Digging Up Ancient Aliens

"1899, somewhere in the Memphis Necropolis close to Saqqara, Egypt,  a few workmen were digging. They were excavating a Mastaba, covered by the desert sand. After a while one of the workmen noticed something, a sealed entrance to the tomb."

In this episode we will cover an artefact that some claim are proof that a wooden statue is evidence of ancient Egypt having access to airplanes. Is this true or what is this object really.

Come with on a journey to explore our past and present. Are the indications as strong as some suggest or is it just hot air.

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400 000 years ago, a bright light travelled across the African plain. Was this the origin of the human race?

2010, Iceland. A volcano is having an eruption that grinds air traffic to a halt. Could this event have been triggered by sinister forces?

In 2005, a hidden door was discovered. Leading to the workshop of one of the greatest minds and his journal. Could there be written evidence in there of third degree contact?

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we’re going to look closer about the claims about aliens being behind many of the disasters that happen around the globe. Both in the ancient past and in the present day. Why would the aliens want to get rid of us humans, are they trying to correct a mistake or something else?

To help us we’re getting some help from Eric McLaren who is usually running the podcast “Religious Wars”. He is joining in with his journalistic wit and revisiting Ancient Aliens after quite the hiatus. You can find his podcast Religious Wars on the website or of course in your favourite podcast player. 

For a full list of references and further reading please visit our website diggingupancientaliens.com. There you can find more info about the show and links to all our social media.

We cover in this episode the following topics:

Mayan Calendar

Book of Revelations

Noaks Ark

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake 

Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption

Leonardo Da Vinci

Von Braun

Nicolas Tesla

Human Evolution

Anunnaki

Georgia guiding stones.

Today when we hear the word angel we might picture fluffy kids with wings. But is this really how angels are portrayed in the bible? Would what we think an angel is be wrong and what’s really described in the bible is extraterrestrial beings?

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we’re going to sort out what an angel is and if the bible really is the best evidence for extraterrestrial visitation. To help us out with this we are Dr. Tine Rassalle. Dr Rassalle is an expert in religious material culture with a focus toward early christianity and judaism.

You can find more of Tines work on her website, you can go and follow her on twitter too. If you want some extra reading you should look into her dissertation “ancient synagogue coins”.

For a full reference list and further reading suggestion you should head over to our website diggingupancientaliens.com. There you will be able to find more info about our show and previous episodes.

CW: we mention sexual assault briefly while discussing the story of Lot from the Bible. The passage in question is Genesis 19:5.

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We cover in this episode:

Messengers of God?

The guardians

The wings of angels

Jetpacks

Ultraterestials

Angels of Roswell

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Mysterious places, they appear across the globe. Places where things mysteriously disappear, where strange beings lurk in the shadow and the technology stops working. Could there be an otherworldly explanation to this? Could it be a wormhole? Do they really exist? I’m just asking questions. Or am I? 

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we will explore mysterious places. What is the mystery and is the mystery really mysterious for the reasons presented in the show? Today we are going to break down episode 1 from season 2 titled “Mysterious Places” (S02E01).  

In this episode we will cover these ancient and not so ancient sites and topics:

Bermuda Triangle

Flight 19

Zone of Silence (Zona de silencio)

Anasazi (Ancestral Puablans)

Gate of the gods / Aramu Muru (Altarini)

Markawasi

World grid theory

Ley Lines

I do mention a bunch of villages (or Ancient Aliens does) and they are as follow: Calais, Mont Alix, Mont Alet, L’Allet, Anxon, Aissey, Alaise, L’Allex, Vercelli, Alzano, Calesi, Cales. 

I don’t have a guest in this episode but we have a new outro so it’s almost like having a guest. It’s a song called “Tin foil hat” by a Swedish punkbank called Trallskruv. If you like this you can find their webpage, Instagram, Spotify and a bunch of extra info at their linktree. Of course with their permission, go and check them out!

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A wall is broken down during a renovation, revealing what could be another world. 

Is a priest in Ecuador in possession of metal plates that could hold the answer to if aliens visited us.

A flying ace is breaking a world record reaching the north pole, but did he maybe go even further than that?

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we will explore the underground and look for aliens in places rarely touched by the sun. We are going to break down episode 4 from season 2 titled “Underground Aliens” (S02E04).

To help us out we have a very special guest, Dr. Bill Farley assistant professor by day and host of Video Game Archaeology at night.

Dr. Farley are specialized in Native New England in the colonial period but have many other interests such as archaeobotany, archaeological method and theory and colonialism and its interactions with indiginous people. 

He is also using his knowledge to analyze and use the archeological toolkit on games giving a new and fresh look on the medium.

You can find Dr. Farleys twitter right here, his Video Game Archeology youtube channel and his research at researchgate here. 

In this episode we will cover these ancient and not so ancient sites and topics:

Derinkuyu,

Native American creation stories,

Dulce, the new Area 51,

Cueva de los Tayos,

The Metal library,

Tahtzibichen Underground labyrinth temple,

Hollow Earth.

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Are there cases for ancient aliens that an archeologist would not be able to explain? Buzzfeed Unsolved seems to think just that and did release a video presenting what they think is the best evidence for ancient aliens.

Our host Fredrik is usually on a mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we will be guided by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej into the world of unsolved mysteries. 

The cases that’s going to be presented in this episode are as follow:

Wandjina paintings,

Tassili N'ajjer,

Lid of Pakal, 

Temple of Seti I,

Greek funeral marker,

Dendera Light,

Dogon Tribe,

Tiwanaku,

Cheops pyramid.

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Do small statues found in Japan indicate that sushi, tea and kimonos originate from otherworldly beings. 

Atlantis, according to Plato this mythic land would be outside the pillars of Heracles, but could he have been wrong?

Did aliens try to contact us in Japan by drifting ashore in a hollow boat in 1803 with a box some might say contained a super computer?

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. In this episode we will start our journey into season 2 and an episode about underwater worlds. So put on that scuba gear and let’s dive straight on to it.

We are joined this week by none other than Tehya (TK) from “For the love of history”. Podcaster by night, teacher by day and former Atlantis hunter. Her knowledge about Japanese history is amazing and she provides this episode with a lot of great knowledge nuggets.

If you want to hear more from Tehya you can find her podcast on Apple, Amazon, Google Podcast or any other player. You can follow her on Instagram, twitter or check out her patreon. According to signals from outer space there might also be a website that you find right here.

We did talk about a painting in the episode and it did turn out to be an old school poster. Unfortunately it’s not within the public domain but it can be found here if you are curious. 

In this water themed episode we did cover these little topics:

Atlantis

Bermuda Triangle

Yonaguni monument

Utsuro-bune

Dogu figures

Jamon Culture

India's sunken cities

Lake Titicaca’s sunken temple

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A peak at the Big Ear telescope makes a researcher scribble WOW! on a printout. A big firefight lasts for hours in Los Angeles, but are the targets really from this earth? A farmer finds debris on his land, according to some this is the start of the largest coverup in US history.

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. This week we will finish season one of the show, so it’s season finale time. Due to this occasion I did invite a very special guest to be on the show.

Blake Smith is the host of Monstertalk, In reSearch Of and active in many other amazing projects. He is an accomplished writer and researcher and has been published in Fortean Times, Weird Tales, Skeptic Magazine and Skeptical Inquirer. 

Usually he tends to be in the realm of monsters and ghosts but his knowledge about modern ufology is not to be underestimated. 

To hear more from Blake you should head over to monstertalk.org (https://monstertalk.org) or the patreon page for In reSearch Of (https://www.patreon.com/inresearchof).

We did have a blast recording this episode and we talked about many things between heaven and earth. But you will be able to hear a lot of great info about the following topics:

SETI

The Golden Disk

The Kepler Telescope

The War of the Worlds Broadcast

The Battle of Los Angeles 

Mercury powered anti gravity machines / Foo Fighters (Never heard back from Dave Groohl)

UFO incident in Freiburg forest

Roswell

Phoenix lights

Nick Pope and the British UFO-desk

Exopolitics

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1561 Germany, are reports of colors in the sky signs of alien battle? 1668 an American preacher looks through a telescope and notices something on the moon. 1187, as Saladin's forces break through the gates to Jerusalem, a few soldiers smuggle out a precious artefact and hide it on a Canadian island. 

Our host Fredrik continues the mission to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between on the TV-show Ancient Aliens. This week we are joined again by archaeologist and teacher Erik Palmgren on a sightseeing tour through the close encounters of our past. 

This week we finished up episode 4 from season one titled “Closer Encounters”. In this second half we do uncover old journals, a few theories and some new travel destinations. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

1561 Celestial phenomenon Nuremberg 

Cotton Mathers UFO

Plurality of worlds theory

Thomas Paine

Chaco Canyon

Hopi Linguistics 

Oak Island Mystery

Knights Templars

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