Poisoning the well?(Photograph)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     423 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When talking about...criminal history? Von Daniken certainly doesn't...in an interview. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Those are certainly...ways of looking at von Daniken's criminal past! Either...

Take Him to His Readers; Erich Von Daniken Rides Again On His Creaky...

The Washington Post;  July 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Erich Von Daniken has rematerialized. Wasn't he dead or in jail or something...those who understand how special it is to see a guy like Von Daniken, a blast from the past. Von Daniken, short, stout, tanned, undoubtedly rich, now 62, claiming...

Arrival of the space Gods?

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     314 words ......So far so good. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But the next step...argument is the doozy: von Daniken argues that since...and legends, just as von Daniken says. The problem...encounters. According to von Daniken, that evidence is...

Why not simply go back?(Brief article)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     270 words ...If his claims were true, why would von Daniken let this controversy so badly damage...content, wrote a friend in a biography of von Daniken, with the ostensible reasons for Daniken...another visit to Ecuador. After all, if von Daniken were sincere and if the cave were real...

Big lies and little green men.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ......PATERSON Loving The Alien: The Real Erich Von Daniken (C4); Second Sight: In The Kingdom Of...fascinating Loving The Alien: The Real Erich Von Daniken, more than 50pc of the American public...most for this extraordinary finding is von Daniken himself. This documentary took an ...

A history of deception.(Brief article)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     227 words ......court-appointed psychiatrist testified that von Daniken was a master swindler, a liar, and...pattern of deceptive behavior ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He was already running afoul of...at age 15. As a Scout Pathfinder von Daniken cleaned out the cash-box at his Boy...was spending ...

A rich Swiss fondue.

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     370 words ......evidence is of basically two kinds. First, von Daniken claims that many ancient monuments...at that time. (Indeed, according to von Daniken, Today, in the twentieth century, no...every continent were at his disposal. ) Von Daniken names many structures that he thinks...

Television Review

The Independent - London;  February 6, 2001 ;     479 words ......make room for a discussion of Erich von Daniken, the Swiss hotel manager who, in the...of visitors from outer space. Most of von Daniken's ideas could be traced back to earlier...As Loving the Alien: the Real Erich von Daniken (C4) showed, his theories are as full...

Chariots of the Gods?

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     409 words ......Swiss author named Erich von Daniken, was lust published in...it was a runaway hit. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Von Daniken claimed that aliens landed...is a distant fixed star, von Daniken wrote. What would happen...earth was 8,000 years ago. Von Daniken ...

Enter Von Daniken.(Erich von Daniken)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     315 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 1970s, the old legend of...Chariots called Gold of the Gods, Erich von Daniken made the stunning claim that deep...shouted, Switch on your torches. Von Daniken claimed he found himself standing...

Let's Make a Book Deal; Scenes From the Fair at Frankfurt

The Washington Post;  October 16, 1989 ;     700+ words ......Ich bin ein optimist," says Erich Von Daniken. The name nags at the memory. Think...big book, made into a movie. It made Von Daniken a regular on the late-night talk circuit...Bertelsmann Club, Germany's largest book club. Von Daniken is holding court in a booth the size...

A chain of lies?(Brief article)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     161 words ...Moricz said von Daniken was never there at all, and even von Daniken admitted the main scene in the book was fake. Why...shouldn't. There are no pictures of the zoo or library. Von Daniken's convenient, farfetched excuse was that Moricz wouldn...

Mortgage evictee is thrown a lifeline

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 6, 2004 ;     281 words ...SAMANTHA VON DANIKEN, who was evicted with two of her children...reported in last week's Sunday Telegraph, von Daniken was evicted despite offering to repay...allegation. Clive would only say: "She [von Daniken] was evicted from a house she didn...

Busted!(Brief article)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  September 22, 2007 ;     215 words ......just one problem: according to Moricz, von Daniken definitely did not see the caves in...things himself then that's a lie. Was von Daniken's whole story, the main claim of his...saw them. Who was lying? According to von Daniken, they both were! Confronted with Moricz...

`Not crackpots,' they seek man's roots in space

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 25, 1989 ;     465 words ......the teachings of Swiss author Erich Von Daniken. About 400 of the group's 5,000 members...Schaumburg today, tomorrow and Sunday. Von Daniken, a former hotelkeeper, claims sales...planet that looks like the face of man. Von Daniken will speak also on how these ancient...