Jason Colavito

Who is Jason Colavito?

Jason Colavito is an American author. Colavito wrote The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture and is a contributor to Skeptic magazine.

Colavito attended Auburn High School, in Auburn, New York and graduated summa cum laude from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York where he received a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology and journalism in 2003.

Colavito's work has largely focused on debunking "alternative archaeology" via his web-based magazine Lost Civilizations Uncovered, his newsletter The Skeptical Xenoarchaeologist, as well as books, articles and documentary work. His investigative research has been cited in The Atlantic and The Huffington Post, and featured on the History Channel.

In 2005, Colavito authored The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture, published by Prometheus Books. In the book, Colavito explores the influences of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos on the popular works of Erich von Däniken and Graham Hancock, as well as its overall influence on "extraterrestrial pop culture".