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The Year in Review: A Look Back at 2018 in Fringe History

12/29/2018

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​Compared to years past, this was a rebuilding year for the fringe. Most of the major figures on the fringe sat the year out, preparing for bigger things in 2019 and beyond, and those that were active either failed to produce their promised results, delivered results that failed to meet expectations, or spent their time teasing revelations yet to come in 2019, or whenever they need a cash infusion. There was no major fringe history bestseller this year, and the wannabes in the category came from small presses and consequently received little or no media attention outside dedicated fringe sites. The new fringe pseudo-documentaries that made it to air either muddled through their middling runs or failed outright. The reason for the decline in the fringe was easy enough to see: The fringe had gone mainstream in 2017, and the continued presence of conspiracy theorists and fringe thinkers in the upper ranks of the Republican Party and the Trump Administration lessened the demand for pseudo-history. These sorts of claims tend to be more popular as counterprogramming. 
​January
The painful absurdity of 2017 meant that most people in the fringe world took a few days to work up to a full running start. The month began with the Southern Poverty Law Center taking notice of the rightwing undercurrents of much of fringe history and warning the public about the way that popular claims found on the History Channel and elsewhere have been adopted by white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and anti-Semites. That same week, Douglas County, Minnesota dedicated the $1 million Kensington Rune Stone Park Visitors Center, which featured a small museum devoted to the infamous hoax tablet and its tale of Norse visitors to medieval Minnesota. It included information provided by former History Channel personality Scott Wolter, who attended the dedication. The small Visitors Center also has a community room that can be rented out and is most used by locals for its public bathroom. Turkish state television featured a Syracuse University-trained chemist who claimed that Noah’s Ark ran on nuclear power and that Noah and his progeny communicated by cellphone. “I speak for science,” Yavuz Örnek declared in making the claim. Another televisual attempt at “science” received harsher attacks for being more serious: In Canada, the CBC came under fire from hundreds of scientists after running a largely uncritical documentary on the Solutrean Hypothesis giving positive coverage to the idea that the first humans in the Americas were European. The documentary aired unchanged in the U.S. in April on the Smithsonian Channel. Micah Hanks launched a website to explore ancient history, but it fizzled out into a link page for his podcast. Hal Puthoff of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science told Coast to Coast that he had personally been in charge of testing metals suspected of being part of crashed flying saucers even though he has no scientific background in metals. At the end of the month, Gaia TV asked me to fly to an undisclosed location for a one-hour interview, but I declined when they refused to provide any information about the event. That wasn’t creepy at all!
 
February
When Expedition Unknown host Josh Gates confessed to being a closet ancient astronaut theorist in 2017, it was a bit of a shock, but it made it less surprising that at the beginning of February he took his show in search of the fictitious golden alien library Erich von Däniken falsely claimed to have visited in Ecuador. He didn’t find it but contracted rotavirus instead. At the same time, Nephilim theorist L. A. Marzulli held a “global symposium” in Los Angeles to present DNA evidence related to the elongated skull of Paracas. He revealed nothing conclusive in a presentation marred by technical difficulties. He later claimed that unnamed donors gave him $150,000 to test the skulls’ DNA and attacked me as a “disinformation agent” and a “paid shill” for mainstream science. An academic journal falsely alleged that Plutarch recorded an ancient voyage to Canada, and the History Channel ran a multipart series about the Knights Templar focusing on familiar conspiracy theories. Erich von Däniken put out his first derivative and repetitive English-language book of the year, and alternative Egyptologist John Anthony West died after pursuing alternative medicine for his cancer.
 
March
As March began, L. A. Marzulli and his team of experts continued to make claims that the Paracas skulls contained Dba indicative of an Old World origin and suggestive of being a “sub-species” of human, i.e. Nephilim. Their claims faced criticism from scientists, who suspected contamination, and eventually Marzulli moved on to UFO mysteries. Gaia TV broadcasted a documentary featuring Russian claims that a mutilated and remodeled human corpse in Peru was the body of a space alien. The journal Genome Research published a controversial article on the “Atacama Humanoid” by a geneticist heavily involved in UFO studies. The article claimed that the tiny body was human but suffering from an unknown genetic illness. The article received harsh criticism for overstating the genetic uniqueness and for failing to adequately address the fact that the fetal skeleton had likely been illegally stolen from a Chilean grave. Another major scandal unfolded when it was discovered that prehistorian James Mellaart had forged a large number of Luwian inscriptions going back to 1976, including an inscription related to the Trojan hero Muksus. Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who worked to establish the Pentagon’s recent program for investigating UFOs, confessed to New York magazine that he had “zero” interest in math and science and that science fiction “bores” him. Nevertheless, after meeting Robert Bigelow, the billionaire UFO nut, he pursued an active interest in UFOs and related conspiracy theories without developing an interest in science.
 
April
In April, ABC News endorsed the ancient astronaut theory (again), and a British man claimed to have found the real King Arthur (again), but neither story had more than a few hours’ staying power. The Ohio State University Center for the Study of Religion held a symposium on UFOs and religion that featured credulous claims about the supernatural and the cosmic, but mostly nobody noticed because of the crush of Donald Trump news. MUFON’s research director resigned over the organization’s failure to adequately address its ongoing racism scandal. Newsweek picked up on the story and discovered the racist infiltration of modern ufology. Once again, few paid any attention to that story either. Frank Joseph, the former Neo-Nazi leader turned fringe author, gave a radio interview about ancient white colonies in America. Scott Wolter took to the radio and claimed that new evidence in support of his theories would come out at an unknown date in the future. We wouldn’t see it until November, and then we laughed. Tom DeLonge and Megan Fox both announced new fringe-y TV shows, but only one would air before year’s end, to nearly no viewers. The month ended with the start of the thirteenth season of Ancient Aliens, and the show passed the original run of In Search Of… in the total number of episodes produced, becoming the longest-running fringe mysteries series. Of all April’s fringe history events, it was the only one to attract significant attention and a large audience.
 
May
Former Blondie band member and occult researcher Gary Lachman tried to tie Donald Trump to an occult conspiracy bent on chaos and suggested that Trump possesses actual magical powers. Graham Hancock announced that he now believes that the universe is a conscious entity and that reincarnation actually occurs. Hancock’s frenemy Andrew Collins tried to link Gobekli Tepe to the Denisovans in new book that generated very little buzz but did get him featured more prominently on Ancient Aliens. Fellow Ancient Aliens pundit David Wilcock announced that he declined to appear on the show’s season premiere featuring an interview with Democratic operative John Podesta because of their political differences. Ancient astronaut theorists gathered for the annual Contact in the Desert conference, but the only news to come out of it was Giorgio Tsoukalos’s reported claim that space aliens were responsible for “crap” going on around the world. In the ironic depths of ridiculousness, Erich von Däniken claimed in a newspaper interview that newspapers won’t cover the ancient astronaut theory. Robert Schoch visited the Joe Rogan podcast to complain that he doesn’t get enough attention from important people. The prolific fringe writer Brad Steiger, author of a number of very poor quality but nevertheless widely read and influential books about ancient mysteries, UFOs, and the paranormal, died after repeating many of the same false claims for half a century, even though he knew better. Newsweek reported that Robert Bigelow investigated whether UFOs caused poltergeists and psychic phenomena.
 
June
June was an unusually slow month in fringe world, with most of the leading lights of the fringe busy making money on tour or shooting documentaries to release for the holiday season. Italy’s leading ancient astronaut theorist gave a speech casting doubt on the Holocaust. David Carroll claimed to find King Arthur (again) and sent out a press release (again) offering £50,000 to anyone who could prove him wrong, under conditions that made it impossible. Frank Joseph published yet another book exploring ancient mysteries as part of a subtle argument for white nationalism. Hal Puthoff of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science gave a speech to a remote viewing conference in Las Vegas that accidentally provided the information needed to unravel the almost certainly fake “mystery” of the so-called “metamaterials” To the Stars and Robert Bigelow investigated. The material seemed likely to be industrial waste. This led the credulous New York Times reporter who covered the Pentagon UFO program last year to angrily allege that it was “potentially libelous” for me to draw unwelcome conclusions about Puthoff’s claims. Eric Davis, who worked for Robert Bigelow and with To the Stars, confirmed that their teams both believe UFOs to be space ghosts who like to play practical jokes on humans. Donald Trump announced the creation of Space Force to combat threats from space, and ancient astronaut theorists gathered for the first of two Alien Con Ancient Aliens fan conventions, to largely uncritical press coverage. Ancient Aliens celebrated nine years on the air by releasing a tenth anniversary DVD set a year early.
 
July
An unimpressive reboot of In Search of…, retitled In Search Of, starring Zachary Quinto debuted on the History Channel to middling ratings and little media buzz. Ancient Aliens star David Wilcock quit his job at Gaia TV, ostensibly over what he called the network’s “Luciferian” beliefs. Shortly after, he disappeared from Ancient Aliens and began blogging regularly about his belief in pro-Trump conspiracy theories imagining prominent liberals as pedophiles and space aliens. The New York Times ran a glowing Sunday feature on Alien Con and Ancient Aliens, painting ancient astronaut theorists as lovable rogues and quoting executive producer Ken Burns as admitting the show is really about “looking for God.” To the Stars launched “Project Adam” to (possibly) investigate alien metals, but by year’s end all they had to show for it was a couple of YouTube videos and promises that they might release evidence in 2019. In Peru, a congressman introduced legislation to require the government to investigate the “alien” mummies (which multiplied in number) seen on Gaia TV and to them of historical-cultural interest to Peru. Erich von Däniken’s American publisher released a lazy fiftieth anniversary edition of Chariots of the Gods that reprinted the thirtieth anniversary edition with a repetitive new foreword and afterward. The book’s anniversary celebrations received virtually no mainstream notice.
 
August
In August, Hal Puthoff started walking back claims about the “alien” nature of the metals To the Stars promoted, admitting that he had not actually tested the metals claimed to have an alien origin.  An Australian professor offered a ridiculous claim that global myths of giants were the result of climate change in an otherwise logical argument that oral history accurately preserves memories of Ice Age landscapes. Giorgio Tsoukalos upset Philippines journalists by refusing to play along with efforts to declare Philippine rice terraces the work of aliens. The History Channel, running out of barrel bottoms to scrape, broadcasted The Last Pope, a documentary about the Prophecy of St. Malachy, a Renaissance forgery, and speculating on the imminent end of the Catholic Church. The show featured talking heads from Forbidden History, an anti-abortion activist, and Scott Wolter, and it concluded with a blatant appeal for America to join Russia in upholding conservative values. Ancient Aliens broadcasted an episode praising Russia and the Putin regime, while Ancient Aliens pundit Richard Dolan flirted with the Q-Anon pro-Trump conspiracy in a Facebook Live video and said America should “thank” Russia if its meddling had damaged the Democratic Party. An NBC News study of 2016 Russian social media propaganda postings found that the same bot and troll accounts tweeting election propaganda also delivered content about UFOs and ancient mysteries.
 
September
National Geographic lent its name to a “special edition” covering “mysteries of history” such as Atlantis and other lies. Ex-Neo-Nazi Frank Joseph published another UFO book, with ample praise for Nazi science and an acceptance of fake stories, including one from the Weekly World News. Las Vegas TV reporter and former Bigelow confidant George Knapp claimed that a Christian cabal within the Pentagon fears that UFOs are piloted by demons. Knapp was also involved with a documentary about Skinwalker Ranch that generated a lot of media buzz but only confirmed that Bigelow’s investigators were biased and prone to fantasies. To the Stars further walked back their alien metamaterials claim, stating that the materials are only “potentially” alien and that their investigation might go “nowhere.” Newsweek wondered why To the Stars makes so much noise while showing absolutely no data. Atlantis was found again, in Mauritania, and the claim was promoted by Russian propaganda outlets, despite the complete lack of evidence for Atlantis there. In Search Of devoted its season—and possibly series—finale to finding Atlantis on Santorini, on Sardinia, and in the Sahara. Despite repeating claims of earlier documentaries nearly point for point, Zachary Quinto failed to find Atlantis.
 
October
In October, Chapman University found that belief in Atlantis rose again, to 57%. Steve P. Kershaw published a major book debunking the myth of Atlantis, which resulted in no diminution in Atlantis claims. Atlantis was found again, on the imaginary island of Frisland, thanks to wishful thinking. Publisher Mitch Horowitz published a bizarre book of his own in which he claimed that positive thinking could change reality, and rich people are rich because they have better thoughts than the poor and money is a reward for superior thought processes. His key advice was to meditated on “a certain amount of money that you want to make” and then bargain with God to receive the money. A translation error in the English version of a BBC News report originally in Marathi accidentally gave rise to claims that Ice Age Africans colonized India. The Travel Channel broadcasted a racist documentary searching for a lost race of white supermen in Peru. One cast member wept tears of joy when he thought he found evidence white people once ruled pre-Inca Peru. David Wilcock returned to the spotlight and released a streaming documentary linking UFOs to nearly every conspiracy theory. The film made a boatload of cash from viewers willing to pony up to stream it. George Knapp doubled down on his claims about Christian demonology in the Pentagon and claimed that Christian extremists shut down the Pentagon UFO tracking program for fear that the program would help Satan send demons to Earth. For criticizing his slippery ethics, he called me an ignorant basement-dweller in comments published online. Diana Muir published what she claimed to be her own translation of Victorian copies of medieval journals written by Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, detailing his affiliation with the Knights Templar and voyages to Canada a century before Columbus. Scott Wolter vetted the journals, despite Muir having disposed of them, by consulting Freemasons, and he wrote an enthusiastic foreword to her book.
 
November
Scott Wolter spent much of November defending the so-called Sinclair Journals, unconvincingly, and describing how they tell a tale that aligns perfectly with Wolter’s own claims, including some first proposed only in the middle 2000s. But he also accidentally revealed that the Freemason who reviewed the only surviving pages of the journals said that the Latin wasn’t right for its alleged period. This led to another conspiracy theory, this time about a Templar cabal in Tennessee rewriting the journals in fake medieval Latin during the Civil War. A Peruvian congressman invited ufologists to testify before Congress that the taxidermy mummy featured on Gaia TV is that of a space alien. Peruvian scientists boycotted the hearing and publicized their own findings that the body is a patchwork of human and animal bones. Erich von Däniken took to YouTube to promote an online Swiss ancient astronaut research group run by three Tsoukalos-wannabees with limited English skills because “the younger generation goes into the internet.” Von Däniken claimed that television refuses to discuss his hypothesis that the Nazca Lines were an airport, despite the fact that he is a consulting producer on Ancient Aliens and literally appeared on TV in the episode on the Nazca lines as UFO airport. Von Däniken confessed in an interview that he disagrees with many of the extreme claims made on Ancient Aliens but is happy to cash their checks anyway. “I’m not happy with all the conclusions Ancient Aliens makes,” he said. Ancient Aliens star David Childress claimed that space aliens living in the hollow moon genetically engineered Bigfoot as the missing link between humans and apes. Atlantis was found (again), in Spain (again). The Boston Globe offered a balanced report on the Westford Knight.
 
December
The year ended with a whimper when movie star Megan Fox launched her new Travel Channel series Legends of the Lost to explore fringe claims about a lost race of giants, the lost wisdom of a lost civilization at Stonehenge, and the lost sock that disappears from the dryer. Despite appearances from fringe celebrities like Graham Hancock and ex-History Channel host Jim Vieira and glowing coverage across the mainstream celebrity media, the four-episode series tanked in the ratings, averaging only half a million viewers. The much more successful Curse of Oak Island, with its more than three million weekly viewers, continued to spread Templar lies, including claims using the same documents Scott Wolter said he was using for a forthcoming book about the Templars. In the closing days of 2018, one of the men involved with the supposed “Templar” map of Oak Island shown on Curse admitted that the map was a fake. Curse offered a ridiculous claim that the Jolly Roger was the Templar pirate flag. Just in time for Christmas, the History Channel published a dull Curse of Oak Island tie-in book in which author Randall Sullivan hero-worshiped the show’s stars and admitted to making his own views more extreme in exchange for screen time on Curse, a paid vacation, and swag. 
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Rational Man
12/29/2018 09:25:18 am

It will all still be with us in the next millennium.
Life After Death, Ghosts, Atlantis, Spiritualism, Knights Templar, Fortune Telling, ESP, Forbidden Histories, and so on.

It will never disappear.

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Joe Scales
12/29/2018 11:00:48 am

"The reason for the decline in the fringe was easy enough to see: The fringe had gone mainstream in 2017, and the continued presence of conspiracy theorists and fringe thinkers in the upper ranks of the Republican Party and the Trump Administration lessened the demand for pseudo-history. "

Wow. All your work. All your research. Now simply a front for your tenuous connections, often enough forced, which deep down are simply political smears. I mean... talk about proof by assertion and untestable hypotheses... don't you see how your politically driven intentions have affected you? Actually, the above probably is the best summation of your year. You've never been sloppier, nor more ignorant. Blame Trump, I suppose...

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V
12/29/2018 12:28:14 pm

DUDE. It's more like you just can't accept the truth. We have outright FILMED BITS of more than one Republican mover and shaker espousing various conspiracy theories and fringe crap, INCLUDING Trump. After all, TRUMP IS A BIRTHER, and that is a fucking CONSPIRACY THEORY, long since debunked. Why do you deny it so much? It just makes you look like...well, frankly, like you're probably a racist SOB. That can't possibly be the image you WANT to project.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/29/2018 12:39:53 pm

The OBVIOUSLY fake "birth certificate" the White House released certainly convinced me! Of what I leave it to you, gentle reader to decide.

Know who else was a conspiracy theorist? Robert F. Kennedy. Specifically about the assassination of his brother.

Joe Scales
12/29/2018 09:20:01 pm

"...well, frankly, like you're probably a racist SOB."

Really V? And what evidence of that would you care to produce? Before your panties get anymore twisted, let me answer that for you. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Goose Egg. But I will tell you, that rather than preach diversity, I instead choose to lead a diverse life. Whether you believe me or not, I care not. But let me guess... you once did a black guy in college and that checked that box on your "not a racist" card.

Now why don't you do Jason a favor; and call him out on his non-sequitur. Cheerleaders are nice and all... but they don't decide the outcome of the game.

An Anonymoous Nerd
12/29/2018 08:59:48 pm

Once again Mr. Scales is easily triggered by negative references to his favorite reality television star.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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B L
12/31/2018 10:04:23 am

A decrease in fringe output is a good thing.....unless it can be traced back to Trump....then it's bad, because......Trump!!

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E.P. Grondine
12/29/2018 11:29:24 am

Hi Jason -

I hope you read this, as it is important for your new book.

From your earlier comments, you seem to have accepted that the Walum Olam is a forgery by Rafinesque. But Ostreicher's view of Rafinesque may not be well founded.

First off, it is not consistent with Rafinesque's character to forge anything.

There were three divisions of the Lenape: the Turkey, the Turtle, and the Wolf. The Walum Olum pertains to the Wolf Division - they are Marksville in Ohio and Monangahela Late Woodland in Pennsylvania.

As you can see, or will see, from Schoolcraft, the Lenape used a pictographic script.

Ostreicher's argument is based on the pidgin Lenape of Rafinsesque. While pidgin Lenape could be the result of forgery, pidgin Lenape would also occur if Rafinesque was working his way through a trancript.

There are Lenape speakers who are working their way through the primary manuscript materials who think that Rafinesque did the best he could.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/29/2018 12:29:56 pm

It's not at all suspicious that this is yet another case of "lost originals."

I'm not saying it's a fraud... but it's a fraud.

https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/walam_olum.html

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TJ Anonymous
12/29/2018 01:17:50 pm

Please consider dropping your political leanings when discussing the (Alternate) History Channel 's attempts to create fake news. It really is irrelevant and most of mainstream America is SICK TO DEATH of the devisive nature of the current political landscape. I could really care less if you are Republican or Democrat They are all corrupt and spew their own forms of propaganda. As for HC, it gets more entertaining and equally disgusting that they continue to spin fantastical claims while unabashedly re-writing TRUE history. I still watch AA and Oak Island but have now started looking at the faces of some people in those shows who CLEARLY don't believe the BS they are being forced to put out there It's like finding the real Easter Egg in a giant heap of $*#@.

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Jason Colavito link
12/29/2018 01:44:07 pm

The problem, TJ, is that the promoters of fringe history use their claims to promote specific political and cultural agendas. It would be foolhardy to pretend that they do not exist. It would be like trying to write about creationism while ignoring Christian fundamentalism. While these agendas do change over time, in our current period, fringe history is much more likely to be associated with rightwing politics.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/29/2018 02:15:04 pm

"Bones! What about the horse?"
"He's dead Jim."

Frank Joseph is literally on the fringe. Bill Clinton was a churchgoer. Reid's role of steering money toward a Nevada enterprise is a direct effect of the 17th Amendment, transforming Senators from representatives of their respective states in a federation of states into Super Congressmen.

Most of the people in office you're worried are likely what Lenin supposedly called "useful idiots." And some of them, like Our Lady of the Bronx, are just idiots.

That said I appreciate your Year in Review and thank you for providing the links.

"My Muslim faith"
"Your CHRISTIAN faith"

Residents Fan
12/29/2018 06:21:13 pm

" fringe history is much more likely to be associated with rightwing politics."

"As a supporter of the Lemurian Root Race Theory, I wholeheartedly
endorse Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez" is something I doubt we'll be hearing soon.

Adam W.
12/30/2018 11:46:44 am

Sounds exactly like something I would have said RF if I hadn't opted out of the conspiracy mindset a few years ago.

TJ Anonymous
12/30/2018 11:21:10 pm

Where on earth are you getting that opinion that HC is spouting right wing extremist propaganda? I watch many shows on HC (except those that involve Scott Wolter...cant stand that fraud) and I don't see ANYTHING that leads to any political agenda??? Re-writing history to support their crazy theories for the SOLE PURPOSE of building ratings, yes ... All day long.

Again please do not make the mistake of the mainstream media and think that the average American gives a rat's @$$ about the political agenda of either side. It's toxic..... You seem like a smart guy who is capable of seeing through the BS Don't fall victim to the biggest trap of all.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/29/2018 09:07:48 pm

Elsewhere I capably have demonstrated the long-standing connection between the Fringe and the Right.

I first explored this here:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-buried-knights-templar-and-the-holy-grail-complete-season

in various replies. Mr. Colavito is correct to point this out, though it does tend to trigger some Conservatives in his audience.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Fringe and the Right
12/30/2018 01:45:37 pm

Freemasonry was anti-Right Wing and believed in the creation of democracies.

Freemasonry also believed in the freedom of belief to veer away from one central belief in Christianity.

This is demonstrated in the roles Freemasonry played in France and America.

Freemasonry believed in unity in diversity of belief - everybody has the freedom to believe anything they wanted. Therefore Thomas Paine believed Freemasonry originated in Druidry. It did not matter if others held different beliefs. What mattered was freedom.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/30/2018 09:07:49 pm

[Freemasonry]

If you please clarify how this post relates to the thread I can, at least, see if I should reply or not.

I could infer that you might mean to cite Freemasonry as an example of a non-Right Fringe group? In which case my response is as follows.

One: I don't know enough about Freemasonry to be able to know if you're characterization of them is accurate or not. Indeed from the little I have read part of their shtick is that they are difficult to get to know all-that-well without being in them.

Two: I've cited way more than one example to support my argument.

Three: I've never said that the Fringe was exclusively on the Right, merely that a special relationship existed.

But that's just based on an inference of what your point might be; if I'm wrong let us know.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Fringe and the Right
12/30/2018 11:17:08 pm

There are those who claim that Freemasonry is only another manifestation of a social club, like the Rotary International, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Odd Fellows, or any other such Fraternal Order.

It was only coincidence that the people who belonged to Freemasonry also happened to be embroiled in political change in various countries.

It was only coincidental that George Washington laid the cornerstone of the House of Congress at Capitol Hill as a Freemasonic ceremony (only part of other such Freemasonic ceremonies that followed).

It was only coincidence that Benjamin Franklin belonged to the La Loge des Neuf Sœurs (Lodge of the Nine Sisters) that was hat was influential in organising French support for the American Revolution.

They think that ALL Freemasonry belongs to the umbrella term "conspiracy theory" because it's what they happen to read in banal coffee table books.

An Over-Educated Grunt
1/1/2019 12:33:31 am

Yep, you're super convincing when you use your passive aggressive voice. Also when you, you know, go around claiming masons control the French government.

Watch this documentary you Grunt
1/1/2019 07:35:04 am

It's all on this documentary from the Biblical Perspective - that can be filtered out because the rights of man and freedom of belief is more important than Christianity and the Bible. The facts are all there, with primary sources.

The Hidden Faith of The Founding Fathers 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU24fJ4NQxo

Watch this you Grunt
1/1/2019 07:44:06 am

The French Republic is not "controlled" by the Grand Orient, but is in a way cognate with it., because of the traditional connection with its political philosophies dating from the French Revolution.

The French Revolution - you know - when the French Republic with the Grand Orient tried to eliminate Roman Catholicism and replace it with the Goddess of Reason.

An Over-Educated Grunt
1/1/2019 09:34:35 pm

You realize you literally just said "the Grand Orient lodge is the same thing as the government of the French Republic," right? Or does "cognate" mean something different in the land of "civilization equals drugs" and "ignore all evidence but 19th Century sources?"

Just realised
1/2/2019 04:07:03 am

No French person would quibble that the French Republic and the Grand Orient support the same political philosophies and had common historical links from the French Revolution. This is nothing "controversial" in France. Especially since members of the French Republic are also Grand Masters in the Grand Orient.

I don't know what your background is or what your agenda is for the ludicrous things you say about Freemasonry.

It would be very silly for the Vatican to excommunicate members of the Elks, the Rotary Club and The Odd Fellows.

Perhaps the Vatican excommunicates those that are Freemasons because Freemasons are appalled about the existence of anti-Semitism on the basis of a fable called Christianity.

Civilization equals drugs
1/2/2019 04:45:33 am

There is nothing controversial, today, among anthropologists that early civilization, before reading and writing, to hold the view that drugs were cognate with religious practices.

This is not just the domain of Graham Hancock, contrary to what some people claim. Although his pseudo-historical beliefs and claims need to be checked.

Again, I don't know what your background is and why you make such disparaging remarks about the existence of shamanism. You seem to be holding shamanism, the use of drugs within religious rituals, with drug abuse of the dropouts within society.

Here, one example of a documentary showing anthropologists and archaeologists explaining how important shamanism was to early man, showing evidence of pottery fragments and comparing with the religious practices of primitive peoples that still exist today.

Flightpaths To The Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI4sWda5NKE


An Over-Educated Grunt
1/2/2019 09:35:39 am

Did they hand out some sort of annual prize for bad logic and abuse of the English language in whatever corner of England you live in? I haven't actually said ANYTHING about masonry other than to point out that what you say is patent stupidity, and that "civilization equals drugs," especially as you describe it, is equally patent stupidity.

Now, go back to your hole, you're self destructing in public again.

Drugs and Civilization
1/2/2019 10:02:38 am

It's only a coincidence that the American Declaration of Independence is written on Masonic Aprons.

Just like it's only a coincidence that a mother is present at the birth of her child.

An Over-Educated Grunt
1/2/2019 02:15:27 pm

You are REALLY terrible at this.

The "official" copy of the Declaration, one of at least two produced, was written on a single sheet of parchment. Not leather - untanned parchment. Even the other signed original that we currently know of is also on parchment. All of Jefferson's working drafts were on loose leaf paper - again, not leather.

So yes, if it were on a Masonic apron, that would be an astonishing coincidence, almost as astonishing as the idea of putting an official document on an apron in the first place.

American Cool "Disco" Dan link
1/2/2019 02:24:39 pm

I was hoping you'd stick it for the win and you did not disappoint!

"Masonic apron" is Masonic code for "tube sock" and I think we all know what those are commonly used for.

In case it's not clear I'm calling Masonic aprons jizzmops. Sometimes the idiocy of some people requires one to work blue.

Joe Scales
1/2/2019 04:05:33 pm

"You are REALLY terrible at this."

To be fair Grunt, so are you. I don't believe he meant the original Declaration.

Joe Scales
12/29/2018 09:28:34 pm

Believe me TJ, I've tried for at least two years now to get through to our host in this regard. He's blind to it however, as partisans tend to be with whatever leaning they favor. They see the political platforms they've fallen prey to as correct, enlightened, and/or just; and thus are granted a license accordingly to abandon reason. Point this out to them, and they will paint you with a broad brush as their political adversary.

So... you love Trump, eh?

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An Anonymous Nerd
12/29/2018 10:54:55 pm

You've made your love of your favorite reality television star rather clear.

Try this for example:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-buried-knights-templar-and-the-holy-grail-complete-season

wherein you used Mr. Colavito's mention of him once to brand the article a "Trump hit piece." The accuracy of the piece didn't concern you, just one mention of your favorite celebrity in a negative context was enough to trigger you.

Here also is your embrace of a conspiracy that would do you proud by the object of your admiration:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/friends-of-david-wilcock-say-he-resigned-from-gaia-tv-over-bad-pay-poor-working-conditions-and-lucifer

together with my debunking of it.

*shrugs*

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
12/30/2018 09:34:39 am

One more thing TJ. Case in point above, where the partisans will paint you as their political adversary for not wanting to suffer the political talking points that pepper our host's blog. This one ankle-nipping cyber-stalker has been following each and every post of mine since I handed him his ass back in February (http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-buried-knights-templar-and-the-holy-grail-complete-season). You'd hope after no longer responding directly to their continued pestering, they'd give up. Can't beat crazy though. Or stupid.

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Machala
12/29/2018 07:55:31 pm

Jason,
To you and all your readers and commentators ... I wish you all a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2019 !
¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!

Machala - Machala, Ecuador

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expat link
12/30/2018 11:33:38 am

Check Richard Hoagland's progress on last year's suggested NY resolutions:

http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-year-resolutions-for-richard.html

I make that 0 of 7.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/31/2018 03:04:41 pm

I didn't know Hoagland was still around. Is he still peddling NASA photos almost as old as myself? Did he find another robot head? 🤖

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Andrew Littlefield
12/30/2018 04:14:09 pm

Washington Post did an article the other day critical of Megan Fox's show and pseudo-archaeology. They even cited the Ancient Aliens reviews on this site.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/28/how-tv-shows-use-serious-archaeology-promote-bogus-history/?fbclid=IwAR3bhwzRj_LvmrpX-1PDkhqdmNF98OgfmmIP2eJRnufeqGPGe6G3Vbdzxxg&noredirect=on&utm_term=.4f3e6ac9aa7e

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An Anonymous Nerd
12/30/2018 09:13:07 pm

Nifty.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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BigFred
12/30/2018 07:41:42 pm

"Megan Fox launched her new Travel Channel series Legends of the Lost to explore fringe claims about... the lost sock that disappears from the dryer." Can you provide a link to info on this episode? It sounds a lot more interesting than the hackneyed pseudo-history topics the other episodes covered.

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Hal
12/30/2018 07:45:18 pm

Year in review. Another year where Jason bilked his readers and had nothing original or meaningful to write. His entire being depends on the fringe. Without them he has no importance at all.

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An Anonymous NErd
12/30/2018 09:11:33 pm

[Year in review. Another year where Jason bilked his readers and had nothing original or meaningful to write. His entire being depends on the fringe. Without them he has no importance at all. ]

You've made it clear over the years that "meaningful" means "agrees with the Fringe, regardless of evidence." I am confident that if the Fringe did not exist, Mr. Colavito would find something else to write about.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Hal
12/30/2018 10:34:29 pm

Sure... of course it’s an assertion that will never be proven. Jason: “I could do original research and issue original ideas...” Sure....... he lives off the fringe and is a huckster worse than those he attacks.

Rational Man
12/30/2018 11:24:47 pm

If a believer admits they made something up - don't trust what they said. Carry on believing.

Accumulated Wisdom
12/31/2018 03:50:32 am

Joseph Smith, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Zechariah Sitchen, amongst other ancient astronaut theorists, and bullshit artists would have you believe that white people from Kolob/
Nibiru/Mars/Planet X/Outer Space colonized Earth and created us as slaves. Somewhere along the line, these extraterrestrial caucasians started having intimate relationship with their slaves, thus creating a race of cannibalistic Giants with a tendency to rape women. God saw what was going on and decided to kill us all., except for a white dude who built a boat for his family 2 of every animal on Earth. Fast forward to God sending his white child to be crucified by non-believers and non-white Jewish people. Turning him into a Zombie, and magically flying into outer space. Then God starts talking to a white dude in a veil with a rich Catholic wife. He gives slightly different instructions to the veiled white man than given to his cousin Josh. Setting in motion even more bloodshed. Of course we know all of this is true because of all the 12-24 ft tall skeletons found all over but, destroyed by the Man. Someone always manages to salvage just ONE picture from an entire roll of film.

"All people were Black until an evil scientist created white people." Nigerian foreign exchange student

"All people looked Chinese until, an evil scientist created white people and black people." Chinese foreign exchange student

Hate is taught.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/31/2018 04:06:34 am

Forgot about white people whom are actually shapeshifting Reptiles 🦖 from 🛸.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/31/2018 02:06:11 pm

"ACCUMULATED WISDOM
12/31/2018 04:06:34 am
Forgot about white people whom are .."

Jesus fucking wept.

Accumulated Wisdom
12/31/2018 02:27:50 pm

How does the Sun weep? You are personifying the star we are orbiting. I thought you were paying attention.

American Cool "Disco" dan
12/31/2018 10:25:56 pm

Priceless precocious precious Defender:

I'm amazed that no one has murdered you yet because you're a huge dick and huge dicks are prime targets for murderers. Could be a stranger in the subway, could be your Tinder date.

Doc Rock
12/31/2018 03:55:58 pm

For highlights of the year in terms of comments by the kiddie table here, I highly recommend the comment section for the February article about Plutarch and alleged ancient voyages to Canada. Vintage stuff.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/31/2018 10:05:20 pm

On a scale of 1 to infinity how drunk was Cap'n Drinkypoo when he posted that. It's a sad world for our Cap'n now that ukrainian-nymphets.com has shut down.

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Doc Rock
1/1/2019 12:33:33 am

On a scale of 1 to 10 how lousy is your reading comprehension and retention. Anyone who actually bothered to read Jason's article above knows there is a link to what I mentioned embedded in his discussion of the article involving Plutarch. Oops, another swing, another miss. Sorry Bouki, but maybe your luck with stuff like this will improve in the coming year.

Time for another glass of jungle juice.

American Cool "Disco" Dan
1/1/2019 11:52:35 am

"On a scale of 1 to infinity how drunk was Cap'n Drinkypoo when he posted that? "

The question stands.

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