North Kingstown, RI Town Council Holds Closed Meeting with Scott Wolter to Hear Jesus-Templar Claims9/4/2014 Editor's Note: This post has been updated to correct the date of Scott Wolter's presentation. I have a couple of housekeeping points to start with before we get to today’s main event. First, I have a new favicon for the site. It’s a picture of a flying saucer hovering over a pyramid. I drew it myself, and I think it came out well. On my computer, it shows up in Chrome and Firefox, but for the life of me I can’t force Internet Explorer to dump the old version from its cache and use the new one. Anyway, I hope you like it. Second, next year marks the ten year anniversary of the publication of my first book, The Cult of Alien Gods, and since so much has changed in the field of ancient astronautics since 2005, I thought it would be a good time for a revised second edition of the book. I have contacted Prometheus Books about the issue, but I have no idea what they’ll say. Prometheus hold the rights to the book until it falls out of publication. To date, they have never stopped publishing a book, so far as I know. When I tried to broach the idea of a second edition in 2007 and 2009, the publisher never responded to my letters. Even if they do think it’s a good idea, publication would depend on the terms of the contact, since Prometheus gave me unfavorable terms in 2005, whereby royalties amounted to less than $0.25 per book thanks to their unique view that they should be paid on wholesale rather than cover prices, and on a downward sliding scale based on a ridiculous number of factors. So, I won’t hold my breath on a second edition of Cult, but we’ll see.
So, on to today’s issue… Scott F. Wolter is at it again. According to the Providence Journal the America Unearthed host gave a presentation to the North Kingston, Rhode Island town council on Tuesday making his case that the Narragansett Rune Stone, currently housed at the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay campus, is physical evidence that the Knights Templar brought the Holy Bloodline of Jesus to North America in the Middle Ages. Wolter told the town council that North Kingston could benefit financially from creating a tourist attraction in the town aimed at Holy Bloodline tourists. The council agreed to put the Narragansett Rune Stone on display in Updike Park, and during the meeting Wolter agreed to make materials available for a display about the stone to accompany its exhibition. Although the meeting was held in Town Hall and attended only by the town council, it was not listed as a formal session of the council. Therefore, Rhode Island open meeting laws did not apply, and a record of this meeting does not appear in the Rhode Island open meetings database or on the town government website, nor is there an indication that members of the public were allowed to attend the presentation or offer commentary. However, a two-hour recording was uploaded to the town council website with an all-caps disclaimer that it was not a council meeting. I have now viewed the two hour recording. It is pretty much what you would expect, but with PowerPoint. And, oh, do I love PowerPoint. There are two new (to me) claims: (1) The Jolly Roger is a symbol of allegiance to the Holy Bloodline by symbolizing the Jesus bones in their ossuary, and (2) the secret mysteries of the Bloodline are the Seven Liberal Arts. He also emphasized his belief that Jesus was trained as an Egyptian pharaoh and studied in the temples of both Egypt and Tibet. Wolter backed up his Templar-Bloodline claim by asserting that his geological analysis of the carving of Scandinavian runes on the stone, which was first discovered in 1984, must be at least one hundred years old. He claimed that the Knights Templar formed “strategic alliances” with Native Americans (citing the alleged Midewin-Freemason rituals again) after the Catholic Church rejected the Templar’s alleged dualist philosophy. He asserted that the so-called Hooked X® rune on the rock was a reference to the Templars’ Cross of Lorraine (illustrated with what he falsely called a Knights Templar coin, though the Knights did not mint currency), and the told the council that the Cross of Lorraine was a secret symbol used by a conspiracy that today includes Exxon gasoline and Oreo cookies. Wolter falsely asserted that the word Oreo means “the tomb of the goddess” in Latin. As someone who has read Latin for almost twenty years, I know that is not true. He claims that the Oreo medallion central ellipse symbolizes the Ellipse (President's Park South) in Washington, which he says hides the key ancient secret, what he suggests is the resting place of the bones of Jesus. He falsely claims that the Ellipse, which is open to the public, is off limits and that helicopters swarm anyone who tries to approach the center, where the Jesus bones allegedly are buried. Council member Kerry McKay told the Journal that Wolter told a “great story” and that it was astonishing that the claim that Columbus discovered America “can be turned on its ear right here in North Kingstown, R.I.” Council President Elizabeth Dolan went further and claimed that Wolter’s presentation was so “amazing” that the council needed to ensure that the Rune Stone was protected forever. During the meeting itself, council members expressed their interest in and support of the views they heard from Wolter and brought up additional fringe theories and ideas they heard on TV or read in fringe materials. One seemed to suggest his belief that there is a conspiracy to prevent Wolter from accessing ancient material. Let’s just note here: Members of the town council were impressed by a conspiracy theory involving secret messages on Oreo cookies. Wolter also speculated that the man who earlier this year claimed that he carved the Narragansett Rune Stone in 1964, Everett Brown, fabricated his claim because he was either seeking attention or had a philosophical opposition to the Knights Templar’s alleged dualist philosophy. It’s worth noting that Wolter’s own “scientific” findings fail to prove his elaborate web of conspiracy. Wolter himself says that geology can only tell him that the Narragansett Rune Stone carving is at least 100 years old. This could therefore place the stone’s age anytime from the invention of runes in the early centuries CE down to 1914. His geology therefore fully supports the viewpoint of many mainstream scholars that the stone was carved as a hoax sometime in the 1890s or early 1900s. The presence of a so-called Hooked X® on the Narragansett stone, when it does not typically appear in genuine medieval runic inscriptions, implies a stronger likelihood that it was carved in imitation of the Kensington Rune Stone, the most famous utilizer of the Hooked X® and which received a great deal of publicity during the late Victorian period in question. Because Wolter’s “scientific” analysis cannot exclude the possibility of a modern hoax (or, really, any post-Columbus date between 1500 and 1900) his other claims therefore do not follow from scientific analysis as he usually claims. Instead, his elaborate Holy Bloodline claims remain a house of cards, with assumption stacked upon assumption.
65 Comments
666
9/4/2014 07:23:09 am
Knights Templar = Jolly Roger
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Peter Nulton
9/5/2014 10:39:42 am
Wait, "trained as a Pharaoh?" During the Roman Empire? Augustus and Tiberius were the "Pharaohs" of the time, if you want to call them that!
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666
9/4/2014 07:26:19 am
Bloodline are the Seven Liberal Arts = development of Charles A. Thomas, Essays For The Next Generation: The Whole Truth (xlibris, 2011)
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666
9/4/2014 07:27:33 am
>>>Wolter’s presentation was so “amazing”
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666
9/4/2014 07:30:36 am
>>>his elaborate Holy Bloodline claims remain a house of cards, with assumption stacked upon assumption
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Only Me
9/4/2014 08:48:50 am
Yes, according to Wolter, the Da Vinci Code *is* history. He knows it, you're part of the conspiracy, he will prove it.
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666
9/4/2014 09:44:15 am
>>>The Da Vinci Code is history.
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Wes
9/4/2014 08:16:30 am
Just a side note as someone who has dealt with open meetings/records for 20 years: don't see how this meeting could NOT be a violation of open meeting laws if it was a planned meeting.
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Cathleen Anderson
9/4/2014 12:37:27 pm
Yep. If the council took any action, or plans to take any action in the future, it's a meeting in violation of the open meeting law.
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charlie
9/4/2014 12:55:49 pm
Cathleen,
EP
9/4/2014 08:41:24 am
North Kingstown's city council has reinforced RI's reputation as the special kid of the New England Family.
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spookyparadigm
9/4/2014 08:54:49 am
“can be turned on its ear right here in North Kingstown, R.I.”
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666
9/4/2014 09:47:34 am
Yeah, Roswell is another good example (Loch Ness, Glastonbury, etc)
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charlie
9/4/2014 12:36:15 pm
Remember, these people were elected to office by the people of the community. They should be at least minimally smart and not easily swayed by some slick power point (TM) show by a fringe character.
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Kal
9/4/2014 09:46:18 am
I would go into the ridiculousness of having such a meeting, believing the Dav Vinci Code/Holy Blood Holy Gail hokum, and the obviously fake stone thing, but then you said oreo cookies.
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http://www.i95exitguide.com/
9/4/2014 09:59:11 am
http://www.oreo.com/default.aspx
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666
9/4/2014 10:10:13 am
I don't think Scott Wolter has a following worth bothering about.
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.
9/4/2014 10:19:53 am
i say yes and no... Triple Six
Only Me
9/4/2014 10:50:04 am
I'd be far more concerned about that 95% that is considered "normal"! Not much can be done with that other 5%.
*!*
9/6/2014 04:28:17 am
letz do easily think that normalcy 90% voted for POTUS BHO
Paul J.
9/4/2014 12:29:40 pm
But what about Double Stuf Oreos? What do they mean?!?
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charlie
9/4/2014 12:43:55 pm
Paul J. 9/4/2014 12:58:13 pm
If you watch the video, Wolter addresses Double Stuf Oreos as the second phase of the symbolism, adding new Jesus Tomb symbolism.
charlie
9/4/2014 12:39:26 pm
Kal,
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EP
9/4/2014 10:48:09 am
The famicon is lovely, by the way. All that's missing now is practicable ban functionality
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EP
9/4/2014 10:50:38 am
*favicon :)
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Historian
9/4/2014 11:34:55 am
The presentation to the a Town Council was on 9/2, the day after Labor Day.
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Zach
9/4/2014 11:53:56 am
Im ashamed to say that Im from Rhode Island. This says so much about how the education system and common sense has completely been forgotten, if people are actually believing that fucking pirate flags and cookie logos supports a theory that's ripped out of a fictional novel.
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666
9/4/2014 12:02:31 pm
>>>Im ashamed to say that Im from Rhode Island
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666
9/4/2014 12:03:37 pm
Money is money
charlie
9/4/2014 12:54:11 pm
Zach,
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666
9/5/2014 12:04:38 am
>>>gullible, uninformed
Historian
9/4/2014 04:09:15 pm
Rhode Islander's can file a complaint that the meeting violated Open Meeting Law.
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charlie
9/4/2014 12:58:54 pm
Jason, Your new favicon looks great. Great post today also.
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From blog heading: "The council agreed to put the Narragansett Rune Stone on display in Updike Park, and during the meeting Wolter agreed to make materials available for a display about the stone to accompany its exhibition."
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Only Me
9/4/2014 01:40:55 pm
I read your comment, I found the same old arguments from before. It seems you've reached an impasse.
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Only Me, there is no impasse. It only seems that way. I've been clarifying things better and better. I think you are secretly learning from me, as is, hopefully, the blog host. Whenever you begin to doubt me, Only Me, just think "waterways." I'm thinking about doing a crystal-clear map showing these impressive inland waterways, which actually do converge near a large cluster-area of stoneholes near the center of N. America.
Only Me
9/5/2014 12:21:03 pm
I said impasse, because your hypothesis has evolved for over a year since you first posted on this blog. Here's how:
EP
9/5/2014 12:42:51 pm
@ Only Me
Jerky
9/4/2014 02:26:02 pm
Gunn, I am interested in seeing these "stone holes", you keep going on about, for my self. Would you care to link me to a photo of one of these stone holes so I may see for my self what your talking about? Most of the photos turning up from a google search of "runestone hill stone holes" has turned up the krs, other rune stones, scott wolter, the Newport tower, and quite a few photos of stones with holes eroded into it naturally like the many stone surfaces dotting the Edwards Plateau in Texas I used to find in my youth while I was a Boy Scout.
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Historian
9/4/2014 03:50:00 pm
I searched under "Viking mooring holes in North America" to find suggested candidates by proponents of such and some holes here were man made:
Jerky
9/4/2014 04:36:15 pm
This is interesting, I wish I could go see the site my self, sadly I am currently invested on a project left to my by my grade school history teacher before she died.
Jerky, I'm glad you're interested in stoneholes, because they really do tell much of the story. Click on my name "Gunn" above to see an abundance of Upper Midwest stoneholes, some most likely of medieval European origin. If this isn't enough for you, I have dozens upon dozens of photos.
Jerky
9/5/2014 10:19:24 am
Gunn, What I would like to see is the stone holes at the site its self. We have man made stone holes where I live, but there all hand made between 1890 and 1940 by farmers who made the holes in the stone to put a metal peg that opens out to fill the hole when you pull on it, letting them pull the larger stones out of there fields. I'm just wondering if any one may have over looked that possibility or not. (Keep in mind that many folks in Oklahoma where still using lanterns and horses to travel as late as 1950. Not the most advanced of people compared to other states at the time.) As I said, id love to go see um my self, but I am currently pre occupied with solving a mystery here in my home county involving a missing Federal Army wagon train and a recently uncovered crate containing the Uniform for a Union Army officer and his personal effects in an area folks had long suspected was the site where the wagon train met its fate. The army gave up looking after two weeks and ruled it as an attack by the southern plains nations. We hope to prove the site where the crate was found to be the same site where 14 wagons and about 100 men went missing so we can get it protected to keep it safe for state archeologists to organize a dig at the site and give the 100 or so men a proper burial in the near by retired fort's cemetery. Sadly we haven't made much head way so for the time being it has me tied down here in Harper county. (and with all the crap on the web, its hard to sort out what is true and what isn't. I even found a photo shopped image of Scott Wolter dressed like Ezio from Assassin's Creed once.)
Clint Knapp
9/5/2014 01:09:03 pm
Jason wrote a similar explanation for "stone holes" here:
Jerky
9/5/2014 01:22:28 pm
From the photo I saw of a "stone hole" (do not know if it is one from that area) It looks to have been hand chiseled or even had a hydro powered chisel do the job, having worked in old mines from the 1800's I have seen the holes a hydro powered chisel can make and these look about the same. My best guess is farmers put the holes in them to anchor an iron ring to allow the large stones to be moved from the crop fields. As I said, we find stones like this all over north west Oklahoma and we know exactly how those holes where made and why they where made. Some of the old timers still use that same method for clearing large rocks and now concrete chunks left over from foundations of old homesteads. This is used when explosives cannot be acquired or used.
CHV
9/4/2014 04:09:06 pm
>>>Members of the town council were impressed by a conspiracy theory involving secret messages on Oreo cookies.
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Historian
9/4/2014 04:20:13 pm
>>>Members of the town council were impressed by a conspiracy theory involving secret messages on Oreo cookies.
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Peter Nulton
9/5/2014 12:57:33 pm
I teach at a University in that town, and I didn't hear them inviting the archaeology or history faculty, or the oceanography faculty members who had examined the rock. It' a nice rock, and they should preserve it, like any other artifact old or new. But if they start spending copious amounts of state money enshrining it like Plymouth Rock (which is also of questionable origin) over this, I'll be rather annoyed at how my tax money is spent.
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Jerky
9/5/2014 01:10:15 pm
I hear you Peter, here in north west Oklahoma we don't even have the funding to maintain historic site and 80% of our museums, every small town museum I know of out here is closed down from lack of founding. Historic sites that have yet to be excavated have been logged but no steps have been taken to preserve the sites. And most of these museums have documents turning to dust with no way to properly preserve them due yet again to a lack of founding. It would be a sad day if they spent money on enshrining that rock. I'd be okay with moving it to a museum or any where that will keep it out of the weather, but if they encase it like they did the rune stone at rune stone park here in Oklahoma... That money would have been better spent on preserving artifacts that we know are real.
bkd69
9/4/2014 05:25:23 pm
*sigh*
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666
9/5/2014 12:07:02 am
Some people are unable to figure out that financial profit overrules rationality, logic and common sense - especially if there's no financial gain from the latter.
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Jose Simental
9/7/2014 12:53:35 pm
Same applies for H2 et all. "Banning the rubbish won't create" viewers, hence no sponsors with $$$$$...
Historian
9/5/2014 12:34:11 am
To be fair, the vampire hysteria happened in other New England states during the same period.
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lil ole moi
9/5/2014 11:13:15 am
Earlier we do have Salem's "witch" trials in 1692 that were
BillUSA
9/5/2014 04:04:07 am
Dammit, just when confidence in government official's is at an all-time low, Scott Wolter has gone and planted his Seed of Stupidity in tiny Rhode Island.
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Duke of URL
9/5/2014 06:35:57 am
"Jesus was trained as an Egyptian pharaoh and studied in the temples of both Egypt and Tibet."
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JJ
9/6/2014 07:17:35 am
is something weird here or what? do any of the rest of you wonder how in the world Jason gets his insider stories on Wolters? He makes statements of fact as to what was said in a closed meeting...starting to make me wonder..........
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Historian
9/6/2014 07:39:04 am
The entire meeting was videotaped and is available at the link Jason included in his column.
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Jeroen Bruijns
9/15/2014 10:09:28 pm
Has any pseudo historian claiming there was a intensive precolumbian contact between the old and new world ever come up with an answer as to why this alleged contact didn't trigger the Colombian exchange? Why the Amerindians still die from old world diseases in de 15 hundred's?
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Anthony G.
9/30/2022 03:29:01 pm
https://www.academia.edu/87583555/The_Narragansett_Rune_Stone_SIGGN%C3%86_ROEZ_LIGN%C3%86_and_the_Ogdoad
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Anthony G.
10/13/2022 09:08:36 pm
https://www.academia.edu/88428867/The_Kensington_Rune_Stone_The_Christian_Ogdoad_Allegory_and_Testament_of_the_North_American_Baptistery
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Anthony G.
11/7/2022 02:38:45 pm
Og/Dod which has been taken to mean "and dead" is actually Ogdoad.
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