It’s even worse than you think. The major claim for Mystery Hill was pushed forth by Barry Fell in America B.C.
Fell was a professor. A professor of invertebrate zoology. If you want examples of professors who became cranks when they branched out into alien fields, he’d be a good exhibit A. I own America B.C., BTW. It’s a perfect book of its kind, down to the front-cover blurb from Peter Tompkins, author of Secrets of the Great Pyramid. If you believe one, then why not believe them all: they use the same lack of science and rationality and common sense. I haven’t read the book in many decades, but flipping through it confirms that he’s batting .000 in his claims. His standard technique was to determine an end, say, ogam glyphs on rocks found at Mystery Hill, and then work backward until he found something, anything in original inscriptions that might possibly match - while ignoring whether the marks were made by people or plows. (As convincing debunked in A Linguistic Analysis of Some West Virginia Petroglyphs, By Monroe Oppenheimer and Willard Wirtz -
The West Virginia Archeologist Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 1989.)
There are some names that instantly mark a subject as pseudoscience. A nutrition thread that includes references to Weston Price or Joseph Mercola needs to be treated as if covered with ebola. If one of your sources for “fact” is Barry Fell you’ve removed yourself from rational consideration.
No, what you’re saying is quite correct. And the Vinland case is a perfect example of a Saga A and a Saga B. The Groenlendiga Saga is basic and straightforward, about how Eric the Red settled in Iceland, explored beyond and found Greenland, convinced some to move there (using that very misleading name for the place!), and how the existence of some further lands were noted. Eiriks Saga contains fuller information: but some of it, like the discovery of a “uniped” in Vinland (like a human, with only one leg but skilled at hopping very fast) so clearly bogus or distorted that we have take the remainder of the added material with some crunchy grains of salt.
Well, in that case, read the evidence as presented by an astronomer. The unusual astronomical alignments are undeniable. Does not prove it’s pre-colonial, but the alignments are there and I fail to understand why they were needed in a windmill.
I was the first to document and photograph for publication this particular stone. The criminal investigation is still ongoing and we are hopeful the stone will eventually be returned to the safe location planned for it before it was stolen.
OMG, I don’t know if it’s authentic or not but there has been abundant evidence developed to suggest it is a fake! You are aware that the runes indicate 2 different time period languages were employed? How in the world does one explain away that damning evidence for it being a fraud?
BTW, as a responsible researcher, I never revealed the exact location of the Narragansett Stone. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for later researchers who clearly did not have the stones’ safety in mind by publishing its’ exact location.
Scratch that. I don’t know the linguistic pros and cons to really comment on that one aspect. I actually lean toward authenticity of the KRS, I just don’t believe the arguments against its authenticity are completely without merit. Especially where the so called Hooked X is concerned. At he same time, I don’t believe the NA stones showing a Hooked X have been proven modern or medieval to a conclusive degree one way or another.
The Narragansett Stone was recovered. It had been stolen and dumped in deeper waters of Narragansett Bay. It is now on permanent display in the village of Wickford, RI, just a few miles south of it’s find location. My own opinion is that it is of modern origin. Henrik Williams did publish a study and it was his opinion that it was carved between 1890-1940. I am including the following link for the photos provided…