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Review of America Unearthed S04E03 "Cave of Secrets"

6/11/2019

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​When Scott Wolter became a Freemason a few years back, his new affiliation gave him license to transition from being a conspiracy theorist speculating about Masonic plots to being a propagandist glorifying Freemasonry with ill-evidenced hypotheses drawn from a stew of fringe history and Masonic lore. One of the overriding themes of Wolter’s fringe-historical fantasies has been the importance of brotherhoods like the Freemasons in manipulating history from behind closed doors, or, in the case of tonight’s episode, inside caverns. I’m not sure what drives his interest in secret ritual run by occult groups, but their influence in history has always been wildly overstated, both by the groups themselves (to sound more powerful and impressive than they are) and by those who fear them (to make them seem like enemies that must be destroyed). 
​This is hardly the first time that Wolter has descended into caverns in search of occult rituals. In Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar, he explored caverns where he imagined—falsely—that the Knights Templar conducted secret rites in honor of a pagan goddess. In the original run of America Unearthed, he investigated an apparent colonial-era spring house in Pennsylvania and imagined it to be a “ritual bath” for Templar-influenced Freemasons. Coming as it does just a week after Wolter visited Mexican caves in search of space aliens, there definitely seems to be a cave theme in his work, and one need not be a Freudian to wonder if it is connected to his unevidenced insistence that occult brotherhoods worship a goddess.
​Segment 1
We open in the standard cinematic staged cold open with a blindfolded man deep in a cave undergoing a ritual in which he is questioned by men in robes. A goat-headed Satanic figure appears before him and presents him with a skull, and then we smash-cut to the title credits. During the episode, the Satanic cold open will prove to be a bait-and-switch fraud.
 
We then travel to a backyard cave in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, which Wolter immediately calls a “Chamber of Secrets,” though I’m not sure that’s quite what the Harry Potter novels had in mind. A middle-aged man names Chris Courtney shows Wolter a newspaper article describing how he found a cave in the backyard of his childhood home in 1981. Wolter references the spring house he looked at in 2013 and again falsely claims it to be a ritual bathhouse before viewing the cave, which is currently filled with water. The man tells Wolter that the cave had two dates in it, 1794 and 1896, which place Wolter into a state of great arousal and prompt him to descend part way into the cave. He sees a few letters carved into the wall, a W and an R or T, and he immediately believes that there is a great mystery in the cave, for reasons that neither he nor his guest have bothered to share with the audience. Wolter speculates wildly that the cave was used in the Whiskey Rebellion, based on no facts he cares to share with the viewer. Instead, he launches a rover into the water to probe the cave.
 
We go to commercial without anyone bothering to tell us why the cave should be considered mysterious, or even interesting, given that the show itself conceded that there are hundreds of caves in the area, many of which were undoubtedly used for a variety of purposes. It’s just bad storytelling and sets the show up for failure by neglecting the basics of establishing a compelling reason to keep watching. 
​Segment 2
The second segment takes us around the cave, first with the rover and then with a group of local cave divers, but nothing happens before the commercial. You could skip this segment and miss nothing. Watching middle-aged men work slowly through tech-driven “adventures” isn’t really my idea of exciting television, but the lack of information about the cave is telling, showing that America Unearthed is trying far too hard to stretch very little content into an hour. Indeed, in this segment Wolter delivers a potted history of Pennsylvania, throws out pointless speculative ideas about the cave (his two options are a “ritual” site for an occult brotherhood or “water source”!), and then openly asks if any of this has anything to do with the cave. That the producers—Here’s looking at you Maria and Andy Awes!—couldn’t turn this into an even halfway compelling narrative shows that this episode should have been scuttled for utter lack of purpose. It makes me miss the Templars.
​Segment 3
The divers found no carvings or dates in the cave, and Wolter concludes that history has been “erased.” Wolter is disappointed that a “gold ring” in the cave was actually a tree root. Courtney shows Wolter a medallion from the Knights of the Golden Eagle, a fraternal organization founded in 1872, that Courtney had once found in the backyard near the cave. I’m not really sure what to make of this since the cave was supposed to have been in use in the 1790s, but the Knights didn’t exist until 1872, so what difference would it have made whether the Knights did or did not perform a ritual in the cave? A member of the local historical society tells Scott Wolter about an allegorical ritual the Knights undertook, involving Lucifer, a hermit, and skull, and Wolter compares it to Masonic ritual. However, when the historian tells Wolter that the cave may have been used in the Underground Railroad, Wolter—who has harped on occult brotherhoods and whiskey for half an hour—immediately claims that he had been entertaining the possibility the whole time, though he had declined to tell the audience. I imagine that the producers meant this as a surprise, but it comes across as a bit of post hoc rationalizing, and a rather boring revelation, to be honest. This is probably just my own bias, but having grown up a few blocks from the house where Harriet Tubman lived, finding out something was used in the Underground Railroad just does not carry the same weight that I imagine producers expect viewers to feel at the touch of history. The town where I grew up was founded by a slaveholder, and when you are surrounded by this history all your life, hearing about another example of the same is a bit of shrug.
​Segment 4
In the fourth segment, Wolter explores the history of the abolitionist movement in Pennsylvania through the lens of William Still, a conductor on the Underground Railroad who worked with Harriet Tubman, and he meets with former basketball star Valerie Still, who is a descendant of William and an expert on slavery and abolition. She tells Wolter that some caves were used as hiding places for escaped slaves, and Wolter goes to an archive at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and looks at the original draft of the Constitution for no particular reason and then William Still’s journal, the latter being held for the next segment. Once again, another segment offers nothing of substance and simply fills time until the next commercial. Skipping this segment wouldn’t detract from the narrative in any significant way.
​Segment 5
In reading Still’s journal, Wolter expresses his admiration for Still, calling him an “American hero if ever there was one” and discusses the need for racial reconciliation. In the journal the Valerie Still finds a slave with the initials W.R. and Wolter finds one with the initials W.T., and they speculated about the “long shot” possibility that one of these men carved the letters. It is impossible to prove. Wolter visits another cave in Shippensburg used in the Underground Railroad, and by this point Wolter is openly claiming to have always been certain that the cave was a stop on the Underground Railroad rather than an occult temple. It appears that he and the producers eventually realized that it would be racially insensitive to contaminate the history of the Underground Railroad with Wolter’s usual fringe-history fantasies, but it does make the viewer wonder why they felt compelled to open with Lucifer and skulls and secret rituals, as though to lure in viewers they assumed wouldn’t watch a show about Black history.
Segment 6
The final segment finds Wolter in the second cave as the voiceover tells us that he believes both caves to have been stops on the Underground Railroad. The segment repeats everything we just saw as Wolter tells it all again to Courtney. Wolter, true to form, decides—without evidence—that the cave might have been used for whiskey production and Knights of the Golden Eagle rituals, though this pointless speculation is mentioned in passing with no grander purpose discussed or implied, presumably because Wolter won’t mix the occult with more sensitive topics.
 
All told, this episode contained maybe ten or fifteen minutes of content that, boiled down to fifteen minutes or less, might have made an interesting segment on the former PBS show History Detectives, but stretched to an hour is dull, boring, repetitive, and meandering. Maybe America Unearthed should have three-story hours with twenty-minute segments and different presenters. It would make the show move faster and be more entertaining, though it would cost more, defeating the whole purpose of the enterprise.
41 Comments
Jim
6/12/2019 12:58:34 am

Well, that was almost as interesting as watching a toilet flush.
He thinks they were distilling whisky in a 30 foot gopher hole that is too small to turn around in ? Wouldn't you just suffocate and die in there with a fire going ?
It reminds me of when the Hindenberg burst into flames, only,,, "Oh the stupidity"

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Bill
6/12/2019 07:21:54 am

I believe the relation to the whiskey revolution was that this cave was used as a fresh and clean water source for the whiskey, not to actually produce the whiskey in the cave itself.

The show was possibly the worst one of all seasons so far, although the alien artifact one was extremely bad too.

The only facts were: there was a hole in the ground and that *possibly* some initials carved in the rock at some time.

Could have been a sh!tree or root cellar just as likely although I didn't hear that in the show.

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Jim
6/12/2019 12:51:46 pm

Bill:

"I believe the relation to the whiskey revolution was that this cave was used as a fresh and clean water source for the whiskey, not to actually produce the whiskey in the cave itself."

When Wolter meets buddy in a bar during the last segment of the show he says, and I quote:

" It's quite possible that they were distilling whisky down there"

Bill
6/12/2019 09:55:20 pm

"It's quite possible that they were distilling whisky down there"
Thanks, must have fallen asleep by then. I do recall a few references to the "cave" being a potential water source earlier in the episode though. I'm guessing this isn't the first time it has filled up either. Maybe it was simply a well originally.

Hilda Hilpert
6/13/2019 02:29:04 pm

I missed the episode as I had other things to do.The cave as you said could have been a source for good water to make the whiskey,since dead customers from your home made whiskey doesn't bring the money in;

Jim
6/13/2019 03:12:26 pm

Re: The 1896 date carved in the cave.

On Jan 7 1896 Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"

This obviously means Fannie Farmer used water from this cave in all her cooking recipes.

For crap sakes, there is absolutely nothing tying whisky distilling to this well/cave.

Mike
6/16/2019 01:35:21 pm

Generally the reason for a water source in distilling is for running water as a cooling source for condensing vapor. True, some quality water is needed to produce mash and later to possibly cut the high proof product but during actual distillation it's running water. A cave full of standing water in no way fits the bill. If you distilled in there you'd just have a smoke and fume filled cistern.

Jim
6/17/2019 08:41:54 pm

Mike,,, Wolter doesn't let common sense get in the way of a sensationalist, fact free, completely made up yarn.

Dutch
6/12/2019 08:01:54 am

Clearly, this episode was poorly produced and a new low for the series as a whole.

I did wonder, though, while watching, whether or not SW is ill. He is starting to behave feebly (more so than usual) and has the pallor of a man who is not well. I almost felt bad watching him bumble and fumble around a clumsy story line with very little direction.

Taking in a rerun of "Who really discovered America" from some years ago in which Scott participated, it is easy to see just how his narrative and personality has devolved.

It may be time for his television masters to cut bait.

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I Spy
6/12/2019 10:40:00 am

That sort of misused idiom is one of the tell-tale signs of an undercover space alien.

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Paul
6/12/2019 09:54:47 am

Yawn.......mediocre geologist turned sub mediocre history buff.....thumbs down, send in the lions. Yawn

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Kent
6/12/2019 11:12:47 am

And barely a geologist. BA degree and specializes in concrete. It's like a BA in biochemistry specializing in flour. You've got your low gluten, your high gluten, your "gluten-free", your pastry flour...

OMG just looked at his page and he thinks "adds" is how you talk about "advertisements". A football major who played geology.

There's a new crazy person on Wolter's blog, Anthony Alexander Scheffman. Treat yourself to some of his ramblings. Do the MIB make sure that crazy people get named Anthony?

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Historical Freemasonry not Fringe
6/12/2019 10:15:29 am

Freemasonry represented the geometry of reason and logic replacing throne and ;altar with democracies, rights of man and freedom of belief. This is not something controversial. It's accepted fact outside of Christian religion.

Of course churchgoers will always deem Freemasonry as a conspiracy theory nonsense - but that's all it can do to an organisation that rejects the mumbo-jumbo of fundamentalist Christianity and the monopoly of belief in what's written in The Bible,

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Kent
6/12/2019 11:26:21 am

Freemasonry doesn't reject fundamentalist Christianity.

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Historical Freemasonry not Fringe
6/12/2019 11:49:28 am

Freemasonry does not reject fundamentalist Christianity is like saying Hitler did not reject the synagogues.

Bezalel
6/13/2019 05:26:11 pm

Kent is right
Freemasonry accepts all religions.
What she champions is personal private freedom to practice any religion one wants, thus FORBIDDING any religion from attempting to insinuate itself into our government.

It took Jefferson and Madison decades to develop this.

This is what both catholic heads and fundamentalist idiots hate with a passion.

Our Constitution is NOT Christian no matter what people attempt to read into it

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not
6/12/2019 10:17:29 am

what a bunch of whiny spoiled babies u guys commenting are.the suspense n mystery of solving these findings is what we r supposed to learn.easy for u sitting there on your fat rears to yap n analyze all things so easily

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Joe Scales
6/12/2019 11:06:03 am

Yeah, what began as another "here's a neat place to make stuff up about" evolved into Wolter attempting to portray himself as Woke. And I agree with Dutch above... Wolter don't look too good.

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Accumulated Wisdom
6/12/2019 11:07:04 am

Lucifer is the planet Venus as the Morning Star. The misrepresentation, and satanic inferences are getting old. How many times do we have to see dorks standing around a pentagram chanting mumbo jumbo? The pentagram is just the orbit of Venus, as observed from the earth over an eight-year period. Nothing evil, and the only magic is mathematical.

Underground railroad, and no mention of the song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd". The Drinking Gourd may be better known to you all as the Big Dipper. This set of stars was used to help runaway slaves to navigate their way North to freedom. The many versions of the song contained valuable information about stops along the way.



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Who invented it?
6/12/2019 11:19:33 am

Who invented Lucifer as satanic?
Also, JC calls himself Venus in Revelation
Merry-go-round...

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Kent
6/12/2019 11:33:47 am

Even if that's true, and I don't care enough to fact-check you, given the date of composition of "Revelations" or my preferred title The Apocalypse, it's like saying "Frodo called himself Mr. Underhill in Lord of the Rings". It's a fictional character in a fictional book. I say "fictional character" because he was dead at that point so couldn't call himself anything.

Revelation 22:16
6/12/2019 11:51:09 am

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star

GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
6/12/2019 11:54:54 am

It's a fact that the Bible is found in all Masonic Lodges just like it's a fact that the Great Architect of the Universe is omnipresent in all of the world's religions. Freemasonry may embrace the Bible - but it has a different take on it - and Freemasonry certainly rejects fundamentalist Christianity in that it promotes Rights of Man and Freedom of Belief.

Dating Book of Revelation
6/12/2019 12:05:36 pm

The Book of Revelation was mentioned by the Christians before the Gospel of Mark. It is considered to be one of the oldest Christian books in the New Testament Canon.

As for Mark and it being dated to 70AD - the Biblical Historians rebuke and admonish everyone who rejects their dating - but the Biblical Historians don't have the slightest shred of conclusive evidence that Mark dates from the first century - Mark's gospel was not mentioned by any first century Christians.

The topographical errors contained in Mark could not have been made by a first century Christian.

Kent
6/12/2019 12:48:44 pm

"It's a fact that the Bible is found in all Masonic Lodges just like it's a fact that the Great Architect of the Universe is omnipresent in all of the world's religions. Freemasonry may embrace the Bible - but it has a different take on it - and Freemasonry certainly rejects fundamentalist Christianity in that it promotes Rights of Man and Freedom of Belief."

Things that you say are facts are not facts.

How does Freemasonry feel about my Freedom of Belief in fundamentalist Christianity?

Do you see what an idiot you are?

GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
6/12/2019 01:45:57 pm

Fundamentalist Christianity refuses to recognise Rights of Man and the Freedom of Belief. Fundamentalist Christianity is only interested in the Word of God expressed in the Bible and rejects freedom of belief.

Bezalel
6/13/2019 05:32:28 pm

You are both arguing 2 sides of one coin see Bezalels comment above.

There is also a 3rd side

The edge

M*A*S*H
6/12/2019 07:31:57 pm

So we're not allowed to quote from MASH episodes?

I'd like to interrogate the first witness, Colonel.
- By your leave, General.
- "Warrant Officer Martin H.
Williams.
" - Yes, General.
- I want you to know there are no charges against you.
You simply obeyed the orders of a superior.
The sign of a good soldier.
Now, feel at ease.
Just tell in your own words the incident at the helicopter pad yesterday at 0900 hours.
But first, a number.
Sir? You know, a musical number.
Well, you've got it in your blood, boy.
Just let it out.
#When the sun goes down the tide goes out # #The darkies stand around and they all begin to shout # # Hey, hey, Uncle Fud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud # #Hey, hey, Uncle Fud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud # #It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud # #What a dance they all do # # Lordy, they all dance for you # ##[Continues] - I take it we don't have to leave? - Only the general does.
In a rubber truck.

Season 3 Episode 1

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Kent
6/12/2019 11:11:41 pm

According to my friend who posts on Wolter's site, cartalk.com will kick you off if you say "Don't kick against the pricks" which is a line from a Johnny Cash song which Johnny got from...... the Bible.

Euripides, The Bachae
6/12/2019 11:43:08 pm

DIONYSUS: I WOULD RATHER DO HIM SACRIFICE THAN IN A FURY KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS; THOU A MORTAL, HE A GOD.

Kent
6/13/2019 12:26:41 am

I stand by my statement that Johnny got it from the Bible.

I didn't make up the phrase "Where's the beef?" but where's the beef?

Acts 26:14 πάντων τέ καταπεσόντων ἡμῶν εἰς τὴν γῆν ἔκουσα φωνὴν λέγουσαν πρὸς μέ τῇ ἑβραΐδι διαλέκτῳ, Σαοὺλ Σαούλ, τί με διώκεις; σκληρόν σοι πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν.

And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Yes, Euripides wrote it although he was not the first to do so; Pindar beat him to it, as did Aeschylus but the authors of Acts used it, and Johnny didn't get it from Euripides.

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin'
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum
Voices callin', voices cryin'
Some are born and some are dyin'
It's alpha and omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundredweight and penny pound
When the man comes around

Hilda Hilpert
6/13/2019 02:41:01 pm

Haven't heard that song in ages,can't recall if i heard it from my mom or dad.She used to sing a song called 'Ain't nobody here but us chickens", but that was I think from some 1920s musical. I'll look at my Vulgate bible by Saint Jerome for that phrase kick against the pricks. I've never heard it before.

Kent
6/13/2019 01:12:19 pm

More Anthony Warren nonsense.
http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/The_Song_As_History.htm

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Accumulated Wisdom
6/13/2019 03:51:13 pm

Take it up with the School District. This is what they are teaching to children. Still have class performance saved to my phone. If your source was any good, the copyright wouldn't have expired in 2012...After 4 years.

Kent
6/13/2019 04:29:23 pm

Anthony you imbecile "Copyright 2008 - 2012, Joel Bresler" means the writing was done from 2008 to 2012 and copyrighted as written. Nothing to do with an expiration date, which as set by law is quite far in the future. You really are a never-ending fountain of imbecility.

Speaking of copyright and imbeciles, what books did you read today and yesterday?

The Bible
6/13/2019 01:31:30 am

Show me anything in the Bible that is unique to the Bible, it's all plagiarised stuff.

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Saint Sheldon Stylites
6/13/2019 03:37:39 pm

The two genealogies of Jesus. Bazinga.

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Richard Fairbrother
6/13/2019 01:41:57 am

Hey is it just me as I read the blog and there is one obvious point missed about the cave of secrets episode that my brother mentioned in less than 30 seconds when I should him the episode and that is why didnt they just pump the water out?! It didnt seem like the cave was huge and how long would it have taken with a good pump? When Scott Walter stated he only had one thing left to do in his investigation late in the show he was incorrect as really how hard would it be to at least try to pump out the water and try to find the dates instead of saying they are washed away by the water when he doesnt know! and for that matter, how come the guy who found the cave never pumped it out or know more than he did when the cave is in his backyard all that time? America unearthed is definitely not as good this season!

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cave of secrets
6/13/2019 02:05:31 am

Scott Wolter has been selling the idea of mysteries and nothing else for quite a while now

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Kal
6/13/2019 02:18:44 pm

Next on America Unearthly, ha, Scotty discovers the mystical and odorous cavern of the goddess temple, which was marked with the holy hooked feminine, and smelled of rotten eggs, he guessed. After climbing into the mucky well shaped opening, he discovered that at the bottom was a plug, which he pulled on vigorously, and a watery spew from another mysterious colonial underground aquifer was found, he assumed. When finally he emerged from the opening, covered in earth and soil, only it wasn't, the police and ambulance had arrived, as well as a government car, which had a man claiming he had just jumped into a sewage treatment main via a communal septage tank, and had caused sewage to leak over one city block, and the water to go out down the road. He assumed it was a conspiracy from the Masons, who had kicked him oujt of the order, not for revealing their secrets, but for besmirching them with his made up hokum. Covered in the poo of a hundred residents of Poduck, New Hampshire, he was forced to recant and seek medical treatment for all manner of parasites, and also, at least five scrub downs and showers, because he had jumped into a giant toilet. Well, that's just a theory, a fringe theory.

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Jim
6/13/2019 06:50:22 pm

Wolter in his comments:

" You apparently missed the stone and mortar work at the entrance of the cave which was also surrounded by building to keep private the rituals of the KGE. "

So Wolter is now claiming as fact that satanic like rituals performed by the Knights of the Golden Eagle happened in this water filled tunnel.
For Gods sake the tunnel is filled with water and only seems to be wide enough for 1 person to squeeze through at a time.

Here is the photo he supplies of the Knights of the Golden Eagle people dressed for the ritual:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IH26Qd1HoA8/XQBh-XfWcVI/AAAAAAAABiU/v4rOyCR-D0cdyWu7CfMl6Fx71ZZpUdAcACLcBGAs/s1600/Knights%2Bof%2Bthe%2BGolden%2BEagle.jpg

Perhaps he could explain how one gets 17+ people in that tiny tunnel under water performing a ritual ?
I suppose it could have been accomplished using Mexican alien technology.

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