Faking history : essays on aliens, Atlantis, monsters, and more / by Jason Colavito.

Versions of the material included in the book first appeared on JasonColavito.com, Skeptic magazine, and Swans magazine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of Atlantis and aliens -- The origin of the space gods -- Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft -- Cthulhu vs. Xenu -- Was Cthulhu a king of Atlantis? -- How Rod Serling's Night gallery gave us Ancient aliens -- The green children of banjos -- Getting it wrong : when myths and legends lie -- The Greek mythic memory -- How alternative history methods destroy knowledge -- Ancient aliens and Atlantis -- The ancients and outer space; or, Aliens are bad teachers -- Ancient atom bombs? -- The case of the false quotations -- The Naacal tablets and theosophy -- Neil Armstrong's brush with ancient astronauts -- Santa is an alien robot! -- Stonehenge : the day spa of the gods -- Are there platinum coffins off Nan Madol? -- The believer who almost became president -- The search for Soviet ancient astronauts -- Ancient astronauts, geopolitics, and the Spitsbergen UFO hoax -- Taking aliens and ancient texts literally -- When was the scholomance? -- Oannes : the best evidence for ancient astronauts? -- Was Oannes John the Baptist or a sleeping king? -- Was the Golden Fleece an airplane? -- Were Bible characters worshiped as gods? -- Who were the Nephilim? -- Did aliens design the pyramids? -- The pyramids and the flood -- The strange case of Proclus and the pyramid -- Scholars' three-century mistake about myth -- Afrocentrism, ancient astronauts, and the Black Sea Africans -- Afrocentrism and the Aztec calendar -- Egyptian dog chariots in Mexico? -- The pineapple of Pompeii -- A dinosaur in the Congo? -- The secret prehistory of El Chupacabra -- Investigating Graham Hancock's 7,000-year-old Mexican pyramid -- Atlantis, the Bible, and high technology -- Golden fleeced -- Who lost the Middle Ages? -- Did the Hopi predict the end of the world? -- Who really discovered America? -- The Zeno Brothers' voyage of discovery -- Did Native Americans discover Europe in 60 BCE? -- Did pagans worship Noah's Ark? -- Forks : the Devil's flatware -- Final thoughts : the sameness of it all.