Our Haunted Planet - John Keel-pages

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like huge mounds, attacked another Indian army from the sky and fired 'weapons winged with gold', thunderbolts, and hundreds of fiery wheels. “See Mysterious Fires and lights by Vincent Gaddis foe a fully documented description of the 1871 catastrophe. balls of fire which wiped out a hundred soldiers and their captains (Kings II:i). That would have been around $96 B.c. There are innumerable stories of this type from all cultures indicating that WOW is armed with spectacularly advanced weapons and doesn't hesitate to use them against mortal men. So, one cultist conclusion about the vitrified forts is that they were attacked by flying saucers which focused deadly heat rays on them and their occupants. However, the entire desert between Damascus and Baghdad is littered with blackened cocks. Thousands of square miles seem to be charred, not by the sun but by some long forgotten holocaust. Did WOW lay waste to all of Mesopotamia? Or did some horrible natural disaster wipe out the great civilization that once thrived there? Four thousand years ago Great Britain was populated by a small group of people barely out of the Stone Age. They had a few primitive tools made of bones, and they probably eked out a living with only the greatest difficulty. Anthropologists estimate that there were probably about three hundred thousand of them. They were undoubtedly divided into warring clans and factions, since factionalism is a natural state of man. Yet somehow, thousands of these people managed to get together to spend many generations quarrying huge stones (some weighing thirty tons) in the Prescelly Mountains of Wales and hauling these enormous blocks 240 miles to Salisbury. There they systematically arranged these stones in a circle, following measurements so precise that they were able to construct a mathematically correct astronomical computer, Like the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge appears to have been a pointless and impossible exercise. Thousands of workers had to be fed, clothed and housed for generations as they laboured on the profitless project. Top-flight administrative talent must have been necessary to plan and organize the work and supervise its execution. Architects had to design the monument with care before the first block of stone was chipped out of the hillside. Above all, we are asked {by the archaeologists) to believe that these early primitives had the motivation necessary to dedicate themselves to such an awesome task. We are also asked to believe that they pushed and hauled these monstrous stones up and down hills, across rivers, through forests and soupy bogs on sledges and wooden rollers. Then somehow, they managed to stand the slabs on end, lifted other stones on top of them, and built the whole thing so securely that it would last for four thousand years. Even in the Bible we are told how the prophet Elijah was saved by CHAPTER FIVE STRONG MEN AND STUPID ENTERPRISES It's called Stonehenge.