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fired from his job, they wouldn't publish the report, and he could- —_ the mining officers about it, and the officers just put the men out n't get another job for years. He was extremely upset by that, and _ of that mine, sent them to another mine and filled up that part of all his stone tools that he found were just taken and stored away __ the mine. somewhere out of his control by the museum. LL: Does that seem to be standard procedure when such things LL: That's how they bury it? are found? : MC: They buried it. MC: Well, there does seem to be a pattem. One thing that LL: Michael, you mostly include in your book those artefacts might happen is that some of these cases may be reopened and re- that can be well-documented and which required you to go ona __ investigated, you know, by people with more open minds. detective hunt through the scientific literature, but you were men- LL: Doesn't it make you wonder that if the Earth were trans- tioning that some of the less-well-documented finds come from _ parent for a day and we could actually see all of the dinosaur coalminers because they're down there digging in very ancient _ bones, all of the unusual artefacts, all the human remains, all the strata. For example, I've even heard of people who are breaking _ footprints, all the things that are buried in the Earth from long, up coal to put into their stoves, and out pop gold chains and metal long ago, what do you think we would see, Michael? In what vases and just incredible things. Tell me some of the stories of abundance? what's been found in some of these very ancient coal-strata, and MC: Well, I think what we would find is a picture of all kinds things that have been found by miners. of creatures, humans and otherwise, going back for long, long, MC: Well, here are some of the ones that we discuss in the long periods of time. Now, of course, one problem is that just see- book, Forbidden Archeology. In 1897, the Daily News of Omaha, __ ing isn't enough, because a lot of the seeing goes on in our own Nebraska, carried an article, titled minds, and you can always explain some- "Carved Stone Buried in Mine". Now, thing away. What we found is that there's this was about a piece of rock that was a double standard in the treatment of evi- about two feet by one foot, and the rock dence. If something goes along with the was carved into the shape of diamonds. It current ideas, then... had marks on it dividing the surface into LL: No problem, right? diamonds, and in the centre of each dia- MC: No problem. If it goes against mond there was an engraving of a human the current ideas, then you can immedi- face, a fairly old person. The question is, ately pick out all kinds of flaws because, how did it get down there? This was a with this kind of evidence that you dig up mine dug deep into the ground, 130 feet out of the ground, even in the best of cir- deep. The miners said the earth had not cumstances you can always get some been disturbed—and coalminers are very counter-explanation. At the very least, good at this because their life depends on you could just say it was a very elaborate it. If they're digging somewhere and they hoax or a fraud... can see that the coal has been disturbed, dk wottatile: npsbun (init: Picton ibis mettle LL: Right, that someone put it in that maybe there was some shaft there parallel oun, around its equator. The sphere there, or... 7 . previously that had been filled in, they | was found in a Precambrian mineral deposit, said MC: Right. But see, the problem is watch out for that like anything because | to be 2.8 billion years old. (Photo: Roelf Marx) that if you are going to do that, and you they know they could be buried in a land- apply the same standard to the things that slide or caught underground, so they're no dummies. That coal in —_ you now find in the museums, then you'd have to throw them out, that part, near Omaha, Nebraska, was about 300 million years old, too. For example, if you were to find an anatomically-modem so that's Yeally amazing. Now, where is that object? We tried to human skeleton in some coal near the surface, if it actually track it down, and we could not find it. It was reported in the belonged in the coal it would be 200 million years old; but if newspapers. We found a lot of literature about it, but because it's | someone says it's close to the surface so it must be recent, well... so far out of what modern scholarship would accept, it wasn't put But then, most of the archaeological discoveries that we have— in a museum anywhere. Probably one of the coalminers just kept like Lucy, the most famous specimen of Australopithecus, found it, and then when he died it went on to some relative somewhere, by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia in the 1970s—were found on the and maybe they threw it out.. surface, too. As a matter of fact, most of the Java Man discoveries LL: Or maybe it's sitting in an attic, and nobody knows its true in Java were found on the surface. They weren't found buried story. ; under the ground. MC: Right. If anybody out there has stories like that, we'd like LL: I've heard of gold chains dropping out of lumps of coal. I to hear about them. found these documented in certain books on anomalies of every LL: Michael, I've heard additionally that there are stone walls description. Can you tell me some stories on that? buried 150 feet. I know there are examples of that in Texas and MC: Well, they are documented in several books including our California, I believe. Did you come across such huge artefacts as own. The one very particularly interesting case took place in buried stone walls? 1891, and is recorded in The Morrisonville Times newspaper from MC: We have come across reports of such things. We do men- _ Illinois. It was actually the wife of the publisher of the paper, you tion them in our book. There's one such case, from Heavener, know. Mrs Culp was breaking coal to put into her stove when she Oklahoma, where we have a report from a coalminer that in the found a small gold chain, a very intricately-worked gold chain, in year 1928 he was working in this mine at a depth of two miles, a lump of coal. As a matter of fact, it was so tightly embedded in The way these mines were set up, they had different chambers, the coal that two pieces of coal were hanging off each end of it, and each day they would blast out another chamber. So, one like a little pendulum, after she broke the piece. Now, what we morning they blasted out some coal and the miners saw at the end _ did was actually verify that the newspaper did have a copy of that of the room, they call it, a wall of concrete blocks that were very article describing that find because we'd heard about it, but we smooth and polished; it was a wall, built down there. They told wanted to check with the newspaper itself—and they sent us a story. MC: Right. If anybody out there has stories like that, we'd like to hear about them. LL: Michael, I've heard additionally that there are stone walls buried 150 feet. I know there are examples of that in Texas and California, I believe. Did you come across such huge artefacts as buried stone walls? MC: We have come across reports of such things. We do men- tion them in our book. There's one such case, from Heavener, Oklahoma, where we have a report from a coalminer that in the year 1928 he was working in this mine at a depth of two miles, The way these mines were set up, they had different chambers, and each day they would blast out another chamber. So, one morning they blasted out some coal and the miners saw at the end of the room, they call it, a wall of concrete blocks that were very smooth and polished; it was a wall, built down there. They told JUNE - JULY 1995 NEXUS ¢ 15