tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76178130639322281032024-03-27T16:52:23.973-07:00Scott Wolter AnswersScott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-22149241792472574102023-01-02T16:26:00.002-08:002023-01-02T16:26:26.328-08:00Dick Nielsen's Dotted R<p>There has been quite a bit of negative chatter on the Internet lately about the Kensington Rune Stone that frankly, is not worth commenting on. Most of the attacks are aimed at the honesty and integrity on the discoverer of the artifact, Olof Ohman. It's disgusting really, but these people are singularly focused on their "beliefs" and rabid efforts to confirm that faith rather than relying on facts or scientific evidence. It's personally difficult to relive the tough times that ultimately led to this post. However, sharing difficult personal experiences is superseded by the need for transparency in the quest for truth.</p><p>In late 2005, Dick Nielsen and I published our collective 574-page book, <i>The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence</i>. It really is an exhaustive work that covers every aspect of the history and controversy of the artifact and the ultimate conclusion the facts overwhelmingly supported was without any doubt, it is authentic. The book was published in December of 2005 and we began selling copies at speaking events. The first event was, appropriately, in Kensington, Minnesota. We sold many copies and happily while signing books, Dick took it upon himself to add a dot in the upper loop of the "R" in his first name. He did this to acknowledge our joint discovery of the all important Dotted R that occurs three times in the inscription. Dick was exceptionally proud of this discovery as in his mind at the time, it proved the medieval origin of the inscription all by itself. Let's go back and give a review:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmGEWuwgTDgpOZVD_QUqyHw1h_Y6m1apJzXVtmwpohoP7aMgV4u-7x-Pcv4aUUOuMjQ-qGiZ1IZDl91l8qcbN688MS4U4i6yUPny48VXCXhl6FExElThQPuBUQCLxantox_hh3GlBmQBqm8bgBPbXpr1rnI0LM2TAmpTNfRFTA1G1Idnj61f1VS4/s960/322465408_685743279801880_3200288953837574440_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmGEWuwgTDgpOZVD_QUqyHw1h_Y6m1apJzXVtmwpohoP7aMgV4u-7x-Pcv4aUUOuMjQ-qGiZ1IZDl91l8qcbN688MS4U4i6yUPny48VXCXhl6FExElThQPuBUQCLxantox_hh3GlBmQBqm8bgBPbXpr1rnI0LM2TAmpTNfRFTA1G1Idnj61f1VS4/w480-h640/322465408_685743279801880_3200288953837574440_n.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>My co-author Richard Nielsen proudly signed our book for Eleanor Gunderson in December of 2005 with an emphatic dot in the upper loop of the "R" in his first name. He did this because he was immensely proud of our joint discovery of the Dotted R on the Kensington Rune Stone which all by itself proved the inscription was medieval. </b> </div><br />In 2002, after completing my geological work on the artifact and concluding the weathering was consistent with multiple centuries and therefore proved authenticity, I decide to generate a photo-library of each and every rune, letter, word separator, and number within the inscription under the microscope. I took over 650 photos using low angle and high angle reflected light to bring out the three-dimensionality of every carved character. During this process I noticed numerous strange punch marks and short lines added to some of the characters which I put in a separate folder. Later, Dick went through the folder and noticed shallow punch marks in three of the "R" runes and got very excited. He asked me, <i>"Are you sure those dots are there and man made?"</i> I looked at him and replied, <i>"Absolutely. Why do you ask?"</i> Dick went on to explain how the language was coalescing in the 14th Century and modifications such as punch marks and short lines were added to indicate a change in the way the letter was pronounced. In this case, the dot in the R's indicated something called a palatal R, a different way of saying the R sound.<p></p><p>He then explained this was a recently understood medieval runic feature that was first discovered in 1935 and published in 1938. Dick, then smirked and said, <i>"If the Dotted R was unknown to modern scholars until 1935, how did it get on the Kensington Rune Stone in 1898?" </i> I was confused at first, and then it dawned on me how important these few dots were. These dots were intentionally made by the carver to acknowledge the runic convention of the time. In 1362, not in the late 19th Century as so many skeptics have claimed because it was unknown by anyone at the time. It then occurred to me these tiny dots that, to the best of my knowledge, I was the first ever to document since its discovery in 1898, proved the Kensington inscription was medieval all by itself! </p><p>One of the things I am most proud of when it comes to my work on the artifact is the amazing discoveries Dick Nielsen and I made together. It was the close collaboration between us, a geologist and an a runic scholar who was also an engineer, that produced those discoveries.</p><p>Unfortunately, something happened to Dick over the course of the next two years. Dick became angry and bitter at the lack of attention he received over his work on the Stone that was encouraged by outside influences. This led to a rift between us and his eventually his going his own way. In 2008, he convinced the Runestone Museum to allow him to perform a low resolution 3D imaging scan of the artifact he then used to write papers attempting to undermine the discoveries we had made and published in our 2005 book. Upon reading his "paper" that tried to wipe away the Dotted R as a "dropped chisel" by the careless carver, I was angry at his betrayal of our work together, to the stone, and to Olof Ohman and his family. But I was also very sad to see Dick try to destroy the good work we had done together in an attempt to resurrect the inscription in his and Henrik Williams' vision. That effort failed of course, and in 2016 Dick passed away a conflicted man.</p><p>What is important here is not what happened with Dick after 2007, but to remember the amazing work he did prior to ever meeting me and for the incredible work we did together that is published in our book. I think anyone reading this blog knows that small dot in the R of Dick's first name says everything that he knew in his heart what the truth was. It is that work that Dick should be remembered for and his role as one of the key individuals responsible for getting to the truth about this amazing and vitally important historical artifact. </p>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-57377493651079793512022-12-29T14:57:00.003-08:002022-12-29T21:57:06.884-08:00Startling New Discovery by Hebrew Scholar Confirms the Hooked X is a Symbol for Deity/God <p>A couple of weeks ago a friend called with a tip about a book he thought we should read. Terry Tilton, a Past Grand Master of Freemasons in Minnesota, Past President of the Philalethes Society, the academic branch of Freemasonry, a Biblical scholar, and a Methodist Minister, said he thought work in the book by Rabbi Mark Sameth, might have ramifications for my own research. I quickly found the book on-line, was immediately intrigued and ordered it. Roughly a week ago the 150-page book arrived and I devoured it in a few days. Brother Tilton was right, the findings of Rabbi Sameth indeed have ramifications for the Hooked X symbol, my "Templar's in America" research, and my wife's Goddess research that we are still trying to make sense of. There is sure to be a lot more to come as I consult with other researchers and those better versed in Hebrew mysticism and it's history. That said, here is what we know for sure... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ih8lRjJ1UKHwcVx1cfyLM8ZTqyAzy0Pj2BP-ygDNkk9C5-oA9hZ27PVvntLxG1eSZoFgUB1KUNW5TfmZRYF1WtRcUbAB-Ne0Ilw9X8q8NPJ24lVso_ZFEoOglz3nHxfNfpIW-GPgDMOFZEGhCk0MyKi5mRxKKUgq0GT8zJoQXvmlN15uH9eIf1c/s1151/IMG_0650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="757" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Ih8lRjJ1UKHwcVx1cfyLM8ZTqyAzy0Pj2BP-ygDNkk9C5-oA9hZ27PVvntLxG1eSZoFgUB1KUNW5TfmZRYF1WtRcUbAB-Ne0Ilw9X8q8NPJ24lVso_ZFEoOglz3nHxfNfpIW-GPgDMOFZEGhCk0MyKi5mRxKKUgq0GT8zJoQXvmlN15uH9eIf1c/w421-h640/IMG_0650.jpg" width="421" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rabbi Sameth traces the history of <i>The Name </i>that first appeared in in a three-lettered form YHW around 1,400 BCE. This was a time when dual-gendered deities were being worshiped in Mesopotamia and Egypt and the people created <i>The Name</i> that later (circa 850 BCE) became YHWH, or the immutable word of God "Yahwey" otherwise known as the Tetragrammaton. According to Rabbi Sameth, the utterance of <i>The Name</i> and it's dual-gendered meaning had always been reserved to the priestly elite. This is why knowledge of the meaning of The Name was unknown until recently. Not coincidentally, this is also the time we first see the progenitor of the Hooked X symbol in the form of the crossed crook and flail on Pharoah Akhenaten and his son, King Tut's chest. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Those who read my book, <i>The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America</i>, (Pages 86-96) might recall I postulated the "X" symbolically represented the upward pointing peak, symbolic of the male, and the downward pointing "V", symbolic of the female. Combined into an "X" represents the union of male/female and the concept of dualism. I then argued the hook added to the upper right arm created a little "v" representing a child. In this case, a daughter inside womb of her mother with the father completing the Hooked X symbolically. I also argued the Hooked X represented what Christianity cryptically calls the "Holy Trinity." Their definition described as the "Father, son, and the Holy Spirit" without making clear what the Holy Spirit is supposed to be. It seems to me they're intentionally veiling the obvious missing piece, the mother, thus completing the Holy Trinity aspect of God which is what I believe the Hooked X symbolically represents </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGr4VZiD_dn3a-2CMZ79rPDuKSIat9P7H8vFhe7gYjNpk0YteeeoIF6sUql_5FSE6wbiuolqqeMLLYIlIU9dQxw08KsYjFSCulbv6agCIZtu1UVtnGvNHi3N8YZV-szxlLqC7027n-3sCf9frUxuUzMjPVn2v6yOTzcBEkwzsCC_MnmZ4uJDpzqY/s500/Akhenaten.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGr4VZiD_dn3a-2CMZ79rPDuKSIat9P7H8vFhe7gYjNpk0YteeeoIF6sUql_5FSE6wbiuolqqeMLLYIlIU9dQxw08KsYjFSCulbv6agCIZtu1UVtnGvNHi3N8YZV-szxlLqC7027n-3sCf9frUxuUzMjPVn2v6yOTzcBEkwzsCC_MnmZ4uJDpzqY/w490-h640/Akhenaten.webp" width="490" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Pharoah Akhenaten reigned in Egypt from 1353-1334 BCE.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9C1E1Ka7_UZi_rs3EEKmSPyjpIiuF-mQpDWyaqOMtMjpnSvmfHDd6kNhL4nCmwSWjlIG1m48yOiJnO0cM0uaghxk6emyIbqrdgxcV2tv2eAvm7ZmDrtfO5iTOf6nJw5K8heA2eoXYhtKYhKXAXsZqfAkKFLVAer5kFTzc_ei4ANWhF9FeRV6vn8g/s3522/HX-84%20Gold%20Mummiform%20Coffin%20%232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3522" data-original-width="2636" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9C1E1Ka7_UZi_rs3EEKmSPyjpIiuF-mQpDWyaqOMtMjpnSvmfHDd6kNhL4nCmwSWjlIG1m48yOiJnO0cM0uaghxk6emyIbqrdgxcV2tv2eAvm7ZmDrtfO5iTOf6nJw5K8heA2eoXYhtKYhKXAXsZqfAkKFLVAer5kFTzc_ei4ANWhF9FeRV6vn8g/w480-h640/HX-84%20Gold%20Mummiform%20Coffin%20%232.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Pharoah Tutankhamun reigned in Egypt from 1334-1324 BCE.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Getting back to Rabbi Sameth and <i>The Name</i>, he continues to trace the historical journey of Tetragrammaton from Egypt to Jerusalem up through today. He also explains the philology of YHWH and how the pronunciation of the word of God is veiled within the Hebrew letters that need to be pronounced backwards. This reveals HW to be pronounced HU ("he"); HY pronounced as HI ("she"). Here we see how the both the pronunciation and dual-gendered meaning of <i>The Name</i> was kept secret known only to the priestly elite and passed on only to worthy initiates "mouth to ear." Rabbi Sameth argues the dual-gendered meaning of <i>The Name</i> was a tightly held secret within the priesthood, especially after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD. He then explains how he learned after making the dual-gendered meaning of the Tetragrammaton discovery himself, the secret of the dual-gender nature of YHWH was previously discovered by Michelangelo Lanci, a Vatican librarian in 1827. His work was published but, not surprisingly, quickly suppressed by order of the Pontifical Government. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If we take a look at examples of the Tetragrammaton, we see <i>The Name</i> within an equilateral triangle with the point sometimes pointing up, and sometimes pointing down. This instantly brings to mind the symbolism of the upward and downward peaks/triangles of the Seal of Solomon and the Hooked X symbol. They mean the same thing and both contain the sacred secret of the male/female nature of Deity/God. This makes perfect sense since the same Hebrew people were were involved with both sacred symbols representing a carefully hidden ideology. That Monotheistic Dualism ideology began in Egypt and was secretly passed down through the Hebrew priesthood into Jerusalem and forward into the present.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6FM_gYS-c9-bSDNlnc0ti7TpQ2fA4Lw7rhtZW38Nl57fbzwEudZGDmJKcvRjoQhYS_MeaepZamxSmWIU4aDyvPkr6VlMY0K7gZkwd0erqz5t4aH0tt_uiYF4aTuAY8oesRMqbZyNqA9VcLXzfIUiLNRXZ297UHPn2rn1uZ9NzWw7jVh3mBYgj44/s1024/4601996719_6045af606b_b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6FM_gYS-c9-bSDNlnc0ti7TpQ2fA4Lw7rhtZW38Nl57fbzwEudZGDmJKcvRjoQhYS_MeaepZamxSmWIU4aDyvPkr6VlMY0K7gZkwd0erqz5t4aH0tt_uiYF4aTuAY8oesRMqbZyNqA9VcLXzfIUiLNRXZ297UHPn2rn1uZ9NzWw7jVh3mBYgj44/w640-h480/4601996719_6045af606b_b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After reading the book, we had a long talk with Timothy Hogan, a Freemason and Biblical scholar about Rabbi Sameth's work and the connections I saw with the Hooked X. He agreed wholeheartedly with my idea and explained how because <i>The Name </i>was immutable the word "EL" was used for God and was able to be said out loud. In Hebrew, "EL" is spelled "Aleph Lamed" or "AL" which is abbreviated to just "A" (Aleph). Here is where things get interesting. In Hebrew mysticism, aleph has a numerical value of one and implies the oneness of God. Aleph is also the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet and used for "a." The Hooked X symbol is used for "a" on all five North American Rune stones carved in the late 14th/early 15th Centuries. I have also argued the Hooked X is a straight-lined version of the Hebrew aleph and makes sense it was used for "a" within these inscriptions. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The conclusion to all of this is the Hooked X is analogous to the Hebrew aleph which is a sacred and secret symbol for Deity/God. This is why the monk(s) who carved these stones used the Hooked X as a symbol of recognition for future initiates and as an acknowledgement of God to protect their sacred work; a land claim in the case of the Kensington Rune Stone. The discovery of the dual-gendered meaning of both <i>The Name </i>and the Hooked X, that followed the same path through 3,400 years of time and the Hebrew priestly line, provides profound factual evidence on the veracity of Rabbi Sameth's research and our own collective research over the past 22 years. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-10402111021005986792022-12-22T07:31:00.005-08:002022-12-27T07:36:55.089-08:00New Evidence in Sweden Further Validates Kensington Rune Stone Inscription is Medieval<p>It was recently brought to my attention there was news posted on a hate blogger site of a recent discovery in Sweden of documents that contained some of the unique runes found on the Kensington Rune Stone including the Hooked X! The article written by Magnus K<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ä</span></span>llstr<span style="font-size: small;">ö</span>m reports on the discovery of a 16-page pamphlet and a commemorative wedding plaque that date back to 1864 and 1868 respectively. Both documents were composed by a writing teacher named Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ö</span></span>m and contains runes the author of the article calls "Kensington runes." Indeed, both documents do contain <i>some</i> of the unique medieval runic alphabet, or "Futhark", but no where near the entire alphabet. See article here: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">k-blogg.se/2022/12/11/kensingtonrunorna-kom-fran-timra/</span></p><p>As is typical with Scandinavian scholars I have interacted with over the past 22 years, when it comes to the Kensington Rune Stone (KRS), K<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ä</span></span>llstr<span style="font-size: small;">ö</span>m reveals his negative bias in the second sentence of the article, <i>"Even if I believe that the (Kensington) inscription was not added in 1362 but in the 19th century,..." </i>Instead of being open-minded and objective, this author's analysis is doomed from the start. He also names other Swedish scholars I have dealt with who are borderline fanatical in their attempts to discredit the Kensington inscription, but even their theories are struck down by K<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ä</span></span>llstr<span style="font-size: small;">ö</span>m. Let's start by taking a look at the KRS runes and the alphabets presented in the article. The commemorative wedding plaque is first:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAp63TdTd28EezlOPEmPJAfX95fxKPxH-raBgpEfAB1qTI9a8PKCUvwRNluS-Xn7uiBcnxoi8Sv7J7xIBtQTjxI7lBOeA71sGwkwPMditX6tnC4fEZQ4nsQO7mHDVeu6uOig_pXEIbCmM2zWCpvM2Nt1-tykVpqA30MZXlC-m42HUyC8sWwcpyMg/s1536/Minnestavlan-fran-Torp-1310x1536.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1310" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAp63TdTd28EezlOPEmPJAfX95fxKPxH-raBgpEfAB1qTI9a8PKCUvwRNluS-Xn7uiBcnxoi8Sv7J7xIBtQTjxI7lBOeA71sGwkwPMditX6tnC4fEZQ4nsQO7mHDVeu6uOig_pXEIbCmM2zWCpvM2Nt1-tykVpqA30MZXlC-m42HUyC8sWwcpyMg/w546-h640/Minnestavlan-fran-Torp-1310x1536.jpg" width="546" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>This wedding plague contains a message in runes reportedly crafted by Eric Str</b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17.12px;">ö</span><b>m in 1868. The author of the article translated the runes to this: <i>"This commemorate tablet was created during the writing school in H</i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><i>änstra</i></span><i> in the month of April in 1868."</i></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDokJtfOcht9W1224vvV0zfJO-hqXii3PKpo2ijnkcQie4GL2n8F87bUHnGIOPEjAppeGpnP0HOVy5vJY3u5hWkgMxkz62bY8VX_IRaDdKiE6U1vfkc3tiZVLRZ2oliTUSTTQI0btgSJegQMGA25RZpLpPeXrCGIWf3Pvw74EzpeNDHQ3VmMxvviE/s1536/Runorna-pa-minnestavlan-fran-Torp-1536x527.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="1536" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDokJtfOcht9W1224vvV0zfJO-hqXii3PKpo2ijnkcQie4GL2n8F87bUHnGIOPEjAppeGpnP0HOVy5vJY3u5hWkgMxkz62bY8VX_IRaDdKiE6U1vfkc3tiZVLRZ2oliTUSTTQI0btgSJegQMGA25RZpLpPeXrCGIWf3Pvw74EzpeNDHQ3VmMxvviE/w640-h220/Runorna-pa-minnestavlan-fran-Torp-1536x527.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>A closer look at the runic message shows the alphabet used is NOT the same as the Kensington inscription as the author claims. In fact, only 10 of the 17 symbols used are in the Kensington inscription. The notable symbol that is found here and on the Kensington stone is the Hooked X. Below the runic message is another message crafted using a Masonic box code suggesting the author, Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 17.12px;">ö</span>m, was likely a Freemason. The author translated this message to this: <i>"Given by the author as a memory, and a reward for a benevolent treatment. By </i></b><b><i>Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 17.12px;">ö</span>m."</i></b><b> </b><p></p><p>The runic message on the plaque contains 10 KRS runes of the 17 total used. The most interesting is the Hooked X symbol being used for "a". As interesting as this is, it does not prove anything in regard to the Kensington inscription only that SOME of the medieval KRS runes survived, most likely within secret Masonic and Knights Templar orders, from the 1300s to the 1800s. More on that to come.</p><p>It turns out Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ö</span></span>m was the author of another 16-page document about the art of writing that contained examples of different writing styles and text types published in 1864. Toward the end of the document was a runic alphabet that is eerily reminiscent of another document mentioned in the article that came forward in 2003 when the Kensington Rune Stone was on display at the History Museum in Stockholm. I was in Sweden at that time and remember all too well when the Larsson Papers came forward and the misguided conclusions the Scandinavian scholars were quick to go public with. But first let's first take a look at the Larsson Papers.</p><p>The first sheet contains two runic alphabets. Interestingly, the Swedish text written above the second alphabet that begins with a Hooked X says it was written in the "Secret style." This begs several questions about the origin of the alphabet with must be connected to Freemasonry and the Knights Templar before that. We have a direct connection to both organizations in the newly discovered alphabet coming below. The first alphabet is considered to be a Viking era Futhark, the second is considered to be a later Futhark, possibly medieval. The second alphabet begins with a Hooked X symbol used for the letter "a" but has only 9 of 27 symbols found in the Kensington inscription. Curiously, the page also contains a Masonic box code and a table of Pentadic numbers just like the numbers found on the Kensington Rune Stone and is dated using that numbering system to 1883.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9-AcJlH4StPBcJQ0vZORSiJ7OQcVRQu3sbYYbIg-BY9cmBMHOa-Xo_a1sIoRpEtNuR1-G5PpmSc847fR85L10Svchz3oLKl8pnUMtuYSluhbGmWKJyWYL7hAG1i9Dnj8PGjsaDH7RwjMSt_CCgO7x2-jxQFm0b_TdCeK-WHmXoKkLxgPgKgi4iA/s2500/HX-102%20DAUM%2010669%201%20a%20300.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2187" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9-AcJlH4StPBcJQ0vZORSiJ7OQcVRQu3sbYYbIg-BY9cmBMHOa-Xo_a1sIoRpEtNuR1-G5PpmSc847fR85L10Svchz3oLKl8pnUMtuYSluhbGmWKJyWYL7hAG1i9Dnj8PGjsaDH7RwjMSt_CCgO7x2-jxQFm0b_TdCeK-WHmXoKkLxgPgKgi4iA/w560-h640/HX-102%20DAUM%2010669%201%20a%20300.JPG" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The first of two pages called the "Larsson Papers" was discovered in Sweden in 2003 and is dated using Pentadic Numbers to 1883.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second sheet of the Larsson Papers contains the same two runic alphabets, the second again was written in the "Secret style." Only this time the second alphabet has only 8 of 27 symbols found in the Kensington inscription. This page also contains a Masonic box code alphabet and the same Pentadic numbering system but is dated 1885. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3h0ctQwNZI06o-788hd69_zfT1sUaysfILGiLRLEy4BgjZxU6Rt6KEoWX8d7p2A83YUXtPYS7T9mQlLEtIWz7amPWx_NQTnY400NaXz4x5xWPaAWbeTg3jlkbnWtKgLILu09EubcWjeKYVjEUJqAPLuRpqe9u_ouCbqj8riil0HX1brOM7bPAZww/s3941/HX-103%20DAUM%2010669%202%20a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3941" data-original-width="2500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3h0ctQwNZI06o-788hd69_zfT1sUaysfILGiLRLEy4BgjZxU6Rt6KEoWX8d7p2A83YUXtPYS7T9mQlLEtIWz7amPWx_NQTnY400NaXz4x5xWPaAWbeTg3jlkbnWtKgLILu09EubcWjeKYVjEUJqAPLuRpqe9u_ouCbqj8riil0HX1brOM7bPAZww/w406-h640/HX-103%20DAUM%2010669%202%20a.JPG" width="406" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The second of two pages called the "Larsson Papers" was discovered in Sweden in 2003 and is dated using Pentadic Numbers to 1885.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In my 2009 book, <i>The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America</i>, I argued the discovery of the Larsson Papers with Pentadic numbers and the Hooked X symbol proved the symbols in fact did exist and were not invented by Olof Ohman, who discovered the Kensington Rune Stone on his farm in Minnesota in 1898, as most scholars had claimed for over a century. This new discovery of the marriage plaque and the 'art of writing' runic alphabets that begins with a Hooked X is revealing for a number of reasons, but before we get into that let's take a look at the newly discovered Futhark with another interesting Masonic box code, and a Knights Templar "Pigpen" cipher. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjW53gW62iCxPTsLpSg8Nn4YO01NW4A3a26EVZr8xWpzN0EreaMwfL8zXclLiyQr1qgDZ3Ie9KaXMoYmvocxsknA5mS64QhwJzhE8v2onH-d_lFhD4Z0d8AuP_ykgTTsYt429NI1ZjGHETRQcFP0LY7K5QmXxuaR1DzCwITJD3ae6rHFFbg0X67Yk/s704/Runic%20Text.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="704" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjW53gW62iCxPTsLpSg8Nn4YO01NW4A3a26EVZr8xWpzN0EreaMwfL8zXclLiyQr1qgDZ3Ie9KaXMoYmvocxsknA5mS64QhwJzhE8v2onH-d_lFhD4Z0d8AuP_ykgTTsYt429NI1ZjGHETRQcFP0LY7K5QmXxuaR1DzCwITJD3ae6rHFFbg0X67Yk/w640-h350/Runic%20Text.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 17.12px;">ö</span>m, a writing teacher in Sweden in the mid-to-late 1800s wrote a 16-page document about the art of writing that contained examples of different writing styles and text types published in 1864. It contained a runic alphabet with 14 of 27 symbol being found on the KRS inscription including a Hooked X. It also contained a Masonic box code identical to the Larsson Papers. Most notable is a Knights Templar "Pigpen" cipher that is not found in the Larsson Papers.</b></div><div><br /></div>This runic alphabet is very similar to the two Larsson Papers' alphabets except this one has 14 of its 27 characters that appear in the Kensington inscription. Here are a few facts: First, it pushes back the earliest known use of the Hooked X in Sweden 19 years from 1883 to 1864. Second, it has 5 more similar symbols than the 1883 Larsson Papers alphabet, and 6 more than the 1885 alphabet. Third, the Masonic box code is the same as both found in the Larsson Papers. Lastly, there is a very telling addition to the most recently discovered and oldest of the three documents with runic alphabets. Below the Masonic box code is a Knights Templar "Pigpen" cipher not seen in either of the Larsson Papers. Adding more intrigue and a smile to my face came when K<span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ä</span></span>llstr<span style="font-size: small;">ö</span>m acknowledges Eric Str<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ö</span></span>m had connections to the Knights Templar, <i>"...where in 1882 he became involved in the local Good Templar Lodge." </i><div><i><br /></i></div><div>I find it quite ironic this newly discovered and mysterious runic alphabet contains the most number of runes yet related to the Kensington inscription, and it is connected to a man who was a member of a Templar order in Sweden in the late 19th Century. Try as the scholars might to put the Kensington Rune Stone to bed as a modern hoax, the evidence that keeps coming forth supports the obvious conclusion it is authentic. These documents are now added to the voluminous pile of factual evidence, in multiple disciplines, that is consistent with the KRS being carved and buried as a Knights Templar land claim in 1362, and is arguably the most important historical artifact ever found in North America. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHIRvaTlktMffa7RuRxoX0nh11AIhSSEzQ8CarJIGnruBP0qJfrw6tmEwjypw0fzZ2vuKRQtfUL2wkCAiU8f_ZEG8-2w7pmfJwayDZY2hBB188PYvozzfuqMur6KW7usMOwWy-SwVocBxEvztFrUZu34WEI15boZxAUhcL8kWIxWPCuRVpFgiN9A/s921/4-3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="921" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHIRvaTlktMffa7RuRxoX0nh11AIhSSEzQ8CarJIGnruBP0qJfrw6tmEwjypw0fzZ2vuKRQtfUL2wkCAiU8f_ZEG8-2w7pmfJwayDZY2hBB188PYvozzfuqMur6KW7usMOwWy-SwVocBxEvztFrUZu34WEI15boZxAUhcL8kWIxWPCuRVpFgiN9A/w640-h278/4-3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Hooked X symbol being used for "a" is found in this secret alphabet was written </b><b>in an Icelandic manuscript </b><b>between 1750-1850, and was recently published. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6A5GSEQcy4frq8RJYo_qkBTFQ3ZR034IQlJi-JTfqDTIowIpHOTqQLEywLvX_n4rPkbcHdH2DYFdBJfG0FcJMugSil8eOTJMadfMfVFUSwbHbyRKOqyrf2-bTOM0odzxOk0rQdKyMlUuZ93GNPkSrFBtFP_uv_luhQigqOvepB5_PrSS45IiCrbA/s737/4-6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="737" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6A5GSEQcy4frq8RJYo_qkBTFQ3ZR034IQlJi-JTfqDTIowIpHOTqQLEywLvX_n4rPkbcHdH2DYFdBJfG0FcJMugSil8eOTJMadfMfVFUSwbHbyRKOqyrf2-bTOM0odzxOk0rQdKyMlUuZ93GNPkSrFBtFP_uv_luhQigqOvepB5_PrSS45IiCrbA/w640-h348/4-6.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Hooked X symbol is used for aleph in what is clearly a Hebrew alphabet written in an Icelandic manuscript circa 1700. This suggests a connection to Israel and Jerusalem where we found another example of the Hooked X on the Jesus ossuary.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFK9y5SuGUIH80sKzq5X3D7t7ASaU1JHwbNJo84swIpf-w32SFTU8CuXyt-itpIeKwTLO2ROE3xNXcvQ2YwiR5I9lLditGNB_1eEm1FHsLbshm75MOgxzQFnl_fXPlBv3blssBnnDr0PfijyofJiuzW0CAtoJQaJ6-Do_RuEZZZ7H6VR8qGP7CSgg/s468/9-1%20Jesus,%20Son%20of%20Joseph%20Ossuary%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="468" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFK9y5SuGUIH80sKzq5X3D7t7ASaU1JHwbNJo84swIpf-w32SFTU8CuXyt-itpIeKwTLO2ROE3xNXcvQ2YwiR5I9lLditGNB_1eEm1FHsLbshm75MOgxzQFnl_fXPlBv3blssBnnDr0PfijyofJiuzW0CAtoJQaJ6-Do_RuEZZZ7H6VR8qGP7CSgg/w640-h480/9-1%20Jesus,%20Son%20of%20Joseph%20Ossuary%20(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbK3nAQO9cMhpJxVLAp4YE88yScWdqccUHdZ0BW1jioBQ1rGgIX-COYAym21jwknMlUOic0Mbn7Kuv0ghtD8Dbdw3_UvEA45egDafWDbySmMCI60n0BI712YRFUQ4fQ-iAYzsPLgBHnAg8_dyLkZbIqPJDIejTljcSjsS-AWa5OCY6z21UqUkoto/s468/9-1%20Jesus,%20Son%20of%20Joseph%20Ossuary%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="468" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbK3nAQO9cMhpJxVLAp4YE88yScWdqccUHdZ0BW1jioBQ1rGgIX-COYAym21jwknMlUOic0Mbn7Kuv0ghtD8Dbdw3_UvEA45egDafWDbySmMCI60n0BI712YRFUQ4fQ-iAYzsPLgBHnAg8_dyLkZbIqPJDIejTljcSjsS-AWa5OCY6z21UqUkoto/w640-h478/9-1%20Jesus,%20Son%20of%20Joseph%20Ossuary%20(2).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Carved into the lid of the Jesus ossuary from the Talpiot Tomb is a monogram of two important symbols. One is the Hooked X, and the second, just below the intersection of the X is the Egyptian-style tau cross. The Hebrew aleph (Hooked X) and Aramaic tau symbols likely represent alpha-omega, beginning and end.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqkEckMNeWJl-I1Xe3RJ3HOwEjHIxDrsnGjpoIcNqgXdDASicdIzNEcRNn-OH9xToTFss4HHSnbfAVuazSzD91kR39Q7uFgEN3n4miBw8xFbdSLhbSxTZ_muCiZ_oKTPxB1rmBokJ266fDJCvWKHgc-xPMgir3csMgMOCVuV3tGn99jkYPiVr8OZM/s960/Portugal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqkEckMNeWJl-I1Xe3RJ3HOwEjHIxDrsnGjpoIcNqgXdDASicdIzNEcRNn-OH9xToTFss4HHSnbfAVuazSzD91kR39Q7uFgEN3n4miBw8xFbdSLhbSxTZ_muCiZ_oKTPxB1rmBokJ266fDJCvWKHgc-xPMgir3csMgMOCVuV3tGn99jkYPiVr8OZM/w640-h426/Portugal.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Janet Wolter discovered a Hooked X symbol in the most likely of places, Santa Maria de Olival Church in Tomar Portugal. There are 22 Grand Masters of the Portuguese Knights Templar buried inside this church. The church was constructed in the late Twelfth Century.</b></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div> <p></p><p> </p></div>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-53504925597017132122022-01-24T17:59:00.002-08:002022-01-25T20:10:12.175-08:00Testing the Root Leaching Scars on the Kensington Rune Stone<p>In the summer of 2018, I finally got the chance to test the white root leaching "scars" on the back side of the Kensington Rune Stone. Because of conflicting personalities, and likely fear of the results, the board of directors at the Runestone Museum would not allow me access to the core sample for this testing I had taken from the back side of the stone as part of my initial investigation in 2000 . I had tried for nearly a decade to get the core to test the root leaching scars to prove my hypothesis that contact of the roots from the Aspen tree that reportedly were tightly gripping the artifact when Olof Ohman and his two sons felled the tree back in 1898.</p><p>The refreshing change in attitude in the board members of the Museum and the open-minded new Museum Director were the main reasons I was finally able to test the stone. The other reason was having the support of Hollywood actor, Peter Stormare and Elroy Balgaard, who were filming a television series called, <i>Secrets of the Viking Stone</i>. I appeared in multiple episodes of the two-season, twelve episode series as the scientific "go to guy " expert and suggested testing the root leaching as part of the show. I explained that if my hypothesis was right and we were able to prove the white scars were caused by roots from the tree Olof cut down, which numerous first-hand witnesses said ranged in age from 25-30 years, then it would prove he could not have been involved in creating the artifact since he first came to America 19 years earlier. </p><p>Peter and Elroy loved the idea and we performed the testing at the Materials Evaluation and Engineering laboratory in Plymouth, Minnesota. The testing went smoothly and the results were conclusive. I wrote this report about the testing a few days after we performed the work and Peter asked me if I would wait to publish it until the episode aired several months later. Frankly, I forgot about the report until the other day when a friend reminded me about it and I decided to publish it here first. Enjoy the report and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions. </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Kensington Rune Stone
Root Leaching Core Sample Testing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">By Scott F. Wolter P.G.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">August 2, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Kensington Rune Stone is an artifact that was discovered in September of 1898
by a Swedish immigrant farmer named Olof Ohman on his property while clearing
trees with his two oldest sons, Olof Jr., who was 12 years old at the time, and
Edward, who was 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After cutting off
the roots around the base of a 25-30-year-old Aspen tree, according to six eyewitnesses,
they used a winch to bring the tree down.<a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still entangled within the root under the
trunk was a 202-pound stone they discovered had a long inscription carved in
Scandinavian runes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Controversial from
the start, the inscription has long been considered a hoax with many accusing Olof
Ohman of creating it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some alleging he
carved the inscription and placed it under the tree as part of a clever hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Geological,
runological and historical research has generated voluminous data consistent
with the artifact being an authentic Fourteenth Century artifact has
dramatically undermined the hoax theories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The current testing was performed on the top portion of the core sample
taken from the back side of the artifact and addresses the surmised root
leaching believed to have produced the two white-colored, undulating and
branching lineations present on the stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scholars have said the lineations were produced by active roots that
pulled elements from minerals in the rock as food for the then young tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process reportedly involves an acid
produced by the roots, and fungus in the soil that leaches and depletes the
dark colored “pigment” elements, believed to be iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg),
thereby producing the white lineations where the roots were in contact with the
stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Methodology<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Scanning
Electron Microscopy (SEM) was performed at Materials Engineering and Evaluation
Inc. to document the overall quantity of various elements on the surface of the
core sample.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four (4) locations were
selected in the non-root leached (dark) areas and four (4) locations were
selected in the root leached (white) areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The bulk elemental data at all eight (8) locations was collected and
interpreted upon completion of the examination.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Background
Information<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In 2000, the
Kensington Rune Stone was brought to the laboratory of America Petrographic
Services, Inc., where as part of the geological investigation a 1-1/4-inch
diameter core sample was obtained from the back side of the artifact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The location of the core was chosen to
include a joint fracture, a discontinuous crack and the white root leaching
where it branched into two roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5Slzmz4ayJ0EMnkkY7R_RwZTBHKeAeCrrDoa4rmz2abN_lxvMtOj4CN1z2H8-iZvDumCK0ZaSSQXOSPaQQWblT6nvDcIVOJpk8hkCuXQZzdPNiKGC2fGhNBoYUHB6fMsxc7K7i87NuZutH5coMfz7Yxs8gcctCW3cnqUnY6Ivwz25XysK18M66xA=s3505" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2125" data-original-width="3505" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5Slzmz4ayJ0EMnkkY7R_RwZTBHKeAeCrrDoa4rmz2abN_lxvMtOj4CN1z2H8-iZvDumCK0ZaSSQXOSPaQQWblT6nvDcIVOJpk8hkCuXQZzdPNiKGC2fGhNBoYUHB6fMsxc7K7i87NuZutH5coMfz7Yxs8gcctCW3cnqUnY6Ivwz25XysK18M66xA=w640-h388" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 1: Two, white, roughly
parallel, undulating and branching lineations trend across the glacially
striated surface and down the glacial side of the stone. (Wolter, 2000)</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNL-RUOhOqAWo9M_9g2VfzabrhNdXlGY5KxlLizGfEwdMLCFYUobRN8PEh_cgqh4iCwniUv4wHAwSSp2erIeWTNKXG04LS02Ww1aMRkK2vxUFak7IeN0yh6W9ruVgl5w4E7vBHsaxl_57Bjs6ZwyrcA7aZvqQ_2wrd4Y6SyYg0cnpddaw871PyF_k=s2400" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNL-RUOhOqAWo9M_9g2VfzabrhNdXlGY5KxlLizGfEwdMLCFYUobRN8PEh_cgqh4iCwniUv4wHAwSSp2erIeWTNKXG04LS02Ww1aMRkK2vxUFak7IeN0yh6W9ruVgl5w4E7vBHsaxl_57Bjs6ZwyrcA7aZvqQ_2wrd4Y6SyYg0cnpddaw871PyF_k=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 2: Close-up of the area
(circled in yellow) where the 1-1/2” dimeter core sample was obtained. (Wolter, 2000)</span></b></p>
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branching root leaching can be seen on the top of the core sample prior to
removal (left). A side view of the core
sample after extraction (right). (Wolter, 2000/2000)</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Once the
core sample was extracted, the top ½” was cut off and another cut was made
perpendicular to the top of the core creating a cross-sectional view of the
root leaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In cross-section, the
white root leaching extended a maximum of 1.5 mm into the metagraywacke and
tapered in depth closer to the edges of approximately ½” wide lineation on the
surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
confirms the white lineations are not a geological feature of the metagraywacke
and were created by a chemical reaction that cause the color change starting at
the surface and then propagating to the maximum 1.5 mm depth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW240eUWz2k88_iFk53dYLX0xaywUX8Ghj7X5GZgdatAsmYdW836WLkHbUAfvZEQPL5KSApK_QQiq1srCmk3_6j2N7lvGlkomMc5R40Mvx6FG40T-uIWtWFciQjYxlmgxkzW95pmDJPOEgPf83PLsr3DN7PXOWbRh3EhS6ekBLeR1FnWxh08PO8Ik=s2400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="2400" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW240eUWz2k88_iFk53dYLX0xaywUX8Ghj7X5GZgdatAsmYdW836WLkHbUAfvZEQPL5KSApK_QQiq1srCmk3_6j2N7lvGlkomMc5R40Mvx6FG40T-uIWtWFciQjYxlmgxkzW95pmDJPOEgPf83PLsr3DN7PXOWbRh3EhS6ekBLeR1FnWxh08PO8Ik=w640-h454" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 5: A cross-sectional view of
the top of the core sample shows the white root-leaching extends a maximum
depth of roughly 1.5 mm and shallows toward the edges. A yellowish fracture
runs running sub-vertically from the top surface is unrelated to the white
lineation (5X). (Wolter, 2000)</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It has long
been believed the white lineations were created by contact with roots of the
tree the artifact was entangled within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those roots were described by witnesses at the time as being 3” wide and
flattened from prolonged contact with the stone.<a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plant physiologists and soil scientists
explained the white lineations were created by the combination of a fungus
present in the soil and acid produced by young roots actively leaching various
elements as nutrients from the soil and rock as food for the tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the tree grows, the root system expands
and bark forms and the active part of the root moves on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on the white root leaching scars
present on the back side of the stone the bark began to form around the roots
when they were one-half inch wide during the early life of the tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The reason
the root leaching is believed to be connected to same tree Olof Ohman and his
two sons discovered the artifact under, and not a tree at some time in the
distant past, is due to the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">fact the
pattern of the root leaching matches the first-hand witness testimony and the
three sketches of the roots and the stone made by Olof Ohman, Sam Olson, and
Olof Ohman Jr.</span></p>
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this sketch on December 9, 1909, (left) and his neighbor Sam Olson made his
drawing in March of 1910 (right).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both
drawing show the main root of the tree extending straight down into the ground
along the split side of the stone with the inscription side down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The secondary roots are shown extending
across the back side of the stone and then down the far side and match the
white lineations still present on the back of the Kensington Rune Stone.
(Minnesota Historical Society)</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXXvAqRsMo-r4-eptt7pFO_wERAH1cRCDrbfklU-NdCfyysd4-yq7w-XTRN3OMtSw9LetSYCQAsLHek_dtxjZGsczPf34X_nGfpXGMTFrxiYwnFCuOqklpLUSMDaLY-tmo8R58lODb43oO6LkD65GxuzJOhTBIpUjGDY04M4TbJVprgYEyOyhuVt0=s1504" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="1504" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXXvAqRsMo-r4-eptt7pFO_wERAH1cRCDrbfklU-NdCfyysd4-yq7w-XTRN3OMtSw9LetSYCQAsLHek_dtxjZGsczPf34X_nGfpXGMTFrxiYwnFCuOqklpLUSMDaLY-tmo8R58lODb43oO6LkD65GxuzJOhTBIpUjGDY04M4TbJVprgYEyOyhuVt0=w640-h524" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 8: Olof Ohman Jr. made this
sketch in a letter to his brothers Arthur and John on April 2, 1957. This sketch roughly matches and is consistent
with the sketches his father and Sam Olson drew nearly half a century earlier.
(Courtesy of the Ohman Family)</span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">To generate
scientific data to support the supposition of the white lineations present on
the back side of the Kensington Rune Stone elemental analysis using a scanning
electron microscope (SEM) on the top surface was performed by Ryan Haase at
Materials Evaluation and Engineering, Inc., on July 30, 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The analysis was performed on a total of
eight (8) locations on the top surface of the core, four in the dark areas and
numbered 1, 2, 7 and 8, and four in the white areas 3, 4, 5 and 6. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota,
was kind enough to make the core sample available for testing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVjzE6WFdBWIEoOPgsdezuL8hBnfCfgWtO3XRZkW_Ogngmb06AiNtqO1rpvynoYxeGYAgId0yBYYTQk6OXJql0OEM0f7cGcwe8pca0-0my1MPIC1pyeiQDzW1U9rPpSyPVqoA9VI0uxvtYxGZf2BkNGqU72ofqAUU0QRTP7wUxdUw9XiHziP20frA=s741" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="741" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVjzE6WFdBWIEoOPgsdezuL8hBnfCfgWtO3XRZkW_Ogngmb06AiNtqO1rpvynoYxeGYAgId0yBYYTQk6OXJql0OEM0f7cGcwe8pca0-0my1MPIC1pyeiQDzW1U9rPpSyPVqoA9VI0uxvtYxGZf2BkNGqU72ofqAUU0QRTP7wUxdUw9XiHziP20frA=w640-h350" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 9: This picture is the top
surface of the core sample on the platform placed into the scanning electron
microscope (SEM) for analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elemental
scans were performed in eight locations, four in the dark areas (1, 2, 7 and 8)
and four in the white areas (3, 4, 5 and 6).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Test Results<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The results
of the scans produced the following elements present at all eight locations:
carbon (C), oxygen (O), iron (Fe), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al),
silicon (Si), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and titanium (Ti).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The elements that produce dark color within
the minerals that make up the rock, such as biotite, hematite, magnetite and
pyrite, are iron and magnesium.<a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overall scan shows a general trend of
consistency in the relative quantities of all eleven elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, close examination of the scans shows
noticeable anomalies in the quantities of iron and magnesium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to plant physiologist Dr. Paul
Syltie, Ph.D., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The soil releases its
stored elements, from exchangeable and non-exchangeable sites on clay (micas)
or organic matter, to root hairs or to microorganisms that extract the
nutrients and move them to the roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…the
micronutrients zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mn) act in part
as enzyme cofactors (to make enzymes work) … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magnesium comprises the core of chlorophyll,
the light energy trapping compound.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All four areas tested </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the white
areas had a lesser amount of iron and magnesium when compared to the four dark
areas.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtbQ58F6T_5v9Mfuwq45sXw3uOC-J3qYmBIxC337vv0FkhRmUpVTiRp-vfNIFPa-3ZLX2ln-R75uxrMeuE4MXeBbIkb32LyFv0Zk1M-fGcFSKXLTSouVjkhE6g_GN4j6ppqxYuTglKejSwr_Jl8I92sUL2ml7k26bY8ApYJS6UzgrS4GJPCKTTyeQ=s962" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="962" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtbQ58F6T_5v9Mfuwq45sXw3uOC-J3qYmBIxC337vv0FkhRmUpVTiRp-vfNIFPa-3ZLX2ln-R75uxrMeuE4MXeBbIkb32LyFv0Zk1M-fGcFSKXLTSouVjkhE6g_GN4j6ppqxYuTglKejSwr_Jl8I92sUL2ml7k26bY8ApYJS6UzgrS4GJPCKTTyeQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 10: The bulk elemental scan of
location 1 shows the elements carbon (C), oxygen (O), iron (Fe), sodium (Na),
magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), chlorine (Cl), potassium (K),
calcium (Ca) and titanium (Ti).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPRu1t2sJHeeegTPQhnY_t30a1L2-d8D4qsTimJ0TijTSGK0iKcBS8dEJAraXId4eIs2jZ6LZBssAxVg4xeeaMwMk8XAVFEPFpOSFTwUx1O_c0sxmPgt3e0jytFRvWxoeLGWfmVy3gJp7LoLnNKtJTEs-k_M5IeUFxvmJVxEYEtexEN-8UDZbziWA=s962" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="962" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPRu1t2sJHeeegTPQhnY_t30a1L2-d8D4qsTimJ0TijTSGK0iKcBS8dEJAraXId4eIs2jZ6LZBssAxVg4xeeaMwMk8XAVFEPFpOSFTwUx1O_c0sxmPgt3e0jytFRvWxoeLGWfmVy3gJp7LoLnNKtJTEs-k_M5IeUFxvmJVxEYEtexEN-8UDZbziWA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></b></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 11: A composite of the bulk
elemental scans of locations 1, 2, 3 and 4, show very similar quantities of the
various elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Closer inspection of
the iron and magnesium peaks show a noticeable trend. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwPlD3kSbQ5wwr0bzIYfyE-lE_fa3kJXxq1ttDEqYpMcve4jBtI_P3J6c1Ip4Np2P7mGIwMsI_s-iQSBwUbKCb5zQlozni4R1QEzyiGBxVZ0NTHyoiWVAzxaDkpxmsVw6I2OrW0luhfTDTKXFk9t_9LVx8dMXxi7kLNWkJM_P2D_FGjNAvxu-Q37M=s959" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="959" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwPlD3kSbQ5wwr0bzIYfyE-lE_fa3kJXxq1ttDEqYpMcve4jBtI_P3J6c1Ip4Np2P7mGIwMsI_s-iQSBwUbKCb5zQlozni4R1QEzyiGBxVZ0NTHyoiWVAzxaDkpxmsVw6I2OrW0luhfTDTKXFk9t_9LVx8dMXxi7kLNWkJM_P2D_FGjNAvxu-Q37M=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></b></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 12: A magnified view of the
bulk elemental scans for iron (Fe) at locations 1, 2, 3 and 4, show a clear
difference of a higher overall iron content in the dark locations verses the
white (root leached) locations.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxj_1vDFJU4CCDm-XLRIG-5keuAlUJNThDk1izDQ4yyZCA3Fn7V7L22QG4MTI7MPMEOafpXanRpgvfUYluNZkBx_PGLW-bboPa7fED4Ex1FbiUylqOA9zHRuMT5U4gq_eZu8AWTQ020QVKGAqaiRUK9n23tmN0o-pWrdQuopD8bbgR6prQjnRDetI=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxj_1vDFJU4CCDm-XLRIG-5keuAlUJNThDk1izDQ4yyZCA3Fn7V7L22QG4MTI7MPMEOafpXanRpgvfUYluNZkBx_PGLW-bboPa7fED4Ex1FbiUylqOA9zHRuMT5U4gq_eZu8AWTQ020QVKGAqaiRUK9n23tmN0o-pWrdQuopD8bbgR6prQjnRDetI=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 13: A magnified view of the
bulk elemental scans for magnesium (Mg) at locations 1, 2, 3 and 4, show a
clear difference of a higher overall magnesium content in the dark locations
verses the light locations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Conclusions<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">These
results are consistent with the thesis of the depletion of the “pigment”
elements iron and magnesium due to chemical leaching of young roots in contact
with the stone which produced the white, undulating and branching lineations on
the back side of the Kensington Rune Stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Based on the testimony of multiple first-hand witnesses the average age
of the tree was 25 to 30 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the root leaching occurred during the early life of tree (less
than five years), it proves the tree was in contact with stone for the full
life of tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, since Olof
Ohman didn’t immigrate to the United States until 1879, nineteen years prior to
the discovery of the artifact in 1898, these test results serve as additional
evidence that he could not have been involved in its creation.<a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">References<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Syltie, Paul, Ph.D., </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">How Soils Work: A Study into the God-Plane Mutualism of Soils and Crops,
Paul Syltie, Ph.D., 2003.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Wolter, Scott F. and Richard Nielson</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence</i>, Lake Superior Agate
Publishing, Chanhassen, Minnesota, 2006.</span></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;">
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Wolter/Nielsen, Pages 3-4, 2006.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Wolter/Nielsen,
Page 30, 2006.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <a name="_Hlk521007627">Wolter/Nielsen, Page 30, 2006.</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Syltie, Paul, Ph.D., Page 11, 2003.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/swolter/Desktop/Kensington%20Rune%20Stone%20Core%20Sample%20Root%20Leaching%20Testing.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Wolter/Nielsen,
Page 390, 2006.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText">Here are a couple of photographs of documents that give a little more context to this research. </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju2WVouNU7y9mjeGd_HMvn9N6Vsg6Ikeb4qTRA2606dsuOCDbJKmNSBJRrVPBKzOvEI_tWOfqX-6uMQvocnOBiZVgtA9gio7goqs7GCMV6tnubXhwO8Ftfd5zv6DRavoTfeZk7CSwAScC0Rc8CKRSqed6xhOQ39iiqWO7i5eQlzm7pvWdSdkM-vh8=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju2WVouNU7y9mjeGd_HMvn9N6Vsg6Ikeb4qTRA2606dsuOCDbJKmNSBJRrVPBKzOvEI_tWOfqX-6uMQvocnOBiZVgtA9gio7goqs7GCMV6tnubXhwO8Ftfd5zv6DRavoTfeZk7CSwAScC0Rc8CKRSqed6xhOQ39iiqWO7i5eQlzm7pvWdSdkM-vh8=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In February of 2003, I photographed this page from the notebook of Professor Newton H. Winchell who investigated the Kensington stone making three trips to the Ohman Farm in 1909-1910. Winchell wrote down Ohman's description of the roots and their position around the stone, <i>"Mrs. Ohman told my livery man that Ohman borrowed the school book after the stone was found for the purpose of deciphering the inscription. Mr. Ohman said the main root of the tree was at the edge and went down nearly perpendicular, in that respect differing from Mr. Olson and his sketch. I had a long talk with Mr. Ohman, and am impressed with his succinct candor and truthfulness of all his statements, and also I found he is a more intelligent man than I had supposed. He gave me more of the details of the history of the stone than I had heard. He had never heard of Holand till he called on him at Kensington. Holand had no relations in the neighborhood and so far as I can find out is a stranger except since he took up with the stone."</i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC6H5uPUc49pYSkpdCReHOxwekkvYj8a6n3C5s73c5CksfX0UNBLMMRxJIST5ZvUnUDfRNlsit190EQIdalrNDjYkcb9FAceMFoiOEBvkEfkT_mAajfsmmNqJwjx5iIcWavTtuGJEFdiIvfWltsBtRUkmnKH8_zmThqAYMsn5Oc4wC07l_UpH1B_Q=s2497" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2497" data-original-width="1375" height="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC6H5uPUc49pYSkpdCReHOxwekkvYj8a6n3C5s73c5CksfX0UNBLMMRxJIST5ZvUnUDfRNlsit190EQIdalrNDjYkcb9FAceMFoiOEBvkEfkT_mAajfsmmNqJwjx5iIcWavTtuGJEFdiIvfWltsBtRUkmnKH8_zmThqAYMsn5Oc4wC07l_UpH1B_Q=w621-h1128" width="621" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This newspaper article from the 1960's contains interesting recollections of the roots around stone from a first-hand witness named Clarence Larson. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU_BeksENksjMkHwAt72gpQtmlsd1toNIEuGi3SfsRs_rT9VR8GAj6BNpXdsdVrkqdvzto-zYZfMf159dVdal6FrjFxqd99Os5gZD5YAls01opZwPdD4iCd8VQ3qElkBp4OYeVnzD4AigXTHiMIcI6p5LuBk8XACI8gjejJ1J96-Pnf02IAWwUcps=s896" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="896" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU_BeksENksjMkHwAt72gpQtmlsd1toNIEuGi3SfsRs_rT9VR8GAj6BNpXdsdVrkqdvzto-zYZfMf159dVdal6FrjFxqd99Os5gZD5YAls01opZwPdD4iCd8VQ3qElkBp4OYeVnzD4AigXTHiMIcI6p5LuBk8XACI8gjejJ1J96-Pnf02IAWwUcps=w640-h380" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the first page of his final 1909 report on the his examination of the Kensington Rune Stone, Professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota, Newton H. Winchell, wrote that he was not able to examine a thin section of the rock to do a complete mineral identification and see metamorphic textures under polarized light necessary to accurately identify the rock as a metagraywacke.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
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</div>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com75tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-38157788876759881432021-09-23T08:44:00.000-07:002021-09-23T08:44:21.458-07:00An "Academic" Hit Job on the Kensington Rune Stone<p>I resisted giving attention to this sad excuse for an "academic" paper, but because it made its way tangentially onto a cable television show causing confusion on the part of the public, I decided it needed to be addressed. Let's be clear from the start, the motivation behind this paper is the fanatical "belief" of the author the Kensington Rune Stone (KRS) is a modern hoax. The other motivation is what appears to be a deep-seated hatred of me personally, and professionally. After a short stint working in my laboratory, this individual was relieved of his employment almost twenty years ago. This individual also holds the distinction of being the only person I ever had to personally walk out the door of our business.</p><p>Now that I've provided a little context, let's look at just a few of the many problems with this paper. The author purports to have earned a PhD in geology, but with so many factual errors, leaps in logic and flippant opinionated statements with no logical factual support it suggests it has been so long since this person did any actual geology, he must have forgotten basic geological principles. There are so many problems with this paper it's hard to know where to begin, but one sentence in the abstract might be a good place to start. The sixth sentence on line seven is refers to the geological makeup of the KRS, <i>"This coating is consistent with stucco applied to the surface of the sandstone."</i></p><p>1. The rock is not sandstone, it is a Paleoproterozoic aged (1.85-2.1 billion years old) metagraywacke that originated in the Thomson Formation located in Carlton, Minnesota. This rock name probably won't make sense to most people reading this, but in the world of geology it is a glaring sign the author doesn't understand the mineralogy and metamorphic textures so prevalent in this rock. The difference is significant and a PhD geologist should know better. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSriSey2usP9G_Zb25QFjN_JE0Sfc-nlrek_KJpR8IJVtjWyZAZN44qPebYsiYSkL0zxqOJmqV8Y2DptHlTHAHXZI0Itn2ZAAJpQQddw_53Peisb4EPsrrqvGsqk8F9-2RY9LnwHcYYo/s2048/KRS+Macros+5-22-10+018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinSriSey2usP9G_Zb25QFjN_JE0Sfc-nlrek_KJpR8IJVtjWyZAZN44qPebYsiYSkL0zxqOJmqV8Y2DptHlTHAHXZI0Itn2ZAAJpQQddw_53Peisb4EPsrrqvGsqk8F9-2RY9LnwHcYYo/w426-h640/KRS+Macros+5-22-10+018.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BxbRqcdOBm6wajWGOQNcodg-w6wIA5hnA_IqpD-PjVXCSN3GXe2dxv-TG5_NGFeYgX5e2Gqc8_SeOZV_-7cjeMnoKI_SFgTWxpX8rzjSzh_9wikhfVLuXlnIueoaC6AExvdFHwrugN4/s2048/KRS+Macros+5-22-10+067.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1472" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5BxbRqcdOBm6wajWGOQNcodg-w6wIA5hnA_IqpD-PjVXCSN3GXe2dxv-TG5_NGFeYgX5e2Gqc8_SeOZV_-7cjeMnoKI_SFgTWxpX8rzjSzh_9wikhfVLuXlnIueoaC6AExvdFHwrugN4/w460-h640/KRS+Macros+5-22-10+067.JPG" width="460" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The face side of the Kensington Rune Stone contains the first nine lines of runic text and the naturally formed yellowish-white, triangular shaped hydrothermal calcite covers the surface of the lower left third of the stone (top). Below is the intentionally split side containing the last three lines of text including the Pentadic date of 1362. The "H" at the bottom end of the stone was carved by Hjalmar Holand </b><b>in 1908, </b><b>when he had possession of the stone.</b></div></div><p>2. Calling the hydrothermal calcite on the face side of the stone "stucco", and "applied" to the surface is mystifying. The yellowish-white colored triangular shaped area in the lower-right third of the face side of the artifact is hydrothermal calcite deposited along a joint fracture when the stone was still part of the bedrock millions of years ago. Arguing the obviously naturally formed calcite is somehow modern manmade plaster is absurd with no factual basis whatsoever.</p><p>Having operated a materials forensic laboratory examining primarily concrete, mortar, grout, stucco, and rock for the past 31 years, this claim is ludicrous. Stucco contains Portland cement and sand which is easily identifiable with the naked eye. The author's inability to distinguish between the calcite deposited within a joint fracture millions of years ago, verses modern stucco reeks of an agenda verses incompetence. Further, the word "applied" implies someone intentionally put a naturally formed mineralogical feature on the rock which is impossible. Throughout the paper the author makes unsupported assertions as statements of fact when they simply are not. It's like the "Big Lie" of the KRS skeptic arguments where the author repeats falsehoods so often he begins to believe them. </p><p>3. On page 7 the assertion is made the stone was used as "stepping stone" by Olof Ohman, (spelled incorrectly in the paper as Olaf) when there are two direct sources that say the opposite. The first was Olof Ohman. In 1909, Newton Winchell interviewed Olof Ohman, and wrote in his field notebook Ohman said the stone was stored "inside the shed" until the stone transferred custody to Hjalmar Holand in August of 1907 (Nielsen/Wolter, Page 237). The second his son, Edward Ohman, who stated emphatically the stone <i>"...was never used as a doorstep"</i> in an interview with the Minnesota Historical Society in 1949. Therefore, all subsequent assertions and conclusions made based on this erroneous assumption are invalid. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdWJ_PJqnh7xX6nlC2u81G-OxYYlZ_Pn6eIcZECLm2obGms8bfR4fUmQySl2LfXX8rQIlQOXrj8ig70jjPLHwRFC5_bYnZ94vNQapBWYPTrc5xNRiGjOtDD1A7TJWkRrC7yuqnGeNiag/s1705/24-2+Edward+Interview+12-29-1949-A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="1705" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdWJ_PJqnh7xX6nlC2u81G-OxYYlZ_Pn6eIcZECLm2obGms8bfR4fUmQySl2LfXX8rQIlQOXrj8ig70jjPLHwRFC5_bYnZ94vNQapBWYPTrc5xNRiGjOtDD1A7TJWkRrC7yuqnGeNiag/w640-h558/24-2+Edward+Interview+12-29-1949-A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>This newspaper photograph shows Edward Ohman (left) being interviewed by Bergmann Richards about the discovery of the Kensington Rune Stone in 1898. During the December 29, 1949 interview when asked about the stone being used as doorstep in front of the granary Ohman replied, <i>"The story goes it was used as a doorstep, but it never was."</i> The author chose to ignore this fact to further erroneous arguments based on this decades old falsehood.</b></p><p>I should also point out one of the author's citations about what Winchell supposedly said about the stone serving as a "stepping stone", which Winchell never said, he attributes to the year 1915. This is problematic as Professor Winchell died in 1914. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3iZX_t1gu_-5NfIKfX6qoDUiL14bmDqVsjc-h892wdIaOG9UD91X5UiAkY7tZ3r77-j_Y6YbyhNOT04FOST6cELtQjwTxHXiE-4BxOAORpLl-Nqh7h1k_k0n_I-ZRDgLUIz29Ae5PTQ/s2048/IMG_0633.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3iZX_t1gu_-5NfIKfX6qoDUiL14bmDqVsjc-h892wdIaOG9UD91X5UiAkY7tZ3r77-j_Y6YbyhNOT04FOST6cELtQjwTxHXiE-4BxOAORpLl-Nqh7h1k_k0n_I-ZRDgLUIz29Ae5PTQ/w640-h400/IMG_0633.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>The grave stone of Professor Newton H. Winchell in Lakewood Cemetery, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Winchell studied the Kensington Rune Stone from 1909-1910 and concluded, <i>"...the said stone is not a modern forgery and must be accepted as a genuine record of exploration, in Minnesota, at the date stated in the inscription."</i></b></p><p>4. On page 9, the author seems to think it is appropriate for Professor Emeritus, Mike Michlovic, a harshly biased <i>archaeologist </i>who believes the KRS is a hoax<i>,</i> with no training in proper scientific method, mineralogy or petrology, to provide critical review of the geological weathering work performed by myself, a licensed professional geologist, and Professor Newton H. Winchell, the first State Geologist of Minnesota (1875-1900). That's like asking a massage therapist to review the scientific work of a brain surgeon. </p><p>5. The author also makes the claim on page 9, retired Professor of Geology, Paul Wieblen, <i>"...have made detailed studies on it."</i> This is grossly misleading. I was with Dr. Wieblen when he performed a single electron microprobe traverse on the core sample from the Rune Stone at the University of Minnesota to document its elemental composition. That was all he did. Dr. Wieblen never examined a thin section as claimed in the paper. If the author is wrong about this simple fact, what other facts did he get wrong? </p><p>6. The author's claim he examined a thin section of the KRS is simply a lie, and his write-up about its composition is pure fiction. I maintained tight control of all samples taken from the KRS and only allowed senior petrographer, Gerard Moulzolf, and retired Professor Emeritus of Geology, Richard Ojakangas, to examine thin sections. Frankly, I didn't trust the former employee to be competent or objective, and this paper has proven it was the right decision. </p><p>7. The author's claim in the Introduction the inscription is not consistent with the 14th Century runic tradition is simply wrong. All the words, runes, dialect, grammar, and dating within the inscription have been found to be consistent with the 14th Century. Further, the author's bias is obvious in citing <u>only</u> critics whose outdated complaints have since all been proven wrong. </p><p>8. Figure 4 on page 12 showing photographs portraying the similar appearance of modern stucco and the hydrothermal calcite on the face side of the KRS as some kind of proof they are the same is ridiculous. It's like saying an image of Jesus on burnt toast proves he was the son of God. The subsequent in-depth argument the hydrothermal calcite could somehow be modern stucco made with Portland cement is too silly to waste the reader's time on refuting. </p><p>At this point, there are too many more problems with the rest of the paper to bother with. It's simply dead on arrival. </p><p>So why does it matter that the author decided to seemingly intentionally castrate himself professionally with a work of such poor quality? The reason is word of this person's criticism of my work on the Kensington Rune Stone made its way into the season-ending cliffhanger episode of a cable television show on the Science Channel, in January of this year. I appeared in 10 of 12 episodes of <i>"Secrets of the Viking Stone"</i> with hosts Elroy Balgaard, and Peter Stormare, who has appeared in many movies including the movie "Fargo." </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdJVKmSSmm4DqDi_0d-2FeBoYIhAOtkAlzmsFV2qq-6jxb9wlJU6trf39E7Ei_-lWnyI3tbBCf_Yq_JHYWcRsTYx9n6SFi2noZ84NU273vzUaGBa7N1uF0rJ_VUg8q3xK2duRkFIpai0/s3492/IMG_1857.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2184" data-original-width="3492" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibdJVKmSSmm4DqDi_0d-2FeBoYIhAOtkAlzmsFV2qq-6jxb9wlJU6trf39E7Ei_-lWnyI3tbBCf_Yq_JHYWcRsTYx9n6SFi2noZ84NU273vzUaGBa7N1uF0rJ_VUg8q3xK2duRkFIpai0/w640-h400/IMG_1857.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>In the final minutes of the final episode of the cable television series, "Secrets of the Viking Stone", Peter Stormare (pictured here) and Elroy Balgaard, discuss the erroneous claim the Kensington Rune Stone was a hoax. This cliffhanger finale intentionally left the audience with a mixed message about the authenticity of the stone. It is hoped they will get an opportunity to set the record straight in the near future.</b></p><p>Throughout the series, Peter and Elroy would turn to me for historical facts and scientific information about the Kensington Rune Stone that proved it is a 14th Century artifact, carved and buried as a land claim, by the ideological descendants of the medieval Knights Templar order. One of the guest experts on the show, and outspoken critic of the stone, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Mike Michlovic, recommended the producers of the show contact the author of the paper who <u>did not</u> respond to their inquiry for more information. This was no surprise, since writing a hit piece for an archaeological journal no one will ever read, is different than defending your shoddy work on television for all the world to see.</p><p>The mistake by the producers of the show, was taking the risk of using the fraudulent claims as a cliffhanger, in the hope of getting another season of their show. Their plan was to rectify the situation in future episodes, but unfortunately, the plan backfired. In large part because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the show was not green-lit for a third season. This means the last thing the audience heard was my geological work called into question without an opportunity to refute it. So it goes in the TV business. </p><p>Let me be clear, I welcome <i>legitimate</i> criticism of my scientific work and always have. That is why my geological work on the Kensington Stone was peer reviewed by eight academic and professional peers prior to publishing my multiple reports, papers and books. The professional and academic review process is vital to ensure competence in the work performed, and confidence in the conclusions reached. More especially in a case like this that has large historical implications. </p><p>This geological "hoax" report coming from a PhD would be laughable if it weren't so sad. One can only conclude someone supposedly this "smart" was haunted by the dogmatic pursuit of a personal agenda. What else would motivate someone to publish such poor work that can only be described as an academic "hit job" on the Kensington Rune Stone. Perhaps the best way to understand how ridiculous this paper is, is the fact it was published in an archaeological journal, not a geological journal. Archaeology is an opinion-driven discipline that loves to brag about its peer review process. Where was the proper peer review of this abomination? This guy wouldn't dare submit this nonsense to an accredited geological journal. Personally, I think the University of Minnesota should revoke the PhD they granted to this guy for blatant incompetence and breach of professional ethics. </p><p>Here is a link to the paper: </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.academia.edu/45218145/The_Kensington_Runestone_Geological_Evidence_of_a_Hoax?fbclid=IwAR3GJJQffeFMqK4YqUvbnkf-WUGcCt9hTbafNiXzqcip6ExE6t7bPkFQ4jY&h=AT0KFGL32t9EuRBqEUlROiMC9-arblYwU1W8Ua9n7XTBTDEEM87S9o6TS9ZFfpSM2IgQw21jcpTdMiLbnhEX5nDKYOPvO6rY5MLQvIHzsiZGAj-2-aC01-Vkg93hL3i0Bsyginqn1w&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT3AOZN6HoPz1tle_XckRCHX0ywvR7d15rH0q921wxif-s5yfSzHhxPs5qkYLnGY4OVDbPPAVlBAMjZIfqwaDkghoSkYeWYl5bjzuQEq3pswyJDNlhISg-lxldTF4XztaZg4xEawyql7szRdBTvECSgCnUcpCaENeJiZPMvqML7DDwmvZ_mAF7E9V4X8o4ToljGlXcCqMgWo_GChMFGF">https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.academia.edu/45218145/The_Kensington_Runestone_Geological_Evidence_of_a_Hoax?fbclid=IwAR3GJJQffeFMqK4YqUvbnkf-WUGcCt9hTbafNiXzqcip6ExE6t7bPkFQ4jY&h=AT0KFGL32t9EuRBqEUlROiMC9-arblYwU1W8Ua9n7XTBTDEEM87S9o6TS9ZFfpSM2IgQw21jcpTdMiLbnhEX5nDKYOPvO6rY5MLQvIHzsiZGAj-2-aC01-Vkg93hL3i0Bsyginqn1w&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3AOZN6HoPz1tle_XckRCHX0ywvR7d15rH0q921wxif-s5yfSzHhxPs5qkYLnGY4OVDbPPAVlBAMjZIfqwaDkghoSkYeWYl5bjzuQEq3pswyJDNlhISg-lxldTF4XztaZg4xEawyql7szRdBTvECSgCnUcpCaENeJiZPMvqML7DDwmvZ_mAF7E9V4X8o4ToljGlXcCqMgWo_GChMFGF</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-9334280575979284832021-09-11T12:00:00.000-07:002021-09-11T12:00:55.808-07:00The Cryptic Code at our Nation's Capital?<p> While
visiting our Nation's Capital to attend the 20th Anniversary reunion of people who worked at the Pentagon after the 9/11/2001 attacks, I walked around on
the northeast side of the Capitol building and noticed something interesting
about the columns on the east side. At the entrances to the Senate and Congress chambers there were a total of 22 columns along the front of the buildings. The columns were arranged in
two rows, 8 in the front and 14 in the back for a total of 22. At
that moment I suddenly realized these were numbers I had seen before. Almost
exactly 2 years ago I published my book <i>Cryptic Code of the Templar‘s in
America: Origins of the Hooked X</i>. One of the most important discoveries I wrote about was what I call the Cryptic Code of the sacred numbers on the Kensington Rune Stone (8, 10, 12,
14 & 22) which turned out to be the exact same numbers in the Select Master
ritual in the York Rite Cryptic Council degrees of Freemasonry. At this Point, I would implore those interested in learning more about my previous findings about the Cryptic Code on the Kensington Rune Stone to read my previous blog post here: </p><p>https://scottwolteranswers.blogspot.com/2016/07/kensington-rune-stone-inscription.html </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmr5DYUAwqgE0DH8QpmiDUms-avIAuITJwVOSEC36cSDUMaDjXytdXqY9OtT3UcWyEC-Ai9vqoobnt1oJM3ny1c6AQsR-mhk1vTYYMu32JyCqigEMX39-kk6bOHDYdGG5r52QTC1S-Ko/s3866/IMG_1561+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="3866" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmr5DYUAwqgE0DH8QpmiDUms-avIAuITJwVOSEC36cSDUMaDjXytdXqY9OtT3UcWyEC-Ai9vqoobnt1oJM3ny1c6AQsR-mhk1vTYYMu32JyCqigEMX39-kk6bOHDYdGG5r52QTC1S-Ko/w640-h318/IMG_1561+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Could the same Cryptic Code numbers be here
at the capital symbolically hidden within these beautiful columns? It
didn’t take long to figure out the answer was an emphatic, yes! If we take
a step back, we realize these sacred numbers are found within the ancient
Hebrew mysticism of the Tree of Life. This tree is comprised of 10
spheres that create 22 paths for a total of 32 emanations with the hidden 11th
sphere creating the 33rd emanation. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDqLgKNsd6H9TpuvlG4DSITuFMascxyJKroB-9QgIPEqWk94vjhDC3DwAXKxV4VUZfaPPUsdOJ_-vEup4S60FuiDS1_aSqd6X81MUprmxD_hThOOwMJD5eqiA8OlE5xvnD1B5f4I1034/s2524/IMG_1566+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2017" data-original-width="2524" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDqLgKNsd6H9TpuvlG4DSITuFMascxyJKroB-9QgIPEqWk94vjhDC3DwAXKxV4VUZfaPPUsdOJ_-vEup4S60FuiDS1_aSqd6X81MUprmxD_hThOOwMJD5eqiA8OlE5xvnD1B5f4I1034/w640-h512/IMG_1566+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Digging
a little deeper into the Kabbalah we realize it is part of the spiritual
journey people follow who embrace the Hebrew mystical tradition. That journey
includes taking note of human anatomy. One of the things learned is that most humans have 32 vertebrae
in our spinal column, with the 33rd bone and the highest level being the human skull. When we look
closer at the human skull, we learn it is comprised of 8 bones in the cranium,
and 14 in the face for a total of 22 bones!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This knowledge serves as the basis for the Cryptic Code found on the Kensington
Rune Stone, but is it really here at our Nation's beautiful Capitol building? As I walked around
the structure I noticed on the north and south sides of both Congress and the
Senate wings, there are a total of 10 columns on each side and, 10 more columns
on the south side of each wing. Could this be analogous to the two 10's within the Kensington Rune Stone inscription; “10 man read from
blood and death”, and “10 men by the sea with our ships?”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4_m-Vu6bCoitClsY3DQ9ECwjb307js6n7JmSC9AniulVy-ZAWJIEk_-W7jZEf-GpyJcu6rLvQmNJQDcabXLsVnKuTVZ8I-ym5r6Dbi1yb0YsuSnCIHc9E0TqlxNPFZrsSGN3nAyTBKI/s2678/IMG_1571+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1551" data-original-width="2678" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4_m-Vu6bCoitClsY3DQ9ECwjb307js6n7JmSC9AniulVy-ZAWJIEk_-W7jZEf-GpyJcu6rLvQmNJQDcabXLsVnKuTVZ8I-ym5r6Dbi1yb0YsuSnCIHc9E0TqlxNPFZrsSGN3nAyTBKI/w640-h370/IMG_1571+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
this point, we have the numbers 8, 10, 14 and 22, but what about the sacred
number 12? Keep in mind, if we add eight goths plus 22 Northman, we get 30. The next
number in the inscription is 2 for “2 shelters” which gives us a total of 32. The
next line in the rune stone inscription is “…one days journey north from this stone.” Adding 1 to 32 gives us a total of 33. Could these same numbers be here at
the Capitol as well? Sure enough they are.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was then that I looked up at the Capitol dome and noticed the top level has 12
columns! Why 12? The answer appears to be consistent with the cryptic code on
the Kensington Rune Stone because there are a total of 12 lines of text, 9 on
the face side plus 3 on the split side. To complete the Cryptic Code sequence of numbers we still need a 3, or (2 + 1). Upon reflection it seemed the three remaining pillars could entail two possibilities, one </span>symbolic, the other tangible. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Could two pillars of our government represented in this building be the missing pieces? It seemed the House and Senate could be the symbolic choices for the missing number 2. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other more tangible aspect involves the Capitol dome in this magnificent building. There are two levels of pillars, 36 columns on the first level and 12 on the second level of columns near the top. Could this be the symbolic number 2 in the Cryptic Code?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everything seemed to be falling
into place except for the last piece. Where is that 33rd column that
corresponds to the highest level of the Scottish Rite degrees, and the highest
level of knowledge and enlightenment attained within the spiritual journal
pursued through the Hebrew Kabbalah Tree of Life? </span>The answer was obvious and stands proudly at the top of the Capitol dome, the lone statue of Persephone, also called Freedom, the Sacred Feminine, who has forever been called "Wisdom." She is that 33rd degree pillar at the symbolic pinnacle of our Nation’s Capitol.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7nuwSjwnmYOi8YlFyuBltQ1HoA94ZqgW-fg_6YUojhdawgverwVhL5MFZhvBdQ_qS2w6b-tZknnT-xGO6QdV3UYXJhIpVYz7cd7GGnAi8i6bkhwHrgI3Wbp7QNufhCQxDlKpQ3tdYtlU/s4032/IMG_1552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7nuwSjwnmYOi8YlFyuBltQ1HoA94ZqgW-fg_6YUojhdawgverwVhL5MFZhvBdQ_qS2w6b-tZknnT-xGO6QdV3UYXJhIpVYz7cd7GGnAi8i6bkhwHrgI3Wbp7QNufhCQxDlKpQ3tdYtlU/w640-h480/IMG_1552.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-9778144084723079802020-12-02T11:28:00.000-08:002020-12-02T11:28:02.668-08:00Latest "Templar's in America" Research <p>I've been meaning to do this for a while now and with the Holidays upon us and Covid-19 giving everyone plenty of free time for reading, I wanted to make sure everyone interested in the latest Templar research was aware of our publications. The vetting of the Cremona Document and the Sinclair/Wemyss journals are on-going and if definitively proven authentic, they would be the most important "Templars in America" documents in history. Chapter 11 in my latest book, <i>Cryptic Code of the Templars in America: Origins of the Hooked X Symbol, </i>lays out the story of the Cremona Document in detail and sets the table for additional new documents and maps that have materialized since my book was published in September of 2019, and are currently being investigated. For those interested in personally signed copies of my own books or that of my wife, Janet, and her coauthor, Alan Butler's book, <i>America: Nation of the Goddess:</i> <i>The Venus Families and the Founding of the United States,</i> I would direct you to our website at: www.hookedx.com. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjnZusm-qA2s7k706enFHkAYor6wEjOvF2nWlKHYosuyizIxe-l7q6xHvCo5FV3H4RygQhg-2V9BHx7g3ThNB_ktXG-ZVYtdU7SnsEL1KneMiGbocgfydOojiX8LeoxlMXlO6DUwiVwk/s2048/file-52.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1541" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjnZusm-qA2s7k706enFHkAYor6wEjOvF2nWlKHYosuyizIxe-l7q6xHvCo5FV3H4RygQhg-2V9BHx7g3ThNB_ktXG-ZVYtdU7SnsEL1KneMiGbocgfydOojiX8LeoxlMXlO6DUwiVwk/w482-h640/file-52.jpeg" width="482" /></a></div><p><b>The latest in the Templar's in America series pulls everything together about the secret mission by the Templar's, they called "The Covenant," to found a sanctuary where they could live free from the tyranny of the monarchs of Europe and persecution of the Roman Catholic Church. That sanctuary is now called the United States of America (Published in 2019).</b></p><p>The most informative background information for the Cremona Document was written by the person who was intimately involved in the research from the beginning of the modern chapter of the story which began in 1968. That person is Donald Ruh. Don has written his own book that chronicles important details of the story that as the last man standing only he would know. It's filled with critical information and has hundreds of photographs. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Rqpb04gu7Ftr2WWfup7LK6YjIy4TL6QEC9Zmr7DUZKO3kz_nCoAyJL3oWXEwf8upiyZn9r4qkM9zgbJDCwl9Pw40DZWqcPFWmReM-n92ZEMqVvNeJg5YRnFVK3PibZ0fFWasWMXyi-M/s2048/IMG_2659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="2048" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Rqpb04gu7Ftr2WWfup7LK6YjIy4TL6QEC9Zmr7DUZKO3kz_nCoAyJL3oWXEwf8upiyZn9r4qkM9zgbJDCwl9Pw40DZWqcPFWmReM-n92ZEMqVvNeJg5YRnFVK3PibZ0fFWasWMXyi-M/w640-h368/IMG_2659.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Donald Ruh holds a key in July of 2020, he was bequeathed by his lifelong friend, Dr. William Jackson, that reportedly opens a "cedar-lined box" with treasure buried in America during the Revolutionary War era. The key along with a map, aerial photographs and a letter with instructions were all found inside a small wooden puzzle box left by Don's friend who died in 2000. </b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrfUNSp2DtW20si8qxg5lUI2UK81XY4QHXdFVyKfpgn8i8AB4wyo0VWnVjYEz4MhEytM_PkU2lZ6HHtfPZzdrLbVVl64FoYh20S3eWTosNFeisnD5-Gt4_2xd6oNRR08rp06pdXtugsI/s497/1g26wvp5-front-shortedge-384.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="384" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrfUNSp2DtW20si8qxg5lUI2UK81XY4QHXdFVyKfpgn8i8AB4wyo0VWnVjYEz4MhEytM_PkU2lZ6HHtfPZzdrLbVVl64FoYh20S3eWTosNFeisnD5-Gt4_2xd6oNRR08rp06pdXtugsI/w309-h400/1g26wvp5-front-shortedge-384.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">You can order copies of Don's book at this link: https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=The+Scrolls+of+Onteora </span></div></div><p>Another incredible Templar story we are quietly vetting is the Sinclair/Wemyss journals. This story, along with the Cremona Document, will completely rewrite the history of America and put new and accurate light on the Templars' true history and ideology academics thought they knew. That vetting process is on-going as well and what is most exciting are the two completely independent documents, and the stories they tell, are beginning to dovetail providing confirming evidence that supports the authenticity of both sets of documents. This is truly exciting! </p><p>Diana Muir has published the first of twenty of the Sinclair/Wemyss journals that chronicles the first forty-one years of Earl Henry Sinclair's life including his first of three trips he took to the "Western lands." Diana has extensive annotations that add important additional context to the entries and leave you begging for more that will be forthcoming in the near future. The history revealed in the first book illuminates many important new facts about the fugitive Templars who escaped to Scotland and their relationship with the Scottish Clans who protected them. This is a must-read for anyone who is hungry for the true story of what happened to medieval Knights Templar after the put-down of the order in 1307. The important beginnings of the story that would result in the founding of the United States of America will truly amaze you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvARllEIaDJ2U5CfGUf00p-A8NwDr5EH5yEC4gSC6Qw12lzZyGUbRFncI3wn6dY9pUZV3j_x-YdxYkZztZmybEETYZvSLHHFXiUsz-3grGmDYk_nGpeP_BB9agEXAUTixFKoRN6ro7M8/s497/1nzeeyqd-front-shortedge-384.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="384" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvARllEIaDJ2U5CfGUf00p-A8NwDr5EH5yEC4gSC6Qw12lzZyGUbRFncI3wn6dY9pUZV3j_x-YdxYkZztZmybEETYZvSLHHFXiUsz-3grGmDYk_nGpeP_BB9agEXAUTixFKoRN6ro7M8/w309-h400/1nzeeyqd-front-shortedge-384.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Diana's book can be purchased here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/diana-j-muir/the-lost-templar-journals-of-prince-henry-sinclair-book-1-1353-1395/paperback/product-24004958.html?page=1&pageSize=4 </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5KvCtpGxRc0ncIeSRIaP89xh9Tn5XY8ClRPAjnYi8SpKzdBrvHbsV-Lln4KpGyvAcCBkSLOTFv8-b_TJzGFE1J_f8X4Zxr3Xpd4Bm5qID4BzqoRg5a-jnI8KofPHVkvtpXUXYUOx5-o/s900/I-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5KvCtpGxRc0ncIeSRIaP89xh9Tn5XY8ClRPAjnYi8SpKzdBrvHbsV-Lln4KpGyvAcCBkSLOTFv8-b_TJzGFE1J_f8X4Zxr3Xpd4Bm5qID4BzqoRg5a-jnI8KofPHVkvtpXUXYUOx5-o/w640-h426/I-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>Myself (far right), Diana Muir (stripped blue shirt), and my wife, Janet Wolter, (far left) meet with several Masonic brethren/researchers to discuss the Sinclair/Wemyss journals at the Scottish Rite Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in March of 2017.</b><p></p><p>I'd be remiss if I didn't plug my own "Templar's in America" books, see below, and that of my wife, Janet Wolter and her co-author Alan Butler, all available at www.hookedx.com. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i2PF20DV7cEUxn7ACgWDGASunNQjxcE4kZEkhxjokHyD7F5dSokU9uEpiwyLTGvnbuI-pvNkuR8EkaeLC0bPR_T5hvOwG_3ZGnj0tFr81Tn8maVMrRMi_lb0GKg-r0YFlALKk1Khjs0/s2048/2013-03-09+16.10.48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2i2PF20DV7cEUxn7ACgWDGASunNQjxcE4kZEkhxjokHyD7F5dSokU9uEpiwyLTGvnbuI-pvNkuR8EkaeLC0bPR_T5hvOwG_3ZGnj0tFr81Tn8maVMrRMi_lb0GKg-r0YFlALKk1Khjs0/w319-h400/2013-03-09+16.10.48.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence</i> contains the factual evidence in multiple disciplines that definitively proved the authenticity of the artifact that was carved and buried as Templar land claim in 1362 (Published in 2005).</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAygL7wLFdg8S6uawGAHIS-7tZnSWsZLTYPqpjAgIrqaglgLV1QU3oBF4DkxLmV2AWlGGah8Onq10gytEyZa1x0sZt4Y81I2k-xEcTnVi4ybim4wkl3MB_8SWpdMwDhhenglp2vjyUmk/s500/515HA-Bu89L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAygL7wLFdg8S6uawGAHIS-7tZnSWsZLTYPqpjAgIrqaglgLV1QU3oBF4DkxLmV2AWlGGah8Onq10gytEyZa1x0sZt4Y81I2k-xEcTnVi4ybim4wkl3MB_8SWpdMwDhhenglp2vjyUmk/w264-h400/515HA-Bu89L.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America</i> investigates the Templar symbols and codes hidden within the Kensington Rune Stone inscription. I also investigate numerous other artifacts, sties and structures in North America the medieval Templars left hidden in plain sight (Published in 2009). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigBdr706WPQ8920fTErMIHlBZcNkM3wGuOckU5ImuSs3FVx_8cs8TdmwvWl3ouxVk3PvIuyNTv_Ax6mVTsYXpLdSe6_1xaCBsU0cSEdlry1FPqPmKTd-xYJVS4VW0qitFNikw_Q4XwuA/s926/Hooked+X+II+Cover_Layout+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigBdr706WPQ8920fTErMIHlBZcNkM3wGuOckU5ImuSs3FVx_8cs8TdmwvWl3ouxVk3PvIuyNTv_Ax6mVTsYXpLdSe6_1xaCBsU0cSEdlry1FPqPmKTd-xYJVS4VW0qitFNikw_Q4XwuA/w303-h400/Hooked+X+II+Cover_Layout+1.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: The Mysteries of the Hooked X</i> delves deeper into the mysteries of the Kensington Rune Stone, Newport Tower and many other artifacts considered fakes by academia, yet reveal even more about the hidden history of the cultures who visited North America long before Columbus (Published in 2013).</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1WA9zeF200lAm8XE6zmlX4tIuJRpoW5iyGKPFX2UaWgM1P_Mc-GI4MzXDZA-CRYAKrQ27Io0QtlHkyAEiLkqHfq_T5PNXmOQOyl8LOs2GH5vOVSBwdOUXFDP5LBUwC14B14KGYu0bMk/s499/618xS8nhv2L__SX331_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1WA9zeF200lAm8XE6zmlX4tIuJRpoW5iyGKPFX2UaWgM1P_Mc-GI4MzXDZA-CRYAKrQ27Io0QtlHkyAEiLkqHfq_T5PNXmOQOyl8LOs2GH5vOVSBwdOUXFDP5LBUwC14B14KGYu0bMk/w268-h400/618xS8nhv2L__SX331_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>America, Nation of the Goddess: The Venus Families and the Founding of the United States</i> follows the secretive families of the Templar lineage as they pursue Freedom from tyranny and oppression by the monarchs of Europe and the Church in planning their goal of establishing a 'New Jerusalem.' The clues they left behind are numerous and are hidden in plain site using sacred geometry and symbolism, across the United States (Published in 2015). </b> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com90tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-34217664462295883512020-04-09T13:50:00.001-07:002020-04-09T13:50:36.831-07:00Reminiscing About the "Geologic Dream Team"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the good things about the Coronavirus 19 quarantine is it has created a lot of free time for writing my next book. It has also created time to do a little rearranging of my photo files and I decided to share some unpublished photos of the geologists who provided commentary, suggestions and later academic peer review, when I first began my investigation in the geology of the Kensington Rune Stone in 2000. When the artifact first came into the American Petrographic Services Inc. lab in July of 2000, I had never heard of the artifact before but quickly got up to speed on it's history. <br />
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Since I had been referred by my former geology professors at the University of Minnesota-Duluth to do this work for the Runestone Museum on Alexandria, Minnesota, it only seemed appropriate to invite them in for a cursory look and to pick their brains for ideas on how to approach the investigation. I already had a number of ideas and wanted to run them by my professors for their input. On July 14, 2000, the six professors invited showed up along with then liaison for the Runestone Museum, Barry Hanson. Professor's Emeritus, Dr. John Green, Dr. Richard Ojakangas, and my former adviser, Dr. Charles L. Matsch drove down together from Duluth and Dr. Ken Harris, Dr. Robert Johnson and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Paul Wieblen from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. <br />
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The professors spent about 4 hours examining the geological features of the stone and the inscription offering comments and ideas of what might be interesting to look at more closely at during my examination and testing of the artifact. At one point when we turned the stone over to look at the deep glacial striations and scratches on the back side, it was Dr. Paul Wieblen who first noticed the white-colored, branching lineations. He pointed to the marks and said, "These features kind of look like roots." I would eventually conclude they indeed were made by the very same roots of the tree under which Olof Ohman discovered the stone.<br />
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The "Geologic Dream Team" was extremely helpful and Dr. Richard Ojakangas, one of the top sedimentary petrologists in the world, offered to perform a mineralogical point count on one of the thin sections we made from the core sample taken from the back side of the artifact. His point counts and my points counts were pretty much the same and we agreed the original slab of stone was a meta-graywacke that originated from the Animikie Basin in east-central Minnesota of Paleoproterozoic Age (1.85 to 2.1 billion years ago).<br />
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Upon completing my initial report, Dr's Green, Matsch and Ojakangas provided written peer reviews of my geological findings along with Professor Emeritus G.B. Morey, and geologist, Terry Swor. All found the report to be accurate and thorough. Looking back after these twenty years I want to thank all of these accomplished geologists for sharing their geological expertise and offering suggestions as well as their support. It was Dr. Ojakangas' work and vast experience that led to the conclusion the rock was indigenous to Minnesota and not brought along by the Kensington party from the East Coast or Europe. I remember Dick Ojakangas once told me a colleague said to him, "If you help Scott with the Kensington Rune Stone it could damage your reputation." Dick said he smiled at him and said, "Thanks, but I'll take my chances." <br />
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It was the geological weathering aspects of the inscription and split side that told me they were at least 200 years old from the day Olof pulled it from the ground in 1898. This made a late Nineteenth Century hoax impossible and therefore, it had to be an authentic artifact. The hard science speaks just as loud today as it did then. It's time the world accepted this amazing stone for the vitally important historical artifacts that it is. <br />
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<b>Geologist, Scott Wolter looks at a computer monitor with a magnified image on the split side of the Kensington Rune Stone in July of 2000.</b><br />
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<b>Dr. Paul Wieblen points to the white lineations on the back side of the Kensington Rune Stone and was the first to say they looked like markings left by roots. L to R, Barry Hanson, Dr. Richard Ojakangas (with camera), Dr. Robert Johnson (behind Wieblen), Dr. John Green and Dr. Charles L. Matsch (bending over in front) look on as Wieblen explains the root leaching. </b><br />
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<b>L to R, Dr. Charles L. Matsch, Dr. Richard Ojakangas, and Dr. John Green examine the split side of the Kensington Rune Stone as then Runestone Museum Director, LuAnn Patton looks on.</b></div>
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<b>L to R, Dr. Charles L. Matsch, Scott Wolter, Dr. John Green, and Barry Hanson look on as </b><b>Dr. Richard Ojakangas looks a feature on the split side of the Kensington Rune Stone through a petrographic microscope.</b></div>
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<b>The Kensington Rune Stone was examined by a team of noted geologists at the American Petrographic Services Laboratory on July 14, 2000. L to R, Dr. Richard Ojakangas (kneeling), Dr. John Green, Dr. Ken Harris, Gerard Moulzolf, Scott Wolter, Dr. Charles L. Matsch, Barry Hanson, Dr. Robert Johnson, and Dr. Paul Wieblen (kneeling).</b>Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-33827066953718748742019-11-02T08:32:00.000-07:002019-11-02T08:32:08.699-07:00America Unearthed, Season 4, Episode 2: Alien Artifacts"Alien Artifacts" was one of my favorite episodes of the season for a number of reasons. Not the least of which was the incredible C-14 dates on the adhesive used to make some of the artifacts. Those mind-boggling dates beg the obvious question: Are they really that old or did someone figure out a way to make a glue that dates to eight thousand years before present and older! In pondering this question in the days after we filmed that final scene, I have come up with possible ways to make a glue that would date that far back and I hope to have the opportunity to test my idea. Setting the artifacts might not be as old as the testing says, what if they really are that old? If so, then we have to seriously consider the possibility that ancient cultures in MesoAmerica did interact with extraterrestrial beings as my friend Giorgio Tsoukalos of "Ancient Aliens" fame has been telling us for the past two decades. I've never given the idea aliens visiting us from other planets a serious thought. That is, until now... I'm not ready to jump on the bandwagon yet, but until we get to the bottom of how old these artifacts really are, who made them, and if the obvious reference to aliens, spaceships and the interaction of apparent aliens with early native cultures, we must maintain an open mind to these possibilities. Irronically, the week before the episode aired, curious articles like this one appeared on news feeds: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ufos-reporting-guidelines-updated-202515828.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ufos-reporting-guidelines-updated-202515828.html</a> Was this a coincidence, or something else? What do you think about these artifacts possibly being many thousands of years old?<br />
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<b>Brendon Harris (left), Brandon Bouley (middle) and Janey Klebe (right with flashlight), prepare to film a scene inside a large circular cave with numerous interesting carvings deep in the jungle near Veracruz, Mexico. </b><br />
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<b>Three "alien" artifacts the JAC Detectors showed me they said they found in the cave we explored in the jungle. The one on the lower right was clearly a fake with the cleverly carved letters "UFO". The one on the left has a phallic shape with amateur-looking carvings that included marks consistent with being made with a hand held rotary tool. </b><br />
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<b>Janet Wolter and executive producer of America Unearthed, Andy Awes, behind the scenes during filming of the "Alien Artifacts" lab scenes.</b></div>
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<b>This artifact of an elongated head that looks like an aliens is covered with scenes that include spaceships, planets, designs and numerous inlays of stone. This glue used in this artifact was C-14 tested and the result was 8620 years before present. </b></div>
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Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-28492233120738232032019-10-06T06:47:00.000-07:002019-10-06T06:47:59.060-07:00America's Stonehenge Vandalized by Suspected Ultra Right Wing Domestic Terrorist GroupOn Sunday morning, September 29, 2019, I received a text message from Dennis Stone, owner and operator of the ancient historical site known as "America's Stonehenge", who wrote that his amazing site had been vandalized the previous evening. Specifically, the vandals left a wooden cross hanging in a tree with disturbing photos and notes attached. Not far away, they took a power circular saw and cut cryptic messages into the large rectangular slab known as the "Sacrificial Table." The vandals also destroyed the stones supporting one end of the slab in addition to smashing stones within what is known as the "Oracle Tube." <br />
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My good friend, David Brody, posted enlightening commentary on Facebook this past week recounting how local law enforcement believe the vandalism was likely inspired by the plot of his recently published novel, "Treasure Templari." A clip of a local news story can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/salem-police-investigating-vandalism-at-americas-stonehenge/29345433#" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif;">https://www.wmur.com/article/salem-police-investigating-vandalism-at-americas-stonehenge/29345433#</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helveticaneue" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<b>The cross found hanging in a tree near the so-called "Sacrificial Table" that apparently offended this radical religious hate group. </b></div>
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<b>The crown jewel at America Stonehenge is what is called the "Sacrificial Table." The stones used to support one end were smashed, most likely with a sledge hammer, causing the once horizontal table to lean. A power circular saw was used to cut a cryptic message into the top surface. </b></div>
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<b>"I am Mark" was cut into the surface at the top, a Christian style cross was cut into the middle, and the letters "WWG1, WGA"were cut at the bottom end.</b></div>
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David pointed out that same night about 30 miles away in Northwood, New Hampshire, a Masonic Lodge burned to the ground. While the cause of the fire has not yet been determined, arson is a strong possibility and could be related to the vandalism at America's Stonehenge. David feels terrible the plot in his book may have served as the template for the vandalism which can only be described as a hate crime. I reminded him that in the last few years three separate acts of vandalism on mysterious artifacts and sites across the country have occurred that could have been due being featured on my show, <i>America Unearthed</i>. Petroglyphs in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan have been defaced, the Judaculla Stone in Tennessee was vandalized, and the Narragansett Rune Stone boulder was stolen out of the surf in 2012. Thankfully, due to the hard work of Detective Sheila Paquette with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management - Division of Law Enforcement, it was recovered eight months later.</div>
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<b>One of the oldest Masonic Lodges in the country in Northwood, New Hampshire, was engulfed in flames and burned to the ground on September 29, 2019. It has not yet been determined if arson was to blame or if there is a connection to the vandalism at America's Stonehenge.</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Shawn St. Hilaire/Haas News Agency)</span></div>
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<b>The bird head on this ancient indigenous petroglyph in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was scratched out by a vandal less than six months after the site was featured on my show, <i>America Unearthed.</i> The vandal was able to find the site despite our efforts not to reveal its location.</b><br />
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<b>In 2016, Walker Chase Wadkins, vandalized the Judaculla Rock, which was also featured in an episode of <i>America Unearthed</i>, and then turned himself in.</b><br />
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<b>In August of 2012, the Narragansett Rune Stone boulder was stolen by the nearest resident who eventually turned the stone over to local law enforcement.</b><br />
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This brings me to the main point of this blog post. While not the sole reason, one thing I believe emboldens these idiots to commit these atrocities is the marginalization, and outright dismissal by hate bloggers and close-minded academics, of these mysterious artifacts and sites that have not yet to be universally accepted as authentic. Their negative campaign includes inflammatory language against what they believe are "frauds", "hoaxes" and "fringe" history. These ignorant and arrogant proclamations, without factual supporting evidence, lead to confusion, indifference, and condemnation by those already with a chip on their shoulder or what's worse, people motivated by religious zealotry which appears to be the case at America's Stonehenge. We must condemn hate mongers who prefer to generate destructive, negative messages rather than engage in respectful discourse in the pursuit of truth. The best way to do that is to challenge them with the facts and if they continue with hateful, intentionally misleading rhetoric, simply ignore them. Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-82682764840570785702019-07-30T06:59:00.001-07:002019-07-30T19:20:47.700-07:00America Unearthed, Season 4, Episode 10, Exodus of the Templar's<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Here we are at the final episode of the season and I have to say I think it is the best! It's jam packed with great content and introduces three amazing new inscriptions to the world. The evidence we document points to only one group having created all three; the medieval Knights Templar and how they made their way to North America. Allan Dawe contacted me four years ago as our run on History Channel ended and I wasn't able to see the inscription with my own eyes. This 4th season of America Unearthed was the perfect opportunity to see this inscription in Newfoundland, but also the identical symbol carved inside Wemyss Caves in Scotland. European scholars say medieval "Christian monks" lived inside the caves that could have been fugitive Templar's who escaped persecution in Europe after 1307 waiting for the opportunity to escape to North America. This is the most plausible way to describe the identical carvings on two separate continents.</div>
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I have long know of the map on the wall inside the sacristy at Rosslyn Chapel having written about it in my book, "<i>The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America</i>." I first learned about the secret, and sacred, method of calculating latitude with a staff, crosier, or even a stick, reading Brother Ashley Cowie's 2006 book, "<i>The Rosslyn Matrix.</i>" This brilliant exercise opened the door to other sacred esoteric knowledge the resonated with me as a scientist because, well, it was scientific. Ashley's calculations of the latitudes of the four lozenges was accurate for the both the allegorical, and literal journey from the Holy Land in "Old Jerusalem" to the sanctuary of the "New Jerusalem" in North America. </div>
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This episode looks into the beginning of the Templar's journey to establish a new home where people of ALL faiths could pursue life, liberty and happiness. It seems our country has forgotten many of the principles and tenants our Founding Fathers established after the Revolutionary War. That war was fought against the tyranny of the monarchs of Europe (King of England in this case), persecution of the Roman Catholic Church, and the corrupt way the two institutions legitimized each other. To find the motive behind the "Exodus of the Templar's" you need to look no further than our Constitution and the men who inherited the obligation from their medieval Templar brethren. Stay tuned, as the best is yet to come! </div>
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<b>The morning sun breaks through the clouds as I get ready to shoot at the Wemyss Caves on the north side of the Firth of Forth in Scotland.</b> </div>
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<b>The Committee Films crew prepares to shoot a scene inside the large beehive shaped caves where archaeologists say medieval "Christian monks" (fugitive Templar's?) lived at Wemyss caves, Scotland.</b></div>
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<b>Author, Tony McMahon, and I pose for a pic before shooting inside the legendary medieval church in Scotland; Rosslyn Chapel.</b> </div>
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<b>The amazing carving in the crypt at Rosslyn Chapel has two curved horns depicting the path of Venus as both a morning star in the east (right) and evening star in the west (left). The four vertically stacked lozenges in in the center represent, bottom to top, the latitudes of Jerusalem, Rosslyn Chapel, Orkney Islands, and Shetland Islands. The five-pointed star to the west represents the latitude of the Newport Tower in what the ancients called (A)Merica. </b></div>
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<b>The "In Hoc Signo Vinces" Stone in Latin means, "In This Sign, Thou Shall Conquer". </b></div>
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<b>Archaeologist, Brad Lidge, scientist, Jerry Lutgen, and me pose for a pic inside the Newport Tower during a break in filming on a perfect April day in Newport, Rhode Island.</b></div>
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<b>This panoramic view of the beautiful harbor on Long Island, in Newfoundland, Canada, was taken from the tiny secluded beach along the cliffs where the Haystack inscription can only be viewed a few hours a day at low tide. Cameraman Brendan Harris shoot the inscription draped in seaweed on the far right. </b></div>
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<b>I was very dialed in studying the Haystack inscription for the short time we had when low tide allowed us to view it. The line of seaweed above my head indicates the high tide line. </b></div>
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<b>The Haystack (left) inscription in Newfoundland, and the identical carving found at Wemyss Caves (right) in Scotland, are likely late medieval era symbolic representations of the Tree of Life indicating the carver's knowledge of the esoteric teachings of the Hebrew Kabbalah. The late medieval Templar's are one group who would have understood, and venerated, these Gnostic teachings.</b></div>
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<b>Production assistant, Jay Chase-Jacobus, stands on the rocky shores of the easternmost point of North America. A large iceberg and be seen in the distance.</b></div>
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<b>Field Producer, Janey Klebe, stands atop the beautiful shoreline at the easternmost point of North America, near St. John's, Newfoundland. </b></div>
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<b>Tipster, Allan Dawe, and I pose in the beautiful secluded harbor of Quidi Vidi, in St. John's, Newfoundland, where we shoot the final scene of the episode.</b></div>
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Inside the small church at Corstorphine in Edinburgh, Scotland, lie the marble effigies of an important medieval married couple. Sir John Forrester (1380-1448), 2nd of Corstorphine, lies next to his second wife Jean Sinclair, the daughter of Earl Henry Sinclair. What makes these effigies so important is not just the individuals that prove the two clans obviously knew each other, but were literally aligned by blood. Consolidation of money and power through strategic marriages wasn't anything new then, or now, but this particular marriage was important for researchers trying to better understand the activities of these families and their connections to the Templar's after their put-down in 1307. <br />
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This very special blog post is a collaborative effort of myself, and my friend Steve St. Clair, in the week leading up to the final episode of season 4 of America Unearthed. The final episode is arguably the best in a season of 10 really good shows for it reveals exciting new evidence about the fugitive Templar's activities in North America circa 1400. During filming of the episode, I visited Rosslyn Chapel for the third time and really paid attention to the subtle carvings of mason's marks tucked among the labyrinth of incredible carvings throughout the building. On an east-west aligned beam in the east end of the church, I noticed a familiar, skillfully carved symbol between two ornately carved floral designs. It was the same hanging horn symbol found in the Forrester coat of arms so prominently featured in Corstorphine Church only a few miles north of Rosslyn, in Edinburgh.<br />
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The "fish" is an esoteric symbol of sacred geometry when two intersecting circles create three equidistant quadrants at the center. The middle quadrant is a vertical almond shape called the "Vesica Pisces". Roman Christians are familiar with the symbol when aligned horizontally as the Christian "fish" representing the ministry of the biblical Jesus. To Gnostic Christians initiated with certain esoteric knowledge, the symbol represents something else entirely in relation to Jesus and his First Century followers. The "fish" is one of the best examples of a symbol whose meaning is drastically different to people with opposing ideology allowing plausible deniability when challenged by both sides.<br />
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A bit of context is needed here to understand why this carving is so significant. Sir John Forrester, founded the extant church in 1429. His marriage to Jean Sinclair in the early part of the 15th Century establishes a few important facts. First, it is all but certain William Sinclair of Roslin (1410-1484) would have known Sir John Forrester as his aunt, Jean, was married to him. This also meant he would have been well aware of the Forrester coat of arms symbolism by the time ground was broken for the construction of Rosslyn Chapel, in 1446. At 36 years of age, William would have been well versed in his families' clan affiliations and politics of the time. Aside from the clan alliance through marriage, there would have been other affiliations such as through Freemasonry and the Scottish clan's rumored support of the Templars.<br />
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The chapel would have been at the foundation stage when Sir John Forrester died in 1448, and the beam with the Forrester "fish" was likely still at least a decade away from being installed. William must have had the Forrester hunting horn "fish" carving made as an ode to the clan his family was clearly aligned with. The fact the fish carving is positioned on its side, as Steve pointed out in our conversations, with the head "swimming" to the east, could be a symbolic reference to Jerusalem and knowledge of the Templars activities there in the previous two centuries. Whatever the meaning, the Forrester fish seems to be clear evidence of the strong alliance between these two powerful Scottish families in the late 14th and 15th Centuries at the very least.<br />
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Only a year before my discovery of the hanging horn symbol in Rosslyn, Steve found the effigies at Corstorphine during a trip to Scotland to conduct genealogical research. The Forrester Clan connection to the Sinclair Clan was important enough, but it was the "fish" symbol in the string of the hanging horn on the Forrester coat of arms that interested me. In my new book, <i>"Cryptic Code of the Templars in America: Origins of the Hooked X Symbol"</i>, I wrote about the 2000 year-long history of the fish symbol that runs from Jerusalem, to Scotland, and eventually to the United States hidden in plain sight for those with the eyes to see. I refer the reader to my blog of July 2nd of this year, and the picture of the letter written by General George Washington and the vertically aligned fish symbol above the "g" (God?) in his last name. Examples of Washington's signature show he began using the curious fish symbol <i>after</i> he was raised as a Freemason at the age of 21.<br />
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It's time for Steve to chime in with his thoughts about the recent discovery of the Forrester fish at Rosslyn... <br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 2018, I got a private tour of
Corstorphine and found exactly what I expected to find, the armorial bearings
of the Forrester family quartered with that of the Sinclair family of
Caithness. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forrester Arms: Argent, three bugle horns Sable, garnished
Vert and stringed Gules.<br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Motto: Blaw, hunter, Blaw Thy Horn.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinclair Arms: Azune, a galley Or, the sail thereof Argent<br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Motto: Commit thy work to God.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">No mention of a fish in any
records and I’ve never heard of anyone thinking this is a fish. You can tell
the carvings are recently painted and not exposed to the weather. Personally,
I’m not convinced the “bugle horns” are a vertical fish symbol, but I’m also no
expert on esoteric symbology. My area of focus is DNA and medieval land
transfer records.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My trip to Corstorphine was driven
by a DNA match that showed up quite by surprise in our advanced SNP
matches. About 4 years ago, a Forrester
gentleman showed up matching our Saint-Clairs of Herdmanston Ancestral lineage.
This wasn’t just any match - it was proved by </span>Family<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Tree DNA’s Big Y test.
These tests pinpoint tens of thousands of parts of the human chromosome, so
they’re irrefutable matches. Better still, they’re backed up by Y-full dating of
the SNPs. And the dating is within a </span>time frame<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> that makes it terribly
interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here’s that last paragraph in
plain English:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the definitive guide on our
family, researched and written by Rondo BB Me and Gerald Sinclair, we know
Henry II Sinclair of Rosslyn, 1st Earl of Orkney had a daughter, Jean Sinclair,
who married Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine (Enigmatic Sinclairs, p.65). In
yet another connection, William “The Waster” second Earl of Caithness, sold
land called Cardain Sinclair, and the Forrester's bought it. (Land tended to stay
“in the family.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you know Rondo, you know her
research is irrefutable. That creates an interesting situation because the DNA
SNP match proves that the Herdmanston line of Sinclair, and Forrester's living
today, share male blood. That much is also irrefutable. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Another way to say that is it’s a confluence of independently proven variables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An important point to remember
about Corstorphine. When Cromwell invaded Scotland, he ran into a skirmish with,
among others, the Forrester family. Later, he took his revenge by destroying
much of Corstorphine Church, including the effigies. These were re-built in
1429, but some effigies were moved and re-carved. The thickness of the lines
holding the horns in that armorial bearing might have been carved to be thicker
at that point. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Another important point to
remember, Adam Forrester (d. 1405) was a wealthy merchant in Edinburgh, not a
knight. He acquired Corstorphine from King Robert III and was appointed Keeper
of the Great Seal in 1390 as a reward for his services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the early medieval era, the use
of coats of arms had little structure. The first documented use of a coat of
arms was on the Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th century, and you can see they were
nowhere near as elaborate as they would become by the 14th century. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coats of arms were granted to
families by a ruling monarch. Use by country varied, but in Scotland and
England, they could only be used by aristocracy. By the 13th century, only the
person granted the coat of arms by a king could use it as it was granted. Successive generations had to change it slightly to distinguish it from
previous generations. The main way this was accomplished was by
"quartering." This practice is a great help to genealogists today
because successive families would add the symbol of families marrying into one
another. Thus, the Forrester shield in Corstorphine has the Sinclair armorial
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Scott’s discovery of what looks to
be the Forrester armorial hunting horn inside Rosslyn Chapel is potentially an
extremely interesting additional evidence of what we now know to be an incredibly
important affinity connection.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sources - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ancestral Findings, "The Real
Truth Behind Coats of Arms and Family Crests"
https://ancestralfindings.com/real-truth-behind-coats-arms-family-crests/ Accessed
2 July, 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The Oxford Dictionary of Family
Names in Britain and Ireland,” edited by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter
McClure https://bit.ly/2xj7yoJ Accessed 2 July, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lewis, Samuel, "A
Topographical Dictionary of Scotland: Comprising the Several ..., Volume
1" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">McAndrew, Bruce A.
"Scotland's Historic Heraldry", Boydell Press (March 20,
2014) ISBN-13: 978-1843832614. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The church in Corstorphine was originally founded on these grounds in 1128. Sir Adam Forrester added a burial chapel in 1404 and his son, Sir John Forrester 1st, founded the existing church in 1429.</b></div>
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<b>In the burial chapel lie the effigies of Sir John Forrester and second wife, Jean Sinclair, the granddaughter of Earl Henry Sinclair. Five Coat of Arms carvings adorn the lower wall with the black engrailed cross of the Sinclair Clan (second from left, lower right quadrant).</b></div>
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<b>The Coat of Arms of the Forrester Clan includes three hunting horns with wide strings in the shape of a vertically aligned fish symbol.</b></div>
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<b>The Visica Pisces is the vertically aligned almond shape created when two intersecting circles are spaced creating three equidistant lengths at the center. When this shape is aligned horizontally it becomes the symbol familiar to Roman Christians related to the biblical Jesus. </b></div>
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<b>The Forrester "Fish" carving in Rosslyn is located on the south side of east-west running beam in the east end of the chapel.</b></div>
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<b>Carved onto the south facing, east-west trending stone beam in the east end of the chapel is what appears to be mason's mark of the Forrester Clan hunting horn between two floral designs circled in red.</b></div>
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The Haymarket Affair was a story I have to confess to never having heard about prior to the start of filming the episode. It didn't take long to get up to speed after reading numerous articles about the the history of the late 19th Century labor movement, the protests, and the events leading up to that fateful night in Chicago on May 4, 1886, when a bomb was thrown into a crowd of law enforcement officers and protesters by someone who has remained nameless; until now. Going into the investigation, the production company researchers at Committee Films, Will Yates and Kyle Schultz, settled on a suspect prior to filming that seemed perfectly plausible. There was new evidence in the form of newly discovered letters written by a family descendant that seemed to support that our mysterious Haymarket bomber suspect was George Meng.</div>
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However, things changed dramatically as we began filming with various experts, historians, and members of law enforcement. There was one person in particular, Richard Linderg, who had the most impressive argument and facts about the bombing that pointed to the most likely person was who threw the bomb that night. His evidence and reasoning was so persuasive that I believed we had to rethink our original suspect. By the time the interview with Mr. Lindberg was over my mind had changed. He had convinced me the person who threw the bomb that night was a German immigrant named Rudolf Schnaubelt. The final nail that I believe proved the new suspect was indeed the person who threw the bomb at Haymarket Square was the suspect sketch drawn by officer Detector Luis Santoyo. The face he drew based on the witness testimony from the trial over 130 years earlier was a spot-on match to Schnaubelt. </div>
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What I was most proud of in this episode if that we used proper scientific method, and based on the evidence and facts, it led to a different conclusion than originally anticipated. That is the way it is scientific investigation is supposed to work. </div>
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<b>This bronze statue erected in honor of the law enforcement officers that died during the Haymarket riot was originally placed at the Haymarket site. Vandalism by supporters of the labor party prompted the statue to be moved to a different location in Chicago. Looks like the artist who made the statue was a member of a certain order. Do you know why I say that? </b></div>
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<b>Haymarket historian, Richard Lindberg, poses for a photo after his sharing his historical evidence that compelled me to change the original suspect I focused on to Rudolf Schnaubelt. This is how proper scientific method works; new evidence often takes an investigation in a new direction. </b></div>
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<b>Cook Country Sheriff's Office sketch artist, Detector Luis Santoyo, draws the face of the Haymarket bomber based on witness testimony descriptions at the time of the trial.</b></div>
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<b>The picture of Rudolf Schnabelt and the artist's sketch of the Haymarket bomber made from first-hand witnesses testimony from trial transcripts from the late 1880s.</b></div>
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<b>Panoramic photo of the setup of mannequins for the test explosion of the Haymarket bomb at a demolition site on the grounds at Camp Ripley in Central Minnesota.</b> </div>
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<b>This female mannequin sustained a fatal shrapnel wound through the heart during our test explosion of a replica I made of the Haymarket bomb. </b> </div>
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The Sir Francis Drake episode was especially interesting in part because I knew almost nothing about the British explorer prior to filming it. Well I know a lot about him now and many of the details of his incredibly successful circumnavigation of the world. It seems the world is fascinated with treasure and he certainly collected more than his share by plundering Spanish ships and villages along the west coast of South and Central America during his famous voyage. With his loaded ship leaking as it approached what is now San Francisco Bay, he landed somewhere on the west coast for repairs. The big question and persistent legend is whether he buried some of the booty he plundered, to be collected later, after his return to England. For me, this seems highly unlikely. Why leave valuable treasure so far from your home base? It seems it would be that last place to hide it if you truly intended to recover it later. I'd leave it a closer to home if I had bothered at all. I think the more important treasure is the one artifact we know he left on the west coast of North America; the brass plaque date June 17, 1579.</div>
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When we visited the Bancroft Library on the campus of Berkeley University, we had already secured permission to test the plaque using an X-Ray Florescence gun to determine the exact chemical composition of the brass, and of the secondary patina that had developed on the surface. Presumably, the plaque was originally discovered in 1933, and then again in 1936, when it was brought to the attention of authorities who at first proclaimed it genuine. Later, in the 1970's it was tested and became the scourge of competing institutions who believed it was a hoax perpetrated by a high society club of pranksters. This reeks of the same rumor mill behavior that dogged the Kensington Rune Stone for a century before proper scientific inquiry definitively proved it was genuine. We were hoping to possibly do the same type of scientific testing during our visit. However, the permission we had been given prior to our visit was rescinded. You can imagine how I felt about that. Curious to hear your thoughts about the episode? </div>
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<b>Through the slats on the bow of Sir Francis Drake's ship, the Golden Hinde, is where the crew would take care of their 'daily duties' while on the open ocean.</b></div>
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<b>Robert Stupack stands next to a 3-inch diameter hole in a boulder along the shore of San Francisco Bay where he believes Sir Francis Drake landed and tied up his ship.</b></div>
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<b>The Committee Films Crew shoots the plate some believe was left by Sir Francis Drake as a land claim for England in 1579.</b></div>
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<b>The front side of the brass plate date June 17, 1579, that many believe is authentic. We may have been able to date it had we been allowed to perform that testing the library had originally given us permission to do.</b></div>
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<b>Archaeologist, Melissa Darby, and I pose between takes at Whale Cove where many believe Sir Francis Drake landed on the west coast before heading west back to England in 1579.</b></div>
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<b>Branden Boulay shoots me examining the monument to explorers Lewis and Clark at the point where they reached the Pacific Ocean in November of 1805. </b></div>
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<b>First-hand eyewitness M.K. Davis and I pose with a poster of the Bigfoot creature in the famous Patterson-Gimlin film.</b></div>
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I have to admit I had never heard of the George Washington's Culper Spy Ring, let alone the mysterious Agent 355, before filming this episode. I had certainly heard of my tipster, Valerie Plame, before having the pleasure of meeting her in person. Back in 2003, she was outed as a CIA spy by the George Bush administration upon the direction of then Vice President, Dick Cheney. Valerie's outing was the vindictive response to her husband's editorial that essentially accused the Bush administration of getting the U.S. involved in the Iraq War under false pretenses their country was hiding weapons of mass destruction. It turned out the editorial was right, but damage to Valerie's career was done. She was the perfect person to launch me into this investigation with truly fresh, unbiased eyes.<br />
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Allison Pataki and I quickly concluded that Peggy Shippen Arnold was not working for George Washington behind her husband's back thought she was a fascinating woman regardless. The second suspect, Anna "Nancy" Strong's contributions to the war effort was heroic for sure, but her lack of proximity to New York City eliminated her as the female spy who we know spent a lot of time working behind the scenes and under the radar of the British army. That person could only have been Elizabeth Bergin, who risked her life helping prisoners on death ships escape to freedom. She was the right person, in the right place, at the right time. She should now be recognized as the Revolutionary War hero that she was. What do you think? <br />
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<b>Former CIA spy, Valerie Plame, mysteriously appears under the bridge in Central Park, New York, to deliver information to me about Agent 355 who was park of George Washington's Culper spy ring during the Revolutionary War.</b></div>
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<b>Allison Pataki and I together after filming a scene where we discussed if the wife of traitor Benedict Arnold, Peggy Shippen Arnold, could have secretly been working for George Washington's Culper spy ring. Allison wrote a New York Times best-selling novel about Peggy's life titled, "The Traitor's Wife." </b></div>
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<b>Anna Nancy Strong would hang clothing in specific patterns on her "Magic Clothesline" to alert fellow spy Abraham Woodhull what bay Caleb Brewster would arrive in to avoid British troops. </b></div>
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<br />Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-8013773322223076632019-06-25T19:22:00.001-07:002019-06-27T06:53:37.454-07:00America Unearthed, Season 4, Episode 5, Good Luck Charm<div class="MsoNormal">
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mountain bluff outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming, back in the 1950’s is anybody’s guess. But according to the late Harvard Professor, Barry Fell, the text was Phoenician script which started this whole journey. The highlight of this episode for me was seeing the "Water Ghost Woman" petroglyph along with all the other amazing indigenous carvings at the sacred site very few people ever get to see. Of course, exploring the design and history of the only replica Phoenician ship in existence that has actually sailed the Indian and Atlantic oceans was a treat as well. I came away more convinced than ever that ancient Phoenician sailors could have made the voyage to North America, and into the Great Lakes, thousands of years ago to mine and collect 99% pure float copper. The metal was extremely precious and no where in the world is there a better source than what is known as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan now called "Copper Country." Although I'm convinced we proved the Phoenicians likely did not travel to the Wyoming/Colorado area to mine copper, I am more convinced than ever they did make to the Great Lakes region over thousands of years mining the precious metal that fueled the Bronze Age. What do you think? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the rails where copper ore was mined from the Ferris-Haggerty mine. The green and blue colors in the bottom of
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hounds will appreciate the basalt-filled dikes intruding older meta-volcanics in
the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-81240861771802841632019-06-19T06:55:00.002-07:002019-06-20T08:02:06.336-07:00America Unearthed, Season 4, Episode 4, "Jack the Ripper"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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make as I never knew the intricate details of the case beforehand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This probably helped as I had no preconceived
notions about the case and truly went in with a wide-open mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The perspective of the Friedman’s was eye-opening to say the least, and as they described the wounds of the victims two
things quickly became apparent; first, there was a clear connection to one
aspect of Freemasonry, and second, this aspect was something I have taken vows
not to discuss with anyone other than a brother Mason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about being torn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one hand, here was clear and distinct
evidence the Ripper had highly secret knowledge known only to Master Masons
(even today details about this aspect are scant on the Internet).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, this important evidence I
was not allowed to discuss!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I was
able to say was, if true, this evidence could only have been known to a
Freemason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most importantly, our very
famous suspect, Arthur Conan Doyle was a Freemason with an interesting Masonic
resume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it very curious, and
suspicious, that he was raised as a Master Mason in 1887, the Ripper murders
happened in 1888, and in 1889 Doyle dropped out of Freemasonry and we have not
been able to find out why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While not
conclusive evidence Doyle committed the murders, these facts were a huge red
flag for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to fall into place as the episode unfolded painting a damming picture of our
suspect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While doubtful we would have
secured a conviction at trial that Doyle was indeed Jack the Ripper, but in
many ways, he was the perfect suspect leaving many lingering questions about
this deeply complicated man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Physician Daniel Friedman, poses for a photo with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Master
Mason apron, and Masonic code book, along with first edition copies of Doyle’s
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group moves on. This is the location
where the last ripper victim, Katheryn Eddowes, was brutally killed and
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<b>The front side of the original "Dear Boss" letter received by London police on September 27, 1888.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of the most personally enjoyable
episodes we’ve made had to be this one.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It centered around a mysterious limestone cave that touched on several
poignant moments in the history of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thousands of years ago it was certainly home
to many creatures looking for shelter as well as a temporary shelter and source
of water for Native Americans.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It could
then have served as a hiding place for the whiskey during the Whiskey Rebellion
in the 1840s.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It could have also been at
least a temporary shelter for slaves, like others in the area, on the run who
had escaped from the south making their way to freedom along the underground
railroad in the 1860s.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Meeting Valerie Still and hearing the
story of her research into her brave ancestor, William Still, was truly moving
and inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the most
powerfully moving moments we’re ever filmed was watching Valerie examine for
the time the detailed journal of William Still who documented the personal
information of slaves who had just escaped with the assistance of Harriet
Tubman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another moving moment came when
curator Dr. Lee Arnold, showed us one of the 50 original copies of the Emancipation
Proclamation personally signed by President Abraham Lincoln.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He relayed how recently an African American
woman doing research asked if she could touch the signature of Lincoln on the
original proclamation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said normally
he would never let anyone touch a document like this, but in this case, he made
an exception and let her run finger over the signature with tears in her eyes. It's time to put Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar bill now! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Based on Chris’ discovery of the
Knights of the Golden Circle medallion, the history of the original owner of
the property, and the mortared entrance leading into the cave that once inside
a building it appears certain it was used as part of the rituals of the
Masonic-like organization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very
gratifying to get the bottom of the mysterious cave and learn so much in the
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Klebe (left) look on as Brendan Harris shoots at the entrance as a diver
explores the flooded cave on a very brisk January morning in Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Courtney found in the vegetable garden behind his home in 1981 when he was 12
years old (left). An undated photo of
the cast for a ritual of the Knights of the Golden Eagle (right).</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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underground railroad while Brendan Harris (smiling) and Janey Klebe look on</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Curator, Dr. Lee Arnold, looks on as Valerie Still reads for the first time early
1800s era adds of slave owners offering rewards for the return of their escaped
slaves. The adds were pasted on the
inside cover of a detailed journal written by Valerie’s ancestor William Still,
who working with Harriet Tubman, documented information of each escaped slave.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-4528610013749638732019-05-28T20:26:00.000-07:002019-05-28T20:26:34.152-07:00America Unearthed, Season 4, Episode 1: Vikings in the DesertAfter a four-year hiatus, we are back with a new season of <i>America Unearthed</i> and I am thrilled! Travel Channel has "resurrected" the show and put all their efforts behind us which we greatly appreciate. We come out of the gate at full speed investigating a cache of artifacts found decades ago in the desert outside of the geological paradise known as Sedona, Arizona. Even I was skeptical at first, but when the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) testing came back with promising elemental results, and then ultimately they turned out to be authentic artifacts dating from the Roman era (3rd-4th Centuries) to the Viking era (10th to 11th Centuries), things got very interesting quickly. The big question was no longer about legitimacy of the artifacts, it was how did they get to the desert southwest, reportedly inside an old and rotting leather bag? There were really only two plausible possibilities; the collection of artifacts were left in the desert by someone, most likely a Scandinavian immigrant, in the late 19th, 20th, or early 21st Century, or somehow, a group of determined Viking era explorers made their way to what is now known as Arizona sometime in the 10th or 11th Centuries. When do you think the artifacts made it to Arizona?<br />
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<b>The beautiful canyon at Slide Rock State Park which isn't too far from where the Viking artifacts were reportedly discovered near Sedona, Arizona.</b><br />
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<b>Harry Atkins Jr. and Bonnie Engels take a selfie with me at Slide Rock State Park just after we tested the brass artifacts with the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) gun.</b><br />
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<b>Geologist/Geophysicist, Patrick Lehrmann, holds the steel bar he found with a metal detector we hoped was metal from a stranded Viking era ship that may have sailed here when the water of the Salton Sea covered this area roughly 1000 years ago. </b> </div>
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<b>Author and historian, David Kier and I, pose for a selfie overlooking a gorgeous bay on the Pacific side of Baja, Mexico. </b><br />
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<b>The Committee Films crew relax during a long day of filming in Baja, Mexico. L to R, Andy, Zak, Brandon, Jim, and Miranda. </b><br />
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<b>I did my best to mimic a large saguaro cactus at the ship petroglyph site in Baja, Mexico. </b></div>
Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-23312839464959309362018-12-26T14:53:00.001-08:002023-04-12T09:44:01.717-07:00The Truth about Oak Island and the Cremona DocumentThe following is a guest blog post by Mr. Donald Ruh, author of the 2018 book, <i>"The Scrolls of Onteora."</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"This blog was written to provide clarity about two documents that have repeatedly been the subject of past episodes, and is currently being featured on episodes airing on season 6 of the </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">History Channel</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> show, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">“The Curse of Oak Island.”</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Last season, the late researcher and author, Zena Halpern, presented a
map to the Lagina brothers that clearly shows Oak Island along with several words, names and phrases
written in French.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ms. Halpern appeared
on the show and explained the map was related to what she called a “Templar Document”,
but from here on will be referred to as the “Cremona Document.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Cremona Document, and the Oak Island map,
were the primary subject matter of Ms. Halpern’s 2017 book, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">The Templar Mission to Oak Island and Beyond:
The Search for Ancient Secrets: Shocking Revelations of a 12<sup>th</sup>
Century Manuscript</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That 12</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
Century manuscript is the Cremona Document.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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to show Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, was posthumously given to me by my
long-time work colleague and life-long friend, Dr. William “Bill” Jackson, in
2015. (Courtesy of Donald Ruh)</span></b></div>
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for writing this is to ensure the correct factual information and context is
known about the Oak Island map, its relationship to the Cremona Document, and
the chain of events that led to confusion about the authenticity of the Oak
Island map are accurately documented for the historical record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Literally
millions of people have already and continue to watch episodes of the <i>History Channel</i> show that have presented
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history about how the Cremona Document and Oak Island map came into my
possession which I then shared with Ms. Halpern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning in 2006, and over the course of the
next several years, I inherited several parcels of documents from a work
colleague and my lifelong friend, Dr. William “Bill” Jackson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill died in 2000 and left the material to me
that included the Cremona Document Bill purchased in Rome in 1971, and the Oak
Island map he acquired in 1994. In 2008, Bill’s
estate transferred ownership all of the original documents, and the legal
intellectual rights to the material, to me as evidenced by the third page of
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transferring all legal rights and ownership of Dr. William Jackson’s documents
and research into the Cremona Document story, which includes the Cremona
Document material and the Oak Island map to me.
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when I first approached Ms. Halpern for help with an inscribed stone I found in
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material I inherited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We formed a
partnership and both signed a written agreement in 2009/2010, to write a book
about our collective research. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A copy of
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 3: Page 1 of 2 of the agreement between myself and Zena Halpern we both signed in 2009/2010. (Courtesy of Donald Ruh)</span></b><br />
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television business Ms. Halpern was in contact with about doing a story related
to our collective Cremona Document research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The disagreement led to a falling out in 2016, at which time Ms. Halpern
chose to forge ahead with publishing the book without me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around that time, she also decided to approach
the Lagina Brothers with the intention of sharing the story and appearing on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Curse of Oak Island</i> show without my
involvement or participation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless
to say, I have not received anything in compensation for the book or
acknowledgement for the content given by Ms. Halpern to the Lagina Brothers and
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Curse of Oak Island </i>program they
have since presented in multiple episodes on the show that legally belongs to
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">What the
public needs to know that Ms. Halpern never knew, was the Oak Island map which
came into my possession in 2015 was NEVER in any way connected to the Cremona Document material or the medieval
Knights Templar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oak Island map is a
fabrication, most likely created by Bill Jackson as part of an assignment by
the agency Dr. Jackson worked for to intentionally set up a bad guy
associated with the P2 scandal in the late 1970’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly after I discovered the Oak Island map
hidden within the pages of a book by Bill in 2015, I showed the map to Ms.
Halpern who immediately assumed it was connected to the Cremona Document
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, even I was unclear
of the map’s association to anything until I recently found the letter below in
my voluminous records that put the Oak Island map into proper context. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> My only involvement in the operation was to carve the symbols on a swagger stick as directed by Bill Jackson. </span>The redacted portions in the letter are to
protect persons involved in the P2 matter that are still living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Figure 5: The letter written in 1979, by Dr.
William Jackson to me explained how the Oak Island map was made to create a
fictional connection to the Oak Island story to entrap a bad guy involved in
the P2 scandal. (Courtesy of Donald Ruh)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Certainly,
mistakes were made by the late Ms. Halpern in part due to her declining health
and strong desire to get the story out to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, those mistakes have resulted in
false information that has already have been presented to the public on
television with apparently more to come. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This letter is an attempt to set the record
straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cremona Document and Oak Island mysteries
are complicated and confusing enough and it’s important to get the facts
straight if there is any chance of getting to the truth about these stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I would also
appreciate the artifact (The so called “Hebrew Stone”) and all the Cremona
Document related material that were in Ms. Halpern’s possession at the time of
her death, that belongs to me, be returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Respectfully
submitted, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Donald Ruh"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Ruh will be happy to answer any questions pertaining to this blog post.</span></div>
<br />Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com287tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-18361773899591131522018-12-09T15:05:00.001-08:002018-12-28T11:45:24.141-08:00A Qualified Geologist’s Peer Review of Scott Wolter’s Geological Investigation into the Kensington Rune Stone.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday, I
received an email from my recently retired acquaintance, John Parks, who lives in
Texas and spends the summers with his wife and family in Wisconsin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After reading his email I called, and we
visited for a good while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He relayed how
he had read, yet again, in my most recent blog post a common theme of critics
falsely claiming my geological investigation into the Kensington Rune Stone had
not been academically peer reviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John said he would be happy to be a guest blogger to address his own
peer review of my work performed roughly a year ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John had long ago established himself as a
more than competent geologist who would be fair, thorough, and impartial in his
review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll let John talk about the
peer review in his own words and I’m sure he’ll be happy to answer any
reasonable and thoughtful questions:</span></div>
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>First, let me introduce
myself, my name is John Parks. Back at the end of January, 2016 I was reading
through one of Scott’s blogs when the subject of his work not coming under the
peer review process was the subject of much discussion and some criticism. At
that point I volunteered my services to Scott to be part of the independent
peer review process for his work. At least as part of the work that involved
geology was concerned.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>After exchanging
several emails and phone conversations we concluded that I might be of some
assistance to the vetting process. Several months passed, but eventually, I had
the opportunity to travel to Minneapolis and meet Scott and his wife Janet. We
discussed several subjects of mutual interest i</i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>ncluding the
possibility of me reviewing some of his research. At that time, I inquired if
it could be possible to obtain the peer edited copies of the papers/research
documents that were reviewed. Scott agreed, but indicated that the documents
were in storage and could not retrieve them at that time. He said when he had
the chance to pull them from storage, he would email them to me.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Scott did just as he
had indicated and sent me copies of his original research papers as well as
copies of the peer reviewed copies with the comments by the various reviewers
on them. There was a total of nine peer reviews that Scott sent. Prior to
reviewing the comments by the reviewers, I read and reviewed the two papers
that Scott asked me to evaluate. It was only after I had completed my review of
the papers that I then read the other reviewers’ comments.</i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i><br /></i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>The five paragraphs in
quotes were included in the summary of the review that I sent to Scott. It is
not the detailed review that I did. That was sent as a separate attachment to
Scott.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> 1. </i></o:p></span><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Generally, the description of your analysis
of the KRS covered the major points that needed to be addressed as to the
physical characteristics of the KRS. Very good review. Your methodology of
beginning with a macro description of the KRS and progressing through medium-scale
elements of the stone, finally ending with finer-scale details at the mineral-
and elemental-levels gives the reader a through summary of the details of the
KRS and how you came to your conclusions. </span></i></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
</h3>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. “I thought that the analysis of the diagenesis
of the minerology (micas) in the KRS was the strongest portion of your analysis
of the KRS. It was based on well-documented, technical support, such as the
numerous SEM photomicrographs that were utilized. The comparison of the
weathering characteristics of the KRS and the tombstones added support to your
hypothesis that the KRS carving was likely not a modern (1898)
hoax. </span></i></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. “The figures in the copy of the report that I
received were sometimes fuzzy and difficult to view the items being discussed
in the captions. This may have been a poor copy of the original, not sure. As
noted in my review of the paper, if you add more arrows (larger and/or more
obvious) pointing to the objects being discussed in the text or captions, it
would add to the reader's understanding what the text is describing.</span></i></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. “In the text, on a couple of points relating
to the runes themselves, you mention the possible intent of the KRS carver.
While the statements may, in fact, describe the intent of the carver, they are
conjecture and there does not appear to be enough physical evidence to support
the interpretation (e.g. p4, point 5 – the tapering of the KRS for that end to
be put into the ground and p28 referring to the same idea). </span></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5. “This is a good paper and gives the reader a balanced
view of the physical description of the KRS. As well as support for the
conclusions concerning the age of the carving of the runes.”</span></i></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span></h4>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>I hope that this
addition of at least one reviewer’s general evaluation of Scott’s analysis of
the geologic aspects of the KRS to the exchange of views contained within this
blog might lead to some possible clarification of the peer review process that
has been carried out on Scott’s analysis of the geology of the KRS.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><i> </i></o:p></span><i style="font-weight: normal;">For those that are not
aware of my academic and professional background I include below. This is an
update to a portion of a reply on this blog from January 2016.</i></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<i style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>I shall begin with a
little background about myself which would be in order, then, as well as at
this time. I, like Scott, am a geologist and scientist. I received a MS Degree
in Geology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where I worked
at the McCarthy Seismology Lab as a Research Assistant. Additionally, much of
my graduate work was also spent in structural geology and igneous &
metamorphic petrography. I studied at the Duke University Marine Geophysical
Lab where I did my research for my MS thesis. Additionally, I taught for 3
years at Austin Peay State University as an Instructor of Geology. I did field
research on aspects of geomorphology (co-authored several publications). My
undergraduate degree was in Art with majors in Art History & Painting. I
have retired after spending over 35 years at ExxonMobil in exploration and
production geology and geophysics. While at ExxonMobil, in addition to my
duties as Technical Team Lead and Supervisor, I taught classes in advanced
stratigraphic concepts, as well as regional and field development geology.</i></span></h3>
<h3 style="line-height: 115%;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">While this is not a
double-blind review (meaning that both the reviewer and the author identities
are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa throughout the review
process), as some readers had mentioned should have occurred, my analysis of
the papers were still an unbiased review. Both positive and negative comments
were given. I did not agree with all that Scott indicated in the papers, but
the science behind the geology, especially the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">analysis
of the diagenesis of the minerology (micas) in the KRS, I considered to be the
strongest portion of his analysis of the KRS (from a geology standpoint). I
made no evaluations on the runes themselves from a linguistic standpoint (of
which I am not qualified to comment on, other than in regard to weathering
processes).</span></span></i></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The
documents that Scott sent me to review were not the chapter on the geology
(Chapter 2) of the KRS in KRS – Compelling New Evidence (KRS-CNE) specifically,
but two separate evaluations that together did form the core of the geologic
analysis of the KRS that did make up the chapter. As mentioned above, these
documents were previously reviewed by nine other individuals. These individuals
were familiar with the level and background of Scott’s investigative analysis
on other geologic subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">As far as my review of
these documents, I was concerned with<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The process of data
collection - how the data was collected and under what conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">Were there data
collected that would indicate or preclude that the KRS inscriptions were
carved in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The collection of
base-line data for comparative analysis dealing with the weathering
processes and characteristics of known-age samples. And do the base-line
samples have a bearing on the age of the inscription?<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The characteristics and
morphology of the KRS in both the non-carved surfaces, in comparison to
the carved runes, and the evaluation of the similarities and differences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">The geologic provenance
of the KRS (essentially meaning where did the rock originate).<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #444444;">What were the
conclusions derived from the data collection and analysis consistent?<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The petrographic report (Pet Report SW 101203) began with a short
summary of the unearthing of the KRS as reported by Olof Ohman. There was also
a brief review of the initial analysis of the stone that occurred in the late 19<sup style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">th</span></sup>and early 20<sup style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">th</span></sup> century, as
well as the conclusions of those investigators. This background information was
later greatly expanded and added to in considerable detail in KRS-CNE. In my
review I noted to Scott that at least three references should have been cited
in this section, but were not. However, that oversight was remedied in the
KRS-CNE when it was published three years later in 2006. These reference
omissions related to work by Hjalmar R. Holand and George O. Curme.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">The
next section involved a general description of the KRS and its physical
features. The six sides of the KRS were defined with accompanying photographs,
such as the ‘Glacial Face Side’ with the first nine lines of the inscriptions.
These were straightforward for the most part. However, on Side 5, named the
‘Glacial Bottom End’ Scott describes that side as “<i>this end tapers sharply
with a beveled edge that appears to have been intended to be put in the ground</i>”.
This point was outside the bounds of a description of the physical
characteristics and crossing into the area of interpretation and speculation as
to the intent of the carver. As mentioned in the summary at the beginning of
this blog (see above point 4), w</span><span style="color: #212121;">hile the statement may, in fact, describe the intent of the carver, the
interpretation is conjecture and there does not appear to be enough physical
evidence to support the interpretation. [see p. 16, KRS-CNE].</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Throughout
the Pet Report SW 101203, as well as the other report I reviewed (KRS 3D Report
2-20-11), I noted numerous places in which Scott was describing various
physical characteristics of the KRS. Both at the macroscopic, as well as at the
microscopic level utilizing photographs. In some of the cases the feature being
described would be clearly identified and labeled in the photograph. An example
of this helpful process of assisting the reader in understanding what is being
describer can be seen as the arrows on the photograph pointing to the six
indentations along the edge of the ‘Glacial Side’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[see p. 21, fig. 16, KRS-CNE]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">However,
this was not done in all photographs. Two examples where this non-labeling
process occurred can also be seen in the KRS-CNE. The first is the figure
description at the macroscopic level of <i>“three dark gray vertical lines on
the side are weathered joint fractures.”</i> [see p. 15, fig. 2, KRS-CNE]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The
other is at the microscopic level of an SEM image showing <i>“numerous
bladed-shaped biotite and muscovite mica minerals”.</i> [see p. 37, fig.36,
KRS-CNE]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Labeling
of the mica minerals on this figure, as in other unlabeled items being discussed
in other portions of the papers, would have helped the reader avoid any
misunderstanding of what was being described. To a geologist, a mica mineral
surface is obvious. To a non-geologist it may not be so apparent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">I
should mention at this point that references to pages or figures in the KRS-CNE
are included here as examples. The images shown here, or referenced, were also
contained in the reports that were reviewed. For those that have copies of the
KRS-CNE, it should assist the present readers in following along with this
recap of some of the features of the reviews I undertook without the readers
having the reports themselves (Pet Report SW 101203 and KRS 3D Report 2-20-11.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The
physical characteristics of the varying sides of the KRS were discussed.
Variations in the appearance of the surfaces were dealt with, as well as
potential source processes for the origins of those features. An example of
this included a discussion of the thin (1-2 mm thick), tan-to-white
triangular-shaped area in the lower left portion of the ‘Glacial Face Side’.
[see p. 17, fig. 7, KRS-CNE]. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">This
is the surface where the majority of runes are located. Scott mentions that is
surface is composed of a course-grained crystalline calcite (CaCO<sub>3</sub>)
and that the most likely source for the origin of this deposit is that calcite,
in solution, traveled along fractures (joint system), which was parallel to the
‘Glacial Face Side’ of the KRS and deposited in the joint space. Essentially,
this is hydrothermal calcite. Possibly in placed during the low-grade
metamorphism that the KRS parent rock experienced. Also identified were
elongate chlorite [(Mg, Fe, Al)<sub>6 </sub>(Al, Si)<sub>4</sub> O<sub>10</sub>
(OH)<sub>8</sub>] crystals contained within the layer of calcite which exhibit,
parallel to the long axis of the KRS, a preferred orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The
recognition of the characteristics of this hydrothermal calcite is significant
because several of the runes are carved in the material. Scott described the
calcite layer in regards to its relative hardness (Mohs hardness scale), of
which it is much softer than the host meta-graywacke rock. It was noted in a
microscopic examination utilizing reflected light exposed little difference the
textural characteristics and the apparent weathering within the runes and the region
adjacent to the carving. At the end of the evaluation it was noted that <i>“Further
study of the weathering of the characters within the calcite area might yield
additional information about the relative age of the inscription. We have not
pursued further analysis at this time sue to the reluctance of the current need
for invasive test sampling within this area.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">Two
points to make concerning the Scott’s comments are in order. First, a
reevaluation of the calcite deposit brought an observation to light that was
not initially evident, in that no apparent weathering boundary or ground line
was able to be identified. This observation may bring into question whether the
KRS was upright for any amount of time. This last statement was included in the
KRS-CNE p. 17. It does indicate that Scott continued his evaluation of the KRS
during the three years from the initial investigations to the publishing of the
KRS-CNE. Second, is his statement for the resistance for “<i>invasive test
sampling</i>”. This indicates the hesitancy to run destructive tests that would
compromise the integrity of the artifact.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The
geologic provenance of the KRS (where and under what conditions the stone
originated) was a first order question that was addressed in the papers. Scott
observed striations (scratches or gouges) that occurred only on the ‘Glacial
Back Side’ surface. The circle in the middle-upper portion of the image is the
core hole. [see KRS-CNE p. 19, fig 10].</div>
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These
striations ran roughly parallel to the long axis of the KRS. He interpreted
that the KRS was part of the bedrock with the ‘Glacial Back Side’ being the top
of the bedrock surface. The remaining sides of the KRS remained <i>in situ</i>
as part of the bedrock. He reasoned that these striations developed as the
glacier moved across the bedrock digging into the underlying bedrock.
Subsequent to the striations being formed at the base of the glacier, the KRS
became dislodged and was plucked from the bedrock and became incorporated in
the advancing ice. The KRS was then carried away from the parent rock to be
eventually deposited as the glacier melted approximately 12,000 ybp (years
before present). The lack of striations on the other surfaces for the KRS was
reasoned to be due the nearly abrasion-free transport mechanism of being
imbedding within the ice. The interpretation of the morphology of the surfaces
is consistent with the known processes of glacial erosion and transport.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As part of the analysis
of the KRS a single core sample was taken from the ‘Glacial Back Side’. The
core measured 33 mm (1 ¼”) diameter by 50 mm (2”) long. The core site was
selected to <o:p></o:p></div>
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1.
Avoid damaging the runes, <o:p></o:p></div>
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2.
Obtain a sample of the stone to determine the mineral composition of the stone
and, <o:p></o:p></div>
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3.
Provide rock for thin-section analysis and additional studies of the weathered
surface. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The area cored included a
branching portion of one of a pair of white lineations and a likely joint fracture.
[see Pet Report SW 101203, p. 30, fig. 35].</div>
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The
top 13 mm (1/2”) was cut off of the core. This newly cut portion was then cut
perpendicular to the top surface and perpendicular to the white lineation. Cutting
of the core this way created a cross-sectional view of the white lineation
which allowed the physical characteristics of the lineation to be observed.
[see KRS-CNE p. 30, fig. 27].</div>
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The analysis of the
whitened color was interpreted to be the result of chemical leaching of the
magnesium and iron elements from the biotite minerals that are present in the
stone. This analysis supports the interpretation that the two white lineations
were produced from contact with a root system. Additionally, the interpretation
that the organic-based origin of the lineations suggesting “prolonged contact
in the ground with tree roots” [Pet Report SW 101203, p. 33] is consistent with
the data. However, the term “prolonged” is not defined. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The differences between
the descriptions of several witnesses of the size of the tree roots that were
attached to the ‘Glacial Back Side’, approximately 76 mm (3”) and the width of
the white lineations measured in this study, 13 mm (1/2”) were addressed. The
interpretation for the inconsistency of the two widths relates to the active
ends of the immature roots trying to acquire nutrients during an early age in
the root and the later stage when bark grows around the root, increasing in
width with time. Based on published research [KRS-CNE p. 33], this
interpretation seems justifiable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">Thin sections were cut from the core sample. By examining
the thin sections, the KRS’s component lithic and mineralogy could be
determined. The thin sections were examined under plane-polarized transmitted
light using a polarized light microscope. This process is called optical
mineralogy. A portion of the core was cut off and secured to a glass plate with
epoxy. The small rock sample was then ground to a thickness of 0.03 mm. At this
thickness, light can pass through the rock. [see KRS-CNE p. 34, fig. 31]</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The thin sections were examined to determine the minerology
of the KRS, which is classified as a metagraywacke. A greywacke is a type of
sandstone generally characterized by poorly sorted angular grains of quartz,
feldspar and lithic fragments (small rock fragments) usually set in a
clay-sized matrix. It is normally a texturally immature sedimentary rock. The
KRS was described as being “comprised dominantly of mostly angular,
fine-grained quartz, orthoclase feldspar, and rock fragments.” [see KRS-CNE
p.34]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">Multiple point counts were preformed to determine the
mineral composition of the KRS. The results were cross-plotted on triangular
diagram with percentages of quartz, feldspar and rock fragments at the apex,
against other types of greywackes. [see KRS-CNE p.35, fig. 33].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The analysis was performed by Dr. Richard Ojakangas,
Professor Emeritus of Geology from the University of Minnesota – Duluth. Dr.
Ojakangas’ conclusion was that the mother-rock for the KRS probably originated
in the Paleoproterozoic Amimikie Basin
in east-central Minnesota, with an age of about 2 billion years. [see KRS-CNE
p.35] [see KRS-CNE p.C10, plate 18].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The analysis also indicated that “elongate detrital grains
exhibited a preferred orientation that [was] sub-parallel with the foliation.”
[see KRS-CNE p.34]. Foliation refers to repetitive layering within the rock.
The foliation consisted of muscovite, chlorite and biotite (all are sheet-like
mica minerals) that makeup the matrix. Scott indicated that the “presence of
cleavage, a mild foliation and the [presence of the] mineral chlorite” was
indicative of low-grade metamorphism. [see KRS-CNE p.34]. An additional,
secondary orientation of the micas, approximately 90 degrees to the major
orientation was interpreted to represent a second metamorphic event. This mineral analysis of the KRS is consistent
with classifying the KRS as a greywacke that has undergone multiple low-grade
metamorphism. [see KRS-CNE p.C9, plate 16].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">After completing analysis on the macroscopic level and at
the microscopic level utilizing thin-section optical polarized light microscopic
examination, Scott began a study to determine additional weathering
characteristics of the KRS. A chip sample measuring 13 mm (1/2”) X 6.5 mm
(1/4”) X 3.25 mm (1/8”) was obtained from the ‘Split Side’ of the KRS. [see
KRS-CNE p. 37, fig. 35].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">This is the face with the last three lines of runes. Some
of the runes can be seen on figure 35 at the top of the photograph, as well as
the ‘H’ carved by Hjalmar Holand in 1907 toward the bottom of the figure.
Taking a sample of the stone that has similar appearance and physical
characteristics as the carvings of the runes, it is logical for additional
analysis to be performed on this surface. The sample was examined utilizing
scanning electron microscopy (SEM), elemental mapping and energy dispersive
x-ray analysis (EDX). The facilities at the Materials Laboratory at Iowa State
University were used to test the core sample and the stone chip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The top (or originally exposed glacially eroded and
weathered surface) of the core was examined utilizing a scanning electron
microscope (SEM). The SEM showed fine-grained pitting that was uneven with
exposed angular minerals of quartz and feldspar present. However, the softer
bladed mica grains, which make up a significant portion of the rock were
essentially not present. [see KRS-CNE p. 38, fig. 37].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">As noted by Scott, this surface represents the glacially
weathered portion of the KRS. The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, is also termed the
Wisconsinan glaciation, and was the most recent glacial period of the North
American ice sheet complex. This most recent glacial advance reached its
maximum extent around 18,000 ybp, then started retreating, but a final glacial
advance occurred about 12,000 ybp. It
may have been during this last advance that the KRS was deposited as a small
glacial erratic (stones picked up by the glacier and deposited away from its
point of origin. Some erratics are small like the KRS and small are as large as
houses. It is logical that the <u>weathering on this side of the KRS does
reflect, at a minimum, 12,000 years of weathering.</u><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The base of the core and the part of the chip that had been
attached to the KRS were examined. These two samples represent freshly
fractured surfaces and exhibit mineral faces that have not been subjected the
weathering. These surfaces would be representative of surfaces from the time of
the original carvings. [see KRS-CNE p. 38, fig. 36].</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;">The SEM photograph above was taken of the freshly broken
part of the chip sample. Many mica and biotite mineral blades (sheets) were
identified by EDX process. No weathering is present on this fresh surface.
Compare this image of the fresh surface with its many sharp mineral grains with
the previous figure that shows rounded mineral grains that are indicative of
prolonged exposure to the effects of weathering. </span></span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A major portion of the paper was involved in describing the
weathering characteristics of the KRS. This analysis of the different sides of
the KRS was discussed and was part of the supportive evidence into the
evolution of the morphology of the KRS. One question that Scott addressed and
attempted to obtain, at least a qualitative answer for, had to do with the
actual age of the rune carvings. There are two dates that are of major
importance. The first is the date of assumed discovery of the KRS by Olof Ohman
- 1898. The second, is the date inscribed on the KRS itself - 1362. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The authenticity of the discovery will not be addressed here.
However, the technique to address the comparative age of the inscription will
be reviewed. The approach that was taken was to compare samples taken from
tombstones found in Hallowell, Maine. In the paper reviewed there was no
discussion as to why this particular cemetery was chosen over other cemeteries.
It would have been appropriate for Scott to have included the reasons in his
paper. That said, the paper reviewed did go into an assessment of the criteria
that would be needed to do a comparative study of the weathering
characteristics of the mica minerals in the KRS and weathered mica minerals
from tombstones of known ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The weather conditions should be similar between central Minnesota
and the region where the tombstone samples would be collected. The ages of the
tombstones would need to cover the years in question, from 1898 to 1362. This,
in North America, was, of course, not possible. At least as far as the earlier
date is concerned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The size of the mica mineral grains of the tombstones should be
similar. This is important to the fact that, assuming similar conditions exist,
the smaller the mineral grain (smaller surface area), the faster the weathering
will progress and alter the micas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Obtaining samples above the ground level and below the ground
level would be important data points with which to compare with the KSR since
it has been suggested that the KRS was “apparently shaped or ‘dressed’ prior to
the carving of the inscription”. (Pet Report SW 101203, p. 33). Unfortunately,
only samples above the ground were collected due to the ground being frozen at
the time the samples were taken. 23 samples were obtained for the comparative
mineral study. Only 3 of these samples were deemed acceptable in terms of mica
grain size. Three samples are a very small data set to compare weathering
characteristics to the KRS. It is recommended that additional samples be
collected to be statically significant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It should be noted that there are numerous monuments and markers
throughout Europe that cover the dates that are of interest. These could be
potential candidates to be utilized if an expanded comparative age-dating study
were ever undertaken. It would add additional data and put more constraints on
the interpretation if a search were carried out to determine if other studies
in Europe have been published utilizing the SEM to evaluate mica weathering
characteristics. But, in this study, the older European carvings were not
considered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Below are SEM images of the KRS (on the left) and the Abner Lowell
tombstone (dated 1815) (on the right). [see KRS-CNE, p. 40, fig. 39]. As can be
seen, the size of the bladed mica grains are generally similar in size and
texture with sharp edges exhibited on both rock chips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The weathered surfaces of the three rock chips from the tombstones
exhibited features of decomposition of mica. These features included: sheets of
biotite expanding and separating; individual edges of minerals became rounded
and frayed; pitting; exfoliation of individual biotite sheets; and the
development of lichen on the surface of the tombstones that accelerates
dissolution of the biotite grains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The results of the tombstone study resulted in an interpretation
by Scott. That the relative age of the KRS carvings was now possible. His view
was that the relative age of the KRS inscription was older than the
inscriptions on the tombstones in Hallowell, Maine examined (approximately 200
years old). Therefore, the “biotite mica that was exposed at the time of the
original inscription on the KRS took longer than about 200 years to completely
weather away”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">His interpretation is entirely consistent, given the data that
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In summary, I find the techniques in data
collection, data analysis and comparative evaluation that were used in the 2003
study to be internally consistent with the interpretation that whoever carved
the KRS did so certainty not in 1898, and likely earlier than the age of the
tombstones studied (1805-1815). </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Foreword by Scott
F. Wolter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Imagine for a minute, that you
played an integral part of investigating, and eventually solving, one of the
most controversial historical mysteries the world has ever known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then imagine, after fifty years finally
figuring out that you had been intentionally kept in the dark about the truth
of what you had been intimately involved in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now imagine, that person who kept you in the dark was a childhood friend
you knew your entire life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, nearly
a decade after the death of that close friend, they finally reveal the entirety
of the mystery you had helped them solve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To this day, Donald Ruh will tell you he still doesn’t understand
everything involved with this story and there could be more pieces yet to be
revealed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the lifelong friend who
brought Don along on this incredible journey is shrouded in mystery as I found
out first-hand upon being pulled into this story in 2006.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Donald Ruh points to the carving of a goose carved into a large block of sandstone on Hunter Mountain. </span></h4>
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I first became involved after
being asked to perform laboratory work on an inscribed stone discovered in the
Catskill Mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on in my own
research, it was clear Dr. William Jackson was the key person involved in the
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don warned me not to dig into his
deceased friend’s past and not long after an Internet search, I received and
ominous note telling me to stop the searches that warned could harm Dr.
Jackson’s still living family members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Despite this warning, my search found nothing about Dr. Jackson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless, I still wanted to know more about
this man and the details about how he came to possess these explosive documents,
so I reached out to Don.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don was very
protective of his friend and eventually, after earning his trust, all my
questions about this shadowy figure in Don’s past would be answered and shared
in a highly personal and moving way, in this book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time of the writing of
this book, several aspects of the Cremona Document had not yet been
investigated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the veracity of
the contents of the two-centuries-old copy of a twelfth century document had
been established decades earlier by Dr. Jackson, with the assistance of Don and
other colleagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cremona Document
tells the story of the Templar knights who entered the extensive cave system
under the walled city of Jerusalem shortly after they had captured the Holy
Land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story tells what the six
Templars found beneath the ancient city and the subsequent mission decades
later to a temple in “Onteora.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stories are told first-person by the Templar knights who made the discoveries,
and in the deposition of a historically known Templar knight, Sir Ralph De
Sudeley, who led a flotilla decades later to recover ancient first century
scrolls hidden in what is now the Catskills of New York. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ironically, it was Don Ruh’s
discovery of a brass device on the shores of the Hudson River, while fishing
with Dr. Jackson and other friends in 1968 that started this amazing
adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hidden inside a garden
ornament that originated on Bannerman Island, the devise contained inserts and
artifacts, inscribed with Theban script that eventually led Dr. Jackson to purchase
the Cremona Document in Italy, before it could be donated to the Vatican and
disappear forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Jackson invited
Don to join him on a diving expedition off the coast of Newfoundland that led
to the discovery of an ancient shipwreck. Unbeknownst to Don, it was from the twelfth
century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Convinced the stories in the
document were true, Dr. Jackson asked Don and other colleagues to help search
the Catskill Mountains for stone structures mentioned the document. They were
all on one mountain where ancient artifacts were hidden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don recounts these numerous expeditions on
Hunter Mountain, and elsewhere, which are as memorable as they are historic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The brass seal etched with Theban symbols onto the surface, was discovered hidden inside a decorative lawn ornament on the shores of Bannerman Island, on the Hudson River, by Donald Ruh, in 1968. This artifact, and the artifacts found inside it, started the incredible journal that has lasted half a century. </h4>
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Dr. Jackson died in 2000 and
before his death he planned to pass on his research, his artifacts, and the remaining
documents to his lifelong friend who never questioned his intentions or
motives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don had always been a loyal
friend and was the only one who took a genuine interest in his archaeological
hobby and the only one who was deserving of receiving this knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1994, fate would play a curious hand when
Dr. Jackson sold the Cremona Document to an agent directly connected to the
Vatican.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this was far from the
end of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it was simply
the end of an important chapter in a very long book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>This photograph of the Cremona Document is the List of Subjects page written in Theban text that includes two Hooked X's on line seven. </o:p></h4>
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It took twenty-three years before
Don assembled the many pieces of the story left by his friend that can only be
told by the person who lived it. The
final and most important pieces didn’t arrive until 2017. It arrived in a
package from Europe, only days before I arrived at Don’s home to review the
material he had received. We examined
the pages that Dr. Jackson had retained that were key to understanding the rest
of the document - likely now in Vatican hands.
If so, Dr. Jackson pulled the ultimate prank on the institution he so
despised by leaving his trusted friend Don with the “Keys to the Cadillac,” in
the form of numerous potential Templar treasure sites.</div>
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Arguably, one of the greatest
adventures I have ever experienced all happened in one day during our climb up
Hunter Mountain on July 1, 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
hotel room the night before, I was amazed by Don’s photographic memory as he
recalled details of the discoveries he, Dr. Jackson, and others made in the
1970s and 1980s during numerous expeditions into the Catskills which ultimately
led to Hunter Mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hike up the
mountain the next day, and to another site a few miles away, led to the
incredible discovery of not one, but two inscribed stones directly connected to
this amazing story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These stones led to
other adventures that resulted in many important revelations, as well as many
unanswered questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rarely do answers
like these ever come but incredibly in 2017, another envelope from Europe
arrived unexpectedly at Don’s door that held the answers to our nearly decade
old questions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There have been many times as I
have spent time with Don, the artifacts, and the documents, that I sat back and
marveled in amazement at what has been revealed to me that relates to my
previous research and discoveries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
much of it provides powerful evidence supporting my thesis of multiple
pre-Columbian expeditions by the medieval Knights Templar order to North
America, both before and after the putdown by Pope Clement V and the King of
France in 1307.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only does the
Cremona Document support that research, but it also introduces twelve new
examples of the Hooked X™ symbol that connects directly to the Knights Templar
and later traditions that embraced Templar ideology and philosophy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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me, but for Don a half a century passed before all the pieces to this immensely
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lifelong friend whose life was shrouded in mystery both in life, and in
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am proud to call Don my friend,
and honored to write the forward for this history-changing book that will leave
an important and proud legacy for both of these men.<o:p></o:p><br />
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For those interested in purchasing Don's fascinating book that corroborates many aspects of Diana Muir's book about the Earl Henry Sinclair's first journal, and those to come, please follow the attached link: https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=The+Scrolls+of+Onteora&type=<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i>"The personal journal entries you are about to read are the
first of several installments that are either the greatest story ever told, or
the greatest hoax ever sold. Very strong words indeed, but in this particular
case they are more than appropriate. When first contacted about the journals of
Earl Henry Sinclair and his descendants, I scoffed and deleted the emails. The
third attempt included photos of one of the journal pages, and one of a
lambskin map - they got my attention. The email included Diana Muir’s phone
number and I gave her a call. We quickly hit it off and after hearing about
what she claimed to have, I invited her to Minnesota so I could introduce her
to several friends; including several Freemasons to try and vet her story.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>After the meeting, Diana shared the journal entries with me and
after reading them I was convinced of one thing; if there was even one chance
in a hundred that they were authentic, they had to be vetted thoroughly and
carefully, for they were potentially far too historically important not to.
Over the course of the next two-plus years, Masonic scholar and past Grand Master
of Masons of Minnesota, Terry Tilton, and I dove
into vetting the journals with a vengeance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It quickly became apparent that if this were a
hoax, it was a masterstroke of deviant genius that had to have involved several
individuals with a vast array of knowledge in various disciplines to pull off. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>If authentic, the history these documents contain is
explosive and sheds important new light on many different aspects of history,
as well as the individuals named in them over the course of just over four
centuries (1353 to 1770). This first of three personal journal books - reportedly
written by Earl Henry Sinclair - reveals many previously unknown details about
his life and activities from the time he was eight years old until he was
fifty-one in 1395. Some of the most interesting and important aspects of the
entries in this volume include the following: <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The Scottish Templars led by the Sinclair’s traveled to the
“Western Lands” numerous times including Earl Henry’s father, William Sinclair
II, who made the trip a total of seven times himself. Impossible to comprehend
at first glance, the idea of frequent trips to North America becomes all the
more plausible given the “Cremona Document” tells of Templar voyages coming to
North America as early as 1179. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems
a hoaxer would be more conservative in the number of trips knowing the context
of currently accepted beliefs of historians that the Templars no longer existed
in the mid to late Fourteenth Century, let alone ever made it to America. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fallacy here was the idea of no
pre-Columbian European contact has no factual supporting evidence and numerous
documents, artifacts, and sites found in North America directly refute this
erroneous narrative. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The young Earl Henry made numerous mentions of both old and
new religious holidays and made numerous mentions of the ‘Great Goddess” who
was central to his clan’s spiritual beliefs. These entries are also consistent
with my own research into the true ideology of the Templars. The importance of
the Goddess to Templars is also supported by numerous mentions within the
Cremona Document. Their veneration of the Goddess lies at the heart of the
success of the Templars secret medieval activities in North America - because
they shared a similar ideology as the indigenous people they constantly
interacted with and eventually assimilated with. Only a deeply knowledgeable
person on a team of hoaxers could insert these aspects into the entries in such
convincing fashion. Beyond myself and very few others, we know of no others who
understand the complicated Goddess ideology of the Templar leadership. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Here is where one the most important realizations
of this journal begins to emerge. In
multiple entries between 1373 and 1388, Earl Henry refers to what can only be a
fugitive faction of medieval Knights Templar.
The “Templari” being sheltered in the Wemyss Caves are clearly supported
by Earl Henry, the “Brethren”, and other important Scottish families most
likely for their similar ideological beliefs and their service to King Robert
the Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314. These
entries suggest, along with Earl Henry’s mention of Hiram Abiff, the apparent evolution
of the strict asceticism and celibacy of medieval Templarism into an early version
of speculative Freemasonic ideals. The
surviving Templars who had escaped to Scotland after 1307 were protected by the
ruling families were no longer celibate after being outlawed by the Roman Catholic
Church and monarchies in England and France.
Earl Henry and the Craft’s steadfast support of the “Templari” begs the
question was this when and where the rites and rituals of medieval Templarism
merged into speculative Freemasonry actively present in Scotland in the
Fourteenth Century. If so, this is a
huge revelation and deserves to be researched in much greater depth for its
potential impact on modern day Freemasonry is profound. <span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The revelations of Earl Henry’s initiation into Freemasonry
are detailed to the point that only someone who had experienced initiation into
Templar rituals themselves could have written them, if this was a hoax. While
not impossible, the likelihood a Freemason was involved in such a hoax is
extremely remote given this type of nefarious activity goes against Masonic
teachings. If authentic, these entries have enormous historical ramifications
for Freemasonry that will be studied for many years to come. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Arguably one of the most important aspects of the later
journal entries involves Earl Henry meeting the Italian navigators Nicolo and
Antonio Zeno. One of the most controversial documents known from this period is
called the “Zeno Narrative.” A descendant in the family reportedly restored letters
that were alleged to have been written by Antonio Zeno in the Fourteenth
Century after having been torn up by the family member as a child. The document
reports numerous factual events, most of which are consistent with the
information provided by Earl Henry upon meeting them. One important fact in the
journals that differs from restored Zeno documents (which state that Nicolo and
Antonio were brothers) is that according to Earl Henry, they were father and
son. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>For me personally, the most important entries by far deal
with the “thirty men” that we learn came to the Western Lands to “…establish a
settlement” in the spring of 1358.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
can only be referring to the party that carved the Kensington Rune Stone in
1362. The implications of the Kensington party entries are huge and appear to
confirm nearly all the claims about the artifact I have made over the past
eighteen years. While admittingly hopeful that the journals are authentic, due
in no small part to these specific entries, it is also these entries that give
me the most pause. They almost feel like they were written as a trap. On the
other hand, would a hoaxer so blatantly pander to a known proponent like me by
suggesting the Kensington inscription carver’s name? My collective research has
proven the artifact authentic which means somebody connected to the Templars
created it and the story that unfolds in these journals fits perfectly with
what we already know. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>I would remiss if I didn’t talk about my experiences with
Diana over the past two and half years. While I am immensely frustrated with
her decision to throw the original journals away, which were most likely copies
of the originals, along with the lambskin map at a point of personal crisis,
there is no mistaking she has done a phenomenal job of translating the Latin
(and Old English in later journals) into modern English. She admits to likely
making a few errors which would be suspicious if she hadn’t, but it appears she
has done a masterful job of putting the entries of multiple individuals into
readable modern text. Exactly how good of a job might never be fully known.
However, three pages do survive from the years 1354, 1663, and 1731. Future
testing of those pages should yield more information about Diana’s work and
what these surviving pages really are. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>I have also traveled to Tennessee to vet Diana’s story about
where and how she came into possession of the journals. The archival building
where she said she got them does exist and contains valuable information about
the people who lived in that area at the time of, and after, the Revolutionary
War and about the individuals who wrote the last six journals to be published
in the future. So far, everything Terry Tilton, Diana Muir, and I have been
able to vet has proven to be true and correct. However, many of the over 300
individuals mentioned by name in the journals, whether they were Templar
knights, crew members, or Freemasons, have been impossible to determine. In
fact, our inability to find any record of many of the individuals is exactly
what should have happened. Even for Freemasons like Terry and I, who are
allowed access to certain Masonic records non-Masons cannot, we were still not
able to find confirming documents for many of the names listed. This begs the
question of how and why a forger would make up so many names of people known to
exist and others we can find no record of. That we still have many questions
about these individuals actually supports authenticity of the documents. If all
the names could be readily found by us, they could also be found by a forger.
Details about this own research into our investigation of the journals will be
presented in the future. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>I invite the reader to decide for themselves if these
captivating entries represent what amounts to the first installment of one of
the greatest stories in the history of the world, or the most complex and
secretive work of deception ever assembled. Whatever the eventual outcome,
these works are nothing less than sheer brilliance."</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Scott Wolterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758613621836354475noreply@blogger.com227tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617813063932228103.post-27165511272860151132018-08-12T18:15:00.001-07:002018-08-19T19:00:24.948-07:00Will Francis Be The Last Pope?<i>Dear Readers: I have to apologize for not posting comments or responding to those comments for the past week. It was 100% my fault. The comments received have been posted and I will respond to each comment shortly. Again my apologies... </i><br />
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History Channel aired an interesting two-hour documentary tonight that I participated in as a commentator about Saint Malachy O'Morgair (1094-1143). Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, he became the Archbishop in Armagh, and first met Bernard de Clairvaux at Clairvaux Abbey, where he stayed while in France during his pilgrimage from Ireland to the Holy Land. So impressed with the asceticism and "perfection of the religious life" of the monks at Clairvaux under Bernard, they became close friends where Malachy expressed a desire to join the abbey as a monk. Bernard advised him to return to Ireland to establish a monastery there. (Konemann, Page 256, 2006) In 1142, he established the abbey of Mellifont in the Boyne Valley roughly a 45-minute drive north from Belfast.<br />
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What most people don't know is on the granges, or lands, of the Cistercian monks at Mellifont were three megalithic ritual temples archaeologists today call "passage tombs" for the dead. The most famous of these is a UNESCO World Heritage Site called Newgrange. In fact, these incredible structures believed to be over 5,000 years old, were ancient observatories the monks actually excavated in the twelfth century. Having visited the site in 2012, it is quite clear Newgrange, which has a long stone-lined tunnel with three niches at the center, captures the light of the rising sun to the southeast on the Winter Solstice. What few people know is the alignment of the tunnel and the deepest most niche are most accurately aligned to the planet Venus at sunrise on the shortest day of the year. This fact is further evidenced by the eight "X's" carved in base relief into the slab of stone directly above the entrance that allows the light of Venus, and the sun, to enter the tunnel on the solstice. Eight is the number of Earth years it takes for the planet Venus to make the five-pointed star when viewed from Earth astronomically. It is a deeply sacred number to the Cistercians and many other cultures who embrace the "Hooked X" ideology of Monotheistic Dualism.<br />
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You might be asking what does all this have to do with the Malachy Prophecy? The simple answer is the Cistercians, and Saint Malachy, were deeply versed in astronomy/astrology and understood the concepts associated with Precession of the Equinoxes. Essentially astronomer priests, they received ancient knowledge passed on through initiation and ritual about the 26,000 year long cycle of the twelve primary constellations of the zodiac when viewed from Earth. Possessing this knowledge was how Malachy knew something profound was to occur in 2012, the same year cultures like the Mayans, who also understood and venerated astronomical precession, knew the old "Great Year" would end and the new "Great Year" would begin. It's quite possible, if Malachy in fact made the 2012 predictions, the presence of the ancient megalithic observatories on the granges at Mellifont may have had something to do with that knowledge and the prophecies.<br />
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Stained glass image of Saint Malachy at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Temple Street in Sligo, Ireland. Photo by Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45864216 </h4>
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The octagonal shaped lavatorium that sits on eight columns with Romanesque arches survives somewhat intact at the Cistercian monastery of Mellifont that was founded by Saint Malachy in 1142. </h4>
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Author Alan Butler and I stand in front of the over 5,000 year-old megalithic structure called Newgrange in the Boyne Valley of Ireland. This structure has a diameter of over 300 feet and is one of three such ancient observatories that capture the light of the setting sun, and the planet Venus, on the winter solstice. </h4>
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Above the opening that is the entrance into the tunnel is a large slab of stone with eight "Xs" carved in base relief. The primary winter solstice alignment is for the planet Venus which the eight carved "Xs" appear to be consistent with.</h4>
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