They then state how aliens used their technology to drag asteroids to strike the Indian Ocean, causing a mega-tsunami that flooded the known world. AA tackles this in an episode by treating the Flood as if it’s a well-established scientific and historical fact, which is already a red flag. Most scientists agree there was some sort of huge event long ago, but nowhere near “ the whole world flooded”, and the legend grew from there. Others believe it totally that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and that God flooded it all, except for Noah and his animals, to cleanse the Earth. Many faiths take the entire story as just an allegory and not real history. There’s a serious argument over the Great Flood. 13 The Great Flood Was Real And Caused By Aliens Merlin as an alien teaching a laser-sword wielding Arthur: might make for a cool movie, but it’s ridiculous.
This is used as part of a huge talk on how aliens granted weapons like Thor’s hammer and even created a super nuclear bomb - cited as the explanation for a crater most scientists agree was caused by a meteor. They then move on to how it could fire off laser beams and was basically a medieval lightsaber. This leads us to Excalibur, which at first they contend might have been a “biometric security lock” concealing Merlin’s secret stash of alien technology. Ignoring how there’s no evidence that Merlin ever existed in the first place, to jump to him being an alien is just nutty. They contend that Merlin was… wait for it… an alien giving his input, and that his “magical powers” were just technology. So maybe it’s not too much of a shock for AA to say that not only was King Arthur alive and real, but aliens influenced him. Some contend there was a king by that name and that the myth of Camelot grew from it, while others say it’s all bunk. The King Arthur legends are debated hard today. So the show can acknowledge a fraud, but then gives it life. The nuttiest bit is how so much of this talk goes on “ancient records” and myths of power, when the fact is that it wasn’t until the 20 th century that the skulls went from some minor bit to suddenly having “great power”. They even mention how they're “linked” to how survivors of Atlantis moved to Tibet like it’s historical fact. They touch on them being used by everyone, from the Mayans to the Nazis, and coming from Atlantis. An episode of AA openly acknowledges all that… then somehow goes right into the skulls being real. Not one has ever been documented as having actually been found in some cultural site just by random folks. But ever since they appeared, they have been debunked time and again by geologists, historians, and other experts as nothing more than expertly crafted frauds meant to milk a gullible rich person. No, they go back a long way, revered as a major bit among alien buffs as proof of long-time visitation by aliens to other cultures. 15 They Admit Crystal Skulls Are Fake… But Still Made By AliensĬontrary to what some may think, crystal skulls weren’t made up for an Indiana Jones movie. Here are just 15 things from Ancient Aliens that make no sense at all, but that the show pushes as fact, and why this show has no place on the History Channel. There is stuff there that no sci-fi writer would touch, and you almost think it’s a parody of what alien believers think. Often, the “ancient” cultures they talk about are not really that old, and so many of the wilder antics of the show are just unbelievable. Yet it’s a huge hit, well into its 12 th season, and continues to have fans who mistake their statements as fact. The issue many have with the show is that it is not just goofy in its ideas of alien life, it also goes about messing up evidence, drawing nutty conclusions, and even flat-out lying. Tsoukalos, whose bizarre hair and “it was aliens” lines have inspired several memes. The most notable is undoubtedly Giorgio A. This has led to huge criticism from scientists and scholars, as the “experts” brought on are rather dubious, to say the least.
But since then, it has turned into a series that seriously tries to argue that nearly every major part of this planet has been influenced by aliens. The show explores the idea that aliens influenced Earth's history and the first seasons played it mostly straight. The network has gone from serious history stuff like documentaries and specials, to some rather goofball bits involving ice truckers, storage stuff, and even ghosts.īut to many, nothing speaks more to how badly the History Channel has lost its way than Ancient Aliens.
Many have complained over how the History Channel seems to have forgotten its first name.