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Review of America Unearthed S01E13: "Hunt for the Holy Grail"

3/16/2013

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Well, that was interesting. I’m not sure I exactly followed how having every single one of his claims proved wrong led Scott Wolter to becoming more convinced than ever that he’s right, but such is the belief of every crank committed to an ideology masquerading as a science.

Over the past few days, I’ve explored the convoluted story of “Prince Henry,” as Scott Wolter calls him, more properly Henry Sinclair, 1st earl of Orkney and Baron of Roslin. (His princely title rests on the fact that Henry’s Norwegian-held title of jarl, or earl, of Orkney was once translated as “prince” because of its higher rank in Norway, above a duke.) I want to encourage anyone who has not done so to please read my long and thorough discussion of the origins and growth of his legend. It is essential background for understanding what has gone terribly wrong in Scott Wolter’s quest, including the conflict of interest Wolter failed to disclose about his close relationship with the Sinclair family and their joint pursuit of investigations.

The Sinclair (a.k.a. St. Clair) family has been pushing the Henry Sinclair narrative since the nineteenth century when Thomas Sinclair, Mrs. May St. Clair Whitney-Emerson, and others wrote books and delivered lectures to steal back the honor of discovering America for the Northern European race from that upstart and rogue referred to as “the Italian,” Columbus, who was not of the “blood royal” of the Viking-Norman Duke Rollo whose noble descendants the family of the time believed traveled six times to America, with Henry being the last and greatest.

To refresh your memory, the short version is this: In 1784, a German with romantic dreams of his lost Scottish noble ancestors suggested that Henry Sinclair of Orkney could be identified with “Prince Zichmni,” a fictional character in a Renaissance-era hoax called the Zeno Narrative about two Venetian brothers’ alleged trip to the North Atlantic. I’ve written about this hoax as well, and I’ve published it in full on my website. In the most generous reading of that hoax, the story takes Zichmni only to Greenland in the years after 1394, where he supposedly founded a colony. Only significant special pleading can extend that to America. It is the only evidence of a voyage by Henry Sinclair.

Later, Richard Henry Major took up the claim, arguing that Zichmni was a corruption of “d’Orkney” as transcribed by someone with bad handwriting. His influential preface to his translation of the Zeno Narrative (the basis for all later Sinclair claims) later inspired in 1992 a descendant of Henry Sinclair named Andrew Sinclair to declare his ancestor a Knight Templar and a discoverer of America. Not only was Henry born too late to be a Templar (by fifty years at least), his ancestors actually testified against the Templars in 1309.

Now, to add some details specific to the claim that Henry was active in Nova Scotia in 1398.

Henry Sinclair was made Jarl (Earl or Prince) of Orkney in 1379 by King Hakron of Norway and was in Norway that year and the one after, meaning that the Zeno narrative cannot be chronologically correct, as the Zeno brothers met Zichmni on his magic island in 1380. Zichmni engaged in various battles in the 1380s and went to live in Greenland after 1394. Henry Sinclair, by contrast, disappears from the historical record after attending the coronation of the King of Pomerania in Norway in 1389 (meaning he could not have been in America then), and his grandson reported that Henry died in a battle to defend Orkney, probably the 1401 English invasion of Orkney that he was required by feudal obligation to Norway to repel.

The Icelandic historian Thormodus Torfæus, writing in his massive Latin history of the Orkneys, the Orcades, in 1697 (p. 177), claimed that Norwegian records (now lost) stated that in the late 1380s, Henry was virtually running Norway and had no time to sail to America. “In the year 1388, Henry Sinclair, Jarl of Orkney (being declared the next in rank to the king, by Archbishop Vinold of Nidar and the rest of the bishops and senators, with the other councillors of the Norwegian kingdom), proclaimed, by a long document, that Eric was the true heir and successor to the kingdom of Norway” (translation corrected from Thomas Sinclair, who gave the wrong date). Eric III took the throne in 1389, but most modern historians believe Henry Sinclair’s role was entirely ceremonial, not an expression of real power. It’s possible that such a gentleman as Henry could have decided to take a few years off to sail to America, first to build the Newport Tower, and then again to dump the Templar treasure, but I would imagine his Norwegian overlords would be particularly pissed at him since the Norwegian king had declared as a condition of making him Earl that he should always be available to aid the king with one hundred men on but three months’ notice and should attend the National Council on demand. Any extended absence, like a several years’ long voyage to America would have required Royal consent, and neither Torfæus nor any extant record indicates any such thing.

The Episode

Our final episode, S01E13 “Hunt for the Holy Grail,” opens with a reenactment of a cloth-bound bundle being lowered by rope into what resembles a mine shaft in the presence of Knights Templar, as marked by their red crosses on white cassocks above chain mail. Then we cut to the opening credits for the final time this season.

The next scene shows Scott Wolter’s laboratory in winter. He is reading an email from Dennis “Den” Parada, a treasure hunter with an outfit called Finders Keepers who believes he knows the location of buried Templar treasure at Hobson Island in Nova Scotia, brought to the island by Prince Henry Sinclair. Wolter immediately calls Steve St. Clair, the director of the St. Clair Sinclair DNA Project, which is attempting to prove the truth of the Henry Sinclair voyage and is examining Native American DNA to investigate whether Sinclair and the Holy Bloodline interbred with Native populations.* The two have been friends at least since the Atlantic Conference of 2008, when St. Clair sponsored a reading of some of Wolter’s work on the “hooked X” and its relationship to the Templars and the Sinclairs.

[* Note: This sentence was modified in response to criticism from Steve St. Clair that the original version was too harsh and did not appropriately reflect his views.]

Wolter travels to Nova Scotia to meet with the Parada, and we have long scenes of Wolter driving across Canadian highways. As he does so, Wolter asserts that “legend says that a Scottish prince named Henry Sinclair with strong ties to the Templars brought it [the treasure] here in 1398.” Nothing in that sentence is true. The “legend” was created by Andrew Sinclair (yes, another Sinclair) in 1992, in The Sword and the Grail, based on a scholarly argument about the Zeno map made in 1784 and again in the mid-1800s. From 1784 to 1992, the actual family claim was that Henry came as the last of a series of Viking (Norse) expeditions. Only after 1992 did these transform into “Templar” expeditions. Henry had no ties to the Templars, disbanded 50 years before his birth and against whom his ancestors gave testimony at their 1309 trial.

The Holy Grail is back to being a cup again this week, though with shout outs to the “holy bloodline of Jesus and Mary,” and Wolter claims that Henry was the last person to have held it—of which, of course, no documentary evidence whatsoever exists, being based entirely on the 1992 claim that Henry was a Templar. Especially interesting is Wolter’s cockamamie assertion that the Templars may have found “scrolls” and “technology” under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—shades of Laurence Gardner’s monatomic gold-producing Ark of the Covenant, Graham Hancock’s electric-generator Ark of the Covenant, and the ancient astronaut writers’ extraterrestrial communications device Ark of the Covenant. What does Wolter really think happened in the ancient past? Aliens? Atlantis?

Parada shows Wolter a map of Oak Island, the often-discussed “mystery” island of Nova Scotia that Joe Nickell persuasively identified as a nineteenth-century Freemasons’ initiation site. Parada thinks that Oak Island was actually Templar, but that Prince Henry moved the treasure to Oak Island from Hobson Island nearby.

Parada, treasure hunter Patrick Whelan, and Wolter travel to Hobson Island in ridiculously overproduced overhead shots of them speeding across the waters beneath waves and cresting musical accompaniment. They stroll through some rocks on which one displays a very rough, wide-angled “V.” Wolter immediately relates it to the “upper part of the hooked X” despite it, of course, not being an X. All involved declare it a “V” even though the image clearly shows a horizontal line connecting to the left-hand leg of the “V” at its top. All see the horizontal line and declare it “just like” the one on the hooked x, even though the Kensington Rune Stone’s hooked x is on the right stave of the X, partway down the stave, and perpendicular to the stave—all different from this figure.

Next, Parada claims to have found a treasure map made of stone. So the three men trudge across more rocks and boulders. Parada claims that the rocks and boulders have been laid out carefully in the shape of the three hundred islands off Nova Scotia, with several of the prominent rocks representing different islands the Templars visited. A computer-generated map tries to make the correlation, but I am not able to see a connection—there is no similarity of shape between rock and represented island, and the relative proportions between the rocks are not scientific in the least. For example, the rock representing Gooseberry Island is so large (twice the size of the alleged island it represents, proportionally) that it covers a great deal of the ground meant to represent the water between it and Frog Island, another rock disproportionately large for representing its intended island. Consequently, I can see nothing here other than self-deluded individuals who are seeing what they want in the random shapes of nature.

Nevertheless, this “map” supposedly points to the “Castle at the Cross” at New Ross, an archaeological site that Sinclair researchers have been promoting as a “mini-castle” built by Henry Sinclair since the 1988, particularly Michael Bradley, the author of Holy Grail across the Atlantic. So far as I know, the 1988 book is the first Sinclair castle claim, supported in 1997 by a self-published book by Joan Hope. To my knowledge, no archaeological reports about the site have been published, but all that remains are an earthen mound, some large stones, and a well—surely not the remains of a full castle, or even a “mini-castle.” The photographs of the site show some loose stones in the shape of some squares, whereas an actual castle would have had many more stones to build walls and battlements. [Update: Joan Hope's book is online, and she states that the stones we see on the show are actually the remains of a seventeenth century mansion.]

Wolter and St. Clair speculate that New Ross was named for Rosslyn (Roslin), the Sinclair family seat in Scotland and the home of Rosslyn Chapel, built by Henry’s grandson William. How Rosslyn Chapel would encode information about Henry’s activities in Nova Scotia is beyond me since the theory seems to be that he built a castle and died in Nova Scotia, never having returned to Scotland and Orkney. (Actual fact: He was succeeded no later than 1404 by Henry II Sinclair, and William Sinclair wrote that Henry I had died defending Orkney.)

The team learns that material beneath one of the rocks was carbon dated to the 1300s (though no report is cited), but no one on the program thinks for even a minute about the actual people known to have lived in the area in the past—the First Nations (Native Americans). The Maritime tradition among native groups include burial mounds, not unlike the earthen mound at the New Ross site, and of course Native peoples and their villages existed in the area right up to the contact period. The area was also not unreasonably far south of the known Viking settlement at L’anse-aux-Meadows (Vinland) located to the north in Newfoundland. Further, the first colonists in the area, dating back to the 1600s built buildings in stone. Any of these possibilities, including the Viking one (which would be a significant and major find, if true), is much more probable than anything Templar.

The owner of the land asserts that the First Nations people have a legend of men who came wearing a red cross on a white cassock, which the team interprets as representing Knights Templar. However, I am unable to find any evidence of this legend. If it did exist, I would imagine it referred to the Catholic and Anglican missionaries who came in the 1600s, with their robes and crosses—no one mentions chain mail, for example. Europeans have been settled in Nova Scotia since 1605, making this the more likely source for any legend, especially since there are very few genuine historical traditions from the 1300s retained in oral folklore.

If you’d like proof priests in cross-bedecked vestments were wandering the area, here it is: Jessé Fléché, a French priest, accompanied the French explorer Poutrincourt to French Acadia, which became British Nova Scotia. There, he caused a scandal by converting the natives en masse to Catholicism without permission from the Jesuits, who were supposed to do such things. So successful  was he that the local Mi’kmaq (Micmac) took his title, “Le Patriarch,” and corrupted it into Patiliasse, still their word for “priest.” They also adopted the red cross on a white background as their flag. Fléché’s activities around Port Royal are described by Marc Lescarbot in The Conversion of the Savages, written in 1610. There, we can see that the cross was not an uncommon symbol and quickly adopted by the natives:

Now this Membertou to-day, by the grace of God, is a Christian, together with all his family, having been baptized, and twenty others with him, on last saint John’s day, the 24th of June. […] Chkoudun, a man of great influence, of whom I have made honorable mention in my History of New France, because I saw that he, more than all the others, loved the French, and that he admired our civilization more than their ignorance: to such an extent, that being present sometimes at the Christian admonitions, which were given every Sunday to our French people, he listened attentively, although he did not understand a word; and moreover wore the sign of the Cross upon his bosom, which he also had his servants wear; and he had in imitation of us, a great Cross erected in the public place of his village, called Oigoudi, at the port of the river saint John, ten leagues from Port Royal.

Source: Marc Lescarbot, Conversion of the Savages, in Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.), Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, vol. 1: Acadia: 1610-1613 (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1896), 77, 79.

Surely, this type of conversion scene is what any local legend refers to.

Based on Joan Hope’s fanciful blueprint of the “castle,” the team plans to dig for the Templar treasure, though I note that instead of using ground-penetrating radar, which could seek out the  foundations of the castle—and which Wolter used in episode 2, “Medieval Desert Mystery”—the team instead turns to a “long range locator,” better known as a dowsing rod hooked up to an electric beeper. The dowsing rod has its own fascinating history, originating in the worship of Thor and the idea that certain sticks were imbued with the power of lightning. It does not, however, have even a shred of scientific accuracy, running entirely on the ideomotor effect whereby the operator’s hands subconsciously move the locator wand. This is why robots and dogs can’t use dowsing rods or long range locators. Anyway, the magic stick is used to find where to dig for “gold”—major amounts of gold, they say, at least 50 ounces.

Anyone with a moment’s scientific training can see that the investigation will turn up nothing. Finders Keepers tried this same trick looking for Civil War gold on some Pennsylvania state game lands last year and got themselves kicked out of the state lands when they wanted to dig in search of what they thought was a ton and a half (!) of gold.

Didn’t Wolter learn anything from his Minnesota “giant” investigation, when the dowsing rods turned one false hit after another?

The program describes the team—now comprised of several Finders Keepers—as using a metal detector next, but somehow the metal detector returns radar results about the shape of an underground chamber hidden near the bottom of the well. I am not familiar with the device, but I don’t understand how a metal detector would deliver the shape of openings off the well but not any information about the metal content therein. I guess it must be a resistivity detector that looks for potential metal deposits by mapping underground resistance. [Update: It's apparently an electromagnetic conductivity meter which uses magnetic fields to map conductive material below ground.] This is doubly confusing when later in the episode, Parada claims that his machines found “no void” to excavate, leading to the conclusion that the chamber is filled with water. Then how did the metal detector find it? Parada claims that an “energy force” is disturbing the readings—and Steve St. Clair suggests that the Ark of the Covenant (recovered, of course, by the Templars) is sending out special beams to disrupt their work. Seriously, what do these people really believe about the ancient past?

The team sends a diver down the well, and he finds the opening, a portion of the wall that has been “bricked off,” probably to close off a natural opening to keep the well from collapsing. There is no arch or other support, so the well wall must have always been there. Everyone is excited, and Wolter practically shouts at Steve St. Clair that they are close to finding “your family treasure.” Surely the Holy Grail doesn’t actually belong to Steve St. Clair. They pump the well, and Wolter feels that the opening behind the well wall is the “treasure room” of the Holy Grail. Therefore, they bring in a drill to look for the chamber that is somehow both there and not there, and Wolter refers again to “strange energy” when the drilling equipment experiences brief battery problems.

Drilling down finds boulders beneath ground, which Wolter suggests is a wall but is more likely actually rocks since this is, after all, a rocky island. There is no void, and the dowsing rod is wrong. They move the drill over a bit and try again. They bring up backfill that Wolter claims means that someone in the past has dug out the site, certainly a possibility given that the area has been used for various purposes for at least four hundred years—no Holy Grail required. In a third location, guaranteed by the “metal detector” to be the right location this time, they drill and find absolutely nothing—no hole, no void, no treasure. “We’re not going to find shit,” Wolter says, complaining bitterly about “all these things we’ve been talking ourselves into.” He concludes—correctly!—that the backfill of soil created a density difference that showed up as a void on their machine—which I suppose means that it is a resistivity detector.

Wolter also asks where the gold the dowsing rod found really is. Parada makes excuses: “Something in the ground”—magic energy—is “throwing everything off.” It’s a classic excuse used by dowsers everywhere: When we’re right, credit the rod; when we’re wrong, blame unseen forces and mysterious, undetectable “energy.” Parada explains that he had been “warned” that the “ghost of Prince Henry,” in Wolter’s words, is preventing them from finding the treasure.

Wolter concludes that the Templars or another group had moved the treasure, and Steve St. Clair appeals to the show’s own Bible, The Da Vinci Code (weirdly, the movie and not the book), as precedent, for in the movie Robert Langdon also finds that the Holy Bloodline conspiracy had removed the evidence before he could find it. Wolter says that the Templars keep moving the treasure so it can never be found—and can keep generating new episodes! “The signs are everywhere. The clues are everywhere. It’s here somewhere in North America, and I’m going to find it.” Somehow, however, the complete failure of this entire investigation—finding no treasure, no chamber, no Templar artifacts (not even a lead cross!), no actual castle—leaves Wolter “more convinced than ever” that he is on the right track.

The series ends with Wolter reasserting that history is wrong and that the true history of “this country” (Canada?—or did he forget he’s not in the United States this week?) needs to be unearthed. He promises that he has “thousands” of leads, “and I’m just getting started.” He concludes by saying that “There’s a pattern woven into the fabric of this country, something that connects the people of the past to each other, and to us in ways I’m only starting to understand.”

The season concludes with Wolter drawing a line to connect selected ancient sites he chose to investigate this season. He connects them in a way that forms a Fibonacci curve emerging from the Kensington Rune Stone, which is cute, except that it connects only seven of the thirteen sites from this season (six, actually, since the Dare stones have two locations on the map). It was Wolter—not science—that selected those sites to investigate, possibly to conform to the pattern, and there is no logical reason to select those from among the “thousands” of sites Wolter claims to know about; he didn’t even choose just his alleged Templar sites, including as he did the non-Templar Dare Stones and the non-Templar Mystery Hill. The Fibonacci curve does not fit very well (some sites are off by what seems to be tens or hundreds of miles), and no accounting is made for spherical geometry, so the curve that looks good on a flat map may not actually be in the Fibonacci ratio on a spherical surface. In fact, I’m not certain Wolter’s hand drawn spiral is an actual Fibonacci spiral, though I don’t have a way of measuring my TV screen to find out.

So we end with a threat for more of the same next year, continuing on the quest to find Europeans in America and more Jesus/Holy Bloodline material. I had hoped that after this season Wolter would expand to non-European, non-Caucasian claims, but at this point he seems dedicated to establishing a white presence in medieval America. I think, though, that the most fitting description  summing up all of America Unearthed over these past thirteen episodes is one Wolter delivered himself in this episode: The show is about “all these things we’ve been talking ourselves into.” 

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L Bean
3/16/2013 06:20:11 am

The nutjobs at Stormfront will surely love the supernatural/folk magic angle to this one, one of their main tenants is "forgotten powers". Ghosts controlling dowsing rods? Fibonacci from map points? Say no more, deleted from the DVR. I'm not even going to watch.

So what's on the agenda for next season? Seances? Maybe Wolter will wrest the dowsing rod from his craggy butt and declair himself the rightful Prince of Pawtucket. Now that's entertainment.

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Gunn Sinclair link
3/16/2013 06:42:29 am

Dowsing rods? Check out "Two Al's Don't Make a Right," at the website below. There is a comical account of a dowser trying to make an impact at Runestone Hill. He always likes to start on "an even playing field" by taking his victims to a local cemetery. That's an even playing field!

To the chagrin of a few I'm sure, what follows are some of my own personal views about the so-called “Holy Grail” and the so-called “Holy Bloodline.” I don’t expect the views to be shared by many coming to this blog, but since the last episode of AU was about Scott Wolter seeking out the Holy Grail, I thought another viewpoint might be considered…in a friendly way, if possible. I’m really not trying to provoke an attack…I’m merely suggesting that perhaps the Grail in not an object, after all.

In my mind, the Holy Grail is not magic. But that is not to say that the Grail has no power. Quite the opposite, the Grail has unlimited power, and this power has been seen to work in both inanimate objects and in flesh. Did the stick Moses carried have magic? No, but power came into that inanimate object, several times. Power came into a burning bush, into an ark, and power comes to dwell in human flesh.

Rocks do not have spirits, nor do trees or water; however, the Grail can choose to dwell for a time in any home the Grail choses, whether animate or inanimate. The Grail has intelligence and will under certain circumstances share this intelligence with humans. We can actually search for and find the Grail, for the Grail, I believe, is the “power” of God…and the power of God is the Holy Spirit.

Apparently, a lot of folks are still searching for the Grail. They are seeking magical power in an object. From the traditional Christian point of view, there is only the power of the enemy, and the power of God. There is no hope of special power in a so-called “Grail Bloodline”; you must be born again spiritually, period. Traditional Christianity explains that Jesus was conceived immaculately by the Holy Spirit. Why then would He then later become carnal by marrying and having children?

So then, I’m offering my opinion that the Grail is the power of God, the Holy Spirit…the same Power that lifted Jesus from death and the grave bodily. The Holy Grail is not a box of bones, or a chalice or a piece of the cross, and the “false grail” some seek cannot be found in highly selective human DNA…because the power of the Holy Spirit is not contained or restrained that way.

These are just my opinions as a Christian and a fake Sinclair.

Did anyone not yet see the “Jason Colavito Stonehole?” Man, that sucker is OLD! www.hallmarkemporium.com Altar Rock page.

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Varika
3/16/2013 01:32:26 pm

Congratulations, sir. You actually understand the Grail better than most. Your views mush more closely match the actual origins of the Grail story: as a thing to be sought, but never found, and a representation of perfect piety. The quest for the Grail was always more important than the Grail itself, because it was the pursuit of God and perfection, a journey that I daresay most Christians still struggle with. (I'm not, not interested in becoming one, and no bones about it, but I've had my own spiritual struggles, so.)

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Catholic Cop
3/16/2013 05:42:46 pm

Jesus was conceived of a virgin. His mother was conceived immaculately.

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Brian
2/8/2015 09:48:35 am

No. Jesus (if he was even an actual person, remember we have the sum total of zero verifiable evidence for him) was not born of a virgin. That story was invented in order to try and convert Greek speaking Jews by misreading a prophecy which was fulfilled 700 years previously according to the torah, and the operative word in the propechy "almah" (Aramaic for young woman) was mistranslated by the Greek Jews into "parthenos" (Greek for virgin woman), thus the bible using a mistranslated previously fulfilled (if you take that fantasy book at its word) prophecy as "proof" that Jesus was the messiah, despite fulfilling none of the prophecies that were actually about him.

Tino
7/5/2013 02:05:21 am

I was intrigued watching this show, but it turns out theres more history in my bowl movement than what was portrayed. First off "OH theres a cavity beside the well, "OH theres precious metals discovered by our machines" "OH lets drill" "shoot we hit rock" "OH lets drill again, shoot we hit rock" OK guess we were wrong lets go home..... If your that convinced get an excavator and DIG DIG DIG......

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RLewis
3/16/2013 07:22:01 am

My favorite "quote" of the series: "I need hard facts! Bring in the dowsers!"

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J Adamson
3/16/2013 07:40:41 am

I was wondering what exactly does 'the frequency of gold' mean?

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Christopher Randolph
3/17/2013 08:24:34 am

The more frequently Wolter claims that white people were guided by the hand of God in America, the more gold he gets.

That's the frequency of gold.

James Marshall
3/21/2013 09:17:04 pm

Pay no heed to Mr. Randolph and his race-baiting.

Sacqueboutier
3/16/2013 07:47:26 am

Can you say "Al Capone's vault"? Wolter needs to get together with Geraldo to compare notes.

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William M Smith
3/16/2013 08:24:14 am


This show did show the length one will go to make a movie. Put yourself in the shoes of the so called people that made the money pit in Oak Island. (John Wayne and Arrow Flinn). Today we have the H2 and (Steve Sinclair and Scott Wolter). I know both of these men and will tell you a fool is born every day and two to take him. The show stinks like all the others and has produced no facts at all in all the H2 programs presented. I sure hope they do not land a contract with our school system.

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Christopher Randolph
3/17/2013 08:28:21 am

I have zero doubt that any number of 'homsechoolers' are using AU as 'history' and 'science' material for their kids. I wouldn't be shocked if a few charter or voucher schools are also using it.

Regardless that's money the Minnesota taxpayers spent that they could have spent employing an actual history or science teacher somewhere in the state.

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Nancy Elizabeth Sinclair
3/23/2013 10:36:23 am

In the past I've home schooled for several years to avoid the disgusting local high school, then only enrolled my children again for the last semester so they could graduate with a class. Never would I or other present day home schoolers I know personally use the America Unearthed program as a teaching tool. There may be some home schoolering parents who will use this, but most use an already written purchased program. One basic reason to home school is to teach your children to develope critical thinking skills, not to make them the public school system brain washed robots who easily submit to indoctrination.

Christopher Randolph
3/31/2013 11:10:23 am

Statement #1: " Never would I or other present day home schoolers I know personally use the America Unearthed program as a teaching tool."

Statement #2: "There may be some home schoolering parents who will use this..."

Statement #3: "One basic reason to home school is to teach your children to develope critical thinking skills..."

The prosecution rests. Good luck with developeing your schoolering Ms. Sinclair.

T.
3/17/2013 04:29:24 pm

Errol Flynn.

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Marco
3/16/2013 08:29:54 am

The "Prince Henry" think certainly baffled me so thanks for the explanation Jason. I though he was mixing up Prince Henry the Navigator up with Sinclair. I know I said I wasn't going to watch but I did and it was by far the worst episode of the lot. I spent the best part of an hour watching a treasure hunt using some very dubious methods. The frequency of gold? What's that? Moreover, if they were sure there was more than 50 ounces of the stuff buried there, why limit the dig to a few exploratory bore holes? Utter rubbish from start to finish.

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B L
3/16/2013 08:30:53 am

Even when playing by his own made up rules Wolter still comes off looking like a complete amateur. Imagine for a moment you fully believe the line Wolter has been selling for 13 episodes. Now imagine after a weeks-long, globe spanning trek you have finally pinpointed the Templar treasure's final resting place. You absolutely KNOW your standing just feet above the Ark of the Covenant or something equally special. How do you decide to liberate the treasure? Do you use hand shovels, then trowels, then brushes taking the time to inspect and catalogue every piece of dirt and rock you remove from the dig? No! If you're Scott Wolter you just call in the biggest piece of heavy drilling equipment you can find and start randomly poking holes at varying depths. What a maroon!

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Tom
3/16/2013 02:42:37 pm

So true. I was just amazed that a find as important as something he is claiming could be excavated in such an amateurish manner. It was truly a face palm moment.

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The Other J.
3/17/2013 12:52:06 pm

Ha! Yeah, so true. What kind of an ass would Wolter look like to his followers and the St. Clair clan if he sent that drill straight through the Ark of the Covenant.

What a muppet.

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Cathleen Anderson
3/16/2013 08:57:25 am

So, it's possible to pump water out of a well on an island? Considering how high the water table is, that was another part where I was just rolling my eyes at the gullibility of Wolters.

You aren't the only one who has thoroughly discussed how ficticious any trip by Henry Sinclair to North America is.

http://www.alastairhamilton.com/sinclair.htm

My son also watched this episode last night, and would comment when he wasn't rolling on the floor laughing. He just couldn't believe that attempt at a fibonacci spiral.

As far as the Newport Tower goes, hubby did find an article from the Newport Library about a possible Portuguese construction, that does sound plausible.

http://www.dightonrock.com/portuguese_tower_of_newport.htm

If this one is the correct one, then there really would be a Templar connection, just not the one that Wolters wants. Now that would be ironic.

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L
3/18/2013 09:05:36 pm

@Cathleen Anderson,
No, if you read that page further, it says that the Dutch team radio-carbon dated it to 1500 give or take 50 years, from the CO2 remnants.

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Thomas
3/16/2013 08:58:54 am

On the subject of the Holy Grail and where it is located. I tend to believe that the location of this artifact has long been known, but just poorly publicized. In my opinion I believe the chalice to be known as "The Valencia Chalice."
Information can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Chalice
There is a question of authenticity and which of the many contenders might actually be the true chalice used by Christ. There is an article that I believe does a good job giving a brief explanation of the history and other information about the chalice.
Information regarding chalice: http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/ZGRAIL.HTM
If you're the type more interested in an in depth look you can get the book "St. Laurence and the Holy Grail: The Story of the Holy Chalice of Valencia" with translated documents and detailed information. This book covers the description and location of the true chalice and then a description of travel that relates the true chalice as being The Valencia Chalice.
Book: http://books.google.com/books?id=5QOtUa6OHmQC&dq=St.+Laurence+and+the+Holy+Grail:The+Story+of+the+Holy+Chalice+of+Valencia&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Although the information provided isn't perfect it does make a good case for the Valencia Chalice.
After looking at various information and various sources regarding the Holy Grail, it appears that this stone chalice as being one of the two chalices (one stone and one metal) used at the last supper in discriptions of the events of the last supper. These accounts are from information passed down through the early church. This chalice (the stone chalice)being the one used in the actual consecration at the last supper as opposed to the second chalice (metal one) used to hold the wine and being too large for the consecration purposes. Although not a perfect case, this chalice appears to be, far above the others, as the best front runner in the case for the true chalice and in my and many others opinion is probably the Holy Grail.

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Thomas
3/16/2013 09:00:10 am

Sorry, that was far better formatted... don't know how that got messed up when it sent.

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Thomas
3/16/2013 09:04:45 am

Better formatting hopefully:

On the subject of the Holy Grail and where it is located. I tend to believe that the location of this artifact has long been known, but just poorly publicized. In my opinion I believe the chalice to be known as "The Valencia Chalice."

Information can be seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Chalice

There is a question of authenticity and which of the many contenders might actually be the true chalice used by Christ. There is an article that I believe does a good job giving a brief explanation of the history and other information about the chalice.

Information regarding chalice:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/ZGRAIL.HTM

If you're the type more interested in an in depth look you can get the book "St. Laurence and the Holy Grail: The Story of the Holy Chalice of Valencia" with translated documents and detailed information. This book covers the description and location of the true chalice and then a description of travel that relates the true chalice as being The Valencia Chalice.

Book:
http://books.google.com/booksid=5QOtUa6OHmQC&dq=St.+Laurence+and+the+Holy+Grail:The+Story+of+the+Holy+Chalice+of+Valencia&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Although the information provided isn't perfect it does make a good case for the Valencia Chalice.

After looking at various information and various sources regarding the Holy Grail, it appears that this stone chalice as being one of the two chalices (one stone and one metal) used at the last supper in discriptions of the events of the last supper. These accounts are from information passed down through the early church. This chalice (the stone chalice)being the one used in the actual consecration at the last supper as opposed to the second chalice (metal one) used to hold the wine and being too large for the consecration purposes.

Although not a perfect case, this chalice appears to be, far above the others, as the best front runner in the case for the true chalice and in my and many others opinion is probably the Holy Grail.

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Stephen Cobb link
3/16/2013 11:58:21 am

Very much enjoyed reading your account of this episode. I'm all for exploring alternative views of history, but we won't get anywhere using speculation instead of scientific method.

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Tom
3/16/2013 02:37:27 pm

Where's Wolter?

He hasn't appeared here for a while now to rail against his non-believers. I have the feeling he's cackling madly to himself if he's reading this as every refutation of his ideas only strengthens his belief that he's right.

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Kate
3/16/2013 03:07:14 pm

I have to say, this episode didn't make me cringe as much as others. That being said, the only reason it didn't is because it was so incredibly absurd I just laughed throughout it.

So a few things, just because I've seen some confusion: the equipment used to find the "void" filled with "gold" was not a resistivity meter -- those have electrodes in the ground and you run a current through it to measure the resulting voltage and blah blah blah you get a map of the cross section of the ground to some depth.

If I'm correct, that was an electromagnetic conductivity meter, which instead of using an electric current, uses a magnetic field (it's really similar to resistivity meters in most other matters). It's very similar to the technology used in metal detectors, so that's probably why they referred to it as such. However, these are far more sophisticated and are used to find anything that is conductive, for example salt water. It's has applications in environmental remediation along with other geophysical surveys.

I had to laugh though, their dowsing rods said there was gold according to the frequency (which, by the way, is a load of hogwash, more on that in a second), the conductivity clearly showed a void (blue = low, red = high, but these are in relation to each other, not usually a predetermined level) so obviously the void (measured by the conductivity meter) had to be filled with gold? That was "measured" by dowsing rods? So here's the problem: gold is extremely conductive, so if it was there it should have been obvious in the conductivity measurements.

As for the frequency thing, I call shenanigans. Yes, there is a resonant frequency for many atoms/molecules/minerals, but in the case of most native elements this frequency is so low that it's impossible to separate it out from background noise. Without getting into a technical explanation, the number they chose for the gold frequency is meaningless. There are instruments that can find metals like gold, but these use electromagnetic conductivity measurements that don't involve frequencies.

I hoped this episode would be a a mark in the win column for science. But with another season already slated for production, I think the alternate universe they operate in will happily move along without the help of hard -- or any -- science.

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Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 12:24:45 am

Thank you very much for the information. I'm not familiar enough with the machines to know just what they were using. I've added an update above to note your identification of their mystery box.

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Pamelae
3/16/2013 05:53:34 pm

This episode went far beyond the limits of incredulity. I thought Wolter was a little touched in the head, but now I'm convinced that he's simply insane. Absolutely nothing he intended to "prove" in this episode panned out, but he's still convinced he's right about the Templar/America connection? God in Heaven. Next thing he'll expect us to believe is that the Templar's were actually a race of humanoids landed on earth to seed a new people with incredible mental an physical prowess, but a human conspiracy foiled them and the proof that they were here.

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Ken Powell
3/16/2013 10:27:30 pm

wow Jason, just wow! Were you even watching the show!? In your first paragraph you state Parada claims "he knows the location of buried Templar treasure at Hobson Island in Nova Scotia"....... Parada never said that the Templar Treasure was buried at Hobson Island! Parada said that he believes the treasure went from Hobson Island to Oak Island for a short time but was then moved to New Ross..... Another quote for you, Jason, above "Parada thinks that Oak Island was actually Templar, but that Prince Henry moved the treasure from Oak Island to Hobson Island nearby"..... As I just stated, Parada claims it was moved FROM Hobson Island TO Oak Island... For a critic, you sure are lousy as you can't even qoute someone right.... But wait, it gets better! Next you say "Parada, St. Clair, and Wolter travel to Hobson Island in ridiculously overproduced overhead shots of them speeding across the waters beneath waves and cresting musical accompaniment". It amazing how St. Clair had black hair in the boat and on Hobson Island but yet he got taller and changed his hair to grey when he got to the castle site....... OH WAIT, maybe because that was Patrick on the boat and on Hobson Island........ Were you even watching the episode? Then you say "[Update: Joan Hope's book is online, and she states that the stones we see on the show are actually the remains of a seventeenth century mansion.]" Well I just went to her site and it says that she died in 2007. How can a dead women state that the stones we see on the show are actually the remains of a seventeenth centurn mansion? I didn't know there was internet in the after life. Then you say "Finders Keepers tried this same trick on a Civil War battlefield last year and got themselves kicked out of the state lands when they wanted to dig up the battlefield in search of what they thought was a ton and a half (!) of gold." Well I just checked out their website, www.finderskeepersusa.com and did my own research. It appears that they are on State Game Lands and no where does it say that they are on a battlefield. And if you would do your research you would find that appearntly DCNR Rangers were tampering with Finders Keepers site, which was caught on camera. I find it funny that once those pictures surfaced, then Finders Keepers were "kicked" off the site.

Plus Wolter, St. Clair and Parada never mention any kind of energy source or power from beyond till the very end. You make it sound as if they were saying it the whole way through the episode.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't fully understand the Long Rang Locator myself but it does peek my curiousity as even in the one shot, the rods turn towards the well. If I was there and thought I located treasure, I would have drilled a lot more then just a few holes, but just because they didn't hit a void doesn't mean that there wasn't one there. If their theroy is correct and that well is over 700 years old, I find it hard to believe that a tunnel or void would stay completely open. And I don't understand why they even sent a diver down the well, should have just pumped it out to begin with.

Needless to say, I read your blogs but I can't handle your negativity anymore. Sounds like you got a grudge against Wolter and everyone he comes in contact with. Were you in line to host the show but Wolter was better or didn't he reply to your fan mail?

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Jason Colavito link
3/16/2013 11:38:53 pm

If I've made factual errors about individuals' names, I'm sorry. I'll fix any errors of fact. You do this in 90 minutes and see how much you can write. Note that you do not criticize any of my conclusions, only events in the show, which have nothing to do with the actual claims about the Holy Grail.

I said "states" because it is a literary convention to describe the contents of a book in the present tense regardless of when it was written. This has been true since Greco-Roman times.

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Ken Powell
3/17/2013 12:45:36 am

factual errors about names? You made errors about the storyline and made statements that were inaccurate. like I said, it was as if you didn't even watch the show. If you did then you would have noticed the difference between the 2 guys. I don't criticize your conclusions because frankly, I don't care. I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, just as long as its factual, which yours wasn't. Your other blogs had mine errors in them as well but they didn't bother me as much as this one did. It started to seem that in almost every paragraph I found myself saying "that's wrong", "that never happened" or "what episode was he watching?" As stated, I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but facts are facts and are no longer an opinion. Maybe I should re-read your blogs now and post your errors so everyone can see for themselves.

Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 01:01:03 am

You identified three minor errors, one of which was an incorrect name, the second an editing error affecting prepositions (not a "storyline" error), and the third an incorrect descriptor.

As you might notice, I happily corrected all of these errors once they were brought to my attention. I do my best, but obviously I make mistakes. Unlike conspiracy theorists, I'm not trying to hide them. That said, none of these errors had any impact on the conclusions I drew about the pseudo-historical speculation presented on the show.

Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 12:20:46 am

I have corrected the three minor errors you identified: I have corrected Patrick Whelan's name, I have corrected the direction of Henry's movement of the treasure, and I have corrected the location of Finders Keepers' Pennsylvania treasure hunt. None of these points was directly relevant to the review, however.

I will not change my evaluation of their claims about "energy," which occurred three times in the show and are essential for understanding the pseudo-scientific methodology of this treasure hunt.

If you think my reviews of this show are negative, you haven't read my Ancient Aliens reviews or my book reviews of Gavin Menzies, Frank Joseph, Erich von Daniken, or David Childress. I hold everyone to the same standards. These America Unearthed reviews only read as personal against Wolter because this show is driven by one personality whereas Ancient Aliens has 5-6 pundits per hour to criticize.

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Ken Powell
3/17/2013 01:00:05 am

All I was pointing out was that your review did not match the storyline. That's all. Then when I started to research about your accusations about Joan and Finders Keepers I started to find loop holes, that's all.

As far as the "energy" force stuff, I appoligize if I'm incorrect but I believe that wasn't mentioned till the end. I found many editing errors in the show itself. Such as when James was using the Ross in the field, it briefly shows him by the well then back in the field. As Scott decent a into the well notice his clothes, tan pants with (what appears to be boots) but the video from his camera shows him with laced shoes on. Patrick came up for the infered camera yet no footage was shown from it?

Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 01:07:26 am

They begin mentioning strange energy when the drill breaks down and twice in connection with machine readings. You're right that this occurred at the end of the show. To make things clear for readers, I lumped together all of the material about the electromagnetic conductivity machine upon first reference but clearly indcated the discussion of "energy" occured "later" in the show.

Finders Keepers link
3/31/2013 06:25:32 am

THANK YOU KEN POWELL , You should be doing Jason's job. You got it 100% correct. 1st we are still at the Dents Run site and we took DCNR to court and we have just worked out a deal with them and should be drilling early summer when we return from Nova Scotia. Ya, from Nova Scotia. we plan to return in April to drill again into the void. Yes a Void. The problem I see is that the film crew left out to much info and did leave a lot of questions. So I see how Jason and most got it wrong. We got the drill truck at the last minute and it was way to big to drill over the void and would of caved it in. We had permits to drill only and no digging was allowed. We had other metal detecting equipment on site that was not shown and it did not work at this site, most of what we tried did not work (WHY) . This is the best part. When we drilled we hit gold and a lot of it. The drill holes were just for the TV show and we hit gold. We could not tell this on the show until we bought up all of the mineral rights in the area. We have to much gold and Tantalite in the area so thats why our equipment went nuts. Tantalite is a rare earth metal and with gold and Tantalite at this site its no wonder nothing worked. We plan to drill many holes at the site to hit the void and see what it is , a cave, tunnel, water room or treasure room. We located the void on the last day and the drill rig broke down for 3hrs. and we all had to be out of Canada the next day. Their was no time to get things done the way we wanted but in April we will prove Jason wrong. This is what I do best . Prove people wrong and show just how much they know. Jason should get another job and let us do what we know. I will post on this site and all I can when we return from Nova Scoita and after we drill in Dents Run to see if Jason knows what he talks about. He had his 15 min of talk and soon it will be my turn.
Dennis Parada

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Jason Colavito link
3/31/2013 06:35:25 am

Well, aren't you charming? As I repeatedly say, I can only judge by what the TV show said. This is a show that is known to manipulate information and fabricate facts. If you are saying that they did that to you, too, then I thank you for the information.

You did not explain whether this gold was a mineral deposit (in which case it is irrelevant to the claims of the show) or treasure.

If treasure, I trust you duly reported your find to the Nova Scotia government as required by law and have the paperwork to verify this? Under Nova Scotia law, they own all treasure found.

I look forward to seeing your treasure when and if you pull it from the ground, as will, of course, the Nova Scotia government.

Do keep us posted.

Finders Keepers link
3/31/2013 07:30:57 am

OK Jason I see I will have to help you on your stupid questions. There was a arch in the well , did they show it NO. The shoes you see with Scott in the well was his but they sent a camera man down and you see his shoes , big deal. The 2 box radar image was used to show a void that a backhoe dug at for a water line to the house. Ground Radar can not be used in Nova Scotia because of to much clay. Ya Scott used it in other shows where clay is not deeper than 5'. Our site has 120' of dirt , clay and stone then bedrock at 120'. We are at the highest mountain in Nova Scotia and not on a smaller Island. What you say about Scott or the show is one thing but you do not know how to treasure hunt or Review anything. The film crew left out a lot of info and it makes us look bad so we will return with another film crew and do it my way then we will see how much you got right.
Dennis Parada

Finders Keepers link
3/31/2013 07:41:41 am

OK , Did you not read we had permits to drill????/ We own a company in Nova Scotia and we are working with the Gov. and a University so I don't know why you say what you do. We own all the mineral rights in the area and we can drill and dig NOW. If you are so good at what you do , then do your home work. This is just the start of things to come.

Jason Colavito link
3/31/2013 07:55:25 am

Permits to drill for what? As far as I am aware, one does not use drilling to excavate archaeological sites. And if you are drilling merely for minerals, this has nothing to do with the claims that the Holy Grail is buried in the well.

Mineral rights do not cover archaeological treasure hordes, which are covered under the 2010 Special Places Protection Act. I know that because I checked with the government of Nova Scotia.

Why are you mad at me for not having any more information that America Unearthed provided? It sounds like you should be mad at Scott Wolter for making you look like an idiot who uses dowsing rods and battles evil spirits while trying to loot archaeological sites.

You're absolutely right that I don't know how to "treasure hunt." That's because archaeologists call this "looting." Archaeologists are interested in the context of a site and preserving the integrity of a site, including evidence not made of precious metals. Bringing a giant drill in will destroy any evidence and any context and ruin the site for all future scholars.

Matthew Dentith link
3/16/2013 11:16:29 pm

Well, that was an amusing episode and I had great fun tweeting my way through it (#americaunearthed).

I think it's worth pausing to think about how the early episodes (weirdly) seemed much more "factive" than what we got in the second half of the season. It seems to me (on recollection) that in the early episodes Wolter at least talked to archaeologists and qualified experts. This latter batch of Templar-themed episodes, however, focused on hypotheses held by interested amateurs and had to resort to a lot of, at best incorrect, at worst fabricated, assertions about history and historical personages. If I were the kind of person to posit conspiracy theories, I'd say someone on the production team quite deliberately front-loaded the series with episodes which looked like Wolter was willing to talk to the experts, so that by the end of the series viewers would be lulled into a sense of false expectation that what they were watching was history and not just pseudohistory.

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Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 12:23:36 am

Undoubtedly. Archaeologists stop appearing on the show after the Minnesota Giants episode, and all non-conspiracy theorists vanish entirely by the end of the series. The show lured in viewers with appeals to science and then built toward ever more outlandish claims. I really expected the series to end with Wolter meeting the last descendant of Jesus and bowing to him as Grail King.

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Finder Keeper link
3/31/2013 10:23:03 am

Jason if you know the law in Nova Scotia then you know it all. We cannot dig for artifacts but we can drill into a void or show artifacts on a drill bit. When we drill into a void we drop a camera down to see what is there and if we locate artifacts we call the Gov. fast and they come on site. We then have a university that will do the dig. Land owners can dig up to 2 ' down then the rest belongs to the Gov. we have a office and own all the mineral rights in a 2sq mile area of the site. We could not drill into the void so we drilled 3 holes for the show and hit gold nuggets by accident. The first hole hit a wall that goes to the void but we could not get any closer to the void. If you go to our web page you can see the drill hole and one gold nugget.

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Christopher Randolph
3/31/2013 11:18:00 am

Just so we get this correct, you were TRYING to DRILL INTO priceless artifacts..?

Also, didn't you have supposed history-overturning artifacts of the supposed castle at surface level and within 2 ft of the surface? Have you contacted your local university with your 'discovery'? What have they had to say about it?

Jason Colavito link
3/31/2013 10:36:08 am

Thank you, Dennis. Given that Nova Scotia had a historic gold rush after 1858, and the area is known to have gold deposits, this seems to be entirely in keeping with the geology of the area. Good luck finding more of the mineral gold; however, I still have yet to see any evidence of an actual pre-colonial European settlement at New Ross.

Thank you also for explaining that America Unearthed purposely left out the Canadian law that prevented them from actually excavating for artifacts and deceptively presented staged scenes that by law could not produce the results they claimed to seek. So this was all a sham for TV. No surprise there.

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The Other J.
3/17/2013 01:51:37 pm

When they first showed the V on the rock, did anyone else think it looked like the start of a V from the Van Halen "VH" symbol? (http://tinyurl.com/vh-symbol) I imagined some high school kid starting to chisel that in, with friends taking snapshots in between swigs of cheap beer, and the cops coming before they get the second ad third flags on the left stave of the V. In a perfect world, Wolter would scramble up the boulder with his jeweler's microscope, declare it's from the 14th century, and then the show would cut to some 45 year old burnout showing the pictures of when he and his buddies tried to carve VH into the boulder in 1982 when Diver Down was released. And Wolter yelling at them about how they're wrong, it was Templars.

Thanks for pointing out the Fleche story. It seems to be another example of actively discarding other evidence in favor of a pet theory, and then presenting that pet theory as the only possibly solution. Besides, red crosses on a white background aren't particular to the Templars. That's also the St. George's Cross

When they cracked out the dowsing rods to find the void of gold (void -- good choice of terms), I was really jonesing for the Time Team from Britain. They would have had that entire foundation dug up, mostly by hand, in three days flat with the Ark of the Covenant sitting on a pub table by the end of the episode. Instead Wolter risked drilling a hole through one of the most revered religious artifacts in history. What a tool.

By the time they got to discussing the void and ark beams, I considered if I should clip out some of that footage and use it as a classroom example of special pleading. It's a good one.

But his being more convinced than ever about the truth of his claims, despite finding nothing, is also classic conspiratorial thinking. I could find the articles, but there have been studies on this sort of thing (one was a joint political science/psychology study at Georgetown I think, have to check). These studies tend to focus on political opinions, and one discovery is that true believers who tend to go respond to issues with their gut and heart also tend to end up more convinced of their thinking in proportion to the contradictory evidence they're shown. (Insert favorite conspiracy theory here for examples.) For the faithful believers, there's always a path around the evidence. It's interesting stuff; in the study (studies), the electrical activity of the participants' brains was mapped as the participants were presented with different kinds of information and evidence. The ones who were more convinced by evidence tended to show more activity in the frontal lobe regions, and the ones who became more firm in their beliefs despite evidence showed more activity around the limbic system.

Sir Wolter Scott's insistence on his correctness at the end, despite his own findings, reminded me of that study; and the fact that he gets so emotional ramped up and even aggressive about some things made me think 'limbic system at play.' I might be completely off about this, it's just what the episode made me think of.

Jason, you completely called it on the Sinclair connection. Weren't you heading in that direction a few episodes back?

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Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 01:59:56 pm

Absolutely right that the Time Team would have hit him over the head with a shovel and then done the digging the right way.

Yes, I did guess the Sinclair connection a few weeks ago because it was the only connection between the Vikings and the Templars. The only Templar connection to the Newport Tower is via Henry Sinclair as well, so once he called the Tower Templar there was no escaping it. It just happened that by chance I came across the Zeno map and narrative while researching Vinland (I originally thought the show would go for Vikings since Rune Stone and all) and that led to the fictitious Sinclair material.

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Christopher Randolph
3/17/2013 04:06:51 pm

In reference to the boulder, I think it's funny that the entirety of Wolter's "investigation" was to look at the "V" briefly and say "It looks old."

This is what forensic geology is all about? A quick glance and "hey that looks old"?!

It didn't look like Wolter brought ANYTHING to the table in the episode, aside from maybe flipping the bill for the unnecessary drilling equipment. Other people knew where the site was, other people had the hilarious dowsing equipment, other people did the unnecessary diving.

What's funny here too is that the man is claiming that this site is proof of history-overturning settlement that would validate diffusionist claims, yet we can bet he'll be doing NOTHING with it as we move along to chase the Grail or the Ark or Jesus' rocking chair. One would think that someone who actually believed that they found castle remnants on this side of the Atlantic would be trumpeting that part as the treasure, and that we would have had the first show of season one start there and dismantle 'lamestream' historians and archeologists week by week as the world adjusts to the fact that Wolter was correct.

Would that not make Wolter a rich, famous and validated man? Would that not alone be total victory for the diffusionists? Would that not make this the highest rated show in cable history?

Instead the trip was cast as a bit of a disappointment since neither legendary Christian artifacts nor leprechaun gold were found. A mere castle that rewrites the history books? No biggie, nothing to see here, let's not waste any resources testing anything nor doing a proper dig...

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Steve St. Clair link
3/17/2013 05:11:17 pm

Maybe you can show me the page on the St Clair Sinclair DNA website where I'm "...attempting to prove that Henry Sinclair spread his DNA throughout North America in the Middle Ages, hybridizing the Native American population."

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Jason Colavito link
3/17/2013 11:36:30 pm

Do you mean something different by "testing Native North Americans" for Sinclair DNA ("our complex ancient history") than I read on your "About St. Clair Research" page? I assumed that referred to Native Americans (Amerindians). Were you using that term weirdly to refer to Euro-Americans born in North America? If so, that is not really standard usage.

If you are referring to Native Americans (Amerindians), what other conclusion am I to draw than that you are investigating whether the Sinclairs interbred with Native Americans?

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Steve St. Clair link
3/18/2013 03:14:40 am

But that's not what you said, Jason. You said, "...attempting to prove that Henry Sinclair spread his DNA throughout North America in the Middle Ages..."

You might want to choose your words more carefully as you attack Scott and the guests he has on the show.

Now in your reply to me you're asking "...investigating whether the Sinclairs interbred with Native Americans?" That's not the same way of phrasing the question, is it Jason?

If you look at my website, you'll see that there is one page (out of very many) that is investigating claims that Jarl Henry Sinclair (note I openly question the use of the phrase "Prince") was in North America. It's a claim others have made and we've investigated whether DNA might be able to add data to the discussion.

Your open slam (there's no other way to characterize it) against my DNA website purposefully makes it sound like my goal is to prove something I've already decided. Even on the show I repeatedly said I'm highly skeptical. Two of those made it into the final cut.

Did you even read my page entitled Jarl Henry Sinclair? Clearly you didn't consider it necessary to go beyond a mere glance at 9 years of DNA research before going on the attack.

So, I say again - show me where I say I'm "attempting to prove" Prince Henry" did this.

I understand your urgency in getting your latest attack posted as soon as possible after the show is complete, but perhaps your readers would be better served if you'd spend a little more time investigating those you're attacking. I agree with Ken Powell in the comments above.

My Methodology page (which is plainly visible) might have been a good place to start - http://www.stclairresearch.com/content/method.html

Steve St. Clair

Jason Colavito link
3/18/2013 03:29:26 am

I appreciate your comments, Steve, and I apologize if you found the description harsher than you would like. However, if you would like to play word games, we can do that. "Attempting" means that you are trying to establish a fact, which your website admits that you are attempting to do. Spreading one's DNA is the same as "interbreeding" unless there is another way of genetically modifying Native genomes.

You may claim to be skeptical, but on the very page you directed me to you state that your hypothesis is that there is a "basis in reality to the legends of our association with the Templars, a Holy Bloodline, the Prince Henry St. Clair stories about early voyaging to the New World, and more."

Now unless you define hypothesis differently than the scientific method does, this is what you are attempting to prove.

So, if you are attempting to prove the truth of Henry's voyage and his holy bloodline and you are doing so by testing Native Americans' DNA to see if they interbred with the Sinclair bloodline, how is what I said factually inaccurate?

I'm sorry if you disapprove of the language used, and out of deference to your sensibilities, I will modify this sentence to more accurately reflect your feelings.

The fact of what I've said, however, follows directly from your own statements on your website.

B L
3/18/2013 02:51:43 pm

In the show's defense....the Ark of the Covenant DOES throw off some strange energies. That is a FACT. I saw it on an H2-style documentary called Raiders of the lost Ark. The host was a Scott Wolter wannabe named Indiana Jones.

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LB
3/18/2013 09:08:32 pm

I have the Holy Grail. It's between my legs and it's 12 inches.

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Elk
3/18/2013 08:56:21 pm

I didn't mind most of the season of the show, as I watched it more for "entertainment" rather than actual facts, so the show served its purpose.
But this last episode got on my tits more than the others.
What got to me was the digging with the drill. After all the tech they used to pinpoint the spot next to the well, they decide to use a massive drill to possibly dig for one of mankind's most treasured things? No way! And there in that one moment, the whole show should have collapsed for all the "believers" out there that may have been mesmerized by the bullshit on the show.
If they were true archeologists, they would have dug that area by hand, inch by inch, recording everything as they did so. But they send a diver in real quick, drain the water, and start poking holes into the rocks. Then they bring in the massive drill and start hammering away at the site! So fucking unbelievable. Not conceivable, if you are a true archaeologist.
A pile driver! Amazing!

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CFC
3/19/2013 12:13:05 am

Because America Unearthed is so poorly done (the season finale was ridiculous) individuals like Steve St. Clair and others associated with Scott Wolter would be wise to re-evaluate their affiliation with him and this program if they truly care about their reputations and their research.

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CC
3/19/2013 12:49:59 am

It seemed that in the beginning of the show they tried to "seem" like they were " trying to have a more credible group of guests,so to speak,but from the reply's almost all of these guests soon saw how their words were distorted,and became incinerated ......then later on we saw the true agenda,to glorify Wolter in some esoteric crusade,as he was obsessed with freemasonry ,oh and Templars. Surly Wolter has a say in what the final draft of each episode.So this drivel is what he wants to say about himself and his expertise. He's laughing all the way to the bank.

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Matt Mc
3/19/2013 08:41:19 am

Wolter may not have say in the final edit of the show, its hard to say. Very seldom does the Host have a say in the final edit. Now I would have to look at the credits to see if he is a producer also.

More than likely if he is not, unless he is in real good with Committee Films after his segments are finished filming and then whatever pick ups that are needed are filmed. Wolters involvement is done unless like I said a special arrangement is done.

As an editor having a host like Wolter being involved in the final cut is hellish, Changes would be made up to the last second before delivery. More than likely he sees the first rough cut, comments on changes to the producers and they handle the final cut.


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Matt Mc
3/19/2013 02:39:50 am

One of the questions I had during this episode was:

Lets say there was some gold or treasure of some kind found during the drilling, does this mean the Steve St. Clair would of assumed claim on the treasure?

Despite the fact that this was private property and (while I don't know) Canada must have some kind of historical artifact law. The comments made by Scott indicate that it was assumed by both him and Steve (by his reaction to Scott's statement) that whatever discovered was the property of the Sinclair family.

Was this just a statement made out of excitement and a well placed comment made by Scott to subliminally assert his theories (Wolter does this frequently in each episode, Jason has detailed this in the past, and common in shows like this and Ancient Aliens, first you suppose, and the assert over many well placed and repeated statements over the course of the program, I could go in detail about how this is done in media and encounter and use it a lot in my career as a TV editor and producer)?

I would think that if some treasure was discovered and the assumptions made by Wolter that a long a lengthy court case would be required before St. Clair and Wolter could have any claim to it, also the treasure hunting company would also want a share.

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Jason Colavito link
3/19/2013 05:59:26 am

From 1954 to 2010, Nova Scotia allowed treasure hunting in an around Oak Island with a permit, with a 90-10 split of the results in favor of the hunter. This is why the Oak Island Money Pit received so much attention. This was changed, and now under Nova Scotia's Special Places Protection Act, all treasure (defined as processed metal, etc.) belongs to the Nova Scotia government upon discovery.

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Jason Colavito link
3/19/2013 06:00:55 am

I should clarify that the new law exempts Oak Island itself, where treasure hunting may continue with a permit.

CFC
3/19/2013 02:55:11 am

Wolter and the producers have shown themselves to be incompetent and opportunistic. What they promised in their marketing campaign was never delivered. This Blog has further exposed them for what they are. DISHONEST!!!

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Sinclair
3/23/2013 05:52:25 am

I am sure that I had made a comment on this blog, has it been removed? Has StClair gotten to you too.....

I also see Steve St.Clair? has shown is ugly attitude here, trying to cover himself for all the false claims he has put forward.

Steve St.Clair is NOT in any way related to this Prince Henry Sinclair and there is no proof to the story of Sinclair sailing to America. DNA has proven Steve does NOT in FACT relate to the Sinclair family. He continues to make all sorts of false claims to try and connect himself to this family. A fancy web page does not make one a Sinclair by blood. The truth be known, most of the people claiming to be Sinclairs, connected to the Clan Sinclair family are not related at all, not even to each other. There are something like 12 or more different DNA lineages, none related to the other within StClairs research. One line has been proven back to the Sinclair family and that is the one they call R1b,S21,U106....the most rescent dna marker is called Z346*.......don't believe me google it and check it out yourselves.

As for the vid ,well its entertaining but all a load of crap....

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Sinclair
3/23/2013 08:41:03 am

RrrrBilly Pirates Treasure,Templars,lol.......are we sure these two are not the same two who played in DUMB and DUMBER

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Sinclair DNA MythBusters Facebook
3/24/2013 05:17:34 am

The Real Story on Prince Henry the Navigator

It seems the name of sinclair was added to someone elses history ,and not the first time this has happened. The story all started with this

The alleged voyage to North AmericaAlmost nothing is known about Sinclair's life. However, much has been written through conjecture about his supposed career as an explorer. In 1784, he was identified by Johann Reinhold Forster[7] as possibly being the Prince Zichmni described in letters allegedly written around the year 1400 by the Zeno brothers of Venice, in which they describe a voyage throughout the North Atlantic under the command of Zichmni.[8]

The Real Prince Henry the Navigator is this man

http://www.templarknights.eu/about-the-knights/

A REAL Prince of Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Navigator

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Rlewis
4/1/2013 05:39:36 am

I finally took the time to watch "Holy Grail in America". It's basically the cliff-notes for much of the America Unearthed season.
I noticed a citation on the Hooked X website stating that "Committee Films won the 2009 National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE) Best New Documentary Film for Holy Grail in America in January of 2009. "

As a documentary enthusiast, I often look at Top 10 list for interesting new films. As I didn't recall ever seeing Holy Grail on any list, I was interested to see what other films NATPE may have honored. However, after scouring their web site, I could find no such mention of Holy Grail, or in fact, of any Best Documentary awards. Odd.
I decided to e-mail the organization for some insight and received this response:
"Our organization does not give out those types of awards"..."We did not honor that film in 2009."
-Mr. O.B.: NATPE.org (I have the full name and e-mails of course, but they are not relevant).
Being confused, I then contacted Maria Awes, who is the Producer of Holy Grail. She responded with the following:

"The Hooked X website you're referring to is not maintained by Committee Films. As far as the statement goes, it appears there's some confusion. The pitch for the Holy Grail documentary you mention was voted "best pitch" at a competition sponsored by an organization called Cable Ready at the NATPE convention in January of 2009. I would assume Cable Ready has records of the competition winners, as they sponsor pitching contests at NATPE, Real Screen and other cable network conventions.
I wasn't aware of the incorrect information floating around - I'll see what I can do about getting it corrected."

So anyway, maybe it just a little marketing spin, but I feel it's more evidence of how some people will stretch the truth to make their information seem to carry more weight. (but it's clear that Committee Films was not involved).

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Jason Colavito link
4/1/2013 06:18:36 am

Thank you for that information. Cable Ready is a far cry from NATPE, and it seems Scott Wolter has some explaining to do about the credential inflation. Checking around, I see that the actual award was the 2009 "Cable U" "Best Pitch" award. Andy Awes was also awarded Emerging Producer of the Year in 2010 for the same production after selling it to History.

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CFC
4/1/2013 11:37:52 am

Oh please! I visited the Hooked X site with information about The Holy Grail in America with photos of the production of the film (including several of Andy Awes) with a link to the Committee Film website directly under the misstatement about the award and Maria Awes claims they didn’t know this statement was there?

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Near New Ross
4/21/2013 12:15:26 pm

Joan Hope mentioned finding at least one sword tip on her property / in the well. I wonder if any of her finds were tested at the time?

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Raparee
6/29/2016 09:13:14 am

It was examined by a NS archaeologist who determined that it was the tip of a scythe.

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Cat
5/18/2013 06:44:35 am

Jason, as a high school teacher with a master's degree in education (and not in the sciences), I commend you for posting your site to counter the crap that's on H2. I find it unconscionable that this entertainment is presented as fact.
Even as a non-scientist, my first thought on watching AU was, why is a geologist doing an archeologist's job? And archeo-accoustics? This and other compound words seem to have been invented solely for the show. But, again, I'm no scientist.
However, I am a teacher and AU has actually lowered my opinion of how intelligent one has to be to earn a degree in geology.
In the end, all this is irrelevant; the production is so plodding and anti-climactic that that will be what kills it.

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Jason Colavito link
5/18/2013 07:50:39 am

You're very welcome; I only wish H2 had the honesty to state that their programs were fiction instead of using their resources to hire lawyers to intimidate those who try to explore the truth about their claims.

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Stephen
9/18/2013 07:44:01 pm

Ok Jason answer me this. I see that finders keepers posted back in march they were going to check out the well more in april but here it is september and I dont see any results. Maybe I missed it. Did they ever find this so called chamber they claim was behind the rocks in the well? Just because it may be filled with water or some dirt caved in or filled in why have we not heard any more about it? Call me crazy but I would think if this so called discovery were real it would have been all over the news? I have to agree with you this show was not good at all. Very misleading. I don't put much stock in someone that says Jesus had children anyway he is misinformed and needs to come to the saving knowledge of Christ. I will pray for him.

Jason Colavito link
9/18/2013 11:35:40 pm

There is no information, and they have not made any announcement. On their website, the Nova Scotia page is no longer active. This implies that they have so far found no treasure.

Kevbo
11/3/2013 03:52:01 am

I've never understood why, in recreations of medieval times, knights always wear their armor. Have to dig a trench? "Good thing I've got this armor on!" Going for a swim? "How's my armor look? Can you tell I've been working out?" Writing a missive? "I like the way my helmet shines in this torchlight."

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Dr. Sheldon Cooper
11/30/2013 06:20:22 pm

Well...see...they were wearing their casual armor (chain mail) and not dress armor (full plate).

I kept waiting for the Knights who say Nee to show up and demand a...shrubbery.

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rene f
11/25/2013 12:58:19 pm

i only watched two episodes of america unearthed... I must admit i found this blog to have better fact support and to be more entertaining. Hopefully there are more shows so i will have more to read. Bye, from Nova Scotia...

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BillUSA
11/29/2013 02:16:27 am

Jason, I'm a first time visitor and already I'm engrossed by the website. Even now, as I slowly recover from my Thanksgiving intake, I have yet to visit any other site. I've read this thread top-to-bottom and I appreciate how you handle the counter-claims by those who espouse interesting tales for the sake of entertainment (and a few dollars too). I consider myself fortunate to have come up at a time when documentaries were presented for advancing the understanding and embracement of science. I have a simple approach to decide for myself whether or not any of this stuff on AU is true. It's called the news. We all know the mantra "if it bleeds it leads" pervades the media, but one thing that they do with as much fervor is aggressively report any scientifically confirmed announcement(s). The Viking landings on Mars, The Grand Tour of the gas and ice giants of the Solar System, Cassini/Huygens all were at the forefront of newscasts because they were solid, factual events. If Scott Wolter was any sort of authority, and his claims of finding a religious artifact are to be taken seriously by any critical thinker, you can be sure the major news outlets would be like barbarians at the gates trying to get a comment from him on the matter. Instead, we gat nebulous claims on fringe websites operated by people who are interested only in making a buck, sadly, at the expense of children in their formative years who might take such detritus as scientific fact. But thanks to folks like yourself Jason, there is a place they can come to freely to sample the process of not jumping to conclusions in the face of Olympic-class conclusion jumping. Finally, and I know it's just me, but when these television presentations come on, my television goes off (unless an oldie flick is playing on TCM). The "methods" the hosts engage in are insulting to my intelligence and I'm hardly an academic or snob. I want to believe their claims, but like a great many things in life, I require proof in order to be won over - and that, in and of itself, can take decades to evolve. Anyway, thanks for the website.

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Jason Colavito link
11/29/2013 10:39:50 am

Welcome to the site! I'm glad you found my website and that you like what you've read.

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Patrice Boivin
12/4/2013 02:53:05 pm

Well I learned a few things, if what that show said is true:
a) there is no treasure on Oak Island
b) I didn't know about Hobson Island. What about the other hundreds of islands in the area, anything on those? Just curious. What about nearby, underwater.
c) people are still talking about the Grail and blood line from the 1980s Prieuré de Sion story from the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.

I have a question: Why is that tv channel called the "History" channel? Why is it so hard to present interesting historical facts or sites that raise questions without drifting into talking about aliens or speculative fiction. It's fun to look at possible alternatives, gives us food for thought and can help people become more interested in what happened in the past, but why always drift... I was surprised they started using dowsing, good grief. You're looking for an important historical artifact and you're using dowsing. It makes for fun reality TV I suppose but it doesn't make it look serious, I started wondering why Mr. St. Clair was being filmed along with this, but he didn't seem to mind.

Maybe I don't understand how television works, or why networks do what they do -- maybe there are legal ramifications to stating facts without covering them up with obvious speculation? Maybe this or that group could get offended and launch a law suit if they felt threatened by new evidence, so it's better to just mix in a lot of nonsense so no one takes anything seriously? I don't know.

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Bob Kimber
1/25/2014 12:56:02 pm

I believe that I have discovered the winter encampment of Prince Henry Sinclair near Advocate, Nova Scotia, as per prof. Frederick Pohl's expedition to Nova Scotia.

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Patrick
3/13/2014 11:33:55 am

Wow, a lot of theory on who is right and who is wrong. Regardless, in the investigation of history we can only truly know the answers to that question by exploring all of the clues put out before us.In the meantime we continue to search for the truth, and someday it will persent itself.

Bob Kimber
Would like to hear more about your find.

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Bob
3/13/2014 12:35:30 pm

Thanks Patrick, as I will continue my exploring of the winter dig's I think was where Prince Henry spent the winter that he built the ship that he sailed to Mass. and home to the Orkney's

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Patrick
3/14/2014 03:56:45 pm

Have a look at this

http://www.thelibraryofhope.com/continuingnewrosssaga3.htm

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Patrick
3/14/2014 03:57:02 pm

Have a look at this

http://www.thelibraryofhope.com/continuingnewrosssaga3.htm

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Patrick
3/14/2014 03:58:21 pm

Have a look at this
thelibraryofhope.com/continuingnewrosssaga3.htm

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Patrick
3/14/2014 03:58:51 pm

Have a look at this
thelibraryofhope.com/continuingnewrosssaga3

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Patrick
3/14/2014 04:03:41 pm

Sorry for the multi post, said was an error with post and retried a few times

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Matty K
3/30/2014 11:22:33 am

This show is so absurd . After seeing this episode and a couple others, I came to the obvious realization that the whole show is entirely scripted just like everything else on tv. I have only seen 2 and 1/2 episodes but I can't watch it anymore because I'm not stupid enough to actually believe they are on the verge of "finding something that will change history as we know it"...If you really believe Scott then your an idiot and will be waiting until the show gets cancelled (which will be very soon). You can't expect people to keep watching when you bare no results. It's like the friend who you "loaned 10 bucks to saying he would pay you back. You really did expect him to pay you back at some point, but after about 3 or 4 times of him saying "I don't have it on me right now", you should get the hint that the kid ain't never paying you back.

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NostraDanis
5/18/2014 12:06:09 pm

Interesting blog and discussion. My initial question is why the original blog is written with such a snarky attitude. There is a great deal of documentation and support for the positions taken, but if you present your position so childishly it becomes counter-productive.

I have no dog in the fight relative to the Sinclair/Wolters/Holy Grail theories; it's just not something that piques my interest. However, I am interested in the New Ross site and Joan Hope's work there. Having read everything I can find about the site, including all that I can find from Ms. Hope's pen, I can say that the blog is less than accurate, at best, regarding the site and Joan Hope.

What exactly lies in the soil at that site is yet to be determined, but it is most certainly a dynamic and interesting place with well-documented evidence of some very old activity. However, when you dismiss and misinform as readily as this blog did, it takes away from the credibility of the writer. Those who have physically been on the grounds (Finders Keepers) have already pointed out some of the distortions asserted.

We all have opinions, that's what makes it fun. But, when you present yours like a spoiled child that didn't get his way, it pushes the conversation away from being constructive and informative. Especially, when some of what you state is just plain wrong.

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Steve StC
2/13/2016 10:18:03 pm

But, @NostraDanis, Colavito has Google search, his fat fingers, and his sweaty keyboard to guide him. That's all a xenoarchaeologist - whatever the hell that is - needs! Colavito is selling books. He doesn't need the facts he beats others up over. He just needs the happy crumb-sucking acolytes who buy his books to help pay for his new hot water heater.

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George link
6/28/2014 05:22:07 am

Oak island
wow read this

http://www.houseofvere.com/Vinland_Viking_Gold.php

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Yasser
8/24/2014 02:31:19 pm

Hi , I would like to contact at Mr Den Parada , I am Parada too, and I am treassure hunter too, it is incredible , coincident ? Or may be we have the same blood ?

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Patrick whelan link
2/14/2016 02:26:55 pm

If you navigate to our website, there is a contact us tab which will send an email directly to Den Parada.
www.finderskeepersusa.com

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John Marks
10/23/2016 12:52:39 pm

The "V" could be a wreckers mark; that is coastal pirates who deliberately lure ships into reefs and rocky shores to collect the goods from the wreck. A good friend of mine shared his family history with me once and this is what is ancestors did. Oddly, he mentioned each family had their particular patch of ground on which they worked their malevolent trade; they marked their territory with a carving in a rock, My friends family name started with "G" and he has seen the family rock with a "G" carved into it. I obviously cannot be certain but it looks like a good place to wreck a ship and it is within rowing distance from what appears to be the mainland in the background.

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