UNDERWATER STONEHENGE [2b]
Traverse City, Michigan. May 22, 2015. At an undisclosed location in Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan, author and explorer David Childress has teamed up with sonar technician Brian Abbott and underwater photographer Chris Doyal to investigate a series of strange underwater rock alignments they first discovered in 2007.
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“So you don’t bring very many people out here, do you?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “No, you’re one of the first we’ve brought out to this site. We try and keep it kind of quiet and secret. Chris has been out here a few times.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “Well, it’s a pretty sensitive site, so we try to keep traffic to a minimum.” – Chris Doyal (Underwater Photographer) “Well, how did you find this site, anyway?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “We were actually out looking for shipwrecks and we put our sonar down off the side and I started to see stones line up on my rose compass.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “Okay, and then you deploy this sonar and take a picture, huh?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “Yeah, we can get that done here real quick, we can deploy the sonar off the side and start getting some images and show you what we’ve got on the screen.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “When I first found these on the computer screen, I started to laugh, because it was like, this can’t be true, and I jokingly said, “Hey, we have our own Stonehenge underwater,” and everyone, “Ha, ha, ha,” and I started looking at it farther and I’m going, ‘Wow. We might have something here.’” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “So the sonar’s spinning around. So, as you can see in this deployment location, we have, we’ve got one, two, three, four, five, six stones. And what’s really interesting about this is, these stones all measure the same distance across.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “Yeah, this does look like an artificial alignment – this stone circle and then this line of stones there.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “Yeah, that was unique to me, because as an engineer, when I look at stuff that’s square or rectangular or circle in nature, it kind of makes it jump out, because Mother Nature generally doesn’t do things like that.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “What I saw on the sonar looked a lot like stone circles and stone alignments that I’ve seen in England, or Carnac in France, and it makes me wonder what’s going on here in Ancient North America.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “So have you actually been down here in scuba equipment?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “No, I haven’t, but Chris has.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “Yeah, we went down and I actually took some still photographs of it and we noticed on one of the stones there’s some really interesting carvings on the surface of it. Some people have even said that it appears to resemble a mastodon.” – Chris Doyal (Underwater Photographer) |
Taking an underwater camera down to the mastodon rock, Chris Doyal will send up a live feed to a monitor on the boat. As he descends, he’s gonna pick out the stone here.
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“Okay. What’s that?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “That’s the stone.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “Is this the stone that has the carvings on it?” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “Yeah, I’m convinced…something’s going on down there.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), “Between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, mastodons went extinct. So, we’ve got a carving on a rock formation at, you know, a depth of water that, you know, probably shouldn’t be here, but is here.” – Brian Abbott (Sonar Technician) “This rock is probably made out of granite, which is very, very hard, and if you look up close at these markings, you can see that these were made by percussion marks. These weren’t just scratched into the surface, that each line was individually pecked out.” – Chris Doyal (Underwater Photographer) |
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“That rock looks like it has a carving of a mastodon on it. And that would mean that that carving was made before the extinction of these mastodons. So, you have to wonder what was going on here in North America at the time of the last ice age.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
The carved image of a mastodon? An animal that has been extinct for over 10,000 years? But what is it doing at the bottom of Lake Michigan? Could it really be part of an artificially created rock formation, like Stonehenge in England? If so, it would have to have been created before the end of the last ice age, when the lake bed was dry over 12,000 years ago and that would contradict the currently held belief that early humans were not capable of erecting monumental structures in North America, or anywhere else, at that time.
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“You never know when something’s going to pop up that’s going to totally change your whole view of a, of a period or even of human development. One of the main trends that I’ve noticed in archaeology is that the dates for things tend to go back all the time; the earliest pottery in a place, the earliest arrival of people in a place. They always turn out to be earlier than we traditionally thought.” – Paul Bahn, Ph.D. (Archaeologist) |
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“Today we know that there was a monument on the site of Stonehenge at least 10,000 years ago. And this is not speculation. The archaeologists are saying this today. And the same thing seems to be going on in other parts of the world.” – Andrew Collins (Author, Gateway to Atlantis), |
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“New dating techniques done by geologists on the Sphinx in Giza indicate that it was carved before 10,000 BC. So, more and more, as we make new discoveries in archaeology, it’s pushing mankind and civilization back farther and farther.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
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“Earth has a much deeper prehistory than what we read about in textbooks today. You can read that Puma Punku or Tiahuanaco, for example, was built between 500 and 800 AD. Some archaeologists have suggested that Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco might date back as far as 12,000 years BC, so around 14,000 years ago.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Could it be that a sophisticated culture existed on Earth thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago? But if so, who built it? What happened to it? And might there still be remnants of it, standing boldly, right before our eyes? According to Ancient Astronaut Theorists, many of the answers can be found by looking no further than the Old Testament of the Bible.
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