On the subject of adventure and history, we watched a really interesting documentary on History International last night, it went something like this (attention conspiracy theorists this is just plain fascinating stuff):
The year is 1882, Minnesota - USA - when a modest farmer, Olaf Ohman, finds a carved stone out in one of his fields. The stone, now called the Kensington Rune Stone, has been determined to date back to 1362!
So sure enough archaeologists around the world go bonkers claiming it a massive hoax. But, new evidence through carbon dating proves that not only it is from 1362, it is also consistent with the natural erosion of other stones and material in the same area, therefore not transported and planted there. So what does it all mean?
Other Rune stones are found from Greenland to Nova Scottia to Rhodes Island through Minnesota. All contain similar markings known only to have been used by the Norse people during middle ages. Better yet, the markings on the stones utilize special characters found to have been used by only one additional and very specific group of people, or order I might say...the Knight Templars who were known allies of the Norse! Some markings on the stones are "crossed" and linked to what is called the Easter Calendar used by Norse in the Middle Ages and a form of writing only discovered in the mid 1900s (so there is no way good old Olaf Ohman had known about it). To further add to the whole story, one notation is of particular interest as letters X are "hooked", a Symbol the Templars used in only one other place in the world: The Roslyn Chapel of Da Vinci Code fame.
One of the Stones found in Nova Scottia tells of a party of 12 ships from Greenland to Nova Scottia on a 14 day voyage. Some of the stones in Minnesota have carving of Norse ships as well as the Templars' cross. To add to this really amazing stuff, more carved stones are found in Rhodes Island as well as a mine shaft (also dated to Middle Ages)on Oak Island, off the Rhodes Island shore. Celebrities including John Wayne and Franklin Roosevelt, all known Freemasons, have invested lots of money into excavating the shaft, to no avail since the entire thing is a booby trap with water moving from one shaft to the other each time the tides come in...no one has ever reached the bottom.
But wait! There is more, there is evidence that a second party followed, headed by none other than Prince Henry St. Clair, also a known Templar and son of the same St Clair who built the Roslyn Chapel. Said St. Clair was also an Arborist and there is something quite peculiar on the "booby trap" island: it seems to have been "landscaped", a long time ago, with non indigenous oak trees, but only on the coast line facing the sea. One has to go miles and miles to find oak trees again, hence the name "Oak Island". There is speculation that St. Clair himself had the oak trees planted there to serve as a beacon for future voyages. It is also speculated that the booby trap shaft is an entryway to a more complex set of tunnels, perhaps where the famed treasure of the Templars could be buried (and I always thought it was in my backyard in Normandy!). There has been so much money spent by various organizations and private parties to try to descend into the shaft that Oak Island is now called the "Money Pit"!
St. Clair's party is said to have travelled the same route, using other stones as markers until they met with the American Indian tribe: the Mi'kmacs. In fact, there are over 20 folk tales from the Mi'kmacs about strange men arriving by land, wearing "metal like" clothing and carrying a cross symbol which the Mi'kmac have painted on various cave walls and artifacts for centuries.
These tales were first heard in the 1700's. What's even more fascinating, and furhter evidence is that the Mi'kmacs adopted a State flag which is the complete inverted version of St. Clair's Coat of Arms.
One of their folk tales speaks of these men coming to them all bloodied and covered with blisters...the same blisters that wiped out half to the Mi'kmac population in the 1500's...you guessed it, the Black Death had probably traveled from Europe alongside St. Clair and his men.
As one continues along the New England Coastline, another puzzling structure is to be found: the remains of what appears to be a stone windmill. However, there is also evidence this windmill was built in the 15th century as its foundation and basic structure is an example of the kind of architecture only the Templar knew to achieve.
Furthermore, this same structure has been found to be marked on a few original maps from the many Verrazzano expeditions in the early 1520's!
Around that windmill structure, more carvings can be found, again dated to late 15th century, depicting a tall knight with a shield and a Templar's sword...possibly a depiction of St. Clair himself.
The plot thickened when it was discovered that deliberate holes in the structure allow light to pass through only on the day of winter solstice. The light going through one hole into the other creates a line of sorts, and when one traces over that line into the direction to which it points, guess where it lands? The exact location of the Kensington Stone in Minnesota! The Windmill, the Kensington Stone and one other stone also form a perfect triangle (see Freemason symbol) when their locations are joined on a map.
It is believed that all these stones were used as land claims and markers for subsequent journeys by the Templars, sort of an "X marks the spot" with perhaps Oak Island being the big X. Sure enough a third voyage arrives in 1492, as a certain Christopher Columbus supposedly discovers America! Columbus was also known Freemason and one recalls his sails carried the cross symbol of the Templars.
The thought here is that Columbus was not looking for spice but for Oak Island itself, close to 100 years following St. Clair's voyage.
Oh, and here is another nice tidbit...guess who Christopher Columbus' father in law was? A descendant of Prince Henry St. Clair!
Wow!
Want to know more? here are some good links:
The Templars in AmericaOak Island MysteryHenry St Clair in AmericaThe Kensington Stone
