About this podcast
What if the gods of ancient myth were never gods at all? Ancient Astronauts explores the theory that advanced extraterrestrial beings influenced early human civilization. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates ancient temples, sacred texts, unexplained artifacts, and cosmic alignments through a structured, documentary-style approach. Examining the evidence, patterns, and records, the series explores ideas often linked to conspiracy theories and forbidden knowledge. Unlock bonus content and full video episodes:
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Episodes
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- Halloween and the Ancient Gods: Were Spirits Visitors From Another World? · 27 minOn the night of Samain in the medieval Irish tale Echtra Nerai, a man named Nera accepts a dangerous challenge at the court of Ailill and Medb. He approaches a hanged captive…
- The Anunnaki's Forbidden Experiment: Who Really Created Humanity? · 25 minAncient Mesopotamian tablets preserve one of humanity’s oldest and most unsettling origin stories. In the Akkadian Atrahasis epic, lesser gods rebel against exhausting labor. The…
- Sodom and Gomorrah: Did an Ancient Catastrophe Become a Story of Divine Weapons? · 24 minTall el-Hammam, an excavated Bronze Age settlement in Jordan’s lower Jordan Valley, contains a major Middle Bronze Age destruction horizon and a subsequent interruption in…
- Puma Punku: Were These Precision Stones Made With Lost Technology? · 26 minPuma Punku, part of Bolivia’s Tiwanaku archaeological complex near Lake Titicaca, contains monumental sandstone slabs, carefully worked andesite, geometric channels, recessed…
- Pakal’s Tomb: Why Does the Mayan King Look Like He Is Piloting a Machine? · 25 minIn 1952, archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier and his team reached a sealed royal burial chamber beneath Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions after years of clearing a concealed…
- The Gods Who Came From the Sky: Why Does the Same Pattern Repeat Worldwide? · 25 minAncient records from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Guatemala, and South Asia repeatedly connect divine beings with the heavens. For ancient-astronaut theorists, that recurrence may…
- The Hopi Star People: Did Ancient Traditions Remember Visitors From the Heavens? · 25 minAcross the mesas of northeastern Arizona, Hopi traditions preserve accounts of emergence, migration, sacred geography, powerful nonhuman beings, clouds, rain, celestial cycles…
- The Watchers of Enoch: Fallen Angels or Visitors From the Stars? · 25 minNear the Dead Sea, damaged parchment fragments recovered from Qumran Cave Four preserved part of an ancient story once known in full mainly through Ethiopian manuscripts. Written…
- The Dogon Star Mystery: Did an African Tribe Know About Sirius B Before Modern Astronomy? · 24 minIn the Bandiagara region of Mali, Dogon communities maintain rich and varied religious traditions shaped by ritual, oral teaching, history, and centuries of cultural exchange. In…
- The Ant People of Hopi Legend: Who Were the Beings Said to Save Humanity Underground? · 24 minIn Frank Waters’s 1963 Book of the Hopi, a world faces destruction by fire, and selected survivors descend beneath the earth. There, in the Waters/Fredericks publication lineage…
- The Flying Shields of Alexander the Great: Did UFOs Change a Battle? · 25 minIn three hundred thirty-two BCE, Alexander the Great faced the island city of Tyre, one of the hardest targets of his campaign against the Persian Empire. Tyre’s walls rose above…
- The Ancient UFO Battle Over Nuremberg: What Appeared in the Sky in 1561? · 26 minOn April 14, 1561, Hans Glaser published an illustrated broadsheet describing a disturbing sunrise spectacle over Nuremberg, then a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire…
- Skulls of the Gods: Why Did Ancient People Reshape Their Heads? · 25 minIn 1928, Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello excavated the Wari Kayan necropolis on the Paracas Peninsula and documented hundreds of mummy bundles and burials. Among the…
- The Ubaid Lizard People: Who Were the Reptilian Figures of Ancient Mesopotamia? · 30 minSeven thousand years ago, in the Ubaid period of southern Mesopotamia, artists made small terracotta figures with human bodies and long, slant-eyed heads that modern museum…
- Teotihuacan: The Cosmic City Built Like a Spaceport · 30 minThirty miles northeast of modern Mexico City, Teotihuacan rises from the valley floor as one of the largest and most carefully planned cities of the ancient Americas. Its…
- Medieval Alien Abductions The Strange Accounts of Sky Ships · 27 minAcross medieval Europe, chroniclers and church writers recorded accounts of fiery shapes in the sky, ships in the clouds, strange beings, vanished people, altered time, and…
- The Vatican Archives: The Ancient Alien Files Hidden From the Public · 31 minInside Vatican City, two institutions often become one in popular mystery stories: the Vatican Apostolic Archive and the Vatican Apostolic Library. Together, they preserve papal…
- The Black Knight Satellite: The Object Said to Be Watching Earth · 19 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com Delve into the enigma of the Black Knight Satellite, a compelling legend suggesting the presence of an unidentified object orbiting Earth for centuries…
- The Sphinx: The Buried Chamber Ancient Astronaut Theorists Obsess Over · 23 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com Buried beneath the enigmatic gaze of the Sphinx, a hidden chamber stirs intrigue, defying conventional archaeological understanding and hinting at secrets…
- The Forbidden Story of the Anunnaki · 24 minhttps://www.FKNpods.com Join us as we delve into the mysterious lore of the Anunnaki, powerful figures within ancient Mesopotamian texts, who allegedly descended from the heavens…
