Best Ancient Astronaut Theory Podcasts (2025)

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Mad Scientist Misadventures, Mind-Reading AI, and the Fishy Origins of Fingers 26:04

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Horseshoe theory proposes that political extremes loop back around until far-left and far-right ideologies find disturbing common ground, sharing authoritarian tactics, propaganda methods, and contempt for democratic norms despite claiming opposite values. Scientists are using AI to decode brain activity and caption your thoughts, raising serious q…

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Caroline Smith on meteorites and potential ancient life on Mars 28:24

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Caroline Smith is passionate about space rocks, whether they’re samples collected from the surface of asteroids and the Moon and hopefully Mars one day soon, or meteorites, those alien rock fragments that have survived their fiery descents through our atmosphere to land here on Earth. She is Head of Collections and Principal Curator of Meteorites a…

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Atomic Gardening, Microwave Conspiracies and the Rise of Phubbing 27:21

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Scientists in the mid-20th century created "atomic gardens" where they bombarded plants with gamma radiation to induce beneficial mutations like disease resistance and higher yields. Microwaves have been accused of causing cancer, destroying nutrients,and functioning as listening devices. "Phubbing" - phone snubbing - describes ignoring someone in …

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AP De Silva on building molecular fluorescence sensors for healthcare 28:11

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From humble beginnings in his native Sri Lanka, to a more than 40 year academic career at Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. AP (Amilra Prasanna) De Silva’s research into molecular photosensors has led to a pioneering career in that’s evolved from chemistry to medical diagnostics on one hand, to information processing on the other. Prof. De Silva ch…

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612 - Shower Thoughts 1:30:55

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The boys unravel a stream of strangely curious but pointless questions - the kind that normally arrive when you’re zoning out while showering or, in Jaack’s case, sitting at a red light approximately 8 seconds before something crashes into the back of your car. We’re pondering if dogs truly know their names, whether a straw has one hole or two, if …

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611 - MR DOODLE - Covering A £1.6 Million Mansion Entirely In Doodles, & Dealing With Psychosis 1:41:35

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In today’s episode, we sit down with Mr Doodle - one of the most unique artists on the planet - to hear about how he’s turned the world into his very own canvas for his signature “graffiti spaghetti” and viral art projects. Sam talks us through the two year process of covering every inch of his six-bed, £1.6million home in black and white doodles, …

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Living Without a Stomach, Simulation Theory, and Forensic DNA in the Air 32:25

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A woman survived without a stomach or small bowel after a catastrophic medical episode at her 18th birthday party, proving the human body is more adaptable than we thought. Philosophers and tech billionaires are convinced we're living in a computer simulation, though Canadian physicists disagree and insist our universe is real. And forensic scienti…

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Peter Knight on quantum technologies 28:09

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There are problems and tasks so hard and complicated that it would take today’s most powerful supercomputers millions of years to crack them. But in the next decade, we may well have quantum computers which could solve such problems in seconds. Professor Sir Peter Knight is a British pioneer in the realms of quantum optics and quantum information s…

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Henry Said My Therapist Wants to F*** Me 1:36:02

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A woman posts 25+ TikToks about falling in love with her psychiatrist who "manipulated" her by complimenting her glasses. She confides in ChatGPT (named Henry) which validates every delusion. This spirals into a broader discussion about how Ancient Aliens and conspiracy media systematically exploit vulnerable people experiencing mental health crise…

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610 - Jaack’s Mysteries (Vanished Planes, Ghost Ships, & Chilling CCTV Footage) 1:14:42

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Jaack dives deep into five of the most debated mysteries ever recorded. We’re exploring a merchant ship whose entire crew vanished without a trace. There’s an incident in the frozen Russian wilderness, where nine hikers met a bizarre and terrifying fate. Next is the puzzling disappearance of a pilot who vanished from a runway along with an entire B…

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609 - GILBERTO SILVA - Winning The WORLD CUP, & Crazy Ronaldinho, R9, Rivaldo And Cafu Stories! 1:19:35

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Arsenal’s greatest ever football manager Arsene Wenger once described today’s guest as “never flashy or flamboyant, instead, he played with a calm precision that anchored the chaos around him”. And to be quite honest, this sums up exactly how the legendary Gilberto Silva is as a podcast guest too. In a welcome change of pace to the usual high energ…

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Trump’s Sketchy Nuclear Restarts, Greenhushing Explained and Driverless Car Death Predictions 35:21

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See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By A Little Bit Of Science

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Eleanor Schofield on conserving Tudor warship the Mary Rose 28:20

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In July 1545, King Henry VIII watched from Southsea Castle on England's south coast as his fleet sailed out to face the French - only to witness his prized warship, the Mary Rose, sink before his eyes. Raised from the Solent in 1982, the ship is now the centrepiece of the Mary Rose Museum, along with thousands more artefacts that were recovered fro…

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A Fast Pass To Heaven (Terms and Conditions Apply) 1:33:06

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Ancient Aliens loves to portray angels not as divine messengers, but as heavenly soldiers armed with advanced weaponry, turning biblical stories into "battle reports" of alien soldiers. But this isn't just a weird sci-fi twist; it taps into a much older, darker tradition. We trace the long, strange history of how Christianity, a religion born from …

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608 - Shenanigans In South Africa, Stevie Glassed A Woman, & Jaack’s New Dodgy Tattoo (All Caught Up!) 1:05:07

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Shenanigans has just returned from a solo trip to South Africa, where he predictably got smashed on wine but also unpredictably found himself in a scrap at a football match. Stevie has been a bit of a rebel by stealing from Tesco, and glassing a woman. He lost all his bad boy aura though when he shows the boys his new medical device… Jaack unveils …

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607 - HAPPY HOURWEEN 2025 Horror Movie Theme! 1:50:55

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T'is the season for SPOOKINESS, and what better way to wrap up Happy Hourween than the big boy special? (Or big girl special... or big dog special - whatever you want to call it really!) Each day this week we've dropped a mini spooky episode on your feeds for you greedy goblins to gobble up, so now it's time for the bumper Hourween special! This ye…

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606 - HAPPY HOURWEEN IV - My Wife Keeps Peeking At Me 49:58

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Welcome back to Happy Hourween - five days of chilling tales concluding with a bumper Halloween special. In the final “minisode” before tomorrow’s big finale, Jaack shares arguably one of the internet’s creepiest stories. Ben and Lynn have a normal, healthy marriage. Full of love and contentment… until one day, out of nowhere, Lynn starts peeking a…

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605 - HAPPY HOURWEEN III - The Scarecrow Family 43:20

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Welcome back to Happy Hourween - five days of chilling tales concluding with a bumper Halloween special. In the third instalment, it’s Robbie’s turn to take the mic, and his story will make you think twice before opening Google Earth again. Two friends spend their nights exploring the world from above, scrolling through satellite images of towns an…

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Bizarre Metrics, Gamer Kids' IQs, and The Trust Barometer 20:55

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Correlation doesn't equal causation, but patterns emerge in the strangest places - like Pentagon pizza orders spiking before major military operations, making pepperoni consumption an unofficial national security indicator. A study of children aged nine to ten found that those playing video games were measurably smarter than TV-watching counterpart…

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George Church on reimagining woolly mammoths and virus-proofing humans 28:21

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"My ideas are often labelled as impossible, or useless, or both. Usually when people say that I'm on the right track." George Church is a geneticist, molecular engineer, and one of the pioneers of modern genomics. He's also someone who makes a habit of finding solutions to the seemingly impossible. Over the course of his career so far, George devel…

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604 - HAPPY HOURWEEN II - Warning! Bears Exist. 54:52

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Welcome back to Happy Hourween - five days of chilling tales concluding with a bumper Halloween special. Stevie is taking on our second episode of the series with “Warning, Bears Exist”. Being a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service is certainly not a walk in the park (…or…forest). A lot of unexplained and spooky things are found in t…

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I'm Gonna Beat Jesus 1:14:45

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You've seen it on TikTok: a wild theory connecting a sacred mountain in the Middle East, fallen angels, the Roswell crash, and the number 33. Welcome to the Mount Hermon conspiracy, the belief that a supernatural coordinate system, the 33rd parallel, serves as a global energy grid for aliens and angels alike. It’s a theory so powerful that it suppo…

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603 - HAPPY HOURWEEN I - Forever, A Drug 44:45

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Welcome to Happy Hourween - five days of chilling tales concluding with a bumper Halloween special. Jaack is kicking the series off with a haunting story called “Forever, A Drug”. Three friends take a mysterious new pill that promises the ultimate trip, and it delivers… for a few hundred lifetimes. Trapped in an infinite Groundhog Day of bad decisi…

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602 - More Sexy Urban Legends! (Urban Legends World Cup) 1:39:14

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Welcome back to the World Cup Of Urban Legends! Stevie has found 6 urby legs from different countries and is using a randomised wheel to decide which are going head to head, but he keeps accidentally searching for sexy ones… In today’s matches, a whore spider is competing with a beautiful woman with a thirst for placentas. Fat stealing foreigners a…

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Naps Unlock Genius, AI Peer Review Fraud and Microplastics in Penis Implants 12:51

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Your grandmother was right - a 20-minute nap really can unlock creative genius and trigger Eureka moments. Japanese researchers got caught hiding secret messages in scientific papers to trick AI reviewers into approving their work, which is either brilliantly devious or academic fraud depending on who you ask. And microplastics have officially inva…

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Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal 28:29

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Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire. In fact, explosive devices are complex and varied - and learning how to dispose of them safely involves intense training, as well as the ability to stay calm under pressure. This was the world of Dr Gareth Collett, a retired British Army Brigadier General and engi…

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Elf on the Shelf Is A Cop 1:38:46

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Ancient Aliens claims that myths about divine "Watchers" from the Anunnaki to the Eye of Horus are actually cultural memories of extraterrestrial surveillance systems. But what if the truth is far more terrestrial and much more insidious? Tristan argues that these stories aren't about alien technology, but a very human one: the invention of divine …

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601 - I COULD MURDER A PODCAST - Virginia McCullough Case, WORST Medieval Torture Methods, & Mr and Mr Game! 1:47:18

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It’s been 3 and a half years since Tom and Ben from true crime podcast “I Could Murder A Podcast” graced the Happy Hour studio and we’ve finally got them back on to kickstart our 2025 spooky season! They bring to the table a rundown of the chilling case of Virginia McCullough - a woman who murdered both of her parents and then hid their bodies in h…

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600 - The End Of An Era... 1:31:18

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It's time to move on... and let's be honest, it hasn't been working properly for a while now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Spotify Studios

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YouTubers Beat Astronauts, Babies Named After Weapons and the Most Boring Invention 28:39

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A third of kids now want to be YouTubers instead of astronauts and half of those kids will probably be named after firearms rather than grandparents. This is either a damning indictment of modern culture or just kids being realistic about which career path actually pays. Baby names have become a political statement that reveals more about parents t…

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Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease 28:23

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Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower movement, leading on to serious cognitive problems. You might not know that it’s the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world. Today it affects around 11.8 million people and that’s forecast to double by…

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The Gospel According to the House Hippo 1:22:19

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After an 11-month hiatus that felt like a biblical epoch, Tristan and Scott are back to ask the tough questions, like "Do you remember the name of our own podcast?" and "Do Christians actually believe in angels?". The answer, according to Ancient Aliens, is that they shouldn't because angels were actually extraterrestrial visitors misunderstood by …

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599 - FOUR(SKINS) IN A BED Part 2! - Who Will Be Crowned The Winner?! 1:31:01

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Alfie’s obsession with the original version of Four In A Bed is no secret, so when Happy Hour listener “foobiomon” suggested we do our own Dream version, we knew we had no choice! In part 1 (#597) we explored Alfie and Jaack's guest houses. We kick off part 2 with Stevie's haunted hotel where guests are not guaranteed to make it out alive... There …