JASON COLAVITO
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean >
      • Jimmy Excerpt
      • Jimmy in the Media
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
      • James Dean, The Human Ashtray
      • James Dean and Marlon Brando
      • The Curse of James Dean's Porsche
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
        • Volume 23 Archive
        • Volume 24 Archive
        • Volume 25 Archive
        • Volume 26 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
      • Ancient Apocalypse
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Eridu Genesis
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Resurrection of Marduk
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Atlantis as Biblical History
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Atlantis and Nimrod
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and Hanno's Periplus
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
          • Amazing New Light (Hoax)
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • History of Paleontology
        • 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
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • 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
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • America Known to the Ancients
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • 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
        • Remarkable Discoveries Within the Sphinx (Hoax)
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • The Shaver Mystery >
          • Lovecraft and the Deros
          • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • 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
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • CIA Search for the Ark of the Covenant
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • The Fall of the Sky
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Poltergeist UFOs
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • 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
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • 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
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search

Right-Wing Extremists and a Fetish for the Knights Templar

3/16/2019

28 Comments

 
​An Australian white supremacist carried out the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand history this week when he murdered 49 people in two mosques in Christchurch. Australian media identified the attacker as personal trainer Brenton Tarrant, who broadcast his rampage live on social media, and police confirmed that he left behind a 74-page manifesto in which he wrote about his hatred of immigrants and non-white peoples, using the language of Neo-Nazism and white supremacy. He spoke of “white genocide,” a common theme among the far right, and one we have seen invoked repeatedly in the racist embrace of the Solutrean Hypothesis among white nationalists. 
​The manifesto contained one passage of note to us because it connects white nationalist ideology to the stew of pseudo-historical conspiracy theories that currently circulate on cable television networks such as the History Channel and the Travel Channel and their global broadcast partners. 
Did the groups you support/are aligned with order or promote your attack?
No.No group ordered my attack, I make the decision myself. Though I did contact the reborn Knights Templar for a blessing in support of the attack, which was given.
​Just to be clear, Tarrant did not refer to cable TV programs or conspiracy theories about the Knights Templar. He did, however, claim to have been radicalized by his consumption of right-wing media on the internet and joked that video games taught him extremism. His social media feed included links to media properties such as RT that spread history-based conspiracy theories similar to those used on cable television alongside anti-immigrant and alt-right propaganda.
 
According to the New York Times, the “Knights Templar” referred to above are an anti-immigrant group that borrowed the name and imagery of the original Templars to evoke the Crusades. The Southern Poverty Law Center identified the Knights Templar International as an anti-Muslim group organized by Britain First cofounder Jim Dowson, which has offered support to paramilitary activities in Eastern Europe, including a faction dedicated to restoring the Serbian monarchy. The Christchurch shooter, however, was referring to a different group—one that may not exist.
 
Tarrant identified Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik as a “knight justicar” of the Knights Templar, which Breivik claimed had been reestablished in London in 2002 as a shadowy league of secret agent assassins. Breivik claimed to be a knight of the reborn Knights Templar with the justicar rank—a title typically associated with medieval English and Scottish governments, not Knights Templar. He claimed his attack, in which he shot 69 members of a youth league in 2012, was a Templar action in defense of Christianity and European civilization. So far as I know, there is no evidence that this group of Templar terrorists exists outside of Breivik’s mind, and police concluded it was a fantasy resulting from Breivik’s mental illness.
 
The KTI, as the Knights Templar International organization is known, is a real-life rightwing group claiming to save European civilization. It offers an array of propagandistic hate articles frequently shared among far-right extremists in which news stories are slanted to cast immigrants and Muslims in the worst possible light. KTI mostly operates in Europe in support of far-right politicians, but it has also contributed pro-Trump propaganda, including working with Russian operatives to influence the 2016 presidential election. The organization also advocates against socialism and homosexuality.
 
KTI uses the symbols of the original Knights Templar in order to associate itself with what it sees as history’s strongest defenders of European cultural values against Islam.
 
So why would a hate group choose a medieval order of knights for its message? The answer is fairly obvious: The Knights Templar have media cachet because of their pop culture prevalence, particularly on cable television, but also in movies and video games. The Templar fetishism we see in the media has helped to make the Templars symbols of white nationalism for those on the far right. They were far from the only knights to go on the Crusades, nor were they the only group to be associated with a defense of Europe or Christendom. But they have something that other Europeans who defeated Muslim forces, like Charles Martel or the Habsburgs, do not: a huge multimedia apparatus that implicitly and sometimes explicitly links them to white nationalist goals and ideals.
 
We have seen time and again that cable television has broadcast pseudo-documentaries that associate the Knights Templar with conspiracies that appeal to white nationalist sentiments. We have seen programs that claimed the Knights Templar colonized North America before Columbus and were alleged to be the rightful owners of America. We have seen them claimed to be the protectors of the deepest secrets of Christianity, or even the owners of the only true Gospels, or the possessors of the Ark of the Covenant, whose divine favor they can bestow on governments that embrace their ideals. We have seen them used to support claims that America is the true receptacle of the purest Christianity—but only in its anti-Catholic, Protestant form. These are all claims that were broadcast on the History Channel in the past few years. Other cable channels have repeated and amplified these ideas.
 
Whether by design or by accident, cable TV’s Templar fetish helps the Knights Templar International and other extremist groups by providing a fake historical precedent for white nationalist ideas and by creating interest in false claims about the Knights Templar that lead viewers to internet research that easily descends into far-right extremism, as several studies over the past few years have demonstrated.
 
This of course does not mean that cable TV needs to stop discussing the Knights Templar. They are a part of history, albeit a much smaller one than TV pretends. But it does mean that since they know that discussions of the Solutrean hypothesis, Templar conspiracy theories, white colonization of pre-Columbian America, and other such topics are embraced by the violent fringes of the far right, it is incumbent upon them to consider the potential impact of their false claims and restrict their broadcasts to what is true rather than false claims that give aid and comfort to extremists.
 
And make no mistake: such claims have always been understood to be about white nationalism. The medieval noble Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, may not have been a Templar, but those who believe he colonized America before Columbus claim him as one. His supporter Thomas Sinclair understood the stakes and claimed in 1893 that Sinclair was a key tool in asserting white Protestant supremacy over non-white immigrants, what he called “gigantic Armageddon contest of blood and belief” in which having a heroic symbol of a pure “white” discoverer of America would help suppress ethnic minorities and their efforts to outbreed whites.
 
Yes, this is the same “white genocide” claim that Brenton Tarrant made more than 125 years later. The notes may change, but the music does not.
 
The media need to step up and stop pretending that this obvious undercurrent doesn’t exist and doesn’t have an impact on extremists who see their twisted beliefs reflected in cable’s warped priorities. We have had enough of shows that distort the past by foregrounding white history in times and places where white people weren’t in charge or even present.
 
“Victors write the history and the writers of history control the cultural climate of the present time.”
 
Brenton Tarrant wrote those words just before killing 49 people in the name of “the ancestors” as well as the future of the “White Race.”
28 Comments
Machala
3/16/2019 09:23:06 am

But...but...but...
General Bonespurs says that he doesn't believe there's a rise in white nationalism. He says it's only a handful of people.
I had just finished an Op-Ed piece for a Spanish news publication when I came across the following editorial in the Washington Post that says it far more elegantly and precisely than I did. It definitely confirms your essay, Jason. I recommend it to all your readers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-massacre-streamed-live-impelled-by-bigotry/2019/03/15/a373568c-475b-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?utm_term=.900c7707feba&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

Reply
user
3/16/2019 09:59:01 am

'..a symbol of renewed white nationalism..' ..from the manifesto. Guess who?

Reply
Jim
3/16/2019 11:04:34 am

"The manifesto also included a single reference to President Donald Trump in which the author asked and answered the question of whether he was a Trump supporter: "As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no."

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/03/15/world/asia/ap-as-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-gunman.html

Reply
User
3/16/2019 11:49:50 am

Yes, correction, 'identity' not 'nationalism', my mistake. Thank you.

Jim
3/16/2019 09:27:16 pm

I didn't notice that, I just wanted to include the last part showing that a white racist genocidal lunatic murderer knows better than to vote for Stumpy.

An Anonymous Nerd
3/16/2019 10:35:31 am

The Fringe is not harmless.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Right Wing Extremists and mainstream Christianity
3/16/2019 10:53:10 am

I have heard about this as well

Reply
Rosslyn Chapel Templarism is now dead
3/16/2019 10:55:51 am

Dead, dead, dead

Zena Halpern was quite unaware of it.

Curse of Oak Island isn't much compared to the heyday of Wallace-Murphy, Andrew Sinclair, et al;

Reply
Joe Scales
3/16/2019 11:15:17 am

A pretty ignorant diatribe above Jason. I mean... putting aside using a tragedy such as this to fuel your crusade against the History Channel and the like. And make no mistake about it, I don't like fake history either, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Didn't Templars fight in the crusades? Against who? Muslims, right? So wouldn't some nut-job who wants to kill Muslims and uses the Knights Templar for his inspiration be somewhat historically correct in his mania? How does this tie into the false Templar narrative that you so wish to connect to? Spare me the response. It doesn't. You're just using the tragedy for your own purposes in your own crusade.

Reply
V
3/16/2019 07:53:07 pm

Joe, honey. Why the use of the Knights TEMPLAR brand, then? Why not the Order of St. George? Why not the Peasant Army? Why not the Order of the Holy Sepulcher? Why not the Knights Hospitaller, which actually do have some claim to the "Templar" history by reason of having absorbed dozens of former Templars into their order when the Templars were dissolved? Why not the Teutonic Knights? Why not Antioch? Why is it always, always, ALWAYS "the Knights Templar" in these things?

Why? Because Jason is RIGHT, and they have a fucking huge brand appeal right now, largely because of the conspiracy theory bullshit that is widely broadcast. It is not SOLELY because "the Knights Templar fought Muslims," or you WOULD see more of a variety of choices. But you are so far up De Nile that you wouldn't believe it if a manifesto literally listed it right out for you...like this one does.

Reply
Joe Scales
3/16/2019 08:33:20 pm

Right now V? The Templar inspired group was re-established in 2002. As for other named "knights" and their use by hate groups, I'm sure you could find any number of them not qualified by the "Templar" moniker. Honey.

Jason Colavito link
3/16/2019 10:42:23 pm

If you do a literature search, Knights Templar are not discussed more frequently than other Crusader groups down to about the 1990s, when cable TV and conspiracy theory books suddenly catapulted them into the spotlight. In fact, prior to the 20th century, almost all the references are to the Masonic group from internal Masonic literature that wouldn't have been widely read outside the Masons. Their current popularity isn't due to any great interest on the part of historians relative to other groups, but rather due to media interest, driven by conspiracy theory literature and programming.

Dima
3/19/2019 09:32:46 am

"Why the use of the Knights TEMPLAR brand, then? Why not the Order of St. George? Why not the Peasant Army? Why not..." Is this supposed to be an argument ? really ? OK....V, the reason is very simple, the Templar knights became very popular from the 80's (more or less), most of the thanks should be given to pseudo-historians, people like Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln,the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (which was the inspiration for the The Da Vinci Code). you can also add Jason's old friend Graham Hancock with his book the "Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant", Indiana Jones and the last crusade (and countless books, TV shows and video games that followed ever since) that created a link between the knights template's and mythic artifacts like the ark of the covenant, the holy grail, Solomon's lost treasure, secret knowledge and so on....so at this point you probably thinking "This is pretty much what I am saying, so you agree with me then..." and the answer is, NO, you wrong, dead wrong. All above, true as it may be, is completely IRRELEVANT. because, even if the template's were not elevated to their mythical status that they have today, do you really think that the white supremacist could not find another replacement ? black supremacist took an entire civilization (ancient Egypt) to prove that they are the superior race....and you don't need to go to pseudoscience to do it, how about the Spartans fighting the Persian ? very fitting in this context, most Greeks (that will be associate with Europe elite, the left) did not fight the Persians (associate with Muslims immigrants...aka Muslim invaders), and only a small group of warriors (the white supremacists) protected Greece (Europe)...do you see how easy it is ? to take something from the past and make it symbolically connected to the current politics ? so in conclusion, yes the knights template's are chosen today by the extreme right because of their aura of mystery and mythic status, and no, this is not important, because if not the knights tempters, the extreme right can find a number of replacements as their symbol, its very easy. The elevation of the knights template's was not done because of race wars or political wars (in the 80 this was not even an issue) but for money, entertainment...and more money.

An Anonymous Nerd
3/21/2019 07:41:58 pm

[A pretty ignorant diatribe above Jason]

No, not unless one defines ignorant as "stuff Joe Scales does not like." It was pretty thoughtful and well-researched, which is normal for Mr. Colavito.

[Didn't Templars fight in the crusades? Against who? Muslims, right? So wouldn't some nut-job who wants to kill Muslims and uses the Knights Templar for his inspiration be somewhat historically correct in his mania?]

Not really. The Templars were founded after the First Crusade to protect pilgrims and/or the pilgrim roads. The Crusades mostly, indeed, were fought against Muslims, and yes the Templars and other military monk orders did fight in the subsequent Crusades.

But the politics of the Crusader States were pretty complex and some of them were allied to certain Muslim groups. (Indeed I always kinda thought that the Crusader States had a real, real chance to survive and establish a European presence in the Middle East for years to come -- but they kept proving themselves unreliable allies.)

The Templars were friendly with some Muslims, and found a certain unsettling kinship with the Assassins. (There's even a book about that called "The Templars and the Assassins.") And then of course there's the fact that their ultimate enemies, the ones that brought them down, were a Pope and a (Catholic) King of France. Not Muslims.

Also the degree to which any White Nationalist type can claim kinship with any group in the Medieval world is questionable.

To cite just one example: I've read some books that give Saint Maurice credit with being the symbolic "First Knight" in the traditional Medieval European sense. Thusly a kind of template that other Knights, including the Templars, followed. Saint Maruice was African and is not (shall we say) White-washed in Medieval art. Depictions of him explicitly make him a Black man.

To cite another example: There was a legend in Europe of a Christian minister who went into East and managed to convert various Easterners. Marco Polo expected to find him on his travels. This legendary figure's name was Prester John. Nothing I've read so far suggests that the folks looking for Prester John's converts would've thought of them as being an inferior class of being on the basis of skin color if they would've found them.

To cite another example: One of King Arthur's Knights in one version of the stories was established as an Arab Pagan. (Palamedes.)

See this is the problem with just spouting things....It takes a lot of time and energy to refute them, but a lot less to spout. And I guess that's a lot of the problem, when one thinks about it.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Doc Rock
3/16/2019 02:25:45 pm

Contemporary representations of the Crusades, taken as a whole, tend toward the oversimplified and sanitized. Activities within the Crusades included various massacres of Jews from central Europe to the Holy Land. In fact, I believe that at some points particular Jewish communities felt better off by allying with Muslims. Then there were attacks on Christian Arabs and Eastern Orthodox folks, the latter including the sack of Constantinople by Crusaders. There was warfare between the Crusaders and the various Christian principalities though which they passed on their way to the Holy Land. Can't recall the source but i think that as part of the political intrigue after the establishment of Christian states in the Middle East, there were sometimes alliances between particular Muslim groups and particular European groups. Not really the valiant knight on a white steed kind of stuff that often gets associated with the Crusades.

My impression is that the contemporary recruitment efforts by these Neo-Templar groups find their greatest appeal among folks with the "kill 'em all and let god sort 'em out" mentality even while framing things within a basic white Christian West versus Arab Muslim East dichotomy.

Reply
Baphomet
3/16/2019 02:31:36 pm

Massacring of the Jews by Godfrey of Bouillon in Mainz and Cologne was a mere warm-up

Reply
Timothy Newman
3/19/2019 05:41:08 am

Once the Crusader states (and the plural form does matter) got established they weren't particularly unusual in terms of fitting in to the various alliances between the many different powers in the region. That was fairly normal, some of the Muslim states had been allied with the Byzantines or Armenians to fight other Muslims in the past and this was just another group - one that wasn't without it's own in-fighting.
One example, in the 1120s there was a war involving three independent Christian lords - Tancred, Prince of Antioch, Count Joscelin of Courtenay and Count Baldwin of Edessa - and two Muslim ones - Jawali of Mosul and Ridwan of Aleppo. The alliance wasn't Christian with Christian and Muslim with Muslim, it was Tancred and Ridwan against Baldwin, Joscelin and Jawali (Tancred and Ridwan were victorious).
Another slightly later example comes after Atabeg Zengi of Mosul had conquered Aleppo (yes, another Muslim state) and Edessa (a Christian one). His next target was the third great city of Syria, Damascus. He besieged it twice, but Damascus was allied with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and each time a Christian army forced him to break the siege. It was only when the Second Crusade arrived and decided to attack Damascus (against the preference of the King of Jerusalem) that Damascus allied with Zengi to stay independent, and this time it was Zengi's armies that forced the Christians to withdraw.
then you've got the intervention by both the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Zengi's general Shirkuh (and his nephew Saladin) in Egypt, That has the Fatimids and Crusaders fighting the Syrians and losing, and eventually it's Saladin who comes out in control of Egypt. That had potential too, as Zengi's successors hated him for not using their army to establish his power and even more for establishing control over Damascus, so they might have allied with the KoJ against the Ayyubids if the Third Crusade hadn't made Saladin into the main 'Defender of Islam'.
Spain is much more complicated in terms of alliances between Christian and Muslim states.

Reply
Doc Rock
3/19/2019 12:19:47 pm

Spain was more complicated because the reconquista was a somewhat different process than the crusades. But relative to my point I think that a commonality between the two is for people to hold very romanticized views of them that conflict with the political realities of the time.

An Anonymous Nerd
3/21/2019 07:59:45 pm

[Contemporary representations of the Crusades, taken as a whole, tend toward the oversimplified and sanitized. ]

The rest of your post is written to reflect an over-simplification that favors the Crusaders. That actually is a version of history I never personally was exposed to. Most versions I was exposed to were over-simplifications that bent over backwards to favor the Muslims, neglecting the fact that Muslim Medieval armies were not immune to the Medieval fetish for atrocities in times of war....And, sometimes, in normal times too.

Atrocity was a cross-cultural obsession in the Medieval period. Everyone did it. The thought of going back to those times is unpleasant. And, I fear, that's where the Fringe and the Right will lead us.

Indeed the scholarship that leads to the views you seem to profess is a tad outmoded. A good place to begin is the writeup on the Crusades in Constance Bouchard's "Knights in History in Legend." I believe the phrase there is that the views of Crusaders you profess "have not withstood scholarly scrutiny." (I don't feel like getting my copy of it to get the full quote.)

From there my reading list gets confusing because I don't make it a point to keep track. But I think I've usually relied on Ashbridge's "The First Crusade: A New History," which is great at not white-washing either side. There's also Stark's "God's Batallions: The Case for the Crusades." Reston's "Warriors of God," though written to favor the Muslim side, also captures some of the other side too.

Now all I can do is hope that my post isn't taken as "Anonymous Nerd is a Fringe/Conservative/Christian type who loves the Crusades."

I do not of course mean to deny the atrocities of the Crusaders, and to my knowledge none of those books I recommend do that.

But, rather, I mean to say that there's more to consider. Over-simplification in the other direction doesn't do us much good.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Doc Rock
3/21/2019 10:37:25 pm

Please note that I was referring to oversimplification and sanitization in popular representations that do indeed contrast with serious scholarship that does provide warts and all perspectives on the Crusades and Crusaders. Perhaps I should have been more clear but given the nature of Jason's piece I didn't think it should be necessary.

You lost me on the part about offering a narrative that favors the crusaders, unless I misunderstand your comments in that regard. My comments would be deemed blasphemous by the current crop of Neo-Templar wannabe Crusader types who get conned into shelling out the membership fees to join some of these groups that are now marketing online.

An Anonymous Nerd
3/21/2019 10:51:59 pm

[You lost me on the part about offering a narrative that favors the crusaders, unless I misunderstand your comments in that regard. ]

Oh. I meant that your comments referred to an over-simplification that favored the Crusaders. Your first sentence: "Contemporary representations of the Crusades, taken as a whole, tend toward the oversimplified and sanitized." It seemed like you were referring to pro-Crusader over-simplificiations....

...And I was saying that, for better or worse or both, I was actually never exposed to that particular over-simplification. Only the pro-Muslim ones. When I discovered that there was another side to things, that the Crusader Knights were not all villainous hypocrites and greedy younger sons of nobility looking for land, I was shocked.

Indeed I've found that there are otherwise-educated folks, usually around the age of 35 to 45, who accept more-or-less uncritically the documentaries made by Terry Jones (of Monty Python's Flying Circus fame), which are made to make the Crusaders look as bad as possible -- veritable comic book villainy. Extremely evil and incompetent at the same time.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Doc Rock
3/21/2019 11:28:57 pm

OK, I think that I follow you now. I must have missed out on the hyper-correction that cast the Crusaders purely in an evil light. But I am not particularly well read on the topic and would imagine that there has been quite a bit of it in that vein recently. But if you look at some of the discourse used by groups that some rightwing wackjobs draw inspiration from, or eve some popular writers, then you will get a whole new perspective on simplification and sanitization of the European side of the Crusades.

An Anonymoous Nerd
3/22/2019 08:57:31 am

[ I must have missed out on the hyper-correction that cast the Crusaders purely in an evil light.]

You aren't missing much. Terry Jones's documentary series, for example, began with an image of a menacing looking skeleton inside Western-looking armor to represent a Crusader. (Think like a fantasy Skeletal Knight or something.) That is the level of intellectual weight we're talking about.

The over-correction isn't as recent as you think, but I guess it's more-recent then the previous view, which I never experienced, merely heard about. The over-correction seems to be connected to the general anti-Western over-correction. The Post-Modern/Hippie related one. The one Sheldon Wolin convincingly argued that a lot of the Right could be understood as reacting against. (See Wolin's "The Presence of the Past.") (Before of course the Right learned they could really benefit from appropriating the intellectual techniques of Post-Modernism in a crude and pop culture friendly way.)

There's always going to be differences of view, opinion, and stuff. But these pop-history, flip-flopping over-corrections are dangerous. They have a way of making their way into the general public with odd results.

-An Anonymous Nerd

BL
3/18/2019 10:24:33 am

Can the New Zealand shooter really be classified as a "right wing extremist" when he politically aligns himself with China in his own manifesto? These kooks seem to be in awe of Trump for some reason even though their political ideology seems to run more toward the leftish ideals of communism and segregation of the races.

Reply
An Anonymous Nerd
3/21/2019 11:08:21 pm

[Can the New Zealand shooter really be classified as a "right wing extremist" when he politically aligns himself with China in his own manifesto?]

I've seen one reference to this -- in the Washington Post's writeup. Most writeups of the manifesto don't include this. From secondary sources (I can't find a copy of the Manifesto itself and I'm not willing to go to extremes to find it), it seems to be a mish-mash of ideas that leans most-heavily on Fringe/Right talking points. What he meant by associating himself with China I only can guess.

Indeed I'm aware of an idea that the Manifesto was written mostly to troll everyone -- and to obscure whatever the real motives were. The likelihood is that we'll just never, ever know. Like with the Vegas dude.

[These kooks seem to be in awe of Trump for some reason even though their political ideology seems to run more toward the leftish ideals of communism and segregation of the races.]

Though certain Leftists have supported racial segregation I'm sure, the idea is most-commonly associated with the Right, so nice try there I guess. I also can't think of an Alt-Right type who'd be in favor of Communism in any meaningful sense. And no, "give me stuffs 'kos I'm wite" is not "Communism in any meaningful sense."

-An Anonymous Nerd

Reply
Titus Pullo
3/18/2019 09:12:33 pm

"of course this does not mean cable TV should stop discussing the KT.."

Ok Jason would you have all media content be reviewed by "those that know" to ensure it is scrubbed and sanitized and removed of anything that in anyway would "promote" extremism? I mean Twitter is doing such a good job at selectively doing this...err censoring any dissent regarding their ideology under the guise of "hate speech."

That is the problem isn't it....who decides? One would give clear cut examples..but the majority of the time it is political opinion. Some of which is very upsetting to statists and the identity politics pc bund.

From a freedom of speech pov, besides advocating for violence, what if anything should be censored? I might not like it but in the end people have a right to their opinion as crazy as it is.

And quoting the SLC...a group that pretty much left it's original noble intent decades ago to cash in as the nightwatchman of "extremism" does little to bolster your theory.

The more you try to censor the more you drive underground marginal people who are usually the product in democratic societies of elites not obeying their own laws or views of the people. The more you drive underground the more extreme these types of people become and violent.

While more noble minded folks believe that country and ethnicity don't matter (and religion as well)...well they do. The downfall of the USSR driven by the failure of communism to "rise above and slay religion and ethnicity" is now 30 years in the past. Multi-cultural states forced by elites is a breeding ground for crazies. For years we have seen Islamic radicals immigrate to Europe and kills hundreds..despite western tolerance. Unintended consequences of governments not working to integrate immigrants (remember the old "melting pot"..well it worked for most groups to become Americans and forget their old world grievances) but celebrating "multiculturalism" fed any nascent white nationalism movement. Did the History channel exploit this or even drive it? Or is it simply an easy scapegoat? More likely the latter.

In the end Nation States have the right to decide their culture and even ethnicity. (Example..the Czech Republic and Slovakia or the former Yugoslavia)

The best way to defeat extremism of any sort (left as well which is becoming authoritarian daily) is through liberty and the strict defense of our Bill of Rights...especially the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments.

The History Channel and Scot Wolter are not the problem.



Reply
Riley V
3/19/2019 11:23:11 pm

Take very little of this murderer’s manifesto seriously. Part of the terror he hopes to start is to split the safe and sane among us into groups who hate each other.
The main element of his writing is meant to troll.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/

Reply
Kent
3/23/2019 06:46:49 am

I spit on the Southern Poverty Law Center. As do the New York and Los Angeles Times.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/21/southern-poverty-law-center-scam-morris-dees/

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Blog
    Picture

    Author

    I am an author and researcher focusing on pop culture, science, and history. Bylines: New Republic, Esquire, Slate, etc. There's more about me in the About Jason tab.

    Become a Patron!
    Tweets by JasonColavito
    Picture

    Newsletters

    Enter your email below to subscribe to my newsletter for updates on my latest projects, blog posts, and activities, and subscribe to Culture & Curiosities, my Substack newsletter.

    Categories

    All
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative Archaeology
    Alternative History
    Alternative History
    America Unearthed
    Ancient Aliens
    Ancient Astronauts
    Ancient History
    Ancient Texts
    Ancient Texts
    Archaeology
    Atlantis
    Conspiracies
    Giants
    Habsburgs
    Horror
    King Arthur
    Knights Templar
    Lovecraft
    Mythology
    Occult
    Popular Culture
    Popular Culture
    Projects
    Pyramids
    Racism
    Science
    Skepticism
    Ufos
    Weird Old Art
    Weird Things
    White Nationalism

    Terms & Conditions

    Please read all applicable terms and conditions before posting a comment on this blog. Posting a comment constitutes your agreement to abide by the terms and conditions linked herein.

    Archives

    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010

    RSS Feed

Picture
Home  |  Blog  |  Books  | Contact  |  About Jason | Terms & Conditions
© 2010-2025 Jason Colavito. All rights reserved.

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean >
      • Jimmy Excerpt
      • Jimmy in the Media
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
      • James Dean, The Human Ashtray
      • James Dean and Marlon Brando
      • The Curse of James Dean's Porsche
    • Legends of the Pyramids
    • The Mound Builder Myth
    • Jason and the Argonauts
    • Cult of Alien Gods >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Foundations of Atlantis
    • Knowing Fear >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Hideous Bit of Morbidity >
      • Contents
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
    • Cthulhu in World Mythology >
      • Excerpt
      • Image Gallery
      • Necronomicon Fragments
      • Oral Histories
    • Fiction >
      • Short Stories
      • Free Fiction
    • JasonColavito.com Books >
      • Faking History
      • Unearthing the Truth
      • Critical Companion to Ancient Aliens
      • Studies in Ancient Astronautics (Series) >
        • Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts
        • Pyramidiots!
        • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • Fiction Anthologies >
        • Unseen Horror >
          • Contents
          • Excerpt
        • Moon Men! >
          • Contents
      • The Orphic Argonautica >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • The Faust Book >
        • Contents
        • Excerpt
      • Classic Reprints
      • eBook Minis
    • Free eBooks >
      • Origin of the Space Gods
      • Ancient Atom Bombs
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Ancient America
      • Horror & Science
  • Articles
    • Newsletter >
      • Volumes 1-10 Archive >
        • Volume 1 Archive
        • Volume 2 Archive
        • Volume 3 Archive
        • Volume 4 Archive
        • Volume 5 Archive
        • Volume 6 Archive
        • Volume 7 Archive
        • Volume 8 Archive
        • Volume 9 Archive
        • Volume 10 Archive
      • Volumes 11-20 Archive >
        • Volume 11 Archive
        • Volume 12 Archive
        • Volume 13 Archive
        • Volume 14 Archive
        • Volume 15 Archive
        • Volume 16 Archive
        • Volume 17 Archive
        • Volume 18 Archive
        • Volume 19 Archive
        • Volume 20 Archive
      • Volumes 21-30 Archive >
        • Volume 21 Archive
        • Volume 22 Archive
        • Volume 23 Archive
        • Volume 24 Archive
        • Volume 25 Archive
        • Volume 26 Archive
    • Television Reviews >
      • Ancient Aliens Reviews
      • In Search of Aliens Reviews
      • America Unearthed
      • Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar
      • Search for the Lost Giants
      • Forbidden History Reviews
      • Expedition Unknown Reviews
      • Legends of the Lost
      • Unexplained + Unexplored
      • Rob Riggle: Global Investigator
      • Ancient Apocalypse
    • Book Reviews
    • Galleries >
      • Bad Archaeology
      • Ancient Civilizations >
        • Ancient Egypt
        • Ancient Greece
        • Ancient Near East
        • Ancient Americas
      • Supernatural History
      • Book Image Galleries
    • Videos
    • Collection: Ancient Alien Fraud >
      • Chariots of the Gods at 50
      • Secret History of Ancient Astronauts
      • Of Atlantis and Aliens
      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Eridu Genesis
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Resurrection of Marduk
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Atlantis as Biblical History
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Atlantis and Nimrod
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and Hanno's Periplus
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
          • Amazing New Light (Hoax)
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • History of Paleontology
        • 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
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • 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
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • America Known to the Ancients
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • 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
        • Remarkable Discoveries Within the Sphinx (Hoax)
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • The Shaver Mystery >
          • Lovecraft and the Deros
          • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • 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
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • CIA Search for the Ark of the Covenant
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • The Fall of the Sky
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Poltergeist UFOs
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • 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
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • 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
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
  • About Jason
    • Biography
    • Jason in the Media
    • Contact Jason
    • About JasonColavito.com
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Search