the beginning and end of the
Hittite Empire. 1600 B.C is a Hyksos date but 1177 B.C is a
date given for the Sea People's invasion. Plato's Atlantis has
a tragic demise. Mount Etna at about 6000 B.C had a slide
that triggered a mega-tsunami. Is this linked to the Black Sea?
6000 B.C is not 9500 B.C but this story does indicate that
civilization often rebuilds after a catastrophy. The Holocene
Maximum was a warm spell that lasts as the early city-states
become empires. Bronze is being smelted after 6000 B.C
and we see the eventual utulization of alphabets or hieroglyphs.

http://www.earthplatform.com/holocene/maximum

http://www.livescience.com/1170-towering-ancient-tsunami-devastated-mediterranean.html

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JaredMithrandir link
7/27/2014 02:14:51 am

VeliciRaptors are kind of already close enough to the basic Humanoid Shape. 4 limbs but only walks on 2.

I would recommend Chris White's material for dealing with Sleep paralysis.

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jack
7/29/2014 06:48:05 pm

Holy_XXXX I have stopped watching at the middle of season 4 as the show has clearly ran out of idea and they can only milk so much out of all the 'evidences'. So a season 7 is really to me insult to audience intelligence by repackaging stuff covered before again...

Now as I expected they gonna put all the shuttle mission footage, Mar Rover odd pics, strange negatives on the moon bah bah in the new search for Aliens thing...

call that conspiracy going mainstream lol

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CHF01
8/25/2014 06:56:26 am

You know, I thought one of the premises of this show was to open up Erich von Däniken's library of research for in depth analysis and review? Perhaps I'm mistaken. All personal feelings about him put aside, wouldn't that make for much better programming versus the crap were being fed now, case in point The Reptilians episode?

Wouldn't our time spent watching the show about the ancient past and how it possibly influenced us be much more interesting viewing than this complete pile of crap? This and the superheroes episode are fused together junk that have no thought for its audience or long time fans. It's crap like this that damages their earlier seasons, almost beyond repair. I'm used to the speculative approach of the show, but this material is over the top, borderline insanity.

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CHF01
8/25/2014 07:16:32 am

Expanding on this thought: Wouldn't our time be better spent as a viewer pouring over research materials EvD has gathered for over 40 years, examining it's authenticity and possibilities from all angles, be much more interesting and thought provoking than this complete pile of Reptilian crap?

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CHF01
8/25/2014 07:31:43 am

Just to illustrate how much the show has changed since its inception in my world. Whenever I'd talk with friends and co-workers about the show when it first aired, there was quite a bit of water cooler talk discussions. Episodes like Season 2's Unexplained Structures or Season 3's Ancient Engineers sparked a lot of talk, debate and individual research. It was fun and we couldn't wait for more.

Ask the same question now, and I mainly hear laughter. Where each person lost interest varies.

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Al
9/5/2014 02:09:41 pm

I live in South Carolina, and there's something people don't seem to get about our Lizard Man legend or whatever you want to call what happened in 1988. He's not actually a humanoid reptile! He's more of a Bigfoot-like creature.

He's called "Lizard Man" because he looked green to the witnesses when they saw him in their car headlights. Green like a lizard. (Apparently he's green because algae from the swamp gets stuck in his fur. According to the cytrozoologists of course.)

The show could have at least looked for an urban legend/strange occurrences about a lizard-man that really is a lizard x man hybrid for this episode!


It's a bad sign when a paranormal researcher can't even keep things straight in their own "field of expertise."

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12/4/2014 01:15:11 pm

Am I the only one who keeps misreading the title as "Feces of the Gods"?

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        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
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          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
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          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
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          • W. Scott-Elliot >
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          • Fossils and the Supernatural
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          • Man During the Stone Age
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          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
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        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
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        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
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        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
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        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
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        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
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        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
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        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
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        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
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        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
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        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
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      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
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        • The Moon Hoax
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        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
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      • The Cursed Car
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      • Some Words with a Mummy
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      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
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      • H. P. Lovecraft >
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        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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