​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find a previously unknown internal structure in the Great Pyramid of Giza by using a novel remote sensing technique has been retracted, according to a notice published on the website of the journal Remote Sensing.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 (…)

This week, we watched Ross Coulthart devote NewsNation’s Reality Check time to an interview with a UFO YouTuber who goes by the name UAPGerb, and this ridiculous ouroboros of UFO YouTubers eating each other’s tails resulted in UAPGerb accusing Lue Elizondo of angling to become UFO Czar for (…)

Joe Rogan was on a pseudoarchaeology and pseudohistory kick this week, with two separate multi-hour episodes devoted to imaginary history, so lucky me: I am making a second bonus post today because so many bad things happened. This time, his guest was Nephilim-hunter Timothy Alberino, who was on (…)

​After I graduated college in 2003, I briefly worked in the anthropology department at the New York State Museum before being transferred to a different unit. Now, this was back in the day when accessing scholarly information was difficult if you weren’t part of a campus community. I can (…)

​Joe Rogan was at it again this week with a podcast exploring archaeological conspiracy theories. This time, Rogan interviewed Cassie Coppersmith, a YouTuber who makes videos about ancient stone constructions that average around 25,000 views apiece as of this writing. Other than appearing on (…)

​Oh, look: It’s another “special edition” of Ancient Aliens recycling segments from past shows. Last season, there were six clip shows across seventeen episodes, but they aired consecutively. This season, we have had five clip shows across the first twelve episodes, spread out in between new (…)

​Now Voyager, a new magazine for longform journalism, published a new 8,000-word story about Graham Hancock’s and Flint Dibble’s 4.5-hour-long debate on The Joe Rogan Experience in 2024. “Bones of Contention,” by freelance culture and entertainment journalist Chantel Tattoli, who frequently (…)

​I suppose it was inevitable that Ancient Aliens would eventually get around to artificial intelligence. It’s a bit surprising that it took this long, but it takes time for the lazy producers at Prometheus Entertainment to wait around until they can rip their copy from online articles without (…)

​In a live interview with former and current Japanese government officials on a Japanese podcast yesterday, UFO proponent Lue Elizondo claimed that the U.S. government has photographs of monolithic extraterrestrial towers on the moon and that these photos may be released soon. “There’s also (…)