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"American Templars" Movie Pushes Sinclair-Templar Myth

10/7/2013

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In the late eighteenth century, theater critics blasted Matthew Lewis’s play The Castle Spectre (1797) because it depicted a ghost on stage, which they believed could have the terrible effect of increasing the public’s belief in the supernatural. To this, Lewis replied:

Against my Spectre many objections have been urged: one of them I think rather curious.  She ought not to appear, because the belief in Ghosts no longer exists!  In my opinion, that is the very reason why she may be produced without danger; for there is now no fear of increasing the influence of superstition, or strengthening the prejudices of the weak-minded.

Yet in the end, Lewis was wrong and the critics were right: Gothic horror helped give rise to the Spiritualist movement and a revival of belief in ghosts, psychic powers, and so on—and in turn, the Spiritualists fed their beliefs back into fiction. At one point, Helena Blavatsky simply declared that the writers of scientific romance and horror were themselves latent Spiritualists with half-formed insights from another plane of existence.

Normally, I give a wide berth to fiction in its presentation of fake history since it is, after all, fiction. But sometimes that fiction has a different purpose that isn’t related to entertainment. In that case, it seems fair game to complain about its message. This happened last year with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which the director explicitly said was meant to advocate the claims of Erich von Däniken, and which I therefore criticized as propaganda. It happens again in a few days’ time when a group of alternative history believers release American Templars, a movie dramatizing fourteenth-century aristocrat Henry Sinclair’s alleged voyage to America.

The problem with the movie is not that it is using fake history but that it is telling its audience that the underlying story is true: “The film uses real artifacts and locations to shed light on the fascinating history of medieval exploration of North America by Prince Henry Sinclair, a Scottish lord with ties to the Knights Templar.” The filmmakers want the audience to come away believing that the “facts” behind the movie are real, and that Henry Sinclair traveled to pre-Columbian America.

The movie was directed by Michael Carr, last heard inventing the fake Englishman “Rough Hurech” while mistranslating fake runes on America Unearthed. The movie is based on David S. Brody’s novel The Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (2009) and centers on the alleged carving of a Templar knight in the town of Westford, Massachusetts, which mainstream scholars take for Native American carvings or natural features. (The most accepted explanation is that glacial ruts were expanded into a “knight” in the nineteenth century by an unknown artist.) First mentioned as “Indian” carving in 1883, the carving was only identified as a medieval knight in 1954, a Templar still later, and a member of the Sinclair expedition still later as the Sinclair-Templar myth developed. The development of this myth is told in David Goudsward’s recent book on The Westford Knight and Henry Sinclair (2011), and I’ve outlined its problematic origin here.

In June David Goudsward took issue with my characterization of his book on the Knight, which I originally wrote supported the Sinclair myth. Goudsward told me that he debunked the Templar connection in his book and “by default the carving,” but that isn’t quite what he told the Boston Globe, whom he told that the Knight was “evidence of pre-Columbian Scottish explorers visiting the New World.” They just weren’t Templars or Sinclairs. Whatever Goudsward’s actual views, the newspaper presented his book as supporting pre-Columbian Scottish voyages.

David S. Brody is the chairman of the Westford Knight Committee and oversees the carving, according to the Globe. He has a vested interest in promoting it as “real” and a tourist attraction. A frequent novelist, he recognizes that the Sinclair story is problematic. However, he told another newspaper that “If it’s true, then that means Columbus was about 100 years late to the party, and Westford becomes a very important part of history.” And there is the driving force behind the historically impossible claims: the endless drive to make one’s own home the navel of the world and the locus of history.

Anyway, the movie version is also being used as a marketing tool. According to the Boston Globe, which credulously accepted the claims of Scottish voyages in its most recent article, the Westford Historical Society and Museum will be using the “world premiere” screening of the film to raise money. On its website (which the Globe plagiarizes nearly word-for-word), the museum agrees that “ancient artifacts and sites … indicate Scottish explorers found America 100 years before Columbus.”

Regardless of the intrinsic entertainment value of American Templars—and given the terrible acting and production values on display in the trailer, there isn’t much!—the propaganda purpose of the film warrants complaint. I am not able to evaluate the film artistically without having seen it, but in viewing the trailer, such masterpieces as Birdemic come to mind. I wonder, though, if the terrible production values and cable-TV documentary aesthetics don’t work in the film’s favor—not as cinema but as propaganda: by looking like something put together on video from real life, it reinforces the idea that there is a real history behind the story.  

27 Comments
Shawn Flynn
10/7/2013 06:17:35 am

Its a good thing campy movies are usually sci-fi/monsters/slasher flicks. On a unrelated note a show on Adult Swim, China Illinois, made fun of ancient aliens last night and had a great quote about the pyramids and such, "Imagine your the richest person and all you had was rocks and slaves. How long would it take before you started stacking the rocks on each other?"

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Shane Sullivan
10/7/2013 06:40:52 am

I saw that as well. I also enjoyed the part about the "impossible" precision of old megalithic structures: "Nerd, don't estimate all of humanity by the limits of your own capabilities."

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The Other J.
10/8/2013 12:56:53 am

China, Illinois -- gonna check that out. Cheers.

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Shane Sullivan
10/7/2013 06:34:22 am

I appreciate the information, but maybe you should post the actual trailer instead of what is obviously a colleghumor.com parody of The Da Vinci Code.

...Ohh, my goodness, that is the real trailer...

Ouch.

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Gunn link
10/7/2013 06:42:23 am

Good job. It's funny that the name I garnished is the supposed name of this Westford Knight: Gunn. Yes, life is a circle here for me here on this blog.

I went to see the carving, myself, last year, and took some photos. Another carving of a boat is on display in the town's museum, on a football-sized rock. I believe there is a real carving of a knight, though most of it can't be seen anymore. The "punched" sword is quite obvious, and eliminates Native Americans as having made it, unless they had access to an iron punch or a similar tool. The boat image is made in a similar fashion.

This would seem like an excellent spot to conduct a major archaeological dig. I find it odd that not much is being done, and at many places of interest. I guess the reason is money. Maybe an Indiegogo-type fund-crowding campaign would help. Many objects have been found more or less by accident over the years, but it would be great if more emphasis were place on professional digs. Except for going through old manuscripts, not much searching is being conducted, it seems. Up here in MN, apparently there is no money, even though I can think of several sites that would warrant digs.

It was from coming to this blog several months ago that I began to realize that the Henry Sinclair material doesn't have any real basis for belief, except for odd coincidences, such as the two different Native American accounts that seem to validate a Glooscap-type character. Other proofs seem to be lacking. But that doesn't mean a conjectured movie wouldn't be interesting.

"But sometimes that fiction has a different purpose that isn’t related to entertainment." I don't know the exact motive in this case, but it's hard to judge just what is and isn't entertainment. I haven't said much about writing that fictional Templar book last year, but I wrote it for entertainment purposes and, admittedly, as a propaganda--or better said, as an educational tool, just simply showing a proposed Templar route to Kensington, and making it abundantly clear what stoneholes found in this area were for (and not for!). The book wasn't very successful, and I didn't do much to market it, but I managed to get hundreds of copies out into the greater MN arena, mainly around ground zero--Kensington and Alexandria. I think the book storyline would make a most excellent movie, if a few folks here don't mind my saying so. Entertainment, or lack thereof, is hard to quantify or judge.

The problem, and harm, would be for someone to try to pass a fantasy off as something real...knowing full well what they're doing. The French Jesus Bloodline mischief comes to mind. That was originally done to bring folks into a local restaurant, and it grew out of hand through Dan Brown , and yes, through Scott Wolter, though he apparently uses other sources. But if someone believes in his or her heart that the fanciful information (Henry Sinclair) is possibly quite true, the motivations change, and it is hard to judge. Thinking of alternative history can be fun and entertaining, as long as it isn't doing actual damage...there's the rub.

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Only Me
10/7/2013 07:02:26 am

I was thinking, if the Copper Culture mined and refined the ore in upper Michigan, then disseminated the final products through trade, isn't it possible the Westford knight is a Native American carving...only done with a copper chisel/punch? Hey, the Egyptians did far more with copper chisels, as did the people that made Tiwanaku.

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Gunn
10/7/2013 08:11:56 am

Right, except that how would Native Americans know what a medieval sword looks like so precisely? So either way, one can speculate that the owner of that pictured sword may have been in the area...and is probably buried on-site nearby. If I'm not mistaken, the shape of the sword indicates a medieval origin, and it is shown broken so as to indicate the death of its owner...uh-hem, a knight named after me.

I think the Copper Culture in the Great Lakes area only used copper for small items like fishhooks and amulets and such, because it was seen as sacred and not to be used for just any reason. I think cooking pots were an occasional exception. Bears were sacred, too.

Jason Colavito link
10/7/2013 08:18:04 am

Let's not assume that the carving is medieval without some evidence. As far as I know, its existence can't be proven prior to 1883.

Only Me
10/7/2013 12:09:28 pm

Not for nothing, but if Native Americans experienced pre-Columbian contact, as suggested by the Glooscap narrative and even the KRS, it *is* possible they may have had knowledge of the sword's design through such contact. Another thing to consider is this: could they have had a similar one in their possession, as with the Brandenburg Axe?

Jason Colavito link
10/7/2013 12:20:21 pm

Let's remember that the Glooscap story as known to Mi'kmaqs is very different from the fiction that passes under that name concocted by Fredrick J. Pohl for his Sinclair conspiracy stories. There is no hint of medieval trans-oceanic contact from Europe in the actual ethnographic literature about Glooscap.

The Other J.
10/8/2013 01:09:44 am

"There is no hint of medieval trans-oceanic contact from Europe"

This comes up so often I wonder if you haven't made a macro for it on your computer.

ctrl-alt-f5 = "There is no hint of medieval trans-oceanic contact from Europe"

Paul
10/7/2013 06:59:07 am

I grew up in Westford and had no idea that this nonsense was going on. Very interesting.

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Gunn
10/7/2013 07:59:41 am

Paul, the lady at the museum seemed to be proud of the boat stone, and what the town has going for it with the Westford Knight. At least nobody has hidden these items away, such as with the small collection of medieval artifacts from Maine. The state museum there should be ashamed of itself for doing this, as many people would like to see the artifacts for themselves. I drove up there from Boston last year, not realizing they weren't even on display! How dejected can a traveler feel?

Nonsense? That may be a bit premature. Not all alternative history speculation is nonsense. Once in a while, some of it is scientifically twisted around to become true.

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Steve St Clair
10/7/2013 10:47:06 am

I've been to what is called The Westford Knight. I agree with Scott Wolter that it's clearly a whole-punched depiction of what looks like a medieval sword. I can't really see a knight in the stone. And if you can imagine you see it, the distinction between the sword and the knight is too much to be accounted for weathering of the knight portion of the stone.

Is the sword carving nonsense? Not without further research.

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Jason Colavito link
10/7/2013 10:49:30 am

Obviously, the punched sword exists; the question is whether the sword existed prior to the nineteenth century, and, if it did, prior to colonial-era European contact.

Aaron Adair link
10/7/2013 11:58:28 am

Watching that trailer, I thought there is probably more entertainment value, acting skill, and accuracy in Sharknado.

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Only Me
10/7/2013 12:04:41 pm

Not surprising, since Sy-Fy movies generally have budgets ranging from $1-2M. This looks to have been made on a Bowfinger-sized budget.

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Gunn link
10/7/2013 04:46:37 pm

I just realized an odd connection, or similarity. In Westford, there is the sword and boat depictions, both created somewhat alike...that is, with the use of a punch tool. And on my website I have an image of a boat or ship, also a medieval depiction, which is on a rock at the northern tip of Copper Harbor, MI. Well, adjacent to the ship carving is a bear carving, and like the two Westford carvings, both of the Copper Harbor ship and bear carvings were made somewhat alike...actually, more like exactly alike. The "artist" used deeply carved lines to fill in large spaces, such as the sail, and such as the bulk of the bear's body. So in each location, we have not a single, oddly made carving, but two--and made in like manner. Just an odd coincidence.

If anyone is interested in seeing the bear carving photo, I'll attempt to retrieve it from an old email and reduce it down and upload it to my site, where the ship carving is.

Concerning the Westford Knight's sword, it has not been proven to not have been carved before just a few hundred years ago, but the indications are that it is a depiction of a medieval-style sword nonetheless, if I'm not mistaken. Also, there is the clear (purposeful) break in the blade of the sword, which indicates the tradition of breaking the sword blade of a fallen comrade...again, unless I'm mistaken. But I can't think of any reason a Native American would carve the image of a broken medieval sword, which in my own mind at least gives more weight to the idea that actual medieval persons were involved in a trek to Westford.

"There is no hint of medieval trans-oceanic contact from Europe in the actual ethnographic literature about Glooscap."

I think that might depend on what the interpretation is of the actual ethnographic literature, and I realize it must be scientific, but isn't there a bit of leeway? And, but what if there is no aboriginal ethnographic literature, but only verbal passing-down until the information was just recently written down? Again, can we believe the Native Americans in this situation, or is there mistaken history...and how much is accurate or not? I'm just saying that we may have a part of the truthful record about a "Glooscap" figure without fully knowing it.

Is there anything to the proposed Scottish ice hockey/Native American connection, from the Native Americans' point of view? How could the Native Americans in question be so far off if they're completely wrong? Did they take a white man's story and run with it, entirely? How could this happen?

Then I think of the Ojibwa stories about migrating from the East Coast, of all places, to another Vinland-like paradise where grapes and rice grow wild (for real). Were they participants of "the warning" to migrate westward to a certain place (Madeline Island), or not?" Why do the stories seem to oddly jive?

Also, I was looking over some of my photos I took of the Newport Tower last year, and I have two images of initials. One of the sets is deeply carved and appears to the naked eye to be quite aged. I took the extreme close-up with a zoom lens. Later tonight, I'll plan to upload that photo to my site, along with the bear carving. I was just thinking that maybe Scott Wolter would be the one to examine the seemingly aged initials to possibly determine whether they were made, say around 1700, or around 1400...just one or the other, please. Maybe an expert on such things could give a scientific opinion. The other set of initials aren't carved, but rather etched in, possibly more likely to be graffiti.

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10/7/2013 06:21:26 pm

I have a serious question: where did you find the information regarding the "tradition of breaking the sword blade of a fallen comrade?" This is something I have never heard of before.

I am by no means an expert in the field of medieval weapons, but I would say that I am at least a journeyman in the field. I have a small collection of weapons (mostly replicas) from many medieval cultures and each time I get a new one I research it extensively. So far, I have yet to come across this "tradition" you mentioned. If you can reference a legitimate source on this I would be very delighted to see it!

Now, as far as I am aware, there were traditions of burying knights with A sword (it need not actually be his own). Also, a viking warrior was NEVER sent to the afterlife without a weapon by his or her side. There was a tradition among the Gauls of much earlier time periods of throwing the sword of a fallen leader or great warrior into the closest body of water (likely so that it could fall into the afterlife through the reflection and be retrieved by the fallen). This tradition might extend to common soldiers IF they had enough money to buy a sword in the first place and IF they died in battle and IF the body could not be retrieved but the sword could, and then, IF the son of the dead man did not wish to keep his father's sword. Then the sword was thrown into the water as a surrogate for burying the body of the dead.

From what I have researched the only medieval culture that put a great deal of emphasis on swords as anything but an inanimate object were the Japanese and to a lesser extent the Vikings. Vikings would name their swords and carve runes into them to "strengthen" them with "magic." Such swords were usually sacred and never broken. They were usually taken back to the slain man's family.

Most European knights, the kind we envision in plate or chain armor and with a sword and heater style shield, practiced with such a wide variety of weapons (arming swords, long swords, bastard swords, maces, flails, poleaxes, spears, lances, etc.) it became difficult to become attached to a specific one. Although, I suppose, a knight MIGHT become attached to a very expensive or very well made sword. If that knight died, however, his companions were likely to take his sword and leave one of their own. There were even justifications like "By my brother's own blade shall he be avenged."

Again, if my own research is wrong and there was a tradition of breaking a fallen comrade's sword, I'd love to see a legitimate source that confirms it. I love adding a bit more lore to my cache when it comes to ancient weapons.

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10/9/2013 05:30:33 am

I tried to come up with some references, but came up empty-handed. I probably read it in some of the Henry Sinclair material. But the break is unmistakable in the carved image, so it obviously meant something. Somebody probably conjectured what the break means based on their own knowledge. Personally, I think it is a pretty good conjecture about the sword owner dying. Maybe the symbolic sword broken was a lessor value sword, and it was just the symbolic gesture that mattered. It's only a guess.

But if it did signify the death of the sword's owner, perhaps the very sword pictured in the carved image is buried very close nearby...like within feet or yards. Yes, like the KRS, I think the Westford Knight is a memorial stone, primarily. Yet, there is no carved name on the Westford Knight rock, just the obviously medieval sword and what some have seen in the past to be "Scottish Information" of an identifiable source...in the aged personhood of Sir Gunn.

William Smith
10/14/2013 05:28:07 am

BigMike - In the November/December issue of Archaeology is an article (Bronze age boat mystery). In addition to 8 wooden boats recovered were 2 broken swords. The swords were retired according to the archaeologist and was a standard custom for the time.

Shane Sullivan
10/8/2013 04:45:11 am

Are you talking about the warning Scott Wolter claims came from the Templars?

I ask because the traditional story I've heard about the Ojibwe is that they recieved a spiritual vision to move west to a place where food grew on the water. When they found manoomin, or wild rice, in the Great Lakes area, that's where they stayed. This would have happened close to the time of Columbus.

Unless the Templars were able to communicate psychically, I don't know how well I'd say that jives.

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Gunn
10/8/2013 10:35:29 am

Shane, my main point is that the Chippewa moved west because of a communication. I'm not sure that the move was because of a warning or a vision, or both, but in any case they seemed to have responded by moving. Yes, it would be nice to nail down the time-frames for each Native American group to their stories.

There's not much difference between the time of the Newport Tower (guessing 1400'ish) and Columbus. Neither is Templar, but I'm guessing that both the Newport Tower and Columbus had near-past Templar connections...and this isn't even throwing in Henry Sinclair. More like the Portuguese Knights of Christ (Templars). I'm now thinking they built the Tower and influenced Columbus through married descendants. But then, in that case, what of Glooscap? I don't think he's necessarily connected with the Newport Tower, even if he were exposed to be Henry Sinclair. It looks like a lot of folks are making a Henry Sinclair connection to the Newport Tower, when it is more likely to be to the Westford Knight, correct? Or, at least a medieval swordsman to the medieval sword image.

The Other J.
10/8/2013 01:21:04 am

Statements like “If it’s true, then that means Columbus was about 100 years late to the party, and Westford becomes a very important part of history” seem very strange. Because apparently, if true, those Scottish Templars really never got the party started in the first place -- there's no unquestionable archaeological evidence, no legacy, no trade established, no records that aren't under considerable question, nothing. Columbus didn't even step on North American soil and managed to leave more evidence of a presence in the New World.

Even if we accept a Scottish Templar voyage to North America before Columbus, they apparently did nothing with it, so there was no Euro party for Columbus to be late to. The real party was already started by the locals.

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Sinclair
10/12/2013 08:07:40 am

Templars to America,Prince Henry Sinclair,rune stones and all the other stories are just that stories, After reading this blog I went to Steve StClairs web page on Jarl Henry StClair just for a laugh to see what tales are told there, Well not to be disapointed I went through the tale of Native North Americans and their Q3 haplogroup and how surprising it was that a Native leader tested to be R1b,Read that here

If Prince Henry St. Clair were here, he or his men may have left children behind with Native women. Native North Americans have a very different set of DNA markers known collectively as Haplogroup Q3. Western Europeans show very little of the Q and none of the Q3. Instead they and the Sinclair family are almost overwhelmingly Haplogroup R1b. In testing Martin Carriere, a native leader, we found him to be Haplogroup R1b1c but not a close to any Sinclair lineage after the 37 marker results came in.

12-marker test --- 1/12 from Steve St Clair and some of the AMH lineage
25-marker test --- 6/25 from Steve
37-marker test --- 11/37 from Steve
So, in a genealogical timeframe, Martin is not related. However, as a Native North American, he should be showing the Q3 Haplogroup and he is not.

I have never seen a more idiotic statment in all my life, WHY should this man be showing the Q3 haplogroup? Many North American leaders and common natives carry R1b and many other haplogroup dna.Another point is he states Marin Carrier is a Native leader,well thats the first I have heard of that,but whether he is or not he is METIS . There are plenty of Sinclairs who are Metis also, Just to name one James Sinclair,who clearly was at the time what they called a half breed,and had the features and colouring to show it,yet his dna would be R1b.I have native blood from my fathers mothers side and would also qualify to be Metis and I have R1b and match the Sinclairs of Caithness,and Orkney as Im sure the James mentioned is of the same line.Just more BS on StClairs part.

http://www.redriverancestry.ca/SINCLAIR-JAMES-1811.php

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Steve St Clair
10/18/2013 03:19:30 pm

Drako wrote, 'I have never seen a more idiotic statment in all my life,...'

The most idiotic statements I've seen are when people like Drako leap to conclusions about DNA results. Drako has made several of these. My favorite was when he breathlessly pronounced that he had 'proven' that one of our L48 members was the 'TRUE and NOBLE' descendant of the Rosslyn Sinclairs. Also, he had thus proven that I was suppressing the 'TRUTH' about our family. You see, this gentleman - who is titled nobility - has requested anonymity. When someone wants to test anonymously, I protect them. Yet Drako found a way to talk the man's son into divulging the "great secret" to him. Drako made a big pronouncement about this. Especially since Drako was himself L48, so it supported the truth that Drako already "knew" even though he didn't have a scrap of evidence to prove it. Very scientific.

And then an unfortunate thing happened. This titled gentleman was tested for a downstream SNP and was found positive for it. Problem was, it didn't match his highness Drako. Oops.

So Drako immediately decided that this test participant was the result of a non-paternity event. In other words, the ladies in his line of ancestors must have fooled around.

That was the only option.

Drako can never openly explore the possibility that there could be a non-paternity event in his line of ancestors. As one of his cronies said, 'these people had to know their blood was holy and that would have made them very particular about whom they mated with.'

Certainly a lot of idiotic statements to choose from thanks to Drako.

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Only Me
10/22/2013 11:04:58 am

If they "had to know their blood was holy" and therefore, they had to be "very particular about whom they mated with", can I assume they would have practiced the custom of intermarriage, to protect the sanctity of the bloodline? Outside an incident of extracurricular horizontal mambo, I guess this would be the logical choice?

As I've stated before, I'm no expert in DNA. I wouldn't know if "holy" DNA would have the same reaction to its "non-holy" equivalent, as, say, matter meeting anti-matter. Since there are no reports of exploding/imploding Sinclairs, AFAIK, I guess it's safe to say that intermixing of the two was relatively safe.


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