Zofingen

Erich Von Daniken was born in Switzerland in 1935. He attended the College St-Michael in Fribourg, Switzerland and occupied his time with studying ancient holy writings. While he was a manager of a five-star hotel, he wrote his first book "Chariots of the Gods" in 1968, which quickly became a best seller in the United States and Germany. He received fame and recognition for a TV special called "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" which was based off of "Chariots of the Gods" in 1993. It's also said that Von Daniken is a compulsive traveler and travels around 100,000 miles every year to remote spots around the world to closely examine and research what he plans to write about. "Mysteries of the World" was a theme park that he built in 2003 in Interlaken, Switzerland. Although many suspected it would be based off of UFO's, just like in the name, it is about the mysteries of the world based off of Von Daniken's ideas. Three years after the opening, in 2006, the park was closed down. "Chariots of the Gods" was a very thought provoking book about a controversial hypothesis that explained that early humans were visited by extraterrestrial astronauts who helped out the primitive humans by teaching them a basic knowledge of what laws should be, how to apply technology to everyday life to improve their quality of life, and just taught them extra knowledge in general. The early humans had no idea who these beings were so with there limited knowledge they associated these astronauts with…