Review of Ancient Aliens S19E19 “The Top Ten Mysteries of the Deep”

After a week off for the Labor Day holiday, Ancient Aliens returns with … another clip show. I could try to vamp for a paragraph or two about the philosophical background of claims of underwater civilization, draw connections to Atlantis, or even cite the influence of the 1936 Saturday morning movie serial Undersea Kingdom and its vision of subaquatic high technology and a hostile civilization beneath the waves. But I’ve done all of that before, and so has Ancient Aliens, and so did sister show The UnXplained last year in a very similar underwater-themed episode. This clip show contained previously broadcast segments surrounding ten topics vaguely connected by having something to do with water.

Not all of the segments match notes I have made about past episodes. It is possible some might include new talking head clips, or else the excerpts are from minor segments I did not mention in my reviews.

​10. The Yonaguni Monument. The usual claims are repeated, speculating humans were too weak and stupid to build it, but I don’t recognize the episode.
9. The Lost Continent of Mu. The show links Nan Madol to Mu, a continent that was invented by James Churchward and never actually existed. The clip comes from the same episode as the preceding. It may be part of the Nan Madol episode from 2020 that I overlooked.
8. Atlantis. The claim about Cuba being Atlantis appeared several times in the series, and this segment repeats much of one from a 2020 episode.
7. Orichalcum. The material referenced is from 2015, but the presentation might include some new talking head inserts.
6. The Lost Pagodas of Mahabalipuram. This segment is copied and pasted directly from the 2015 episode “Alien Wars.”
5. The Sunken City of Dwarka. I believe this segment is from the same episode as the preceding one.
4. Rama’s Bridge. From a 2021 episode.
3. Malta Cart Ruts. I think everyone reading this knows that Ancient Aliens and its spinoff In Search of Aliens have recycled this material many times over the years, most recently in March, from which this version of the segment is copied.
2. Unidentified Submersible Objects. A UFO-themed segment about ocean-diving UFOs. Part of a 2017 episode covering a Japanese story about an ancient underwater craft is included, presumably from when it was first reused in a later episode about underwater UFOs. Most of the segment is repeated from segment 4 of 2022 episode.
1. Underwater Alien Bases. A segment on alien “bases” imagined from Google Earth artifacts, from a 2015 episode devoted to underwater aliens.