Walter Baucum is probably best known for his book The History and Future of Israelite America^[184], which promotes the idea of America having been settled in pre-Columbian times by some of the lost tribes of Israel. He believes that Britain and the other nations of Europe are also descendants of these ‘lost tribes’. These ideas have been around for a couple of centuries and are usually supported by Christian groups. Baucum however is a member of the United Hebrew Congregation.

            More recently he has ventured into the realms of Atlantology publishing his Bronze Age Atlantis^[183] in which he follows some of the ideas of Jürgen Spanuth who placed Atlantis in the North Sea and identified the Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt as the ‘North Sea Peoples’. Baucum introduces a number of hard-to-accept ideas such as the Picts of Scotland and the Irish leprechauns (little people) were Minoan!