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North Kingstown, RI Town Council Holds Closed Meeting with Scott Wolter to Hear Jesus-Templar Claims

9/4/2014

65 Comments

 
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

David Hatcher Childress, Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet: The Secret Naval War Between the Knights Templar and the Vatican (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2003)


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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”

Tourism = Financial revenue

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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

It's a further development of what originated with Frederick Pohl, Andrew Sinclair, Niven Sinclair and Mark Amaru Pinkham

Except nobody much is interested in this anymore because it's run its course. The Da Vinci Code is history.

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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.


Any day now. Be patient.

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666
9/4/2014 09:44:15 am

>>>The Da Vinci Code is history.

Pseudo-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.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...it probably is a duck.

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charlie
9/4/2014 12:55:49 pm

Cathleen,
As in "duck die-nasty"? The comment was <snark> of course. No offense intended.

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.

I hope someone archives a copy of this video before the council comes to its senses and/or is ridiculed into backpedaling

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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.”

Holy shit, they're a real live River City, with runestones instead of trombones.

Or monorails for that matter.

You know, I can forgive Roswell for cashing in. I get that. I can sort of forgive Salem, though if you see how garish some of the businesses are in relation to the terrible events, that's why I said "sort of"

But these fools are willing to brand their town based on an Oreo Cookie conspiracy? And this was explicitly sold to them that way? Wow.

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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.
Yes, I do see that they are very interested in the possible "wind fall" from the tourist trade IF they can drum up enough business to get the gullible to go see this rock.
Still, before any money gets invested by the city, I sure hope cooler heads, and those with more brain, take a long hard look at this deal.
It would be very sad to see tax payer monies wasted on this rock. Governments from federal on down to the smallest village in the US of A are facing severe cost cutting due to lack of funds. (All those endless wars in foreign countries are not cheap)
I think a city wide vote should be held to see if the citizens of the city want to spend unknown sums of hard to find monies on this rock.
Just my opinion, others may vary.

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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.

Lol. Is he sponsored by Nabisco now? Maybe the illuminati are secretly running the cookie market. Call the Cookie Monster. He must be in on it. Mmmmmwhwha, coookkkkiiiee! Yeah.

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http://www.i95exitguide.com/
9/4/2014 09:59:11 am

http://www.oreo.com/default.aspx

they do have a recent roll-out...

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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

if 95% of his fans are normal

its that pesky 5% you worry about.

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
and/or Gentleman Mitt in 2012 and are open to all outreach,
we do have an equally praiseworthy yet critical 5% who aptly
vote 3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th or 9th Party on a ballot becuz all
these options may be there in true democratic urbane wisdom,
i tend not to be too alarmist or chicken little. i know that Jason
detests a philosophical or political slippery slide, but the core
groups inside the extreme fringe who cluster near yesteryear's
Stalinists or Nazis can get me worried or upset as in tres totally.

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.
Would not a double stuff Oreo be twice as good an example of Scotts' "truth". Double the stuff, double the bull? Or, double the audience for another talk/power point (TM) presentation by Scott? Double his fees for the talk? The hooked X (TM) laid on twice as thick? I need to stop before I get too carried away........LOL.
Nuts, the van just pulled up and those nice men in the white coats are coming to my front door.........LOL

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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,
Have you read Jason's' post about the Oreo cookie "affair"?
If not, it IS worth your time for the background. It is one of the best Jason has done in my opinion. also quite funny, but also sad. Sad that real people actually buy into this sort of cow pie in the rock.

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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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Jason Colavito link
9/4/2014 11:45:50 am

Duly noted and corrected.

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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

Missing the point - think Loch Ness, Roswell, Rosslyn Chapel, Shugborough Hall (even Jerusalem, if you must).


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666
9/4/2014 12:03:37 pm

Money is money

Whatever it takes to get it

charlie
9/4/2014 12:54:11 pm

Zach,
I disagree. To me it says nothing about you personally. What it does say, my opinion, is that this particular city council, some of the members at least, liked this idea they may be able to profit from this rock. Also, that they were willing to buy into the "theories" presented by Scott. It shows that there are gullible, uninformed, maybe unintelligent, who continue to buy a slick "power point"(TM) presentation. As the saying goes, paraphrasing here, if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bull s**t.
Also, they were elected by their fellow citizens of this town. Unless you voted for those on the council who bought into this scam, it does not reflect upon you. My opinion only, of course.
p.s. While I do live in Louisiana, since 2000, I do not feel responsible for the oddball antic of gubberner lil' Booby Jindal.

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666
9/5/2014 12:04:38 am

>>>gullible, uninformed

Wrong - the Council KNOW Wolter is rubbish - but there's no such thing as "rubbish money" generated from tourism.

It's easy to understand. Why make out anything else.

Historian
9/4/2014 04:09:15 pm

Rhode Islander's can file a complaint that the meeting violated Open Meeting Law.

http://www.riag.ri.gov/civil/opengovernment/

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charlie
9/4/2014 12:58:54 pm

Jason, Your new favicon looks great. Great post today also.
Many thanks for ALL you do. I hope to live long enough to read all you have in your library here on the site. So much to read, so little time left.
And so it goes.
Keep up the great work Jason.

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Gunn link
9/4/2014 01:23:09 pm

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."

"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."

I see here Jason Colavito and Scott Wolter unwittingly working together to discredit the Kensington Runestone, again the victim in all this nonsense. Colavito generally believes the KRS is a hoax, while Wolter believes its real but is generally going out of his way to discredit himself with bloodline nonsense while dragging the KRS-victim down with him...without knowing it, I'm supposed to believe.

What I do believe is that both Wolter and Colavito are messing with the truth. I also believe both will end up with egg on their faces, as the KRS is eventually authenticated...and without any historic Templar bloodline crap associated with it. Saying post-Templars left the KRS is one thing, but saying they came to medieval-America with a Jesus bloodline theology is another thing entirely. This foolishness then goes on to falsely taint freemasonry.

In my mind, Wolter was fortunate enough to accidentally rub up against a true 1362 stone document, but now he's setting out to discredit it with his perpetual Templar-Jesus bloodline association. Dare I say he makes the very real KRS look foolish because of his side-issue foolishness?

So, in my opinion, Jason and Scott are working hand-in-hand to make the KRS appear un-creditworthy, while not quite knowing the harm they're doing to history-truth. It looks to me like these are two birds of the same feather when it comes to discrediting the Kensington Runestone.

By the way, I just republished my website, and one can see why I believe Wolter has much wrong about the "national treasure," especially in thinking that the runestone was originally buried as a land claim. But it was discovered only about 4"- 6" deep, which would account for several hundred years of soil buildup. Wolter erroneously thinks it was buried as a land claim, while I think it was erected upright and then fell or was felled over and covered over shallowly over the years. I think the men left a memorial stone for their friends at Runestone Hill, thinking that other Scandinavians might be coming back, and find it. Why might future Scandinavians be coming back to Runestone Hill?

I believe it has everything to do with Runestone Hill being on a direct compass line between Duluth and the Whetstone River area, just across the MN border, in SD. People, you must think waterways. Waterways and stoneholes tell the story. Runestone Hill, I believe now, was encircled with stonehole rocks well before the KRS was erected there.

Runestone Hill is not as important in the scheme of things as is the Whetstone River area. This is where oceanic waterways dwindle down and converge, and this is where a multiplicity of medieval stoneholes can be found, not unlike those used in medieval Iceland to carve up land.

The above scenario is far more likely, given the circumstances and evidences, than believing either that the KRS is not authentic, or that it is connected to Jesus Bloodline Templars. We can believe this is a Scandinavian thing, probably even a "Swedish" thing, but we don't know that it was a Templar thing. Excuse me, post-Templar thing.


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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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Gunn link
9/5/2014 05:10:15 am

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.

PaulN. link
9/5/2014 09:30:13 am

To be honest the KRS is about as real and authentic as Drake's brass plate.

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:

stoneholes > weapons/artifacts > Westford Knight/stone carvings > the Mandans > the KRS inscription, Wolter's conclusions, the term "Gotalander" > Runestone Hill an important landmark > proposed waterways post-Viking era explorers might have taken to reach Runestone Hill

See the progression? Some items in the chain were dead-ends- weapons/artifacts without provenance, no pure-blood Mandans left to test for European DNA- while others were not (I shared my own research into how Wolter arrived at his post-analysis conclusions and a possible meaning of Gotalander with you). My point is, you looked at other avenues besides "The KRS is authentic...because KRS".

To advance your hypothesis further, you need new evidence. Not speculation, real physical evidence. I have a list of suggestions for things to investigate, but as I'm uncertain if this discussion is off-topic, I'll hold off for now. I leave it up to Jason to decide if this thread can continue.

EP
9/5/2014 12:42:51 pm

@ Only Me

I'd like to see that list, for what it's worth.

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.

I have seen you talk about these stone holes a number of times, but I can't seem to find any images of these stone holes that do not look natural. A link to a photo of one of these stone holes would be helpful.

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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:

http://mooring-stone-theory.blogspot.com/

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.

Gunn link
9/5/2014 05:49:44 am

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.

On my new website, which isn't selling anything, you will find examples of what are believed by many to be actual medieval stoneholes, and I've also provided examples of more modern, machine-made stoneholes. I will be happy to attempt to answer any further questions you may have.

A lot of work was done by various people over the years to bring stonehole knowledge your way. Much credit needs to be given to "local" folks in both SD and MN for the field work done over the years, such as GPSing specific locations and generally building a valuable data-base. I've tried to embrace this growing body of stonehole-evidence-knowledge, and I always strive to take many personal photos of stoneholes as I move about the region.

I believe that these stoneholes (and the associated stone carvings, iron weapons and the KRS itself) tell the story of medieval Scandinavian settling attempts, or at least attempts to "uptake land." The location of many of these stoneholes being along the Whetstone River is no coincidence, as the Whetstone River represented the head-water of the MN River...it once emptied into the beginning of the MN River. This is also an area that could be reached via Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, and even from the Gulf of Mexico, if one were to branch off west off the Mississippi River, to the MN River, just before reaching the first natural Mississippi River blockage from the Gulf...that being St. Anthony's Falls.

Three oceanic routes into the middle of N. America, and they all converge at this spot where there is an abundance of stoneholes. Yes, these stoneholes do tell a story, and it's beginning to come out. Runestone Hill is of lesser importance, I believe, as a land-navigation point along the way on the compass line between Duluth and the Whetstone River. Runestone Hill is approachable from the Chippewa River, via the MN River. It was up the Chippewa River that the men got into trouble. They stopped at Runestone Hill on the way back downstream to leave a memorial for their friends, yes, because they figured other Scandinavians would be coming back to this exact spot in the future...and ole Gunn isn't talking about Nineteenth Century immigrants!

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:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/what-were-the-viking-mooring-stones-really-used-for

Though he focused on blasting in that particular article, the demonstration of the technique, shape of the holes, and time period involved all match known methods contemporary to the "discovery" of Scott Wolter's favorite rock.

Gunn rejects this hypothesis out of hand and any like it. Stone that any of his proposed waterways were actually used as such by said people.

It should be noted Gunn (Bob Voyles) has also expressed his interest in this project as a way to prove Olof Ohman (KRS "discoverer") not a liar. It's a personal thing for him, and he tends to overlook and/or discount any explanations which do not fit his narrative. As evidenced by countless conversations on this blog.

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.

Chisel a hole in the large rock, fit a ring plug into the rock, run a line from the ring to a mule or oxen's harness and then if the rock is dug out enough, drag it out of the field and dump it in the canyon where it wont be in the way.

I ask because all the images I have seen have been either natural erosion or man made holes used for dragging rocks out of your field.

But before I say one way or the other, I would still like to see one of these stone first hand on site. But it wont be for a few years

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.

Then I guess that officially makes North Kingston, RI, the most gullible town on Earth.

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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.

"Then I guess that officially makes North Kingston, RI, the most gullible town on Earth."

And we have the ability to let them know.

towncouncil@northkingstown.org

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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*
Rhode Island.
Not you, Zach, of course. I mean your neighbors.

I'll note here that North Kingstown is a mere five and a half miles from Exeter, whose residents found it necessary to kill a vampire. In 1892. An incident noted by HPL in "The Shunned House."

Disclaimer: My mother's family is is from Coventry, and, given the physical appearance of grandma and her daughters, I can only assume that her (speculated) dating of George Lincoln Rockwell was an attempt by the Deep Ones to coopt the American Nazi Party.

Rhode Island.
*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.

Banning the rubbish won't create tourism that will generate the cash.


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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
like the epidemics of public vile that erupted against poor
widowed post-menopausal women in Europe since the 1300s.

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.

I guess some people aren't happy with the mundane parts of our history, and like any company gossip, they never let facts get in the way of a good story.

I thought there was a growing belief that Christopher Columbus (despite his accreditation) wasn't actually the first person to reach the eastern shores of the American continent, and that the theory was the Vikings beat him to it.

Even then, why the need to add the Knights Templar, Jesus, the Holy Bloodline, and whatever else he can conjure? History is both mundane and exciting if one cares to actually advance our knowledge rather than profiting from fiction.

Finally, just the other night, I logged off my computer after completing a massive spreadsheet project that was made more complicated by the fact that the source material was scattered among several websites.

I needed a break and fixed myself something to eat, sat down on the nice, comfy sofa, used the remote to turn on the television and who was the first person to appear but Mr. Kensington Runestone himself.

The ads on local public-access channel were never more appealing that night.

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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."
So when will Wolter produce the Jesus Mummy? That would be more interesting than fairytales about a zombie god.

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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

The the Spirit Pond, Kensington and Narragansett Runestones are in fact REAL genuine Pre-Columbian artifacts and not hoaxes. The Trademarked "Hooked X" has a different meaning than previously claimed. The "Old Stone Built Mill" or "Baptizmola"(Baptismal)
also predates any landfall of Columbus by centuries.

I hope you're paying attention because this has become really interesting. Truly appreciate the links and free translations provided on your blog.

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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.

My favorite is one of the first coded words.

8 GON Ter

Interestingly, there seems to be several other misinterpretations. The stone clearly says "wore:ship". This has been translated as "our ships" with an S added to make the word plural. This is clearly worship. The whole thing is a religious document of a gnostic nature. What SW has been calling Templars, would be better described as Pythagorean Christian Gnosticism. The very stuff the church is based upon.

I'm sure that my main suspects for the building of the Baptistry and the carving of the stone had multiple knights under their employment. These men were related.

More to come.


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      • Aliens and Ancient Texts
      • Profiles in Ancient Astronautics >
        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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