Short Answer: Yes (at least for some, like Erich von Daniken). Slightly Longer Answer:Â Yes, because some presume that humans in antiquity were so primitive they could not build these things without the assistance of non-human intelligence. Then, an elect super-race...
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Why I’m Not on the Bandwagon with Christian Nephilim HuntersÂ
Well, there are several reasons that I could go into at length, but you really don’t need any more of an explanation than this essay by Jason Colavito. What he’s shooting at is a testament to poor thinking, shoddy research (biblical and otherwise),...
Paracas Skull Groundhog Day
This past Friday, Feb 2, Lynn Marzulli’s second round on Paracas skull DNA was revealed to a pay-per-view audience. The Groundhog Day timing was appropriate. We’ve seen this before. I’d love to say “good job; thanks for doing the hard work on...
Rice University Scholar Jeffrey Kripal: Meet Diego Cuoghi
Jason Colavito has a lengthy, but worthwhile (as usual) post on Rice University Prof. Jeffrey’s Kripal’s claim for UFOs in medieval art. Kripal shows his unfamiliarity with the work of art historian Diego Cuoghi on this matter. PaleoBabble readers should...
Gobekli Tepe: Stop the Madness, Please
Boy, am I tired of hearing about Gobekli Tepe. Pardon the pun, but it’s become a monument to those who cannot distinguish speculation from data. The truth is that no one really knows what the site was for, who built, or why it was built. No one knows the meaning...
No, the Nephilim Did Not Build the Pyramids
Well, this is soul-crushing. My thanks to Jason Colavito for once again directing our attention to awful thinking and helping us think more clearly about it. His post (Did the Nephilim Build the Pyramids? Or Were They Woolly Mammoths?) is about a video documentary...
Jason Colavito’s Review of “Sekret Machines: Gods” by Tom DeLonge with Peter Levenda
Another solid review by Jason Colavito. If you’ve ever read one of Jason’s lengthy reviews you know it’s not just an essay informing his readers about what’s in a particular book or a simplistic “liked it … hated it” exercise....
The FBI, the Science Fiction Writer, and the ET Hypothesis for Flying Saucers
Jason Colavito has written a fascinating post entitled, “Documents Detail the FBI’s Theory That Science Fiction Editor Ray Palmer Helped Create the Flying Saucer Myth.” It’s well worth your time. No one would deny that, in the mid-20th century,...
The Sphinx 800,000 Years Old? A Good Lesson on How Alternative Historians Select Their Data
You may have seen this item enthusiastically recently reported on the Ancient Code site: “Scientists: Geological evidence shows the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old.” Ancient Code is a repository of fringe archaeology. Surprise! What Ancient Code...
Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods: A Review
I encourage all of you to read Jason Colavito’s lengthy review of Hancock’s latest tome devoted to alternative history. But if you want the short version, Colavito offers this summary thought: Speaking as someone who found Fingerprints of the Gods to be...
A Blow to Racist Fringe History
Jason Colavito has an interesting post on some recent research that damages the Solutrean Hypothesis. For those who haven’t heard of this, Jason explains: Fringe history believers have long used the Solutrean claim as evidence for European primacy in the...
Critical Re-Examination of a 1461 UFO Account
Jason Colavito posted an interesting essay today where he checks up on an alleged UFO account in a 1461. His post begins: Let us stipulate at the outset that the famed ufologist Jacques Vallée is French, so we should expect that his translation from his native...
Textual References to Giants in Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Sources
Jason Colavito is doing all of us interested in the topic of giants a service with this page-in-progress on his website. It's got a good number of entries/examples already. Check it out!
BBC Wants to be Even Less Worth Watching than American Main Stream Media – Hosts Debate Over Whether Jesus and Buddha Were Space Aliens
Jason Colavito has a short summary of this intellectual fiasco (on all sides, really). Just more insanity from mainstream media. It’s hard to believe what actually passes for “serious” television these days. I guess the BBC is jealous of the way the...
Medieval Pyramid PaleoBabble Reborn
That’s the gist of this informative essay /by Jason Colavito: “Review of Scott Creighton’s “The Secret Chamber of Osiris” (2015). As usual, Jason has done his homework and exposes how Creighton (the author) adopts medieval fantasies about...