Tim Gallaudet Tells "The Free Press" That "Atlantis Is Not Just Real But Findable"

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet had a distinguished career in the Navy and in oceanography before he became obsessed with UFOs and the paranormal. Now he’s better known for his frequent appearances on the UFO podcast circuit and on cable news channels to promote UFO conspiracy theories, especially his pet idea that UFOs part in underwater bases. He also participated in a 2016 episode of the Travel Channel’s The Dead Files claiming that his house is haunted and that his daughter communicates with ghosts. Now Gallaudet has a new memoir to flog, so he’s once again touring the podcasts to drum up sales—and making some wild claims along the way. One that caught my attention was a claim he made to The Free Press that Atlantis is real.

​The Free Press’s Will Rahn describes Gallaudet as “a serious man” and therefore insists that we take seriously the idea that “Atlantis is not just real but findable.” And that probably tells us something more about the major media that it does Gallaudet. Rahn is a senior editor at The Free Press and formerly was the managing editor for politics at CBS News. (Both The Free Press and CBS are divisions of Paramount Skydance.) If he thinks that a ufologist who believes in Atlantis and that his daughter talks to ghosts is a “serious man,” he is either incapable of vetting sources or reflexively assumes seriousness comes with a government title.
 
No wonder our politics is filled with entertainers and clowns.
 
This was not the first time Gallaudet promoted his belief in Atlantis. Last August, Gallaudet not only said Atlantis was real but said he would conduct an expedition this year to reach Plato’s allegory in its imaginary underwater kingdom. He described his belief in the discovery of anomalous metallic artifacts from ancient geological strata and suggested that a lost species, a lost civilization, or even ancient space aliens may have been responsible.
 
Gallaudet also claimed to be investigating whether the Egyptians used “levitation,” including possible psychic telekinesis or sound-levitation technology, to build the pyramids because he had heard that “large stone structures could be carved and transported with a collective conscious mental [effort], psi or psychokinesis and mass effect.”
 
He is, as far as Paramount Skydance is concerned, a serious man.
 
The claim that Egyptian pyramids were built with levitation goes back to medieval Arabic literature. The oldest version, from the Akhbār al-zamān around 1000 CE, reads: “It is said that the builders had palm wood sheets covered in writing, and after having extracted every stone and having it cut, they placed over each stone one of these sheets; they then gave a blow to the stone, and it traveled far beyond the reach of sight. They came back close to it and did the same again until they had led it to its assigned place.” This story is exactly as true as the very next sentence, which claims that the stones were all joined together with metal rods running through their centers, a claim that is demonstrably untrue.
 
There is, of course, no evidence telekinetic powers, much less that groups of people can combine their telekinesis to move heavier objects.