![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a word I’ll hear many times over the course of the weekend. “I want to change the spirit of time,” he says, defining the German word zeitgeist in case I’m not familiar with it. How else do you explain the throngs of humanity packed into an underground amphitheater to hear him speak? For von Däniken, it’s an affirmation that the path he set out on 50 years earlier was correct. Thousands of fans and believers from across the East coast are pouring into the Baltimore Convention Center. Von Däniken is in Baltimore for AlienCon, a convention put on by The History Channel to celebrate the popular TV show (13 seasons and counting) with countless panels, meetups, and a costume contest party. “’I’m one of these figures who prays every evening.” "What was unreasonable slowly becomes reasonable. “I am a deep believer in God,” he tells Inverse. ![]() One thing that hasn’t changed? Von Däniken still prays to God every day. His quasi-scientific theory that aliens helped guide some of the greatest achievements of ancient civilization has found a passionate audience around the world, thanks in part to the TV show he inspired, Ancient Aliens. In the half-decade, since Erich von Däniken first published Chariots of the Gods? a lot has changed. ![]()
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