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Convergence in the Fringe World, the North-Pointing "Roman" Sword, and Micah Hanks on Ghosts

1/8/2016

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Fringe world is starting close in on itself, and it’s starting to get weird. In comments on his blog this week, former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter said that he is currently reading Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods and has found in it “convincing”: “I’m currently reading Graham Hancock’s new book that convincingly explores what catastrophic event likely caused this early high culture to almost go extinct.” Wolter said he is “thoroughly enjoying” Hancock’s work and will be weighing in on the comet that destroyed Atlantis after he finishes the book. He also announced that he will be opining on the real secret of Oak Island after the end of Curse of Oak Island, but won't say anything about it “out of respect for the show and the network.” He did, however, agree that almost all of the stories about Oak Island are exaggerations and hoaxes, and then announced he will soon be “outing” an “unethical academic,” with details to come.
Wolter, you will recall, appeared a little while back on J. Hutton Pulitzer’s podcast, where Pulitzer made him uncomfortable by asking his views on just how Aryan the ruling class of ancient Egypt was. (I wonder if he picked up on Graham Hancock’s references to the whiteness of the Aryan masters of his lost civilization?) I’m sure many of you have been following the ongoing developments in Pulitzer’s ever-expanding claims about the supposedly Roman sword he alleges to have been found off Oak Island. If you haven’t been keeping up, the most ridiculous of the claims involve the sword’s supposedly technological powers. “The sword has an ancient ocean navigational device built into it which causes the sword to point true north,” Pulitzer wrote last month. “Such magnetic qualities are only found in authentic items of antiquity, not cast iron or manufactured stone replicas.” How that would work Pulitzer did not say, nor did he provide any proof of this seemingly impossible feat for non-magnetic bronze of such a weight that gravity easily outmatches the Earth’s weak magnetic field.
 
In a website posting about the sword and its close cousin copies last week (updating a 2005 discussion), Roman artifact retailer (and reproduction specialist) David Kenney wrote that he felt it represented proof of ancient knowledge of trans-Atlantic contact:
My observations based on over a decade of research of artifacts from various ancient European and Asian cultures of different eras suggest that at some point in antiquity there was a widely held belief among tribal peoples of central to northern Europe and Asia, that there was a legendary or mythical sacred island, or islands, or place to the far north in the west that was associated with a meteor strike; iron; the magnetic; the water compass; navigation; a blade smith deity; a volcano (that included volcanic lightning); a war deity (connected to a warrior); a female sea deity who can be armed; fertility; regeneration; solar worship; a suggestion of prophecy; and the celestial (most notably the Pole star). Most likely much of that belief was based on ancient sea lore about visitations to Iceland and Greenland - that traveled among peoples who did not have a known, or accepted, written language. Notice that when the sword is vertically oriented to the north with the blade downward, the statuette hilt’s face looks to the west.
I think the last line, about the vertical orientation to the north and west (i.e. a right angle; how mysterious!), is what Pulitzer, in his conversation with Kenney that was his professed source for the claim, misunderstood as being a compass bearing rather than Kenney’s own terminology for describing the sword while in a particular position. I’d guess Pulitzer confused orienting the sword to the north for some symbolic reason for the sword orienting itself to the north.
 
The blather about lands to the north is a somewhat confused description of the Greco-Roman Thule with a strong assist from comet-oriented pseudo-history such as Ignatius Donnelly’s Ragnarok and Graham Hancock’s rewrite of the same, Magicians of the Gods. But if we want to get down to brass tacks—and here I am too exhausted to go through the usual thousands of years of bibliography—it probably traces back to scientific articles from the early 2000s that made the claim that the Greek explorer Pytheas had visited Ultima Thule, the legendary northern island, where he saw “the grave where the Sun fell dead,” where Phaeton crashed. It is a frequent claim that the myth of Phaeton actually describes a meteor strike, and since 1976 scientists have tried to place this strike on the island of Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea, though with unconvincing arguments drawn on the similarity between Phaeton’s crash site in the Hellenistic Argonautica of Apollonius. It bothers me, though, that the quote given for Pytheas returns no matches, and I was not familiar with where it came from. As best I can tell, the line, given in scientific articles and book chapters like this one, is a mangling of a line from Geminus of Rhodes, who reported that the barbarians showed Pytheas the place where the sun set—a far cry from a meteor crash site. For anyone who cares, the exact words are in Geminus’ Phaenomena at 6.9, where he writes that Pytheas “in his treatise ‘On the Ocean’ [writes]: ‘the Barbarian showed us the place where the sun goes to rest. For it was in the case that in these parts the nights were very short, in some places two, in others three hours long, so that the sun rose again a short time after it had set’” (trans. Arthur G. Chater). If that sounds like an asteroid crash to you, more power to you. Geminus does not call this place Thule, but later writers understood it to be such. Modern writers have copied from each other so much that the original context all but vanished.
 
So there’s the secret origin of our wacky claim about meteors on far northern islands and thus our north-pointing magic sword. What a crock.
 
Finally, I want to mention that Micah Hanks has a new article “investigating” how science accounts for ghosts. Amidst the usual thicket of verbiage that ultimately amounts to nothing, he offers up this faulty peroration:
In this case, as with every institution of a “good” scientific theory, we need one that predicts a number of observations accurately—based on data, rather than faith or belief—using a basic model consisting of arbitrary elements to help guide these observations. Our theory must also correctly, and definitely, predict future observations of the phenomenon in question.
 
So the question at the end of the day, rather than being “do ghosts exist”, should instead be this: “If ghosts represent any valid, tangible phenomenon, what might account for their existence, and can this—whatever it may be—occur in keeping with a good scientific theory?”
That’s a thought experiment, not a research program. A phenomenon must actually exist in order be researched. To see how much of a waste of time that final paragraph would render research, try substituting an obviously fictional construct:
So the question at the end of the day, rather than being “do Smurfs exist”, should instead be this: “If Smurfs represent any valid, tangible phenomenon, what might account for their existence, and can this—whatever it may be—occur in keeping with a good scientific theory?”
Would we then devote our resources to speculating on the reality of Smurfs or drawing potential evolutionary charts to account for them? Or can we merely attribute the “phenomenon” to animation? In other words, Hanks has apparently undone all of the work of the scientific revolution and returned us to medieval scholasticism, when scholars like Thomas Aquinas would speculate groundlessly on such useless questions as whether angels might possess the power of bilocation, fruitless speculation parodied by William Chillingworth in the Religion of Protestants (1637) as asking “whether a Million of Angels may not fit upon a Needle’s point.”
 
That said, ghosts are a phenomenon, though one that all extant evidence suggests resides within individuals’ perceptions as mediated through cultural expectations. Is that not valid enough for Hanks? And if tangibility is a criterion for ghostly reality, please do let me know what a ghost feels like. I have never been so favored as to touch one.
31 Comments
Clete
1/8/2016 05:15:36 pm

I once knew a man who had a metal plate in his head. The only problem about it, when he explained it to me, was that when he became sexually aroused, he pointed magnetic north.

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Shane Sullivan
1/8/2016 06:27:32 pm

At least it only happened when ghosts touched him.

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Uncle Ron
1/8/2016 08:55:37 pm

Or Smurfs.

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orang
1/8/2016 06:19:49 pm

i like to watch the tv show about the oak island treasure, and enjoy seeing the crackpots that are invited to the show to spin their theories. momentarily, on one of the show's previews, i thought i saw that phony pulitzer sword being unearthed and being discussed. if that is the case, the objectivity of the show apart from the crackpots has been seriously compromised, and false evidence is being planted.

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Rose McDonald
1/8/2016 09:01:50 pm

orang;
Can I start a fan club for you? The Pulitzer sword has been seen briefly several times on Oak Island
. I think they organized an entire segment around this "history-changing" Roman sword, then comments started surfacing that the thing was a fake. A reproduction available on Italian eBay for about 75 Euros. Pulitzer's story of how he came to have the sword changed every time he told it. First he said he recovered it from the "100 % verified" Roman ship off the coast of Oak Island. Then he had to replace it because the authorities were snooping around. Then he got it from the man who found it. Then he got it from the family of the man who found it. No, he wouldn't give names because he didn't want to get the family in trouble for illegally removing artifacts from a shipwreck. Problem with that...he said the sword was found several years or
several decades ago. The law banning looting of artifacts wasn't passed
until 2010. Finally, the 100% verified Roman ship has not been identified as Roman, or possibly even as a shipwreck.
Incredibly, Pulitzer isn't the only over the edge theorist to crawl out of the woodwork on Oak Island, some of them are just plain scary.














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Shane Sullivan
1/8/2016 06:30:24 pm

Hey, Smurfs (Smurves?) are real too. The fact that they used to be all over my television is an objective one!

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Haunted Serenity
1/8/2016 06:30:31 pm

Anyone want to predict how long it will be before Hancock and Wolter work together on something? I used to believe in Hancock and owned a couple of his books - but I wised up. Him and Wolter are made for each other.

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Jason
1/8/2016 06:56:25 pm

Was reading up on some of Mr. Jovan "Pulitzer's" statements (with this blog as a bit of a guide to the content). Didn't know this till now, but apparently he is also a white supremacist (or advocates many of the ideas that white supremacist do in relation to the origin of cultures)

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Rose McDonald
1/8/2016 09:00:45 pm

Jason; I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

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Time Machine
1/8/2016 08:30:26 pm

>>>My observations based on over a decade of research<<<

Only a decade...?

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Joe Scales
1/8/2016 08:49:42 pm

Ghosts exist as a phenomenon because people in general so very badly crave life after death. Even if it means solely existing to scare the hell out of whoever ends up moving into their house...

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Killbuck
1/8/2016 10:20:22 pm

Personally, feel sorry for the two rather likeable brothers in the Oak Island show. Seeing them have to patiently and with straight faces, endure an endless parade of buffoons foisted upon them by the even more buffoonish producers of the show. Pulitzer the Treasure Commander however has brought the show to new depths of unadulterated absurdity and embarrassment, surpassing the depths of the money pit itself.

But then again, the bros sold their souls and credibility to the real money pit- the "Hystery" Channel.

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Juan
1/10/2016 10:49:16 am

It's pretty clear that none of the conmen who line up to appear in the "War Room" ever read a serious historical study on the Phoenicians, the Aztecs, the Templars, the Castilians, the Portuguese, Christopher Columbus, nor anyone else.

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Rose McDonald
1/11/2016 09:56:10 pm

Agree. Why hasn't anyone told the Lagina brother's that?

Juan
1/12/2016 05:54:18 am

When they and their partners signed on with the HC, they ceded all authority for the production to them. The parade of "theorists" were not invited by the Laginas, and I doubt they had any veto power. The trip to Scotland, the visits to the "War Room," the heavy scripting and editing, are all beyond their power.

As I said before, I wonder what they are getting paid per episode which, more or less, makes them employees of Prometheus. This is one more example of "reality television," where reality is in the eye of the beholder. The existence of the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail are taken as fact, not fictional inventions. Sort of like the True Cross and other relics found in churches all over Europe and the US.

Rose McDonald
1/11/2016 09:55:04 pm

I reluctantly agree that the Laginas seem to have caved in to the demands of the production company. A brief check showed that a majority of the "expert theorists" are in the History Channel/ Prometheus Entertainment stable. How much credibility can we reasonably be expected to lend "experts" who have a vested interest in supporting and promoting the theories of other "experts" who just happen to have the same name on their paychecks?
One recent claim I've been trying to get an answer to is Pulitzer's claim that the Smithsonian Magazine verified his 'antique Roman gladiator's votive sword." Did they or didn't they? Every attempt I've made winds up being redirected to the Pulitzer's Treasure Force site.

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1/15/2016 10:38:16 am

Hi Lisa, have you ever checked out his investigatinghistory.org channel on youtube? I find it odd that he was making daily posts and weekly podcasts aboutthe show and other things that recently seemd to stop, I wonder if JHP is getting into some legal hot water from all these fraudulent claims, or maybe he has just moved to another one of his many sutes, I havent seen anything hes produced in over a week, glad to see your still interested in bringing down this conman, I am thinking of making a youtube video about him and exposing his fake claims,what do you think?

Only Me
1/9/2016 01:05:18 am

I'm predicting it here first. MeagerFarce Pretender will unveil a new technology for billions of users around the globe:

SwordPointer, the new app that causes your phone to point to true north! Never be directionally-challenged again as you search for lost treasure and history-changing artifacts!

As for Wolter and Hancock, I can see it now: Hooked-X's™ of the Gods.

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Killbuck
1/9/2016 10:09:41 pm

Perhaps I should have "pointed" this out earlier, but as a former devotee of orienteering as well as a former US Army OCS instructor in land navigation, how does any magnetic object point to the non-magnetic true north, rather than to magnetic north? The two not being the same? Must be magic.

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Only Me
1/9/2016 10:18:35 pm

Hey, I'm still trying to figure out the "ancient ocean navigational device" that was built into this one sword!

william
1/10/2016 11:31:14 am

Killbuck - The sword as well as all vertical staffs with a cross staff has the ability to point to TRUE north. This is done by observing the shadow of the sun with the point end of the sword in the ground. At mid day the sun shadow of the vertical staff of the sword is at its shortest length. When you rotate the sword until the cross staff shadow is hidden within the vertical shadow you have the true north south direction. Has nothing to do with magnetic properties or ancient swords of any type. The first recorded use of combining the magnetic compass and the sun dial in order to understand magnetic declination was in 1250 in Arabia. This technology was brought to Portugal and taught at Henry the Navigators school of navigation. It was incorporated into the lodestone compass which was used by the Portuguese to lay claim to a portion of the new world as explained in the 1494 treaty between Spain and Portugal. (Chapter 3) Summary - A pole line (Isometric line between poles with the same magnetic reading on all points of the line) has a point 100 leagues west of Cape Verdie Island as The Newport Tower in Rhode Island. will identify the claimed land to the east, A pole line 370 leagues (1110 miles) west of this tower will be a stone marker. (The Kensington Rune Stione) to mark the west pole line of Vinland. Alignment of true north was known long before the Romans. Stonehenge is an early example.

killbuck
1/10/2016 03:26:57 pm

I've used a variety of shadow methods to determine approximate true north, even the very effective watch dial trick. Yet if Pulitzer is claiming a brass-bronze sword, of non-magnetic properties can magnetically point to the non magnetic true north, I can only assume Mr. Pu has seriously misinterpreted the supposition made by the owner of the Florida version of the sword.

Then again, why seriously examine an unsupported claim

Platy
1/9/2016 12:22:32 pm

I'm pretty sure that the last time fringe thinkers started obsessing with Aryans and Thule, it didn't go down so well.

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David Bradbury
1/9/2016 01:26:21 pm

FWIW, the Greek of the relevant phrase from Geminus' quotation is "hopou ho hehlios koimatai"- literally "where the sun sleeps". I have a suspicion that the "grave" notion derives from Estonian writer and politician Lennart Meri's 1976 book «Hõbevalge», which seems to be the origin of the Saarema theory (or rather from the Estonian legends about the crater there, which Meri seems to have tied in with the Geminus quote).

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Tony
1/9/2016 04:15:16 pm

Now if only some intrepid explorer would endeavor to ascertain the origin(s) of Mr. Kenney's compulsion to compose run-on sentences.

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Juan
1/10/2016 09:00:54 am

In re Oak Island. Does anyone know who all are bankrolling this show? The network? The Canadian or provincial governments? I mean, the expenditure of cash, which they seem to go through like water, is amazing. They walk into a CAT dealership, buy what looks like about $300K in heavy equipment, and don't bat an eye. Never mind, all the people they have to contract for other work.

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Joe Scales
1/10/2016 11:16:12 am

I doubt they actually bought all that stuff. More likely it was a rental and the lot scene was staged. I also thought it was funny when they put Marty in the backhoe on the island to have him dig while his brother was standing by the target. The cut and edit there was most telling, as there was never a long shot showing Marty in the cab actually doing the digging right next to where his brother was standing.

It's a television show meant to entertain. Truth and accuracy not being necessary.

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Juan
1/10/2016 11:58:40 am

Could have been a rental, but if you noticed, that was all brand new equipment, not muddied stuff which has been used before, which is what usually gets leased out.

On another point, it's clear they're trying to stretch this all out as far as they can, ending the last episode with the diver just going down. Plus, all the repetition fills in the 50 minutes of program pretty well.

Finally, a question. They made a big deal about patching things up with Nolan. As I understood it, he owns the land where the Swamp is located, which they have tried to drain twice. Didn't they need his ok for that?

Joe Scales
1/10/2016 10:43:19 pm

It was shiny and new on the lot, where the company got a nice plug. Thing is, whether it's a deal with Nolan or an equipment rental, the show is built on lies. You cannot trust anything given as fact. It is pure entertainment.

Steve Dempsey
1/10/2016 10:44:11 am

There's plenty of tangible smurf evidence:
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-year-the-smurfs-attacked-6752872
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Smurf-victim-tells-fear-series-bizarre-incidents/story-16311978-detail/story.html
http://cw39.com/2013/01/10/gang-of-smurfs-beat-man-for-refusing-to-give-them-a-cigarette/

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Rose McDonald
2/25/2016 03:03:25 pm

I'd really like to hear what Dave Blankenship has to say about this. He really comes across as a straight shooter and based on instinct, I'd be inclined to believe him. He said someone on the production crew brought in Pulitzer and now they can't get rid of him. (I believe that.) He also said they bought the sword because Rick (Lagina) wanted it. I'd also believe that, It seems to me that Rick Lagina is way more than a little neurotic about the whole thing. and too willing to grab any over the edge theory that might support his obsession. Caught the expression on Dave's face when the "Mayan" theorist was on and it confirmed what i'd been thinking for a LONG time. I stopped watching the show because of all the bull---- being shoveled out.

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