Episodes
A sound-breaking investigation into ancient aliens' most ridiculous "how move big rock" theory yet, revealing how actual physics and engineering triumph over pseudoscientific acoustics.
Published 11/19/24
Why Ancient Aliens' claim that Jericho's walls fell to alien sonic weapons fails on every level - from physics to archaeology to basic common sense - while exploring how pseudoarchaeology often targets and diminishes important religious and cultural narratives.
Published 11/12/24
A look into Ancient Aliens' complete misunderstanding of ancient art, proving that just because something has wings doesn't make it a spaceship, and yes, people in the past were actually capable of using their imagination.
Published 11/05/24
We confess to military spending mix-ups and a case of mistaken moustached identity in the Mexican desert - all while setting the record straight on Gavrilo Princip's pre-assassination snack preferences.
Published 10/29/24
Teotihuacán is a city that "millions of people around the world" believe looks like a computer chip. So it must be, apparently.
Published 08/28/24
This is the big one! Was Die Glocke real? What did it do? And is "anti-gravity" the bad boy of physics?
Published 04/18/24
I can't believe we even have to say that.
Published 04/10/24
Obviously not. But this raises an interesting question about why pop culture has painted nazis in this treasure-hunting way.
Published 04/02/24
Turns out, nearly every seemingly innocuous new age-y thing is linked back to nazi ideology. So that's no good.
Published 03/12/24
We're debunking the gross belief that the aryan race was actual aliens.
Published 03/05/24
Wernher von Braun didn't care who he made rockets for or for what those people used his rockets.
Published 02/27/24
Are you sensing a theme yet?
Published 02/22/24
Germany definitely got aliens to build nuclear weapons for them during World War II.
Published 02/14/24
We're (unfortunately) starting a new series on Ancient Aliens and Nazi Germany.
Published 02/06/24
Is there a cave hiding mysterious ancient writings from space? How does Niel Armstrong get involved in this? Let's talk about the Cave of Tayos and the Metal Library.
Published 01/30/24
We're diving into the symbolism of ants and snakes throughout history, religion, and culture because a bad tv show is convinced they're connected to aliens.
Published 01/23/24
Finally, let's discuss Stonehenge and how it definitely wasn't built by aliens.
Published 01/18/24
When did UFO conspiracy theories start popping up? Why did they take hold? What can we do to stop them? Tristan has some ideas while Scott says "interesting."
Published 01/09/24
BUT! This is a new format for how we do our quarterly corrections episodes, so we hope you appreciate that they are more fun now!
Published 01/02/24
It's that time of year we put aside our chrome tabs for dice and 3 grown adults play pretend on a microphone for the entertainment of dozens. Happy holidays!
Published 12/22/23
We learn that the new speaker of the house doen't understand basic stuff about Roman history, and that NASA concluded that they are probably good people for studying the sky and space.
Published 12/20/23
There's a real, genuine underground city in Turkey, so you know they pretended aliens were there.
Published 12/12/23
We all love Area 51, but this one is newer and fresher and also below us.
Published 12/05/23
What we thought would be a funny memey thing tio do turned into existential dread. But at least we made content about it.
Published 11/28/23