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Orange to show off his find to the amazed locals. The figure, he thought, had to be that of a freak fir it had seven toes on each foot, one eye and no arms, and one leg was thinner than the other. The arms had probably been lost in the course of the fossilization process. The marble in with the figure was found with a molted color, whereas that of the corpse was pure white. Doctors who subsequently studied the 'marble man' thought him unique because of the perfect preservation of such features as water humours of the eye and the cartilage of the nose which, in normal human remains, dry up after death. The one remaining eye was well-formed, but there were an unequal number of ribs on each side of the figure's chest. A Sydney based scientist, Dr. C. W. McCarthy, declared the 'marble man' to be an actual petrified human corpse. It was obvious the 'marble man' was a form of Endocast, which would explain certain irregularities of the figure due to geological pressures over untold thousands of years. The “Marble Man of Orange” was soon taken to Sydney for public exhibition at two shillings admission, attracting large audiences of inquisitive people. Sculptors who examined the figure declared it was definitely not a statue as some people had suggested. The 'marble man' was undoubtedly of very great antiquity to have first been buried in lime-impregnated sediments and gradually to have become fossilized in the way ‘he had'. However, the mystery remains unexplained because after the exhibition ‘he' was sold to an antiquarian dealer and shipped to Europe where the remarkable fossil disappeared. Marble Man, Gympie Queensland: Another 'marble man’, seven feet tall in height, was discovered by miners outside Gympie, Queensland, in 1914. They had just used explosives to blast a quantity of lime- stone at an open-cut operation. As one of the workmen began clearing away some of the rubble, his eyes fell upon a large human-looking head which had completely turned to limestone. Meanwhile, other miners began finding pieces of arms, legs, a torso, etcetera, until finally, after a detailed search of the rubble, they had collected an entire body-a seven-foot-tall giant male. The fossil giant was obviously another Endocast and of immense age. It is said the fragmented hominid was crated down to the Brisbane Museum but subsequently, once there, all trace of it was lost. Such remains which question long-accepted indoctrination's of our ancient past seldom see the light of day once they fall into the hands of such institutions. As I mentioned earlier, the Endocast process is along one and can take up to 250,000 years. But if mudstone and limestone endocasting can preserve remains up to this age, then how old might an agatised hominid skull be? Moree About 1971, a fossicker working on a property near Moree, northern NSW, dug up from a gravel bed a fossilized, primitive-looking hominid skull reminiscent of my Bathurst Skull No. 2. it was completely agatised, showing teeth and empty sockets. This Wadjak-type skull is surely of Pre-Astraloid age, but just how old it might be remains a mystery, for agatisation of a fossil must take considerably longer than mudstone endocasting. Once again, as with the skull-types already dealt with, as well as the fossilized hominid ape-like foot- prints preserved in volcanic ash-flows uncountable years ago, we are faced with the obvious conclu- sion; in comparison with these and other early hominids, the Australian Aborigines, while they undoubtedly evolved here, were mere latecomers on the Australian landscape. Inverell 1993 On Friday (September 1993), yet one more giant-sized hominid fossilized footprint was added to such a list of such 'Titan tootsies' coming to light across the continent. My wife heather and I were exploring scrub country outside Inverell in Northern New England, about 140 kilometres east of Moree, when quite by accident we stumbled upon a shoal of weathered mudstone. Here, embedded in the rock, we found and measured a single large hominid footprint impression. 300 Appendix D: Scientific Evidence Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation