Ancient Aliens (TV show)

Hello everybody.

You might know me from my work on the show ANCIENT ALIENS, or from various memes online.

I am also the founder of Legendary Times Books, and I’m very excited to share that an all-new season of ANCIENT ALIENS will be starting tonight on HISTORY at 9/8c, and you can catch up online, on the HISTORY app, or On Demand here:

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Currently writing a research paper on the dangers of "edutainment" shows like Ancient Aliens, particularly in regard to the Nazca Lines (specific I know, but that's the nature of the beast I suppose). Not really looking for sources, as I have a pretty solid bibliography going now and don't want to use you to cheat or anything, but I am just wondering if I am being too extreme.

It seems to me that shows like Ancient Aliens push a narrative that delegitimizes indigenous people by insinuating that they are incapable of achieving great feats. It also seems to insinuate that pre-modern non-white races are incapable of making cool lines in the ground when only a half century later European races began building giant, elegant castles... Am I being crazy?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Thank you all for blowing this up! You've given me so much interesting and important perspective. Some of you have asked to read my research paper when it's finished, and if there is anyone else who would be interested in doing so, please PM me. I would be happy to share! Thanks again, you're the best!

Yes, I am talking about the garbage show on the History Channel. It's my guilty pleasure. There's almost no tea about it just sitting out in the open, but luckily I have far too much time on my hands and find these people's lives fascinating. I've dug deep into the twitters of every regular on the show, connected some dots, and found some interesting things. This post is long so if you don't want to read the whole thing, just skip to the Giorgio and David Wilcock sections because they're probably the best.

First off, I'll give brief rundowns of a few people on the show that are talked about in this post

Erich von Däniken: Pretty much the man who started it all by writing the book Chariots of the Gods? in 1968. That book was the basis for the first season of Ancient Aliens, and inspired much of what followed. He was also directly involved with the show for a long time, until a lot of the control was handed to Giorgio. He's also a convicted criminal, racist, sexist, super transphobic, anti-vax, and a climate change denier. I was going to make each word a link to one of his tweets as a receipt, but my brain was rotting out of my head trying to sort them so instead enjoy this . (He only tweets in german so FYI all of these went through google translate and that's why some of the grammar is a bit weird. Still gets his points across.)

Giorgio Tsoukalos (the aliens meme guy): Despite considering von Däniken to be his mentor, he manages to be a good person. He's the only person on the show I would firmly defend as being "good, harmless crazy." Sure, he thinks humans might be descended from martians and I'm not going to pretend he's some woke king, but he genuinely believes what he's saying and generally has outside of alien stuff. He's also the only person on the show that hasn't written any books to shill, which was a shock that makes me like him a lot more because there's a reason everyone else on the show pumps out books: it's easy money. And his wife Krix is a cute hippie that sells jewelry on etsy and makes super wholesome instagram posts. (And to clear up a common misconception, he does not believe the aliens built the pyramids. The aliens helped humans build the pyramids. And unlike von Däniken, he believes the aliens also helped white people too. The vikings? Got help from aliens. America's founding fathers? Got help from aliens. They were a person that existed and did something cool? They had help from the aliens. They were aliens? The aliens helped me write this post.)

David Wilcock: Oh boy. David fucking Wilcock. I truly don't even know know how to sum him up quickly. So instead of wasting time trying, I'm just going to move on because the rest of the post will give you a good enough idea of who he is.

David Hatcher Childress (DHC): I haven't uncovered any scorching tea about him, but there's a couple little things that are just too funny for me to not share. Short summary of him is that he's the worst grifter on the show. He actually used to trash talk ancient astronaut theory and changed his tune once he realized where the money was.

DHC vs the internet

This sounds like it's going to be about him getting harassed, but it's actually about the fact that the dude does not know how to use the internet. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to edit websites and just makes a new one when he wants to change something, because he has several that are almost identical. One of them used to have a link to his twitter, but when you click it it doesn't take you directly to his profile. It literally takes you to if you just typed "David Hatcher Childress" into twitter's search bar. I wanted to link it for you to see for yourselves, but alas he seems to have finally "fixed" it. (He didn't update the link, he just removed the icon.)

DHC vs the internet part 2

This one actually is about him getting made fun of on the internet. I found a hilarious satire instagram account called and I'm 75% sure either Giorgio or Krix (Giorgio's wife) made it. I remember having some solid reasoning to support the theory when I first discovered the account and was showing my brother who shares my Ancient Aliens enthusiasm, but unfortunately I can't remember what it was so you just have to trust me on this.

And DHC side note that's too small to be its own entry: Krix usually travels with Giorgio for Ancient Aliens, and I get the vibe DHC awkwardly third wheels them the entire time they try to do something on their own. I have absolutely zero evidence to back this up, he just really radiates the energy of a guy that would do that.

Von Däniken's criminal record

This is worth mentioning but I'm not going to go in depth here because this isn't my speculation and instead actually objective fact that you can read about lots of places, including the early life section of his wikipedia page if you want a starting point. TL;DR is he went to prison for theft for a bit when he was 19, got convicted for fraud and embezzlement due to a jewelry deal in Egypt, and then in 1968 (shortly after he wrote his book Chariots of the Gods?) was arrested for fraud. He wrote his second book while in prison.

"In short, please know it's bad when the aliens guy is telling you not to believe everything you read on the internet."

I almost just included these in the good takes album, but decided it's worthy of its own section because that quote lives in my head rent free. Giorgio has gotten into a few little twitter scuffles over the fact that he's just an honest man that likes his aliens. There's just no coming back from the aliens meme guy calling you stupid.

Von Däniken vs. Giorgio

It seems a bit odd that Giorgio still associates with him given how polar opposite their politics have become, but Giorgio does owe him for his career and used to fondly think of him as a mentor, and he unfortunately is an absolute legend in these circles and Giorgio's reputation could potentially take a big hit if he pissed him off. Reading between the lines, I think at this point he probably sees von Däniken's gross tweets and just has the same response a lot of people do when their old ass relatives say something racist: "Okay, grandpa" while mentally reminding yourself he'll be dead soon.

HOWEVER, when he started shit talking Ancient Aliens. (Once again, these tweets were run through google translate. Giorgio also speaks German and used it when replying to von Däniken.)

David Wilcock achieves something previously thought impossible: Gets kicked off of Ancient Aliens for being too crazy

This was really the root cause for me getting too invested in the people behind this stupid show. One day, I noticed that David Wilcock went from appearing in just about every single episode to zero episodes in season 13/2017. I was pleased because I hate him due to the fact he's a narcissist, but also puzzled because he's a narcissist that loves the sound of his own voice so I couldn't believe he'd just give up a spot on a TV show. (I know how overused the word narcissist is on reddit, but I swear to god this dude is a legit narcissist. Just stay with me here.)

I headed to google to solve this mystery, but couldn't find any official statement about him leaving. That's when I decided to delve into his twitter. It was still a bit murky with some of David's own claims sort of contradicting each other, but eventually I was able to work something out.

Even when on the show David was always the craziest one tbh. The other Super Crazies like DHC will go on insane rambles about BS like free energy that at least sounds like sci-fi stuff that fits into the rest of the show, and then you'll have David Wilcock going off about global meditation and prophecies. But he really , the last year he was on Ancient Aliens.

In 2018, he acknowledged not being on the show. He says it's who is apparently part of the cabal according to his conspiracy theories. The story could end here. Sure it seemed like he was only upset about the one episode and he'd be back on in the future, but it's not a huge leap to assume he voluntarily stopped appearing on the show entirely because of his politics conspiracy theories. Case closed.

But then last year someone asked him if he would go back on Ancient Aliens, and we learn so his absence may not be so voluntary after all. (And again, the dude is a narcissist and Ancient Aliens is the largest audience he'll ever manage to get to listen to him talk about aliens sending him messages telepathically. I highly doubt he'd just give that up.)

There's still no smoking gun confirming he definitely got kicked off for getting involved with qanon conspiracies, but frankly it's just the most logical conclusion. He's just gotten crazier and crazier since. Looking at Giorgio's tweets and just a it's clear as day why he wouldn't let him on the show again. God knows I don't want him on the show. And unlike von Däniken, he lacks both street cred and a personal connection to Giorgio to make up for his shortcomings.

David Wilcock and Jenny McCarthy have been in the same room

I fear it would destroy my last crumb of sanity.

David Wilcock's "divorce(?)"

Last fall, David got a divorce. However, he refuses to acknowledge the fact that it was a divorce. His first super weird twitter statement was in a picture, that I'll transcribe here for easier reading:

Dear Friends, Elizabeth and I came together five years ago to support each other during a pivotal time in history, and in our own lives. We both feel that our mission as a married couple has been successfully fulfilled, and we are now pursuing new directions and new horizons with love, respect and encouragement for one another. We hope you will see this as a positive step for both of us, and continue to lend us your love and support. Thank you, David

Then later he changed the story to try and make himself look better,

There were a few insane David Wilcock tweets I wanted to add, but imgur apparently won't let me add images to an album on mobile so And another thing I'd like to add is that when asked if there's gay aliens, Giorgio said "Without a doubt. It's probably not an issue on their planet." A true ally. God bless.

I hope everyone is satisfied with this Ancient Aliens tea, even though it kind of turned into just "David Wilcock" tea at the end. He's just the biggest train wreck involved so it's hard to not talk about him. My brother and I will unironically be going to see the Ancient Aliens live tour if there's a date near us he can get off work, so if I learn anything juicy there I'll be sure to share.

Edit: I just found David Wilcock's ex wife's facebook. (I struggled before because I only knew her as Elizabeth Wilcock.)

Edit 2: Don't suggest I put this on . I know it seems perfect for the place, probably because the style of my writeup was heavily inspired by writeups over there, but technically it violates some of the rules.

Edit 3, if anyone stumbles in here late: Giorgio is against the overturning of Roe vs Wade. He and then And the comments were terrible and he started

Yeah, I don't watch this show anymore. But I used to when I was growing up and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. But I saw it the other night and immediately thought "This is one of the most idiotic things I've ever seen".

In a very brief summary: The overarching idea with this show is that pretty much every major event in human history, even down to the origins of humans themselves, was all spurred by extraterrestrials. It's basically the Intelligent Design theory but with "aliens" substituted for God. Now, postulating that humans were Created instead of evolved is one thing. But what this show does is give one big middle finger to anything humans have ever done or created, good or bad.

Mona Lisa? Leonardo da Vinci was under the influence of aliens when he painted it or may have been one himself.

The pyramids? Aliens floating the stones into place of course.

The gods of the Greek pantheon? Aliens, obviously.

Now, you may say "Oh, don't take it so seriously. These people aren't serious who made it". Except they are. They 100% believe in what they're saying. It's nothing if not misleading about history at the very least.

Hello everybody.

You might know me from my work on the show ANCIENT ALIENS, or from various memes online.

I am also the founder of .

I am very excited to share that an all-new episode of ANCIENT ALIENS will be airing on HISTORY tonight at 9/8c, and you can catch up online, on the HISTORY app, or On Demand here:

Victoria is assisting me via phone. AMA.

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Update: I think this was a tremendous experience. And I thank everyone for all the questions. And I am sorry that I was unable to answer all of them. But I feel your virtual hugs very much! I also would like to give my thanks to Prometheus Entertainment, and the HISTORY channel, for this incredible opportunity that was given to me and my colleagues to share our information with such a wide audience.

And again, to say something I've already said before, I do have the best fans in the world. And that is something that I could not have asked for anything better.

And please watch the show, Friday nights on HISTORY - and looking forward to you guys tuning in! And maybe we can do this again.