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"Oak Island" Producer Admits to Trying to "Discredit" Pulitzer; Plus: Sean David Morton's New Career & More!

2/1/2016

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As much as I am bored by the J. Hutton Pulitzer circus, how could I ignore the statement Curse of Oak Island executive producer Kevin Burns gave to Frank magazine about Pulitzer? As Andy White reported this morning, Burns asked Oak Island stars Rick and Marty Lagina to buy the “Roman” sword for the twin purposes of crafting drama and humiliating Pulitzer. Burns wrote (emphasis in original):
Rick, Marty, and Craig Tester reluctantly purchased the sword -- at my urging -- on the remote chance it could be real. We always knew it would have to be professionally tested . . . 

We never claimed otherwise. Testing it on camera, however, was essential if we were ever going to quiet Mr. Pulitzer.

Therefore, purchasing the sword was done to (A) test it to see if it could be real, (B) discredit Mr. Pulitzer and (C) create compelling television.
This creates cognitive dissonance for me because on the one hand it is delightful to see Burns actively trying to stop Pulitzer from spreading lies, but on the other hand this is the same Kevin Burns who oversees Ancient Aliens, actively promotes conspiracy theories and misinformation, and who once tried to humiliate me by showing my name on Ancient Aliens and turning it flame red while demonic music played over it. (Repeated years later on America’s Book of Secrets, also by Burns.) So this is more of a King Kong vs. Godzilla thing where you really hope they just take each other out and go away. On the other hand, it probably speaks to the relative value of Oak Island vs. Ancient Aliens to the History brand that the executive producer considers Pulitzer’s attacks on Oak Island critical but years of dozens of people exposing Ancient Aliens’ various fabrications and lies receives nothing more than a shrug.
 
Anyway, it seems that facts are important to Burns only when they can be weaponized.
 
Speaking of Ancient Aliens, I learned today that our old friend Sean David Morton, the self-described psychic who got kicked off of Ancient Aliens after I exposed his fake Ph.D., is back again! This time he’s reinvented himself as a “self-taught attorney in law (sic)” using the charges filed against him for fraudulent psychic predictions as proof of his legal wizardry. On the ConspiraSea cruise last week he allegedly told participants at a seminar that children are property and commercial liens can be placed on them to prevent vaccination, according to an account published on the Violent Metaphors blog. Yes, he’s an anti-vaxxer, too!
 
It’s always strange to me that people making extraordinary claims seem to have a bad time keeping their facts straight. (Here comes the awkward transition to a completely different topic!) You might remember M. Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, the eighteenth century French gigantologist who delivered influential remarks on giants to the Academy of Sciences at Rouen in 1764. He made reference to a find in what is now the Czech Republic: “At Totu, in Bohemia, in 758, was found a skeleton, the head of which could scarce be encompassed by the arms of two men together, and whose legs, which they still keep in the castle of that city, were 26 feet long.” Le Cat denied that these could be animal bones, but it appears no one ever checked up on the facts.
 
Le Cat’s remarks were translated in Dodley’s Annual Register and then included verbatim in the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other publications, and through it they ended up in Bell’s New Pantheon, where the year of discovery morphed into 1758 and stubbornly stayed there in texts descended from that one. The Olio magazine of 1831 gave the date as 785, while the Mormons, writing in the Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star in 1874, misread it as 753.
 
Even the dimensions changed in the copying. The 26 feet were often misread as 20 thanks to the peculiar “6” the Annual Register used, which was easy to mistake for a “0” if one’s copy wasn’t printed perfectly.
 
Commenting on Le Cat’s claim, an early edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica added, “But if these bones were actually kept in any part of Bohemia, it seems strange that they should not have been frequently noticed, and particular descriptions of them given by the learned, who inhabit, or have noticed, that country.” Such skepticism didn’t reach the ears of George Milbry Gould, who in 1900’s Anomalies and Curiosities of medicine assumed that the 1764 report was still current and that the bones, which he never saw in person, were still on display. Jan Bondeson, in 1997’s Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, declared that the shin bones were “kept in the collection of a medieval castle as late as 1764,” judging the date from that of Le Cat’s speech.
 
Weirdly, there doesn’t seem to be any other mention of a city named Totu anywhere in the historical record, suggesting that Le Cat got his facts wrong somehow. Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, copying from the same original text, but apparently misreading the italicized name, gives the city’s name as Totic. Seriously: In hundreds of books and articles copying from Le Cat directly or indirectly (usually plagiarizing verbatim), not one person ever checked whether these bones really existed, or for that matter whether Totu was a real city in what was once the Bohemian crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy. I can’t find any record of it, or anything similar in either modern Czech listings or older Habsburg-era German-language place names, and I don’t know whether Le Cat got the name wrong or whether it changed its name sometime after 758, or whether some other factor was at work.
 
Part of me suspects that the problem comes from the Annual Register’s translation of Le Cat (at least I have to assume that Le Cat actually gave a lecture; I can’t find the French original, but the Comte de Buffon attests that it exists) which may have Anglicized a French phonetic rendering of a German name for a Czech original. I thought for a minute I had come close to solving the puzzle when I found a 1771 French text that paraphrased Le Cat without an English intermediary, but sadly, the author skipped over the key word! “There is no better case for it (giants) than that of the one that was found in Bohemia in 785.” Yes, the date changed again.
 
Regardless of where the bones really are, the story Le Cat gives is almost identical to that of many other Eastern European exhibition of whale and mammoth bones, like that of the Castle Cathedral at Wawel Hill in Krakow. As Johann Georg Kohl wrote in 1842 on a trip through Poland, as translated anonymously the next year: 
As we left the Vavel, there arose between us a dispute, as to whom the great bones, which hang in chains over the cathedral gates, could have belonged to. This is generally the case with all travellers who arrive here. Some said they were the jaw-bones and ribs of a whale, and others that they were mammoth’s bones found near Cracow. Our Jew declared that they were the shoulder-bones of a giant, who formerly lived here, and our coachman denied this, affirming them to be the remains of a monster who once raged in the neighbourhood of Cracow, and who was killed by some valiant knights.
The same could be found in countless lesser churches and castles across the old Habsburg lands and beyond. The trouble is figuring out exactly which set of bones Le Cat had in mind.

Update: David Bradbury found the source of the claim, a passage in the Annales Bohemorum of Wenceslas Hajek (before 1553) for the year 785, which I translate here:
... At Tetín, some people were excavating the foundation for underground vaults, and they encountered among the rubble a human head of such extraordinary size that two men could scarcely wrap their arms around the skull. They reported that the other bones of the body were equally vast, especially the legs at twenty-five feet and nine inches, or twelve and a half Prague cubits. This comprised the remains of a most ancient giant. These were not destroyed, and by order of the Prince of Tetín they were affixed to the gates, suspended there for some time as a wonder.
How the name of the city got so mangled I cannot say, but I know that it is an ancient site with human occupation going back to the Paleolithic, and a likely site for megafauna bones, which these undoubtedly were.
25 Comments
Clint Knapp
2/1/2016 01:22:54 pm

Minor typo: "Easter European"

I do find it somewhat amusing that Pulitzer's claims and/or persona were just too much for Burns to let slide, but I can't help but think Pulitzer's just going to use this as fuel for his conspiracy-against-me tirades.

Curiously, I found a Totu Hostel in Krakow, though it also lists as To Tu; Polish for "It is here" according to the whimsically trustworthy Google Translate.

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David Hollombe
2/1/2016 03:11:54 pm

There appears to be an earlier (1754) version in German in Allgemeines Magazin der Natur, Kunst und Wissenschaften, volume 5, page 342.

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Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 03:23:28 pm

Is volume 5 online? I haven't been able to find one. If not, what does it say about our giant?

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David Bradbury
2/1/2016 04:02:00 pm

Volume 5 is online, but that's from 1755, and the reference is actually volume 4:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gUtGAAAAcAAJ&pg=344
(last three lines of the page- definitely Totu in Bohemia, and 785)- it's part of a much longer article about giants, in particular Teutobochus, which could potentially keep us going for months.

Clay
2/1/2016 04:06:49 pm

It's online at

https://books.google.com/books?id=FvFaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA342&lpg=PA342&dq=allgemeines+magazin+natur+totu&source=bl&ots=xP1kWeFLZ7&sig=nKk-H1UkP57_DEdLijEx9YQR6Dw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjaipuJu9fKAhUQ3mMKHRxNAIIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=allgemeines%20magazin%20natur%20totu&f=false

Kal
2/1/2016 04:03:28 pm

They're all incredible, so discrediting one of them is hardly news, but it is funny.

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David Bradbury
2/1/2016 04:05:02 pm

Ha ha. I just noticed that the next giant mentioned in the article after the Totu one is the Macedonian one ...

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Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 04:16:28 pm

So Le Cat was copying, too, since that's his order as well. I wonder where this list originated.

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David Bradbury
2/1/2016 04:21:43 pm

And finding a description in German enables us to find an earlier description in German, from 1738, in "Biblische Untersuchungen, oder Abhandlungen verschiedener wichtigen Stücke" by Augustin Calmet &Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (page 104):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIhAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA104
-which mentions Bohemia and 758 and a 26-foot thighbone, but not the elusive Totu.

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Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 04:29:09 pm

Calmet again? That dude was everywhere!

Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 04:37:23 pm

I found Calmet's original in his "Dissertation on Giants" (in French), which lacks "Totu." But the phrasing--"en Boheme une tete"--almost makes me wonder if someone mangled "tete" into "Totu" in badly translating from French to German, and thus leading Le Cat astray when he apparently translated back to French, since Le Cat's list matches the German almost verbatim but not French text from which it was abstracted.

David Bradbury
2/1/2016 04:40:45 pm

And back again, to 1712, and page 139 of "Das Jetzt-lebende Königreich Böhmen" by Mauritius Vogt, which reintroduces Totu- or rather, Tetin, a real place in Bohemia with a real castle:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oAOAUp2PHEUC&pg=PT143

Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 04:51:20 pm

This is ridiculous. There is truly nothing original in gigantology, but at least you found the real name!

David Bradbury
2/1/2016 04:51:03 pm

1673. "Fürsten-Spiegel, oder Monarchia deß Hochlöblichen Ertz- Hauses Oesterreich" by Johann Jacob Ritter von Weingarten, page 41 (12 lines from bottom). Tetin again, 785 again- but note how the unit of measurement keeps changing. In 1712 it was 26 "shoes", here 26 ells- and we've also changed from thighbone to shinbone at some point!
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kfpPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41

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David Bradbury
2/1/2016 06:06:37 pm

I'm supposed to be asleep now! However, I think I've almost cracked it.
"Merckwürdiger Discurß von dem Ursprung der Thier, und Außzug der Völcker" (pages 135-6)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BsxiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135
actually gives a source reference "Hagetius"- which turns out to be page 350 of part 2 of the 16th century "Annales Bohemorum" by Wenceslas Hajek (he wrote in Bohemian, but the 18th century Latin version is easier to find).
https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_MWc2AAAAMAAJ#page/n403/mode/2up

Here the shinbone is a more precise 25 and three-quarters feet long, or 12 and a half Prague cubits, and we return to the idea of it being displayed at the castle, by the then Prince of Tetin.

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Jason Colavito link
2/1/2016 06:07:38 pm

Did I read this right? "Before this, in the year 785 at (the town of) Tetín of (Duke) Mnata (of Bohemia), a Giant was discovered in the earth. It took two men to raise its head, and its shin-bone was 26 ells long."

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David Bradbury
2/2/2016 03:27:17 am

That's about what I get except for the interpolations. Mnata seems to be a Duchy (the subject of this entire chapter of the 1673 book) rather than a Duke, named after a semi-legendary original person.

If anybody fancies trying their translation skills on the original c1541 text (or rather, an 1819 reprint with minor corrections) try:
http://knihomol.phil.muni.cz/dl/oldbooks/kronyka-ceska-hajek-z-libocan-1819/pg-89
(Year 785 is "Leta Sedmisteho Osmdesateho Pateho")

Clete
2/1/2016 05:54:10 pm

Sean David Morton...no longer a "Doctor", now a "Lawyer". I guess next week he will be an "Indian Chief", followed the week later by being a "Pirate" and the week after that by being a "Cowboy".

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Only Me
2/2/2016 06:08:26 am

Well, he has claimed to be an initiated Tibetan monk and "one of America's greatest psychics" with a 90% prediction accuracy rating.

Too bad he couldn't "see" he would lose a $1M defamation lawsuit made against ufowatchdog.com and was ordered to pay $16,000 in attorney fees.

Looks like his legal advice will be just as successful.

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C. Gaulke
2/2/2016 08:22:55 am

Self-taught attorney, children as property, "commercial liens" as a mechanism to manipulate the legal system... Sounds like he's gotten into Sovereign Citizen nonsense now, as well as anti-vax.

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Nofway
2/2/2016 03:28:55 pm

A Hermosa Beach couple was indicted Monday on charges they allegedly filed false federal income tax returns seeking millions of dollars in refunds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Sean David Morton, 58, and his wife, Melissa Ann Morton, 50, were arrested Sunday in San Pedro when they disembarked from a “Conspira-Sea Cruise” to the Mexican Riviera aboard the Ruby Princess, authorities said.

A 56-count federal grand jury indictment alleges Sean Morton filed a false income tax return in 2010 that requested a refund of $2.8 million and another in 2012 that sought nearly $1.6 million, prosecutors said.

The Mortons are each charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and two counts of making false claims to the United States. They also are charged with submitting false documents to the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board, banks, mortgage and student loan companies, and county tax collectors, as a means to pay off debt.

If convicted, Sean Morton could face up to 650 years in federal prison. His wife faces up to 625 years in prison. http://tbrnews.com/news/hermosa-beach-couple-charged-with-trying-to-defraud-u-s/article_2003e458-c94e-11e5-9bbc-5ff6958ae3fd.html

I am pretty sure the 650 years is pay back for them upsetting the wrong people.....

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Only Me
2/2/2016 06:46:01 pm

I guess we'll see Morton's legal prowess in action. Wonder if he "saw" this one coming.

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Shane Sullivan
2/2/2016 06:55:31 pm

Those prosecutors are no match for Sean David Morton, Autodidactic Legal Whiz! He'll get himself off the hook in no time!

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nofway
2/3/2016 04:02:22 pm

Here is the gov link: http://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/hermosa-beach-couple-arrested-federal-charges-related-tax-scam-and-passing-false-checks

Here is the key: "In relation to the scheme, the indictment alleges that Sean David Morton on multiple occasions submitted to the IRS documents he called “Coupon for Setoff, Settlement, and Closure” in the amounts of $5,286,867 and $8,429,763. “These fictitious financial instruments were a purported bond in exchange for the refunds they sought from the IRS,” according to the indictment."

“Coupon for Setoff, Settlement, and Closure” seems to be a form of “Accepted for Value” scheme. I guess that does not work after all.....

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DaveR
2/3/2016 10:30:49 am

It's a whole let easier to just let him talk and discredit himself.

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