Last night, the CW's Legends of Tomorrow attempted to thwart the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. Coincidentally, yesterday I traced back the origins of the occult claim that the car carrying the archduke also carried a curse that killed a dozen people or more. It turns out that Smithsonian magazine was wrong about ufologist and Fortean broadcaster Frank Edwards inventing the story, just as occult writers are wrong about the story being true. My findings, with translations and transcriptions of the original documents can be found here. In his newest podcast appearance, former TV personality and current Templar Gold future podcaster Scott Wolter claimed that the Ark of the Covenant was not a single artifact but one of many and that these arks were batteries that were used to power the Egyptian pyramids. Wolter took issue with Uri Geller's claim to have psychically located the one true Ark using his magical spoon-bending abilities. "He's kind of misinformed from the get-go," Wolter said before adding that he has "sources" that he "trusts" that explain the electrical powers of the Ark. The "reliable sources" making those claims trace back, of course, to Chariots of the Gods: "Undoubtedly the Ark was electrically charged! If we reconstruct it today according to the instructions handed down by Moses, a voltage of several hundred volts is produced." This claim was later popularized on Ancient Aliens. The claim goes back at least to C. B. Warrand, who wrote about it in the Savannah Morning News in 1894.
Wolter is conflating this claim with Charles Piazzi Smyth's claim that the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid is the same cubic volume as the Ark, a claim later bastardized into the false claim that the Ark was designed to fit inside. You can read more about the efforts to connect the Great Pyramid to the Ark of the Covenant in my recent book, Legends of the Pyramids.
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Jim
1/27/2022 06:07:14 pm
Well of course, they needed rock ark welders to construct them!
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Kent
1/27/2022 08:53:33 pm
Never blocked. Not being able to get past the call screener is nothing to brag about.
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Jack handy
1/29/2022 04:13:49 am
Wolter is like Rush Limbaugh. Not being permitted to get past his call screener is in fact something to brag about. That is, if one wants to try to think it through.
Kent
2/2/2022 02:55:46 pm
When a show has 600 affiliates just getting TO the call screener is a long shot. It's funny that you jumped to Rush and were so busy with that that you missed the point. Arthur Goodefellow could teach you a thing or two. Or perhaps you might peruse E. Mealy El's posts on Wolter's site.
Dittohead obvious
2/2/2022 05:36:57 pm
Getting to the screener is always a long shot. If after a brief chat a screener for Limbaugh or Wolter lets you through it tends to be because you are a chucklehead that poses no threat to them. Or, in the case of Joe Kent, even if you are a critic, you go about it in such clumsy incoherent fashion that the screener lets you through because they think that you will make the host look quite rational and knowledgeable in comparison. Being correct but crazy is a double edged sword
Jim
1/28/2022 12:48:02 pm
Darold knowles gets the Harold treatment from Wolter:
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8th grade debate team alternate
2/1/2022 09:52:27 am
Only a fool would believe that Scott Wolter would actually debate a competent person in a neutral setting. At best, he will contrive a joint appearance with one of the least competent people that can be arranged, with Wolter's "team" setting the ground rules.
Harold Edwards
1/28/2022 02:19:19 pm
For the record, none of the posts on Scott Wolter's blog are mine. I was unsuccessful in posting polite responses to his attacks on me and my work. I think it is obvious to anyone, that Wolter has mental health issues. He is a charlatan and a promiscuous liar to the extent he himself is no longer aware of what is true and what is false in his utterances.. I think he fits the profile of a narcissistic psychopath, but I will leave any correct diagnosis to professionals.
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Jim
1/29/2022 07:10:15 pm
Speaking of Wolter being a promiscuous liar, he often points out that the Masons will accept members of any religion into their club. While this is generally true, Wolter is "Sir Knight of the Temple of York Rite Freemasonry knighted on February 27, 2016"
A orofessional
1/30/2022 04:05:33 am
My diagnosis:Your last two sentences.
Kent
2/2/2022 05:00:34 pm
Jim. Instead of using this site as your personal Ookie Cookie treefort, why not write the appropriate parties a letter? You make a good case, but making it here doesn't matter. To steal a slogan from the Zendyk Cult "Stop bitching and start a revolution". Jim.
Woodstock
2/4/2022 10:29:57 am
About 10 different people have posted 28 comments here. At least 5 of them are Kent's. Jim better make room in his treehouse.
Harold Edwards
1/28/2022 02:28:34 pm
Scott Wolter is vandalizing the record of human history. He is like an arsonist setting small fires in the campgrounds of some National Forest. It takes hundreds of men to follow him around and put out the fires.
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Kent
1/29/2022 07:38:18 pm
Harold, you’d better stop using the moniker “Darold Knowles” because there’s some obscure person in the world with the same name (you see, that makes the name as well known as OJ Simpson) — you’re breaking the rules of this blog.
Kent
2/2/2022 05:02:46 pm
Hmm. If I'd written that it would have been less lame. So it goes.
Kent
2/8/2022 04:11:19 pm
Let me just add that you can take it from me because I’m an authority on all things lame.
Paul
1/28/2022 10:27:46 am
Won’t be hearing anything about this technology, Musk bought out all the rights. What is next from dementia Scottie?
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Paul
1/28/2022 05:04:40 pm
From Wolter’s blog. Speaks for itself. I suppose most here have seen this, Sickening, to say the least.
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Erik the Head
2/3/2022 05:12:57 pm
Wolter has been badly butthurt by archaeologists. Alice Kehoe was supportive of his claim that the Kensington Stone is authentic, but distanced herself from his outlandish claims about Templar codes. Birgitta Wallace who is an actual specialist in Norse Archaeology essentially told Wolter that he is full of it, albeit in more diplomatic fashion. Archaeologists who have spent their entire careers doing fieldwork in the upper Midwest are quick to point out that there is zero supporting evidence for Norse visits to the area.
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Bob Jase
1/28/2022 09:25:36 pm
"Undoubtedly the Ark was electrically charged! If we reconstruct it today according to the instructions handed down by Moses, a voltage of several hundred volts is produced."
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Jim
2/1/2022 04:11:51 pm
Ummm,,,, Moses says, been there, done that !
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Paul
1/29/2022 01:22:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZiWkCrF60
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E Holub
1/31/2022 12:09:19 pm
Wolter calls Geller "misinformed."
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Harold Edwards
1/31/2022 10:46:45 pm
Scott Wolter’s blog posts are Theatre of the Absurd: In a bizarre answer to a comment on his blog, Wolter quotes from a 1909 address by Newton Horace Winchell, then retired Minnesota State Geologist who inspected the Kensington Runestone for the Minnesota Historical Society: Wolter quotes Winchell’s: “‘I have not been able to have a thin section made for microscopic examination,...’" Wolter then adds: “Any real geologist knows a thin section review under polarized light is mandatory to be able to proper identify the mineralogy and metamorphic textures that are too fine-grained to identify otherwise. Even 113 years ago Winchell was wise enough to qualify his rock identification knowing a thin section was needed. It's a little unfair to pick on the professor without proper context a century after his death, don't you think?” Winchell was an expert in thin section petrography. In the 1890's he even went on sabbatical to France to sharpen his skills under Alfred Lacroix. Some of Winchell’s notebooks from this period are at the University of Minnesota library. What Wolter failed to note was that Winchell wrote on page 234 of the 1915 reprint of his 1910 report “In a thin-section, prepared for microscopic examination, it shows not only rounded quartz grains but also feldspar grains, and a finer matrix consisting chiefly of quartz and biotite.” Later on page 246 Winchell concluded “The inscription was made upon a boulder of graywacke found in the near vicinity.” Both editions of Winchell’s report are listed in the bibliography on page 529 of Wolter’s 2006 “The Kensington Rune Stone Compelling New Evidence.” Did Wolter forget this or is he merely a garden variety liar?
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Jim
2/1/2022 01:07:01 pm
Wolter:
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Harold Edwards
2/2/2022 12:18:20 pm
The reason Wolter’s biotite identification differs from Weiblen’s failure to find the mineral is because of apples and oranges. Each relied on a different analytical technique: Wolter used polarized light microscopy, and Weiblen used electron microprobe analysis. Each technique generates false negatives and false positives and needs to be used with circumspection. The electron microprobe gives an accurate chemistry for each grain, but chemistry alone is insufficient to identify a mineral. However Weiblen supplemented his microprobe analysis with a polarized microscope analysis and an x-ray diffraction analysis. X-ray diffraction gives a “fingerprint” pattern for each mineral, but is poor in detecting small amounts of a mineral in a mixture. On the other hand, polarized light microscopy is highly sensitive to small amounts of a mineral in a mixture.
Kent
2/2/2022 04:52:13 pm
Could you please dumb that down so Scott "Rocks for Jocks" Wolter can understand it?
Paul
2/1/2022 10:07:43 am
Could Wolter’s impact on Mason membership be inferred from these numbers?
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Harold Edwards
2/1/2022 02:42:37 pm
None of the comments on Wolter's blog are mine, including those by Darold Knowles. I tried to post the following on his blog about the root leaching on January 25, 2022:
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Jim
2/2/2022 11:00:18 am
I'm not saying Winchell's geology is dated here per say, but I'm saying he was wrong about there not being gold in the Black Hills of Montana.
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Jim
2/7/2022 12:06:33 pm
Dotty Scotty has a new podcast interview.
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Jim
2/8/2022 11:32:43 am
Wolter:
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Spoiled Spoiler Alert
2/8/2022 02:33:51 pm
"Spoiler alert-- Our own "Anthony" asks about Queen Scotia on Oak Island."
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Kent
2/13/2022 03:50:48 am
"Uhh... Not the same guy."
Spoiled Incontinkents
2/14/2022 12:14:51 am
Uhh...Our Star Boy went public several months ago. Not the same person. I don't think Snotty is going to let one of his sycophants undermine his blahg. Are you not paying attention to Snott's
Kent
2/18/2022 09:41:59 pm
"Are you not paying attention to Snott's
Jim
3/5/2022 08:24:29 am
Scotty going international. He is giving a "lecture" in Scotland to Amera-splain his fake Scottish history to actual Scottish people.
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Jim
4/27/2022 02:05:54 pm
After Scott Wolters' embarrassing flash mob beat down on twitter he finally comes out of hiding with a interview on Jimmy Church where he goes big on ancient alien glue.
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Jim
4/27/2022 07:06:03 pm
Wolter part 2
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Jim
5/8/2022 10:29:17 am
Lambs to the slaughter ?
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Harold Edwards
10/22/2022 12:18:45 pm
Maybe something will come of this:
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Harold Edwards
5/10/2022 05:21:46 pm
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
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Jim
5/16/2022 05:26:01 pm
Latest Scott Wolter on Tom Bernard Show.
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Jim
5/24/2022 02:47:22 pm
Wut ?
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Jim
7/5/2022 03:35:32 pm
Quotable quote.
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Jim
8/31/2022 08:31:49 pm
Scott Wolter :
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