Recent content by cryptomythologist

I heard Paul mention he was a historian in this episode so I thought I'd share a couple of articles with anyone interested in UFOs in antiquity. My background is in anthropology/classics/ancient near east/museum studies. These two articles are from peer-reviewed journals and are fabulous! The...

Sorry to burst the bubbles of any Sitchin believers, but this particular guy is full of it. I have a master's degree in ancient Near Eastern studies and studied Akkadian for 2 years. My supervisor is one of only a handful of scholars in the world that can actually translate Sumerian. There are...

Great idea, skeptoid. I've always thought that doing some sociological research into the recent resurgence in popularity of the paranormal would bear a lot of interesting fruit, and would probably go a long way toward explaining the parallel craziness in the political arena. Back in the 90s, I...