Dan Aykroyd gets back to his roots in his History Channel show, “The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd.” Each episode of the show (which returns for Season 2 on Friday, Nov. 15 at 9 p.
m.) is hosted and exec produced by the former “Saturday Night Live” star and explores a wide range of strange stories throughout history. Although Aykroyd is primarily known as a comedy actor and writer – “SNL,” “Ghostbusters” and “Coneheads” – he’s had a lifelong interest in historical oddities.
“My great-grandfather was a spiritualist, a paranormal researcher. And so, I just grew up with that stuff. And my mother saw a UFO in the late ’40s in Ottawa, Canada .
.. And she was always interested in it,” Aykroyd, 72, told The Post.
He added that he himself has had about three UFO sightings “that convinced me that the [flying objects] weren’t made out here, not manufactured on earth.” His most recent UFO sighting was about a decade ago when he was staying in a hotel in Montreal, he said. Aykroyd recalled it as “a big gray rectangle with bulbs that looked like grapes underneath it.
[It made] no noise, no sound, no lights. But, it was hovering there and it was a fixed position. We don’t have anything like that.
It had no propulsion or wings.” UFOs are included in “The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd,” but the show also explores a wide range of quirky stories, such as a brown bear that became a war hero for the Allies during WWII or a flying lawnmower that once .
