The team of researchers investigating the Turkish site of Durupınar for evidence that the boat-shaped geological formation is Noah's Ark told the Daily Mail that a recent scan has provided "100% confirmed" proof that the site is manmade and therefore the likely site of the Ark. Noah's Ark Scans (…)

As I continue to work on my book proposal, I only have time for a brief notice today: A new English-language documentary about to have is German premiere is going in search of Atlantis in one of the least likely spots: Scandinavia. If that sounds a little familiar, it's because it's based on (…)

​Last night, Expedition Unknown host Josh Gates guest starred on the penultimate episode of the second season of The Librarians: The Next Chapter playing a character named “Josh Gates.” Press materials for the show described Gates as playing “himself” in the show. However, the real and the fake (…)

​A year after UFO disclosure advocate and paranormal enthusiast Tim Gallaudet first claimed that he was on the hunt for Atlantis, the former Naval admiral appeared on Jesse Michels’s American Alchemy podcast, where he alleged that a team that includes a “very wealthy ocean researcher” he won’t (…)

​It was a weird weekend on fringe history on social media. Former History Channel personality Scott F. Wolter announced on Masonic Templar author Timothy Hogan’s YouTube channel that the men are planning to open what they believe is a vault in the United States containing the bones of Jesus (…)

For much of the past year, the group of evangelical Christians working to prove that Turkey’s vaguely boat-shaped Durupınar Formation is the remains of Noah’s Ark has been on a media tour, spreading their inconclusive claims across major media outlets, including the Today show. They also made (…)

​A 2022 scientific paper by Filippo Biondi and Carlo Malanga that claimed to find a previously unknown internal structure in the Great Pyramid of Giza by using a novel remote sensing technique has been retracted, according to a notice published on the website of the journal Remote Sensing. “The (…)

​Following on the heels of the last original episode not composed of clips, the Amazon-themed outing from two weeks ago, we return this week to rehashing familiar ancient astronaut claims by geographic proximity. The topic under consideration is “Africa,” the second-largest continent on Earth (…)