From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2026-01-12, Ted Nolan   wrote:   
      
   > Haven't read him, but I had always assumed he was a guy who had found a   
   > grift and was milking it.  So he actually believed this stuff?   
      
   I seem to remember that interviewers put the question straight to   
   him and he seemed evasive.   
      
   In _Erscheinungen_ (1974, "Apparitions") he wrote with equal   
   conviction about... ghosts.  Surely those third-hand anecdotes about   
   spectral figures haunting English castles must have some truth!   
      
   Personally, I suspect that von Däniken neither believed nor disbelieved   
   much of what he wrote.  The books sold and he just didn't care.  A   
   bullshitter, in Harry Frankfurt's terms.   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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