It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

It‘s Probably (not) Aliens!

Tristan Johnson & Scott Niswander

Episodes 160
Avg. Duration 1h
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (309)
Since Oct 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Was Earth really visited by mysterious extraterrestrial travelers thousands of years ago as many proponents of ”ancient astronaut theory” believe? What are the hidden secrets and mysteries behind ancient monuments and forgotten civilizations? Every week, historian Tristan Johnson and regular human person Scott Niswander dive through the archives to learn about the fascinating histories of ancient civilizations while also debunking the myths and straight-up lies presented in History Channel‘s massively popular tv show Ancient Aliens that has sparked a new generation of conspiracy theorists. We hope through this show, you can gain an appreciation for just how cool ancient societies were, and not simply credit their impressive advancements to alien visitors. NEW EPISODES EVERY WEEK! Follow the show so you don‘t miss an episode, and leave us a review! It really helps us out!

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S5E160 The Real Mantis Was The Exploitation We Made Along The Way

Jun 09, 2026 1h 20m

Somewhere in the deep lore of alien abduction, past the gray guys who run the equipment, sits a manager. Six to nine feet of praying mantis, purple robe for rank, telepathic, standing at the head of…

S5E159 Rosicrucianism Was Just A 1614 S***post

Jun 02, 2026 1h 11m

In 1980, a mysterious stranger named R.C. Christian spent the equivalent of $200,000 to erect 19-foot-tall, 119-ton granite monuments in rural Georgia. Ancient Aliens wants you to believe the…

S5E158 Nikola Tesla Was Never Forgotten, He Was Just Sad

May 26, 2026 1h 39m

Ancient Aliens wants you to believe Nikola Tesla was an alien conduit whose secret death ray was buried by the FBI. The actual story: the "vault" they seized in 1943 contained a Wheatstone bridge,…

S5E157 Tartaria: A Russian Psyop For People Who Hate Drywall

May 19, 2026 1h 44m

Have you ever looked at a beautiful old train station and felt something had been lost? Good news: the something is "labour protections." Bad news: a Russian topologist from the 1980s has a different…

S5E156 Leonardo da Vinci Was Just A Guy With ADHD

May 12, 2026 1h 11m

Ancient Aliens claims Leonardo da Vinci was contacted by extraterrestrials, in person or telepathically, and given blueprints for tanks, helicopters, and parachutes centuries ahead of his time.…

S5E155 Anarchist praxis in the 17th century (a love story)

May 05, 2026 1h 34m

Tristan flies solo without Scott (now on baby duty) and brings in Phil and Kevin from the Pixelit podcast to crack open Nan Madol, the stone complex sitting on a coral reef in Pohnpei. Ancient Aliens…

S5E154 We Should've Had Shovels For Hands

Apr 28, 2026 2h 4m

Ancient Aliens wants you to believe the Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago was an alien population cull, a "cosmic reset button" to wipe out noisy, rebellious humanity 1.0 and replace us with a…

S5E153 Struck Down In His Prime At 90 Years Young

Apr 21, 2026 1h 22m

Season premiere corrections episode! Erich von Däniken is dead (despite what the Ancient Aliens community assured us about his extraordinary health), Ash Ketchum retired, and nobody told Tristan, and…

S4E152 The Clearest UFO Photo of 2026 Costs $12 at Party City

Mar 26, 2026 39m

Tristan flies solo while Scott's on paternity leave to bring you an emergency episode about the "clearest UFO photograph of 2026"; a viral image of a sharp, metallic object over Acapulco that got…

S4E150 Magnets: How Do They (Not) Work?

Mar 03, 2026 1h 15m

Ancient Aliens claims the 3,000 standing stones at Carnac in Brittany are quartz-rich geomagnetic batteries that beam GPS signals to extraterrestrials. In this episode, Tristan takes us deeper into…

S4E149 Coral Castle: Women Always Be Wanting You To Make Megaliths

Feb 24, 2026 1h 47m

A Latvian immigrant, barely five feet tall, builds one of the strangest tourist attractions in North America out of coral stone, and Ancient Aliens can only think to credit aliens with it. In this…

S4E148 Scott Is Tired So His Pregnant Wife Is The Host Now

Feb 17, 2026 1h 27m

Scott's down for the count, so his nearly-third-trimester wife Emily Pilat steps up to the mic. (This episode actually is coming out on the due date.) Together with Tristan, they travel to the…

S4E147 Sacsayhuamán: The One Where We Solve the Male Loneliness Epidemic

Feb 10, 2026 1h 44m

Ancient Aliens claims the megalithic stonework at Sacsayhuamán in Peru is so precise it must have been built with alien laser technology or by a lost advanced civilization, because obviously the Inca…

S4E146 Göbekli Tepe Part 2: Oops, All Tristan Makes You Sad

Feb 03, 2026 1h 28m

In Part 2 of our Göbekli Tepe series, we pivot from debunking ancient alien claims to examining why conspiracy theories are so fucking dangerous in 2025. We start with the shocking discovery that…

S4E145 Göbekli Tepe Part 1: Using Excessive Amounts of Lube To Move Big Rocks

Jan 27, 2026 1h 36m

Tristan and Scott return to the "smoking gun" of the ancient astronaut world: Göbekli Tepe. According to Netflix documentaries and Ancient Aliens, this 12,000-year-old site is impossible. They claim…

S4E144 3I/ATLAS: Stop Trying To Make 'Oumuamua 2 Happen

Jan 20, 2026 1h 16m

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb is back, and he wants you to believe that the new interstellar object screaming through our solar system, 3I/Atlas, is a hostile alien spacecraft sent to destroy us. In…

S4E143 The Most Important Rock In History Is Stuck In A Locker On Mars

Jan 13, 2026 54m

We interrupt your regularly scheduled debunking of ancient astronaut theories for an emergency broadcast: We might have actually found aliens this time. No, really.Scott and Tristan break down the…

S4E142 Tristan Has Watched K-Pop Demon Hunters 6,000 Times

Jan 06, 2026 1h 21m

We’re kicking off the new season by doing the one thing Ancient Aliens refuses to do: admitting we were wrong.First, Scott has entered his "Napalm Era" and held the podcast hostage to talk about the…

S3E140 Henry Said My Therapist Wants to F*** Me

Nov 11, 2025 1h 36m

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…

S3E139 A Fast Pass To Heaven (Terms and Conditions Apply)

Nov 04, 2025 1h 33m

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…

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