view proposal - History Trippers

bringing an indiana jones sense of adventure to real history & archaeology
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In a modern world of high tech, two men, a Brit archaeologist and a Yank historian,
travel to historical and archaeological sites across the world, visiting tombs, temples and
mysterious places of historical, legendary and mythological lore; uncovering hidden
history, ancient magicks, mysteries of the past, links to the future and the very real
underworld of gods, demigods and spirits of the dead.
Adventure has a new name... two actually.
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Scotty Roberts and Dr. John Ward, while seeking stories of adventure,
historical mystery and unexplained phenomena for their publication, Intrepid Magazine,
take the viewer on a visually stunning expedition to historical and archaeological sites
in various exotic locales around the world, crisscrossing the connectivities in cultures
through the ages, delving the historical significance, the monarchs and nobity of
antiquity, exploring the cultural changes and the alternative and paranormalist aspects.
Not only is this a colorful travelogue, filled with the sites, sounds and visceral
experiences of mysterious places of the Ancient World, but also a series that will appeal
to those who understand the vast links between ancient civilization and the rest of the
world. Its ‘Michio Kaku meets Anthony Bourdain’ in a series of exciting, ‘buddies-on-aroad-trip,’ historical, archaeological expeditionary adventures.
With an “On the Road” approach, Dr. John Ward, British archaeologist, and Scotty
Roberts, American historian, in their first twenty-six episodes, take viewers to sites
of historical, religious and spiritual significance, lending their own brand of brotherly
comradery to their academic and scholarly theories and positions on the varied
historical locations.
Its an adventurous travelogue with a bit of
reality TV, educational documentary, tonguein-cheek interaction, and swashbuckling
adventure all melded into a wild, breathtaking,
intimate exploit - a road trip down ancient
desert trade routes, mountain climbing in to the
ruins of godforsaken temples and spelunking
never before seen, rock-hewn tombs carved
out of cliff faces and buried 100 feet below the
modern world.
Combine the humorous-yet-scholarly
academics of a Simcha Jacobovici’s, The
Naked Archaeologist, Don Wilder’s Cities
of the Underworld, the self-serious approach
of Scott Wolter’s America Unearthed, the
fun-loving styling of Josh Gates’ Destination
Truth and the best of Carl Sagan and Leonard
Nimoy’s Cosmos and In Search Of, in an
episodic, ongoing travelogue expedition led
by two men who bring their unique brand of
academics and alternative history to the table.
History books be damned; established academicia take notice...
Because, yes, there is a paranormal world lurking beneath it all that most academics
won’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
Scotty Roberts and Dr. John Ward crafted what has become a finely honed friendship
out of their initial
meeting and
conversations
revolving around
their individual
quests for the
historical Moses
and the biblical
Exodus. As a result,
they authored a
book on the topic
and have taken
groups of people
into Egypt to retrace
the steps of their
expeditions. This
fervor for historical
truth – academia
notwithstanding –
has led this pair of
adventurers into new places and familiar
historical sites, all with a new twist for
seeking out what truly lies beneath the
textbook tales.
Periodically accompanying the duo will be
Scottish medium, Chris Conway (former
resident medium on British television’s
Most Haunted). Chris, a soft-spoken, quick
witted, genuine medium sheds light from
a spiritual perspective, opening up the
diaphanous and revealing these ancient
sites, monuments and mysterious places,
in ways never before seen by the public.
Dramatic recreations, and Graphic 3D
reconstructions of temples,
palaces and sites, as well
as high-tech mapping and
GPS graphics bring the
ancient world presented
by Roberts and Ward
into an HD, in-your-face
experience.
The people, sand, mud
and rocks of the past are
brought into eye-stunning
visuals that explode the
past into the present.
Indiana Jones sought an
ark, a cup and a skull. Roberts and Ward seek the knowledge that comes through
the grit of experience, a twist of the paranormalist, and hands-on adventure… and
they take their viewers along on their intimate quest for the unknown.
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Where other travelogue, research and historical
series leave off, History Trippers will begin...
Not only will Ward and Roberts visit ancient sites of historical significance, but
they will dig deeper into the esoterics, magicks, occultist and hermetic practices
that underpinned the works and deeds of the ancients, from Europe to the
Americas, Asia, northern Africa and Great Britain. By taking the viewer through
ancient sites and archaological records, tracing historical personages and places
of mystery, History Trippers exposes the great missing links between our ancient
past and modern cultural practices.
Many episodes will include interviews and guest appearances by scholars,
theorists and authors who are friends and associates of Roberts and Ward, who
expound on the various sites and theories ranging from the poure historical to
the often times mystical and occultic hermetics involved with the sites.
A history tripping, traveloguing romp through history that is all at once as
entertaining as it is educational, playing heavily on the repartee and comradery of
Roberts and Ward.
1) Göbekli Tepe - On a hilly ridge called Göbekli Tepe in the Taurus Mountains of
southeast Turkey, near the ancient city of Sanliurfa, archaeologists have uncovered the
oldest stone temple complex in the world. Constructed most probably during the second
half of the tenth millennium BC, some
7,000 years before Stonehenge and the
Great Pyramid, the site consists of a series
of rings of enormous T-shaped pillars,
many bearing carved reliefs of Ice Age
animals, strange glyphs and geometric
forms.
2) The Standing Stones and Dolmens
of England, Ireland and Scotland and
the quarries in Wales and Marlboro
- including Stonehenge, Avesbury, the
Man-an-Tol and other stone circles and
megaliths shrouded in ancient mystery.
3) The Tower of London - the stronghold
of generations of English monarchs,
and prison to the Crown’s most intimate
enemies.
4) Stirling Bridge - the site of William
Wallace’s defeat of the English armies of
Edward I, “Longshanks” of the Braveheart
legend.
5) The Temple of Djeser Djesru at Deir
el Bahri - the Temple of Hatshepsut, the
female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, in
Luxor Egypt.
6) Carnak in France - The standing stones outside the town of Carnac in Brittany.
Although the stones date from 4500 BC, modern myths were formed which resulted
from 1st century AD Roman and later Christian occupations, such as Saint Cornelius. A
Christian myth associated with the stones held that they were pagan soldiers in pursuit
of Pope Cornelius when he turned them to stone. Brittany has its own local versions of
the Arthurian cycle. Local tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly
straight lines is that they are a Roman legion turned to stone by Merlin.
Included in this episode is an homage to the WWII fallen at Omaha Beach.
7) The Opium Trail - from the Forbidden City in China to the East Indian Trading
Company, we trace the great opium trail, and the founding of western capitalism. China,
being the focal point of occultist activity from ancient days will include the ancient palace
of the emperors to the Great Wall and onward.
8) Hereford and Garway
Church - adorned with
symbols and iconography
that belie a much more
ancient origin; the Map
of Mundi, the largest
medieval world map
known to exist.
9) Rosslyn Chapel - is
touted as being one of the
most mysterious places in
Scotland, purportedly with
hidden secrets that lurk
within every crack of stone
at this venerated place.
The exquisite carvings
are some of the best in
the whole of Europe,
and portray scenes not
found in any other 15th
century chapel. It has become a kind
of Mecca to those interested in the
mysteries of life, and contains many
carvings relevant to biblical, masonic,
pagan and Knights Templar themes.
10) The Burrows Caves - in
southern Illinois, Russell E. Burrows
discovered the caves and claimed they contained a number of Egyptian and Phonecian
artifacts.
11) Rennes-le-Château became the focus of sensational claims during the 1950s and
1960s involving Blanche of Castile, the Merovingians, the Knights Templar, the Cathars,
the treasures of the Temple of Solomon, the booty of the Visigoths that included the
Ark of the Covenant and the Menorah from the Temple of Jerusalem. From the 1970s
onwards claims have extended to the Priory of Sion, the Rex Deus, the Holy Grail, ley
lines, sacred geometry alignments, the remains of Jesus Christ, alleged references to
Mary Magdalene settling in the south of France, and even UFOs. Well-known French
authors like Jules Verne and Maurice
Leblanc are said to have left clues in
their novels about their knowledge of the
“mystery” of Rennes-le-Château.
12) Vercingetorix and the Battle of
Alesia - In 52 BCE, one Celtic tribal leader
maintained a stand against Julius Caesar, by
uniting the Gauls in a revolt against Roman
forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar’s Gallic
Wars.
13) The Little Big Horn - the “Greasy Grass,”
where in July of 1876, an armed engagement
between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern
Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th
Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army framed
the ill-fated “last stand” of General George Amstrong
Custer.
14) Wounded Knee - where in 1896, U.S. Cavalry
forces massacred over 100 Native Americans who
gathered to dance the Ghost Dance of peace. Later,
the site of the American Indian Movement’s standoff
with federal forces in 1974.
15) Hadrian’s Wall - the
fortress built by Roman
emperor Hadrian to
keep the Pictish tribes
of Scotland north of
Britania.
16) Fort Ticonderoga
- In 1759, during the
French & Indian War,
Montcolm and his
French forces battled
the English at this fort formerly known as Fort
Carillon - standing on the spit between Lakes George and Champlaign in upstate New
York. One can still walk the 250-year-old battlements and trenches through the haunted
forests around the fort.
17) The Monastery of St. Simeon - Surrounded by the deseet sands of the Sahara,
outside Aswan on the Nubian border to Egypt, is the fortress-like 7th century Monastery
of St. Simeon. It was first dedicated to the 4th century local saint Abba Hedra, who
renounced the world on his wedding day, and was rebuilt in the 10th century, dedicated
to St. Simeon. From here the monks traveled into Nubia, in the hope of converting the
Nubians to Christianity, until Salah ad-Din destroyed the monastery in 1173. Through
the centuries the place was a Roman fort and settlement and a bastian of Chritianity.
The halls still echo with voices from the past.
18) Robin Hood Never has a more
enigmatic legendary
figure existed than
that of the outlawed
nobleman who stole
from the rich and
gave to the poor. But
did he ever really
exist? Following the
old King’s Highway,
exlporing the forests of
Barnsdale and Leeds,
north of the traditional
Sherwood in central
England, there are
countless connections
to the Robin Hood
legend, some dating
back into the 12th century. The Duo makes a pilgrimage to the various sites associated
with the legendary Prince of Theives and root out the real man behind the legend, as
well as the figure’s curious connections to the Templars and the “Hidden Hand.”
19) Culloden Moor - In 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) and his
ragtag army of Highland Scot Jacobites, met the superior forces of Lord Cumberland on
the marshy wetlands of Culloden Moor, outside Inverness near the shores of Loch Ness
in Scotland. It was at this decisive battle that the Scots were completely routed and the
Hanoverian monarchy established its superiority over the Stuart line. The moor is still
palpable with the ghosts of the fallen Highlanders.
20) Serabit el Khadim - On the quest for the historical Moses, Ward and Roberts
visited the little mountain of Serabit el Khadim under the protection of Shiek Barakat in
the Sinai wilderness. It is atop this mountain that stands the ancient ruins of the Temple
of Hathor, the calf goddess of Egypt, and it is here that 19th century archaeologist
Flinders Petrie bleieved believed to be the famed “Mountain of God” from the Old
Testamnet scriptures.
21) King Arthur - From his legendary birth at Tintagel on the stormy coast of Cornwall
to his Knights of the Round Table at Camelot, Arthur has lived on for 150 years as a
symbol of the earliest unifying king of the Britons. But his life and deeds are so much
the stuff of myth and legend, that deciphering the facts from the fantasy has been the
task of many an Arthurian scholar. The lads traverse the English and Welsh countryside,
searching through the historical clues to the existence of this monarch, raised to power
by the great Merlin of the Britons.
22) Glastonbury Tor - Rising high above the flatlands surrounding the village of
Glastonbury is the enormous hill of Glastonbury Tor, said to be the ancient Isle of Avalon
when it was once surrounded by lakes in the basin below. In myth it is said that one who
has the power of the enchantment can part the mists and see the mystic Isle standing
in place of the barren hill that is adorned today only by the single tower of Glastonbury
Cathedral’s ruins. What is the connection to King Arthur in this holiest of places, where
the earth grids crisscross and the sacred well still pours fresh waters?
23) Newgrange, Ireland - is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, about
1000 feet north of the River Boyne. It was built about 3200 BC, during the Neolithic
period, which makes it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. The celestial
alignment figures greatly into the precession theory that the structure was used as an
ancient calendar in the same fashion as many other structures of the period.
24) The Fae and the Sacred Wells The Fey - or faery - is a type of mythical
being or legendary creature in Celtic
folklore, a form of spirit, often described
as metaphysical, supernatural or
preternatural. Various folkloristic traditions
refer to them euphemistically, by names
such as wee folk, good folk, people of
peace, fair folk (Welsh tylwyth teg), and
they were originally worshiped as minor
goddesses. In the teachings of Theosophy,
they are believed to help to guide the
operation of the processes of nature such
as the process of evolution and the growth
of plants. Their appearance is reputedly like colored flames about the size of a human
being. In Roman Catholic tradition, smaller, less important, evolutionarily undeveloped
minor angels are called nature spirits, elementals, and fairies. Scattered around the
British Isles, and especially in Ireland, and many wells and springs attributed to be the
place of the Fae. We will explore the various sacred sites an how Christianity usurped
them.
Debating ancient Inscriptions on the climb up Serabit el Khadim, in the Sinai Desert
25) Jerusalem and King David - Jerusalem is the capitol city of the ancient Israelites,
and was founded by the, some say, mythical King David in the tenth century BCE when
he sacked and claimed the city of Salem, founding his own City of David.” It was here
that David’s son Solomon is said to have built the Temple, and brought the Queen of
Sheba into his court. Dr. Eilat Mazar, Israel’s leading archaeologist wil join Ward and
Roberts as they seek to find the historical underpinnings of the biblical ancient Isrtaelite
monarchy, uncovering the ancient City of David and his great Keep and Palace in the
City of Jerusalem. From there, the lads travel to the Valley of Elam, where according to
Israelite tradition, David, as a young man, slew the giant, Goliath.
26) Petra - In Jordan, through a narrow passge in the mountains, lies the rock-hewn
city of Petra, also known as the Rose City for its pink colored stone. Founded in the late
fourth century BCE, the city was home of the Nabateans and is listed in the Amarna
Letters of Egyptian conquest. The vast majority - 85% of the city - is still underground
and untouched. Its significance as a major center of trade waned after the Roman
occupation, and the city fell into obscurity in the clefts of the Jordanian mountains and
the sands of the desert for centuries.
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Scotty Roberts is publisher of the eclecticly focused Intrepid Magazine, and
author of several books focusing on ancient historical mysteries, ancient aliens and
paleo-contact. Roberts’ formal education was in theological seminary. He is anillustrator,
public speaker, stand-up philosopher and historian. Scotty is co-author of The Exodus
Reality with Dr. John Ward, and they are also working on their new release, The Lost
Armies of Cambyses.
Scotty’s other books include:
The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim (non-fic)
The Secret History of the Reptilians (non-fic)
The rollicking Adventures of Tam O’Hare (fic), author and illustrator
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Dr. John Ward is a British historian, Egyptologist, archaeologist and anthropologist
with over a dozen years experience living and working in Egypt with his fiancé, the
gorgeous, blond-haired, blue-eyed Swedish archaeologist, Dr. Maria Nilsson, at the
ancient quarries of Gebel el Silsila on the River Nile. Ward has spent the bulk of his
“off-time” calculating and cataloguing the connectivities between ancient Egypt and
the Royal Houses of Europe, via the symbolism found from antiquity, making its way
through the Templars and to modern day.