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Review of Ancient Aliens S07E16 "The Vanishings"

4/24/2015

34 Comments

 
I give up on trying to number these episodes; the production order and the broadcast order are so far out of whack that I think I will have to give up until season eight. My numbering will continue to follow the order season seven started with, irrespective of the retroactive renumbering. Ancient Aliens S07E16 “The Vanishings” was originally scheduled to run at New Year’s but for whatever reason has been held until now. Lucky us!
Segment 1
We open in Nunavut where the narrator falsely claims that the Inuit have inhabited the area for 4,000 years. The Inuit are the last in a long succession of peoples who lived in the Arctic, but they have only been in the area for centuries, not millennia. Anyway, we are given a campfire story about the disappearance of an Inuit tribe allegedly vanished from Angikuni Lake; however, while Nick Redfern is on hand to tell us that the people of the area disappeared, the story actually comes from an apparent newspaper hoax from 1930. The “photograph” of the empty village was actually from 1909, and the original newspaper story a lie debunked repeatedly, including by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The modern legend derives from Frank Edwards’s Stranger Than Science (1959), which accepted the 1930 newspaper hoax at face value and injected it into fringe history.

After this we hear about early cultures from the Yellow River basin in China and the surprise discovery of a brief, illiterate culture unrecorded in the Chinese histories. It is known as Sanxingdui. The Bronze Age people seem to have ritually destroyed their civilization at the end of their reign, and they left stylized bronze masks whose slanted eyes Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress assert resemble aliens, on the authority of China.org, which mentioned the idea of an alien connection in a 2007 article, in keeping with China’s decades-long fascination with ancient astronauts. It is a half-hearted feint toward the ancient astronaut theory, and barely registers a blip on the crazy scale. I suppose it is not worth mentioning that aliens have only regularly been depicted with slanted eyes since the mid-1960s, whereas the masks resemble heavily stylized Chinese physical features.
Segment 2
In this segment the narrator tries to tell us that Easter Island was once inhabited by a race of giants fifteen feet tall, and Linda Moulton Howe cites Genesis 6:4 and the Nephilim to justify accepting sensationalized European accounts of the Easter Islanders as “Goliath,” but the show neglects to note that the claims for giants are secondhand, produced by European publishers and attributed to sailors. The textual history is too complex to get into here, but of all the early accounts published by the Dutch, there is one, by an “anonymous sailor,” that calls the islanders “giants.” The other contemporary observers failed to note giants, and the text is believed to be a sensational entry in the wonder-story genre of exploration, along with dog-faced men and other medieval monsters that allegedly lived at the world’s edge. David Childress mucks everything up by arguing that the islanders were of two “races,” which has the unfortunate effect of recalling early European classifications of the Easter Islanders as “brown like Spaniards,” white, and “pretty black.”  He meant, though, to declare giants to be a separate race in keeping with the dogma that giants are some kind of hybrid alien species. Since the Easter Islanders did not vanish if Europeans were there to measure them, I do not know how this meets the theme of vanishing.
Segment 3
Now we’re on to Tikal and the fall of the Maya. The Maya did not vanish, but Erich von Däniken and other fringe figures claims that they “disappeared.” This will come as news to the Maya who still live in the Yucatan today, and the show undercuts itself by having a talking head actually briefly note that the Maya still exist! Ancient Aliens and the ancient astronaut theorists seem unable to understand the difference between a culture and the individuals in it. The high culture of cities collapsed, but the people did not cease to be. Instead, they returned to a less complex way of life. But based on this we hear that the Maya chose to leave their cities because they were following the Maya calendar, which somehow mysteriously ordered them to evacuate. It’s a bit hard to trust Ancient Aliens on the Maya calendar since they endorsed the 2012 apocalypse hoax. The show then connects the Maya pyramids to the Pleiades, and David Wilcock tells us that the Maya came from the Pleiades and returned to them. Nick Redfern agrees even though he doesn’t know anything about ancient history, and Linda Moulton Howe tells us that “somebody” took the Maya to the Pleiades.

If so, they took their sweet old time. The Maya cities were abandoned not all at once in 830 CE as claimed on the show but as the result of a process of decline and abandonment occurring over decades, stretching according to archaeological research from 760 to 910 CE. Maya civilization continued after the “collapse,” most notably at Chichén Itzá, and the Maya had politically independent polities down to 1697.

Ancient Aliens is working with outdated ideas, but what else is new?
Segment 4
Now we are on to the disappearance of the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon, a settlement abandoned in the 1100s, likely due to a massive drought combined with systemic political and environmental problems caused by water problems and deforestation. Childress thinks that aliens were involved in the “disappearance” of the Chaco people, who traveled through “a portal” to another dimension. The archaeological evidence instead shows that outlying settlements died out as people moved away, and eventually the main city could not support itself, and its people moved away. I am disturbed, though, that the show’s all-white cast states explicitly more than once that Native people are somehow non-human or are some other species because they came from another dimension and were (or ought to be) deported back there. Linda Moulton Howe correctly notes that civilizations rise and fall, but she fails to see this as related to human cultural patterns. Instead, she and the narrator see failed cultures as non-human or sub-human alien hybrids that are swept off the earth into other dimensions. Amazing, isn’t it, how white Europeans manage to remain full blooded humans unmolested by cultural failure and mass abduction? How stupid would these claims sound if they argued that in 476 CE the Romans “vanished” into a portal in the Coliseum? Why is it less silly to claim it for non-European peoples?
Segment 5
Oh, but the producers must have anticipated the problem! Now we’re in Brown Mountain, North Carolina to look at lights in the night sky. According to the show, individual disappearances that occurred in this region are somehow associated with the lights. However, this isn’t a question of whole cultures of non-humans being sucked back to their alien dimension; instead, this references only individual disappearances, and no one suggests that any of the white people who vanished were sub-human.

In a tacky move, the show discusses the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, believed to have been downed by one or both of its pilots in the Indian Ocean, and relates the disappearance to space aliens and the Bermuda Triangle, though attributing the claim to news media speculation. (The famously ridiculous viewer question read by Don Lemon on CNN comes to mind.) The show then irresponsibly tells the families of hundreds of loved ones who have gone missing around the world over the years that their loved ones may have been abducted by aliens or sucked into other dimensions. Fortunately, they don’t name specific people, but we hear that the aliens have an “agenda” in making people disappear. The aliens supposedly can no longer abduct whole cultures for fear of calling attention to themselves and are carrying out a clandestine program on a smaller scale. And we know this how? Oh, right: Rampant speculation unmoored from anything resembling fact. 
Segment 6
We finish up with a discussion of a mass UFO abduction in Houston, Texas in 1992. Members of a UFO group claimed that a being separately took them in a small craft up to its mothership. I must note that the people did not “vanish” since they were still there to talk about it afterward. A black spot on the moon “proves” the event really happened because it is allegedly the shadow of the mothership, perhaps the least logical conclusion. The humans, who somehow can all read alien language without difficulty, discovered that the aliens had a conveniently placed wall chart of 6,000 years of alien-human history. This period, according to the chart, is coming to an end around now—just like the traditional Christian timeline of the 6,000 years from Creation to the Second Coming! What a coincidence!

The ancient astronaut theorists all agree that humans are the experimental guinea pigs for aliens, and George Noory calls earth a cosmic Island of Dr. Moreau, another oddly Biblical connection, if you recall the story and its Old Testament allusions.  

So, for a show called “Vanishings,” we had a hoax, a few misinterpretations, some true crime, and a bunch of people who came back. They couldn’t even fill one hour with actual vanishings?

34 Comments
spookyparadigm
4/24/2015 03:49:40 pm

"For example, at Copán, the population peaked around 450 CE and declined steadily down to 1200 CE"

If you are basing this on the obsidian hydration argument, this is largely not held by most scholars. The long decline is an interpretation by Freter and is still supported by David Webster, but Geoffrey Braswell has shown issues with the methodology of that study (obsidian hydration requires careful localized monitoring, and Braswell argues that a broad use of limited monitoring for the entire valley created a false normal distribution of noise). A more sudden collapse after 822 CE is more generally accepted for the Copan community, there are Terminal Classic "squatters" using Plumbate and other diagnostic Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic materials in structures that incorporate out-of-place fragments of the ruins, and a sudden collapse is documented throughout the broader Maya lands. The long collapse doesn't square with the prolonged use of Coner-phase ceramics, or as noted the introduction of Terminal Classic materials in reconstructed buildings (see the work of Manahan).

As for the calendar making people collapse, this is an old idea of Dennis Puleston's that made more sense when the "hiatus" was poorly understood (it is now known to mark the Kaan dynasty whupping the Mutul dynasty in the 6th and 7th century, when Mutul's capital at Tikal was seen in 20th century archaeology as the center of Maya civilization).

A relatively sudden collapse does occur, but it is uneven (it occurs less along the coasts, and somewhat later in the north, probably because those areas were better adapted to dealing with drought and were plugged into coastal trade networks), and it isn't terribly mystical (judging from several sites that show evidence of warfare without rebuilding, presumably from being sacked).

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Jason Colavito link
4/24/2015 11:50:33 pm

Excellent point. I will amend this accordingly as soon as I get back to the site editor. I blame it on trying to cover a dozen or more subjects in 60 minutes.

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Only Me
4/24/2015 03:58:32 pm

A severe thunderstorm prevents me from watching TV tonight, but judging from this review, I didn't miss anything.

The only things vanishing are reasons for this bull to continue on-air.

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EP
4/26/2015 10:24:54 am

"A severe thunderstorm prevents me from watching TV tonight"

Are you, by any chance, experiencing missing time and/or sudden and inexplicable soreness of the rectum? :P

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Only Me
4/26/2015 12:03:14 pm

In David Childress voice:

"Is it *pahsibble* extraterrestrials interfered with Only Me's satellite reception, through some koind of advanced technology?"

EP
4/27/2015 07:54:14 am

Stop deflecting, man. We all know you got probed the other day. :P

Only Me
4/27/2015 08:03:46 am

You are so jelly. ;)

EP
4/27/2015 10:29:42 am

It's true :(

Platy
4/24/2015 05:37:14 pm

"I am disturbed, though, that the show’s all-white cast states explicitly more than once that Native people are somehow non-human or are some other species because they came from another dimension and were (or ought to be) deported back there. Linda Moulton Howe correctly notes that civilizations rise and fall, but she fails to see this as related to human cultural patterns. Instead, she and the narrator see failed cultures as non-human or sub-human alien hybrids that are swept off the earth into other dimensions. Amazing, isn’t it, how white Europeans manage to remain full blooded humans unmolested by cultural failure and mass abduction? How stupid would these claims sound if they argued that in 476 CE the Romans “vanished” into a portal in the Coliseum? Why is it less silly to claim it for non-European peoples?"

For the record: "WHEREAS individuals and groups involved in "the New Age Movement," in "the men's movement," in "neo-paganism" cults and in "shamanism" workshops all have exploited the spiritual traditions of our Lakota people by imitating our ceremonial ways and by mixing such imitation rituals with non-Indian occult practices in an offensive and harmful pseudo-religious hodgepodge; and" http://www.aics.org/war.html

So really, nothing new here.

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Platy
4/24/2015 06:04:36 pm

Also: "The fourth root race, the Atlantean, according to Theosophy arose approximately 4,500,000 years ago in Africa from the fourth subrace of the Lemurians in a part of Africa that had been colonized by that subrace in the area now inhabited by the Ashanti.[11] Theosophists believe the Atlantean root race was physically progenerated by the Chankshusha Manu. After they arose in Africa, they left Africa and colonized the continent of Atlantis. The esoteric name of Atlantis is Kusha.[8] The Atlantean root race had Mongolian features; they began with bronze skin and gradually evolved into the red American Indian, brown Malayan, and yellow Mongolian races, because some Atlanteans eventually migrated to the Americas and Asia. The seven subraces of the Atlantean root race were

the Rmoahal
the Tlavati (Cro-Magnons)
the Toltec (a term which Theosophists use as a synonym for American Indians)
the Turanian
the (original) Semites (e.g., the Phoenicians)
the Akkadians, and
the Mongolian, which migrated to and colonized East Asia.
The descendants of the Atlanteans according to traditional Theosophy include those of the Mongolian race, the Malayan race, and the American Indian race as well as some people of what in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was called the "olive-skinned" Mediterranean race.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_race#The_fourth_root_race_.28Atlantean.29

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Joe Shaver
4/27/2015 09:14:35 am

what race are you?

EP
4/28/2015 02:27:48 pm

I'm a Mi-Go, myself. In case anyone's been wondering... :)

Kong Vang
8/7/2015 10:48:15 am

Maybe you failed to watch the rest of the episodes or series, or maybe you checked out one episode and felt it was enough to justified your claim. From what I remember, they are not of another species or do they come from another dimension. If I remember correctly, Native American's were really rooted into all that spiritual phenomenon, which inadvertently correlated to space-time travel, teleporting/contacting another dimension, and all that crazy science, or science-fiction mumbo jumbo. They certainly were not seen as anything but Humans with Ancient technology, knowledge, and so forth. And about your claims about spiritual imitation rituals, please provide a good source, facts, or a history lesson, anything that can introduce me into understanding this ritual, and not post a source that led to a page, thats nothing but a petition.

As for your claims about Non- European people, there are plenty of stories about Alien interventions, which I assumed you haven't took a glance at. Please, you really should check the rest of the series, instead of making your claims.

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Clete
4/25/2015 04:05:46 am

I know of someone else who vanished while this show was on. It was me. I watched for about ten minutes, before I vanished to reappear watching something else.

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Judybug
8/14/2015 09:36:39 pm

I was fixing to vanish from here. Reading all of the comments. I just got through watching the Houston UFO group getting abducted. lol.lol isn't it a coincidence they were all from a UFO group. All kidding a side I just watch the show ancient aliens. It is Aug 15 at 3 24 am I had to look up that abduction. And it brought me to this blog. I always thought ancient aliens and that guy with the hair that sticks straight up on his head were the real deal. I am so disappointed. Isn't there anything worth watching anymore. I also found out I wish everyone would quit bursting my bubbles. Just saying. And speaking of vanishing. If you would like to find a friend or family member I have a group that finds them. It is on facebook and called Where Are You. It is simply for finding your old friends you had in the past and lost contact with. We also find family members for you. Maybe they moved away and you lost contact with them also. You have to have their name, age any relative they may be associated with them and where they were last when you knew them. If you are interested in finding your friend here is the link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/judydoolittle51/

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Bob Jase
4/25/2015 06:44:51 am

Although the vanishing isn't ancient, they should have included the massive disappearance of Americans from small towns in the mid-west that occurred during the 1930's. Only aliens can explain this.

The press at the time didn't even cover it due to being preoccupied with the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

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mhe
4/25/2015 07:44:10 am

Good point, aliens must also be the explanation for the missing miners of Colorado with whole mountain towns being depopulated.

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mhe
4/25/2015 07:35:48 am

Jason, the term Ancestral Pueblo is perfered over Anasazi as Anasazi is a Navajo word that the Pueblo people feel has a negative connotation associated to it.

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Jason Colavito link
4/25/2015 07:44:38 am

I know it is, but the show used the term Anasazi, so I followed them in order track along with what they were saying.

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mhe
4/25/2015 08:54:26 am

Ahh, got it.

DO
4/29/2015 05:44:56 am

But didn't you change "Eskimo" to "Inuit"? :)

Shane Sullivan
4/25/2015 10:43:17 am

"They did not leave because of a drought." Linda Moulton Howe says.

Well, she certainly doesn't seem interested in clinging that "just asking questions" copout.

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Crash55
4/25/2015 10:44:07 am

I read a lot archaeology magazines and one of them recently covered the Sanxingdui. The current theory is that earthquakes changed the corse of rivers so that the area was no longer habita (or at least not enough so to support a large city).

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Kal
4/26/2015 10:04:48 am

The Malaysian flight didn't vanish mysteriously. It crashed in the Indian ocean or closer to the mainland, and the MA govt. is covering it up because they likely are responsible for shooting it down or letting it crash. It's not aliens. It's just people. The ocean is very big and a lot of things get lost out there.

The porthole theories are all unsubstantiated fantasy. Time space portholes are part of fiction shows and nobody has ever traveled through one to here, or vise versa. It's a way to explain away how aliens could have come without a ship, when there is no direct evidence for aliens actually landing.

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Joe Shaver
4/27/2015 09:21:14 am

thanks

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Tara Jordan link
4/27/2015 05:17:48 pm

Routinely,we express extreme contempt towards the regular snake oil peddlers who appear on the Ancient Aliens shows,but what about the academics and scholars who agree to take part in this farce?.
What do you think of these individuals who willingly accept to trade their personal dignity and professional integrity,for fifty minutes of fame on such ridiculous programs.

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Only Me
4/27/2015 05:45:48 pm

I think, initially, they may do such shows to offer the mainstream view. They may have been reassured by the producers that they will be represented fairly. Unfortunately, we all know by now just how well those assurances are honored.

Now, the above refers to the type of scholars that may be trying to follow in Carl Sagan's footsteps. We have another type that regularly appears on these shows, and, for reasons I can't fathom, they seem to be as invested as the talking heads for whatever woo the show is about. Is it just money, fame, etc.? I don't know.

Whatever the reason(s), it seems higher education doesn't always signify a mind more resistant to fringe theory than the average audience member.

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Tara Jordan link
4/28/2015 10:41:36 am

"Whatever the reason(s), it seems higher education doesn't always signify a mind more resistant to fringe theory than the average audience member."

I will go further.higher education is no guarantee at all.More than often you`ll find quacks with impeccable credentials.Look at The satanic ritual abuse scare,and how so called "experts and academics" in my field responded.Its beyond shameful,just plain frightening.



Only Me
4/28/2015 11:53:40 am

Agreed. Such actions play right into the hands of the anti-academic mentality favored by the fringe culture.

Of course, there's much to be said about the mentality of the fringe culture, but that's for another thread. :)

DO
4/29/2015 05:49:00 am

I think some of them are duped by the History / Discovery channel association and then heavily edited to reflect some point the AA are trying to make.

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luke
6/8/2015 06:13:18 pm

oh my god... am i the only one shaken right now? freaked me out when an abductee said it's been 6000 years since the experiment's been happening, right around the time when the great flood happened, and that time is almost up. another great flood and mass extinction event, to restart the "experiment"? this show puts aliens in a positive light, but good entities wouldn't snatch people away forever. i got a baaaaaad feeling about this.

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Anne
10/4/2015 04:23:31 pm

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm...

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JAMES E KORONIADES
11/27/2018 11:13:08 am

Thank you for taking apart vanishings. The only item on this show that may still bear scrutiny is the "black spot on the moon' which to me unless you can debunk it for me seems to be something that may be a UFO. This is because it looks as if it was a UFO casting a moving shadow across the moon. I do not believe that 8 UFO "researchers" were taken abroad the UFO mothership and this is the mothership but that is the only item on vanishings that bears more scrutiny and investigation.

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STEVE WARDLE
7/2/2021 01:00:44 pm

EVEN CONTINUING TO WATCH THIS RUBBISH FOR THE PURPOSES OF IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING IS NOW BECOMING VERY VERY TIRESOME, AND PERHAPS THE KINDEST AND BEST THING IS TO TAKE THIS GARBAGE OFF THE AIR ONCE AND FOR ALL..... ITS AMAZING HOW MANY OF THE OPPORTUNISTIC SO CALLED 'EXPERTS' STILL CONTINUE TO REAPPEAR ON THIS AND OTHER SIMILAR PROGRAMMES IN WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY GOOD CASH COW THAT CONTINUES TO MAKE THESE IDIOTS LOADS OF MONEY, WHILE TREATING THE VIEWING PUBLIC AS IDIOTS.......I THINK ITS TIME TO TAKE THIS CRAP OFF THE AIR ONCE AND FOR ALL AND START TO PUT SOME GENUINE HISTORY PROGRAMMES ON THAT TELL THE TRULY FASCINATING REAL FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY.....

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