William Shatner's Weird or What? Plus: The Return of Henry Sinclair

5/1/2013

I need a bit of a break before I start reading Jacques Vallee’s analysis of “UFO” sightings in prehistory, so today let me catch up on some other news.

Last night Syfy began airing William Shatner’s Weird or What, a series that was first broadcasted in 2011. The first season aired on the Discovery Channel, and subsequent series were screened only internationally until now. The show examines unexplained phenomena, including ancient astronauts and lost civilizations, with some of the genre’s greatest hits, including cocaine mummies, Mystery Hill in New Hampshire, the Ica Stones, alien abduction, crystal skulls, etc. TV Guide stated that last night’s airing would explore whether the Hindu god Ganesha was an ancient astronaut, but TV Guide was wrong. They covered modern aliens instead.

It would be inappropriate for me to review the show because the producers of the program contacted me about appearing on an alien themed episode a couple of years ago, and I provided them with information and research assistance. After learning that I was not a believer in aliens, they decided not to use me on air and I believe the specific episode was never produced.

So, instead, I thought I’d pass along a piece of news about America Unearthed. Stanley J. St. Clair (yes, another Sinclair/St. Clair) reported that Scott Wolter is going to continue pressing the Henry Sinclair-Jesus Bloodline storyline in the upcoming season of the show:

The interesting point here is that Scott is obtaining a copy of the delightful full-color illustrated children’s book, Prince Henry St. Clair, Earl of Orkney, by British artist, Hazel Brown, which was published this winter by St. Clair Publications and may use it in an upcoming episode of the show, according to my communication yesterday afternoon with Scott.

I really hope this isn’t true. I am so sick of the Sinclair/Holy Bloodline/Templar conspiracy nonsense. Haven’t we trampled this idea into the ground yet? I’m wondering if I should make the effort to put out a new edition of Fred W. Lucas’ debunking of the Zeno Narrative/Henry Sinclair idea more than a century ago. It would be a huge pain in the neck to do because it would involve retyping the entire book, but if we’re going to get another year of this crap, it might be worth the effort to have it out there.

What I have done is submit to the printer the files for Unearthing the Truth: A Critical Companion to America Unearthed Season One, which will probably be ready for sale late next week. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover:

14 Comments

Bill Adcock link

5/1/2013 10:01:10 am

How can one examine the historicity of accounts that, by definition, predate recorded history? Isn't that...no. I'm not going to try and parse that concept. I'm looking forward to your analysis, but please, don't give yourself an aneurysm trying to decode it.

Is the notion of interpreting Ganesha as an Ancient Astronaut a new addition to the canon of AAT? I'd not seen it before, which is surprising since it seems like there hasn't been a fresh idea in AAT since the 1970s.

Jason Colavito link

5/1/2013 10:05:46 am

Ancient Aliens covered the Ganesha claim a couple of times. I wrote about it here (also linked if you click my name): http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2012/12/was-the-elephant-god-ganesha-a-ufo-pilot.html

5/1/2013 10:17:43 am

Thanks Jason. I love how AAT consistently suggests the alien visitors had technology on par with that of the 1960s space program - flight suits with air masks, Saturn V-style rockets...

Shawn Flynn

5/1/2013 10:36:08 am

Don't let Wolter see that cover, he's gonna start putting the hooked X on maps to find "related" "Templar" locations.
...You have to do the air quotes motion for full effect.

A Christianized Hooked X?

9/11/2014 07:22:35 am

http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/film-review-escape-flukt-2012/

http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/pathfinder

These two fictional films got panned as did this tv episode

the idea that a particular map is very ancient and honest.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinland/ <-----enjoy

The KRS is one of the better finds that challenges a convention.

ESSO or EXXON?

9/11/2014 07:30:13 am

this video puts me to sleep. it was made recently.

http://northkingstown.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=677

Precisely because this powerpoint excursion has no

cutting edge CGI, it perhaps is one of Scott Wolter's better

efforts where he puts his Hooked X ideas in one place.

Grim Reaper link

5/1/2013 05:50:47 pm

Jason my friend im sorry for the shit i said keep up the good work Good luck out there
You My friend will do fine I today got Stabbed in the back by someone I thought I can trust I will Keep up with your blogs and I am gonna enjoy reading them

Matthew Dentith link

5/1/2013 06:14:28 pm

Would it be slightly easier to OCR the original text and then get a band of volunteers to check/correct sections of it (rather than retype the entire book)?

5/2/2013 01:58:25 pm

I actually have an OCR scan from Open Library,but there are so many special words and fancy Victorian fonts and OCR attempts to read maps as words (not to mention that every line has a hard break) that it's going to take forever to proofread and format it.

Christopher Randolph

5/2/2013 12:26:09 am

Aha. So that's what forensic geologists do, they gather data from... children's books!

I'm eager to find out why Jesus has been using the Vikings and Templars to draw a spiral to Stonehenge. This should be good...

Gary J.

5/7/2013 02:12:04 am

Since you can't review Shatner's program because of a conflict of interest, I will: I saw the first episode on ancient aliens and it was awful. But I've never been a fan of Shatner's, even from the beginning so I may be somewhat biased. I didn't even realize it was a rerun based on the advertisements.

But at least Ancient Aliens is interesting ... Weird or Not is not.

Related to the same subject: I saw a program called Pyramid Code on the Documentary Channel last night. It was poorly done, even if they had some proof of ancient technology. Things were presented in a very disjoint manner and without any attempted proof as to their conjectures. Did you happen to see that one? I'm sure it was a repeat too, but not to me.

5/7/2013 03:03:21 am

I didn't see that, but I see they have a website: http://www.pyramidcode.com/

This is very sad. The whole thing is based on the fake Bosnian "pyramid"? Wow. TV channels are desperate for free programming and will take anything apparently.