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Fringe History in 2013: The Year in Review

1/1/2014

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Welcome to 2014! As we start the New Year, I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past twelve months. I think that this question and answer posted on Yahoo! Answers Canada mere hours before the end of the year last night just about sums up everything we learned about fringe history in 2013:

Jeff: Bros, how did the ancient space aliens teach Africans how to build pyramids and algebra?

Lucas: Aryans, not aliens. Modern A-rabs (sic) are nothing like the Egyptians of the past.

Omar: graham hancock is interesting but not an authority. the quest[i]on [i]s how did egyptians teach olmecs to build pyramids?

Ridiculous, ignorant, and more than a little racist: Yes, this was the year that was.

(Note: A few of the events described below may have begun a bit earlier than 2013 but attained prominence this past year.)

The year in fringe history opened inauspiciously with the announcement in January that America Unearthed had surpassed Ancient Aliens as the top-rated fringe history show on H2, and on television in general, topping out with more than one million weekly viewers before ratings began to decline. Over the course of its first season, America Unearthed proposed a baroque conspiracy of Europeans who repeatedly sailed to America before Columbus in order to establish failed colonies devoted to heretical Christianity and to lay the groundwork for the future United States, under the protection of God, the Knights Templar, and the Freemasons. H2 declined to release ratings for the second season, probably because fewer people watch the show in its new Saturday night time slot.

Ancient Aliens proposed an increasingly fanciful worldview where inter-dimensional, godlike beings served in fact as gods and shepherded the souls of true believers to an inter-dimensional paradise of eternal life. This year the show gave up the pretense of being about extraterrestrials, leaving “consulting producer” Giorgio Tsoukalos the odd man out among a cast who preferred to talk about spirituality and religion rather than aliens.

The success of both programs led Destination America to pick up knock-off show Unsealed: Alien Files, which differentiated itself from the H2 programs by implying that aliens are scary and viewers should be really, really afraid. Both the History Channel and Discovery’s Military Channel aired pseudo-scholarly programs exploring Bible secrets: Bible Secrets Revealed and Bible’s Greatest Secrets, respectively. The former relied on the “expert” opinion of a woman who married an ancient astronaut theorist and believes herself to be a direct descendant of Jesus. The latter attempted to use military experts to “prove” biblical legends were possible under the laws of physics. Discovery’s Animal Planet fooled America with a second (!) fake documentary about the history of mermaids, while Discovery itself hoaxed America with a fake documentary about the continued existence of prehistoric sharks.

On the literary front, Erich von Däniken released a new book, and after nearly twenty years of repeating almost verbatim his older works, for the first time he acknowledged that his new book was in fact repetitive and derivative. This time, though, he said that the copying was intentional, a grand synthesis of his earlier work. He then promptly forgot to include aliens.

Fingerprints of the Gods author Graham Hancock admitted that he had been high on marijuana “continuously” when he was writing his books about a lost white super-civilization that ruled the Ice Age earth. He said he was a heavy marijuana user from 1987 to 2011 before switching to ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogen. Hancock claimed that marijuana made him paranoid and this may have affected his judgment about academic and government conspiracies to suppress the truth. By contrast, he announced that ayahuasca has let him communicate with supernatural entities from another dimension. He also announced plans for a new sequel to Fingerprints, which would be written in light of his ayahuasca revelations rather than those of marijuana.

America Unearthed host Scott F. Wolter released a book intended as a companion volume to America Unearthed. However, thanks to Wolter’s own machinations against me (see below), A+E Networks, parent of H2, required his publisher to run a disclaimer stating that the book was not affiliated with the program and did not represent A+E Networks’ views. H2 allowed Committee Films, the producers of America Unearthed, to promote Wolter’s book on screen in each episode of the second season of America Unearthed anyway. In the book, Wolter expanded on his elaborate Knights Templar conspiracy theory, tying it to the history of ancient Egypt, which he admitted to not having studied in any great depth, and the Bible, which he admitted to not having read except in secondhand summaries from other fringe writers. He concluded by asserting that Oreo cookies were hiding the truth about the real history of Jesus, whom he believes was once the king of Syria and the founder of royal dynasty that rightfully owns America thanks to a land claim made by the Knights Templar. He implied that the new pope, Francis, was part of the conspiracy to hide the truth about the semi-divine descendants of Jesus.

Historian Graham Robb got a hearing for his uncredited rewrite of Xavier Guichard’s ideas about the solar alignments of ancient sites. Robb tried to argue that the Celts had done advanced mapping of Western Europe, aligning settlements along continent-wide meridians, but archaeologists who reviewed Robb’s claims in The Discovery of Middle Earth concluded that Robb’s imagination far outpaced the evidence.

In the world outside of the media, Erich von Däniken’s plans for a global franchise of Chariots of the Gods theme parks appeared to go bust after the holding company charged with exploiting his “intellectual” property failed to find investors.

The “Contact in the Desert” conference and the Paradigm Symposium brought together fringe figures of various stripes for several days of for-profit lectures on fringe history topics. The first, devoted to ancient astronauts, resulted in accusations from Ancient Aliens pundit William Henry and unnamed witnesses quoted by skeptic Robert Schaeffer that ufologist Steven Greer unlawfully imprisoned Henry's wife and the rest of the audience during a talk by Greer when Greer’s security detail locked the doors and refused to let her out. (Note: The preceding sentence has been edited to reflect William Henry's version of events after Henry contacted me and requested a correction.) At the Paradigm Symposium, Scott Wolter presented his Oreo cookie theories to a shocked audience, which included an outraged PZ Myers, while fringe creationist L. A. Marzulli delivered a rambling speech about fallen angels that led to Marzulli’s defenders taking me to task for not believing that sin is genetically transmitted on the Y-chromosome, or that Jesus was specially conceived by a hand-crafted sperm carried to Mary by the Holy Spirit.

That kerfuffle paled in comparison to two attempts by H2 figures to sue me for criticizing them. In April, millionaire ancient astronaut theorist Jason Martell threatened me with a lawsuit for accidentally leaving a zero off the number of years Martell believes that it takes the non-existent planet Nibiru to swing through the universe. He expanded his discontent to include all criticisms of his work that I had ever made. Martell backed down after we exchanged hostile emails, but this culminated in Martell’s followers engaging in a coordinated campaign to bombard me with hate mail, spawning a death threat. I learned that Martell had sent out a mass email to his followers requesting they send me hate mail when one of them accidentally forwarded me Martell’s email in his hate message to me.

More serious was the cease and desist order I received from A+E Networks later in the spring ordering me not to publish Unearthing the Truth, my collected reviews of the first season of America Unearthed. The network hired one of the country’s top intellectual property lawyers to pursue the case at the instigation of “talent” from America Unearthed, which the lawyer confirmed was Scott Wolter. A+E Networks tried making the case that my book infringed on Scott Wolter’s ownership of a letter of the alphabet, the letter X, when that letter had a small hook in the corner, a form that had been in uncontested public domain use since the fifteenth century. After a month of legal wrangling, A+E Networks conceded that Wolter did not in fact own the letter X, hooked or otherwise, and they withdrew the cease and desist order after I agreed to a more prominent disclaimer stating that my book was not affiliated with A+E Networks or America Unearthed. Publication of Scott Wolter’s new book was delayed after I asked A+E Networks for an official statement on whether they endorsed Wolter’s book, prompting them to require the publisher to add a disclaimer that they did not.

After I reported early in the year what a source told me about a meeting between Scott Wolter and History officials to discuss America Unearthed and its claims about religion, a History official contacted me to deny the story and request a retraction. I retracted the story on the strength of the History denial only to have Scott Wolter himself inadvertantly confirm the essential truth of what my source told me months later during a radio interview.


For having his employer try to sue me, for hosting the highest-rated fringe history show, and for making the year’s craziest claim (that Oreo cookies encode secret Jesus-Templar truths), Scott F. Wolter is our 2013 fringe history MVP! Really, who else could it have been?

In my own little world, this past year saw my book, Cthulhu in World Mythology, remain unpublished for a second year after the publisher, Atomic Overminded, missed several deadlines. The book is now scheduled for the first quarter of this year, and if it is not out by April, the rights to the book revert back to me. A high profile editor at a large New York publisher requested material from me for a book I’ve been working on, expressed interest in picking up the book, and then told my literary agent he has been too busy to review the material he requested for the past nine months. On a more hopeful note, McFarland picked up my Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages, which should be out by the middle of the year.

This year sales of my self-published JasonColavito.com Books volumes outpaced sales of my traditionally-published books. My self-published books now generate more than ten times the royalties of my traditionally published books. My best-selling volumes have been my essay collection Faking History, my translation of the Orphic Argonautica, and my reprint of James Frazer’s The Great Flood.

2013 was a bizarre year for fringe history, one of the most eventful I can remember. Here’s to a quieter and less litigious 2014!

64 Comments
LynnBrant link
1/1/2014 02:23:27 am

I think you should have given yourself co-MVP for your supporting role with Scott. I never watched a single episode of AU, but was hugely entertained nonetheless!

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CFC
1/1/2014 03:04:43 am

Jason,
I have had several occasions to talk about your blog and share copies of your book this past year.
Thank you for exposing the trail of deception behind Scott Wolter and his entourage, and for demonstrating the positive role thoughtful journalism can play in educating the public about dishonest programming. Your intellectual capacity, courage and commitment are admired by many.
Well done Jason!!!

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RLewis
1/1/2014 04:45:36 am

Congratulations on a year well-done, Jason. I raise a glass of milk (for my Oreos) in your honor.

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Dave Lewis
1/1/2014 07:11:52 am

The Obscure Word MVP award goes to Jason Colavito for using the word "kerfluffle".

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David Hatcher Childress
1/1/2014 07:22:38 am

I want to be the first to congratulate Scott Wolter on winning the coveted Fringe History MVP award. You are totally insane, and I mean that in a good way ($$$$$)!

DHC

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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
1/1/2014 07:25:09 am

Is there a category for best hair by a fringe historian?

GAS

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Church Lady
1/1/2014 07:45:24 am

Wonder what's hiding in that nightmarish hairdo.

Now who could it be? Could it be........SATAN?

Only Me
1/1/2014 07:48:34 am

Maybe it's some koind of...extra-terrestrial device?

Only Me
1/1/2014 07:46:44 am

A toast to you for a year well spent. You weathered the storm. Now, stretch out your arms and keep ringing the bell of truth.

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Scott Wolter
1/1/2014 07:53:44 am

I am honored to present the Lifetime Achievement Award (promotion of the Kensington Rune Stone) to Gunn Sinclair!

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Gunn Sinclair link
1/1/2014 09:31:36 am

Thank you, thank you. I'm just glad now that everyone can have the chance to observe firsthand how logic and extrapolation can be used to better understand a historical circumstance...in this case, the circumstances of how and why the aforementioned famous runestone ended up out in the middle of nowhere, yet right where it was supposed to be.

So now, finally, we see how two great water-ways from faraway northern and East Coast oceanic origination points come inland to meet, bringing recognizable significance to lonely New Gotaland, in SE South Dakota. Yes, New Gotaland is the land area now comprising the length of the present day Whetstone River.

I'm sorry to say that the promotion of the KRS may now take back seat to rather instead promoting this new idea of Runestone Hill being a geographical mapping knoll, and not that significant when compared to the geographical MEETING PLACE of the aforementioned two great inland water-ways which essentially each begin from the ocean...Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence Seaway. It is obvious that Scandinavians knew of this far inland meeting place, as can be seen in the land markings, done mostly by using stoneholes in rocks.

The circle is now complete and there is no longer such a need to talk about stoneholes, or the KRS. Now we await conclusive proof from the newly-identified archaeology site of New Gotaland. Eventually, it will come. Happy new year!

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Gunn
1/2/2014 12:26:03 am

The extrapolations cannot cease, as we guess that the elusive NEW JERUSALEM so much ballyhooed about was most likely centered where the great inland water-ways converge. I suppose one could stretch this to include the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico, to add to the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Hudson bay entrance points that converge at NEW GOTALAND, aka the Whetstone River of SD.

So then, speculators of grids and paradigms and sacred geometry and New Jerusalem's, you may now speculate that the hunt for the New Jerusalem in the center of North America is over.

Now, though, the questions: Were the Templars in any way involved with Scandinavians sojourning (a calming word) at this amazing meeting of the FAR INLAND oceanic water-ways? Or does New Gotaland represent private attempts at future settlement? Could the "Lost Greenlanders" have been involved? Could the Lost Greenlanders have become the Mandans, centuries later in North Dakota? And, what does the HOOKED X have to do, if anything, with this newly identified New Gotaland? When was New Gotaland marked up with stoneholes compared to when the KRS was carved (1362)? Who were the KRS party, besides men from Gotaland and Norrland--Sweden? Whose interest did they represent...their own or someone else's? A government's interest...a King's interest...an esoteric group's interest...or merely private interest? Did Vikings find this far inland circular route, or was it discovered centuries later, closer to the time-frame of the KRS? Is this New Gotaland location in any way connected with the Newport Tower?

Was it reasonable or unreasonable to think a new nation could be begun from the center of a New Continent, rather than from the usual coastal beginnings, if this was a medieval consideration? I suppose it would depend on the connections, wouldn't it....

Discovery of America
1/2/2014 05:47:52 am

GUNN IS FIRING BLANKS AGAIN

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Gunn
1/2/2014 01:16:35 pm

Gunn doesn't fire blanks, but he does take prisoners and treats them well. Tonight's meal: Banty rooster. Not too much meat on the bone. Noisy, and not much there, but there's always enough of them strutting around to make a good meal for my prisoners. Not always colorful, either; some Banty roosters are dull. They stupidly go blink...blink...blink in the dark and just wait for the slightest bit of light to start crowing. I never heard of a chicken named Discovery of America. Sounds like something Ben Franklin would've come up with.

Only Me
1/2/2014 01:34:53 pm

Actually, ol' Ben supported the idea of making the turkey the national bird. Thanksgiving wouldn't have been the same if we ate bald eagle during the feast.

Gunn
1/3/2014 03:26:18 am

Right, not to mention that bald eagles represent the Great Spirit to some Native Americans...bad idea to gobble one up for the 1st Thanksgiving. (Probably tough, anyway.)

I heard North Korean hunting dogs taste good, and vice-versa.

Only Me
1/3/2014 06:31:11 am

That brings back some bad memories. The sounds from the dog farm near the area I worked in Korea. I sit in judgment of no man's culture, but hearing the pitiable sounds from that farm made me sick...especially when it was "harvesting" time.

On a more positive note, I can safely say that I have no idea what North Koreans taste like. I would imagine they would have a bitter quimche aftertaste. Maybe that's why Godzilla prefers Tokyo?

Gunn
1/3/2014 08:50:24 am

Dogs weren't safe outside the dog farms, either. One afternoon not long after I arrived in South Korea, in 1969, I was inconspicuously sitting down on a mountainside expecting to enjoy some peacefulness away from my new barracks. I was just sitting there minding my own business when I saw this guy garrote a half grown dog--some kind of shepherd-mix--on one of those footpaths running through the rice paddies. The poor creature was fooled into thinking that the man with the bicycle might be a new chum--maybe with a treat, but he wasn't a new playmate at all. He was only interested in a treat for himself.

As I sat there in quiet observation, he looped a rope around the dog's neck and matter-of-factly strangled it--the poor dog kicking for air, not making any sound--across the bar of his bicycle. While driving a truck once, I was slowed down by a fellow riding a bicycle, and he had a basket fastened onto the back , and there was blood dripping out of it onto the dusty road. Great place to leave back in those days.

Here's a crude map I drew up showing the whereabouts of "New Gotaland."

http://www.hallmarkemporium.com/discoveries/id33.html

I was re-reading some of Wolter's X book today and I notice on pages 120-122 that he went into a bit of detail comparing European Templar STONEHOLES to possible American stoneholes. Not much is known about European stoneholes, apparently, so this stands out a bit more in my mind than before...the possible connection of Templars to stoneholes here.

If we backed up just a short time from the KRS (1362) that could put the making of the stoneholes here in the Templar range. Not only that, Only Me, but that means that POSSIBLY those Lost Templars became the Mandans as we know them. No wonder they were so tough, hanging from chest skin and muscles, etc., until reaching their vision.

Then the knapped knife would be thrown into the Missouri River.

Only Me
1/3/2014 09:39:32 am

I'm just not too keen on the idea of Lost Templars. It sounds too much like a continuation of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I find much more likely that the Templars would have used their fleet to escape to safer lands...Scotland, Portugal, possibly Switzerland and the Cistercian abbeys in Gotland. Any nation worthy of the name, would have realized what an asset an order, like the Templars, would be. Since their coffers and assets were taken by King Philip IV, for financial reasons, he would have found the effort of reclaiming them through force highly impractical.

Is it possible they educated themselves about Nordic runes? Yes, since they incorporated Middle Eastern motifs in their architecture. But then, why use an expression like "Ave Maria" (as found on the KRS)? Wouldn't their oath to God trump this? I would think they'd offer prayers of deliverance to the Almighty instead.

My opinion on the stone holes is this: I think they may have been made, over time, through a variety of reasons. I think you're limiting yourself by concentrating on a single cause. At this stage, only a study by geologists may provide an answer.

As to the Mandans, I believe a thorough DNA study might shed some much needed light on the question. This also reminds me of a comment made by a Native American on an older thread. IF, as Scott Wolter claims, ancient Europeans have been coming to America (starting with the Phoenicians and leading to the Templars), why was such a large percentage of the Native American population decimated by diseases like smallpox? Surely, such long term contact would have led to an immunity to such diseases, long before the arrival of the Spanish.

Logical speculation can be helpful, but what is really needed is physical evidence to put to the test. Let's not be too hasty to add new place names to the lexicon before all available sources are exhausted.

Gunn
1/3/2014 05:40:45 pm

Ave Marie is a trouble-maker.

So, these folks were Catholic and had no qualms about asking for spiritual feminine help. Even today, there seems to be an odd "praying through the saints" in the Catholic Church that I don't quite understand, since Jesus is supposed to be the only mediator between God and humans--according to Scripture, Biblical Scripture. I've never understood this willingness to engage the saints. I believe one can approach God through Jesus directly, but not through the so-called saints. And this prohibition would extend to Mary, since Jesus is supposed to be the only Mediator, according to Scripture.

So, bottom line, were the ten survivors depending on the wrong helper? It kind of looks like it.

Sorry, Only Me, but it is too late to withdraw "New Gotaland" from where the ocean-to-river water-ways far inland meet. We still have this seemingly insurmountable problem of having two different viewpoints about what the "evidences" in this area mean. I am convinced of one thing, you of another, but that's okay. The good thing about these stoneholes and carvings is that they're still there, waiting further analysis.

If I were to try one more time to make an impact on you, to convince you to look closer, I would ask you to re-consider the huge numbers of these stoneholes spread over the area of a small, entire river, out in the middle of nowhere, un-blasted, spread over miles and miles of land, but in one small, isolated area. Only Me, these very real oddities must be explained, and they can't be explained--in my mind so far--by anything else other than what I'm proposing, which does go along with the KRS message and other evidences found in the region, too...speaking of the many medieval war weapons, etc.

In your viewpoint, these many clues to the past don't add up, but to me, they do. And I see the biggest concentration of these evidences at one specific point, and that's where these inland river routes dwindle down but then meet at the Big Stone Lake area.

By the way, this is only a short distance from the Continental Divide. Water flows north from here, and south from here. At times of flooding, the Little MN River can empty out in both directions.

"New Gotaland" isn't an imaginary place. It's now a recognizable place. Also, now we see what little part Runestone Hill plays into the picture, by comparison...it being most likely just a geographical locater spot on the straight compass line between New Gotaland and Duluth--where the Norse ship was positioned, waiting.

Anyway, thanks for your patience as I try to work at this sometimes fun puzzle. Sometimes it can be frustrating, too, but I feel that the whole thing makes more sense now that New Gotaland has come closer into view. Kind of like that movie, Brigadoon, when the hunters first stumbled upon the view of enchanted Brigadoon...only New Gotaland is really there. Where? There--by the dad-gum stoneholes!

(Quite simple, really, just difficult to realize.)

I guess we should probably end the subject, unless there's anything you genuinely have questions about, still...as though I could possibly still convince you of anything. Why not, as long as something possibly new and truthful can be learned? Actually, that's what helped me discover this "New Gotaland," looking for the truth about all the stoneholes up here. Now things make more sense, and I have a bit of closure on the general subject, perhaps leaving me time to wonder what specific stonehole patterns might mean...like three together, for instance. It means something, doesn't it?

Only Me
1/3/2014 07:08:58 pm

Since you thanked me for my patience, allow me to clarify my thoughts.

I'm not convinced the evidence you mention means any one thing. I try to choose my words carefully toward this subject, as the KRS and the stone holes are real. No doubt, the weapons, personal items and carvings are real. But they mean nothing, specifically, because, as you've pointed out before, people have tried to add to the basic story. Wolter hasn't helped by introducing Norsemen, Templars and French Normans as likely suspects. Then there's the hooked X and the alleged code within the inscription on the KRS. Too many hypotheses have muddied the waters.

I still remain undecided, as I've found the arguments, both for and against, the authenticity of the KRS to be of equal measure. Has the debate changed as more has been discovered? Of course.

See, I don't really have a need to be convinced of anything. If the evidence is there, then the narrative you propose cannot be denied. Unfortunately, some of the evidence, such as the weaponry, are without provenance. I understand completely what you're saying about the geographical area. However (bear with me, please), the fact that the stone holes and weaponry have been found, as you said, in a small isolated area, close enough to be associated with the KRS, is sufficient to raise red flags to those who have studied how hoax artifacts were also discovered. Generally, they were also found in a small isolated area. The fact that the area around the KRS is home to many Swedish immigrants also raises red flags.

Basically, the clues are difficult to align, because there are so many questions. The picture they are supposed to recreate keeps changing, dependent on the acceptance of any new idea that gets introduced and who is behind the introduction. It also doesn't help that many consider the case to be closed. The biggest questions, which may be the key: Which came first, the stone holes or the KRS? The carvings and weaponry or the KRS? Can the provenance of one line of evidence be established, to preclude the idea of a hoax, or the purposeful "seeding" of the area to support said hoax?

I truly understand your passion for the subject; I'm merely suggesting more caution. After all, I'm from Texas, and there really isn't anyone, outside of the fringe element, that believes for a second that the rock wall in Rockwall is anything other than a natural formation. It's actually ironic; the KRS is considered a hoax, and you're advocating for its authenticity based on recent studies. The rock wall is natural, but there are those who advocate for a man-made origin, IN SPITE OF the studies done.

Strange times, indeed.

Gunn link
1/4/2014 03:12:40 am

Well, of course, that's the problem...when the KRS is viewed as a hoax. In this process of working things out in my own mind, it was fairly easy to see that creating this hoax would have been next to impossible, given all the information and totality of circumstances. That is the beginning of my own mindset: that it is not very possible for the stone to be a hoax.

Now, to open a can of worms a bit, or more accurately to open the lid on Jason's or Scott's Pandora's Box, let's look back a bit closer to the medieval use of the now-infamous Hooked X. Looking back through his book, I see that Wolter was clear in his insinuations about a possible connection between American Hooked X's and European--possibly Templar--Hooked X's. And, of course, that makes it a bit more likely that Wolter may be right about Templars being involved with leaving the KRS, which is littered with Hooked X's.

Maybe Jason would begin a new blog heading on the subject and it could be explored further. Wolter points out that a similar stonehole to those here is found in Scotland, but more importantly:

"Another place where the medieval Knights Templar were known to frequent was the Baltic Sea island of Bornhom in Denmark. During a trip to the island in August of 2008, while filming for a documentary, we visited the largest castle in Northern Europe. Hammershus Castle is believed to have been constructed in part by Templar stone masons for King Valdimar II in the thirteenth century." (Pages 120-121, The Hooked X....) Then Wolter goes on to tell about finding a half dozen stoneholes in the courtyard of the castle...within "intermittent areas of glacially smoothed granite bedrock...." On page 21, he goes on to say, "These European examples of stone holes and their possible association with the Knights Templar are identical in size and depth to those found in America and represent yet more mysterious smoke billowing near what appears to be quickly becoming a very hot fire."

So then, Only Me, we might be back to the Templars again...and the survivors looking for help through Jesus's Mother instead of through God directly. Yes, yes, very strange doctrine, indeed. Perhaps there is a misapplied feminist angle in this after all...maybe perpetuated by the Catholic Church itself. But for the Templars to believe in such doctrine isn't surprising if the Catholic Church, itself, perpetuates praying through saints and Mary.

But, of course, we found out that others used the Hooked X, too, to communicate back in this timeframe. But I don't think the idea of Templars coming to the interior of medieval America is laughable, as some would scoff and say this isn't possible. Yes, it is possible, according to the evidence at hand. It is possible that Wolter is right about Templars wanting to begin a New Jerusalem in the middle of North America, and this even before the placing of the KRS.

A post-Templar situation doesn't need to be applied if the Templars came here years before the date on the KRS (1362). So, in fact, the Templars may have had something to do with the exploration and mapping of "New Gotaland" and the surrounding area. Maybe not, too, but Wolter isn't automatically wrong. He may even be right.

Wouldn't that be hilarious!

Jason Colavito link
1/4/2014 03:18:03 am

You're welcome to discuss stone holes in the Forum section of my website.

DrBB
1/4/2014 03:42:48 am

Only Me:

I think what I'm hearing from you boils down to our old friend Sagan's Razor: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Pace Gunn, but you seem to have absorbed the whole panoply of rhetorical gestures for this genre. Stringing long chains of rhetorical questions together and winding up with an "Is it unreasonable to think…?", then going on to treat that fog of stacked hypotheses as the basis for further conclusions is very much the mode of Ancient Astronauts and Holy Blood Holy Grail but in the end "what if" is all they've got. Thin gruel. I'm agnostic as to the authenticity of the KRS (disclosure: I'm from Minnesota and my mom's side of the family were post-WWI Norwegian immigrants), but remove it from your framework and the whole thing falls apart. It may not be wholly "unreasonable to think" Viking explorers found their way to the center of the continent, given sufficiently compelling evidence, but what you've got falls far short of the need given how UNLIKELY it is. You're not claiming they were Egyptians, so the bar isn't that high, but it's certainly a lot higher than the claim for a 1st millenium settlement in coastal Newfoundland, and the evidence for that case far exceeds anything you can point to here.

Gunn Sinclair link
1/4/2014 05:36:11 am

Well, I would've preferred the interruption after an Only Me comment. Jason eventually gets nervous when the subject is stoneholes. This is because they cannot be adequately explained, and they are completely tied in with pre-Columbus exploration into the very middle of America. So far, I believe the KRS is Jason's main threat to "establish history," as something becoming more and more credible, and it drives him almost nuts that the Knights Templar may have come to inland, medieval-era America. This thought almost shuts his brain down in exasperation.

Though I said I was basically through with the conversation anyway (Only Me, the trouble-maker?), it is clear that Jason is getting nervous. This is because he is half-Italian and we have a medieval axe to grind.

Here is some new information about stoneholes for those interested. Much current stonehole information credit should go to this early stone-hole advocate:

http://www.rense.com/general13/fodf.htm

By the way, Jason is right about people visiting, but not commenting. I hardly ever get an email communication, almost never, although my website now gets close to 200 page views each day. People are definitely learning about stoneholes, though I can see that Jason would like to bury the subject...again, from this thread. The subject becomes frightening, and Jason is no longer a teenager sucking up fear-thrills. This is ALL TOO REAL!

That's okay, I'll wait for the subject to come up again. It won't be long, and then we'll be on topic again. Talking about stoneholes won't be officially discouraged for long, as long as new information is forthcoming, and occasional new conclusions are being drawn.

I predict Columbus is going down for the 10-count, and Jason with him...because of the charismatic KRS, and of course, because of his worst enemy right now...stoneholes.

So, yes, life is like a stonehole circle...it must be so until they are even better explained. I am an advocate of the KRS and stoneholes, but please, no more comments or questions for now, Only Me. The thread is long anyway. Maybe Jason will shamelessly open a new blog heading for us: "Stoneholes & Their Meaning In a Medieval, mid-America Setting."

If I ever become the mayor of New Gotaland, I will consider banning Jason from the territory. Grounds: Suspicion of being a Sicilian spy. On guard!

Jason Colavito link
1/4/2014 05:43:00 am

How on earth is it "burying" the issue to ask you to discuss it in an open forum rather than in comments on an unrelated blog post? The Forum section is for discussion of topics not directly pertaining to this day's blog posts.

Gunn
1/4/2014 05:49:14 am

Interfering with free speech? You can't fill stoneholes in and smooth them over and pretend that they don't exist. These important stoneholes shouldn't be buried in a forum. And now, we see how stoneholes in Europe can possibly be tied in with the Knights Templar. Maybe the Knights Templar came far inland, Jason, to New Gotaland. (You better call before planning a trip.)

Jason Colavito link
1/4/2014 05:55:12 am

Forgive the harshness, but WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? I suggested moving the conversation to a different forum ON THIS SAME WEBSITE only AFTER you asked if I planned to start a new topic on stone holes. In turn, I took the opportunity to tell you that you were welcome to discuss them to your heart's content in my community discussion forums.

I rescind the invitation. You may go speak your mind on your own website from now on. I've had enough of you treating me like a combination of Big Brother and Stalin just because I thought it might be a good idea to have conversations on a slightly different page of this website where all the discussion on one topic would be in the same place.

Gunn
1/4/2014 05:58:48 am

Okay Big Brother, Stalin. Goodbye.

Only Me
1/4/2014 12:29:56 pm

My apologies to both of you. It wasn't my intent to spark another stand-off between you.

After repeated postings about the New Gotaland/Jerusalem angle, I merely wanted to advise caution on the subject. There has already been a lot of heat generated in the past, concerning the individual elements of the topic.

Again, I apologize. I'll try to refrain from allowing unrelated discussions to take over a thread.

Jason Colavito link
1/4/2014 12:34:25 pm

There's no need to apologize. I've just become frustrated with Gunn attacking me for supposedly suppressing his free speech.

DrBB
1/4/2014 02:56:21 pm

Only Me: FWIW I thought your responses were quite even tempered and deferential, in marked contrast to those of your interlocutor. Mr Gunn seems the very prototype of the mentality these shows encourage: conclusions are all based on very meager empirical evidence of uncertain provenance leading to long chains of supposition in which the "what ifs" of one sentence are mysteriously transmuted into established facts in the next--and the whole thing covered in a brittle veneer of reasonableness that breaks, when challenged, into ad hominem attacks, ripostes bordering on incoherence, or repetitions of the original assertions with no evidence that he has understood and sought to address the specifics of the counter-argument.

What's worse is that this whole mode of "reasoning" is cast by its practitioners as outside-the-box thinking unfettered by what They Want You To Think, when in fact it is the antithesis of critical thinking and highly vulnerable to manipulation by unscrupulous hoaxters, scam artists and demagogues.

Uncle Ron
1/5/2014 10:21:23 am

Thank you, Jason. I enjoy your blog and I enjoy the many comments attached. But I am sorely tired of nearly every topic somehow getting turned back toward the Kensington Ruse Stone.

Harry
1/1/2014 07:55:17 am

Fact-checking (or should I say factless-checking) these books and programs might sometimes seem like a thankless task, but thank you for doing it.

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David Wilcock
1/1/2014 08:02:32 am

The award for Talking Head Commentary by a Dead Fringe Historian goes to Phillip Coppens.

DW

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Thane
1/1/2014 10:25:18 am

Happy New Year, Jason and all.

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charlie
1/1/2014 01:36:52 pm

Jason,
Happy New year sir.
Congratulations on your accomplishments this year. May you continue your success in this year and forward.
This post had me laughing out loud. In particular, your take on Scott and his new book. The comments you made on that were the best and funniest on this site yet.
A very, very BIG thank you for all that you do on this site and for your books.
Keep telling the truth and debunking the frauds who are only after the money of those who do not know any better.

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Titus pullo
1/1/2014 02:09:57 pm

I fell of my chair laughing while reading this one Jason. The Hancock anecdote was so hilarious, the I was stoned defense for 20 years had me laughing for a long time. You get the MVP award for calling these folks out!

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MJ
1/2/2014 04:35:32 am

MVP also stands for Mitral Valve Prolapse - thought I was having this on occasion while watching UA et al, from giggling too hard.
Good Blog Jason and keep up the the good work especially in providing documentation on your facts.

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Dave Lewis
1/1/2014 03:40:43 pm

Do you suppose that it would possible to predict what fringe area a writer would tend towards based on the type of narcotics he uses?

So, anybody planning on moving to Colorado?

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Shane Sullivan
1/1/2014 05:29:44 pm

Now that Hancock is using hallucinogens, I expect to see a marked increase in his material dealing with space scorpions crawling all over his house.

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Reply to Shane Sullivan
1/2/2014 05:46:24 am

It was scientists using hallucinogens that enabled the invention of this technology that you are using - you won't find this information in any scholarly reference book

Leary
1/2/2014 05:49:49 am

The Holy Bible Turn On Tune In Drop Out

LynnBrant link
1/2/2014 12:34:23 am

A mass invasion of alien Cheetos. The earth can be saved only by..... eating them ALL!!

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Paul Cargile
1/2/2014 02:56:52 am

Anyone know if Science Channel's "The Unexplained Files" is aimed at debunking or promoting fringe theories and explanations?

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Only Me
1/2/2014 05:05:08 am

I've seen a few episodes, and I think it takes the format of "Here's the story, the testimony...you decide."

I haven't seen any pundits like AA or Unsealed: Alien Files. My only complaint is that the show covers the same stories that have already been covered on other similar shows for decades. I'm hoping there will eventually be fresher material.

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Paul Cargile
1/3/2014 12:42:41 am

I saw previews for it and it looked like it might be debunking things, but when I checked out the website I saw things that I thought were already settled like spontenous human combustion and cattle mutilation.

I won't be wasting my time with that.

A. J. West link
1/2/2014 06:07:26 am

Jason, your blog is perhaps the most consistent and best written that I've ever come across. You do not bear your cross in vain, and I think all of your readers appreciate the hard work you put in. I'm amazed by your breadth and depth of knowledge on so many things, and I look forward to each new post, which almost always comes fast on the heels of the previous ones.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2014 12:49:37 pm

Thank you for the kind words, A.J., though I have to credit Google (especially Google Books) for a good chunk of that knowledge!

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Bill F
1/2/2014 08:57:54 am

Jason: I recently came across the series Unearthing America and the episodes seemed interesting. It turns out it is an double-edged sword as far as that interest is concerned. Unlike the host, Scott Wolter, I do have a Master's Degree (earned-not honorary) in Geology. The very first episode I saw was on the "Wall" located near Rockwall, Texas. I found the idea interesting but the "science" performed by Wolter-lacking. I strongly get the idea from this episode and those I watched subsequently that Wolter probably slept through those bachelor degree classes he took. He does a cursory examination of the area and concludes the rocks of the wall are different than the surrounding area-hey-has he ever looked at a geologic map? Rock types can change within a few feet or more. He tries to include a more interesting bit of science with the paleomagnetic work he has done. At this point I thought maybe there is something to the show. Until I saw the pitiful number of samples taken and from adjacent rock blocks-no wonder they all showed the same orientation. Then his explanation for the wall being limestone being pushed up through large cracks developed by the surrounding sediment drying out-what a crock! He could have possibly answered the question by examining the sediment layers deeper down (it's Texas-surely there are cores samples available) or look for the same sort of structure on a smaller scale-why would you have miles of this "phenomena" on the scale shown without something on a smaller scale intermixed? Overall I find myself very dissatisfied with this show and its host. The science is shoddy and it the conclusions tending towards the insupportable. Is it entertaining? Not really in my mind (as twisted as it is) but maybe in the minds of those who don't really know much about science involved. Thanks for letting me vent.

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LynnBrant link
1/3/2014 02:31:49 am

You should re4view his "methodology" for dating the Kensington Rune Stone.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
1/3/2014 06:06:53 am

Actually, with the soils found throughout Texas on the east side of the Balcones Fault, that explanation is a reasonable one. Most of the underlying rock units are limestone as described by Wolter, and the surface sediment is generally a very highly expansive soil. Given hard enough drought, cracks down to seventy feet are not unheard of. The Balcones Fault hasn't been active in forever, but it could have been upthrust through the cracks as a path of least resistance at a more active stage. Multiple events would widen the breach. In short, it isn't likely, but neither is the Grand Canyon or the mechanism of the Nile flood.

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Matt Mc
1/2/2014 09:11:11 am

Here's a good one

http://jezebel.com/dogs-poop-in-line-with-the-earths-magnetic-field-1493227998

Could this be a new topic for AA theorist? Are dogs really a genetic hybrid the Ancient Aliens left to monitor us poor humans. Is the fact that they poop along the lines of magnetic fields the breakthrough that proves Alien interaction?

Sadly this could not rival the Oreo theory but it could come close, plus it would be great to see an episode of AA talking about dog poop and aliens

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Scott Wolter
1/2/2014 01:07:00 pm

I'm already working on that episode. We've also heard rumors of a Dachshund that poops oreo shaped doo.

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Only Me
1/2/2014 04:54:38 pm

Hmmm. Dachshund is German; the Teutonic Knights were German. Maybe, it wasn't the Templars seeding America with hidden clues and strange artifacts. Maybe the attention needs to fall on the Teutonic Knights!

LynnBrant
1/3/2014 02:33:45 am

Nonsense. Dogs poop randomly.

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Gunn
1/3/2014 03:33:46 am

Ya, smell like dog poop to me too.

Some dogs, In a seeming panic, will run in an ever-tightening circle until just in that magical spot. If not achieved right away, the dog doesn't mind turning and twisting in all directions until JUST THE RIGHT (thanks Varika) SPOT is chosen for the big drop. This certainly does not look like a random event, but rather instead a well planned one.

The Other J.
1/10/2014 06:52:18 am

Dogs don't poop all that randomly -- they take great care in picking out just the right spot. My one beagle is having a hell of a time finding her preferred places now that we had a little snow.

But the research isn't really about that; it's that dogs align their bodies up from a north-to-south axis when squatting, and only go east-to-west when there's no other option. And since I read the article, I've noticed my two beagles have done that every time they needed to go in the past week. They usually have their heads facing north, but if the view is blocked, they may face south.

DrBB
1/3/2014 06:40:09 am

Of course you realize all this has been covered--quite exhaustively--many years ago by the Firesign Theater.
http://youtu.be/EtXGKqWz8nU

The fact that it is still with us is depressing proof, were any needed, of the powerlessness of snark to combat stupidity. And if satire doesn't work, how can facts and logic stand a chance?

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LizBiz
1/5/2014 07:22:19 am

@Jason I am a newcomer to your web page, etc., but a long time reader of fringe history starting with Early British Trackways by Alfred Watkins and Holy Blood, Holy Grail. I have visited Britain to explore ley lines and France to visit Rennes-le-Château and the Cathar castles. I found them interesting fictional locations and I enjoy your description of AU for similar reasons.

Please keep up your Skepticism; it's greatly appreciated.

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Denis Gojak
1/5/2014 08:09:58 am

And Jason, you deserve some sort of award shaped like a giant headache tablet for having to face this week-in, week-out. Well done for seeing through 2013, and many thanks from me and, I am sure, many other readers who appreciate the effort you go to each week to provide entertaining and authoritative commentary on some of the more colourful denizens of our planet. Hope 2014 goes well for you and yours.

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Jeroen Bruijns
1/6/2014 10:18:51 pm

I got the feeling this alternative reality stuff and conspiracy thinking is bigger in America than it is in other countries. Correct? and why so?
I once read that people who feel less in control of their own lives are more susceptible for conspiracy theories. Any comment on that?

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Jason Colavito link
1/7/2014 07:18:08 am

It tends to be bigger in America, but other countries have their own crazy ideas, many of them centered around conspiracies of what they think America is doing to them. On the other hand, many of the most important fringe thinkers are from outside America: Barry Fell (NZ), Erich von Daniken (Switzerland), David Icke (Britain), Graham Hancock (Britain), Robert Bauval (Egypt), Giorgio Tsoukalos (Swiss-born Greek), etc.

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Matt Mc
1/7/2014 08:20:56 am

I wonder if that people (assuming you mean cultures) who have less control of their lives really are more susceptible to conspiracy theories. I do wonder if conspiracy theories where prevalent in East Germany and the Soviet Union before the fall of the Soviet Union. Or does China or North Korea or other really repressive societies have a larger group of conspiracy theorists. Of course I am talking about the general public and not the government.

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