We come in peace. Not really.


Today we learn about the man behind the Ancient Aliens/Astronaut theory, Erich von Däniken!


Notes:

Story, Ronald. The Space-Gods Revealed. Barnes & Noble Books, 1976.


Von Daniken, Erich. Chariots of the Gods? Berkley, 1999.


Lingeman, Richard R. “Erich von Daniken’s Genesis.” New York Times, March 31, 1974, p. 357.


Playboy, August 1974 (volume 21, number 8)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXi7QKTNi44


https://www.deseret.com/1989/12/24/18839036/tale-of-outer-space-ancestors-is-literary-fraud


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/about-thinking/202007/why-do-people-keep-boarding-the-chariots-the-gods

Intro: Bad Bite by '68


Outro: Never Trust a Man (With Egg On His Face) by Adam and the Ants