“The hate-blogger actually helps the show by creating controversy. […] One thing I know
for sure, he and his followers are watching the show and that's a good thing!”
– Scott Wolter, January 17, 2014
for sure, he and his followers are watching the show and that's a good thing!”
– Scott Wolter, January 17, 2014
From its debut in December 2012 on the now-defunct the H2 network to its cancellation in 2015, America Unearthed was a cultural phenomenon. The show returned to television in 2019 on the Travel Channel, looking to recapture the magic. With each episode promising to reveal the truth about a hidden facet of American history, viewers around the world have come to this website looking to answer the question: Is this true? This page will index my episode reviews of America Unearthed for easy reference. Please note: This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with America Unearthed, Committee Films, A+E Networks, or Discovery Communications.
SEASON ONE REVIEWS
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Scott Wolter uses geological testing to link pigment found at the Maya city of Chichen Itza to clay deposits near the Track Rock Archaeological Site at Ocmulgee, Georgia, and he concludes that the Maya built Track Rock, operating it as a mining camp to supply the Yucatán with blue pigment.
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Scott Wolter investigates a stone in the Arizona desert that is inscribed with runes. Wolter concludes that these runes date to 1200 CE and record the death of an Englishman, who Wolter believes taught the art of building cliff dwellings to the Native Americans.
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Scott Wolter tests copper found around Lake Superior for purity and uses that test to determine that the copper supply for Bronze Age Europe came from Lake Superior. He concludes that the Minoans colonized the Lake Superior basin and ran it as a mining operation.
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Scott Wolter investigates a claim that a giant is buried on a Minnesota farm as well as a claim that a Norse sword was found at Ullen. Although Wolter finds no evidence of either, he concludes that Minnesota was colonized by the Norse during the Middle Ages.
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Scott Wolter investigates a carving of a bull found in Oklahoma that he links to a Celtic religious cult worshiping the Roman deity Mithras in the early centuries CE. Wolter concludes that the Celts came to America, crossed into the Oklahoma panhandle, and worshiped Mithras in a cave.
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Scott Wolter visits America’s Stonehenge, a mysterious stone site in New Hampshire. After examining the rocks and several maps, Wolter finds that the site is “aligned” to Stonehenge in Britain and to Phoenicia. He concludes that the site was likely built by Phoenicians.
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Scott Wolter investigates whether inscribed stones found in the Carolinas and Georgia are evidence that the sixteenth-century English colonists at Roanoke trekked into Georgia and died there. He eventually concludes that the colony split in two, with some traveling to Georgia and others staying in North Carolina, on the site of what would eventually be a golf course.
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Scott Wolter investigates a small stone chamber built over a spring in Pennsylvania. He links this chamber to what he claims are ritual baths taken by Freemasons and Knights Templar, and he investigates whether similar chambers were built by medieval Irish monks. He concludes that some chambers are medieval Irish but that the Pennsylvania chamber is colonial Freemason.
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Scott Wolter investigates whether Meriwether Lewis, the leader of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition, was murdered to keep secret the existence of a tribe of Native Americans of medieval Welsh descent, people whose prior claim to American land could threaten American sovereignty. After testing Lewis’ Masonic apron for DNA, Wolter concludes he was murdered.
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Scott Wolter investigates a cache of lead artifacts found near Tucson, Arizona in the 1920s. He concludes that these artifacts were created by a precursor organization to the Knights Templar, exiled to America following the Muslim invasion of eighth-century Europe. He concludes that Templars and Freemasons hide this secret in a conspiracy reaching to the Exxon oil company.
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Scott Wolter reviews his research into the “hooked X,” a character found on the Kensington Rune Stone, and concludes that this symbol represents the penis of Jesus, the uterus of Mary Magdalene, and the fetus implanted within. He argues that the Holy Grail is the secret bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and that the Knights Templar protected that secret.
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Scott Wolter investigates the ruins of a round stone structure in Newport, Rhode Island. Based on astronomical alignments and architectural similarities, he concludes that the so-called Newport Tower was built as a church by the Knights Templar in the 1300s.
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Scott Wolter travels to Nova Scotia to investigate whether Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, hid the Holy Grail among the ruins of an alleged Templar Castle. With help from treasure hunters and a sophisticated dowsing rod, Wolter digs for the Grail but finds nothing. This only deepens his belief that he is on the right track.
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Scott Wolter discusses (what else) imaginary Templar voyager Henry Sinclair with Steve St. Clair. The two speculate wildly about how the government of Nova Scotia is hiding the truth about the Templar-Holy Bloodline connection and have encoded this information in the Canadian province’s flag.
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I thought it might be entertaining to use the America Unearthed system of speculation to see if we can “prove” that unicorns exist. So, here is my outline for how to develop a new episode of America Unearthed entirely from hot air.
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BETWEEN SEASONS BOOK REVIEW
Scott Wolter, Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers (2013)
Between season one and season two of America Unearthed, Scott Wolter released Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers, a book in which he reviewed topics from America Unearthed and offered new evidence of a Templar-Freemason conspiracy.
SEASON TWO REVIEWS
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1. Ark of the Covenant
Scott Wolter searches for the Ark of the Covenant in Ireland and America using information from nineteenth century British Israelist writers but which he thinks is genuine ancient legend. He does not find the Ark. |
2. The New World Order
Scott Wolter investigates whether the New World Order plans to overthrow the U.S. government at the behest of an ancient cult secret embodied in a mysterious American monument and the tunnels of the Denver Airport. |
3. The Great Wall of Texas
Scott Wolter investigates whether a well-known natural geologic feature in Texas is really the remains of a fort built by Biblical giants or a lost ancient civilization. The wall remains a sandstone dyke of natural origin. |
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4. Vikings in America
Scott Wolter believes he has found evidence that the lost Viking colony of Vinland was located near Martha's Vineyard rather than in Canada where most historians place the site. He travels the area looking for proof. |
5. Grand Canyon Treasure
Scott Wolter travels to the Grand Canyon in search of the alleged Egyptian tomb hidden inside it. He then examines the infamous Burrows Cave artifacts for evidence of Egyptian voyages to America. |
6. Lost Tribe of Menehune
While on vacation in Hawaii Scott Wolter goes in search of a lost tribe of dwarves believed to have existed on the island and thinks geology can help determine if there really were little people in Hawaii. |
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7. Secret Blueprint of America
Scott Wolter investigates whether the Washington, D.C. was laid out using the megalithic yard, a measuring unit supposedly used at Stonehenge, in order to prepare the city for goddess worship by George Washington. |
8. The Underwater Pyramids
Scott Wolter thinks that Aztalan State Park has a connection to the Aztecs because they share a similar name. He therefore investigates whether the Aztecs built the Native American stone ruins of the American Midwest. |
9. Mystery of the Serpents
Scott Wolter wonders why people like snakes. He thinks that the mystery of the Mound Builders could be solved by asking why Native Americans and Scots both had serpentine mounds that he plans to link to astronomy. |
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10. Lost Relics of the Bible
Scott Wolter thinks the Bat Creek Stone, a menorah-shaped earthen mound in Ohio, and Hebrew rock art in New Mexico suggest that the Lost Tribes of Israel colonized America before Columbus. |
11. Swamp Mammoth
Scott Wolter wants to prove white Europeans reached America 7,000 years ago, 13,000 years ago, or earlier and will look and the Windover Bog People and the Solutreans to find white people in early America. |
12. Lincoln's Secret Assassins
Scott Wolter suspects that Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was part of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which leads him to investigate an allegedly "new" twist on the motive for the Lincoln assassination. |
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13. The Spearhead Conspiracy
Scott Wolter sees a spearhead in Maui that might have come from Mexico. Learning that Polynesians reached South America he demands to know whether they reached North America as well. |
SEASON THREE REVIEWS
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1. Secrets from the Alamo
Based on newspaper articles from the 1830s, Scott Wolter investigates whether Freemason and hero Davy Crockett survived the Alamo and lived a secret life, culminating in a land claim he allegedly signed two decades after his supposed death. |
2. Guardians of Superstition Mountain
Scott Wolter goes in search of the Lost Dutchman Mine in Arizona in the hopes of solving the mystery of the Peralta Stones, a supposed treasure map tied to a nineteenth century fraudulent land claim. |
3. The Appalachian Giant
Scott Wolter investigates Judaculla Rock in North Carolina to determine whether the carved stone is related to Old World visitors. Wolter learns of the rock's mystical powers and goes in search of the lost race of giants who legend says carved it. |
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4. Montezuma's Gold
After learning that the Aztecs may have smuggled their treasure out of Mexico after the Conquest, Scott Wolter goes in search of the lost gold of Montezuma and braves what legend says is a curse to look for the gold in a haunted underwater cave. |
5. Custer's Blood Treasure
Scott Wolter investigates claims that the Native Americans who killed George Custer and his men at Little Bighorn looted their bodies of paper money and a hoard of gold. Wolter goes on a treasure hunt in hopes of finding Custer's gold. |
6. Captain Kidd's Pirate Code
Continuing this season's lost treasure theme, Scott Wolter hunts the coast of Maine for the pirate Captain Kidd's buried treasure after learning that John Jacob Astor may have used some of this treasure to build his legendary fortune. |
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7. Marco Polo Discovers America
Scott Wolter investigates the Berkeley Hills Walls near San Francisco to determine whether the rock walls were built by medieval Chinese visitors. He believes Marco Polo traveled to America and made a map while spying on China for the Pope. |
8. The Plot to Steal America
Because Scott Wolter believes that the Knights Templar claimed America from a site in Minnesota, he also believes that the French tried to undermine the claim with a land claim of their own, commemorated on a stone in Duluth. |
9. The Blood Stone
Many have claimed a nineteenth century carving of a face called the Waubansee Stone in Chicago is really the relic of Old World peoples who visited the Chicago area in ancient times. Scott Wolter alleges a conspiracy involving the stone. |
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10. Egyptian Secrets of NYC
An Egyptian obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle stands in New York's Central Park. Scott Wolter investigates whether it was placed there as part of a Freemason conspiracy that also ties in with the astronomical ceiling design of Grand Central Station. |
11. Tracking Bigfoot
Scott Wolter does not believe in the monster known as Bigfoot but looks at Native American rock art that resembles the legendary creature. He then travels to the Himalayas to inquire after the Yeti in order to determine whether Bigfoot exists. |
12. The Templars' Deadliest Secret: The Chase
In the first half of the two-part season finale, Scott Wolter resumes the search for proof that the Knights Templar protected the Holy Bloodline of Jesus and traveled to America after the order's suppression in 1307. |
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13. The Templars' Deadliest Secret: Evidence Exposed
In the second half of the season finale, Scott Wolter reveals new sites that he believes link the Knights Templar to the secret bloodline of Jesus in what H2 calls a "real life Da Vinci Code drama." |
SEASON FOUR REVIEWS
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1. Vikings in the Southwest
Scott Wolter investigates rumors that a Viking ship is buried in California and that Viking artifacts can be found in Arizona and a petroglyph of a Viking ship in Mexico. Wolter concludes the Vikings used the NW passage. |
2. Alien Artifacts
Scott Wolter investigates fraudulent Mexican artifacts allegedly depicting contact with space aliens 9,000 years ago. He examines Mexican petroglyphs that may depict an unknown culture's alien encounters. |
3. Cave of Secrets
Scott Wolter investigates a cave in Pennsylvania that may have been used by secret societies and other groups important to American history. He eventually learns that the cave was probably used as a stop on the Underground Railroad. |
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4. The Ripper Unmasked
Scott Wolter attempts to prove that Jack the Ripper was actually a famous and beloved writer and claims to reveal a shocking connection between Jack the Ripper and the Freemasons that could prove a larger conspiracy. |
5. Phoenicians in America
Scott Wolter attempts to prove that a stone tablet found in Wyoming was left by visiting Phoenicians, and he speculates that Phoenicians colonized Michigan to mine copper as the successors of the Minoans. |
6. The Spy Who Saved America
Scott Wolter teams up with former CIA operative Valerie Plame to investigate the true identity of Agent 355, a spy who worked for George Washington. He examines the lives of three colonial women for evidence. |
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7. Bigfoot of the Bayou
Scott Wolter visits the swamps of Louisiana in hopes of observing a legendary Bigfoot-like creature. After spending the night staking out the monster, Wolter makes a smelly discovery that could blow the lid of a stinky story. |
8. Drake's Lost Treasure
Scott Wolter searches California and Oregon for evidence that Sir Francis Drake stopped their in hopes of creating an English colony. He hunts for Drake's treasure, but despite accepting a hoax as real, finds nothing. |
9. Chicago's Mystery Bomber
Scott Wolter attempts to identify the person who threw the bomb that sparked the Haymarket Massacre in 1886. He investigates several suspects and dramatically proclaims that the police's original suspect was the culprit. |
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10. Exodus of the Templars
Scott Wolter tries to prove that the Knights Templar traveled to America and carved a monument to mark their landing on the shores of New England. After repeating claims made in earlier episodes, he proves nothing. |
BOOKS
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If you enjoy my reviews, you can find expanded and revised coverage of each episode in Unearthing the Truth: An Unauthorized Commentary on America Unearthed Season One, available as both a print book and eBook. Click the cover to learn more!
To learn more about the truth behind Henry Sinclair and his alleged voyage to America, read the classic study of The Zeno Voyage: Anatomy of a Hoax by Fred W. Lucas. Click the cover to buy it now! |
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