Scott Wolter did another interview, this time with biophysicist and pyramid conspiracy theorist John DeSalvo on the Science and Paranormal Hour radio show. DeSalvo appeared on an episode of America Unearthed and claims to have lost half his listeners as a result. That’s neither here nor there, nor is the fact that I can’t stand his voice. He sounds like a midcentury children’s show clown, and for me it was like listening to fingernails on chalkboard. His habit of shouting all of his questions made it still worse, his effusive praise of Wolter notwithstanding. (Even Wolter noted that DeSalvo was blowing smoke up his ass.)
As with all of his interviews, Wolter rehearses his Kensington Runestone work and how it led him to his extreme pseudohistory ideas. This includes his familiar attacks on scholars and skeptics for doubting his work. The KRS discussion took up nearly a third of the program. Perhaps most ridiculously, Wolter asserts that his Templar conspiracy was both a deep hidden truth and also “the easiest” trail of evidence to discover. He offers a silly claim that the AVM abbreviation on the KRS isn’t a Catholic abbreviation but rather “aum,” which he alleges is the meditative chant of “Eastern religions.” Wolter asserts that the Templars used “plausible deniability” to hide their claims in plain sight—claims they buried in the ground thousands of miles from anyone who would get the vapors from reading them. Seems sort of pointless, really. But if there is anything we can learn from Templar conspiracies, it’s that the Templars enjoyed wasting lots of time and effort on pointless codes no one would ever have seen or read except those who already knew what they said before they got there to read them.
After this, Wolter repeats his assertion that America’s Founding Fathers “weren’t just Freemasons, they were Knights Templar as well. They just didn’t tell anybody.” Then how does Wolter know? There is no evidence whatsoever for Templar affiliation among the Founding generation, not in their writings nor in their records. The Knights Templar were disbanded in the early 1300s, and the Masonic Knights Templar (basically, a fan club for the OG Templars) were not revived until the late 1700s, not active in the United States until the 1800s. Wolter provides no evidence for his claim but asserts that Americans need to understand the “real” history of the United States, which he attributes to a Templar-Masonic neo-pagan equalitarian movement—which is, of course, why America was founded with slavery written into its founding document and Indian genocide and removal was among the newly independent country’s first major policy goals, advocated by many Masonic members of the founding generation. Wolter suggests that there is a missing second Kensington Runestone made from the other half of the stone slab from which the original was carved. There is no evidence for one. After letting that hang out there without any follow-up, Wolter asserts that he will “come out again soon” with new claims and new online content, and he adds another attack on skeptics, claiming that they won’t engage with Wolter’s “evidence” but instead prefer to attack Wolter’s personality. A large chunk of the back half of the hour involved a discussion of Scott Wolter’s concrete analysis work. Wolter states that he is scheduled to travel to Virginia today (Wednesday) to meet with the state’s Department of Transportation about geological work. Another chunk rehearses Wolter’s beliefs about the Newport Tower as a Templar church with astronomical alignments, rather than as a windmill, which the historical record informs us it was. He repeats the assertion that the Cambridge Round Church is an “exact replica” of the Newport Tower, though it is not. The Cambridge church is round because it was inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and it is no more similar to the Newport Tower than other round churches, like the Imperial Cathedral at Aachen—which is to say any rotunda on pillars has a similar shape. A near-exact replica of the Newport Tower does exist—but it’s a windmill in England, so naturally it is ignored. Wolter tells a long story about why he spends his birthday at the Newport Tower each year, and how the Tower is now a fringe history pilgrimage site for believers in occult astronomy. All in all, this was a familiar interview that only occasionally offered something new.
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Doc Rock
3/25/2020 09:16:55 am
The novelty song "They're Coming to Take Me Away" should be playing in the background when he does a broadcast like this.
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Jim
3/25/2020 10:22:23 am
Did you notice how Wolter has rewritten the history of the infamous and ridiculous lightbox on the egg stone ?
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Kent
3/25/2020 01:21:22 pm
Sigh. You're giving Egan credit he did not claim.
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Jim
3/25/2020 03:48:18 pm
In your hurry to criticize every comment I make you seem to leave logic, common sense and your reading comprehension at the door.
Kent
3/25/2020 04:23:50 pm
"as a professional photographer, I photo-documented what he had predicted in his published papers."
Jim
3/25/2020 06:32:08 pm
Oh for Petes sake, you read this part:
Kent
3/25/2020 09:10:40 pm
Sigh. I'm not entirely sure what you're on about, but now you're citing Wolter as a source?
American Negrodamus
3/25/2020 10:55:21 pm
Is there a citation which demonstrates that Penhallow "discovered" the significance of the egg-shaped stone? All I have seen thus far is reference to Penhallow making predictions without identifying what he was predicting, or is there is a difference between what Penhallow predicted and what Egan discovered or documented on his own?
Jim
3/26/2020 12:00:25 am
You're good at criticizing but you're not good at backing up your criticisms. That's a pity. I'll continue to call you out on what I deem to be nonsense. Have a blessed day.
Jim
3/26/2020 10:50:35 am
American Negrodamus, Jim Egan discovered the egg illumination.
William Smith
3/31/2020 09:07:17 am
Kent - You are dead on, and In 2008 I was with William Penhallow at the Newport Tower when I attended the NEARA anual conference. When William Penhallow took a few of us to show the sun light cast its light at mid-day through the window and on the ground it did not reach the level he identified to the crowd and I was the one in the crowd that told him it would not reach the 8 foot mark north of the tower until dec.21st. when the sun was at its lowest position in the sky. Jim Eagan or Scott Wolter or any other members did not show in this small group of about 12 people. I have a friend who filed a complaint against Mr. Egan and his friends for using a ladder to mark and deface what he thought were construction aids by the builder. He did mention that Wolter and his group were their also. I do recall Wolter had to replace a tomb stone in a grave yard in Maine. In his defense I guess we all have broken the law at times, However if you are aware of destruction of public property and do not report it, You also are breaking the law. I want to make it clear which I have on this site before I feel the KRS is authentic.
Paul
3/25/2020 07:05:00 pm
This is funny, you all are arguing who stole stupid from stupid. Wolter's friend David is likely David Brody. More than enough stupid to go around there and going back in time.
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Paul
3/25/2020 12:28:42 pm
I would bet a dollar to a donut that the other half of the KRS is in a foundation, chimney or a wall on or near Ohman’s farmsite.
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Kent
3/25/2020 04:16:08 pm
The concept of a buried land claim has always puzzled me. But that's Wolter's story and I'll stick to it: Templars and Cistercians found some of their buddies dead, sat down long enough to carve a stone and bury it (and by one account drill stone holes) then skedaddled and started impregnating the autochthonous lady people. Goddess worshippers traveling sans Goddesses. Like the Hollister motorcycle rally.
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Doc Rock
3/27/2020 10:43:41 pm
If I am an explorer moving eastward across prime territory and come across a visible land claim marker from a rival power I have three options:
Kent
3/28/2020 04:16:03 pm
I think you made a typo there. You're moving eastward and you take the land marker with you ? Seems like that would expand someone else's territory? Better to just break it, bury it, or throw it in the water.
Doc Rock
3/28/2020 09:36:58 pm
If i am moving eastward from French territory and encounter an English claim marker then I would assume that moving said marker further east from whence I came would result in more French territory behind me. If I am following you correctly.
Jim
3/29/2020 12:16:37 am
Wouldn't the the whole exercise be pointless from the get go ?
Kent
3/29/2020 01:21:55 am
I think I better understand what you were saying, but if you were moving east from French territory to English territory.... why carry it? Did any ever exist? Is there any history of such "land markers" or "land claims" being used in colonial times?
Doc Rock
3/29/2020 03:21:22 pm
The Bienville de Celeron expedition down the Ohio river in 1749 buried several lead plates at various points along their route to lay claim to what was then hotly contested territory between Great Britain and France. At one point he also attached another marker to a tree. So, both visible and hidden markers were in use. That is discussed in Galbreath's book: Expedition of Celeron to the Ohio country in Illinois which I believe is based on a translation of the journal kept by Celeron. Makes sense to me since any visible lead marker would probably have been stolen and melted down to make musket balls by the first Shawnee Indian that wandered by.
Kent
3/29/2020 04:28:56 pm
Ah! Okay, thanks for the reference. If you've read the book you can enlighten us on whether anyone dug up the buried markers or found the unburied ones.
Doc Rock
3/29/2020 09:36:11 pm
I haven't dug around much on the topic except to confirm that I wasn't confusing the Celeron expedition with another one during roughly the same time that is supposed to have left a marker that I think turned out to be a hoax.
Kent
3/25/2020 04:44:16 pm
DeSalvo is indeed difficult to listen to. Public radio, what are you gonna do? Don't misunderstand, I really mean "Public radio, you need to pull this show."
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Baron Mnuchin Syndrome
3/25/2020 06:14:32 pm
DeSalvo is famed for his masterpiece book Power Crystals:
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Bill
3/26/2020 02:09:48 pm
"DeSalvo is indeed difficult to listen to. "
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Joe Scales
3/26/2020 11:16:44 am
"Wolter suggests that there is a missing second Kensington Runestone made from the other half of the stone slab from which the original was carved."
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An Anonymous Nerd
3/26/2020 01:59:24 pm
I wonder how may such rune stones he thinks there are.
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Jim
3/26/2020 04:30:24 pm
One has to wonder how many (if any) people actually use him as an expert witness anymore.
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An Anonymous Nerd
3/27/2020 11:02:56 am
I tend to think that what's admitted in courtrooms and what's not admitted is kind of up for grabs. So while I'd love to think that his credibility is so shot that he's just fucked on this stuff? It also might be up for grabs like anything else in court.
Harold Edwards
3/27/2020 11:28:24 am
In a perverse sort of way, Scott Wolter may be right:
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Patrick
3/28/2020 03:47:09 pm
AVM. Holand led out the gate with a meaning of Ave Virgo Maria. The issue is that this phrasing – despite the centuries old veneration of Mary - didn’t come about until after the 1362 date on the stone.
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William Smith
3/29/2020 04:36:41 pm
Patrick _ I just have to ask about the one part of the stupid show when Wolter was viewing the oval stone he claimed to align with the KRS (which it does not) and this woman approached and ask what he was doing and he replied that he would use his gate key to unlock the gate so he could take her inside the protective fence to show her the goddess of Venus oval stone, but when he looked back she was gone.
Leif
3/29/2020 08:14:19 pm
Of course, the correct interpretation of 'AVM' is of consequence only if the KRS is genuine. It almost certainly is not. The runes match Edward Larsson's 1885 futhark, not anything from the middle ages. The numerals are likewise in a modern form. The language is modern Swedish. The most probable explanation for the KRS is that it is a private joke that got out of hand.
Jim
3/29/2020 08:47:22 pm
An interesting question given Wolter's well documented proclivity to trespass and his "rules don't apply to me" state of mind.
MarkG
3/27/2020 12:11:08 pm
Another runestone? Of course there is. Wolter must be jealous of that sweet sweet Prometheus cash being thrown at COOI and want to start digging up farm yards in Minnesota. I can almost hear Robert Clotworthy's voice saying, "There is a farm...in central Minnesota."
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Sven Grosspizzle
3/28/2020 02:25:55 pm
I think that Kensington Stone fatigue has set in with many people. Wolter has milked it dry. Teasing people with the possibility of a second stone that is going to turn up any time now is a good way to slap some new paint on an old falling down barn.
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Patrick
3/30/2020 07:30:39 am
William,
Jim
3/30/2020 12:23:16 pm
Actually Patrick, Wolter fabricated part of the story already, trying to claim credit for for himself and "David" for the discovery when we know Jim Egan discovered it and shared this information and also previously showed Wolter his photos documenting the lightbox on the egg.
Kent
3/30/2020 01:40:54 pm
Patrick,
Patrick
3/30/2020 07:53:39 am
Sven,
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Patrick
3/30/2020 11:08:18 am
Leif,
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Jim
3/30/2020 12:35:55 pm
Hjalmar Holland was as full of crap as Walter is.
Kent
3/30/2020 03:23:10 pm
What would be probative would be citing even one example of pentadic numerals used in the format discussed before 1362. Absent that, "It *could* happen" is not a strong argument.
Leif
3/30/2020 10:41:43 pm
Dear Patrick,
Patrick
3/30/2020 04:39:26 pm
In general, 99% of what Jim and Kent comment on wrt Wolter on this blog is invention, speculation, or misinformation.
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Paul
3/30/2020 09:04:12 pm
Sir, when you can present actual science and actual historical facts that provide a basis that the KRS is other than a 19th century fabrication, at that time someone might, just might, attempt to enter into reasonable discourse with you. Until that time, your fantasies are just that, fantasy and not worth the time of day.
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William Smith
3/30/2020 10:14:03 pm
Patrick - Your statement that us gossiping whores are inventing shit to cast more nefarious aspirations on Wolter but you are the one that brought the 1,2 &3 Cases up.
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William Smith
3/31/2020 11:53:52 am
Were you with eagan and the other 4 people at the Newport Tower when a local person ask why the group was damaging the marks on a stone he had photos of that had he felt had man made marks and the group was changing the surface marks before making a foil copy of the finish. He filed a complaint and has photos of the before and after. It must have had an effect because they replaced the security fence the following year at a taxpayer cost of over $10,000. (Your statement that us gossiping whores are inventing shit to cast more nefarious aspirations on Wolter) is bad enough, however calling me or others a troll is a good example of your lack of knowledge.
Patrick
3/31/2020 07:51:05 am
Dear Leif,
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Jim
3/31/2020 01:33:51 pm
pos·tu·late
Kent
3/31/2020 02:47:38 pm
Patrick:
Leif
3/31/2020 07:53:03 pm
Dear Patrick:
Jim
4/1/2020 12:07:44 am
Leif,
Patrick
4/1/2020 10:07:32 am
Dear Leif,
Jim
4/1/2020 11:31:41 am
Hooked Xs, Arabic Numerals and Bonafide expert.
Leif
4/1/2020 07:04:06 pm
Dear Patrick,
Patrick
4/2/2020 08:13:38 am
Dear Leif,
Patrick
4/2/2020 08:48:00 am
Dear Leif,
Patrick
4/2/2020 09:04:44 am
Dear Leif,
Jim
4/2/2020 11:50:49 am
Patrick sez:
Kent
4/2/2020 02:05:44 pm
I'm going to give a rare hat tip to Jim. Patrick, in addition to being longwinded, hasn't addressed the fact that the stuff he said about Thalbitzer's publication was simply wrong. TBE, To Be Expected.
Leif
4/2/2020 06:42:56 pm
Dear Patrick,
Kent
4/3/2020 02:43:49 am
I find the concept that "No serious researcher would be naive enough to actually admit" that they can't prove something baffling.
Jim
4/3/2020 09:45:55 am
Context is everything !
Kent
4/3/2020 03:44:06 pm
I never said that.
Leif
4/4/2020 08:52:50 pm
Dear Kent:
You aren't helping him
3/30/2020 07:20:01 pm
Wolter is a buffoon and behaves like one in the face of even polite, objective criticism or any attempt to drill down on the nonsense that he proposes. The comments section of his blog is ample proof of that. He is viewed as a fraud and a joke by the vast majority of professional scholars in the fields where he presumes to claim expertise. Lost in court in the infamous agate case and tried to spin a coffee mug into an honorary grad degree. A constant stream of amateurish stupidity on AU that can easily be picked apart. You just look as looney as he does when you try to claim some moral high ground here.
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Jim
3/30/2020 07:57:51 pm
"Case 3: The purported Overton Stone trespass that Jim is fixated on. Yep, I was there with Scott. Yep, he picked up some samples of the stone from the ground that had naturally spalled off. He held his hand out and showed them to me. I believe that he mentioned that he had already obtained a small chip sample from the back side of the rock outcropping, as well. I wasn’t close attention - the area was filled with rock cobbles and vines and my son was having difficulty finding his footing…so I was focusing on Ben."
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Patrick
3/31/2020 02:29:29 pm
William asks:
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William Smith
3/31/2020 03:32:25 pm
Patrick - I suggest you take closer look at your files on me in order to make your point in order to get the names, story and dates to match. Polly in 2008 was NEARA presadent of NEARA N.Y. Chapter. She was with myself and Patrica Wilson (Certified Architect in N.Y. we were allowed to work at the tower by Jan Barstad as long as she was at the site and we stayed in the guide lines of her permit and letter of intent to perform archaeology for the Newport Historical Society. We measured well over 100 measurements at the tower of which were more in confirmation of prior researchers work. The critical search was to establish the standard unit of measure as 37.25 in/English Yard. which 3 prior engineers had established. This measure was the standard ELL used in Portugal, Denmark and Scotland. The second establishment was to confirm the height of the floor on the second level. This was established by measuring from the ground base of each column to the top of each column beam pocket and adding 2 in. for the floor its self. This also determined the north south floor beam was lower than three beams that went east west. Unlike Jim Eagans work of beam construction. I am sure you are familiar with the builders triangle mark at the top of the tower 17 degrees west of true north that dates the tower to the late 1400s and confirmed with Jan Barstad's 3 carbon dates from her 2008 dig. You are correct in that many on this site have had many negative comments about my research, however in most cases they never accused me as a troll. The local person that you are classifying as a Templar researcher, I will not name, however If you wish to know ask Jim Eagan. For your TROLLING ears the sun light does not go through the wooden floor to light up the wooden floor. Have Egan put a floor in the tower and take another photo. Their were no Templars in the tower from the UK, The Templars were gone in 1308, The builders of the tower were from Portugal and Denmark. Tell your team captain a hooked X has been found in Cajon Pass, San Bernardino Ca. The hook is on the bottom of the Right compass leg to show true north was east and the magnetic north was west on the dial making it negative or declination E. Just like the Newport Tower it dates to 1472 built to smoke cod fish.
Kent
3/31/2020 06:08:26 pm
This is wonderful. It reminds me of my friend's red-faced parents shouting at each other over Budweisers at a cheap kitchen table. Ah, memories!
Captain Hindgrinder
4/1/2020 12:59:45 pm
Portugese and Danish people sailed around the world to deep trawl for cod off of California in 1472?
Jim
4/1/2020 03:19:03 pm
Ya, that was right after the Templars completed the Panama canal so they could sail their Viking ships up to the desert near Sedona Arizona.
William Smith
3/31/2020 08:09:15 pm
Kent - Thanks for your notes and response. The only part that is not clear is your sum up. Yes true north was east on early Portuguese maps.
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Kent
3/31/2020 11:56:12 pm
I knew this moment would come.
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William Smith
4/1/2020 04:30:51 pm
Kent and all - I will attempt to address the feedback from you experts without using profanity.
Kent
4/1/2020 07:53:39 pm
You want to cover this ground again? Okay.
Kent
4/1/2020 09:18:33 pm
"This is why you must use magnetite from the local site to be measured in your compass in that the lodestone compass has a non-magnetic needle."
Paul
4/1/2020 06:47:29 pm
To reiterate what Kent said, a magnetic rock permanently fixed in a building does not a compass make. Also, where are you getting your information relating to lines of declination for the 14th century? NOAA has a model going back to the 1590’s that shows the magnetic lines of declination changing from east-west to north-south over the eastern United States from 1590’s to current. Was not a mere shift of a few degrees but about a 90 degree shift. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Where are other references for magnetic declination for the years to which you refer?
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Jim
4/1/2020 08:18:12 pm
Paul, this stuff has been covered over and over and over with William, he refuses to listen to reason. (just so you know what you are getting into)
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Kent
4/3/2020 04:07:15 pm
"the latter" of three things? Moving on...
Jim
4/3/2020 05:25:58 pm
"How does magnetite which may or may not be magnetized make a non-magnetic needle point in a specific direction?"
William Smith
4/3/2020 10:11:25 am
Kent - Their are three types of people on this site, The type that listen before they talk, and the type that talk before they listen, and last the type that thinks they listen but talks without understanding the message. When all done all will make judge on the message. On this blog most agree that SW is person who is the latter. About 80% of all discussions relate to S.W. in a neg. or pos.posture.
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Paul
4/3/2020 12:03:03 pm
Magnetite takes on the magnetic field of its environment when it is formed, not when it is collected.
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Paul
4/3/2020 12:53:30 pm
Paul, Jan Barstad ia a botanist and leader of the Chronognostic Research Society, who somehow talked the city of Newport into allowing her to do archeological digs etc. at the Newport tower.
William Smith
4/4/2020 12:44:49 am
Paul - You seem to express your wisdom about magnetite and the Barstad research. You could be wrong, Magnetite has the magnetic declination where and when it was found. In nature the declination will change. The magnetic stones in the Newport Tower will read about 14 degrees west today just like a compass made from the same local magnetite, however a compass from England that reads about 2 degrees west with local magnetite will be 12 degrees off if you maintained the same latitude. Columbus was 940 miles south of his latitude when he hit land because he did not understand his compass at home in Spain needed to be adjusted to his destination declination. If you are flying a plane or in a boat and head east for Newport by a compass you must set your heading 14 deg. W of true north.
William Smith
4/4/2020 01:08:45 am
YOU- Magnetite takes on the magnetic field of its environment when it is formed, not when it is collected.
Jim
4/3/2020 12:54:16 pm
OOPs, the above post is mine.
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Kent
4/3/2020 07:02:51 pm
Have you looked into the Alias Manager app? Joshing of course, you provide a valuable service looking things up in the dictionary or Wikipedia five or six hours later. It's almost ... baffling.
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Kent
4/3/2020 10:19:20 pm
For the record that was meant as good natured banter, not an attack. Give it time.
William Smith
4/3/2020 08:41:00 pm
The Jan Barstad site is active and has a lot of data from her two digs at the Newport Tower -http://www.chronognostic.org/daily_logs.php?id
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Kent
4/3/2020 10:36:04 pm
Oh William,
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Paul
4/4/2020 10:53:46 am
Rocks do not change magnetic properties as magnetic declination changes. Why do you think labs use sophisticated and expensive devices to study these properties? And you claim that you can do the same with a needle? Yeah, right. Also, why would anyone want to lug around a ten pound piece of crap when they could float a magnetized needle and get the same result? And whatever you may believe, there are no reliable c14 samples that place the nt older than the 17th century. As for the KRS, you may want to get better glasses, you seem to be the only one seeing extra scribe lines. You do not have to bother replying, I am done on this thread.
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Paul
4/3/2020 11:33:48 pm
Unfortunately there is not any carbon dating information on the website that you cite.
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William Smith
4/4/2020 11:59:56 am
ALL - The following may be of interest to address my claims from 42 years of research and findings to date by a group of team researchers called THOR (the hunters of Ohio rock). I admit I use this site as a form of peer review because of Jasons ability to sort fact from BS.
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Jim
4/4/2020 06:13:10 pm
"Magnatite - Natural form in rock displays local declination.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"
Kent
4/4/2020 08:20:20 pm
I think the word you're looking for is "magnetized" as in
Jim
4/4/2020 11:53:58 am
Jan Barstad is a prime example of why archaeological digs should be left to the professionals.
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William Smith
4/4/2020 09:26:19 pm
Jim - I guess the THOR group has been going the wrong way which I will advise them by posting your expertise advanced knowledge. And to think all the academics are wrong. I guess the sun comes up in the south and sets in the north on all our early Portuguese maps.https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&channel=mac_bm&sxsrf=ALeKk00uPlPjzPtcw40LK-_DdUo0CufwDQ%3A1586049297895&source=hp&ei=ETGJXvGHNILHtQbtk4aQBg&q=is+magnatite+magnetic&oq=is+magnatite+magnetic&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECAAQDTIGCAAQFhAeMgUIABDNAjIFCAAQzQI6BQgAEIMBOgIIADoECCMQJzoFCAAQkQI6BAgAEEM6BAgAEAo6CAgAEAgQDRAeSjMIFxIvMGcxMDlnMTQ2ZzE3NmcxNDNnMTEzZzk1Zzk5ZzEwMWcxMDhnMTEzZzExMGcxMDZKHQgYEhkwZzFnMWcxZzFnMWcxZzFnMWcxZzVnNWczUKYhWI9qYKV_aAFwAHgAgAGnAYgBtxKSAQUxMC4xMpgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXo&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwix1PqHjtDoAhWCY80KHe2JAWIQ4dUDCAw&uact=5
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Paul
4/5/2020 12:11:43 am
William, curious about something. Your book came out a few years ago. Barry Fell is listed as one of the authors. Barry Fell died in, what, 1994? Did you channel Mr. Fell? Are you paying Mr. Fell’s spirit royalties? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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William Smith
4/5/2020 09:13:25 am
Paul - My paper came out 2 years ago as a ongoing research to give credit to those in the THOR (The Hunters of Ohio Rock) credit protection for their input to the group. I thank you for reading the paper which I posted some time back.
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Jim
4/5/2020 11:44:34 am
Barry Fell was a professor of invertebrate zoology.
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Paul
4/5/2020 09:59:42 am
Interesting that you channeled Fell for 5 years, three years before his death. You sir, present nonsensical musings and expect rational people to believe by your assertions. I do believe your blind pig quote are your personal words to live by, the only problem is that once you find an acorn, you don’t know that it is real, much less what to do with it. By the way, you did a nice job of fabricating a hollowed out rock.
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William Smith
4/5/2020 11:38:03 am
Paul - You are correct about the death date of Barry Fell, My last contact with him was when my work was transferred, in 1982 which is the 5 years (1977 to 1982),
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Archie Bunker
4/5/2020 12:33:18 pm
" Your accusation that I carved the Ohio Rock is deformation of character and I will refuse to respond to your stupidity."
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Paul
4/5/2020 02:22:35 pm
What do you really have? The answer is nothing besides a few artifacts without any certain provenance. No specific writings or documentation that actually attest to their origin. No credible, verifiable supporting artifacts. No oral stories other than the ones made up. Wolter, you and the rest, just fabricated stories that don’t even mesh. All the names you mention are not even credible sources, even your beloved Barry Fell. Even wonder about your co-author who is/was a high school science teacher but who can not seem to explain simple magnetic theory to you. Often times pure fiction is even used as a reference source. I do believe in the freedom of expression and not in book burning, but much of this pseudo writing should not be given the time of day. It should be kept out of the hands of students except as an example how NOT to reason. You know why you can only interest uncritical people who had no interest in history in school is because actual, real science and history types do not have a New York second for your sort of tripe.
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Doc Rock
4/6/2020 04:04:33 pm
The issue of unprovenienced artifacts is a major quandry even when professionals are trying to deal with these materials.But when it comes to amateurs saying that "Somebody found this Roman coin two counties over" or "Some guy says that his grandpappy found this medieval broadsword somewhere up north of here in the summer of 58" it generally just turns into silliness when they are trying to push a fringe agenda.
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