Question: Rod Sterling narrated a series based on a book by what German author?

full_context: Document 1: Sightings (TV series): Sightings is an American paranormal and news television series that originally aired in the 1990s. The program began as a special titled "The UFO Report: Sightings" on October 18, 1991, as well as eventual follow up reports, "Ghost Report" and the "Psychic Experience". The original Concept Creator and Supervising Producer of that hour special produced by Paramount for Fox TV was Linda Moulton Howe, an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and documentary filmmaker of TV specials about science and the environment. One of her Emmy Award-winning broadcasts was "A Strange Harvest" (KMGH-TV in May 1980), about the worldwide animal-mutilation mystery linked by law enforcement to extraterrestrial biological entities.
Document 2: Probe (1972 TV pilot): Probe was a two-hour television film first aired on February 21, 1972 on NBC as pilot for a science fiction detective series, originally to have continued under that title. Created by Leslie Stevens, it starred Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, one of a group of high-tech private eyes working for the organization “World Securities”. When picked up for series production, the title was changed to "Search", because "Probe" was the name of an existing PBS series.
Document 3: In Search of Aliens: In Search of Aliens is an American television series that premiered on July 25, 2014 on the H2 channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment, the program follows Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, an ancient alien astronaut hypothesist and leading contributor to the television show "Ancient Aliens", as he presents hypotheses and possible evidence of extraterrestrial life, mythological creatures, and other paranormal subjects. Episodes typically consist of Tsoukalos interviewing various experts and other sources about subjects such as the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Atlantis in an attempt to determine whether or not they exist and if ancient astronaut theory is applicable to such topics.
Document 4: The Book of the Damned: The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many other phenomena, the book is considered to be the first of the specific topic of anomalistics.
Document 5: Ernest Norman: Ernest Leland Norman (November 11, 1904 – December 6, 1971) was an American electrical engineer, clairvoyant, and spiritual leader. A polymath, Norman dabbled in philosophy, poetry, scientific research and paranormal investigation. Ernest Norman also co-founded of the Unarius Science of Life and the Unarius Educational Foundation, which later became known as Unarius Academy of Science. Before starting the grassroots work for Unarius, Ernest Norman also worked for the Borderlands Sciences Research Association as a contributing editor for the Round Robin journal, and also worked as a minister for a Spiritualist church for 15 years. Ernest Norman wrote twenty books in his lifetime that covered theoretical physics, spirituality, philosophy, theology, extraterrestrial life, sociology, and poetry. Norman also authored articles further emphasizing the interdimensional hypothesis he was trying to teach, and answered letters from his students that have been archived at the Unarius Academy of Science. The first book he wrote, "The Truth About Mars", gives an account where he met the Martian ambassador, a being named Nur El, and traveled to the underground cities of Mars in his astral body. Unariuns believe he was other major figures in Earth's history, and that he was overshadowed by an Archangel named Raphiel who resides on a celestial super planet with other Archangels. He is referred to as the Moderator, or as "Dr." Norman by his students out of respect. A genius child prodigy, Ernest Norman never sought a doctorate through academia as he was self-taught and did not have formal schooling for many of the subjects he seemingly mastered, as he claimed his knowledge was due to his clairvoyant connection to the Masters and Higher Minds of the White Brotherhood;
Document 6: A History of God: A History of God is a book by Karen Armstrong. It details the history of the three major monotheistic traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, along with Buddhism and Hinduism. The evolution of the idea of God is traced from its ancient roots in the Middle East up to the present day.
Document 7: Unknown God: The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos (Ancient Greek: Ἄγνωστος Θεός ) is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on the Christian Apostle Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts , that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called "Agnostos Theos", that is: "Unknown God", which Norden called "Un-Greek". In Athens, there was a temple specifically dedicated to that god and very often Athenians would swear "in the name of the Unknown God" (Νὴ τὸν Ἄγνωστον "Ne ton Agnoston"). Apollodorus, Philostratus and Pausanias wrote about the Unknown God as well. The Unknown God was not so much a specific deity, but a placeholder, for whatever god or gods actually existed but whose name and nature were not revealed to the Athenians or the Hellenized world at large.
Document 8: The Celestine Prophecy: The Celestine Prophecy is a 1993 novel by James Redfield that discusses various psychological and spiritual ideas rooted in multiple ancient Eastern traditions and New Age spirituality. The main character undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru. The book is a first-person narrative of the narrator's spiritual awakening as he goes through a transitional period of his life.
Document 9: Michael Tellinger: Michael Tellinger, is a South African scientist, author, researcher, explorer and humanitarian, whose work touches the areas of science, spirituality, religion, mythology, sound, resonance, the nature of our reality and consciousness. More information can be found on his website http://michaeltellinger.com/ Tellinger is the author of several books and founder of the UBUNTU LIBERATION MOVEMENT of higher consciousness and the UBUNTU Party in South Africa. The UBUNTU Movement https://ubuntuplanet.org/ and its philosophy has supporters in over 140 countries and promotes the establishment of a new social structure to release humanity from the stranglehold of money and capitalism. Tellinger calls the new system Contributionism. The philosophy is captured in his 2014 book called UBUNTU Contributionism - A Blueprint For Human Prosperity. In 2008, Michael Tellinger exposed a vast vanished civlisation in southern Africa, that has left behind the largest continuous cluster of stone ruins found anywhere on Earth to date. He claims that they left behind mysterious tools and artefacts, which indicate that this ancient civilisation had an advanced knowledge of sound and resonance and that they used sound as a source of energy. Detailed information and images are contained in his books Adam's Calendar and Temples of the African Gods and in numerous online lectures. In his 2005 book Slave Species of god, Tellinger casts an alternative spin on human origins by combining diverse areas of research, claiming that humanity did not evolve out of apes, but were cloned by a group of beings that are collectively called the Anuna gods (ANUNNAKI) in the Sumerian clay tablets. In his numerous online lectures and videos, Tellinger shows how sound and resonance are the source of creation and how all things, seen and unseen, manifest into our reality and this dimension from the so-called void or zero-point or morphogenetic field.
Document 10: Chariots of the Gods?: Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (German: "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit" ; in English, "Memories of the Future: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past") is a book authored in 1968 by Erich von Däniken. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods.
Document 11: The Outer Space Connection: The Outer Space Connection is a 1975 documentary film produced by Alan Landsburg, directed by Fred Warshofsky and narrated by Rod Serling. This documentary was the last in a trilogy of ancient astronaut documentaries produced by Landsburg. This film was one of the last projects that Rod Serling worked on prior to his death in 1975.
Document 12: Land of the Lost (1974 TV series): Land of the Lost (1974–1976) is a children's adventure television series created (though uncredited) by David Gerrold and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, who co-developed the series with Allan Foshko. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC television network. It later aired in daily syndication in the early 1980s as part of the "Krofft Superstars" package. In 1985, it returned to late Saturday mornings on CBS as a replacement for the canceled "Pryor's Place" - also a Krofft production. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel in the 1990s. Reruns of this series were aired on Saturday mornings on Me-TV and are streamed online at any time on their website. It has since become a cult classic and is now available on DVD. Krofft Productions remade the series in 1991, also titled "Land of the Lost", and a big budget film adaptation was released in 2009.
Document 13: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was a popular 26-part television series looking at unexplained phenomena across the universe. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom by independent television network Discovery Channel. It premiered on 15 July 1994. It was the sequel to "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" and "Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers".
Document 14: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed is a nonfiction ancient history book written by Eric H. Cline and published in 2014 by Princeton University Press. The book focuses on his hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking", despite "all the difficulties of travel and time". He presents evidence to support a "perfect storm" of "multiple interconnected failures", meaning that more than one natural and man-made cataclysm caused the disintegration and demise of an ancient civilization that incorporated "empires and globalized peoples". This ended the Bronze Age, and ended the Mycenaean, Minoan, Trojan, Hittite, and Babylonian cultures. Before this book, the leading hypothesis during previous decades attributed the civilization collapse mostly to Sea Peoples of unknown origin.
Document 15: In Search of... (TV series): In Search of... is a television series that was broadcast weekly from 1977 to 1982, devoted to mysterious phenomena. It was created after the success of three one-hour TV documentaries produced by creator Alan Landsburg: "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" in 1973 (based on the book "Chariots of the Gods?" by Erich von Däniken), "In Search of Ancient Mysteries" and "The Outer Space Connection", both in 1975 (later adapted into popular paperbacks written by Landsburg). All three featured narration by Rod Serling, who was the initial choice to host the spin-off show. After Serling's death, Leonard Nimoy was selected to be the host.
ground_truth: Erich von Däniken