Ancient Findings

UNKNOWN SPARKPLUGS FROM COMPELTELY DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

ANCIENT SPARK PLUG WHICH WASHED ASHORE IN DELAWARE.

X-RAY OF ANCIENT SPARK PLUG

ACTUAL MODEL T PLUG
FOUND IN CALIFORNIA

On February 13,1961, three rock hunters - Mike Mikesell, Wallace Lane and Virginia Maxey - were collecting geodes about 12 miles east-southeast of Olancha, California. Geodes are spherical stones with hollow interiors lined with crystals. On this particular day, while searching in the Coso Mountains, they found one stone located near the top of a peak approximately 4,300 feet in elevation and about 340 feet above the dry bed of Owens Lake. The next day when Mikesell cut the stone in half. Inside were the remains of some form of mechanical device (See X-ray above.) Beneath the outer layer of hardened clay, pebbles and fossil inclusions is a hexagonal shaped layer of a substance resembling wood, softer than agate or jasper. This layer forms a casing around a three-quarter inch wide cylinder made of solid white porcelain or ceramic, and in the center of the cylinder is a two millimeter shaft of bright, brassy metal. This shaft, the rock hunters discovered, is magnetic, and after several years of exposure never showed traces of oxidation. Also, surrounding the ceramic cylinder are rings of copper, much of them now corroded. Also embedded in the rock, though separate from the cylinder, are two more man-made items - what look like a nail and a washer. The rock in which the electrical instrument was found was dated by a competent geologist at 500,000 years old. {Many who have seen this object, including this author believe it to be a spark plug of unknown origin. However, it is unlike any known to have been manufactured in the past century on earth.

NAILS

The Illinois Springfield Republican reported in 1851 that a businessman named Hiram de Witt had a piece of auriferous quartz rock about the size of a man's fist. In the center of the quartz they discovered a cut-iron nail, six-penny size, slightly corroded but entirely straight, with a perfect head. The quartz was given an age of over one million years.

In Madrid 1572 there is an account of the Spanish Viceroy in Peru and a strange artifact. Indian miners removed from a subsurface layer of gravel a large conglomerate boulder, and broke it into piece. As the mass shattered to the hammer blow, out of the center of it fell a perfect six-inch nail. The nail was thoroughly examined, and verified its finding. Iron was unknown to the Peruvian Indians. The rock from which the nail was freed was 75,000 to 100,000 years in age.

In 1844, Sir David Brewster made a report to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. A nail of obvious human manufacture had been found half-embedded in a sandstone block excavated from the Kindgoodie Quarry near Inchyra, in northern Britain. It was badly corroded, but identifiable nonetheless. The sandstone was determined to be at least 40 million years old.

SCREW

In 1865, a two-inch metal screw was discovered in a piece of feldspar unearthed from the Abbey Mine in Treasure City, Nevada. The screw had long ago oxidized, but its form - particularly the shape of its threads - could be clearly seen in the feldspar. The stone was calculated to be 21 million years in age. {Other spring-like objects have been found in the high mountains of Russia, made of molybdenum and iridium.}


IRON CUBE

In the fall of 1885, at an iron foundry in Upper Austria, a workman named Riedl was breaking up a block of tertiary brown coal to heat the foundry's giant smelters. Out dropped a strange cube-like object. In 1886, mining engineer Dr. Adolf Gurlt noted that the object, coated with a thin layer of rust, is made of iron and measures 2.64 by 2.64 by 1.85 inches, weighs 1.73 lbs.., and has a specific gravity measurement of 7.75. Four of the iron "cube's" sides are roughly flat, while the two remaining sides - opposite each other - are convex. A fairly deep groove was incised all the way around the object, about mid-way up its height. Other early studies on the iron artifact were in scientific journals of the day as Nature (London; November 11, 1886, page 36) and L'Astronomie (Paris; 1886, page 463). The iron cube is presently in the custody of Herrn O.R. Bernhardt of the Heimathaus Museum in Vocklabruck.

In 1966-67, the iron "cube" was carefully analyzed by experts at the Vienna Natural History Museum using electron-beam microanalysis. They found no traces of nickel, chromium or cobalt in the iron - which means the object was not of meteoric origin. No sulfur was detected either, ruling out the chance of it being a pyrite. Because of a low magnesium content, the object was made of cast-iron. In 1973, Hubert Mattlianer concluded from yet another detailed investigation that the object had been made from a hand-sculptured lump of wax or clay pressed into a sand base, this forming the mold into which the iron had been poured. The final conclusion, then, is that the strange object is definitely man-made. What is not explained is what it was doing encased in coal dating to the Tertiary - 60 million years old.

METAL NODULES

In 1968, unusual metal nodules were found entombed in an Aptian chalk bed in a quarry at Saint-Jean de Livet. The nodules are reddish brown, wafer-shaped and hollowed at the ends, measuring from 3 to 9 centimeters long and 1 to four centimeters wide. But what had these man-made objects been doing in chalk beds dating toward the end of the Cretaceous - over 120 million years?

GOLD CHAIN

On June 9, 1891, Mrs. S.W. Culp of Morrisonville, Illinois was shoveling coal into her kitchen stove when a large lump broke in two and out from the center of it fell a gold chain. The chain was about 10 inches long, made of eight carat gold, weighed 8 pennyweight, and was described as being "of antique and quaint workmanship." Investigators were convinced the chain had not simply been accidentally dropped in with the coal: One portion of the coal lump still clung to the chain, while the part that had separated from it still bore the impression of where the chain had been encased. In this case, the "curious" "dropped out" of a piece of coal from the Pennsylvanian era - over 300 million years old.

IRON POT

Similar events produced another metal object of even greater age. In 1912, two employees of the Municipal Electric Plant of Thomas, Oklahoma, were shoveling coal into the plant furnaces, using fuel which had been mined near neighboring Wilberton. One chunk of coal was too large to handle, so the workmen took a sledge hammer to it. Workmen found that the chunk contained an iron pot, and upon its removal, the two coal halves bore the "mold" of the pot in its interiors. Both employees signed affidavits testifying to the authenticity of the discovery, and the iron pot was subsequently examined by several experts - every one of which was most reluctant to comment on the pot, and the circumstances surrounding its discovery. This was most understandable, {?} since the object came from coal dated from 300 to 325 million years.

BRASS BELL FOUND IN COAL

In 1944 Newton Anderson claimed to have found a bell inside a lump of coal that was mined near his house in West Virginia. When Newton dropped the lump it broke, revealing a bell encased inside. What is a brass bell with an iron clapper doing in coal that is supposed to be hundreds of millions of years old? According to Norm Scharbough's book Ammunition (which includes a compilation of many such "coal anecdotes") the bell was extensively analyzed at the University of Oklahoma and it was found to contain an unusual mixture of metals, different from any modern usage. Photo and text from Genesis Park.