Scott Wolter Announces Publication of New Book on Secret Templar Code

4/30/2019

Unfortunately, a plumbing problem took up most of my day yesterday and left little time for writing. Let’s just say that I am not happy about having had to cancel all of my plans for yesterday while the issue got repaired. Anyway, after a very long day, I thought I would share with you the promotional book description for America Unearthed host Scott Wolter’s new book Cryptic Code: The Templars in America and the Origins of the Hooked X, a self-published sequel to From Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers due out in September. Here is what the self-publishing service has to say about the book:

Third in the Hooked X series, this book explores new scientific findings and recently discovered documents that show a vastly different story of North American history than the current narrative. The revelations in the Cryptic Code are sure to generate new discussion around the medieval Knights Templar, their role in the European exploration of North America, and of the origins of the Hooked X. In Wolter's continued pursuit to understand and authenticate the Kensington Rune Stone, found in Minnesota in 1898, and the important role the Knights Templar had within history, he uncovers the layers of cryptic code that authenticates the Rune Stone once and for all.

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me like each new book gets a little duller than the one before. This one doesn’t even really feint toward anything really exciting but instead promises to deliver more of the same material that Wolter has been flogging since the H2 channel cancelled his show back in 2015.

You can see that the book will examine the alleged Henry Sinclair journals, the so-called Cremona Document, and other texts that my analysis (collected in the links on this page) adjudges to be recent forgeries but which Wolter believes to be genuine medieval texts. It’s hard, though, to get terribly worked up about documents that are of such dubious provenance and so implausible as authentic medieval texts.

I don’t know… Maybe I am just tired of the same schtick over and over again. Wolter has been making the same claims since even before America Unearthed premiered in 2012, and having reviewed seven years of the same fictions and found them wanting time and again, I just don’t feel anything but a sort of heaviness of heart at the thought of getting back on that treadmill when the show returns on May 28.

How many ways can one fail to find actual evidence of Knights Templar in America? In the beginning, Wolter at least examined some dubious claims that had the patina of age and a modicum of skill in their forgery, but with his reliance on the newly “discovered” documents and their laundry list of implausible elements, trying to evaluate his new claims is like trying to criticize a dream. It is, at this point, simply a fantasy beyond the bounds of reason.

But on the other hand, anecdotally, it seems that the recent rebroadcasts of early seasons of America Unearthed on the Travel Channel have introduced the show to a whole new group of people who didn’t have access to the less-watched (and now defunct) H2 channel where the show first aired. To judge by Twitter mentions and other social media postings, it looks like the return of the show will have a fairly engaged audience and will need to have voices speaking out against its misuse of history.

45 Comments

Christopher Varney

4/30/2019 09:47:51 am

Word that Wolter's TV show is returning explains why Discovery is suddenly airing reruns again. That's unfortunate.

At least with a standard Scooby-Doo episode there's some resolution at the end, but with AU, as an audience we can't really look back and say "Gee, that reconciled something..."

Joe Scales

4/30/2019 10:06:15 am

"It is, at this point, simply a fantasy beyond the bounds of reason."

Yes, our boy Scott has never been bound by constraints of reason. Which is why his bountiful stupidity is so downright entertaining.

I admit it. I'm looking forward to his show coming back. It is, and always has been, pure comedic gold.

4/30/2019 10:11:48 am

Scott investigating the Haymarket Riots will inevitably lead nowhere. I'm surprised that he didn't focus his keen investigative skills at uncovering Chicago's other great unsolved mystery of Mrs. O'Leary and the cow (who was likely two Knights Templar in a costume).

Larry

4/30/2019 10:47:33 am

The brand on Mrs. O'Leary's cow was a hoofed X.

Accumulated Wisdom

4/30/2019 10:30:29 am

I am not sure how Scott Wolter became poster boy for the Templar theory. There are numerous other authors expounding the same thing, and for a longer period of time. None of which, seem to grasp the source of the Order's power. All seem convinced the Templars spent their time in Jerusalem excavating for treasure. NOPE! Jerusalem happens to be the most important spot for updating and making corrections to Ptolemy's system. 9 years excavating, or 1 year of setting up observational points, and eight years of observations. When completed, one would have a monopoly on trade. Absolutely nothing mystical whatsoever.

Kent

4/30/2019 01:56:04 pm

You seem to have accumulated some nonsense.

Bezalel

5/2/2019 12:32:07 pm

If only ACDD or another infernal incarnation were here to supply further derisive commentary

Oh wait...

Jim

4/30/2019 02:42:04 pm

"I am not sure how Scott Wolter became poster boy for the Templar theory. There are numerous other authors expounding the same thing, and for a longer period of time."

Well Anthony, have you ever heard the saying "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"?
Wolter does not come up with anything original, he merely lifts and lightly edits other peoples work and lets people assume it is his own.
Take William F Mann's book "The Knights Templar in the New World" from 2004 ( a renaming and reprinting of Mann's 1999 book The Labyrinth of the Grail), Wolter borrows liberally from.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=flsoDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Knights+Templar+in+the+New+World&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT7d_ptPjhAhXyzVkKHUjaBY8Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Knights%20Templar%20in%20the%20New%20World&f=false

Don't you find it interesting Anthony, that Wolter played such a large role in getting Don Ruh's and Diana Muir's books published ? And now he will publish his own book using their materials ?
When Muir claims she believed the manuscripts were fakes, who was it that convinced her otherwise and also convinced her to write a book on them ? Although I don't believe a word of it, that was the best story they could come up with to disappear the nonexistent manuscripts.
Ruh, Muir and Wolter are three peas in a pod, working together to make a fast buck of gullible people. It's all obvious bullcrap that any logical person would easily see through. I find it amazing that people who read this obviously made up junk can buy in to any degree.

4/30/2019 03:00:43 pm

Here is another William F Mann book that Wolter repeated liberally, although he threw Mann a bone by writing a foreword to it.
Templar Sanctuaries in North America.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=8GAoDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=William+F+Mann&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjijrCgv_jhAhWro1kKHdzhCLsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=William%20F%20Mann&f=false

4/30/2019 04:08:03 pm

Heck, you could go back to Winchell as a source for Wolter's borrowed extrapolations. Though perhaps someone should have told our boy Scott that 19th century geology ain't all that. I mean, that calcite left a bitemark on both their asses...

4/30/2019 04:45:28 pm

And if you read what Winchell actually said he doesn't have anywhere near the level of certainty that Wolter would have you believe.

4/30/2019 05:55:05 pm

Wolter is the Grand Master Regurgitater of other peoples work.

5/1/2019 10:05:49 pm

Thanks for posting the links to some of Mann's stuff. I read as much as Google Books would show me. He thinks he's a Knight and direct descendant of Henry Sinclair; of course he's a Mason and even talks about what he calls "squaring the circle". A cornucopia of nonsense.

5/2/2019 02:46:44 pm

Jim,

I agree with most everything you said. Muir was an offensive slap in the face. She's attempting to cash in on those of us with family legends of "being here before Columbus". I have studied my Mother's genealogy extensively. Other than the wife of William de Warrene, Sinclair and Weems are nonexistent. When, I first heard the legend at my grandfather's funeral, Templars were never mentioned once. The conversation centered around Native American ancestry in which my great-grandmother would never admit to. Most of the names in my mother's family tree are historically associated with the Knights Templar. I do not buy all of the bullshit which has been associated with the order. The Templars do seem to be part of someone's plan to update Ptolemy's system. I can see how they did it. I'm just not sure who was behind the plan.

I know they were using the Stars. My attempted interpretations of their symbolism on SW's Blog is what has ultimately led me to be seen as nuttier than a squirrel turd.

Check out "Sacred Sites of the Knights Templar" by, John K. Young, PhD.
ISBN 1-59233-140-8

He almost gets it.

5/4/2019 05:14:19 pm

Not just your posts on Wolter's blog.

A lot of people claimed Indian ancestry (usually Cherokee) because they thought at the time it sounded better than black. And since the Cherokee famously owned black slaves there were plenty of half Cherokee half black folk running around.

5/5/2019 10:41:03 am

Osiyo, dan"It"Kent,

No Cherokee. Kiowa and generically labeled Iroquois. I do get keloid scars.(an African trait) According to my grandfather's oldest sister, my great-grandmother was talking about "white people". No specific group just, "her family". I have spent the past thirty-seven years trying to figure out if she was lying, or not.

SW promised family names, but, gave us Muir. At this point, I no longer care. Proving her right could be a dangerous thing, with unintended consequences.

My new goal is to condense my library before, I go. I don't want my boys and nephews to think, I believed some of this bullshit. My wife considers books "clutter" and is happy to see them go.

5/5/2019 07:41:03 pm

Ṣiṣiyot? I didn't say YOU claimed to be Cherokee. For someone who claims to have read as many books as you do, north of 40,000 it sometimes seems like you pretend to be dim.

What is this "before I..." stuff? You claim to be 45 years old. Is there a schedule? When can we expect the blessed event?

Machala

4/30/2019 10:46:03 am

Is it something in the Minnesota water that makes all these people so gullible and gormless that they are so desperate to prove the validity of a 19th Century hoax ? Are they that racially insecure that they have to prove the existence of mythical Norse/Viking ancestors and/or that Knights Templar ( another false conception ) mysteriously directed the settlment and development of the New World? It's either the Wolter Water or the Kensington Kool-Aide!

Riley V.

5/1/2019 06:03:08 pm

I’m thinking Hamm’s beer. Isn’t it “From the land of sky blue waters”?

Hilda Hilpert

5/6/2019 02:57:52 pm

What do you mean exactly by racially insecure? I'm racially secure. One half's hungarian(mom) and the other german(dad's)
Besides Minnesota is the home of Swedes, Norwegians, etc. My late father was born in Milwaukee and used to make Swen and Ollie jokes about Minnesotans. These people are descendants themselves of the Vikings. Maybe they feel that somehow they are second class folk? Neither the Templars nor the Vikings directed the developement of the New World. Different groups have had a hand in it, before and after Columbus.
By claiming the Kensington Rune Stone is real, it i guess supports all the stories about Eric the Red and Leif Erikson discovering Vinland they have heard their whole lives.

Knights Templar

4/30/2019 12:03:09 pm

The Knights Templar were the exact opposite of what Scott Wolter believes them to have been

The Knights Templar were devout Roman Catholics who fundamentally believed in the rubbish found in the Bible.

The Knights Templar were pure churchgoers who believed in the nonsense of the death and resurrection of Christ and that he was the incarnated Son of God.

The very stuff rejected by all rational skeptics everywhere. That includes the Founding Fathers of the Independent America like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Baphomet

4/30/2019 12:12:16 pm

Yep, George Washington's private correspondence can be read online in his original handwriting

4/30/2019 09:47:33 pm

Wolter has this covered. The Templars were Freemasons or proto-Freemasons dating back to Egypt who only pretended to be Catholic.

Wolter Rule #1: Whenever possible substitute nonsense for facts.

4/30/2019 10:06:05 pm

Ya but,,,, Wolter now has collaborating evidence on any thing any time he wants it. He will be pulling crap out of the "Journals of Henry Sinclair" whenever he needs evidence to back up any new crackpot ideas he has.
You know,, the journals no one has ever seen but for him and Muir ?
The journals that Muir "threw away' and no longer exist ?

4/30/2019 11:56:54 pm

I'm with you but there's really no "Ya, but..." Wolter's been making stuff up from whole cloth for years:

"That's the 2nd Shroud of Turin"
"Templars were Freemasons before Freemasonry"
"Statues are giving me little finger signals"
"I don't know any languages but here's what such and such means"
"The Smithsonian is evil"
"Templars sailed to Asia and got their telescope technology"

Further, and you heard it here first, it is my considered opinion that his story about being called in to analyze the Pentagon concrete is a lie on par with his lying Master's Degree.

Fail

5/1/2019 02:28:48 am

Scott Wolter has failed to conquer the world with his claims and theories. It's only a small minority of people who follow his world of make-believe. And the same thing applies to all the other High Priests of Spam.

5/1/2019 11:03:34 am

"Further, and you heard it here first, it is my considered opinion that his story about being called in to analyze the Pentagon concrete is a lie on par with his lying Master's Degree."

I was skeptical too, at one time. Made a point about it here when I found out another company had been named that was responsible for the job Wolter claimed he had. Apparently, Wolter was subcontracted by that other company, basically from what I gathered to determine if certain concrete columns could be reused for reconstruction. Word is that the Pentagon went ahead and decided not to risk it with the damaged columns anyhow, before Wolter's job was complete.

For that, he got a plaque on his wall. Now who made that for him might be open to question considering if the above is accurate in regard to his role as a subcontractor. He's welcome to present his side in more detail however, should I be missing something. But then again... he is a proven liar.

Paul

4/30/2019 03:14:09 pm

Ah, Scottie.....Sinclair Diaries, more of Muir's falsities and flatulence. Cremona document, obvious fakery with admission from Ruh of theft of allegedly invaluable, forged artifacts from public lands (for which Ruh should be locked up), the Kensington Runestone, a known fraudulent work and whatever other fraudulent artifacts and documents Scottie references. Pure fantasy. Scottie has a ways to go to garner the award for grand pseudo historian. Just adds to the noise. Science and history travel slowly, fantasy faster than the speed of light. Look at Endgame, if you want to live richly, live in fantasy, if you want to be remembered by the ages, live in history or sciences. Too bad Scottie is non of the above.

Doc Rock

4/30/2019 04:41:31 pm

I wonder why Wolter's book is self-published? I would think that he has established enough of a brand that popular press would want to carry it.

Why does the description refer to ongoing efforts to authenticate the Kensington Stone? I thought he has been claiming that it is a done deal?

Why do I feel the need to start Happy Hour two hours early after just a few minutes of pondering Scotty's thought processes?

4/30/2019 04:54:45 pm

It's simple: the profit per unit is larger in self-publishing and going with a commercial house wouldn't move significantly more units.

4/30/2019 05:25:26 pm

Kent,

I would think that would be the case for someone content with working with small quantities as a sort of cottage industry. On the other hand, I would think that the ability of a publishing house to market the book on a large scale and produce and process a higher volume of book would have the potential to generate greater profit in the long-term.

Anybody have insights into the pros and cons of self-publishing versus profession publishing in terms of the specific volume required to make one option more profitable than the other?

4/30/2019 05:44:31 pm

I would be interested in knowing the actual amount of sales from these self published books. Any way of finding that out ?

4/30/2019 05:56:44 pm

I see it as: people who are going to buy his book are already going to buy it and people who are not going to buy it are already not. Just as with previous books he'll mention it on his show (he'll be paid to advertise his product). It's just as easy to buy a self-published book on Amazon as it is to buy a Simon & S(c)huster product.

The Templars

4/30/2019 07:11:45 pm

People are going to buy Wolter's book because it will be a pretty book.

Just like the Bible is a pretty book.

People like pretty books.

Harvey the White Rabbit

4/30/2019 10:37:17 pm

A refresher for any of you who didn't watch Scott Wolters first seasons of "America Unearthed". First of all there is the presentation of "new facts that will change history" Then after the first commercial Scottie boy recaps what was just shown. Then if he had to travel to a new location there are shots of him driving his car or truck or an airplane flying. This is followed by a map showing his route. This is followed by two or three minutes of a "new fact" or Scottie boy standing around scratching his balls and looking wise. Then it's time for another commercial followed by another recap of the previous segment, sometimes another travel segment and another two of three minutes of "new" material.

The end result is about twenty minutes of actual content in an hour program.

So-called new facts

5/1/2019 02:23:04 am

Don't forget so-called "new facts" formed the shape of western civilization before people started putting things to the critical test

5/1/2019 07:51:02 am

I am quite proud of having never watched more than a few minutes of America Unearthed. My understanding is the appearances by real experts are few and far between and carefully edited into small sound bites to reflect well on whatever Wolter is pushing. The longer that pseudo-experts talk on camera the crazier they sound even to some of the less crazy fringe supporters. You can only show so much footage of Wolter standing next to a stone fence dressed like he was about to hit the Yukon Bush for a week and talking about how you can see Uranus if you look thru a particular hole in the wall while standing on your head.

So I can understand why they do constant recaps to run out the clock.

5/1/2019 12:32:45 pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Scott-Wolter-Excavates-Americas-Lost-History-in-AMERICAN-UNEARTHED-on-Travel-Channel-20190430

"In the premiere episode, "Vikings in the Desert," premiering Tuesday, May 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Wolter receives a call about alleged Viking artifacts found in the Arizona desert."

Episode 2: Aliens in Mexico,,,,Hahahahahahahaha

""Alien Artifacts" - Premieres Tuesday, June 4 at 10 p.m. ET/PT"

Jason Colavito link

5/1/2019 10:37:35 pm

Ugh. I wrote about the Viking desert ship in 2017. As I wrote then, "According to a guidebook produced by the U.S. government before World War II, the legend of the desert boat was inspired by a real abandoned vessel, built in 1862 for a Colorado river mining company and abandoned in the desert when the cost of transporting it to the Colorado River was too great. Not coincidentally, sightings of the “Spanish” or “Viking” ship began shortly after, in the 1870s."

Fitzssssssssssssssscarraldo

5/1/2019 10:56:11 pm

Ich will meine große Oper!

5/2/2019 10:31:07 am

Trust Wolter to go after something that has been debunked since before World War II, although his gullible followers will eat up whatever crap is served.

One other upcoming episode they mention is Jack the Ripper and his Masonic ties:
"Wolter wants to prove whether or not Jack the Ripper was actually a famous writer who is still beloved today."

Now, has there been anyone living at that time that has not been accused of being Jack the Ripper ?

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/jack-the-ripper-identity-theories-nightmares/

"In 1996, the author Richard Wallace suggested that Jack the Ripper was none other than Lewis Carroll, on the basis that the world-famous novelist left anagrams in his novels confessing to the killing spree in 1888."

5/4/2019 08:05:18 pm

There was an episode of Death Valley Days devoted to the ship in the desert. Think they had is as Spanish.

5/2/2019 05:00:13 pm

Henrik Williams blog post on the origins of story written on the KRS:

http://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/blog/kensington-and-the-greenland-saga/

Williams blog posts concerning American runes:

http://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/blog/category/runic-america/

The Rune Blog:

http://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/blog/archive/

5/6/2019 02:45:56 pm

I watched the latest show Scott had on Davy Crockett. Even when he visited the Alamo, he supposedly saw some sort of 'Templar" symbol on the Alamo, above the entrance. I'll have to try to see a good photo of the Alamo to look and really decipher it, because it was not and never had been a Templar symbol.
He forgets a few things. The Templars could have some in contact with the Mandeans, who I believe were followers of St.John the Baptist, plus the Copts and Orthodox. In France, they could have had contact with the Cathars, who were a christian sect. even St.Bernard had contact with them, and he gave a rule of life to the Templars.
And what is his obsession with them? Did he think he was one in a past life? Or did was it his dream as a child to be a knight?

And the hooked "X" could maybe even be a hebrew symbol. That's the impression I get. I'm sure other peoples have come here before Columbus, and they may have left things, but back things up with facts of some sort,give us something that can be verified by research in some form.

kim

6/13/2019 09:39:33 am

personally ….. I have read through quite a few of these comments....each to their own hey. but I feel compelled to say something.....I think everyone of you are simply jealous of his work and what he has figured and found. youre all sad people omw

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