The geode as it was found.
Ooparts
Ooparts ? What are Ooparts? That stands for Out of
Place Artifacts. Things that show up where they shouldn't, a piece of
gold chain found in a coal seam, what appears to be a sparkplug embedded in rock that is
thousands of years old and what
appears to be a bullet hole in the skull of a mastodon.
These things are ooparts.
A Gold Thread
Workmen quarrying stone near the River Tweed below
Rutherford, Scotland in 1844, found a piece of gold thread
embedded in the rock of the quarry eight feet below ground level. A small piece of the
thread was sent to the offices
of the local newspaper, the Kelso Chronicle, "for the inspection of the
curious."
(The Times, London, June 22, 1844)
The Coso Geode
Geodes resemble ordinary stones
from the outside, usually spherical, or elliptical in nature, and sometimes hollow, but
their
cavities can contain a wonderful display of crystal structures and minerals. When sawn in
half they reveal their wonderful displays,
and are highly sought after by rock collectors. I have about 40 of them, cut and
uncut and I never tire of looking at the patterns within.
In 1961 a fossil encrusted geode (although this one was
not hollow) was picked up in the Coso Mountains, six miles northeast
of Olancha, California, near the top of a 4300' peak overlooking the dry bed of Owens Lake
by some rockhounds. What was
discovered after it had been cut in half, ruining a diamond saw blade in the process, is something
that has caused much debate
over the years, and continues to this day.
The geode as it was found.
In the middle of the geode was a metal core
approximately .08" in diameter. Encircling this was what appeared to be a ceramic
casing which was also surrounded by a hexagonal sleeve of wood, which had become
petrified. This was encased by the outer
layer of the geode which was made up of hardened clay, pebbles, and bits of fossil shell,
and two nonmagnetic metallic objects
resembling a nail and a washer. A fragment of copper still remaining between the ceramic
material and the petrified wood
indicates that possibly the two may have been separated by a copper sleeve.
This what the rockhounds saw when they cut it in half.
X-rays of the objects were taken and examined by Paul
Willis, then editor of INFO Journal who noticed a startling similarity
between it and a modern spark plug. This would be like
finding Medifast
coupons in a pyramid chamber, which is ridiculous
because Medifast has only been around since
2008.An unnamed geologist in
the original report of the find came up with an age
estimate of 500,000 years based on the fossils contained in the matrix (note-this would
not indicate what date the accretion was formed).
The artifact has since been reported identified as spark plug from a Model T more than
likely abandoned in conjunction with
mining operations.
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X-rays of the Coso Geode
http://www.badarchaeology.net/links/index.php
A Chain in Coal
Mrs. S. W. Culp, of Morrisonville, Illinois, was
breaking coal into smaller lumps for her scuttle, one day in 1891, when
she noticed a chain in the midst of the coal. When she reached down to pick it up, she saw
that the two ends of the
chain were firmly embedded in two separate pieces of coal that had clearly been a single
lump only moments before.
(The Morrosonville Times, June 11, 1891)
The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal
Skull 
Another great oopart is THE crystal skull discovered in
Mayan ruins called "Lubaantun", City of Fallen Stones, in
British Honduras, Now called Belize. The skull was discovered in 1924 by Anna Le Guillon
Mitchell-Hedges
daughter of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges who was in charge of the digs at Lubaantun. The
story goes that his daughter,
Anna, was exploring inside some ruins thought to have been a temple, when she found the
exquisitely carved
crystal skull which was then missing the jawbone. The missing jawbone was found three
months later, about
25 feet away from where the top part of the skull was found.
Evidently the story of the skull's discovery is a fabrication. There are supposedly
documents in The British
Museum that prove it was bidding against Mitchell-Hedges for the artifact at a Sotheby's
auction in London in
1943.
Be that as it may, we are still left with the problem
of the skull itself.
The Mitchell-Hedges skull is made of clear quartz crystal, and both cranium and mandible
are believed to have
come from the same solid block. It weighs 11.7 pounds and is about five inches high, five
inches wide, and seven inches
long. Except for slight anomalies in the temples and cheekbones, it is a virtually
anatomically correct replica of a human skull.
Because of its small size and other characteristics, it is thought more closely to
resemble a female skull -- and this has led
some to refer to the Mitchell-Hedges skull as a "she."
The Mitchell-Hedges family loaned the skull to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories for extensive
study in 1970. Art
restorer Frank Dorland oversaw the testing at the Santa Clara, California, computer
equipment manufacturer, a
leading facility for crystal research. The HP examinations yielded some startling results.
Researchers found that the skull had been carved against the natural axis of the crystal.
Modern crystal sculptors
always take into account the axis, or orientation of the crystal's molecular symmetry,
because if they carve "against
the grain," the piece is bound to shatter -- even with the use of lasers and other
high-tech cutting methods.
To add to the enigma, HP could find no microscopic scratches on the crystal which would
indicate it had
been carved with metal instruments. Dorland's best hypothesis for the skull's construction
is that it was roughly
hewn out with diamonds, and then the detail work was meticulously done with a gentle
solution of silicon sand
and water. The exhausting job -- assuming it could possibly be done in this way -- would
have required man-hours adding
up to 300 years to complete.
Under these circumstances, experts believe that successfully crafting a shape as complex
as the Mitchell-Hedges skull is
impossible; as one HP researcher is said to have remarked, "The damned thing simply
shouldn't be."
The skull is currently in the possession of it's caretaker, Bill Homann.
The Bell-Shaped Vessel of Dorchester
During blasting work at Dorchester, Massachusetts in
1851, the broken halves of a bell-shaped vessel were thrown by
the force of an explosion from the vessel's resting place in solid rock. The vase, about 4
1/2" high, is made of an unknown
metal and embellished with floral inlays of silver - the "art of some cunning
workman," according to the local newspaper
report.
The editor of Scientific American gave as his
opinion that the vase had been made by none other than Tubal-cain, the
biblical father of metallurgy. In response, Charles Fort - a lifelong connoisseur of
anomalies and a dedicated opponent
of scientific dogma - said "Though I fear that this is a little arbitrary, I am not
disposed to fly rabidly at every scientific opinion."
(Scientific American, 7:298, June 5, 1852)
An Iron Nail in Quartz
In 1851, Hiram de Witt, of Springfield, Massachusetts,
accidentally dropped a fist sized piece of gold bearing quartz
that he had brought back from California. The rock broke apart in the fall, and inside it
de Witt found a 2" cut iron nail,
slightly corroded. "It was entirely straight and had a perfect head," reported The
Times of London.
(The Times, London, December 24, 1851)
Another Nail
A nail partially embedded in a block of stone taken
from Kingoodie quarry in Scotland was described at a meeting of
the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1845, Sir David Brewster, who
gave the report, said that about
an inch of the nail was embedded, the rest lying along the stone and projecting into a
layer of gravel, where it had rusted.
The depth from which the 9" thick block of stone bearing the nail had been removed is
not on record, but the quarry was
said to have been worked for about twenty years prior to the discovery.
(Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, pg. 133)
An Object in Coal
An "iron instrument" apparently resembling
the bit of a coal drill, was found inside a lump of coal taken from an excavation
in Scotland in 1852 (Scotland again!). It was at first supposed that a miner had broken
his drill while working the seam and
had left the piece of metal embedded there. But the surface of the coal was unbroken: it
showed no signs of drilling or any
present or former opening by which the drill might have passed into it's interior. If such
a thing were not quite impossible,
according to every date in the geology text books, observers would have to believe that
the coal would somehow have
formed around the mysterious piece of metal.
(Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1:1:121, December 13,
1852
Tools in Rock
Extensive quarrying was done near the city of Aixen
-Provence, France between 1786 and 1788, to provide the large
quantities of limestone needed for the rebuilding of the Palace of Justice. In the quarry
from which the limestone was taken,
the rock strata were separated from each other by layers of sand and clay, and by the time
the workmen had removed
11 layers of rock they had found they had reached a depth of some 40 feet or 50 feet from
the original level of the area.
Beneath the 11th layer of limestone they came to a bed of sand and began to remove it to
get at the rock underneath.
But in the sand they found the stumps of stone pillars and fragments of half worked rock,
the same stone and rock that
they themselves had been excavating. they dug further and found coins, the petrified
wooden handles of hammers, and
pieces of other petrified wooden tools. Finally they came to a large wooden board, seven
or eight feet long and an inch
thick. like the wooden tools, it had also been petrified into a form of agate and it had
been broken into pieces. When
the pieces were reassembled, the workmen saw before them a quarryman's board of exactly
the same kind they
themselves used, worn in just the same way as their own boards were, with rounded, wavy
edges.
How a stonemason's yard equipped with the kind of tools
used in France in the late18th century, had come to be
buried 50 feet deep under layer of sand and limestone 300 million years old is a question
even more vexing today than
at the time of the original discovery. For we now know, thanks to advances in geological
and anthropological dating, that
such a thing is absolutely impossible. And yet it does seem to have happened.
(The American Journal of Science and Arts, 1:145-46, 1820)
A Child's Jaw in Coal ?
In 1958, Dr. Johannes Huerzeler, of the Museum of Natural History in
Basel, Switzerland, unearthed a human jawbone
at a depth of 600 feet, in a coal mine in Tuscany, Italy. The bone had belonged to a
child, between the ages of five and
seven. Though flattened like a sheet of iron, the jaw was declared by several experts to
be not only human, but
modern-looking at that. But what mystified them was that it had been encased in a Miocene
stratum - geologically
dated at 20 million years. Dr. Huerzeler declared it to be the world's oldest man" -
but his fellow anthropologists did
not dare give it the same distinction. Here were human remains more modern in appearance
than all the "ape-men" forms
ever found - yet they were five times as old as any of them. In fact, the jaw bone is as
old, if not older, than many ancestors
of the apes. The bone raised more problems than answers - so the find was quickly
"shelved," and no further work was
ever done to give it due recognition.
Another Oddity in Coal
Early in November of 1926, archaeologist J.C.F. Siegfriedt made a
discovery in another mine, this one the Number Three
shaft of the Mutual Coal Mine of Bear Creek, 55 miles southwest of Billings, Montana. What
Siegfriedt found was a human
tooth, in which the enamel had been replaced by carbon and the roots by iron, by seepage
petrifaction. In an account
published in the Carbon County News and dated November 11, 1926, Siegfriedt reported that
he had meticulously
preserved the mineral matrix that had been deposited around the tooth, and several
dentists identified the mold created
as being a human second lower molar. The tooth, however, came from the lower level of the
mine - from an Eocene
deposit dated at 30 million years old. Siegfriedt could generate no interest in his find
among other specialists, and as far
as is known, no one has done any further study of the mystery.
Bronze Artifact Found in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) 11/14/2011
— A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact
excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo
home site believed to be about 1,000 years old.
The artifact resembles a small buckle, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder said in an
announcement.
How it got to Alaska
remains a mystery.
The Bronze Artifact
University of Colorado Photo
Nov. 2, 2011
"The object appears to be older than the house we were excavating by at least a few
hundred years," research assistant
John Hoffecker said in
the release. Hoffecker led excavating at Cape Espenberg on Alaska's Seward Peninsula.
The object has a rectangular bar connected to a broken circular ring. It's about 2 inches
long and 1 inch wide.
It was found in August at a home site dug into a beach ridge.
The excavations are part of a project paid for by the National Science Foundation to study human response
to climate change
at Cape Espenberg from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1400. Archaeologist Owen Mason, a research
affiliate with the university based in
Anchorage, says six or seven home sites were excavated.
"The whole plan was to look at how subsistence and social practices changed over
about 500 years in time," he told
The Associated Press.
The work in summer 2011 was the third and final complete season for the project. Analysis
of animal bones and wood objects
including boat parts will follow.
"We're trying to figure out if the people were whaling," Mason said Monday. "That's
a big topic. The wood is a big story.
We have to get more radiocarbon dates, more tree ring dates. We're going to figure out the
climate story from the wood."
The bronze artifact was found in 3 feet of sediment near the entryway to the house by a
University of California, Davis,
doctoral student, Jeremy Foin, as he used a sifting screen. Beveling on one side of the
bronze and the concave shape
of its other side indicated the item had been cast in a mold.
A copper needle was found at another Cape Espenberg house. Early Alaskans were known to
hammer copper into tools
but there is no known metal casting in Alaska, Mason said.
"It would be incredibly significant if there were metallurgy in Alaska, but I just
don't see that being here," Mason said.
The house site is within the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and the origin of the
piece more likely was Korea, China,
Manchuria or southern Siberia. Early Inupiat Eskimos in northwest Alaska might have
brought the object from the other side
of the Bering Strait about 1,500 years ago, the researchers said, and passed it down
through generations.
A piece of leather wrapped around the rectangular bar gave a radiocarbon date of about
A.D. 600.
"That seems early based on what we know presently about the house, but we haven't
dated the house well enough to be
confident that our previous thoughts about the house are correct," Mason said.
One Asia archaeologist suggested the piece may have been part of a harness or horse
ornament. The researchers are
looking for an East Asia expert to confer with on the bronze piece.
Mason said it's not likely the bronze piece was washed ashore after being dropped by a
Russian explorer or a whaler.
"That's totally unlikely, in fact nearly impossible, considering where it is,"
he said.
The excavated home was an inauspicious mound that was part of a marsh in a sand dune away
from the current coast.
Purdue University Assistant Professor H. Kory Cooper, prehistoric metallurgical expert,
will study the bronze piece, Mason said.
Researchers recovered several thousand artifacts at Cape Espenberg, including harpoons
used to kill seals, fishing spears and fishing lures.
A healthy, objective, honest approach to Ooparts can not help but lead
to the discovery of archeological sites which also appear to be "out of place".
Hence: "Oopeology" - Out Of Place Archeological Achievements, at least out of
place by the context we examine them today, possibly common fare
for the time of their creation...
~ Much coolness can come and go without a trace in 4.5 billion years ~
Coming soon: The Oopeology Page
" I ain't sayin' it is.... but, I ain't sayin' it ain't "
Comments from Readers
| 12/21/2011 Nasa cant go back to the moon, .:LEAKED:. "we cannot risk another Tunguska, we endevour to identify the weapon on the surface but due to its location this is particuarly complex and the device appears armed. Whatever civilisation built this device for we can not begin to comprehend but whilst it remains active no country shall attempt a landing"
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| 11/27/2011, Montana, USA The world with the technology that we have now, has already happened in the far past. It just keeps repeating over and over. We build up to a certain degree of high technology, destroy ourselves and it all begins again. There's more to it, but that's the gist of it. Look at the plants and vines engraved on the Dorchester Vase. They match exactly with Sumerian engravings of the same. I find that very intriguing. as do I ~byerly |
| 11/25/2011, USA Earth has more then likely seen more then one advance culture over time. But our earth has evolved and has covered up past advance culture. Why should we assume that we were the first. I'm sure that past advance culture thought the same about past Advance cultures as we do. I look at it like this we've only been advance for what 150 years. What will the future advanced culture think of us in say 100000 years if the earth goes through another cycle of extinction. |
| 11/16/2011, Spain Extraterrestrial evidence or Atlantis evidence Almost all the images you see in this video have a size of 0.5 millimeter to 1 millimeter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbOq-YNbvo More info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6SG2k9giU0 In this video you can see the two metal objects at actual size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6X13C_NcBw What is your opinion? Thanks for your time, pareidolia.effect. |
| 11/5/2011, USA Amazing stuff. I suspect the ancient writings are 100% correct. The level that mankind had achieved, BEFORE the Flood of Noah's time was amazing and far beyond our present ideas as to the real level of their achievements. If (just give me the "if" for a second) the Flood of Noah's time did in fact take place, and cover the highest mountains on the planet for about forty days or more - how much of the cities, buildings, etc., would be under the silt at the bottom of lakes and seas all over the world? Probably most of it. The ONLY buildings that seem to have survived were those major entities built of stone, and away from seacoasts. And there are very few of them exposed above ground at present. However, as our ground penetrating radar becomes more and more powerful, I believe we will find much more evidence of a vastly advanced pre-deluvian civilization. How much of their technology has petrified under water or buried under hundreds or thousands of feet of earth is anyone's guess. But we will soon have GPR with sufficient power to allow us to peer deep into the earth and probably find entire cities, pretty much intact. The technology from that ancient time probably exceeds our own at present (at least in some areas) and the profiting from that tech may be what drives exploration and serious digs all over the world. The other thing we cannot discount are the purported lifespans of the ancients in post-creation but pre-deluvian times. It seems (according to scriptures) that men and women routinely lived to be several hundred years old. Think of what could be learned and understood in that long period of healthy active life! Think of each "generation" then having 9 or 12 times our lifespan today. Time in which they could experience, learn, amass knowledge and use that knowledge, thus learning from their own experiences along the 700 or 800 or 900 years of their lives! An advantage we can barely conceive of, much less quantify and fully understand the overall impact of such a lifespan. very well put ~ byerly |
| 11/4/2011, canada Apparently there is a plant that grows in south america that softens or decays metals. Allegedly those who made the crystal skulls used the juices of this plant to polish the crystal skulls to its form, and it shouldn't have taken long. It also explains why there are no grinding patterns that would have shattered the skulls had it been grinded using 'modern' technology. see: THE GODS UNKNOWN by Robert Charroux, index
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| 10/26/11, USA I have a rock i really need looked at. I believe it to be Petoski stone completely incasing an object, presumably metal, with a square mail pertruding out where a chunk of the stone broke off. Petowski stone supposedly was formed over 350 million years ago, regardless, for this rock substance to hace formed arond this object. Having this rock analysed would be awesome, any ideas on how to go about it? 10/27/11~please comment w/contact info. info
will not be posted. ~ thanks, byerly |
| 10/05/11, America true, convincing ooparts would need to be found in space....like an aincient moonbase....or our mars rover, rolling up on some ruins.......i think any such things would be instantly covered up... |
| 7/27/11, USA for information on the The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull go here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull |
| 05/06/11 Excellent work, my friend |
| 04/26/11 Is the crystle skull really a real thing and not a hox? I mean they made an Indiana Jones baout it so is it really real? Please give me some more info about it. ~ see comment dated 7/27/11 ~ |
| 04/10/11 Nice work. interesting that there is a 4 year break with no comments then it has gathered a lot of interest in the last 3 years. It is certain that we are just one in a long string of evolutions of "man" everyone keep asking "what am i doing here " |
| 03/21/11 For a book on similar issues check out: http://www.amazon.com/Egypt-Origin-Civilization-Diffusion-1890s-1940s/dp/0615451780/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 |
| 03/01/11 This world that we know of has all happened before, and it will all happen again. |
| 02/27/11 In order to understand what is going on here you must be able to expand your mind and phyical self there our only 6 of us in the world capable of doing this 3 of us live in the USA 1 in Eurpoe 2 in Asia we meet twice a year at a secert location to go over the way the planet will grow and what must be done to help the Human race all of us where left here over 12,000 years ago as (Guardians) of this planet there is a answer but you our still 45,000 years away from this under standing |
| 02/27/11 If the Earth is 3 to 4 billion years old who knows how many human populations and cities where here prior to the last 10 to 15 thousand years if you look at the rate of decomposition it would take about 20 to 35 million years to completely turn every thing that was back into nothing we can notice its called it rots back to nothing only very very rarely does a small piece survive like these if this is true then this cycle has been done about 60 times over 3 to 4 billion years and nothing stay as is forever after 20 to 35 million years its alll gone and starts over |
| 02/14/11 Hello, I had never heard of ooparts or really had cared until it happened to me and I experienced the professional art of artifact suppression the local Archaeologist have done to me. I found Ancient Indian artifacts which I knew were not tools and that is why I started collecting them, I already had lots of stone tools. These stones have strange circular marks. I discovered that when the marks line up correctly they guide me to bas-relief sculptures which show white Giants doing bad things to small dark figures, the Indians. Many show the white Giant with a large serpent over his head or him in the mouth of the serpent. I have had 3 different Geologist confirm human modification and 3 Archaeologist who say nature did the art and do not agree with the expertise of the Geologist. Each time I am with the Archaeologist I sence fear. Dr Bundy another Archaeologist said it is fear, fear of the rejection from their peers when a stone is not quickly recognized as a tool. Fear is still a form of artifact suppression. And every since I discovered how to read the marks, I am finding more and with each new Archaeologist each say the stones I have are beyond their expertise, so only I and everyone but the Archaeologist know about the evil white Giants of America. I could use any help as the art is very clear and may be the worlds oldest fine art. my email is wbw1974@yahoo.com Thank You, Bill Waters |
| 02/14/11 Im looking for a book which lists geological and scientific anomolies and enigmas. I saw the book at the New York City Library for business and science years ago. I learned about it I beleive from reading internet reports of stange or strand miagazine. I cannot remember the name of this report. It was in book form in the library and was clearly a list of things like the various pieces of coal that had human made objects embedded in them. Do you or does anyone know the name of this publication? If so my email is *richardpaulhobbs@gmail.com* please tell me it. |
| 01/18/11 hey these are really nice. i have heard a lot about the 'Indian blast'. Mahabharata is said to be the world's very first nuclear war. |
| 01/11/11 Quite an interesting site. While I am very skeptical of some of these acounts (the chain in the coal, for instance, can easily be written off, as the woman was the only witness), and some can be answered through natural means (The Indian atomic weapon, though I love the idea of ancient humans having superior technology, could simply be from an irradiated meteorite, also explaining the account), I do feel some of these are simply impossible, yet they exist (especially the Coso Geode and the tools in the rock.). I also like how the site authors seem unbiased but still interested. Overall a great collection of mysteries and an intriguing site. |
| 11/09/10 All of you really believe all this nonsense? Believe in the existence of UFOs, that the Bible is of divine origin, that fairy tales are more reliable than science? What a waste of time and intelligence. Why not try to formulate the questions in a meaningful way? For example, do you think really happened the Great Flood? Yes? And then, tell me a bit, where all that water has gone? It is perhaps transformed into the polar ice caps? Or is it all evaporated out by the atmosphere? Ridiculous. Reading your comments, I understand why the Mormons, or Jehovah's Witnesses are able to fool so many people ... |
| 11/02/10 I love researching such topics. I am a firm believer in what the Bible says, it's never been proven wrong and there is a great deal of history that hasn't even been discovered. Good Stuff, thanks for your page. Lots of good stuff! S.Zill |
| 11/02/10 Remember, question everything. Blind belief is simply that, blind. Interesting site nonetheless and raises some interesting questions about our current understanding of natural processes or even our own history. |
| 10/19/10 Another great oopart, the Petrified Human Brain of Manchester Tennessee. Found 35 years ago in a stream. How old? Don't know...one strange thing is, it is silica...crystal, crystalline brain! Same mineral as petrified trees. |
| 10/06/10 I was watching an interesting show on the Discovery Channel,one night last year, that was about a break through in a math equation they found that can be used to organize Artificial Intelligence. Seems that this math equation,that can organize Artificial Intelligence,was first written down by a Lutheran Minister back in the 1700s! They even showed a sketched portrait of this Lutheran Minister that an artist did...Was he a time traveler who ended up in the wrong century,but still got his equation through to our time? Are there more Lost Time Travelers? |
| 08/26/10 The funny answer to ooparts is: Would a roman ask a 19th century home owner why its so cold in there house? The very best oopart - LEAD. Lead is decaying uranium!, which means it came BEFORE the earth itself, if the age of the earth being 4.5billion years old is to be believed. Uranium is a funny material, it can go from Uranium to thorium is only 4.5 billion years - then in less than 25 days right back to uranium again. then about 220,000 years to reduce down, then a few jumps in mere days and minutes and you have stable lead. (which takes from start to finish approx 5 BILLION years. We also have lead 208 *which is 14 BILLION Years in the making. Just a further bit to my lead oopart - lead 208 is common on earth, but its not a natural occuring material, its man made. (so who started the process 14 billion years ago?) |
| 08/09/10 What happens today, may have happened in the past.....? That’s what most of it sounds like to me. |
| 08/03/10 I recomend reading the book "The Lost World of Genesis One" by John H. Walton to anyone interested in ideas that respect empirical science while searching for God's intended message as communicated to the authors of The Law and The Prophets. Oparts show us there are things we don't yet know and understand. Any scientist in a research field should be in heated contests to be the one to work on the mysterys left in our world. Lamentably this is not so. |
| 07/29/10 Any thing that shows evidence of the Bible being true..will just be shoved under the rug. :>( You have to be a Moronic Defiant person to believe any bit of the Evolutionary Theory. Darwin is a Creten! ~Jay Barry~ |
| 06/27/10 The Bible speaks plainly of a world before the flood and implies the time of the flood wrought catastrophic changes to the earth other than just water. All the answers are in that great book folks. I encourage anyone to look for themselves and find the answers, not only to these mysteries, but to your own personal life. |
| 06/11/10 Here we are reading about this stuff on an internet site, rather than a textbook. It makes me sick to see that this information has made it to any public news stations. |
| 04/11/10 Hello! eegffec interesting eegffec site! |
| 04/03/10 as a student of anthropology, paleo to be exact. i can tell you that there are many pieces of the 'puzzle' that don't add up as far as our collective or earth history is represented. things like when the continents split and (the evident) uniqueness of places like Madagascar and Australia alone leave one wondering. of relation to this topic,the 'out of Africa' theory versus Thorne's concept of regional continuity alone brings up stunning possibilities.thank you for sharing. ( i found the limestone one interesting) |
| 04/02/10 This is a very interesting site. Thank you for some insight into some fascinating anomalies. These sort of claims are usually very difficult to verify. There can be no denying that we live on a strange old world. J. Roy |
| 03/23/10 Unfortunately, science today, is a religion. These ancient anomalies would surely challenge the "most sacred" theory of evolution. Don't hold your breath waiting for science to jump on this. They don't have the guts. |
| 03/07/10 It's either all evidence of lost civilizations, parallel universes, completely natural phenomena, or time travel.. I hope it's time travel. |
| 03/06/10 I find this interesting, in particular the french quarry, but i find people jump tp conclusions to quickly. What if, for example, the quarry under ground had been in a cave that recently filled with sand? similar events have happened in Canadian mines in Cape Breton, only to be forgotten ten years later and re-discovered. ...excellent point, the coso geode comes to mind. ~ byerly |
| 01/28/10 Howdy: My story doesn't match your stories but it may indicate the elasticity of time or malleability of history. In the early 1980s I spent several weekends helping a friend make an amateur SF film. It came out well, considering. It was a 3.5 hour trip each way, and I'd stop on the way for snacks and soda. One place near or on the way to Waltham MA. was a Pharmacy / Convience store. I would stop there for a Coke. On display were 'World's Smallest Trinitron Portable Color TV'. It would fit in a shoebox, with the screen on the narrow end. It used an actual CRT as LCDs weren't practical yet. I would have liked to have one for the SF film, or two to experiment with stereoscopic TV, but I didn't have money at the time to spend so frivously. (As if I do NOW!) Decades later, I DVD and YouTube the film (Yes, I verb nouns. Do you have a problem with that? and wonder about that weird little TV. eBay? No. Collectable TV websites? No. Sony website? *THEY* say their smallest ever Trinitron tube was 4". This one was 2.5" - 3". I know what I saw, but now it has never existed. I suspect Time Travelers had to change something in the 1960s and a minor side effect was this device never got designed / built / marketed in the US. Moderator/Webmaster: My post may be off-topic, but in the broadest sense, it WAS an 'Object out of Time'. |
| 01/11/10 Ok, I have heard much about ooparts and such and I don't believe that a reasonable proposal of a new ancient history that could be assembled by we believers would either bring the corporate world crashing down or cause us to be thrown in prison as heretics. I would like to see such a history compiled and presented. It could take into account the ancient religious writings and attempt to unify the many anomolies that we know of. If done under the cover of "art" (with science) rather than science it would have the freedom that art allows. Classical science must work to attempt to provide a concrete base for our practical world and therefore must exclude ooparts or most esoterica. It deals with what is very sure only. We don't want to shake this foundation. We need it. We want structure. "Art" however, well allows us to attempt to construct a history of the last 99 billion years. That "art", then may be slowly refined and hard science will grow from it at it's own pace. We are now at the moment when art and science are beginning to work together better than ever before and it is very powerful. |
| 11/26/09 Hi my names Tim, im a 20 year old from The UK. About a year ago i left my religion that i grew up in because i felt that it was hiding something. I Now see that no book with an age span consisting ratio that fits into the existance of the earth 642857 times!! off my quick calculation that is. Now i've read huge amounts of these ooparts over the last year, shocked by most of them and i think there should be an organisation that represents everyone who believes all of this where we can put our view to our own governments, and let people decide what to believe instead of being forced to belive religous based historical events which could all be for all we no a cover up. By trade im a web developer and would like to see if anyone would be interested in helping bring people to a sort of petition site where people can submit ooparts of there own, become members talk to other people that are interested and give ideas on how we can act to get people to know these covered up secrets. |
| 11/24/09 Years ago, my wife worked for an elderly couple as their "chief cook and bottle washer/housekeeper". He was an old coal miner from out east. One night over dinner (I had been invited to share it with them) he started talking about his youth. One story really stood out and set my hair on end. He claimed that while blasting a coal seam, they uncovered a wooden wagon wheel embedded in the coal. They were able to free it and send it up and out of the mine. He didn't know what became of it. He also stated that they found "other" objects in the coal from time to time, but didn't go into any more details. True or not, I don't know. He was a very nice guy as was his wife and I have no reason to disbelieve him. |
| 11/23/09 I love these (good) sites that feature Ooparts. Long ago I figured out where these items most likely came from; other, more advanced civilizations now deceased. According to the Aztecs (who are indirectly responsible for the new movie 2012), we are in the fourth or fifth wave of civilization, the others having fallen and passed on into oblivion. Or maybe the answer is time-traveling tourists...kidding. |
| 11/21/09 The truth will always come out |
| 10/21/09 cool |
| 10/06/09 Try looking up a book by Emmanuel Velikovsky title Earth in Upheaval. It clearly shows through the collation of many and varied published scientific papers that earth's past is merely a sequence of cataclysmic geological events that take place in a matter of days.The events are global which gives rise to virtual extinction of most life.Hence ooparts are to be found because of rapid burial by sudden cataclysm.Geological events are not slow ginding drawn out affairs.They are virtually immediate (days)and gigantic in scale.Finally, the forces required to cause these earth changes are not found within the earth.They come from other celestial bodies passing near to the earth.Ooparts are evidence of past technically skilled civilisations where cataclysm has forced a return to begin step one all over again.The more sites like this the better the internet becomes.Hope it gets lots of readers,regards Kevin. |
| 08/15/09 It's so egotistical, and typical nowadays, that mankind percieves the current timeline that we have is correct, scientific, set in stone........ and so on. What if we have made a mistake? "Oh, god know, how could that ever happen?""We would never be wrong..... would we?!" All the years of teaching in schools of our history etc would all be blown away. Can't see anyone letting that happen so we will just have to continue to join the rest of the world, bury our heads in the sand and be ignorant. Ha, try it (I have!), try talking to friends and putting some of these subjects from above in the conversation. Guaranteed they'll all look at you like you are brking mad! Luke England |
| 08/14/09 Learned about some of these in school. I think they are really cool!!!!! |
| 07/01/09 well you might also want to look into the particular oopart of the bell that was found in a piece of coal in upshur county west virginia in 1944 by a man with the last name of anderson. i've always been of the opinion that humanities roots lay far deeper than the sandy topsoil of modern history. |
| 06/03/09 i would like to know the uses of petrified wood - is is true it is being used in nuclear reactors? i would appreciate your reply. please email me at **** |
| 05/24/09 history must be re-written |
| 05/21/09 Thank you for your site, there are many ooparts in this world. Yet, despite the best proofs, those who believe will continue to believe, while those who disbelieve will not be convinced. "A fool's mind changed against his will is of the same opinion still." Keep trying, though. |
| 04/22/09 Interesting Topic :) I have found things that do not belong as well. as far as i know no one else knows of the spot i found accidentally while fishing the base of cliffs on the Nor.Cali. Coast. How About braided steel cable and other odd metal objects imbedded in a cliff face about 300 feet below ground level overlooking the pacific ocean? |
| 03/08/09 This is good info need moor pics. |
| 02/18/09 There are many more ooparts of course . But this is a good work here. I would like to add one thought of mine . Our planet is about 4,5 billion years old . Our known History claims that the moderns man (homo sapiens) civilization is about 6-7 thousands years old . This is a drop in the ocean . We are learned that some thousands years have the ONE AND ONLY "advanced" culture and civilization AMONG these BILLION years . How can we believe this and why ? Someone can say that maybe we believe so because if there was one great (or more) civilization at our planet's history , we would found many many things such as ruins etc . Yes but you forget something important : We find ruins 2000 years old for example in a depth of many many meters . How deep should we look if we wanted to find ruins of 10.000 years old or more ? And the other important thing is the ruins situation . We see how materials from the past are worn from time . So as deep as we go into time the harder it gets for us to find a well shaped building for example . I will close with one last thought . If our civilization in 100-200 years from now was self-destroyed and everything was gone , what an archaeologist of the future would find in about 10.000 (or more) years from now ? Keep searching and I wish you the best to our common quest for knowledge . Nikos Greece |
| 01/29/09 This is a VERY interesting web page.... Tho i wonder what is the cause of the Coso Geode.The entire page is awesome, thanks. -LarryThe CableGuy |
| 01/04/09 thank u it has inspered me more |
| 12/22/08 I live in Northern Canada, and have worked in mining for about 25 years. My job is to direct blasting operations and I spend a lot of time in the pit, examining fresh blast sites. Anyways, a couple of years ago I saw something embedded in the surface of a freshly blasted rock. It looked for all the world like a compact disk, except that it was black and had about 12 sides. Basically looked like a small stop sign, but had about twice as many sides. It was about 5-6 inches across, and we actually tried to get it out of the rock. We got a small piece out, but it was really brittle and we couldn't save much of it. The piece we did save was about the size of a ritz cracker, and about half the thickness. One of the folks in the lab put it under the microscope and couldn't explain what it was, and wanted to see where it came from. She said that it looked all the world like a CD, but couldn't imagine how it got there. |
| 10/13/08 Modern scientists are quick to dismiss what does not fit their preconceived theories not only to protect their current dogmas but also to protect their careers. It is not wise to rock the boat. Thank you for this unbiased site where you make no assumptions, only presenting facts. |
| 09/21/03 it's a very interesting site, i've been looking for something like this for a long time now and it is important that everyone knows the truth about our history, which cannot be done by theory alone (it is in fact dangerous) but most imprtantly by looking at archeological facts such as these i have found some other sites which might appeal to anyone interested www.awarenessquest.com/research.htm www.mcremo.com/mcremo.html www.thesolomongiants.com http://greatserpentmound.org/ it would be better that everyone working on stuff like this unites and communicates SO LINK EVERYTHING onnofris@antwerpen.be |
| 9/21/2003 Hello, it is very interesting. In my opinion ancient generations were like us and they has airplanes and more. But history of ancient Indian cities say us that one can destroy all world without rest and new peoples begin from zero. It is our "future" too... |
| 9/20/2003 I found an artifact in a coal seam once. Back in the mid 80's I was a teenager in Beckley, WV. Since there were no jobs I had make money any way I could. I found a coal seam behind the Armory that was at the same level as the road at an abandoned coal mine. I used to dig pickup truck loads of coal and sell them for $20. Sometimes I could sell 5 loads a week. Before I quit digging there due to safety concerns I had tunneled about 15 ft back into the face of the seam. On the next to last load of coal that I ever dug there I found a cheap necklace embedded in the coal. I used a pick to knock chunks of coal loose and then I would push them back to where I could load them with a shovel. Some chunks were too big for the shovel and I would throw them into the truck by hand. One large chunk broke when I tossed it and I saw something shining and holding the 2 pieces together. I pulled it out and saw that it was a pendant neckace. Gold plated with a purple plastic heart at the center. Larger links of the chain going out for about an inch on either side of the heart. Then it went into small links. The clasp was the same kind as is on any cheap necklace. There was no writing on it anywhere. I kept it for many years. Then I gave it to this girl I thought was the one for me. She wasn't and I haven't seen her in years. Anyway, that is what I found. |
| 9/19/2003 the coso artifact has been identified as a spark plug from miners equpment in the 20s it was the same model used in the famous ford t-model car |
| 7/14/2003 Wow that hits the spot. |
| 6/24/03 They say the moon was created by a large meteorite crashing into the earth and sending large chunks of semi-liquid rock into orbit devistating most of the planet. But when in the fossil record could this have happened but the Cambrien or Pre-Cambrien. If this is true then couldnt the earth possibly be billions of years older than we think it is. Life would have been wiped out for the most part, and started over with microscopic life. So possibly there could have been a civilized species living on this planet accounting for some of the things found in the rocks, since most of the surface of the planet is liquid rock. Any signs of a civilization would be destroied. Mabye a thing like what happened in Pompeii happened and ash surrounded things like the "spark plug" which protected it from the lava and was found billions of years later kept in tact because of the rock. |
| 6/2/2003 I have read alot about crystal skulls on your site and the mysteries surrounding them. They aren't so mysterious as it goes! In Ethiopia they used a local crystal, much like the that used to fashion the skulls, to create burial cases for their dead. This is not very well documented. The crystal was soft enough to work easily but hard enough to endure the elements etc - I believe that Herodotus mentions them in his 'Histories'. I believe that the skulls could have been fashioned from Ethiopian crystal and used as trade items - the trade networks of the world have been around in one form or another far longer than we have evidence for. |
| 04/30/2003 Hello "Whatif/OOPARTS": Interesting page and admirably free of the usual speculations. Thanks for your work. I would like to link to this page on a site I'm building. I also had a link to another ooparts page - several years ago now: http://onramp.ior.com/pages/strange.htm It seems to have disappeared from the Internet; anyone able to post its current wherabouts? |
| 1/3/2003 EVER SINCE THE SUBJECT WAS BROUGHT UP NW FINDINGS HAVE BEEN VERY FEW AND FAR BETWEEN IF ANY AT ALL. THE INFORMATION THIS SITE HAS ONLY ECHOES WHAT I ALREADY KNOW. SOMEONE HAS TO GO OUT THERE WHO CAN BE TRUSTED AND SEARCH OUT THE TRUTH. IF MY CONCERNS ARE WELL PLACED THAT 'PERSON' MUST BE WELL BACKED BY FORCES STRONGER THAN THE ONES COVERING UP THE TRUTH. VIMANATech |
| 12/23/2002 Don't be surprised if future archaeological digs reveal even more advanced technologies than our own from ancient civilizations. I always love these reports...whether absolutely confirmed or not, they certainly make one think twice about what we were always taught: that civilizations and humans "evolved" from a primitive state to a more modern one. I, for one, believe in a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of Creation and am amazed at how much seems to confirm that the more discoveries are made. Two interesting quotes from the Bible: "As in the days of Noah, so shall the days of the coming of the Son of Man be." "There is nothing new under the sun." Interesting. Sorry that the exact chapters and verses escape me at the moment. |
| 12/13/2002 The quartz Crystal Skull is very old because of the calculated 300 years of Stone Age manhours to fashion and polish it; therefore it is probably a relic of a vanished civilization that had the means to craft such an object in a couple of years at most. By way of comparison, since the nineteenth century diamond cutters have taken two years at most to study and fashion the largest stones. The Skull is a wonderful relic of an earlier human civilization that was at least as advanced as our nineteenth century, and left no other trace. In addition, genetic analysis shows that the entire human race almost died out 70,000 years ago except for no more than 5,000 individuals, scientists say it was the eruption of a supervolcano that caused the loss of life. That could have ended the civilization of the Crystal Skull, and after 70,000 years most metals, and all metal alloys, crumble to dust and only hewn stone structures like the Sphinx and Valley Temple of Egypt might survive. 70,000 years sounds about right for the age of the Skull. |
| 12/7/2002 In genesis 6 God says that the men who lived before the flood were men of renown! Yet our scientist say our ansestors were little more than blathering idiots. In Nebraska there is a place called ash falls where after a great volcano erupted-probably in Utah-and spewed ash that fell over the Nebraska plains where upon recent research they found various toed horses smothered in the same dig-propornents of evolution say these horses devoloped over 'millions of years'-yeah-sure. They are now rethinking this 'fact'. Thanks for trying to set some records straight-that have been tossed in the corner because they do meet the accepted 'scientific norm'! |
| 11/18/2002 Indeed, mainstream science is quickly learning that 'what they thought they knew' is totally wrong! |
| 11/13/2002 Enjoyed your site! Loved seeing a site with a whole page about ooparts. I actually went to Maine in 1996 and held the Dorchester vessel. An older gentleman owns it and though several books state "its whereabouts remain unknown," I assure you that it's fine. Also, if any of the readers go over to www.neara.org they can see a Greek coin found in Lunenburg, Massachusetts! Keep up the great work... |
| 11/11/2002 If you found a dinosaur track and a human track together in strata that was dated to be 200 + million years old, what does that do to the theory of evolution? Then the scientist says, this does not prove humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, it just shows that there is a dinosaur that has feet like a human that we have not found yet! If you really believe something and do not allow for any other possibilty then all the evidence you gather will be interpretted according to your initial assumption. Why is it so hard to believe that humans co-existed with dinosaurs? Maybe there was a flood in the recent past! It sounds crazy, but a world-wide flood as postulated by the bible would be sufficient cause for the geologic column that we see today! |
| 10/20/2002 it is clear to any open-minded person nowadays,that over the past 2000 centuries or even more,a certain number of technologically advanced human-made civillizations grew upon the globe and vanished, one after the other,either by natural causes or by the use of their high technology in local/or global warfare acts usually being replaced after a short time of 200-5000 yrs,by sub-cultures,equal to the ones we meet in Mad-Max movies,far less advanced in comparison to previous cultural state, mainly acting as a link by means of myths to the preceeded lost grandure,and having retained small portions of the lost knowledge in conjunction to several Ooparts (that is,Out of time Technology artifacts)as well.Finally,as centuries pass away,and,given the fact that all true scientific knowledge was usually kept within a close inner circle of only a few,nothing remains to be known of the real past,and everything needs to be re-envented again and again.This circle is propably repead for the fourth time already, and it is likely to be once more and sooner than we expect,but,as far as we are concerned,the last circle ended about 12000 yrs ago, thanks to catastrofic climate changes which led to sudden ice-melting and the sinking of vast areas at about 200 m below today's sea level.As for the reason that no knowledge from the previous culture has not yet been revealed to the public is simply because the whole structure of that society was totaly different from today's global market economy,the technology was based mainly on environmental-friendly sources of energy consisted mainly of solar power,electricity or even cold fusion,which was vanished in a glimpse from the mass media,thanks to the same Lobies that control such knowledge,cause it could collapse enormous organizations and multinational energy giants within weeks,bringing of course chaos within all the structure of today's societies and religions. That is all about it,and that's why no Ooparts can be seen today,with the exception of the antecythira mechanism of course,which is dated within the acceptable time limit 0f 200 BC. |
| 8/19/2002 Good to see that the 'accepted' theories are being challenged by facts:) |
| 8/18/02 back Concerning the Coso 'Geode', you are right to say that geodes are around half a million years old, but it is not a geode. It is an accretion of rock, fossils, and metal pieces.These accretions can form very quickly as witnessed to Coca Cola cans being found inside them (I thought the ancient space aliens preferred Pepsi?).The object is certainly a sparkplug, but a rather low-tech one at that. Indeed in the 1920's Champion manufactured one 'somewhat' similar (perhaps they had access to ancient sparkplug construction diagrams etched onto Ica stones........) |
| 5/4/2002 Please send further short paragraphs reguarding this subject. *Jonathan_Bishop_2@Hotmail.com Thank-you. |
| 1/18/2002 I have a weird idea about the skull. I forget the name of this man, but hes been on shows like americas most wanted and The New Detectives. He works with human skulls found in archealogical sites and crime scenes. He basically sculpts faces around the skulls to create a bust of what the dead person must have looked like. He is amazingly acurate and has assisted in the identification of missing people some say he has an almost psychic intuition he uses in the process of developing these busts. I thought, what if he could examine and work off the crystal skull? This could add an interesting piece of the puzzle to know what a person would look like if the skull had actually come out of a real person. Perhaps some letters to the right people could get this in motion. Please write me back with your thoughts on the subject. |
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