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ANOTHER THEME PARK?
Have you ever wondered what happened to
von Daniken? Who? Don’t you remember the guy who ran around
the world holding seminars to promote his books and notions of alien
influences and achievements on earth? No, not Rael of the cloning
con fame (infamy).
Erich von Daniken attracted a huge popular
readership around the world for his fantastic alien interpretations of
wonders of the ancient world.
From ancient European cave art to
Aboriginal cave paintings and rock art in the North of Western Australia;
from Mayan rock engravings and tomb decorations to the Peruvian Nasca
lines; from Stonehenge to Easter Island heads – all (and much more) were
proof, for von Daniken’s fertile and imaginative mind, of alien
visitations.
Ignoring scientists and other scholars –
from archaeologists and anthropologists to biologists and mathematicians –
von Daniken wove his fantasies with fact and fiction – reading into
evidence what he wanted to see rather than what was really there (after
all the dull truth never sells as well as imaginative pseudo-science).
After exposure by scholars and others,
plus time spent in prison for tax evasion, von Daniken virtually faded
away. But in this age of virtual reality almost anything can happen.
Now Eric von Daniken, author of: Chariots of the Gods, has
re-emerged to open a Swiss alien heritage theme park.
Von Daniken’s Mystery Park comes complete with re-creations of ancient
extra-terrestrial works and wonders such as: the Pyramids of Egypt, South
American Mayan temples, Stonehenge, and other ‘great alien works’.
If you’re interested in truth, history or science – save your money!
It will cost others about Aus$45 to enter the Mystery Park in its
magnificent Swiss alpine setting. And that’s just the entrance fees.
On top of that is the cost of travel and accommodation to and in
Switzerland.
While von Daniken promises:
‘We will show the
greatest mysteries in the world, but we will give no answers’, it seems that at least two earthly capitalist
companies recognised some earthly dividends in supporting the spin doctor
of alien visitations. Coca Cola and Swatch are amongst those who
have backed von Daniken’s old fantasies in new virtual reality.
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