This is my piece of the puzzle. This information was received by me in an intuitive, co-creative process with the Universe because I really wanted to know the truth of who built the megaliths, and it led to all the information I shared in my video and much more. It is clear to me that this information was given to me to bring it to light. Please watch the foundational video on this blog of “Physical Evidence for the Layout of a Planetary Grid System…and a Suppressed Global Civilization.
There is no place on the planet that this civilization is not. Like I said in the video, the evidence is all around us, and below us, and hidden in plain sight. Literally just outside our front doors, in our back yards, in our neighborhoods, in our parks, and road system.
The purpose of this blog is to show you exactly why I believe this, and provide much, much more evidence to support my belief, and information on other related topics. Not knowing this information allows all the many crimes against Humanity, the Planet, and the Creator/Creation to continue unabated because no one knows about it. It has been well-hidden for a reason by those who wish to harm us all for power, control, and energy. Everything is changing, and this information needs to come back out into collective awareness as soon as possible.
I also believe, that up until 500 or so years ago, Humanity was on a positive evolutionary path and in Unity Consciousness, and that around 1492 was the beginning of the hijack of this timeline by dark forces, and the replacement of it with one called Rome. Can’t tell you how this was done, just that it looks like that is what happened because the Ancient Global Civilization built everything on the planet. The same styles/designs cross oceans and continents, from ancient to modern!!!
I am going to start at the beginning of my life, because this is a lifelong pathway that ultimately connected me to the Truth. I wasn’t consciously aware of my spiritual path, and its direct connections to this information, for most of my life. But I was connected to it from the very beginning of my life. I am almost 55-years-old. It has taken me most of that time to put all these puzzle pieces together. Starting this process by telling you about specific moments of awareness in my life journey is ultimately the best way to organize an overwhelming amount of information.
I am from a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant (AKA WASP), solidly middle-class family, primarily with roots in the Deep South.
All my known ancestry goes back to the very beginning of what has come to be known as the United States, starting with the Mayflower’s arrival to the so-called Plymouth Bay Colony (I am a direct descendant of William Brewster, a moving force behind the Pilgrims, and the lay religious leader of the Plymouth Colony until the arrival of its ordained minister several years later) to the 1750’s with the influx of the Scots-Irish, my lineage through my maternal grandmother. This is in accordance with the history we have been taught.
It is important to note, that on my Dad’s side of the family, the family history was repeated to my generation as that of the Huguenots. That was all they knew. No elaboration. Just that they were French Huguenots.
Up until recently, the Huguenots were recorded in available historical references as Reformed Calvinists. So the available information not long ago was that for some reason a Protestant Christian sect in France, the Huguenots, were persecuted, and even massacred, for almost 100 years. Come to find out in the Internet Age, the Huguenots were Cathars and Moors.
I grew up in Montgomery County Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. My first home as a small child was in Rockville. When I was two, my parents moved to Gaithersburg, which is where my earliest conscious memories are. Not any big hits there until much, much later.
The family church I grew up in was Twinbrook Baptist in Rockville. When I started researching a couple of years ago, I found out that the Twinbrook area is adjacent to Rock Creek.
The softball team, of which my dad, an elementary school teacher and administrator, was a member, practiced at the Meadow Hall Elementary School field, which was right beside the church, just slightly downhill, and was the next street address over on Twinbrook Parkway.
When dad was practicing, and I was young, I, instead of watching the games, I was always down off into the woods, right off the ball field, exploring. It was a really cool place, in more ways than one. What I remember is going down, down into the woods, and eventually finding really big stones to play in. They were really fun for a 6-, 7-, 8-, or whatever-year-old, to play in and around.
This location was close to Lake Needwood and Lake Frank, and both are man-made lakes. I will dedicate a future blog exclusively on the role man-made lakes play related to this subject and the cover-up of it.
In 1974, right after the birth of my youngest brother, we moved to a larger home in Rockville. I always tell people we moved as close to Potomac, Maryland, as my parents could afford. I lived here until 1982, when, after 1 year of junior college, I joined the Army for the Veterans’ Educational Assistance Program. So this is where I grew up.
The house was brand new when we moved in – no trees, and the funny, almost comet-green color of sprayed grass seed.
The reason I bring this up is because the street we lived on – Lindley Terrace – on one end, some of the houses had a steep gradient on the backside – I mean really steep!!! However, the houses were built on a predominantly flat surface. The house my parents bought was on one of the flattest lots on the street. This relates to what I now believe was actually underneath us. Like, a flat-topped pyramid, perhaps? I mean, when I was a kid, for some reason, I really made a mental note of the unusual features of my neighborhood street.
We were literally right next to the boundary fence of the Lakewood Country Club, with a golf tee area right next to the fence. I will be dedicating a specific blog on how golf courses relate to the subject of the cover-up of mounds.
As a family we would go occasionally to Thurmont, Maryland, in Western Maryland, to Cunningham Falls State Park. There was a picnic/swimming area at a lake, and then there were the falls themselves. So I have memories of climbing up the big rocks of the falls. I, like everyone else, had no concept in my awareness, that waterfalls could be anything other than natural. But massive and block-shaped stonework is a recurring feature of waterfalls like what is pictured here. Take a close look at the shape of the rocks in this photo.
Before moving on from Cunningham Falls, it is important to note that Camp David is located in the vicinity. As I learned more about earth grids, I found out that Camp David is situated on a nodal point. It is the norm for centers of power to be on the earth’s power points. There is a reason for this.
My house was relatively close to Great Falls, Maryland. Access to the falls themselves, at least when I was young, was cut off after Hurricane Agnes went through in 1972. There was access to an area with big stones that was fun to hike and climb, as well as the C & O Canal. So, it was a place I went to many times with family or friends.
When I started to piece together that waterfalls, and canals as well, were part of the Ancient Civilization, I looked up Great Falls. This is an aerial image of Mather Gorge there. Now, I think the spin is how this could be natural, but look at how straight it is.
And here is how it looks closer to earth….
And then when you realize that part of the ancient civilization involved canal-building (another blog unto itself), then it becomes logical to see this as a canal rather than natural.
This is a picture of the C & O Canal at Harper’s Ferry. They want us to believe that this was built in the early 1800’s. So, what is wrong with that date of construction? This is a sophisticated engineering project.
As a matter of fact, the C & O Canal parallels the Potomac River through this area for a long distance. What technology existed in America in the late 1700s/early 1800s could have built a sophisticated project like this? I am not aware of any technology that existed at that time that could have built something like this. According to our history books, the second Industrial Revolution didn’t begin in the U.S. until the mid-1800s.
My conclusion is that the C & O Canal, as well as the Erie Canal, and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a canal system that covered the continent, was built by the advanced ancient civilization that was long-established here when the Europeans first arrived. Again, when I say ancient, I mean a very old civilization that was living and flourishing in North America (and South America) when the Europeans first arrived. And I have much more to say about the use of the word European to describe white people in a later blog based on my findings. This ancient civilization was global!
I am going to be taking a close look in this post at the Strait of Messina, particularly the narrowest point between the eastern tip of Sicily, and the western tip of Calabria in Italy; in Sicily, the city of Messina, Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanos in the world; Catania, a city that lies at the foot of Mount Etna on the Sicilian coast; and Valletta, and capital of the island Republic of Malta.
The research in this post came from a 23-part series called “Sacred Geometry, Ley Lines & Places in Alignment” that I did back in 2020 tracking a long-distance alignment of cities and places that started in San Francisco.
I have been showcasing parts of this series in-between work I am doing on another project that is taking me longer to complete.
So far from the original 2020 series, I have posted ” The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Southeast Asia – From Manila in the Philippines to Dhaka in Bangladesh” and “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Armenia, Anatolia & the Aegean Sea.”
From the process of tracking cities and places in several different alignments over the years, I have collected a variety of puzzle pieces about different places that bring a bigger picture into focus that is not immediately apparent on the surface from this type of geographically-focused research.
I am starting on the alignment at the Strait of Messina, a narrow strait between the eastern tip of Sicily and the western tip of Calabria in Italy.
The narrowest point of the Strait of Messina is between the Punta del Faro in Sicily…
…and the Punta Pezzo in Villa San Giovanni in Italy’s Calabria region.
Punta del Faro in Sicily, located northeast of Messina, has a lot going on in a small space.
Let’s start with the Torre Faro Pylon.
The Torre Faro pylon is one of two free-standing steel towers…
…with the other one, the Santa Trada pylon, being in the Villa San Giovanni across the strait, and standing on top of what looks like one of the more common star fort features.
We are told that they were built in 1955, and used between 1955 and 1994 to carry first 150-kilovolt, and then in 1971, a 220-kilovolt power-line across the Strait of Messina to respective sub-stations on both sides of it.
They were decommissioned in 1993, and the conductors were removed a year later.
The Faro Point Lighthouse, also known as the Faro di Capo Pelori, is an active lighthouse that is completely automated, powered by mains electricity, or general purpose Alternating Current (AC) electric power supply.
It was said to have been first built in 1853, with periods of disuse in-between. It is operated by the Italian Navy.
There is what is described as a fortificcation adjacent to the Punta del Faro lighthouse in Sicily…
…that is now part of the Lido Horcynus Orca Park.
The fortification gets used for things like cinematographic festivals held here.
Lido Horcynus Orca Park is primarily a beach resort.
Does that look like a beach resort you would like to go to, even if the tower was decommissioned like they tell us?
And Lido Horcynus Orca really has some interesting features surrounding the beachfront. Like, what the heck are these squares covering the landscape?
And what are those two white column-looking things?
They brought to mind the square shapes I saw on Google Earth when I was looking at the coast of Iran across from Hormuz Island in the Strait of Hormuz…
…and both lay-outs in the landscape resemble chips on a circuit board.
As the most northeastern point of Sicily, where the Ionian Sea meets the Tyrrhenian Sea…
…Capo Peloro or Punta del Faro was supposedly the lair of Charybdis, one of the two beautiful women who had been turned into grotesque monsters by jealous goddesses in Greek mythology.
In one version of the myth, she would partially hide herself beneath a fig tree there, and would frequently leap out into the sea in order to swallow huge quantities of water, creating a whirlpool that would suck down passing ships, and she would belch the water up afterwards.
Garofalo, otherwise known to the world as Charybdis, is found in the Strait of Messina. While not technically a whirlpool, it occurs when the winds and tides meet at cross-purposes in the strait, producing rough seas that are hazardous for vessels.
It is also important to note that whirlpools can result from currents running into obstacles beneath the surface of the water.
One more thing before moving across the Strait of Messina to Calabria.
As the ancient Pelorus, Punta del Faro is one of the most celebrated promontories of Sicily, and one of three promontories which were considered to give it the triangular form.
Trinacria, the ancient name of Sicily, was said to derive from an ancient Greek word meaning “three legs” and is synonymous with the sun and said to convey motion.
When I looked up the word “Trinacria,” versions of this image popped up all over the place.
This particular version on the left includes a human head with serpents and wings. similar to the winged disk symbol on the right, most commonly associated with Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures…
The caduceus, the staff of Hermes in Greek mythology, has the same imagery of serpents and wings, and is an emblem of the medical profession in today’s world.
This version of the Trinacria is on the flag of Sicily. The head still has wings, but the serpents aren’t clearly defined as in the first head, kind of looking more like ropes, and the addition of what looks like three ears of wheat.
Why was the image modified?
When I looked more deeply into it, I found out that the Trinacria is a symbolic representation of the zenith of the soul in its present state of existence, and the setting of the spiritual essence in its totality, and that it represents self-realization and ascension.
This is the flag of the Isle of Man, with a very similar shape called the Triskelion…
…and the Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea between Ireland and Great Britain.
Interesting that there is information like this about ancient knowledge to be found in flags, as well as information about the true identity of the missing civilization.
This is the flag of Sardinia, a large island region of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea, northwest of the Strait of Messina.
It is also called the flag of the Four Moors…
…and this is the flag of Corsica, an island region of France, just north of Sardinia, with only one Moor’s head displayed on it.
Now changing my focus to look at Punta Pezzo, the closest point between Italy’s Calabrian shore in the Villa San Giovanni, and Punta del Faro in Sicily.
The city of Villa San Giovanni faces the city of Messina across the strait.
This part of Calabria was a focal point for Napoleon Bonaparte, after he proclaimed himself emperor of France in 1804.
I most definitely think that Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars were part of the reset of our history.
He is, after all, attributed in our historical narrative with making the statement that “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
He was also the first historical figure I ever remember seeing early on in my life depicted with the Freemasonic “hidden hand” tucked into his waistcoat, a hand-sign signifying “Master of the Second Veil.”
As a matter of fact, this pose and Napoleon go “hand-in-hand” so to speak!
Napoleon made his older brother, Joseph-Napoleon, the King of Naples and Sicily between 1806 and 1808, who we are told, implemented administrative reforms in 1806 that abolished the ruling system that was in place here, and the original Lordship of Fiumara disappeared.
Then, starting in June of 1810, we are told the new King of Naples, Joachim Murat, and also the brother-in-law of Napoleon, ruled the southern Kingdom from the heights of Piale for four months, during which that short period of time he was given the credit for having built the fort of Punta Pezzo, or Piale, with a telegraph tower…
…the Torre Cavallo…
…and the Castello Altafiumara…
…with the Castello Altafiumara and Torre Cavallo both being in close proximity to the Santa Trada Pylon we saw earlier.
This particular geographic location appears to have been a particularly important place on the Earth’s grid system, similar in scope of what’s here to what I found in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, situated across from each other with the Saint Mary’s River in-between them.
See my blog post “Sault Ste. Marie – A Microcosm of the Advanced & Global Moorish Civilization” for an in-depth analysis of the region nicknamed “The Soo.”
Just a short distance north of Calabria’s Punta Pezzo , we find the Ruffo Castle of Scilla, described as an ancient fortification, and situated on a promontory in the Strait of Messina in the town of Scilla…
…and which houses the Scilla Lighthouse, also operated by the Italian Navy, like the Faro del Cape Peloro in Sicily.
Scilla is also the traditional site associated with the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology, with its location right at the entrance to the Strait of Messina.
The linguistic idiom “between Scylla and Charybdis” means having to choose between two similarly dangerous situations, like the more common idiom “between a rock and a hard place.”
Other places of interest in Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium, include Tropea, an ancient seaside town built on top of a cliff, with a legend of having been founded by Hercules when returning from his labors at the Pillars of Hercules (in the Strait of Gibraltar)…
…and Reggio di Calabria, known as Rhegium in ancient times, located on the toe of the boot of the Italian peninsula.
It is interesting to note the presence of the same design pattern in the architecture of Reggio di Calabria that you find at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC; at Leconte Hall at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia; and at the National Library of Greece in Athens, Greece.
Reggio di Calabria is located on the Aspromonte, a long craggy mountain range that runs up through the center of the region, and described as resembling a giant pyramid.
This is Mount Consolino in the Aspromonte…
…and within the boundaries of Aspromonte National Park, you find places like the ghost towns of Pentedattilo on the top left, which brought to mind similar-looking places in Cappadocia, and what was Holy Land USA on the bottom, in Waterbury, Connecticut, which we are told was a theme park inspired by passages from the Bible that opened in 1955 and closed and abandoned in 1985…
…as well as waterfalls, like the multi-storied Maesano waterfalls on the left, compared with these waterfalls in Slovenia on the right that are also multi-storied
Back across the Strait to take a look at Messina proper, with a population of over 230,000, and the metropolitan area of Messina, which includes Punta del Faro, is around 650,000, making it the third-largest city in Sicily, and the thirteenth largest in Italy.
The Messina Cathedral is said to be an example of Norman architecture, built on the orders of the Norman King Ruggero II in 1120 AD.
For comparison in appearance, this is the Igreja Matriz da Expecacao in Ico, Brazil, on the right.
We are told the current Bell-Tower next to the Messina Cathedral was inaugurated in 1933, after having been designed by the firm of Ungerer of Strasbourg, and is famous for having the biggest and most complex astrological clock in the world.
Every day at noon, a complex system of counterweights, leverages, and gears moves gilded bronze statues located in the facade.
The Fountain of Orion is in front of the Messina Cathedral, and said to have been finished in 1553, commemorating both the city’s mythical founder, and the completion of the first aqueduct of Messina in 1547.
Messina is a major port city.
…and the said-to-be 16th-century Forte del Santissimo Salvatore is located at the port’s entrance.
The Stele of the Madonna Lettera, erected on the fort, was said to have been consecrated and inaugurated in 1934.
I see the Torre Faro pylon in the distance.
It looks like there could be a triangulated relationship between the Stele, the Torre Faro pylon, and the Santa Trada pylon.
The next place we come to on the alignment is Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, in what is called the Metropolitan City of Catania, formerly the Province of Catania.
It is located between the cities of Messina and Catania.
It is a stratovolcano that is one of the most active in the world, and is in an almost constant state of activity.
I learned several years ago in a Megalithomania presentation by Antoine Gigal about pyramids around Mount Etna, and I am drawing from her research in the next slides about this obscure subject.
Antoine Gigal is a French writer, researcher and explorer, and the founder of Giza for Humanity who went to Sicily where she heard about 12 pyramids there.
Instead of finding the 12 pyramids she was told about, she found 23 pyramids around Mount Etna, and proceeded to literally do field research, as the pyramids were in the middle of fields.
She found pyramids of different shapes and sizes…
…like an oblong step pyramid between the towns of Passopisciaro and Francavilla…
…which has a standing stone…
…a rectangular pyramid between Linguaglossa and Randazzo…
…and this rectangular pyramid on Mount Etna’s north side.
In Antoine Gigal’s presentation, she demonstrates that the construction style of the Sicilian pyramids is like that of the Guimar Pyramids of Tenerife in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and also like that of the pyramids of the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
The last place I am going to be looking at in Sicily is Catania…
…located at the foot of Mount Etna.
This illustration was said to be of a 1679 eruption of Etna that impacted Catania and also shows what looks to be a star fort around the city or a star city.
This prompted me to look for historic maps of Catania, and I found this old map of the city which confirms the finding.
Beneath the surface-level city of Catania, there are said to be several layers of underground cities…
…like what is found in Central Anatolia in Cappadocia, which has been determined to have 40 underground cities, of which 6 are open to the public, like Derinkuyu, an ancient, deep multi-level underground city said to be large enough to shelter 20,000 people together with their livestock and food supply, and opened to visitors in 1969.
Catania also has an underground river, named Amenano…
…and in the Piazzo del Duomo, the main square of the city, is the Amenano Fountain of the Amenano River, said to have been sculpted in 1867 by Italian sculptor Tito Angelini, with a young man atop the fountain said to represent the Amenano River, holding a cornucopia with water flowing from it in a basin…
…and sculptures of Tritons on either side.
The Catania Town Hall, also known as the “Palace of the Elephants” is also in the Piazzo del Duomo…
…with the U Liotru fountain, the elephant symbol of Catania, said to have been carved from ancient lava stone and topped by an obelisk from Syene (now called Aswan) in Egypt.
As with everywhere else, there is much more to find in Catania, and Sicily as a whole, but I am going to move along the alignment across the Mediterranean Sea over to Malta.
Before I get to Malta, I would like to take an opportunity to ponder something here that just now struck me.
The literal meaning of “Mediterranean” from the Latin “medius” and “terra,” is “middle” and “earth or land.”
So it would be translated into English along the lines of “Middle Earth” Sea.
Just really wondering if there was more land than water here at one time in Earth’s history, and not the “sea” we see today.
When you search for the term “Middle Earth,” it’s mostly the work of J. R. R. Tolkien that fills up the internet search page.
When you plug “Midgard” into the search engine, you get that “Midgard” is the abode of Human Beings in Norse Mythology, and the “middle realm” that is situated in the branches of Yggdrasil, the world tree. that provides the “Axis Mundi,” the “Axis of the Universe” that connects all realms.
Also, we are told the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, a country on the Mediterranean Coast of North Africa, is in the exact center of the Earth’s landmass.
As we head into Malta, it is one place on the Earth that I can think off the top of my head that is known for its mysterious “cart ruts” leading into, and under, the water.
And that’s exactly what they are referred to as. Ruts.
Ruts are defined as “a long, deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles.”
Like the ruts you encounter on unpaved roads.
Just leaving all this here as something to think about, along with everything else.
the island Republic of Malta. in the vicinity of its capital, Valletta.
…and located in the Southeastern Region of the main island, one of the five regions of Malta.
The city of Valletta is situated between the Marsamxett Harbort and the Grand Harbor.
Marsamxett Harbor is described as a natural harbor generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Harbor…
…and is bounded to the north by Dragut Point and Tigne Point…
…where we find Fort Tigne…
…said to have been built by the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John between 1793 and 1795 and claimed to be one of the oldest polygonal forts in the world.
We are told the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John ruled Malta from the time when the Emperor Charles V (who was also King Charles II of Sicily) gave the islands of Malta and Gozo to the Order in 1530, as well as Tripoli in Libya, until the time the Order surrendered to Napoleon when the French landed in Malta in 1798.
Known usually by the shorter Order of St. John, the Maltese Cross was said to have been officially adopted by the Order in 1126.
And today’s Order of St. John was chartered by Queen Victoria in 1888 as a British Royal Order of Chivalry.
Interesting to note that I have found two different portraits of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire between 1500 and 1558, each having similar facial structure and tilts of the chin, and wearing similar clothing.
Manoel Island is a small island in Marsamxett Harbor, situated close to Tigne Point…
…and the location of Fort Manoel…
…said to have been built in the 1720s by the Portuguese 66th-Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Antonio Manoel de Vilhena.
We are told the British military took over the fort in 1800, and renamed it HMS Phoenicia, who used it until 1964…relatively recently.
Interesting to note that Malta is geographically quite close to Carthage, and in the middle of the historic location of what was Phoenician, which became the Carthaginian, Empire in our historical narrative.
Manoel Island is connected to the town of Gzira, in Malta’s Central Region, by a bridge…
…where we find an Orpheum Theater, said to have been built in 1932.
There are two points I would like to make about this finding.
This is the first point.
Orpheus was a musician and poet in Ancient Greek legend, said to have had the ability to charm all living things, and even stones, with his music, and even put them to sleep.
In the course of my research, I found numerous early theaters called “Orpheums,” like the one in Gzira in Malta, including the Orpheum Theater in Boston on the top left; Los Angeles on the top right; Phoenix on the bottom left; and Memphis on the bottom right.
What, exactly, caused us to go to sleep, and forget who we are, and what we were? How has the false information we have been taught in school been reinforced?
Why would this be important to whoever or whatever was responsible for removing the ancient advanced civilization from our collective awareness to begin with?
The second point that I would like to make about the Orpheum Theater in Gzira is its street-corner style of architecture…that I have found worldwide, like in Merida, Mexico in the top middle; Juarez, Mexico, on the top right; and on the bottom left, in Kherson, Ukraine; bottom middle, Summerside in Prince Edward Island; and on the bottom right, in Conakry, the capital of the African country of Guinea.
Fort St. Elmo stands on the seaward shore of the peninsula that divides Marsamxett Harbor from the Grand Harbor…
…and said to have been built in its present form as a star fort in the 1550s.
It was the target of aerial bombardment on the first day Malta became involved in the conflict of World War II.
Fort St. Elmo is situated in the middle at the entrance to the two main harbors, between Fort Tigne at the entrance to the Marsamxett Harbor, and Fort Ricasoli at the entrance of the Grand Harbor.
Fort Ricasoli was said to have been built by the Order of St. John between 1670 and 1698.
Fort Ricasoli was said to have seen use during the French invasion of Malta, led by Napoleon himself, in 1798, which was part of the Mediterranean Campaign in the War of the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
We are told that during the short time Napoleon was in Valletta, the capital city of Malta, between June 12th and 18th of 1798, he did such things as reforming, among other things, national administration with the creation of a Government Commission and twelve municipalities; creating a public finance administration, and the organization of public education, and providing for primary and secondary education, all before sailing for Egypt, and leaving a substantial garrison in Malta.
What?
All this in a week?
Why?
This famous painting of Napoleon Bonaparte before the Great Sphinx of Giza comes down to us as a depiction of him during his Egyptian Campaign, which took place between 1798 – 1799.
The 1886 painting “Bonaparte Before the Sphinx” was credited to the French artist Jean-Leon Gerome, and can be found at the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
So even the Sphinx needed to be dug out from the sand that covered most of it up!
After the British Royal Navy destroyed the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile on August 1st, 1798, the British were able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising of the native Maltese against French rule.
The blockade effectively ended the French Occupation of Malta in 1800, and replaced it with British Protectorate, returning control of the central Mediterranean to Great Britain.
Malta held the status of British Protectorate for 164-years, until it gained its independence from Britain in 1964.
Though Fort Ricasoli, like Fort St. Elmo, was bombarded during World War II and parts of it destroyed, today the fort remains largely intact.
It is used as a filming location…and tank-cleaning facility for the Malta Drydocks, treating liquid waste from ships arriving in the Grand Harbor, removing oil and other chemicals prior to releasing the waste into the sea.
These are the pair of lighthouses, one at Fort St. Elmo and the other at Fort Ricasoli, located on man-made breakwaters at the entrance to the Grand Harbor.
There are two more forts along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea next to Fort Ricasoli.
The first is Fort Rinella, described as a Victorian battery.
It was said to have been built by the British between 1878 and 1886.
Fort St. Rocco is found just a short distance down the Mediterranean coast from Fort Rinella.
It is described as a polygonal fort, and as part of a complex of shore batteries built by the British to defend the coast east of the mouth of Grand Harbor between the 1870s and 1900.
These three forts are part of Kalkara…
…described as a village on Kalkara Creek, shown here.
Moving from a short distance west from Kalkara, we come to Birgu, also known as the “Victorious City”…
…and described as the oldest of an area in Malta referred to as “The Three Cities” – three fortified cities in very close proximity to each other, which also includes Senglea and Cospicua.
The city occupies a promonory of land in the Grand Harbor, with Fort Saint Angelo at the head…
…and the city of Cospicua at the base.
Fort San Angelo served as the base of the Order of St. John, and we are told the de facto capital of Malta between 1530 and 1571…
…and the British garrisoned the fort between 1800 and 1979.
We are told the date of its original construction is unknown, but has large ashlar blocks, the finest stonemasonry unit…
…and an Egyptian pink granite column at the top of the fort inside a chapel.
Fort San Salvatore is also in Birgu…
…said to have been built in 1724 on one of the bastions of the Cottonera Lines.
It was said to have been used as a Prisoner-of-War Camp during the Greek War of Independence between 1821 and 1830, as well as during World War I; and during World War II, as a kerosene depot and internment camp, which were used to imprison large groups of people, without charges, or the intent to file charges.
The Cottonera Lines were said to be a line of what are called fortifications in Conspicua and Birgu that were constructed in the 17th- and 18th-centuries to form the outer defenses of the Three Cities…
…and built around an earlier line of fortifications known as the Santa Margherita Lines.
Before leaving Birgu for the neighboring city of Senglea, I would like to point a place that caught my attention on Google Earth.
I noticed the Inquisitor’s Palace, and as it turns out, this was the seat of the Inquisition in Malta between 1574 and 1798, which was the first year Napoleon’s forces occupied Malta. It has been the National Museum of Ethnography since 1966, with permanent displays on Malta’s religious traditions as consolidated by the Inquisition.
The arrows are pointing to the building’s windows that are not level with the steep street beside it, which is a classic indicator for mud flood evidence.
The Inquisitor’s Palace was said to have been originally constructed as a courthouse in the 1530s.
The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church with a stated aim of combating heresy, defined as the formal denial of the orthodox beliefs of the church, which is defined as the adherence to correct or accepted creeds in religion.
We are told it started with the French Inquisition in the 1200s in France, which over a period of about 20-years saw the Cathar Crusade and the genocide of the gnostic Cathars, which had been labelled as an heretical sect.
The Inquisitor’s Palace became the headquarters of the Inquisition in Malta in 1574, serving as tribunal and prison, as well as the palace of the Inquisitor.
So we are taught that all of this is normal and matter of fact in history in school, like there is nothing out of the ordinary or wrong about the Inquisition…which was, by its very nature, violating basic Human Rights and dignity, including torture in the name of Christianity just for having dissenting views?
And the Office of the Inquisition it is still in existence to this day?
Only it is now called the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”
The city of Senglea is a fortified city as well, we are told, and is also known as the “Civitas Invicta” or “Unconquered City.”
We are told there weren’t any buildings here until 1311, at which time St. Julian’s Church, or Chapel, was built, said to have been the first building constructed on what later became Senglea.
Then in 1552, we are told, the foundation stone was laid for Fort St. Michael, and its construction was said to have been completed in 1553.
Then construction of the walled town of what at the time was known as St. Julian’s Island in the decade following the completion of Fort St. Michael, subsequently became known as Senglea…
…in honor of the Grand Master Claude de la Sengle, of the Order of Malta, for giving St. Julian’s Island its city status.
The Gardjola Gardens are located within the bastions of Fort St. Michael, also credited to Claude de la Sengle…
…and named for what is called the “Guard Tower” – “Il-Gardjola” – which has various symbols sculpted on it, such as an eye, ear, and crane bird, said to represent guardianship and observance protecting Maltese shores.
Now I am going to start a walking tour around the walls of Valletta…
…starting at the Triton Fountain, just outside the main City Gate of Valletta.
What exactly is a Triton?
For one, in mythology, Triton was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Amphitrite, a sea goddess and Queen of the Sea.
Triton’s lower-half was that of a fish, and his top-half was that of a human.
We are told that at some time during the Greek and Roman eras, triton became a generic term for a mer-person in art and literature.
So some connections of interest to me from what I have found in my own research are, first, that in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, between the Philippines and south China’s Island of Hainan, we find an Amphitrite Group and a Triton Island…
…and that Poseidon’s Golden Palace was said to have been at Aegae, on the large Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea.
Aegae was said to be located on the west coast of Euboea, north of Chalcis, and said to have been located near the modern town of Politika Kafkala…
…under the sea.
And we just saw sculptures of tritons, or mer-people, in the Amenano Fountain back in Catania in Sicily.
What is the meaning of the tritons?
Could they really have existed at one time?
How are they connected to these places?
Perhaps they still exist today as mer-people, who remain mostly hidden away, and were not mythical as we are taught to believe.
The Triton Fountain is located in front of the main city gate of Valletta.
This was the main city gate of Valletta, called the King’s Gate, circa 1871.
It was said to have been designed by Lt. Colonel Francis Ringler Thomson in 1853, and that this gate was demolished in 1964.
This is what we find at the main city gate today.
Directly upon entering Valletta, immediately to the right is what remains of the city’s Royal Opera House, though the site was developed into an open air theater which opened in August of 2013.
The Royal Opera Theater was said to have been designed by the English architect Edward Middleton Barry in 1866, and with windows and columns that are not level with the sloping street beside it, like what we saw back at the Inquisitor’s Palace.
Then, only 76-years later, it took a direct hit in April of 1942 from German Air Force bombers, and was almost completely destroyed.
Making a right turn after entering the city through the gate, onto Pope Pius V Street, we come to the Church of Our Lady of Victories, or La Vittoria, said to have had its foundation stone laid in 1566, and built to commemorate the Victory of the Knights of the Order of St. John and the Maltese over Ottoman invaders in 1565.
Directly across from La Vittoria Church is the St. James Bastion, where the two places dove-tail with each other in shape.
It was said to be one of the first bulwarks to be completed after the initiation of the construction of the fortified city in 1566.
The St. James Bastion forms one of the four important and massive bulwarks, and was carved largely out of bedrock.
The Sphinx on the Giza Plateau of Egypt was also carved from bedrock.
The bastion is said to contain to low “batteries” in its flanks, each protected by a massive rounded orillion, which we are told was an architectural element of a military fortification.
The next place we come to continuing around to the right from the main city gate are the Upper Barrakka Gardens.
Check out the height and depth of the stone work seen here!
The Upper Barrakka Gardens are located on the upper tier of the St. Peter and Paul Bastion, and are a public garden…
…offering a panoramic view of the Grand Harbor.
It is the highest point of the city walls.
The gardens are linked to the Valletta Ditch and the nearby Lascaris Wharf by the Barrakka Lift, which was said to have first been constructed in 1905, closed in 1973, and dismantled in 1983…
…then we are told a new lift was inaugurated in 2012.
This is the Fort Lacaris Battery, said to have been built by the British in 1854, and connected to the Peter & Paul Bastion that the Upper Barrakka Gardens are located at the top of…
…and this is a view of the Lacaris Bastion Gardjola, or Guard Tower, like what we saw earlier at Fort St. Michael in Senglea.
The Victoria Gate is situated next to the Lacaris Bastion, the main entrance to the city from the Grand Harbor area,
It was said to have been built by the British in 1885, and named after Queen Victoria.
It is the only surviving gate within the fortifications of Malta, as all of the other gates, like the main city gate as I mentioned previously, were demolished between the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
The St. Barbara Bastion comes next, and is situated in the historic center of Valletta…
…and boasts of magnificent views of the Grand Harbor and the Three Cities.
Noteworthy churches near the St. Barbara Bastion are the Church of St. Paul’s Shipwreck, said to have been completed in 1582, is directly across the street from it and said to be one of the oldest churches in Valletta.
Across the street on the other side of the Church of St. Paul’s Shipwreck, we find St. John’s Co-Cathedral.
It was said to have been commissioned by the then Grand Master of the Order of St. John, Jean de la Cassiere; built by the Order between 1572 and 1577; and dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The interior of the church is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque architecture in Europe.
The next place along the City Walls of Valletta, I am going mention is the Abercrombie’s Bastion, which is located at the entrance to the previously mentioned Fort St. Elmo…
…after which we come to Ball’s Bastion in the upper part of Fort St. Elmo…
…which is next to St. Gregory’s Bastion.
Next we come to the St. Sebastian Bastion…
…which is in close proximity to the Auberg de Baviere.
The Auberge de Bauviere was said to have been built as the Palazzo Carneiro in 1696, and was the residence of the Grand Master Marc’Antonio Zondadari in the early 18th-century.
Next we come to the St. Salvatore Bastion and the nearby St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, also known as St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, one of three cathedrals of the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, and said to have been built between 1839 and 1844.
Moving along the wall, we come to St. Andrew’s Bastion…
…a popular wedding venue in today’s day and age.
The Biaggio Steps are directly across from St. Andrew’s Bastion, and which are described as run-down.
Next we come to St. Michael’s Bastion…
…where apparently there used to be several windmills overlooking Marsamxett Harbor, but the only reminder of this is a nearby street named “Windmill Street.”
The last place I would like to look at around the city walls of Valletta, before returning to the main city gate, are the Hastings Gardens.
The Hasting Gardens are a public garden on top of St. John’s Bastion and St. Michael’s Bastion, located to the immediate west of the main city gate.
Three more things to look at before departing the relatively small islands of the Republic of Malta in the the Mediterranean Sea.
The first is bringing the megalithic Tarxien temples to your attention, located a short distance south of Valletta.
There is a significant megalithic presence in Malta. The Tarxien Temples are just one example of many in Malta.
The temples’ large stone blocks were discovered in 1914 by a farmer ploughing a field, and excavation was begun immediately by the director of the National Museum after the report of the finding was made.
So apparently the temple complex was completely buried underground. We have come to see places being completely buried as a natural occurrence over the passage of time, but was this really the case?
The Tarxien temple complex has rich and intricate stonework decorated with spiral designs and other patterns, and was dated to 3,150 BC.
The second is speculation about the Knights’ Templar themselves.
Given that Valletta appears to be a veritable Disney World of stone masonry, and that the Maltese Cross and the Templar Cross are virtually identical, I am thinking that Malta was at the very least a major Templar Center, if not the main headquarters of the Templars.
I do seriously question what we are told about who the original Templars were, also known as the Order of the Temple of Solomon.
We are told it was Catholic military order recognized in 1139 AD by Pope Innocent II’s papal bull Omne Datum Optimum.
I personally think there is a substantial amount of information missing from the historical record about who the Templars really were, and about what their actual historical association with the Temple of Solomon was.
Like, were the original Templars Moorish Master Masons, and not anything like what we have been taught in our historical narrative?
Whatever the Truth was about the original Templars, information is simply not available in the written historical record to make a connection directly to the Moors, and a connection in turn with the Temple of Solomon and the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Lastly, I have stated in previous posts my belief that I think places on the Earth, like Valletta in this example, with numerous star forts concentrated in close proximity, were significant power centers for the energy system of the planetary grid, and that star forts represented the definition of battery meaning “a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit…”
…and were not originally military in nature as we are led to believe in our current historical narrative, like the Lacaris Battery we saw earlier in this post.
Like the many star forts I found that were bombarded in World War I’s Gallipoli Campaign in the Strait of Dardenelles in Turkey when I was looking at the Aegean Sea, the star-city of Valletta, and its surrounding star forts and star cities, appear to have been deliberately targeted for bombardment during the Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1942 in what was called the “Mediterranean ‘Theater’ of World War II.”
I have often wondered why the word “theater,” defined as a building or area used for dramatic performances, also used as a term to describe an area in which important military events are occurring.
It seems to me like they are actually describing one and the same thing – a dramatic performance – and not what we have been taught to believe in our historical narrative.
I think all wars and regional conflicts were deliberately contrived for the destruction of the original civilization in all ways.
As such, I think wars and conflicts exemplify what known as “Controlled Opposition.”
Controlled Opposition is a strategy in which an individual, organization, or movement is covertly controlled or influenced by a 3rd-party and the controlled entity’s true purpose is something other than its publicly stated purpose.
The controlled entity serves a role of mass deception, surveillance or political/social manipulation.
The controlled party is portrayed as being in opposition to the interests of the controlling party.
Something to consider in the quest to figure out what’s really been going on here without our knowledge or consent.
I am currently about two-thirds done with “On the Trail of Giants, in Appalachia and Beyond – The Cataclysm,” and I hope to be finished with it in the next week or so.
It is the last part of a four-part series in which I bring forward the main themes separately for your consideration that unfolded from my original post “On the Trail of Giants in Appalachia and Beyond.”
There’s a lot of material for it to work through, organize and piece together, and on top of that, invariably I find myself down interesting rabbit holes which can take me awhile to get out of.
When I do go down those rabbit holes and come back up, there’s even more information to bring to light.
I am going to be looking into places in alignment starting in historical Armenia, and going across the Anatolian Plateau, both of which are part of the modern country of Turkey, as well as looking at places in the Aegean Sea, a section of the Mediterranean Sea that stretches between Anatolia and Greece.
From the process of tracking cities and places in several different alignments I have collected a variety of puzzle pieces about different places that bring a bigger picture into focus that is not immediately apparent on the surface, and I have been engaging in this process over the course of almost six years of doing extensive research.
The more research I do, the more connections I find that show this ancient civilization was advanced, interconnected and worldwide, and when I go back and look at research I have done in the past, I can see these connections even more clearly than before.
As a result, I have been able to extrapolate common elements and piece together the bigger picture from this type of geographically-focused research in the following blog that I have been able to extrapolate common elements and piece together the bigger picture.
The research in this post came from a 23-part series called “Sacred Geometry, Ley Lines & Places in Alignment” that I did back in 2020 tracking a long-distance alignment of cities and places that started in San Francisco.
I decided to showcase another part of the original series before I go back to another project I am currently working on.
Not long ago I posted The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Southeast Asia – From Manila in the Philippines to Dhaka in Bangladesh” from the same 23-part series.
My starting point for this part of the journey along the alignment is Van, the name of a city and province in eastern Turkey, and on the eastern shore of a lake of the same name.
Van has a long history a major city.
It was the capital of the Kingdom of Urartu of ancient Armenia from the 9th-century BC to the 6th-century BC, when it was called Tushpa.
Tushpa was situated on the steep-sided bluff now known as Van Fortress or Castle…
…which is similar in appearance and location to the Edinburgh Castle, said to be somewhere around 1,100-years-old in Scotland on top of Castle Rock, which is called the plug of an extinct volcano.
Van Castle was said to have been built in the 9th-century BC by King Sarduri I, the third monarch of Urartu,who was said to have moved the capital of Urartu to Van.
King Sarduri used the title of “King of the Four Corners of the World,” a title of great prestige claimed by powerful monarchs in ancient Mesopotamia.
As a matter of fact, there was a time when Armenia was considered the center of the world, as depicted in this map.
So, in the case of Van Castle, almost 3,000 years ago we were capable of building massive stone fortresses on top of solid rock?
Not an easily location to build on by any stretch of the imagination…
…and apparently working with huge stone blocks was not a problem!
More of this kind of thing to come as we go along the way!
This is described as a bronze sphinx dated to the 7th-century BC, and said to be from either Tushpa…
…or Toprakkale, southwest of Lake Van.
Some interesting things I found about Toprakkale when I looked it up is that there is a high fortress there as well (and I find the flat landscape surrounding the hill and fortress to be noteworthy)…
…and it is known for being the place where the Toprakkale Shuttle was found, which was taken out of display in Istanbul because some believed it to be a hoax.
Others believed the Toprakkale Shuttle to be over 2,000-years-old.
I think it is important to spend some time looking at the history of this geographical area because it seems to have great importance.
What was this place historically?
Who were the People of Ar?
They identify with that eight-pointed star symbol as well that I keep seeing everywhere…
…including, but far from limited to, the Gumti Monument in Faisalabad, Pakistan…
…at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran…
…and even in the city seal of Prescott, Ar-izona.
This six-pointed star tetrahedron is found carved throughout Armenia
…also known as the Star of David…
…and the Merkaba, the geometric shape of the Human Lightbody in its three-dimensional form.
Some psychically-gifted people are able to see the Human aura, or energy body, but most are unable to see it without the help of special aura photography.
This is because the natural psychic abilities of Humanity have been deliberately deactivated by not teaching us about them, and by active efforts to close down our primary psychic organ, the pineal gland, also known as the third-eye, by doing things like fluoridating water supplies, which leads to the calcification of the pineal gland.
Back to the Lake Van region, and historical Armenia.
The Armenian alphabet at one time was hieroglyphic…
…and in 405 AD, the introduction of the Armenian alphabet still in use today was credited to Mesrop Mashtots and Isaac of Armenia.
We are told that the Armenian alphabet was carved in stone in 2005 by Armenian architect Jim Torosyan in Artashavan, Armenia, on the eastern slope of Mt. Aragats, on the northern end of the Ararat Plain, near Mashtot’s final resting place to celebrate the 1,600th-anniversary of its creation.
We are told that Mt. Ararat, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark, was located in Urartu, and now it is part of modern Turkey.
The Sumerians called Ararat “Arrata,” and they tell of this land of their ancestors in the Armenian Highlands in their epic poems of Gilgamesh and Arrata, which also both describe a great flood which fell…from the highlands of Armenia.
The ancient metallurgical and astronomical center of Metsamor, near Armenia’s modern-day capital of Yerevan, gives its name to the Metsamor Civilization, believed by some to be the world’s first civilization.
This is Carahunge Stone Circle in southern Armenia, an astronomical observatory marking the movement of the sun, moon and stars.
It is believed to be 7,500-years-old.
Great Britain is much better known for its standing stone circles with archeoastronomical correlations.
The two photographs on the left show Armenian stone crosses, and on the right are two stone crosses found along the River Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. Not identical, but similar stylizations.
Interestingly, I found this map referencing the Kingdom of Iberia in Armenia’s part of the world, the Transcaucasia, a geographical region in the southern Caucasus Mountains that corresponds to modern Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
I knew about Spain and Portugal being called Iberia, and occupying what is called the Iberian Peninsula.
I know there is a province of Galicia in Spain…
…and the region of Galatia in Turkey…
…and there was a Kingdom of Galicia & Lodomeria, located historically between what is now Poland and Ukraine, and which was dissolved in 1918.
This research led me to this map of the Celtic World circa 400 BC.
How and why did the history of this part of the world get so obscured? What are we not being told?
And when was what was historically part of Armenia was absorbed into modern Turkey?
What happened?
This is what we are told about Turkey’s history.
Ancient Asia Minor, or Anatolia, consisted of the majority of modern-day Turkey, which is a country in both Asia and Europe.
What is now modern Turkey was once part of the Byzantine Empire until the Seljuk Turks started coming into Anatolia in the 11th-century.
They defeated the Byzantines in battle in 1071, and reign of the Seljuk Turks was said to symbolize the founding of Turkey.
Then the Seljuk Turks fell to Mongol invasions, which started in 1241.
The Mongols ruled as the “Ilkhanate” in Anatolia between 1243 and 1335.
Then, we are told the Ottoman Empire was founded at the end of the 13th-century in northwestern Anatolia and existed as a vast empire and center of interactions between east and west until the end of World War I, when it was defeated as an ally of Germany and occupied by Allied forces.
At this time, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.
Thus, at the end of World War I, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire, and the 1920 Treaty of Sevres promised to maintain the existence of the Armenian Republic and to attach the former territories of Ottoman Armenia to it.
Ottoman Armenia was referred to as Wilsonian Armenia because the new borders were to be drawn by U. S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The Treaty of Sevres never came into effect because it was rejected by the Turkish National Movement, which used the occasion to declare itself as the rightful government of Turkey.
Turkish Nationalist Forces invaded Armenia in 1920 from the east, ultimately forcing most of the Armenian military forces to disarm, cede back the former Ottoman lands granted to Armenia by the Treaty, and to give up “Wilsonian Armenia.”
And during the same time frame, the Soviet Eleventh Army invaded Armenia, and ultimately took complete control of it in 1921.
Thus, the Turkish War of Independence initiated under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk against the occupying powers resulted in the abolition of the monarchy in 1922, and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. Ataturk was the first president of the new republic, moving the country’s seat of power from Istanbul to Ankara.
Obviously this region of historical Armenia was highly prized, and its people were persecuted and many were killed.
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I.
The estimate of deaths ranges from 600,000 to 1.5-million people.
There’s a lot more to look at here, but I am going to move on to the next place on the alignment.
The next place I am going to look at is what is called “The Valley of the Fairy Chimneys,” in Cappadocia, a historical region of Central Anatolia known for its unique cultural and historical heritage.
These fairy chimneys are in Goreme National Park, part of the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site.
I find it noteworthy that shapes like these are found around the world, including what are called “hoodoos” in Bryce Canyon in southwest Utah…
…in Alberta’s Drumheller Badlands in Canada…
…the Torre Torre in Huancayo, Peru…
…in Renon, Italy…
…and in Zaragoza, Spain, to a name a few of the many places where these are found.
Here are more in the Pasabag Valley of Goreme National Park in Cappadocia.
So we are told that these phallic shapes were all created by natural geologic forces.
Okay. Well, maybe, but I really don’t think so!
These phallic shapes are also found on land features that are undeniably shaped like pyramids, like Chimney Rock in Colorado, another one of many examples I have seen of the same configuration.
Besides so-called fairy chimneys, the region of Cappadocia has been determined to have 40 underground cities, of which 6 are open to the public:
The underground city of Tatlarin, considered one of the most important of Cappadocia’s underground cities, discovered in 1975…
…Derinkuyu, an ancient, deep multi-level underground city said to be large enough to shelter 20,000 people together with their livestock and food supply, and opened to visitors in 1969…
…the underground city of Ozkonak, discovered in 1972, which had a water well, pipe communication system, winery, and moving stone doors…
…and there’s Mazi Underground City, opened to visitors in 1995…
…Kaymakli Underground City, opened to the public in 1964…
…and Kaymakli is the widest underground city…
…and the last one that is open to the public is Gaziemir Underground City, which was discovered in 2006.
So not only is all of this massive stone-work going on underneath the surface of Cappadocia, it was also going on above ground.
Cappadocia is known for its cave-homes and cave-hotels…
…and places like the Keslik Monastery in Cappadocia appear to be carved right out of the solid rock.
The tourism center of Urgup is not far from Keslik Monastery, and here are dwellings found there.
Uchisar, located on the edge of Goreme National Park, with its 197-foot, or 60-meter, high castle-mountain, criss-crossed by passageways and was said to have 1,000 people living inside it at one time, but apparently not anymore.
Before I leave Cappadocia and pick up the alignment as it crosses the Anatolian Plateau, I would like to share a find from the state of Connecticut when I was tracking a different alignment.
Waterbury in Connecticut was the location of Holy Land USA on the left, which we are told was a theme park inspired by passages from the Bible that opened in 1955 and closed in 1985 and today the location is in an advanced state of disrepair.
On the right is a photo from a location here in Cappadocia.
Next I am going to look at the Anatolian Plateau as a whole.
The Anatolian Plateau is called the central upland region of the ancient region of Anatolia, known as Turkey today.
The region of Cappadocia and its Valley of the Fairy Chimneys where I was just looking is centrally located on the Anatolian Plateau.
Anatolia is said to mean something along the lines of “Rising Sun” or “the East” in ancient Greek, and has been a bridge between Europe and Asia for thousands of years.
In a similar fashion, Khorasan, the name historically given to the northeastern Persia Empire which came up in previous posts on this alignment, is also said to mean the “Land where the Sun Rises” or the “Eastern Province.”
The Anatolian Plateau is hemmed in by several mountain ranges – the Taurus to the South, and the Pontic Mountains in the northeast & the Kure Mountains in the northwest.
While I am here, I am going to take this opportunity to venture off the alignment and explore this ancient place because I know there is a lot to find.
The Taurus Mountains separate the Mediterranean Coastal Region of Turkey from the Central Anatolian Plateau, extending in a curve from the Province of Antalya in the West…
…to the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the East.
Antalya Province, also known as the Turkish Riveria, is the center of Turkey’s Tourism Industry, and its capital, Antalya, is the fifth-largest city in Turkey.
It is the largest city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, with a population of over one-million.
This is Kaputas Beach on the Mediterranean Sea in Antalya on the top left, compared for similarity of appearance with Grama Bay in Albania on the top right; Vaja Beach in Korcula, Croatia, on the bottom left; and Green Sand Beach on the big island of Hawaii on the bottom right.
These are just a few of many examples I have found that demonstrate similar shapes and angles of beach and rocky coastline in very different places.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Xanthos is in Antalya Province, said to be an ancient Lycian city.
This is what remains of the Nereid Monument in Xanthos, with its megalithic base, and believed to be a tomb…
…that was discovered by a British explorer of Turkey, Charles Fellows, who led the archaeological excavation of Xanthos in the early 1840s and shipped an enormous amount of antique monuments to London, where they were reconstructed in the halls of the British Museum, including the Nereid Monument.
Interesting to note the headless and armless statues on display.
Charles Fellows was even knighted in 1845 for his services in the removal of Xanthian antiquities to Britain.
This is a surprisingly plain tombstone for him at London’s Highgate cemetery ~ I wonder what that signified!
The Lycian Nereid Monument was said to have inspired the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, said to have been built between 353 and 350 BC as a tomb for King Mausolus, ruler of Caria, a region of western Anatolia north of Lycia…
…and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was said to have been the inspiration for the old Standard Oil Headquarters in Manhattan on the left.
Said to have been built between 1884 and 1928??
Lycia was a geopolitical region in Southern Anatolia, populated by speakers of the Luwian Language group…
… said to have been a language with a hieroglyphic script in use, like early Armenian, between 1,300 BC and 600 BC…
Here are the Lycian rock-cut temple tombs of Dalyan, said to date back to the 4th-century BC.
…which are reminiscent of rock-cut Petra in today’s Jordan.
There are headless statues here in the front of the building known as “The Treasury,” like what we saw at the reconstruction of the Lycian Nereid at the British Museum.
Did all the heads just fall off from the ravages of history?
Or were the heads removed deliberately so we couldn’t see what they actually looked like?
Petra was attributed to the Nabataeans, who we are told were nomadic traders and livestock herders until for some reason they decided give up their goatskin tents and nomadic lifestyle to build the grand houses and monuments of Petra.
Once considered part of ancient Lycia, the Olympos-Beydaglari National Park is located in the Taurus Mountains in Antalya, along the Mediterranean coast, near the Kemer and Kumluca Districts. It is also called Olympos-Bey National Park.
There is that “Khem” sound again that I discussed in finding in Viet Nam and throughout Southeast Asia and other places in the world like Cymru, the original name for Wales, in “The Ancient Advanced Civilization in Southeast Asia – From Manila in the Philippines to Dhaka in Bangladesh” mentioned at the beginning of this video.
Ancient Khem is a shortened version of Ancient Khemit, the name we are told given to a technologically and spiritually advanced civilization that existed in a Golden Age that predated dynastic Egypt.
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And the Bey of Olympos-Bey Bey is one of the five noble titles of the Moors, along with Dey, El, Al, and Ali.
All just coincidences?
Let’s take a closer look at Olympos-Bey National Park that is adjacent to Kemer.
The Olympos-Bey National Park contains the ruins of what was called the city of Olympos…
…and the park includes Mount Olympos, the highest mountain in Turkey.
This is not to be confused with Mount Olympus in Greece, on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia.
It is the highest mountain in Greece, and notable in Greek mythology for being the home of the Greek gods.
But wait…in North America, there is a Mount Olympus in Washington State, the highest mountain on the Olympic Peninsula there…
…and there is a Mount Olympus in Utah, near Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range.
Named after Mount Olympus in Greece?
That’s certainly what we are led to believe by historical omission, but what if there is some kind of connection between them that we are not being told about?
The next place I am going to take a look at is Lake Egirdir.
Lake Egirdir is located in the Taurus Mountains.
The ancient town of Egirdir on the lake shore looks to have an artificial island, called “Yesil Ada” or “Green Island,” attached to it by a causeway.
There is also a protected harbor here at Egirdir on the top left, that looks like protected harbors I have seen around the world, like Funchal Harbor on the island of Madeira in the top middle; Olafsvik Harbor in Iceland on the right; and the ports of Calais, France and Dover, England on the bottom left and middle, that are located right across from each other in the English Channel, to name just a few.
Heading east across the Taurus Mountains running along the southern part of the Anatolian Plateau, we come to the province and city of Konya.
The Mevlana Museum is in the city of Konya.
The Mevlana Museum is also the mausoleum of the Sufi Mystic Rumi…
…whose followers founded the Mevlevi Order based there, better known as the Whirling Dervishes, who practice a spinning dance used to connect with the Divine.
The Turkish rug on the left from Konya has similar design patterns to the Persian rug from Mashhad, Iran, on the right.
The heavy masonry of the Taskopru, or Stone Bridge, is a combined regular dam and bridge in Konya Province, a flood barrier said to have been built between 1908 and 1912 on what was called a ruined arch bridge…
…and Catalhoyuk is located in Konya Province, a neolithic city that is dated back to origins in 7,100 BC…
…and Lake Tuz, pictured on the top, is in Konya Province, the second-largest lake in Turkey, and one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world. It is compared with the world’s largest salt flat on the bottom, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.
Both are incredibly reflective, like a mirror of heaven!
Further east, we come to more interesting places, like Mount Nemrut…
…in Commagene, a historical kingdom of Armenia located in what is now Turkey.
Mount Nemrut is described as a tomb-sanctuary built by King Antiochus I Theos, ruler of Commagene from 70 BC – 36 BC.
On the eastern side of the complex, there are what appears to be just colossal human and animal heads.
The question is: broken heads, like we are told, or buried heads…
…because, on the western side of the complex, there is a row of intact colossal full statues with similar heads…
…as well as a large relief with a lion superimposed with an arrangement of stars, and said to depict the planets of Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars as a star chart that gives us the date of July 7th in 62 BC, and is surmised to be an indication of when construction on the complex began.
At any rate, this is what the available information has to say about it.
Heading further along towards the eastern end of the Taurus Mountains in the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, we are close to the province of Sanliurfa in southeast Turkey near the country’s borders with Syria and Iraq.
The capital of Sanliurfa Province, is Sanliurfa, also known as Urfa. It is also believed to be Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldeans, the hometown of Abraham, and is approximately 50-miles, or 80-kilometers, east of the Euphrates River.
The location of Abraham’s birthplace, with the entrance pictured here, is generally believed to have been in Harran, less than 20-miles, or 32-kilometers, from the city of Sanliurfa.
The Pool of Abraham, or Balikli Gol, in the city of Sanliurfa is believed to have been where Nimrod threw Abraham into a fire, but God turned the flames into water, and the logs into fish.
The carp in the Pool of Abraham are held sacred, and protected to this day.
Gobekli Tepe is an archaeological site approximately 7-miles, or 12-kilometers, northeast of the city of Sanliurfa.
It was one of the twelve primary nodal points of the Earth’s original energy grid.
In 1994, Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute reviewed an archaeological survey done in 1963 conducted jointly by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago.
The site was completely buried, and the following year, in collaboration with the Sanliurfa Museum, Klaus Schmidt unearthed the first of many huge T-shaped pillars.
More than 200 stone pillars in about 20 circles are known through geophysical surveys, with heights up to 20 feet, or 6-meters, and weighing up to 10-tons, and fitted into sockets hewn out of bedrock.
It is dated back to the 10th-century BC, or 12,000 years ago, and is considered the oldest man-made temple complex yet discovered.
Interestingly, there are animal reliefs carved onto the pillars like this one on the left, compared with similar-looking carvings found at Cutimbo in Peru, near Lake Titicaca, on the top right; and at the Lore Lindu National Park on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia on the bottom right.
Moving northeast, close to the Pontic Mountains, is the city of Kars, in eastern Anatolia.
Kars is the largest city along Turkey’s closed border with Armenia, and a settlement that was historically a crossroads of Armenian, Turkish, Georgian, Kurdish, and Russian cultures.
As such, apparently it was of great interest, and the history we are told about it is filled with battles and sieges for control of it.
The Siege of Kars of 1855, for example, was the last major operation to take place during the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856, between the Russian Empire, which ultimately lost the war, and an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain, and Sardinia.
Interestingly, in 1854 a British general had been sent to Kars by the supreme commander and chief of British Expeditionary Forces in Crimea to assess the situation.
When I look at this map depicting the siege, I see what appear to be at least thirteen star forts, and which appear to no longer exist in modern times.
Here is an antique map of Kars which also appears to show shapes that indicate the presence of star forts.
I believe that star forts functioned as part of the circuitry of the original grid system of the earth, and were not military in nature as we have been told.
I find them all over the alignments I have found, and they seem to have been prime targets for explorers, European colonial empires and wars.
The Kars Citadel is still here, though apparently only seven of the original 220 towers remain.
It was said to have been built by the Saltuks in 1152 AD.
There were canals in Kars…
…and these two photos taken in Kars show classic mud flood evidence of like steep streets with disappearing windows at ground-level, and below-ground level.
I can go less than a mile, or 1.6-kilometers, from where I live to the downtown historic district of Prescott, Arizona, and find exactly the same thing.
Next, I would like to look at Munzur National Park on the Anatolian plateau, situated between the Taurus and Pontic Mountains, and the Armenian Highlands.
It is the largest national park in Turkey, and was established in 1971.
This is a bend of the Munzur River in the national park in Turkey on the top left, compared with Horseshoe Bend in Arizona on the top right; this riverbend in the Hulunbuir Grasslands of Inner Mongolia on the bottom left; and a bend of the Yellow, or Huang He River, the Mother River of China.
The capital of Turkey was moved to the Anatolian Plateau in 1923, when the city of Ankara was chosen as the capital of the new state to remove it from the former imperial capital of Istanbul and to place the capital in a more central location in the country.
It appears that Ankara is quite the mix of ancient and modern infrastructure!
Within Genclik Park, which is a public park just across the street from Ankara’s main train station…
…we find Ankara’s Luna Park amusement park.
Luna Parks were found all over the world, in the past and some with the same name still exist into the present day, though not in their original splendour, like the historic Luna Park on Coney Island.
I even found that Mashhad in Iran has a Luna Park as well, in its Mellat Park, what was also on this alignment I was tracking in 2020 that started in San Francisco.
Mellat Park in Mashhad has amazing hydrological features and beautiful fountains on the left, as does Genclik Park in Ankara on the right.
It is interesting to note that the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, are located right next to the main train station too, as seen on the left, like Like Luna Park in Ankara on the right.
I absolutely believe there was a direct connection between railroads and amusement parks in the Earth’s original energy grid system.
In our historical narrative, the Tivoli Gardens Amusement Park in Copenhagen opened in 1843, making it the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world, after Bakken in Denmark, which first opened in 1538, and the Wurstelprater in Vienna, Austria, which opened to the public in 1766.
We are told Ankara was one of the main tribal centers of the Galatians in Anatolia, and part of the ancient Celtic World on this previously seen map.
Interestingly, when I see Ankara Citadel on the top left, the foundations of which were said to have been laid by the Galatians in more ancient times (no date was given but prior to Roman times) on a prominent lava outcrop, I am once again reminded of Edinburgh Castle on the bottom left, which was said to have been built starting around 1100 AD on the plug of an extinct volcano; the Kars Citadel, said to have been built circa 1152 AD by the Saltuks; and the rocky outcrop Van Castle is situated on in Van, Turkey, said to have been built by the Urartian King Sarduri in 900 BC.
They all look strikingly similar, yet we are told they were all built randomly by different people at different places and times.
In the years since I originally did the research for this post, I have come to believe that the builders of these places were actually building on top of what were giant tree stumps. where there would have been a synergetic relationship between the two.
Here’s another photo of Edinburgh Castle to illustrate this line of thinking.
When Ankara became the capital of the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, it had been moved from Istanbul, the country’s imperial, historic, economic, and cultural center straddling the continents of Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait.
Prior to the capital’s move to Ankara, Istanbul was known as Constantinople, at one time the capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire, and from 1453 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire.
I am immediately drawn to look into Galata, situated between the Bosphorus Strait and what is called the Golden Horn, directly across from the main part of historical Constantinople.
In this history I read about Galata, the name is said to have come from the Greek “Galatai, referring to a Celtic tribe of Gauls who were said to have camped here during Hellenistic times before moving on to the Galatia region in Central Anatolia.
Why would they name a place permanently for temporary inhabitants that were only passing through?
And the Galata Tower there is massive and absolutely dominates everything in its surroundings!
However, we are told the Genoese get the credit for building it in 1378, when they had a colony here between 1273 and 1453, at the apex of the walls of the citadel, also said to have been built by the Genoese, that no longer exists.
Here are more photos of the outside of the Galata Tower…
…and of the inside of the Galata Tower.
Next, the Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath Istanbul, and said to have been built during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 527 to 565.
The Basilica Cistern is located 490-feet, or 150-meters, from the Hagia Sophia, also said to have been built during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, between 532 and 537 AD.
I found this diagram showing the geometric lay-out of the Hagia Sophia…which contains an eight-pointed star, as seen earlier in this post.
The next place I am going to look at is the city of Izmir, a city on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau before heading west on this alignment.
Known in times past as Smyrna, from ancient times to around 1930, at which time it became predominantly known by its Turkish counterpart, Izmir.
Izmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded urban history…
…and up to 8,500 years as a human settlement since the Neolithich area, with Yesilova Hoyuk being continuously inhabited at least between 6,500 BC and to 4,000 BC.
Discovered in 2003, the Yesilova Hoyuk site was at some point in its history…
…covered in silt.
Silt is defined as a fine sand clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment.
Izmir’s Metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of Izmir, where we see what appears to be a shaped, masonry shoreline…
…and inland to the north across the Gediz River Delta, which has a shape similar to the Connecticut River along the Vermont – New Hampshire border in the United States.
The last place I am going to take a look at in Izmir is Konak Square.
This is the clock tower there, said to have been built in the Moorish style in 1901 by the Levantine French architect Raymond Charles Pere.
Levantine refers to the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Middle East, in the Levant, which included the country now called Turkey.
This is the Konak Pier on the eastern end of Konak Square.
Gustav Eiffel is credited with its construction in 1890, a French civil engineer and architect most famous for the tower in Paris bearing his name.
Konak Pier is now an upscale shopping mall in Izmir.
It is clear that this geographical region known since 1923 as Turkey, for less than 100-years, and known as Anatolia for far longer, has a very ancient and storied and obscured past, which goes back at least 12,000 years with the dating of the Gobekli Tepe Complex, and with many places showing evidence of having been covered over massively with silt, or mud, or whatever would have caused things like needing to be dug out from the earth.
Now I am going to be picking up the alignment leaving Izmir to where it enters the Aegean Sea.
The Aegean Sea is called an elongated embayment, or bay, of the Mediterranean Sea between the Anatolian and Greek Peninsulas.
In the North, the Aegean is connected to the Sea of Marmara, entirely within the borders of Turkey, and which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and separates Turkey into its European and Asian parts…
…and said to take its name from Marmara Island, from the Greek word for marble, and it is rich in sources of marble…
…between the Straits of Dardenelles and Bosphorus.
The Strait of Dardenelles was the location of the Gallipoli Campaign, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 25, 1915, and January 9, 1916. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (known as Istanbul since 1923) and secure a sea route to Russia.
While the Ottomans were victorious at the end of this campaign, they ultimately lost the war. At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was partitioned and lost its Middle East holdings, which were divided between the Allied Forces.
The first thing I am finding in researching information about the Gallipoli Campaign are the presence of many forts on both sides of the entrance to the Strait of Dardenelles, including, but not limited to the places circled here: Fort Sedd-el-Bahr at Cape Helles and Kilid Bahr on the European side of the Strait; and Kum Kale and Chanak, or Canakkale, on the Asian side.
Fort Sedd-el-Bahr, said to mean “Key of the Sea,” was on Cape Helles at the entrance to the Straits.
This is a view of the Sedd-el-Bahr from the bow of the SS River Clyde, a collier, at the start of the joint-British-and-French amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula at Cape Helles on April 25th, 1915.
Its location was designated as “V Beach” of the Gallipoli Campaign.
The Royal Navy bombarded the Sedd-el-Bahr, also known as Fort #3, along with Fort Ertugrul, known as Fort #1 on the other side of “V Beach.”
The Fort at Kum Kale was on the opposite side of the entrance to the Strait of Dardenelles from Cape Helles.
The Battle of Kum Kale was said to have been fought on April 25th, 1915, between Ottoman defenders and French troops as a diversion from the main landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The fort at Kum Kale was completely destroyed by naval gun fire early in the operations.
Further up, we find the Fort of Kilitbahir and Cimenlik Castle situated across from each other on the Strait of Dardenelles.
Kilitbahir, or “Lock of the Sea,” was said to have been built by Sultan Mehmet II in 1463 in the form of a clover…
…and Cimenlik Castle was also said to have been built in the same year as Kalitbahir by Mehmet II to be defenses, we are told, to ensure the protection of the Dardenelles, and to control the maritime traffic to-and-from Constantinople.
I have consistently found star forts paired together, among other things, like here in the Strait of Dardenelles…
…and many other places around the world, like the two star forts in Puebla, Mexico, the Fort of Guadalupe and Fort Loreto that are situated relatively close to each other, on a hill not far from the city center of Puebla.
The Battle of Puebla is where the legendary Cinco de Mayo battle took place on May 5, 1862, where poorly-equipped Mexican forces were said to have defeated superior French forces.
I have also found clusters of star forts in the same location.
As I alluded with the numbering of Fort Sedd-el-Bahr and Fort Ertugrul earlier, there were at least 24 numbered forts in the Strait of Dardenelles…because Fort Anadolu Hamidiye was number 24, said to have been built by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I between 1393 and 1394.
I found this map of what are described as the Dardanelles defenses circa 1915, showing the places I have shared with you, and many more, situated in pairs, or clusters in alignment with each other.
Along the same lines, I can make a case that there were four pairs of star forts along the Lower and Upper New York Bay, with each pair situated along various points starting from Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook island in New Jersey and Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York at the entrance of the Lower New York Bay, up through the pair of Fort Jay on Governors Islands and what was Fort Amsterdam in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
The physical structure of what was called Fort Gibson on Ellis Island is long obscured, but the Statue of Liberty stands right on top of Fort Wood.
Another shared feature of the Strait of Dardenelles and other places is that there seem to have been certain locations with a high concentration of star forts, like the island nation of Bermuda, which is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, 665-miles, or 1,070-kilometers, east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
This is a 1624 map depicting numerous star fort looking structures that were found at one time throughout Bermuda, and said to have been made by Captain John Smith of Pocahontas and Virginia fame in our historical narrative.
Another place in the Atlantic Ocean with a high-concentration of star forts is Fernando de Noronha, off the coast of Brazil near the coastal city of Natal. Here are historic drawings of eight of the ten I found out about within an archipelago whose area totals 10-square miles, 26-kilometers squared.
Then I found what appears to have been at least thirteen star forts in the city of Kars at one time, the largest city on Turkey’s closed border with Armenia that we saw earlier in this post.
I think places like these were significant power centers for the energy system of the planetary grid, and star forts represented the definition of battery meaning “a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit…”
…and not the definition of battery meaning “The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target” that we are led to believe in our current historical narrative, though that definition for these certainly made them military fortifications, and targeted for destruction.
Before I move on from the Strait of Dardenelles where it meets the Aegean Sea, I would like to point out that ancient Troy, the location of the famous Trojan War between the troops of King Priam of Troy and King Agamemnon of Mycenae, was situated between the mouth of the Strait of Dardenelles…
…and Mount Ida, the location in Homer’s Iliad where the Olympian Gods gathered to watch the progress of the Trojan War is nearby
I found this old stone bridge in the Mount Ida region in Turkey on the left that looks similar to the Rakotz stone bridge in Gablenz, Germany.
Now I am going to turn my attention to the numerous islands and island groups in the Aegean Sea.
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Aegean Islands, and yet another small island packed with star forts, notated by the blue dots on this map, said to have been forts built to defend the island from enemies and pirates, by Venetians, as well as other historical influences on Crete like from the Genoese, Byzantines and Turks.
Like the one at Rethymnon…
…and Candia was said to have been built by the Venetians, known today as Heraklion, the capital of modern Crete.
The Dodecanese Islands, which includes the Island of Rhodes, which is the place for which the State of Rhode Island was named when Giovanni da Verrazzano likened an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay to the Island of Rhodes in 1524…
…the island of Patmos, where John the Apostle was given the vision in the Book of Revelation…
…the Cyclades Island group, which includes Santorini, known for having one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and by the way, what an interesting lofty, rocky spot to built on top of…
…and Delos, one of the most important mythological, historical and archeological sites in Greece, and once considered a holy sanctuary.
The alignment I have been tracking goes across the island of Chios in the North Aegean Sea. While it is separated only a relatively short distance from Turkey by the Chios Strait, it is part of Greece.
The Nea Moni Monastery on Chios was said to have been constructed during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachus, starting in 1042 AD, with the main building having been opened in 1049 AD…
…and the complex having been completed in 1055 AD, after Constantine’s death.
Nea Moni was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990, one of 18 in Greece.
Chios is the main population center of the island, and apparently what is called the Chios Castle, called a medieval citadel said to have been built first by the Byzantines, and then finished by the Genoese…
…next to what looks like an artificially made port facility at Chios, with its straight lines and angles, like we saw in an earlier example at Egidir in Turkey compared with other places in the world, like Dover on the English Channel on the right.
…and Chios appears to be one of the many shapes a star city takes, like what we just saw on the island of Crete.
Not only that, there are Turkish, also known as Ottoman, baths at Chios Castle.
Just north of Chios Town is the town of Vrontados…
…which claims to be the birthplace of Homer, the blind poet of ancient Greece best known for the epic poems of the Iliad, about the Trojan War, and the Odyssey, about Odysseus’ ten-year voyage trying to get back home after the Fall of Troy.
Pyrgi Village is south of Chios, known for the decoration of its houses…
…and as being the traditional seat of the Mastic Villages, where the residents engage in mastic agriculture, farming the resin of the mastic tree, used as a chewing gum, treatment for things like digestive problems, and for making a liqueur and oil.
As of 2018, there were twenty-four Mastic Villages on the island of Chios dedicated to the cultivation and production of mastic.
From the island of Chios, the alignment crosses the Aegean Sea to the island of Euboea, which is administered as part of Central Greece.
Euboea is the second-largest Greek island, after Crete, and separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait.
Euboea’s main city of Chalcis is situated around the narrowest point of the Euripus Strait.
The Karababa Castle is situated on a hilltop right next to this narrow point, and said to have been built by the Ottoman Turks in 1684 to protect the city from Venetians.
And this is the waterfront of Chalcis, with its masonry banks on the left, compared with the masonry banks of the Providence River in Providence, Rhode Island, on the right.
At one time, the island of Euboea was known by another name…Negroponte…
…and part of what was known as the Kingdom, or Realm, of the Morea.
The island of Euboea is long and narrow, with a mountain range, we are told, traversing the length of it.
The island of Skyros is a regional unit of Euboea, and is the southernmost of the Sporades Islands.
Around 2,000 BC, we are told, Skyros was known as the Island of the Magnetes, identifying their homeland in Thessaly, in a part that is still known as Magnesia.
Well, that information caught my attention because awhile back I remembered reading something about Plato describing Magnesia in “The Republic” as an ideal city and society living in harmony.
There were two prosperous cities in western Anatolia with the name of Magnesia. They were Magnesia-on-the-Maeander…
…and Magnesia ad Sipylum.
Given that I believe the original ancient advanced Moorish civilization lived in peace, balance, and harmony with each other and the heavens, I find that the information that Plato gives us that described Magnesia as an ideal society really resonates with me as actually having existed at one time, and wasn’t just a fictional, idealized society as we we have been taught to believe, and instead teaching us that the world was full of discord, division and war, and that Earth’s original history just somehow unfolded randomly all over the world.
I hope I have provided enough information in this post to show you why I believe that Humanity was very advanced and connected at one time, and have given you other possibilities to consider with regards to what our True History might have been, and how and why it has been hidden from us so we would never know anything about it.
I have been researching aspects of what I am presenting in this post for years, but this subject came about as an in-depth research topic for me through Aaron of the “Uncovering Hidden West Virginia” video, who sent me rock formations at locations in Appalachia he had identified to look at that looked like megaliths.
Megaliths were structures made of large stones by ancient cultures.
In other words, they are acknolwedged to have been constructed intentionally, and megaliths have been identified as such all over the Earth.
But not identified as megaliths, and man-made, in North America.
As soon as I started doing the research into the rock formations described as natural “rock cities” in State Parks in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, four main themes clearly unfolded and were interwoven in the research for my original post”On the Trail of Giants, in Appalachia and Beyond.”
I am bringing forward these four main themes separately for your consideration in this series.
This is the third-themed segment that is done, with the featured theme of “The Energy Grid.”
The last themed-segment will be on my findings related to evidence for “The Cataclysm” which connects directly to “The Energy Grid.”
The first two themed-segments were on “Robber Barons and Resetters” and “Giants.”
This particular post on “The Energy Grid” will be focusing on topics including, but not limited to, the consistent finding of a history of railroads running in parallel to S-shaped riverbends, also called “horseshoe” river bends, and other transportation infrastructure; findings on the integral role giant trees played on the Earth’s grid system; and how the infrastructure of this energy grid system has been reverse-engineered into a control system.
When I first started out doing the research for the original post, my plan for it was just to look at the places with megalithic-looking rock formations that Aaron had identified in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Well, that was my plan anyway.
And that was exactly how my research started-out.
And I kept seeing the same story repeating over and over again.
The first place I checked-out Boxcar Rocks on Gold Mine Road in Pennsylvania’s Lebanon County.
We are told that they are a natural geologic formation described as a long line of stacked boulders that were likely left over from melting glacial deposits during the last Ice Age.
Yet here are images that Aaron sent me where the stone blocks of Boxcar Rocks look like they have been cut-and-shaped!
Boxcar Rocks are located on “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211,” who manage the lands for the purposes of hunting, trapping, and fishing.
The Appalachian Trail runs through “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211” in Swatara State Park…
…where we still find sections of the old Union Canal on the “Bear Hole Trail” of Swatara State Park.
This section of the Union Canal was said to have been closed after the dam holding the reservoir was washed away by a devastating flood in 1862.
The Union Canal was said to have been built between 1792 and 1828, running from Middletown, Pennsylvania to Reading, Pennsylvania.
We are told it was closed to use in 1885 because it could not compete with the “efficiency of the railroad.”
We are told in our historical narrative that the construction of the Union Canal started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.
So early on in the narrative, there was a stated focus on the harvesting of resources such as coal and lumber, which is one of the many recurring themes in this post.
The very next place I looked at was the World’s End State Park in the Loyalsock State Forest.
World’s End State Park is in what is called the “Endless Mountains,” a region of northeastern Pennsylvania that are not considered true mountains, but a dissected plateau on the Allegheny Plateau.
We are told the “Endless Mountains” are comprised of sedimentary rocks of sandstone and shale that were part of a lowland that collected sediments from mountains to the southeast that eroded millions upon millions of years ago.
This region was historically inhabited by the Susquehannock, Iroquois, and Munsee-Lenape peoples.
Here are some photos from the “World’s End State Park,” with what appears to be shaped and cut, block-shaped stone-work.
Before I move on to the other places I looked at for “On the Trail of Giants, in Appalachia and Beyond,” I would like to mention that I was already dialed in to the co-location of S-shaped river bends, railroads, canals, hydroelectric plants, gorges, and waterfalls, as all being part of the Earth’s original energy grid system.
I did extensive research on these findings as seen in a post I published on June 9th of 2023 titled “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System.”
In this post, I looked closely at this same infrastructure found, past and present, along the Potomac River Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; along the Niagara Riverbetween New York and Ontario; the Tallulah River in North Georgia; the Tahquemon River in Upper Michigan; and the Sacramento River in Northern California.
How is this even possible according to the history we are taught?
I also looked in-depth into this subject several years ago, when viewer JG connected with me about correlations she had found between railroads and waterfalls in Iowa.
She sent Google Maps showing the locations of railroads and state parks with waterfalls, and racetracks, as well as another set of maps with more key things like the locations of powerplants, mines and sports stadiums.
I focused this particular research on the correlations between railroads and waterfalls in Iowa that JG sent me as a grouping.
The places JG sent me turned out to be in the part of Iowa where Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois meet, in a region called the “Driftless Area.”
This part of North America is called the “Driftless Area” because it was said to have been by-passed by the last glacier on the continent and we are told lacks glacial drift.
I also looked in-depth at the rail, river, waterfall, and hydroelectric power plants along the New River and New River Gorge for research that I did for “Trekking the Serpent Lei,” a major southeast to northwest ley-line identified by Peter Champoux.
I will be bringing up the New River Gorge in several capacities in this post, and the Serpent Lei went right through this region that I will be talking about throughout this post.
In “Trekking the Serpent Ley,” I started in the Bermuda Triangle and ended at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
So, to return to the second place I looked at when I started to do this research for “On the Trail of Giants – in Appalachia and Beyond,” the World’s End State Park near Forksville in the Loyalsock State Forest, and is situated around the S-shaped bends of Loyalsock Creek, with Pennsylvania Route 154 running right beside it.
Pennsylvania State Route 154 meets Pennsylvania State Route 87 in Forksville.
I looked for a railroad history through here along Loyalsock Creek.
Many more examples of what I am talking about with regards to past railroads and present-day highway routes to come.
There’s not much available to find concerning this on the internet, however I was able to find this specifically concerning a railroad history on Loyalsock Creek.
A steam locomotive missing its smokestack was pulled from Loyalsock Creek in 1906 east of the Route 87 bridge in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, near Forksville.
Then in 2013, a local scuba diver familiar with the history found the missing smokestack.
But in the process of trying to pinpoint information about a railroad history on Loyalsock Creek, I stumbled across the Lehigh Gorge, its abandoned railroad tracks that are now a recreational rail-trail, and its Scenic Railway, and another place I can add to my list of places I know of off the top of my head featuring the co-location of S-shaped river bends, railroads, canals, gorges, and waterfalls.
The Lehigh Gorge is described as a “steep-walled gorge carved by a river, thick vegetation, rock-outcroppings, and waterfalls characterize the state park.”
The Lehigh Gorge Trail follows more than 20-miles, or 32-kilometers of the Delaware and Lehigh Trail, part of the larger Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, which is 165-miles, or 266-kilometers, -long.
The Lehigh Gorge Trail is on abandoned railroad grade beside the river.
This is what we are told about the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor by the National Park Service.
The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor preserves the historic pathway that carried coal and iron from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia as a vital connection to nature, recreation and our nation’s industrial heritage, as well as having a more than $250-million per year economic impact for the region.
The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor was also known as the “Anthracite Region” where the story of “where America was built” began.
What we are told about the Anthracite Region is this.
It was home at one time to major anthracite coal supplies and the mine-to-market process, with a legacy of intense mining, industrial development and rich mixture of ethnic cultures.
Anthracite coal was first mined in Wilkes-Barre in 1775, and we are told that its fueled urban development in the region, resulting in a string of towns, industries, mines, roads and rail-lines to the south.
It is interesting to note here that the Freiburg University of Mining and Technology, the oldest school of mining and metallurgy in the world, was established just 10-years prior to the beginning of anthracite coal-mining in Wilkes-Barre, having been established in 1765 by Francis Xavier of Saxony of the House of Wettin.
Its main purpose was the education of highly skilled miners and scientist in fields connected to mining and metallurgy.
Primarily through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, first-cousins and members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin, the original royal houses of Europe were completely replaced by this obscure German Ducal lineage.
Back to the Anthracite Region.
We are told that the demand for anthracite coal increased in the 1820s and 1830s as coal-power replaced water power, and with the growth of the iron industry in Pennsylvania.
Anthracite coal is the purest form of coal, and this region contains most of the world’s supply of anthracite coal, and found in alternating layers of rock said to have been folded into mountains and created by a geological process called “coalification.”
Today, this part of northeastern Pennsylvania is considered one of the largest concentrations of disturbed terrain in the world, with billions of tons of debris found in the landscape of abandoned strip mines and this region has among the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the United States with job loss from the descrease in coal mining and the outmigration of people because of it.
We are told the American Canal Age was between 1790 and 1855, and started in Pennsylvania, where the first legislation surveying canals was passed in 1762.
As mentioned previously, the construction of the Union Canal between Middletown and Reading and was said to have started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and completed in 1828, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.
The “Main Line of Public Works,” of which the Union Canal was a part of, was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826, and funded various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.
We are told the lower section of the Lehigh Canal was built between Easton, Pennsylvania and Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, with construction said to have been started in 1818, and completed in 1838.
This map also has a caption at the bottom that says this was the original Lehigh Valley Railroad line as well, which was said to have opened in 1855.
This is a view of the Lehigh Canal at it appeared at one time in our history in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – located along this section in-between today’s Jim Thorpe and Easton.
The National Canal Museum in Easton is dedicated to telling the story of America’s historic towpath canals.
In Easton, the Lehigh Canal connected with the Pennsylvania Canal’s Delaware Division and the Morris Canal.
Also known as the Delaware Canal, the Pennsylvania Canal was said to have built the Delaware Canal to feed anthracite coal to Philadelphia in the years between 1828 and 1834.
It ran along the right bank of the Delaware River for 60-miles, or 97-kilometers, to Bristol, just north of Philadelphia.
The Morris Canal was 107-miles, or 172-kilometers, -long and said to have been completed in 1832 to carry anthracite coal across northern New Jersey between where it connected to the Delaware Canal in Easton, to what is today Jersey City on the Hudson River.
It was closed in 1924.
It was hailed as an ingenious, technological marvel for its use of water-driven, inclined planes.
The builders of the Morris Canal used a sophisticated power house technology, pictured here, to power the water turbine that was set in motion to raise or lower cradled boats on the inclined planes by means of a cable.
You mean to tell me all of this extremely sophisticated and advanced canal-engineering technology was being implemented prior to the beginning of the Industrial Age, according to the history we are taught.
Seriously?
And, by the way, mules were still needed to be used to pull the canal boats in places on the Morris Canal in spite of all that sophisticated technology?
Food for thought about the difference between what we are told, and what does not hold up under scrutiny.
I would like to insert my belief at this point that there was a deliberately-caused cataclysm that sent directed energy through the free-energy-generated Earth-grids that devastated the surface of the Earth and destroyed the original ancient advanced Moorish civilization that built all of this infrastructure.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I will be talking about this cataclysm and its aftermath in-depth in the fourth and final themed-segment of this series.
In short, I believe the beings behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.
They only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they found replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed.
So the first original infrastructure we see coming on-line in the post-cataclysmic “New World” were the canals.
In the “Old World,” the power supply for the canals would have been the same free-energy generated by the Earth’s worldwide grid system, and in the “New World,” they had to use mule-power to be able to utilize the original canal system because that was all they had available for power.
Back to the Lehigh Gorge State Park.
The over 6,000-acres of land follow the Lehigh River from the Francis E. Walter Dam to the north to Jim Thorpe at the southern end of the park.
We are told that the Francis E. Walter Dam was constructed as an embankment dam by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1961 for flood control at the confluence of the Lehigh River and Bear Creek.
A reservoir ended up being created, which in turn became a popular recreational destination.
What remains of the original Lehigh Valley Railroad operations run today as the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway.
The excursion through the Lehigh Gorge begins in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Mauch Chunk, at the southern end of the state park.
Mauch Chunk was nicknamed “The Switzerland of America” for its steep hillsides, narrow streets, and terraced gardens.
Renamed Jim Thorpe in 1954 for the Native American sports’ legend who was buried here, it was founded as a company town in 1818 by Josiah White and his partners who were also founders of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company that was headquartered in Mauch Chunk.
It operated from 1818 until it was dissolved in 1964 and was known for having an early and influential role in the American Industrial Revolution.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company was considered to be the first vertically-integrated company in the United States.
Vertical integration is where the supply chain of a company is owned by the company.
Other examples of the adoption of the business practice of “vertical integration” off the top of my head was by Adolphus Busch as head of Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association.
Busch adopted vertical integration as a business practice, in which he bought all the components of his business, from bottling factories to ice-manufacturing plants to buying the rights from Rudolf Diesel to manufacture all diesel engines in America.
This illustration was of the Bevo Bottling Facility in St. Louis.
Adolphus Busch died in 1913, with a net worth $60 million in US dollars at the time of his death.
I couldn’t find any information showing that Adolphus Busch was a Freemason, but I did find this mug that was made in 1994 by Anheuser-Busch for the Freemasons of Rio Negrinho in Brazil, featuring a life-like goat-head, and the Brazilian words for “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” in the base.
Henry Ford also utilized the practice of “vertical integration” in the Ford Motor Company.
The introduction and refinement of the assembly line facilitated the mass production of new cars, which in turn made the purchase of a new car affordable for most people.
As we go through all the information that will be presented in this post, we will see why this was yet another replacement technology for the original transportation system, which was powered by free energy.
Henry Ford was also the 13th-wealthiest American of all-time according to CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $67.2-billion.
Henry Ford was also an acknowledged 33rd-degree Freemason…
…and famous for saying “History is bunk.”
Though fact-checkers are denying that he could have meant the definition of “bunk” meaning “trash, junk, or lies.”
Back to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and Mauch Chunk.
It had its beginnings as the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792, after, we are told, a hunter named Philip Ginter discovered anthracite coal on Pisgah Mountain near Summit Hill, near the border between Luzern and Carbon Counties.
This part of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania is a subregion called the Pocono Mountains.
Though they are described very similarly to the nearby “Endless Mountains” of northeastern Pennsylvania, as a “dissected plateau of the Allegheny Plateau,” geographically, the Poconos are designated separately from the “Endless Mountains.”
“Pocono” is said to mean “Crack between two hills” in the language of the original Munsee Lenape people of the region.
I am taking time on this subject right now because this will be recurring subject throughout this post, but I want to show you a comparison of the ridge-like appearance of this region around Jim Thorpe and Summit Hill near where the anthracite coal was found here on Pisgah Mountain in 1792 on the top left, with the ridge-like appearance of the root system of a large tree on the bottom right.
The Lehigh Coal Mine Company was incorporated in 1793 and acquired 10,000- acres, or 4,000-hectares, in and around the Panther Creek Valley and Pisgah Mountain, in order to bring anthracite coal from the large deposits on Pisgah Mountain to Philadelphia via mule-trains and coal arks, or one-time single use boats, on the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers.
We are told that while the original Lehigh Coal Mine Company was able to sell all the coal it could to the available market, it lost a lot of coal to the rough waters of the unimproved Lehigh River, so they sold the original company to Josiah White and his partners in 1818.
In a nutshell, this is what we are told.
In the same year, in 1818, the new owners of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, began the construction of the Lehigh Canal, and that it became usable in 1820.
The Lehigh Canal enabled the transport of anthracite coal, a primary energy source at the time, to the primary markets in the northeastern United States, and, we are told, inspired the development and connection of other regional canals.
The new owners of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company were said to have been behind of the construction of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad between 1839 and 1841…
…the Ashley Planes, an historic freight-cable railroad between Ashley and Mountain Top said to have been built between 1837 and 1838 to transport millions of tons of anthracite coal over the Wilkes-Barre Mountain…
…. and brought in blast furnace technology to the Lehigh Valley, a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals.
Smelting is defined as a process by which metal is obtained, either as a single element or compound.
In 1822, the company became the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, after which they built the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad.
The Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Railroad, also known as the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, was said to have been built in 1827 and operated until 1932.
It was said to be the second permanent railway constructed in the United States, and used to transport coal down Summit Hill to the Lehigh Canal.
Some of the architecture of today’s Jim Thorpe include:
The Asa Packer Mansion was said to have been completed in 1861, which would have been the first year of the American Civil War.
Asa Packer was, among other things, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist…
…and founder of Lehigh University in nearby Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1865, the last year of the American Civil War.
At the time of his death, the value of Asa Packer’s estate was $54.5-million, and he was considered to be the richest man in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at that time.
And Asa Packer was a Freemason too.
Another place I want to show you in Jim Thorpe was the Old Jail, in which seasonal tours are offered, including the ghostly kind, as it is considered one of the most haunted places in Pennsylvania.
It was said to have been built between 1869 and 1870 and in use as a jail until 1995.
Mauch Chunk/Jim Thorpe was a key location on the Central Railroad of New Jersey in the shipping of anthracite coal.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey was said to have built the Mauch Chunk Station in 1888 in the Queen Anne Victorian Architectural-style.
Today it is owned and operated by the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railroad.
This is what we are told about the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
The origins of the Central Railroad of New Jersey began in 1831 with the incorporation of the Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad, and which was operational by 1842.
In 1847, the Somerville and Easton Railroad was incorporated, purchased the Elizabeth and Somerville, and the name was changed to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.
By 1852, the line reached Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on the Delaware River and was extended across Newark Bay to Jersey City in 1864 (one-year before the end of the American Civil War in 1865).
From Jersey City, the railroad kept extending out to major cities like Newark, Flemington, Perth Amboy, Chester and Wharton.
We are told that the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company built the CNJ’s lines in Pennsylvania, which was used primarily for the shipment of anthracite coal.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal in Jersey City was said to have been built in 1889 to replace an earlier one, and is located next to the Big Basin of the Morris Canal on the Hudson Waterfront in today’s Liberty State Park, as it is in close proximity to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in Upper New York Bay.
It was operational as a terminal until April 30th of 1967.
An estimated 10.5 million immigrants processed through here at one time in America’s history when Ellis Island was operational as an immigrant processing station between 1892 and 1954.
The architectural style of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal building is called Richardsonian Romanesque, after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, who first used elements of this style in the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York, which he is said to have designed in 1870, and Frederick Law Olmsted was the landscape architect, and the Kirkbride Plan treatment for people with mental illsness was implemented here. More on the Kirkbride Plan to come later in this post.
The Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane was closed for that purpose in the 1970s.
Today now known as the Richardson Olmsted Complex, and was repurposed as a hotel which opened in 2023.
…and is considered one of the most haunted places in Buffalo, if not western New York.
Richardsonian Romanesque is described as a free revival style, incorporating 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, Italian Romanesque characteristics.
Henry Hobson Richardson had a relatively short career,and didn’t even complete his architecture school training in Paris because he lost family backing because of the American Civil War, yet somehow by the time he died at a relatively young age of 47, he left behind a legacy of mind-blowingly ornate architecture!
Hmmm. You don’t say!
One more thing about the Central Railroad of New Jersey here.
All of the new railroad lines that were popping up betwixt and between these large population centers and the Jersey Shore were, like Atlantic City, were going right through the desolate, swampy and forbidding Pine Barrens.
Today there are abandoned trains and railroad lines found throughout the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
I will expand on this finding in the next and final part of this series, on “The Cataclysm.”
I originally explored this region in-depth over a year ago in my blog post called ” Recovering Lost History from the Estuaries, Pine Barrens & Elite Enclaves off the Atlantic Northeast Coast of the United States.”
Before I move on from the Poconos, I’d llke to take a look at Mount Pocono.
This is what we are told about the history of the Mount Pocono Borough.
Early records showed a settlement at today’s Tobyhanna, where the Tobyhanna and Lehigh Lumber Company operated not only a lumber mill, but a clothespin factory and silk mill.
Tobyhanna Mills was situated along the Easton and Belmont Turnpike, a turnpike that was said to have been chartered in 1812 (the beginning of the War of 1812) and completed in 1820.
Turnpikes are still with us today, in which a fee, or toll, is assessed for passage.
Today the former Belton to Easton Turnpike is Pennsylvania State Route 196 in the Poconos, that runs for 26-miles, or 41-kilometers north from Mount Pocono to where it meets up with State Route 296 in Varden.
Besides Pennsylvania State Route 196, two other state highways serving Mount Pocono.
One is Route 611 and the other is Route 940.
And there are six Interstate Highways serving the region of the Pocono Mountains.
They are Interstates I-80, I-81, I-84, I-78, I-380, and I-476.
More on this subject to come.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line passed through the southern end of the Mount Pocono Borough, which provided access to the borough from New York City via the terminal at Hoboken, New Jersey.
One of the New York area’s major transportation hubs, the terminal at Hoboken, Nwas said to have been constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1907, and combined railroad, ferry, subway, streetcar and pedestrian services.
We are told that numerous electric streetcar lines originated and ended at the station until the completion of “Bustitution” in August of 1949, at which time they were replaced by buses.
This included the Hoboken Inclined Railway…
…which consisted of several lines including the Palisade Line that travelled from Edgewater to Palisades Amusement Park, which operated from 1898 to 1971…
…and the Eldorado Elevator, which met a streetcar line that travelled along a trestle to a cut in the Palisades which ran parallel to the Eldorado, and amusement park that opened in 1891 and closed as an amusement park in 1894, except for the hotel casino.
The Eldorado’s main building was used to host boxing matches and Vaudeville performances until it burned down in a massive fire in 1898.
There is still a Hoboken Terminal in use today as an intermodal transportation hub.
A Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad station was built at the crossing of what is now Pennsylvania State Route 611 in 1886, but that most of that station was demolished in 1937 when the highway was widened, and passenger service to the station ended completely in 1956.
The rails are still in place and used by freight trains and occasional excursions from the Steamtown National Historic Site.
The location might possibly come back to life as a proposed New Jersey Transit Rail Operations Station.
From 1912, Tobyhanna was said to have a railroad station on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad line, as well as a post office and telegraph station, and local industries included shipping ice to different locations, including Florida.
Also starting in 1912, the ground was laid for the U. S. Government to purchase thousands of acres of land for a military installation, which started out as an artillery training range, with all their horse-drawn wagons, right in time for the beginning of World War I, which started in July of 1914.
The Tobyhanna Army Depot these days is a full-service electronics maintenance facility for the United States Department of Defense.
I want to leave one more bit of information here about the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad line as another placeholder for expansion upon in the next post on “The Cataclysm.”
I have come to believe this whole region in the northeastern United States was ground zero for at least one deliberately-caused cataclysm that brought us to the world we live in today.
The Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad ran in New York from Owego on the Susquehanna River to Ithaca, on the southern shore of Lake Cayuga, one of the Finger Lakes.
It was said to be chartered in 1828 and the third railroad, and longest at the time built in the United States.
We are told at the time it was planned, it was to provide the missing link connecting the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to the coal fields of Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake Bay, but it never lived up to this potential for a variety of reasons.
The right-of-way was completely abandoned in 1956 and it later became part of the South Hill Recreation Way in Ithaca.
I will continue to bring forward examples of findings like this as I work my way through different locations in this video, but it’s not hard to visualize the Finger Lakes, and this whole region for that matter, as once having been giant tree roots.
There’s a few other things I would like to mention about the Pocono Mountains before I move on from here.
What we are told is that the Pocono Mountains became a well-known resort getaway early in the 20th-century.
So, for example, this was an early postcard showing the Pocono Mountain House and Springs.
It was one of the largest resorts that served visitors to the Pocono Mountains, and was located on Route 611 in the Mount Pocono Borough.
It was said to have started as a sportsmen’s club in 1874 and grew into a popular resort.
Besides recreational activities of all kinds, there were springs here that were known for healing properties.
The resort closed permanently to the public in 1933, and we are told that by 1974, it had fallen into such disrepair that the local fire department had to burn it down.
But not all those resorts in what became known as the “Honeymoon Capital of the World” in the Pocono Mountains burned down.
The Poconos are littered with abandoned resorts that were left to rot in place.
Today’s Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono operates as Pennsylvania’s first AAA Diamond Casino Resort.
We’ll see another Mount Airy later in this post.
It was said to have been built on the site of the Mount Airy Lodge, which our narrative tells us was originally built in 1898, and then reconstructed in the 1950s asnd became known as America’s premiere honeymoon hideaway and for its top entertainment.
The 1950s building was said to have been demolished in 2001 and the current resort opened in 2007.
Another place I would like to bring your attention to here before I move on is the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
The Pocono Raceway is a superspeedway nicknamed the “Tricky Triangle.”
It is one of six superspeedways in the United States, along with Indianapolis, Daytona, Talladega, Michigan and the Auto Club Speedway in California.
I first published the “Circuit Board Earth” post in June of 2017, which was a compilation of my research findings up to that time of consistently finding infrastructure on the Earth arranged in specific linear arrangements in relationship to each other all over the surface of the Earth, and providing the model of Earth as a circuit board as an explanation for these findings that they were components of the once, free-energy-generating electromagnetic grid system.
I covered a lot of information and examples in this blog post to support this concept, but what I want to bring forward here is the example of the same finding in the Pocono Mountains, that of airports having racing tracks in angular relationships short distances away.
I first noticed this when I was doing research on the Shepherd’s Bush District of West London several years ago based on a commenter’s suggestion.
In the process of doing that, I realized I had seen the same angular relationship between London’s Heathrow Airport, and Shepherd’s Bush on the top left, where there had been a huge track at one time in White City, that had been used for Greyhound racing; and in my own research of the Tampa, Florida, neighborhood of Sulphur Springs the previous summer, when I had noticed that the Tampa International Airport, and the Sulphur Springs neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, where there was a greyhound racing track, had the same angular relationship.
After I made that initial connection, commenters left other examples of the same kind of relationship between airports and racing tracks, past and present, including, but not limited to, places like Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the top right; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the middle left; Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the middle ; Los Angeles, California on the middle right; and Sydney, Australia, on the bottom.
I think the various shapes being used as racing-tracks were once components of the circuitry of the Earth’s electro-magnetic grid system.
The sport of racing uses the word “circuit” in the following ways:
The course over which races are won; the number of times the racers go around the track; an established itinerary of racing events involving public performance; and in bicycle racing, a circuit race is a mass-start road-cycle race that consists of several laps of a closed-circuit, where the length of the lap is slightly longer each time.
Electrical Circuit definitions Include:
A closed path in which electrons from a voltage or current source flow, and includes devices that give energy to the charged particles the current is comprised of, such as batteries and generators…
…and an electronic circuit is a complete course of conductors through which current can travel, and provide a path for current to flow.
Wouldn’t it stand to reason that those behind the reset when setting up the New World would take advantage of the super science of the different types of circuits in the Earth’s grid system in order to harness their inherent power to enhance performance at sporting events, to make lots of money at highly-charged, prestigious gaming and betting venues?
More on this topic to come later in this video.
Now I am going to move on from the Poconos, but this is the information that came up to the surface just in looking at Boxcar Rocks and the what appears to be shaped and cut, block-shaped stone-work at World’s End State Park on the S-shaped Loyalsock Creek.
Next I am going to turn my attentiont to what is found in the Moshannon State Forest.
The Moshannon State Forest is in five counties – Centre, Elk, Cameron, Clinton and Clearfield – with its main offices in Penfield, Pennsylvania in Clearfield County’s Huston township at the intersection of State Routes 153 and 255.
In the 2020 census, the population of Huston Township as a whole was recorded as a little under 1,300 people.
At one time in Penfield’s history, it was a company town for the logging and coal mining industries in what was a local resource extraction economy, and the railroad came through here at one time.
Immigrants from Europe settled in the area to work the deep mines scattered through the Benzette Valley here.
There’s not much left to speak of in Penfield, but there are recreational activities nearby at Moshannon State Forest, Bilger’s Rocks Park, Parker Dam State Park and Black Moshannon State Park.
Moshannon State Forest was formed as a direct result of the depletion of the forests of Pennsylvania that happened in the mid-to-late 19th-century, when lumber and iron companies clear-cut the forests and sparks from passing steam-locomotives caused wildfires from the remnants of the forest-lands, preventing the growth of new forests.
The land that became Moshannon State Forest was purchased by the State in 1898.
The old-growth forest was gone by 1921, with a second-growth forest replacing it since then.
Interesting to note that a tornado in 1985 tore through the forest and destroyed an estimated 88,000 trees.
Panther Rocks at Moshannon State Forest are described as a small rock city made of several large sandstone blocks, complete with streets, overhangs, channels, crevices and a short tunnel
They were said to have formed during the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago in the Pottsville Group, a rocks formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
The nearby Bilger’s Rocks in Clearfield County’s Bloom Township near the town of Grampian, and is larger stone-city than what is found at Panther Rocks.
The creation of Bilger’s Rocks was also said to have taken place during the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago, in the Homewood Formation of the Pottsville Group, a rock-unit formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
Bilger’s Rocks has many examples of what appears to be toolmarks, and linear patterns that look like they were carved or molded, and has the same rock-city-like qualities of these other places we have been looking at tucked away in the Pennsylvania Park system.
Parker Dam State Park is surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
The Park was said to have been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
The original dam here was said to have been constructed as a splash dam for the movement of lumber after he leased lumbering rights at some point after lumber harvesting began here in 1794, and the CCC was said to have built the current dam there to replace it as part of the improvements the otherwise unemployed, unskilled young men made when they came to work on the park.
There was much logging going on from this region, so the “Susquehanna Boom” was said to have been built in the 1850s across the West Susquehanna River at Williamsport, a system of cribs and chained logs designed to catch and hold floating timber until it could be processed, and logging railroads built to transport the lumber, to the tune of 45-cars per day until logging ended here in 1911, when all the trees were gone.
The lumbermen left a barren landscape that was devastated by fires, flooding and erosion more many years, until the CCC came in the 1930s and started replanting trees after the State of Pennsylvania bought the deforested land from the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company in 1930.
The Civilian Conservation Corps CCC operated from 1933 to 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed, unmarried men to do manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
In the nine-years of its operation, the CCC employed 3,000,000 young men, providing them with food, shelter and clothing, and a wage of $30/month, $25 of which had to be sent home to their families.
There is no doubt in my mind that the CCC, and the other alphabet programs of FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression, like the WPA and TVA, were being used to cover-up the ancient advanced civilization.
Black Moshannon State Park is largely surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
It is located in Rush Township in Centre County, and surrounds a lake formed by another dam, also said to have been constructed by the CCC, on Black Moshannon Creek at the site of a former mill-pond dam.
Black Moshannon State Park is the home to the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania, a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials, which contains carnivorous plants, orchids, and species typically found further north.
The boggy Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania has a similar story as Cranberry Glades in West Virginia.
Cranberry Glades, protected in the “Cranberry Glades Botanical Area” area, are a cluster of five, separate boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County in West Virginia, and like Black Moshannon State Park, species are found at both these locations that are typically further north.
These species include cranberries, sphagnum moss, skunk cabbage, and carnivorous plants, and the Cranberry Glades are the southernmost home of many of the plant species found here.
Both Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania and Cranberry Glades Botanical Area in West Virginia, , have s-shaped river bends and airports nearby, with the name of the parks notated by an oval; the airports by a box; and the river bends are pointed at by arrows.
The “Snowshoe Rails to Trails” is near Black Moshannon, as seen here in the top-left-hand corner, right next to the Moshannon Creek where the arrows are pointing.
The “Snowshoe Rails-to-Trails” has 19-miles, or 31-kilometers, of abandoned railroad bed along 37-miles, or 60-kilometers, of legalized Snowshoe Township Roads for ATVS/UTVs.
We are told that it was originally the route of the Beech Creek Railroad between the South Jersey Shore and Mahaffey Borough, Pennsylvania, and part of the Susquehanna and South Western Railroad, and used for coal mining services in the region starting in 1884.
Mahaffey Borough, first incorporated in 1841, was located on U. S. Route 219, at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
The arrows point to where railroad tracks ran along S-shaped river-bends. on this section of Route 219 going through Mahaffey Borough.
This railroad project in Pennsylvania was said to have been backed and financed by William H. Vanderbilt, President of the New York Central Railroad.
The New York Central Railroad was said to have begun operating in 1853 with the consolidation of earlier independent companies running between Albany and Buffalo. This graphic depicts the New York Central rail system as of 1918.
We are told extensive trackage existed in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, plus additional trackage in Ontario and Quebec, and by 1925 operated 26,395-miles, or 42,479-kilometers, of track.
William Vanderbilt had developed a plan to facilitate railroad access to enter the “Clearfield Coalfield,” a large, juicy coal-mining area in Clearfield County, which would have been otherwise exclusively accessed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It was said to have been constructed starting at the end of 1882 to high-standards, including extensive curvature, bridges, and a tunnel, and became operational in November of 1884.
In West Virginia, Cranberry Glades is located close to both the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and White Sulphur Springs.
First, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
The New River Gorge is one of the places that I know of that still has a railroad operating right along beside the S-shaped New River.
The Amtrak Cardinal still runs through the New River Gorge 3 days/week – on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Besides the railroad line that runs along the New River through the New River Gorge in West Virginia, there are things found in the gorge like historic coal mines, waterfalls, and hydro projects.
We are told that after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway opened up this rugged wilderness in 1873, coal was carried out of the New River Gorge to the ports in Virginia and to cities in the Midwest.
As a result, by 1905, thirteen cities sprang up between Fayette and Thurmond, which was 15-miles, or 24-kilometers, upstream, and provided the West Virginia coal that contributed greatly to the industrialization of the United States until the 1950s.
After the coal seams were exhausted and mines closed, these company towns like Fayette were for the most part completely abandoned, with the possible exception of Thurmond which had a very small population of 5 in 2010.
Aaron sent me information about the Red Ash and Rush Run Coke Ovens near Thurmond.
The Rush Run Coke Ovens were said to belong to the Rush Run Mining Company, and there were believed to have been up to 180 of them at this location, which borders the railroad tracks.
Coke ovens are described as being made of brick, or some kind of heat-resistant material, and used to separate the coal-gas, coal-water, and tar.
Coke is formed when the coal-gas and coal-water fuse together, and is used primarily in steel-production.
The nearby Red Ash coal camp was developed by the Red Ash Coal and Coke Company in 1891, for a high-quality coal that burned with a “fine red ash.”
There were estimated to be 80 coke ovens here at one time, and the mine was exhausted by the 1950s.
There’s a service tunnel at the location of the Red Ash Coke Ovens.
The fine brick-work found at the Red Ash facilities reminds me of the fine brickwork I have seen in tunnels all over the place, including what is called the Great Tunnel of the C & O Canal in Allegheny County, Maryland, and part of the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River as it is winding its way through West Virginia and Maryland.
Built using more than 6,000,000-bricks, this tunnel has been described as the “greatest engineering marvel along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.”
It is located roughly mid-way between Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania and Cranberry Glades in West Virginia.
The Paw Paw Tunnel was said to have been built between 1836 and 1850 for the C & O Canal to by-pass the bends in the Potomac River near Paw Paw, West Virginia.
The C & O Canal closed to canal boats in 1924.
We are told that the C & O Canal, and other canals, were made obsolete because the railroad was so much more efficient and canals couldn’t compete with them.
Such as the Wabash and Erie Canal, which was said to have been built during roughly the same time period as the C & O Canal.
Canals like the C & O Canal subsequently became popular hiking, biking and canoeing venues, as we are seeing with the Rails that quietly became trails when no one was paying attention.
It is interesting to note that at one time in its history, Thurmond was a prosperous railroad town that was the largest, revenue-generating stop on the C & O Railroad, where passenger and coal trains rolled through here throughout the day.
Today, a visitor center for the National Park Service operates here in the old railroad depot.
CSX Transportation, formerly the C & O Railroad, has freight transportation operations in and through historic Thurmond, and the Amtrak Cardinal passenger route goes through here, the second-least-used Amtrak station in the nation.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was formed in 1869 from several smaller Virginia Railroads under the guidance of Collis P. Huntington, in order to connect the coal reserves of West Virginia with the new coal piers that were built in Hampton Roads and Newport News, Virginia, and first opened in 1873, forging a rail link to places like Chicago in the Midwest.
Collis P. Huntington was one of the Big Four of western railroading, along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker.
In 1888, Huntington lost control of the railroad to J. P. Morgan, an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age between 1877 and 1900, and William K. Vanderbilt, who managed the Vanderbilt family’s railroad investments.
William K. Vanderbilt was was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history, who was an American magnate, and who built his family’s fortune in shipping and railroads.
The process continued on for the C & O Railroad to consolidate and merge railroads, and, for example, to gain access to productive coal fields throughout the region, through the 1920s.
There are waterfalls and hydro-electric projects found on the New River as it winds its way through the gorge.
I was able to find several waterfalls here that are accessible by road, and reference to over 100 others .
The first two waterfalls I found that are accessible by road are the Kanawha Falls and Cathedral Falls.
They are directly across from each other on a river-bend, and they both have hydro projects next to them.
Starting at the North Bend State Park in Cairo, West Virginia, northwest of Cranberry Glades and northeast of the New River Gorge, there is the 72-mile, or 116-kilometer, – long hiking corridor known as the “North Bend Rail Trail” running between Cairo and Ellenboro, West Virginia.
What is now the North Bend Trail was at one time one of the most distinguished railroad lines in United States History.
It was said to have been constructed between Grafton, West Virginia, and Parkersburg, West Virginia, by the Northwestern Virginia Railroad between 1851 and 1857, at which time it was sold to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and became known as the “B & O Parkersburg Branch.”
The Parkersburg Branch was said to have been built to high engineering standards with 23 tunnels and 52 bridges to minimize curvature, and had a maximum grade of 1.5%
During its prime, it hosted the B & O Railroad’s premiere passenger train, the National Limited, between New York City and St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1827, the State of Maryland chartered the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad, the first common carrier, and the oldest, railroad in the United States.
The first section of the B & O Railroad was said to have opened in 1830, and it was said to have reached the Ohio River in 1852, the first eastern seaboard railroad to do so.
Unfortunately, we are told that with the rise of automobile ownership, ridership declined, and B & O ended its passenger service in 1971, at which time Amtrak took over and passenger service continued for another ten-years.
Eventually the rail-line that was part of the North Bend Rail Trail became freight-only, and the line was abandoned and dismantled in 1988.
The trail was completed between 1991 and 1996, and also has beautiful, red-brick tunnels along the way.
Now I am going to take a look at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which is roughly 24-miles, or 39-kilometers, to the southeast of the bogs at Cranberry Glades.
White Sulphur Springs was said to have been settled in 1750, and developed as a health spa in the 1770s, as the story goes after a woman was healed of rheumatism after bathing in the springs, and calls itself “America’s Resort since 1778.”
The springs are on the grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel, which was said to have been built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company in 1913.
So far we have seen springs here as well as at the former Pocono Mountain House and Springs in this post, where the fire department had to burn down the resort because it was in such bad condition after years of abandonment.
Even today, the same Amtrak Cardinal Line that runs through the New River Gorge has a station at White Sulphur Springs.
The Greenbrier Resort was at one time a Presidential getaway, with President Eisenhower the last President in office to have stayed there.
The Presidents’ Cottage is a museum today.
It remains a favorite retreat location for members of the U. S. Congress.
As a matter of fact, there was a top-secret, super-sized underground bunker, said to have been constructed there in the 1950s during the Eisenhower Administration to serve as a relocation point for the U. S. Congress in the event of a nuclear war, but when the secret came out in 1992 in a newspaper article, it was decommissioned.
The Greenbrier River Trail is located between the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs and Lewisburg on Interstate 64, and was also a former railroad bed and right-of-way.
Lewisburg is located near the junction of Routes 219 and Interstate 64.
This is the same U. S. Route 219 we saw back in Pennsylvania in connection with Mahaffey Borough, which was located on U. S. Route 219, at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
This was the beginning of me noticing that U. S. Route 219 showing up a lot at the places where my research was taking me to the “On the Trail of Giants in Appalachia and Beyond” and which led me to intriguing connections with U.S. Highway 19 as well.
What is now the Greenbrier River Trail was gifted to the State of West Virginia in the late 1970s and opened as a recreational, multi-use trail in 1980.
It runs between North Caldwell, which is 3-miles, or 5-kilometers, east of Lewisburg on U. S. Route 60/Interstate 64,and Cass in Eastern West Virginia.
Cass, West Virginia, was founded as a company town in 1901 for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and named for Joseph Kerr Cass, the Vice-President and co-founder of the pulp and paper company.
Most of the town named for Joseph K. Cass, and its buildings, were bought by the State of West Virginia in 1961 after the pulp and paper mill closed in 1960, and it became the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.
The Cass Scenic Railroad State Park continues to offer trips to Whittaker Station; the ghost town of Spruce; and Bald Knob, the highest point of the Back Allegheny Mountain in Pocahontas County.
Now I am take a look at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, on West Virginia Route 28 between the Durbin Depot and Cass Depot on this map.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, situated near the S-shaped bends of the Greenbrier River, is part of the United States National Science Foundation, which is headquartered at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and used for the purposes of radio astronomy.
Besides Charlottsville and Green Bank, other National Radio Astronomy Observatories are located in Socorro, New Mexico; Tucson, Arizona; and San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
The Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest, fully-steerable radio telescope.
Interesting to note that I found this bit of information in reference to the location of the Green Bank Observatory.
The area around the Observatory was at one time planted with pines with needles of a certain length to block electromagnetic interference at the wavelengths used there, which is a very intriguing find.
The Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory is in the National Radio Quiet Zone, in which radio transmissions are restricted by law.
Researchers like Karl Jansky, credited with the discovery of radio waves coming from the Galactic Center, at the Bell Labs complex in Holmdel, New Jersey, were credited with the development of radio astronomy, among other things.
The Holmdel Complex, in use by Bell Labs for approximately 44-years starting from around 1962 was called “The Biggest Mirror Ever,” and located near the entrance to lower New York Bay.
It is also located near Red Bank, New Jersey, where Karl Jansky died.
Red Bank, New Jersey, and Green Bank, West Virginia?
A Coincidence? Or not?
The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex in New Jersey was also in an alignment with Montauk Point, where the experiments of the Montauk Projects were said to have been carried out at the former Montauk Air Force Station at Camp Hero State Park; and Brookhaven National Laboratory, where among many other things, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is located, the first and one of two operating heavy-ion colliders, the other being CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, which the one in Brookhaven is the reverse of; the JFK International Airport, which sits besides Jamaica Bay, and is described as a partially man-made and partially natural estuary on the western tip of Long Island, and containing numerous marshy islands; Coney Island; and Philadelphia southwest of Bell Labs on the alignment.
Besides much more along these lines throughout this area, there were three major historic trolley amusement parks alone on Brooklyn’s Coney Island Peninsula – Dreamland, Luna Park, and Steeplechase Park – as well as the Brighton Beach Race Course.
Historically, there was a very high concentration of star forts, trolley amusements parks, lighthouses in this one location on Earth.
Between the entrance to the lower New York Bay at the Atlantic Ocean to the locations around the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River alone, I have specifically looked at eleven star forts that are in pairs and/or clusters; five major historic trolley amusement parks; and eleven lighthouses.
And this does not include what was found of the same all the way up the Hudson River.
Lighthouses were also part of the Earth’s Energy Grid system and also have either been decommissioned, demolished, or are being used in a different capacity than what they were originally.
I have come to believe “lighthouses” were literally “a house for light” for the purposes of precisely distributing the energy generated by this gigantic integrated system that existed all over the Earth that was in perfect alignment with everything on Earth and in heaven.
Back in West Virginia, one more thing about the location of the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory , it is also near Cheat Mountain.
Cheat Mountain was once the home of the largest red spruce forest south of Maine.
Cheat Mountain is flanked on the western side by our old friend U.S. Route 219 and on the eastern side by the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.
East to west it is crossed by U. S. Route 33 on one side, and U. S. Route 250 on the other side.
We are told that during the American Civil War, Cheat Mountain was of strategic importance during the early part of the Operations in West Virginia Campaign.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place between September 12th to 15th of 1861, and was the first battle that General Robert E. Lee led troops into combat.
Still a part of Virginia at the time, since what became the state of West Virginia was not formed until after the Civil War, troops under Lee sought to regain confederate territory that had been gained by the Union after Union troops had advanced into the western region of Virginia from Ohio.
We are told that the Battle of Cheat Mountain was a Confederate attempt to regain the Union occupied Fort Milroy on top of Cheat Mountain, but they were unsuccessful and “lost” the battle.
Some interesting things turn up when we look at the view from above of this location.
One is that there was a strip mine here at one time, as seen in the name of the trailhead notated next to the location of the fort
This view we see the first of many patterns like this, with lines emanating out from a central point, in this case Cheat Summit Fort.
In this current view of the area around Cheat Summit Fort from Google Earth, it is easier to see that it is as the meeting place of at least three S-shaped river bends.
Barton Knob on the left-hand side was the location of strip-mining prior to its acquisition by the Monongahela National Forest in 1986.
Before the 1880s, the landscape was dominated by old-growth red spruce and red-spruce northern hardwood forests.
Starting in the 1880s until the 1940s, the vast majority of this forested land was clear-cut, after which the ecosystem was only 10% of its original range.
This area was strip-mined between the 1950s and the 1980s by the Mower Land and Lumber Company.
Strip-mining is the practice of mining a long-strip of material by removing overlying soil and rock, most commonly used to mine coal.
Barton Knob is also the location of an abandoned “Fire Tower.”
We are told there has been a radio repeater at the same location since 2012.
We are told the fire tower on Barton Knob has been in existence at least since 1939.
There are 79 registered former fire lookout sites in West Virginia alone.
Many of these what are called fire, or observation, towers and their access roads, were said to have been built by the CCC between 1933 and 1942, having received credit for building an estimated 250 of them.
Like I said earlier in this post about the dams at the Moshannon State Forest, there is no doubt in my mind that the CCC, and the other New Deal programs of FDR’s during the Great Depression, were being used to cover-up the ancient advanced civilization.
Apparently there were over 8,000 fire look-outs located in 49 states, with only 2,000 remaining.
Also, Cheat Bridge is in close proximity to the historic Cheat Summit Fort.
Cheat Bridge is the name of an unincorporated community near U. S. Route 250’s crossing of the Shaver’s Fork of the Cheat River.
It was named for a historical bridge located here that was said to have been a “Pinned Pratt through Truss” bridge built in 1912 by the Canton Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio.
The “Pinned Pratt through Truss” was said to have been developed in 1844 under patent of Thomas and Caleb Pratt, with “diagonals in tensions, verticals in compression, except for the hip verticals immediately adjacent to the inclined end-posts of the bridge.
I have done a deep dive on the “Old World Bridges of the New World,” in which I seriously question the narrative of who we are told built what and when in the bridge category of infrastructure.
Cheat Bridge is also a stop for the Cheat Mountain Salamander Train operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad.
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad is a heritage and freight railroad that also offers passenger service.
Cheat Bridge was also a part of the Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike, which was first established as a toll-road some time around the mid-1800s.
This 1848 article is advertising stage-coach service on the Staunton – Parkersburg Turnpike.
Not the first turnpike/toll road we have seen early in the history of the United States, and not the last one we will see, where they are “charging” “currency” for use of the roadway.
The last thing that I would like to mention about the Cheat Mountain location before I move on from here is this.
The Cheat River runs along this section of West Virginia between the state’s border with both Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Aaron sent me this reference to giant skeletons having been uncovered in the location of the Cheat River.
The first reference was a Tucker County resident finding giant bones protruding from the ground in the area on the Cheat River known as “Horse Shoe” in 1774, that he estimated would have been from someone 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, -tall when he laid them out.
Also, other settlers found large-size bones nearby in what is described as an “ancient village” that had earthen and stone mounds, earning the area the nickname “Giant Town.”
Back in Huntington, West Virginia, near the New River Gorge and named for “Big 4” Railroader Collis P. Huntington, it was one of the first American cities to have electric streetcars, with service believed to have started around the end of 1888.
Then, starting in the 1920s, the Ohio Valley Electric Railway had organized a gas-powered bus service, which by November 1937 had completely replaced all of Huntington’s former electric streetcar lines.
Exactly the same story we saw back in Hoboken, where we saw that by August of 1949, electric streetcars had been replaced by buses in a process known as “bustitution.”
Also, Camden Park in Huntington first opened as a trolley park in 1903.
It was said to have been first established as a “picnic spot” by the Camden Interstate Railway Company in 1903, which was a street railway and interurban system that ran between Huntington, West Virginia, and Ashland, Kentucky, and which by 1916 was owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Railway, who became new owners of the park.
Today Camden Park is one of thirteen remaining trolley parks that remain open in the United States, long minus trolleys, and the only operating amusement park in West Virginia.
Like what we saw in Hoboken, New Jersey, locati0ns of historical trolley parks, of which there were an estimated 2,000 at one time, are long-gone.
I couldn’t find one when I looked for a map showing the the Ohio Valley Electric Railway lines, but I did find one for the Ohio Electric Railway.
This is what we are told about the Ohio Electric Railway, as one of many of the same stories.
It was formed in 1907 upon the consolidation of fourteen smaller interurban railways.
At its peak, it operated 617-miles, or 993-kilometers, of track.
The company went bankrupt in 1921 and dissolved into their constiuent companies.
Eventually all the interurban lines went away…everywhere.
I have marked with red dots the hubs of interurban lines, where three or more lines meet at a central point.
Along with the tallest skeleton by far being 18-feet, or 5.5 meters, -tall at West Hickory in Pennsylvania, which I will be looking at later in this post, of the ten featured on this graphic, three are in the vicinity of where we have been looking at around Huntington, West, Virginia.
Number 10 on the list was found at the Great Serpent Mound, at 7-feet, or a little over 2-meters, -tall; #9 at Cresap Mound in West Virginia at 7-feet, 2-inches, still a little over 2 -meters, – tall; and #6 at Miamisburg, Ohio at a little over 8-feet, or 2.5-meters, -tall.
These giant skeleton findings are consistent with other recorded giant skeleton finds in the surrounding area, with some have been reported to have been found in mounds, and some randomly found in proximity to rivers.
The next place I am going to look at in West Virginia is Fairmont, the seat of Marion County.
Fairmont is located just above the confluence of where the West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the Monongahela River.
I couldn’t help but notice all the s-shaped riverbends going on around here meeting in the vicinity of Fairmont!
So, I searched for more information on Fairmont’s railroad history and this is what I found.
First, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was an inter-urban electric streetcar system that served the Fairmont and Clarksburg areas, linked by a main-line, and connected the communities of Bridgeport, Fairview, Mannington and Weston.
It offered both passenger and freight services, and connected communities and coal camps.
It became operational in 1901.
We are told that now the electric streetcar services just couldn’t compete with the advent of automobiles reducing demand for these services, and this interurban streetcar system was abandoned entirely by 1947, when the system had transitioned entirely to bus services.
This was the crossing of this interurban line at Hawkinberry Run near Rivesville.
In time, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was managed by the larger West Penn Railway system of electric streetcars that was headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and was said to be part of the regions power-generation utility.
It consisted of 339-miles, or 546-kilometers, of electric streetcar track at its height.
It was operational from 1904 to 1952.
Next, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad once connected Fairmont to Uniontown in Pennsylvania, a distance of 56-miles, or 17-kilometers.
It became operational in 1894.
We are told the importance of this line waned as the coal mines along the route closed, and in 1953, passenger service ended.
By 1991, most of the line between Fairmont and Uniontown was abandoned, with the exception of two short stretches that are still in use today, like the one I mentioned that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation between Grafton and Rivesville.
This map of the Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition’s Parkersburg to Pittsburgh (P2P) Corridor shows its plan to have a fully-connected recreational rail-to-trail between the two cities, with the proposed segments overlaid in red.
I have put a blue box around the Fairmont to Uniontown segment of the former railroad line, and a red box around the section between the West Fork River Trail, which starts just outside of Fairmont, and goes to Parkersburg, and includes the previously mentioned North Bend Rail- Trail.
Aaron sent me this information on p. 10 in “The History of Marion County.”
The information on this page referred to:
–Workmen preparing to build a bridge unearthed three giant skeletons, measuring over 7-feet, or 2-meters, in length, in the village of Rivesville at Paw Paw Creek;
–“Fort Hill” about 2-miles, or 3-kilometers, north of Fairmont, and traces of an aboriginal fort;
The only fort I can find any information on to speak of near Fairmont is “Pricketts Fort,” which just happens to be the same distance north of Fairmont that is referenced on the “History of Marion County” page.
Pricketts Fort State Park is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Pricketts Creek.
What the historical narrative tells us is that it is was a reconstructed “refuge fort,” built on Jacob Pricketts’ homestead, to defend local settlers from hostile indian raids, and these days commemorates life on the Virginia frontier in the late 18th-century.
A couple of interesting things to note about the Pricketts Fort location.
First is that the site of the fort is located on a river-bend, right next to an old railroad bridge that is now part of the Marion County Rail-Trail, and there are railroad tracks right next to the Monongahela River, still in use by the Fairmont Subdivision, a railroad from Grafton to Rivesville that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation on what used to be part of the B & O Railroad Mainline.
The Marion County Rail Trail runs for 2.5-miles, or 4-kilometers, from the Pricketts Fort State Park, along Pricketts Creek through rural Marion County, to Fairmont.
The trail’s main highlight is a 1,200-foot, or 366-meter, -long lighted tunnel, which runs under Speedway Avenue and Suncrest Boulevard. said to have been built in 1914 by the Monongahela Railroad.
The land for the trail was purchased from the railroad by the County in 1989.
The last thing I would like to mention in this part of West Virginia, all in the vicinity of the bogs of Cranberry Glades, is that there is a pattern of North-South-oriented, perfectly-straight parallel lines that are detectable in the landscape on Google Earth that Aaron had noticed and sent me this screenshot.
I followed the straight lines visible at Cranberry Glades northwards.
While not directly north of it, Pittsburgh isn’t far away from being due north of Cranberry Glades.
In addition, here’s a screenshot of the same kind of parallel lines appearing in the landscape west of Gettysburg that Aaron found, the historical location of a very famous Civil War Battle.
It would make sense that these massive parallel lines that are part of the landscape were part of the Earth’s original energy grid system.
Now, I’m going to return to the area around the bog of Black Moshannon State Park and take another look there for the purposes of comparison to the area around Cranberry Glades.
Black Moshannon State park is 22-miles, or 35-kilometers, from State College, Pennsylvania, which is only a difference of 2-miles, or 4-kilometers, of the distance between the bogs at Cranberry Glades and the community of White Sulphur Springs, with its luxurious and exclusive Greenbrier Resort.
State College, Pennsylvania, is the home of Penn State University.
It is connected to Phillipsburg and Black Moshannon State Park via Pennsylvania U. S. Route 322.
Penn State was founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, and in 1863, it became the state’s first land-grant university.
Besides U. S. Route 322, State College is surrounded by U. S. Route 220 (also part of I-99), and State Routes, like 550; 150; 45; and 26.
State College is also surrounded by s-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
Now a word about the United States Numbered Highway System, also known as the Federal Highway System, that we have already seen examples of come up in this post.
It was actually called an “integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid across the contiguous United States.”
It was first approved in 1926.
Drawn up in 1913, by the National Highway Association, the map was said to be the first proposed U. S. Highway Network map.
The red roads were delineated “Main” National Highways; the blue roads “Trunk” National Highways; and the yellow roads were “Link” National Highways to connect all the “Mains” and “Trunks.”
The Nation’s first Federal Highways would not be adopted until 1926, when the American Association of State Highway officials approved the first plans for the numbered highway system, with this section showing Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
I have blue arrows pointing to major cities that are the central point of at least five highways – Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; and Birmingham, Alabama.
What we see happening with the highway system of certain cities being the central point of multiple highways, is also seen with rail-lines, as we have also seen thus far, like with the example seen previously of the Ohio Electric Railway lines.
This Civil War era-example shows that Petersburg in Virginia, just south of Richmond, was a central point of multiple rail-lines emanating from it in all directions.
Petersburg was the focal point of the railroads that supplied Richmond during the Civil War, and was the primary target for the Union Army in Virginia from the last half of 1864 until April of 1865.
The third major Civil War fire was the April 2nd of 1865 Burning of Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and of the Confederate States of America.
Also known as the “Evacuation Fire,” and the “Fall of Richmond,” Richmond was set on fire on the night of April 2nd by Confederate forces after Confederate President Jefferson Davis was said to have ordered the burning of warehouses and bridges after Union General Ulysses S. Grant had taken nearby Petersburg.
This is a lithograph depicting it by Currier & Ives.
In our historical narrative, the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant days later, on April 9th of 1865, after his final defeat at the Battle of Appomattox Court House that same day.
There’s a very similar configuration between Petersburg Rail-lines of the Civil War-era, and the highways around Richmond and Petersburg today.
And where there have been toll roads in one form or another for a long time, since this subject has been coming up as well.
Since 1958, that section of I-95 has been known as the “Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike,” but there have been toll roads in the area since 1826.
Two other major fires in history have come down to us as Acts of War during the American Civil War.
The first was the Burning of Atlanta, which we are told took place in 1864, an important rail and commercial center at the time of the Civil War.
General Sherman and his Union Forces captured the city of Atlanta in September 2nd of 1864, and occupied from then until November of 1864.
He gave orders to destroy Atlanta as a transportation hub and as a war material manufacturing center, and in particular the railroad system and everything connected to it.
His orders were carried out destroying physical infrastructure, and on November 15th, everything that had been destroyed was set on-fire.
Like Petersburg/Richmond, Atlanta was a railway hub at the time of the Civil War, and is a highway hub today.
Then, after Atlanta was burned down by General Sherman and his troops in November, the following February, Columbia, the capital of South Carolina and an important political and supply center for the Confederacy, was said to have surrendered to General Sherman on February 17th, 1865, after the Battle of Rivers’ Bridge.
On the same day, the fires started, burning much of Columbia, though there is disagreement between historian regarding whether or not the fires on that day were accidental or intentional, but on the following day, General Sherman’s forces destroyed anything of military value, including railroad depots, warehouses, arsenals, and machine shops.
Like Petersburg/Richmond and Atlanta, Columbia was a transportation hub with regards to rail infrastructure, and a highway hub today.
Were these places specifically targeted for destruction because of their importance as transportation and infrastructure hubs on the energy grid during the historical event known to us as the American Civil War?
And were not destroyed for the reasons we have always been told?
Now back to State College in Pennsylvania.
As I mentioned previously, besides State and US Routes, State College is also surrounded by S-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
And, yes, there is a railroad history to be found in the area around State College too.
Whereas West Virginia was mined exhaustively for its coal, this part of Pennsylvania came to be mined exhaustively for its iron ore.
Andrew Carnegie had begun mining iron ore in Scotia in 1881 for his steel mills in Pittsburgh, and by 1887, we are told that a new era of iron-making in the Nittany Valley began, with the opening of the Nittany and Bellefonte Furnaces along Buffalo Run near its junction with Spring Creek, and three railroads that were said to have been constructed to haul the iron ore to them – the Bellefonte Central (BFC), Central Railroad (CRR) and Nittany Valley Railroad (NV).
By 1911 both of these furnaces had been shut-down.
By 1950, all the railroads that had once served the area, either for the iron-related industry or passenger service, including the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, circled in blue, were no longer in service.
The only rail here that became operational again was a portion of the Bellefonte Central after the Bellefonte Historical Railroad was organized as an excursion line in 1985, and occasionally offers runs as a tourist attraction.
I also looked to see if Penn State University has an underground tunnel system, and it does, though its origin seems mysterious for some reason.
We are told there is a system of tunnels said to have been built for maintenance purposes, and many of which are used today to generate steam to heat the Penn State sidewalks and keep them clear of snow in the wintertime, and other tunnels for other maintenance purposes.
Interesting to note that the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel, the world’s largest water tunnel at the time it was built in cooperation with the Navy in 1949, is at Penn State, and for a long time was the largest circulating water tunnel in the world.
It is still one of the Navy’s principal experimental hydrodynamic research faciilities, and has been declared a historic mechanical engineering landmark.
The Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel, the world’s largest water tunnel at the time it was built, sounds like what we saw back in Green Bank, West Virginia, with the world’s largest fully-steerable telescope at the radio astronomy observatory there.
Not only that, both locations are in close proximity to US Route 219; the bogs and Black Moshannon State Park and Cranberry Glades; Green Bank is close to Cheat Mountain and Penn State is close to Mount Nittany, which are geographically close to Mount Pocono.
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Mount Nittany near Penn State was said to have gotten its name from the Algonquin word “Nit-a-Nee,” meaning “Single Mountain.”
For the purposes of comparison for similarity, I recently found a different university with tunnels on a route near a single mountain.
In this photo of the Wake Forest University Campus, you can see the Wait Chapel building in a direct alignment with Pilot Mountain in the background.
The tunnels at Wake Forest University were also said to have been built for heating and maintenance purposes. They have tours, but they are typically not open for public view.
Pilot Mountain, which was just pictured in alignment with the Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest, is described as one of the most distinctive natural features in the State of North Carolina, with two distinctive features, one named “Big Pinnacle,” and the other “Little Pinnacle.”
It is seen here centered on U. S.. Route 52.
U. S. Route 52 follows a northwest to southeast route across the country.
The northwestern terminus of U. S. Route 52 is in Portal, North Dakota, in the Bakken Oil Field Region and on the International Border with Canada at North Portal Saskatchewan…
…where we find the the historic Soo Line going through North Dakota from northwest to southeast, quite similar to the route of US-52.
On its southeasterly journey across the United States, US Route 52 passes through places like Indianapolis, Indiana, another large central hub of transportation routes.
…Pilot Mountain in North Carolina as previously mentioned…
…to the southeastern terminus of U. S. 52 in Charleston, South Carolina, at Number 2 Meeting Street and White Point Harbor at the Battery along the Charleston Harbor, not far from the place the American Civil War started at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12th of 1861.
Peter Champoux has done incredible work on specific ley-lines in North America, and other continents as well, as seen on his website geometryofplace.com
Peter shows Pilot Mountain in North Carolina as a hub for ley-lines on the home page of his website, looking much like the cities we are seeing that serve as transportation hubs for multiple rail-lines and/or highways.
Pilot Mountain is described as a “Quartzite Monadnock.”
This translates to a “hard, metamorphic rock that was originally pure quartz sandstone that is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.”
Here are some other examples of places classified as “Monadnocks.”
Besides Pilot Mountain on the top left, Harteigen in Norway is seen on the top right; Devil’s Tower in Wyoming on the bottom left; and Cooroora in Australia on the bottom right.
What if “Monadnock” is a word used to cover-up gigantic tree stumps?
What if other “Mounts” that we have seen thus far, like Mount Pocono, and even Cheat Mountain, are also in that category.
And if so, what was their significance to this post about “The Energy Grid?”
I believe the example of Pilot Mountain being a hub of ley-lines provides a significant clue for us.
Here are some examples of giant trees and stumps that are identified as such.
In this comparison, we have the Devil’s Tower from another angle on the left; the Jugurtha Tableland in Tunisia in the middle; and the volcano in the middle of the city of Hammam Damt in Yemen looking very tree-stumpish!
Pilot Mountain State Park is on the western end of what are called the “Sauratown Mountains,” named after the Saura, or Cheraw People, the Siouan-speaking indigenous people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans and considered extinct as a tribe, so they are left only in place-names in the region.
The Sauratown Mountains are described as an isolated mountain range, sometimes called “the mountains away from the mountains,” and consisting of heavily-forested ridges frequently broken by large quartzite, rock cliffs.
Interesting to note that a viewer left me a comment that before it was called Pilot Mountain, it was known as Mount Ararat.
I looked into it and found the historic Ararat River with rail infrastructure running beside it on the top left, and today’s Ararat River Greenway Trail where the railroad used to be on the bottom right.
The Ararat River Greenway Trail is at the eastern edge of the city of Mount Airy.
And we previously saw a place called Mount Airy Casino Resort earlier in this post at Mount Pocono.
The only Mount Ararat I have ever heard of is in modern Turkey today, and historic Armenia in the past, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark.
What’s Mount Ararat doing in North Carolina?
And why was the name changed to Pilot Mountain?
Way back when I believed the narrative I probably would have accepted it as a being “named after” situation, but not anymore!
Mount “Airy” North Carolina was Andy Griffith’s home town, and the place Mayberry was based on in “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Next, I am going to take a look at Altoona in Pennsylvania just down the road from State College and Penn State University.
Altoona is only 43-miles, or 70-kilometers southwest of State College.
Altoona was said to have been established by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849.
Aaron drew my attention to Altoona with information he sent me about the nearby “Horseshoe Curve.”
The “Horseshoe Curve” is a three-track railroad curve that is described as one of the world’s most incredible engineering feats, and was accomplished by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1854 as a way to reduce the westbound grade to the summit of the Allegheny mountains.
It was said to have replaced the original Allegheny Portage Railroad, which was said to be the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in 1834, and which was 36-miles, or 58-kilometers,-long, and connected to the Pennsylvania Canal.
Considered a technological marvel in its day and critical to opening the way to commerce and settlement past the Appalachian Mountains, the original Allegheny Portage Railroad consisted of a series of five inclines on either side of the ridge-line from Blair Gap to Cresson Summit alongside what is called the Little Conemaugh River to where it meets the Conemaugh River at Johnstown.
This is the same kind of infrastructure as the Ashley Planes seen previously that were said to have been built by the Lehigh Coal Mine Company between 1837 and 1838 for use in transporting millions of tons of anthracite coal over the Wilkes-Barre Mountain.
Interesting things to note along the historic route of the Allegheny Portage Railroad include:
The “Skew Arch Bridge,” which we come to after leaving the main canal location of Hollidaysburg and going up towards Cresson Summit, and called the “only purposefully built bridge on the Portage” and crossed over the railway.
The “Skew Arch Bridge” was said to have been built in the 1830s, and was also part of the early road system, said to have gotten its name for its shape when it was being built from a bend in yet another Turnpike, the “Huntington, Cambria, and Indiana Turnpike” which was said to have been first authorized in 1810.
Today, the “Skew Arch Bridge” is preserved in the middle of “Old U. S. Route 22” and the new “U. S. Route 22.”
U. S. Route 22 is an East-West Numbered Highway from 1926 that runs from Cincinnati in Ohio to Newark in New Jersey, and passes through West Virginia and Pennsylvania on the way.
In Pennsylvania, U. S. 22 follows the route of the historic William Penn Highway, which was officially dedicated on November 15th of 1916, that ran parallel to the Pennsylvania Railroad through most of Pennsylvania.
First established in 1846, at its peak in 1882 , the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad, transportation enterprise, and corporation in the world.
This map of the extent of the Pennsylvania Railroad was dated November 3rd of 1857, which would have been four-years before the start of the American Civil War.
But seeing a side-by-side comparison of these two maps, it certainly appears as though most of US-22 is on or right next to what used to be the main railroad line for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The next landmark n the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s journey through the Allegheny Mountains is the summit at Cresson, a borough on top of the Eastern Continental Divide.
US Route 22 is one of the highways that accesses Cresson.
Back in the industrial heyday of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, there were lumber, coal and coke-yard industries located in Cresson.
Wealthy Pittsburgh businessmen like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and Charles Schwab, all connected to each other through the steel industry, had summer residences here, like Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage in Cresson.
Like what we saw at Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania, with resorts like the long-gone Pocono Mountain House and Springs, and White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, with the Greenbrier Luxury resort that is still very here with us, Cresson was known for its therapeutic mineral springs, and we are told that in 1881, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the Mountain House Resort Hotel.
Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage is still standing on the 400-acre property, which had 32-lots for private-cottages.
What we are told is that the reason for the demise of the Mountain House Resort Hotel and Cresson Springs was that America’s appetite for “mountain” or “inland” resorts began to decline in favor of beach resorts, just like canals falling by the wayside for railroads, and railroads the same for automobiles, and so on.
The Mountain House Resort Hotel had ceased operations by the early 1900s, and in 1916, it was completely razed to the ground, and the original hotel building was gone.
Interesting to note, that unlike the luxurious Mountain House Resort Hotel that got razed to the ground, the likewise spacious building of the former Cresson Sanitorium and Prison is still-standing, albeit in pretty rough shape these days!
This is what we are told.
Cresson Sanitorium was built on land that was donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, and first opened in 1913 in order to provide hospital and long-term care facilities for individuals and families with tuberculosis and other health conditions.
In 1956, it was incorporated into the Lawrence F. Flick State Hospital for people with mental illness.
In 1983, it was converted to a State Correctional Facility, and operated as such for the next 30-years, until its final closure in 2013.
The building is located on Old Route 22.
After the former Allegheny Portage Railroad left the summit at Cresson, it descended in elevation into Johnstown along the Little Conemaugh River, and we come to South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River and what was the former location of the South Fork Dam.
The famous Johnstown Flood on May 31st of 1889, the worst flood in the United States in the 19th-century, was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, and was the second major disaster the American Red Cross responded to, which was founded in May of 1881.
John D. Rockefeller was amongst several that donated to create a national headquarters for the American Red Cross near the White House in Washington, DC, said to have been built between 1915 and 1917.
The South Fork Dam was said to have been an earthwork built between 1838 and 1853 as part of a canal system as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
But then, after spending 15-years building the dam, it was abandoned by the Commonwealth, and sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, who turned around and sold it to private interests.
In 1881, speculators had bought the abandoned reservoir and built a clubhouse called the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and cottages, turning it into an exclusive retreat for 61 steel and coal financiers from Pittsburgh, including Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, and Henry Clay Frick.
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania Corporation and owned the South Fork Dam.
Henry Clay Frick was a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, and was actually said to have been largely responsible for the alterations to the South Fork Dam that led to its failure.
South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club members and friends, Andrew Carnegie, the 6th-wealthiest American in history according to CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $101-billion, and Andrew Mellon, the 15th-wealthiest American according to the same source, with an adjusted wealth of $63.2-billion, and Henry Clay Frick, had all been initiated into Freemasonry.
I keep bringing up these Freemasonry-ties because I absolutely there no doubt in my mind of the connection between Freemasonry and everything that has taken place here.
What we are told is that the South Fork Dam failed after days of unusually heavy rain, and 14.3-million-tons of water from the reservoir of Lake Conemaugh devastated the South Fork Valley, including Johnstown 12-miles, or 19-kilometers, downstream from the dam, killing an estimated 2,209 people and causing $17-million in damages in 1889, which be $490-million in 2020.
Though there were years of claims and litigation, the elite and wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were never found liable for damages.
In 1904, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club corporation was disbanded and assets sold at a public auction by the sheriff, and there were permanent exhibits in many places, like Atlantic City, depicting the horrors of the Johnstown Flood experience for public consumption, billed as a “Thrilling Account of the awful floods and their appalling ruin.”
Johnstown is located 57-miles, or 92-kilometers, east of Pittsburgh at the confluence of the Conemaugh and the Stonycreek Rivers.
The is a map of the 1889 Johnstown Flood direction from the National Park Service map.
“Mass of debris” is marked at the Stone Bridge location.
The Stone Bridge is a 7-arch railroad bridge that was said to have been constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1887 and 1888.
The Stone Bridge itself survived the flood, but it trapped all kinds of debris, including miles of barbed wire, that had been swept away by the raging floodwaters.
From 1834 to 1854, Johnstown was a key transfer point on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal.
At the head of the canal’s western branch, canal boats were transported over the mountains by the Allegheny Portage Railroad to continue the trip by water to Pittsburgh at the “Forks of the Ohio” and on to the Ohio River Valley.
More on the “Forks of the Ohio” to come in this post.
Both Johnstown on the one side of the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona on the other side, might have operational remnants of the original incline railway system, though that’s not what we are told about them.
The Johnstown Inclined Plane was said to have been designed by Hungarian-American engineer Samuel Diescher, and completed in 1891 to serve as an escape route from floods in the valley at the confluence of the Conemaugh and Stonycreek Rivers, and to connect Johnstown with the Borough of Westmont on Yoder Hill.
Samuel Diescher was also credited with the design of four of Pittsburgh’s seventeen original Inclines, of which only two remain, the Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines on Mount Washington, another “Mount” to wonder about!
Billed as the “World’s steepest vehicular inclined plane,” it’s slope has a grade of 71.9%, the Johnstown Incline takes only 90-seconds for it to travel in-between the two stations. Pretty darn fast!
The Johnstown Incline is closed for rehabilitation work, now projected to be completed in 2024.
The Inclined Plane Railway back at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona was said to have been built in the 1990s to take tourists up to the park above to get a gscenic view of the incredible engineering feat by the Pennsylvania Railroad circa 1854 of the Horseshoe Curve and its three-tracks that eliminated the need for the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s 10-inclined planes.
Like the one at Johnstown, this incline has been closed for repairs, and is also expected to reopen in 2024.
Incline railways work like an obliquely-angled elevator, in which cables attached to a pulley-system raise- and-lower the cars along the grade.
Two cars are paired at opposite-ends and act as each other’s counterweight. As such, there is not a need for traction between the wheels and rails, and thereby allowing them to scale steep slopes, unlike traditional rail-cars.
Thing is, there used to be way more of them than there are now, and inclined-railways were a worldwide thing.
Now they are mostly either tourist attractions, or kept on as an important part of a communities’ transportation infrastructure from low-ground to high-ground.
I looked at the subject of Incline Railways in-depth in this post, “Incline Railways of the Past and Present.”
Like the canals, railroads, electric streetcars and luxurious holiday resorts of the past, most of the world’s incline railways were largely made to go away for one reason or another.
Back in Johnstown, come to find out that the main highway connecting Johnstown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike is once again our old friend US Route 219!
It would certainly appear that some U. S. Highway routes were particularly important to the Controllers.
This is a great place to revisit the U. S. Number Highway System and see what comes up to the surface.
First up, a deeper look into US-219.
US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.
It is 535-miles, or 861-kilometers, -long, and runs from West Seneca, New York, at the eastern end of Lake Erie south of Buffalo, and ends at Bluefield, Virginia, right across the state border from Bluefield, West Virginia
In West Virginia, US-219 is said to follow what was known as the “Seneca Trail,” a network of trails of “unknown age” used by indigenous Americans for commerce, trading and communication.
The “Seneca Trail” ran through the Appalachian Valley from what was to become Upper New York State, and went well into Alabama, though they are described to us in our historical narrative strictly as “footpaths.”
What we are told is that by the time the land was settled by Europeans starting in the 18th-century, it was largely abandoned by its previous inhabitants.
So we’ve already seen where US-219 is a highway corridor that links the bogs of Black Moshannon State Park near Penn State University and State College and Cranberry Glades, near White Sulphur Springs and the Greenbrier Resort.
Both of these boggy lands are located in close proximity to former railroad infrastructure, with the previously seen Snowshoe Rail-to-Trails at Moshannon Creek, and the Greenbrier Rail-to-Trails running along US-219 and the Greenbrier River near Cranberry Glades.
As mentioned, these two highways meet at Bluefield in Virginia, of which there is one city on other side of the West Virginia/Virginia border with that name.
The land beneath the two Bluefields contains the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, known as the “Pocahontas Coalfield,” or the “Flat-Top Pocahontas Coalfield,” named after the Flat Top Mountain on US-19 in West Virginia, and Pocahontas, Virginia, where the first coal-seam here was discovered.
Bituminous Coal is the second-rank of coal after Anthracite, and contains bitumen, also known as asphalt.
It is the most abundant rank of coal, found around the world, and used primarily for electrical power generation and in the steel industry.
The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.
Pocahontas in Virginia was named after the famous daughter of Chief Powhatan in connection with the 17th-century Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
This is the most famous depiction of Pocahontas from her time on the left, but this how we have been taught to see Pocahontas and Powhatan on the right.
We are told that Bluefield in West Virginia, with its great location with respect to the developing Pocahontas Coalfield, was selected as the location of a major Division point on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the late 19th-century, and that the railroad greatly stimulated to the town’s growth, so much so that in its hey-day, Bluefield was considered a “Little New York.”
Next, I am going to take a deeper look at U. S. Route 19 starting at its northern terminus, and then come back to Bluefield and continue the journey southward on US-19.
Now, on to more about U. S. Route 19.
The North-South U. S. Route 19 runs from its northern terminus at U. S Route 20 at Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania to its southern terminus at an interchange with U. S. 41 in Memphis, Florida, just south of St. Petersburg.
Erie is located just about right in-between Cleveland, Ohio, which is 90-miles, or 140-kilometers, southwest of Erie, and Buffalo, New York, 80-miles, or 130-kilometers, northeast, on the southern shore of Lake Erie.
Pittsburgh is 128-miles, or 206-kilometers, south of Erie.
Erie was an important railroad hub during the mid-19th-century.
We are told the first railroad station in Erie was established in 1851, and replaced in 1866 by the Romanesque Revival Union Depot seen on the left, which was demolished in 1925.
The current Art Deco Union Station in Erie on the right was said to have opened in 1927, and designed by the Fellheimer and Wagner, an architectural firm credited with a bunch of railroad stations between 1923 and 1940.
The Erie Union Depot is used as an Amtrak stop on the Lake Shore Limited route, and is otherwise used for commercial space today.
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was said to have been incorporated on April 1st of 1858, with operations starting in March of 1860.
Then on April 1st of 1870, the Pennsylvania Railroad took-over operations.
It was an 83-mile, or 134-kilometer, -long railroad between Girard just west of Erie, and points south around the Pittsburgh area.
Today, it looks like what was the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line followed what is now Pennsylvania State Route 18 going south out of Girard, through these same two towns of Beaver Falls and Aliquippa on its way to Pittsburgh; US-19 is just east of there, going south from Erie on its way to Pittsburgh; and Pennsylvania State Route 8 leaves Erie and heads south through Titusville on its way to the greater Pittsburgh area.
Back in Erie, one more thing I want mention is Waldemeer Park & Water World.
Like Camden Park in Huntington, West Virginia, it is billed as one of only thirteen trolley parks still operating as an amusement park in the United States.
But what we see today is not what used they to be!
Waldemeer Park was first leased as a trolley park in 1896 by the Erie Electric Motor Company, and is the fourth-oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
Waldemeer has operated continuously since then under different owners, but the trolleys of the park are long-gone.
Trolley parks were said to have started in the United States in the 19th-century as picnic and recreation areas at the ends of streetcar lines, and were precursors to today’s amusement parks.
They were said to have been created by streetcar companies for reasons like giving people a reason to use their services on weekends.
By 1919, there were estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 such parks.
But like what we have already seen, these magnificent trolley parks went the way of the dinosaur too, along with countless electric streetcar lines, canals, railroad lines, and historic resorts.
I have come to believe that they were somehow involved with recharging the Earth’s energy grid for the original civilization in a really fun way, as they were located at the end terminals of streetcar lines, and were just utilized by the bringers-in of the world’s new system for a short time until they were no longer needed, or just plain inconvenient to the new narrative.
So, in this example, dozens of trolley parks were operating at one time in this part of Pennsylvania, just in the location alone between Erie and Pittsburgh, much less everywhere else!
One of Pittsburgh’s first amusement parks, Aliquippa Park was said to have been established sometime in the 1880s by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad as a way to bolster ridership, but by 1905 had fallen into disrepair, and the land was purchased by the “Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation” that year to construct the “Aliquippa Works.”
Giant skeletons were uncovered here in the past as well, as reported on in this newspaper article.
And now I am going to put this area near Erie and US-19 into the perspective of this new system in our historical narrative with its proximity to Titusville, which we come to going south out of Erie on Pennsylvania State Route 8.
The petroleum industry in the United States began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil on a piece of leased-land near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in what is now called Oil Creek State Park.
For this reason, Titusville is called the Birthplace of the Oil Industry, and for a number of years this part of Pennsylvania was the leading oil-producing region in the world.
Today, not surprisingly, the Oil Creek State Park Trail runs on the bed of the first railroad line to reach Titusville, the Oil Creek Railroad.
Samuel Kier had established America’s first oil refinery in Pittsburgh in 1854 for making lamp oil, just five-years before oil was “found” in Titusville.
So. it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.
Roughly a decade after the birth of the oil Industry at Titusville, in 1870, John D. Rockefeller, along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, founded the Standard Oil Company, an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company.
Oil was used in the form of kerosene throughout the country as a light source and heat source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel source for the automobile, with the first gas-powered automobile having been patented by Karl Benz in 1886.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr, who was born in the United States in 1839, was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.
He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this ranking by CNN Business.
Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.
At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.
As quickly as possible, a way was found to replace what remained of the free-energy system with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.
West Hickory is 14-miles, or 23-kilometers southeast of Titusville; 12-miles, or 20-kilometers, east of Oil Creek State Park, in Oil City.
West Hickory in Pennsylvania was the location of the where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was unearthed, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
Aaron sent me this article from the “Oil City Times” from the “Marysville Tribune” of Marysville, Ohio, dated January 26th of 1870.
Two men excavating near West Hickory in preparation for erecting a derrick first exhumed an enormous rusty helmet of iron…
…and then they unearthed a 9-foot, or almost 3-meter, – long sword.
So they made the hole bigger, and soon came upon the bones of two enormous feet.
After a few hours, they unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human.
The bones of the skeleton were described as “remarkably white;” the double- teeth all in place, of extraordinary-size; and that when the giant was alive, he must have stood 18-feet, or 5.5-meters, in stockings.
The relics were being viewed in nearby Tionesta before being sent on to New York.
In a similar configuration at the confluence of rivers as we have been seeing, like what we saw earlier in Fairmont, West Virginia, located where the S-shaped West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the s-shaped Monongahela River pictured on the right, West Hickory, on the left, is located on the S-shaped Allegheny River right before it meets the s-shaped Tionesta Creek at the borough of Tionesta.
From there, the Allegheny River goes onto meet the Monongahela River at the “Forks of the Ohio” in Pittsburgh, where they form the confluence of the Ohio River.
There were two star forts – known to us as Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt – where there are well-preserved masonry banks on both sides of today’s “Point State Park,” appearing as if these were canals, as seen the bottom right.
Looking just like what we see in Pittsburgh at the Forks of the Ohio, on the top left is a photo of the Monocacy Railroad Junction in Maryland circa 1873, and on the bottom right is a photo of the confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers in Des Moines, Iowa, one of countless examples of so-called river confluences that look exactly like this
A junction is defined as a “an act of joining or adjoining things,” implying intentionality as opposed to something that just happens randomly.
An electrical junction is defined as a point or area where multiple conductors or semi-conductors make physical contact.
It took some digging because it was hard to find out this information, but I was able to find a reference to a railroad history in this part of Pennsylvania near West Hickory in Forest County in neighboring Warren County.
Among showing other railroads running along rivers and creeks throughout the county, it shows a railroad along the Allegheny River where the red arrow is pointing.
Today’s US-62 runs along the Allegheny River through here.
US-62 is an east-west United States Numbered Highway that runs from the Mexican Border at El Paso, Texas, all the way to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canadian Border.
It passes right through Oil City, Tionesta, and West Hickory where it runs along the Allegheny River for 45-miles, or 72-kilometers.
Important to note here that at the end of US-62 in New York, there was an historic train route at Niagara Falls, called the Niagara Belt-Line, which traversed the Niagara Gorge.
Today, you can take a leisurely stroll at the “White Water Walk” where the Niagara Belt-Line once was.
While we are still here in this part of Pennsylvania, this is a good place to mention that this is the historical land of the Susquehannock People.
The Susquehannock People were known for their height.
This was not a secret.
On the left is a size comparison between a Susquehannock skeleton compared with a European-sized skeleton.
One last place I want to look at before I go back to continue down US-19 where we left off at Bluefield, Virginia, is Gornaya Shoria, on a different continent in Siberia.
Aaron sent me photos of Gornaya Shoria to bring it to my attention regarding its similarity to these rock formations we keep seeing in State Parks in North America.
Here is Boxcar Rocks in Pennsylvania on the left compared with Gornaya Shoria on the right.
Gornaya Shoria is found in Russia in southern Siberia, east of the Altay Mountains, and is known for its gigantic megalithic stone structures.
Here are some things this region in southern Siberia has in common with what we have been seeing in Appalachia.
Gornaya Shoria is in a region that is rich in ores, like the abundant iron ore we saw in State College,Pennsylvania, and is in the Kuznetsk Basin, one of the largest coal-mining areas in Russia with one of the largest coal deposits in the world, like the Pocahontas Coal Field, the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, back in southern West Virginia and western Virginia.
So this brings me to look at the Kemerovo Oblast of which Gornaya Shoria is a part.
Kemerovo is the administrative center of the Oblast and is the coal-mining capital of Russia.
It is located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, and is situated in an S-shaped bend of the Tom River.
The Kuznetsk Railroad Bridge crosses the Tom River at Kemerovo.
The Western Siberia Railway branch of the Great Trans-Siberian Railroad passes through Kemerovo, which has two railroad stations.
The Great Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world.
At 5,772-miles, or 9,289-kilometers,-long, it connects Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
We are told that the first railway projects in Siberia began after the completion of the Saint Petersburg to Moscow Railway in 1851.
The Siberian line was divided into seven sections, and construction started in 1891, and we are told most of the line was simultaneously worked on by 62,000 workers.
This was labelled as an 1895 photo of convicts working on the railroad in East Siberia near Khabarovsk.
Back in Kemerovo, there are still electric streetcars in use today in the Kemerovo Tram System.
There are numerous amusement parks with rides in downtown Kemerovo, like Wonderland and Antoshka.
There is even what we think of as classical Roman architecture here in Siberia, like the Kemerovo Regional Lunacharsky Drama Theater.
You know, Siberia!
And wherever this picture was taken in the Siberian winter has an operational incline railway!
And yes, and giants too!
This is that part of the world known previously as Grand Tartaria, or Tartary.
The Tartarian Empire in Asia was part of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization, with its roots in Ancient Mu.
So, now I am going to head back to where I left off in Pennsylvania and pick up US-19 in Pittsburgh.
The routes I looked at leaving southward out of Erie – US-19, US-18, and US-8 – meet on the highway system around Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh looks like another one of those central hubs we saw earlier with the US Highway System and historic Railroad lines.
Pittsburgh is the largest city in Appalachia and the Ohio Valley.
It developed as the vital link between the Atlantic Coast and the Midwest, with examples like the Allegheny Portage Railroad connecting the Pennsylvania Main Canal to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River and points west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Now I am going to leave Pittsburgh, and head south on US-19, back to where it meets US-219 in Bluefield, Virginia.
It is important to note this location at the two Bluefields and the Pocahontas Coalfield is on the alignment of the Serpent Lei identified by Peter Champoux and the red line in this Google Earth screenshot, that I tracked in a previous post from the Bermuda Triangle to Lake Itasca in Minnesota, which passes through the “monadnock,” Pilot Mountain in North Carolina right before it passes through this location.
It was from tracking the Serpent Lei alignment that I first encountered Burkes Garden, Virginia, which is just south of Bluefield, accessed from US-19, and the next place I want to bring to your attention.
Burkes Garden has a population of about 300 people, in a place considered to have the most fertile soil in Virginia, but no post office; no cell phone or cable service; cool-to-cold weather; and one paved road to Tazewell, the nearest town about 15-miles, or 23-kilometers away.
Burkes Garden is known as “Vanderbilt’s First Choice” for the Grand Biltmore Estate.
We are told that the land-owners there wouldn’t sell to George Washington Vanderbilt II, so he went to Asheville in North Carolina instead.
Why here???
Burkes Garden is also called “God’s Thumbprint,” and is the highest valley in Virginia and largest rural district.
So, a couple of things I want to mention about Burkes Garden and Tazewell County which US-19 passes through.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad’s Clinch Valley Line between the coalfields of Bluefield and Norton ran through Tazewell County beside US-19 for a little ways, and then went their separate ways at the southwestern end of the county, near Richlands, though there were numerous other Norfolk & Western Coal Lines throughout this region.
The coalfields of the Clinch River Valley south of Richlands were a signifcant source of high-quality coal during the hey-day of coal-mining operations here.
Arrows point to the mainline of the Clinch Valley Line following the s-shaped bends of the Clinch River.
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad continues to carry freight on the Clinch Valley Line.
On the other side of the high land-feature upon which Burkes Garden sits on top of is the North Fork of the Holston River.
On one end of the North Fork of the Holston River, just above Burkes Garden, there is an abandoned railroad for the New River, Holston and Western Railroad between Narrows and Sutter, Virginia.
It was said to have been constructed starting in 1903 to supply a tannery in Narrows with virgin stands of timber.
By the 1930s, the timber along the line started to be exhausted, and the railroad line was dismantled in 1946.
Portions of the former New River, Holston and Western Railroad became part of Virginia Route 61.
The Holston River is the main river flowing from the northeast to the southwest in this region, to which these other rivers are connected.
Today, there is still railroad operating called the “Knoxville and Holston River Railroad.”
The Knoxville and Holston Railroad is a short-line railroad in Tennessee that runs between Knoxville, and Marbledale, 20-miles away on the French Broad River.
Knoxville is situated at the confluence of three s-shaped rivers – the Holston, French Broad, and Tennessee Rivers.
This configuration in Knoxville on the top left looks just like what we have seen previously at Tionesta in Pennsylvania, where Tionesta Creek meets the Allegheny River; Fairmont in West Virginia, where the Monongahela River meets the West Fork River and the Tygart Creek River; and Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny River and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio River.
One more thing before I head south on US-19.
Tazewell, Virginia, prides itself on at one time being the smallest town in America with an electric streetcar.
It ran from the railroad depot to Main Street.
There was a horse-drawn streetcar in town from 1892, until the introduction of the electric streetcar in 1904, which operated until 1933.
The next place I am going to look at on US-19 is Abingdon.
Abingdon in Virginia is located near Virginia’s borders with Tennessee and North Carolina.
Like we saw in Tazewell, Abingdon was an active line on the Norfolk and Western Coal Lines…
…and the Norfolk & Southern still runs freight through the remaining track in Abingdon.
Abingdon is better-known for as the beginning or the end of the “Virginia Creeper Trail.”
It operated as a branch of the Norfolk & Western Railroad until 1974, and track removal began in 1977.
Today’s “Virginia Creeper Trail” was completed in 1984.
It is a 34-mile, or 55-kilometer, -long rail-trail from Abingdon to the Whitetop Station at the Virginia-North Carolina border.
Well wasn’t that nice of them, to take out all these railroad tracks when they no longer needed them for mining, and have them replaced with super-fun, multi-use recreational trails!
Ya think they did it because they’re being really nice?
I sure don’t!!!
The last place I want mention on US-19 is Asheville in North Carolina.
US-19 is co-signed with other highways and routes along its length, including Asheville.
It is interesting to note that two are more highways running together are called “concurrencies”
The word “currency” is used not only in this application, but as a word denoting money and money exchange, as well as a word with applications in electricity, where it is defined as a stream of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.
Asheville is also located on the French Broad River, and as a matter of fact, Asheville is only 81-miles, or 130-kilometers, southeast of Knoxville.
Asheville is at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers.
George Washington Vanderbilt II’s Biltmore Estate in Asheville, his “second choice” and can also accessed via US 19, is divided by the French Broad River, and its confluence with the Swannanoa River is on the Biltmore Estate.
The Western North Carolina Railroad was said to have been constructed through here starting in the 1850s, and today the existing track is operated by different railroads to transport freight, primarily Blue Ridge Southern, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
This whole region we have been looking at through here was part of the traditional lands of the Cherokee people.
They were said to have ceded their land here around Asheville in 1819.
The Cherokee were one of the five civilized tribes to be forcibly removed from their land after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed by Congress, and the Cherokee were marched west to Indian Territory in one of several Trails of Tears.
The Swannanoa Gap Tunnel near Asheville is said to be the longest hand-dug tunnel in the world.
It is 1,832-feet, or 558-meters, long, and 123-feet, or 7-meters, underground.
Just like what we saw with the convict labor building the Trans-Siberian Railroad, It was said to have been dug out by convict laborers digging it out, with the help of nitroglycerine, working from opposite ends of the mountain, and miracle of miracles, these two tunnels lined up perfectly when they met!
It is estimated that 300 convicts died as a result of cave-ins caused by the use of the nitroglycerin explosives.
Completed in March of 1879, we are told it opened up Asheville as a railway hub for North Carolina’s western counties.
Next I am going to share original findings by Aaron about the grid system that he uncovered when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the locations of Kirkbride buildings, key masonic lodges, state capitals, sacred sites, and other infrastructure as well.
Before I go into sharing the screenshots of what he found, let me first talk about Thomas Story Kirkbride, the Kirkbride Plan, and what that entailed.
Thomas Story Kirkbride was a Pennsylvanian whose great-great-grandfather, Joseph Kirkbride, was one of the original land-grant settlers of Pennsylvania, and Thomas lived there throughout his life.
We are told the “Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane” was built to replace the Pennsylvania Hospital’s crowded insane wards at 8th & Spruce Streets, which was founded in 1751, and considered the first hospital in America, the original Pennsylvania Hospital building is still in use as such today.
In Philadelphia in 1844, Kirkbride helped found the “Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane,” and held various leadership positions for it from 1844 to 1870.
The Kirkbride Plan was said to be a system of mental asylums he designed in the mid-19th-century.
The first building said to have been constructed with Kirkbride’s design was the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1848, which also known as the Trenton State Hospital.
Dr. Henry Cotton was the medical director of the Trenton State Hospital between 1907 and 1930.
He left a legacy there of the removal of teeth and body parts, allegedly as a means of preventing infection, that continued on for years after he left the facility.
While the original Trenton State Hospital building is largely abandoned…
…and considered to be haunted, like the abandoned Cresson Sanitorium we saw back in Pennsylvania…
…there still is a wing of it operating as the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital today.
In 1854, Kirkbride first published what was considered the source book in the 19th-century for Psychiatric Directives entitled “On the Construction, Organization, and General Organization of Hospitals for the Insane, ” with some remarks on insanity and its treatment.
We are told that throughout the 19th-century, numerous psychiatric hospitals were designed and constructed according to the Kirkbride Plan across the U. S. and while numerous Kirkbride structures still exist, many have been demolished, partially-demolished, or repurposed.
As I mentioned, Aaron has been making original findings about the earth’s grid system in relationship to Kirkbride facilities.
He uncovered what I am going to share next when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the locations on Google Earth of Kirkbride buildings (marked by white), key masonic lodges (green), and state capitals (red).
You will see in the following screenshots of what he found, there is a high correlation of these buildings being on or near these alignments.
Gettysburg turned out to be a hub, circled in red, with many alignments between all three of these types of locations going out in all directions.
He found the same thing happening with the New River Gorge in West Virginia as a hub, with many alignments between all three of these types of locations going out in all directions.
He also looked up these three types of location alignments from the address of the previously mentioned Biltmore Masonic Lodge, which is marked in orange and circled in red, and found some interesting linear patterns emerging from North America.
Here is a more localized view of alignments of Kirkbrides, masonic lodges and state capitals to the northeast of the Biltmore Lodge, and upon which the earlier Kirkbride example I gave of the Trenton State Hospital falls directly, circled at the top of the screenshot.
The Vanderbilts were known Freemasons…
…and Aaron sent me the link to the Biltmore Lodge saying that George W. Vanderbilt II procured the Lodge Hall for the Biltmore Masons to conduct business.
Aaron also found a lot of alignments with these three types of location emanating from Boise, Idaho, out in the western U. S….
…and from Gornaya Shoria where he found many alignments, including an alignment to Palenque in Chiapas in southern Mexico.
The alignment from Gornaya Shoria in Siberia on its way to Palenque in Mexico passes through such place as the Independence State Hospital in Independence, Iowa; the Mt. Pleasant State Hospital in Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and the Arkansas State Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, all three of which were established as Kirkbride facilities in the years between 1861 and 1883, as well as Poverty Point in Epps, Louisiana.
The original name of Poverty Point was Awulmeka, and it was an ancient sacred site of the Washitaw Mu’urs.
What became known to us as Poverty Point, so named we are told because the farming was terrible here, it was located thirty-eight miles, or 61-kilometers, northeast of Monroe, Louisiana, the Imperial Seat of the Ancient Washitaw Empire, and this part of Louisiana is called Washitaw Proper.
This is the Washitaw flag.
The Washitaw Mu’urs are also known as the Ancient Ones, and the Mound Builders.
The Ancient Ones don’t just refer to a people that existed a long time ago. It refers to an Ancient People that are living in the present day.
The United Nations recognized the Washitaw Mu’urs as the Oldest Indigenous Civilization on Earth in 1993.
Aaron found the same relationships when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the Great Serpent Mound in Peebles in Adams County, Ohio, another location of historic giant skeletons, and the locations on Google Earth of Kirkbride Facilities ( white), key masonic lodges (green), and state capitals (red).
There are astronomical alignments in the S-shapes of the Great Serpent Mound…
…as well as the Serpent Mound being in close proximity to the S-shaped bends of Brush Creek, and its nearby confluences/junctions with other watercourses, as seen in this illustration circa 1883 compared with the Google Earth Screenshot of the location on the right.
I mentioned to Aaron that I was having difficulty finding information on historic railroad in this area next to the Great Serpent Mound.
So he sent me a link he found when he looked as well of a 1914 Railroad Map of Ohio from the Ohio Public Utilities Commission showing all the railroads in Ohio.
It is hard to see in this form, but if you click on the quadrants of the map, it shows a close-up of each.
Here is a close-up of the railroads in the southwestern part of Ohio where Peebles and Adams & Scioto County is located near the state’s border with Kentucky, which is formed by the S-shaped bends of the Ohio River.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is marked in the yellow on the map, where it parallels the Ohio River.
Peebles in circled in red on the rail-line passing through, and there is a red box around “Brush Creek” showing an historic railroad line there.
It is interesting to note that in the lower right quadrant of the 1914 Ohio Railroad map that insane asylums, and other state institutions, were actually highlighted on it.
It certainly seems like the institutionalization of people for one reason or another was quite common during this time period in our history.
Viewer JF directed the attention of Aaron and myself into looking into the work of Viktor Schauberger on the hydrodynamics of S-shapes.
Viktor Schauberger, an Austrian scientist, was a pioneer in the field of water and energy research in the early 20th-century, specializing in the flow of water and natural energies.
Between 1928 and 1935, he worked on developing a device for the production of living water, water with an enhanced structure and necessary minerals.
Schauberger described the twisting and turning of water courses as “space-curve,” similar to the entire solar system as it follows its path through the galaxy, and that the motions of this water flow energizes water.
Conversely, he believed that modern industries destroy healthy water, including the processes of municipal water treatment plants, which decompose healthy water.
Aaron studied the Serpent Mound in relationship to these concepts and found that the Serpent Mound is representative of this in one way or another, and shared the following information:
From the vortices in the tail to the egg shape at the mouth, it represents living water flow…
…and Aaron also said that from his research, the Serpent Mound also relates to the Bindu.
Researching further, he found that Bindu Visarga belongs to the highest plane of truth.
…and that the Awakening of Bindu provides you with the ultimate truth of nature and the Universe.
He also mentioned that the Hindu symbol, Om, also has Bindu in it at the uppermost part.
It is a small spot above the crescent moon.
All the chakras are represented within the Om symbol.
Bindu is kept above all of it because it is transcendental and beyond the limit of nature.
One more thing before I move on from the subject of S-shaped water courses that I have found in my own research is that the historic gold rushes of the 19th-century started at rivers and creeks.
Kinda seems like the “prospectors” knew exactly where to look.
Thinking out loud here.
Gold and water are among the best conductors of electricity.
Wouldn’t it stand to reason that S-shaped water courses were lined with gold for this reason?
Aaron also shared images with me from Gary Schoenung’s work on”Ruins of Old Earth” showing these same patterns we have been seeing with regularity in this post, with a central hub and multiple lines that emanate out in every direction from the hub, whether it be for as we have seen rails, or roads, or Kirkbrides/Masonic Lodges/State Capitals.
I noticed the same kind of “star-burst” pattern found by Gary Schoenung on the top left appearing around Knoxville, Tennessee, on the bottom right when I was looking at it earlier.
Aaron also recently sent me a link to a 2019 on-line article posted on the CNN website about what was described as the finding of the root system of the world’s oldest forest of fossilized trees in an abandoned quarry in upper New York State near Cairo, New York.
The Finger Lakes region of New York State that I mentioned previously in this post is in-between Buffalo to the west of it and Cairo to the East.
The team investigating the site after its discovery hypothesized that the forest was killed in a catastrophic flood.
The forest itself was dated back to 385-million-years ago.
The 300-million-year-plus dating of the age of the fossilized forest brings to mind the dating of the “rock formations” that look like rock cities that we saw in Pennsylvania at the beginning of this post, like Panther Rocks and Bilger’s Rocks,which were dated back to the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago, and said to have been formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
It is almost as if “300-million-years ago” is their “go to” place when they want to date something.
At this point in my research for this post, and research from before, I think it is highly likely that ancient giant trees and the root system emanating from them were an integral part of the Earth’s energy grid and leyline system.
The original rail-lines and canals would have been providing power for the free-energy system, and the original architecture and infrastructure would have provided the antiquitech to process and utilize the free energy throughout the worldwide system.
The Earth’s original free-energy grid system was based on exact and precise geometric alignments of cities and places, which is actually what we are seeing in high-definition with Aaron’s Kirkbride alignments.
The Controllers have worked very hard not only to remove gigantic trees from our awareness, but they have also removed the Earth’s grid system from our collective awareness.
Nowadays, the giant tree “roots,” are highway “routes” and recreational trails, which has more to do with human energy being harvested from their use instead of infrastructure creating free-energy for the system to use for the benefit of all life everywhere.
Railways have been replaced mostly with asphalt roadways, the primary use of bitumen production, in which this petroleum-based product it is used to bind aggregate particles like gravel…and ultimately requires a lot of road maintenance.
We drive vehicles with tires made primarily from rubber.
Rubber is an insulator that limits the transfer of electricity and the disposal of worn tires ultimately creates a environmental problem.
The harvesting of rubber also made a fortune for the owners of plantations of rubber trees, past and present, who use overworked and underpaid workers.
This is an historic photograph of an electric streetcar in a Charlotte, North Carolina neighborhood.
Electric streetcar systems at one time were in existence everywhere, and not just limited to a few places here and there, like what we see today in some of the larger cities around the world.
But mostly, the removal of the electric streetcar lines all over the world left us with the chaotic traffice patterns of today, like what we see in Hanoi in Viet Nam in our day and age…
…which at one time in its history had a state-of-the-art electric streetcar system.
As I mentioned earlier in this post, it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide an energy technology to replace the free energy transportation system of the original civilization and to make insane amounds of money from the harvesting of non-renewable resources, and the imposition of a wage-slavery work system throughout the world.
Let’s look at the example of a typical company town in Appalachia to illustrate this.
The people of these towns were pretty-much dependent on the company for everything.
They have had a job for life working for the company but they weren’t paid much, and the company got it all back from them anyway because they owned everything.
Appalachia historically, and even today, is one of the poorest regions in the United States, and it is believed that the cycles of poverty came as a direct result of company-town structure.
Railroad, coal, lumber and banking barons early on controlled the capitalistic economic system came in to form in largely rural Appalachia.
They offered pay, boarding, and subsistence farming in return for a 16-hour work day.
In many places, their pay came in the form of scrip instead of dollars that could only be used in the company’s stores.
Pretty much the definition of wage slavery.
Then to add insult to injury, the companies outsourced their menial, low-paying job model in other countries, leaving American company towns high-and-dry.
And what about coal?
Is there more to that story as well?
Coal is mostly carbon, with varying amounts of other elements, primarily hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen and nitrogen.
Carbon is the chemical backbone of life on Earth.
All organic life is comprised of carbon.
Carbon is a non-metal that has the atomic number of 6.
It has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons, and can bond with other carbon atoms to an almost unlimited degree.
Four allotropes, or physical forms, of carbon are graphite, diamond, fullerene, and graphene.
Silicon is the closest analogue of carbon.
Silicon is a hard, brittle crystalline solid.
It is non-metal and a semiconductor.
Semiconductors are essential components of electronic devices.
I think there is something going on here between carbon and silicon that is being kept for our awareness, but I don’t know enough about this subject to say anything conclusively.
I will speculate that receiving a lump of coal at Christmas for being naughty may be misrepresenting the importance of coal and what it stands for.
Chad Williams and I talked at length about his thought that tree “roots” could be highway “routes” in our recent conversation “Giant Trees, the Earth’s Grid, and the New World Order.”
In this conversation, among many other things, Chad and I talked about ideas like giant trees were integrally-connected to the Earth’s original grid system, and that “tree energy” equalled “free energy,” and that those behind the reset of history and the New World Order they were ushering sought to capitalize on the power of the giant trees and the Earth’s energy grid, but in a negative way that sought to only benefit them.
What I have found as a result of my on-going research for “On the Trail of Giants, in Appalachia and Beyond” provides a substantial amount of supporting evidence for the ideas we discussed.
This is what I have come to believe has taken place here, in the course of all the past and present research I have done for my blog posts in 5 1/2-years of extensive research.
Like I said earlier in this post, I believe that there was a deliberately-caused cataclysm that sent directed energy through the free-energy-generated Earth-grids that devastated the surface of the Earth and destroyed the original ancient advanced Moorish civilization that built all of this infrastructure.
In short, I believe the beings behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.
They only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they found replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed.
I believe that the Earth’s original free energy grid system, which was originally designed to benefit all life everywhere, was reverse-engineered into a control system used against Humanity by those responsible for what has taken place here for the benefit of a very few.
Oh yes, and they claimed the very best of everything for themselves, including but not limited to, what became the luxurious Greenbrier Resort.
While the new elite class lived in the lap of luxury, and helped themselves to the best of everything, they had little care for anyone or anything else – not at all.
Quite the opposite.
They have actively facilitated the demise of all the rest of us, who they call “useless eaters,” into the present-day.
Those that heretofore have been in control of the world in which we live deviously figured out a way to keep us asleep by this new culture they created, and they have been getting filthy rich at our expense because we have been paying for our own poisoning with our addictions; paying for our own mind control programming with distractions; and keeping us in consumerism mode to enrich corporate interests; and ultimately financing our own destruction.
So again, I think there was a hostile take-over of the Earth and it’s grid system, which was reverse-engineered as a mind-control and energy-harvesting system for human energy.
A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giants could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory.
In the business world, there are two kinds of takeover bids, and I think this is a really important concept to understand with regards to what has taken place here.
The first is called a friendly takeover bid, and occurs when the Board of Directors from both companies (target & acquirer) negotiate and approve the bid.
Then there is the hostile takeover bid, which occurs when an acquiring company seeks to acquire another company – the target company – but the board of directors from the target company has no desire to be acquired by, or merged with, another company.
The two most common strategies used by acquirers in a hostile takeover are a tender offer or a proxy vote.
The tender offer is an offer to purchase shares at a premium to the market price.
The proxy offer is persuading shareholders of the target company to vote out the existing management.
The negative beings behind what has taken place here wanted to set up a new god as lord of this world – Lucifer – and wanted a proxy vote for their hostile takeover.
They wanted to persuade enough of Humanity to voluntarily accept Lucifer over the Creator of the Universe.
The only way they can accomplish this acceptance, however, is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever accept this.
But the problem is in a Free Will Zone like Earth, the Human Beings who live here have to give their consent to choose whether the follow the Light or the Dark.
I bring all this up is because it is important to know this is what has been going on here.
Humans are inherently sovereign beings.
They have gone to all of this trouble because, by Universal Law, they can’t lay a finger on us.
They have tricked us into accepting their sovereignty over our own.
The Controllers have always feared the Great Awakening of Humanity, and thus threw everything they could at us to prevent it from happening and keep us asleep so we would never know what hit us.
But no matter what they do, they can’t keep it from happening. Among many other things, they lost control of the narrative no matter how hard they try to get it back.
As mentioned previously, I will be talking about my findings regarding a relatively recent cataclysmic event in-depth in the fourth and final themed-segment of this series.
I have collected a variety of puzzle pieces about different places that bring a bigger picture into focus that is not immediately apparent on the surface over the course of several years of doing extensive research.
In this post, I am going to be looking into places on that alignment beginning in Manila in the Philippines, and going through places in China, Viet Nam, Laos, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The research in this post came from a 23-part series called “Sacred Geometry, Ley Lines & Places in Alignment” that I did back in 2020 tracking a long-distance alignment of cities and places that startedin San Francisco, in which I crossed through this part of the world twice, though I did augment my original findings with new research to illustrate what took place according to our historical narrative.
I am doing this now because I am taking a break from several other projects I am working on at the moment, and in going back through my original blog posts from this series, decided to showcase this part of the original series before I go back to the other projects I am otherwise in the middle of.
The more research I do, the more connections I find that show this ancient civilization was advanced, interconnected and worldwide, and when I go back and look at research I have done in the past, I can see these connections even more clearly than before.
The starting point for this post is Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
It is the most densely populated city in the world within its boundaries.
Manila, alongside Mexico City and Madrid, are considered the world’s original global cities, due to Manila’s historic commercial networks connecting Asia with the Americas.
We are told the Spanish city of Manila was founded in 1571 by the conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.
He was the first Governor-General of the Spanish East Indies from 1565 to 1572.
The historic walled city part of Manila is called the Intramuros, said to have been established by the Spaniards in the late 1500s.
Apparently the Intramuros is a star fort.
This is a view of a street inside the Intramuros, with cobblestones, colonnades, stone masonry and balconies.
This is the inside of the San Agustin Church in the Intramuros, said to have been completed in 1607.
The first University in Manila, Universidad de San Ignacio, was established in the Intramuro by the Jesuits in 1590.
We are told that Pope Paul III issued a papal bull forming the Jesuit Order In 1540 fifty-years prior to that, under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola, Basque nobleman from the Pyrenees in Northern Spain.
The Jesuit Order included a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment.
The Pasig River flows through Manila, dividing into north and south sections.
Or is the river actually a canal, with its masonry banks?
This old post card shows the Jones Bridge and the Manila Central Post Office building on the Pasig River.
We are told the Central Post Office was built in 1926.
There was a streetcar system in Manila, called the Tranvias, construction of which was said to have been started in 1878, with the first line opening in 1882. This postcard was circa 1900, showing the contrast of the electric streetcar with the horse-drawn carriages.
By 1932, the city and suburbs were well-served by a network of 62-miles, or 100-kilometers, of track.
Then, in 1945, in the last months of World War II, the Battle of Manila brought destruction and havoc to the city of Manila and its rail infrastructure.
The Manila Tranvias fleet was damaged beyond repair, and abandoned immediately after the war.
The rails were pulled up from the city streets, and surviving streetcars were hauled away and scrapped.
This was the end of what had previously been considered one of the best street-rail networks in Asia.
Many more examples of destruction of infrastruction and many other things from wars like this through this part of the world to come.
The next place we come to on this particular alignment are the Paracel Islands, located between the Philippines and China’s island of Hainan.
The Paracel Islands are a group of islands, reefs, and banks that are strategically located; productive fishing grounds; and which also hold reserves of natural gas and oil.
While they are controlled and operated by China, they are also claimed by Taiwan and Viet Nam.
The Paracel Islands are also the location of the Dragon Hole, or Sasha Yongle Blue Hole, the world’s deepest known blue hole at 987-feet, or 301-meters, deep.
Dragon Hole is called the “Eye of the South China Sea.”
Other blues holes include the Cenote Azul Balacar on Mexico’s Costa Maya, one of the deepest cenotes in the Yucatan, believed to be 295-feet, or 90-meters, deep…
…and Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is 80-feet, or 24-meters wide and deep.
One of the most popular dive destinations in the United States, it is described as an artesian well with a constant in-flow of water that stays at a constant 62-degrees Fahrenheit, or 17-degrees celsius.
The Battle of the Paracel Islands was a military engagement between the naval forces of South Vietnam and China in 1974, and was an attempt by the South Vietnamese navy to expel the Chinese navy from the vicinity.
As a result of the battle, China established de facto control over the Paracel Islands.
The next place we come to on the alignment is Lingshui Li Autonomous County, in the southeastern part of Hainan, China’s smallest and southernmost province.
Nanwan Houdao Island Ecological Scenic Spot, better known as Nanwan Monkey Island, is adjacent to the Xincun Harbor in Lingshui.
Looking at the view from Google Earth, there are sure some interesting-looking features in the landscape there, including but not limited, to the sunken, marshy appearance of the land around the “Ecological Scenic Spot” and Xincun Harbor seen here in the screenshot.
The only way to get to Nanwan Monkey Island is via a 2-kilometer, or 1-1/4-mile, long cable-way, the longest in China.
Nanwan Monkey Island, actually a peninsula, is a state-protected nature reserve for Macaque monkeys. This red sandstone feature at the entrance is called the Garden Gate…
…and here are some scenes from inside the reserve, like the nice stone wall here upon which the macaques sit…
…and the heated swimming area for the macaques…
…and just the overall ancient stonemasonry appearance of the place.
We don’t recognize this as ancient stonemasonry because we are taught that all of this is a product of natural forces and geology.
Another thing I noticed about Lingshui is that there sure are a lot of reservoirs here in this part of Hainan Province!
Interesting to note the population density of Hainan is low compared to most Chinese coastal provinces, so high population is not the reason for the proliferation of reservoirs.
Diao Luo Mountain National Park is on the alignment further up in Lingshui Autonomous County.
It is one of five tropical rainforest regions on Hainan.
Diao Luo Mountain is the location of the Fengguoshan Waterfall cluster, the largest in Hainan Province.
In order to view the falls, there are 1,700 steps on the trail leading to the waterfall cluster.
Wuzhi Mountain is up the alignment from Diao Luo Mountain.
Wuzhishan is the highest mountain in Hainan…
…and is also known as the Five-Fingered Mountain.
There are several minority ethnic groups on Hainan.
Two are recognized ~ one of these groups is the Li People.
The areas surrounding Wuzhishan are inhabited primarily by Li People, said to be the original inhabitants of Hainan, and the largest of the ethnic minorities there.
Their tradition of making brocade is said to trace back 2,500 years.
This the Miao minority ethnic group on Hainan.
The Miaos are found through-out the southwestern provinces of China, as well is in Thailand, Laos, and Viet Nam, where they are known as the Hmong people.
They are also known for lively embroideries and brocades, as well as traditional silver ornaments that include traditional necklaces, bracelets and headwear.
There are two unrecognized minority ethnic groups.
The Muslim Utsul People, or Hainan Hui, are found in Sanya on the southern coast of Hainan.
We are told they are a Chamic-speaking people who came to Hainan by way of their Cham homeland in Viet Nam to escape the Vietnamese Invasion of 1471, when the Vietnamese completed their conquest of Cham with the sacking of Vijaya, the last Cham capital.
On the top left is a view of a temple framed by an archway in Vijaya, and on the top right is the Iron Pillar of Delhi framed by an archway in India, which is famous for the rust-resistant composition of metals used in its construction. It is said to have been made 1,600 years ago.
On the bottom left is the archway framing the Baiturraman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh in Indonesia, which was hard hit by the Boxing Day Tsunami on December 26th, 2004, and the bottom right shows the archway framing the Hospicio Cabanas in Guadalajara, Mexico.
More on the Cham in Viet Nam and other places to come.
The other unrecognized minority ethnic group on Hainan are the Dan people, historically known as the “Boat People,” and “Gypsies of the Sea.” They live along the coasts of the southern China.
The Dan people are said to be traced back to 7,000 years ago to the Hemudu period, a culture that flourished in eastern China between 5,500 BC to 3,300 BC. This is a Hemudu site 22-kilometers, or 13-miles, northwest from Ningbo, and is called the birthplace of the Hemudu Culture.
At the same Hemudu site near Ningbo, you find this exhibit promoting the narrative that Humanity was really primitive back in those days, at the same time it was a megalithic culture.
From China’s Hainan Province, the alignment crosses into the Gulf of Tonkin.
While most immediately recognizable for the Gulf of Tonkin incident, an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Viet Nam War…
…you also find the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Halong Bay, which has approximately 1,600 islands and islets forming a spectacular landscape of limestone pillars…
…said to have been formed over 500 million years with very different geologic circumstances. Over the last 20 million years, these formations were said to have formed with a combination of thick limestone, hot and humid climates, and a slow overgrowth of the tectonic process.
Again, because we haven’t been taught that this could be anything other than natural, and that Humanity was functioning at a primitive level during so-called prehistoric & ancient times, we miss seeing the examples of what appear to be huge masonry blocks and a built-in archway, like what we saw on Cat Ba Island in Halong Bay.
It’s not supposed to be there, so we don’t see it. We don’t even think it.
And it is so old that there is an element of doubt about whether or not it is natural, but there are examples like this worldwide.
Leaving the Halong Bay on the Gulf of Tonkin, just a quick stop along the alignment in the Thanh Hoa, the capital of Thanh Hoa Province, on the Ma River, 150-kilometers, or 93-miles, south of Hanoi.
I saw a trident feature off the Ma River between the Gulf of Tonkin and Thanh Hoa on the top, that reminded me of a similar trident-shaped feature I saw on the Brownsville Ship Channel that runs from the Gulf of Mexico at Port Isabel, Texas to Brownsville, Texas on the bottom.
Sites around the city of Thanh Hoa include the Ho Dynasty Citadel, the only stone citadel remaining in Southeast Asia, and said to have been a breakthrough in the construction at the time it was built in 1397 of stone citadels in Viet Nam.
It was a declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.
Yet the Ho Dynasty’s reign was said to be short, consisting of two emperors. Ho Quy Ly from 1400 to 1401, and his second son Ho Han Thuong from 1401 to 1406.
Here are some other sights around Thanh Loa.
Now that we are here in Viet Nam, I will bring up once again the Cham presence here…and in other places.
The Kingdom of Champa was said to have existed in Viet Nam from 192 AD – 1832 AD.
The Chams of modern Viet Nam and Cambodia are the remnants of the former Kingdom of Champa, and were said to have originated as an ethnic group of Austronesian origin in Southeast Asia and were accomplished seafarers that from 4,000 BC populated Southeast Asia.
Hinduism shaped the art and culture of the Champa Kingdom for centuries.
While most Chams in Viet Nam today are Muslim…
…the Balamon Cham, are along with the Hindus of Bali in Indonesia, are the only two surviving indigenous Hindu people in the world outside of India.
This is a Cham head of Shiva said to have been made in 800 AD from an alloy of gold and silver…
…and a 9th-century statue from a Buddhist monastery in Indrapura, the Champa capital.
The Champa city of My Son is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was a religious center of the Cham, and flourished from the 2nd- to the 15th-centuries.
In this first picture, you see a temple in the background, and huge megatlithic stonemasonry in the bottom of the picture…
…as well as a bigger view of the My Son temple complex here, again with the huge megalithic masonry seen in the middle of the photo.
Then there is the Ancient Khmer Empire of Cambodia.
How big of a stretch is it to see the word Khem related to Khmer, Cam, and Cham?
Ancient Khem is a shortened version of Ancient Khemit, the name we are told given to a technologically and spiritually advanced civilization that existed in a Golden Age that predated dynastic Egypt.
But could that civilization of Ancient Khemit existed worldwide?
I think it did.
This is a comparison of a solar alignment at Karnak Temple in Egypt on the left, and one at Konark Temple in India on the right.
Then there is Howard Crowhurst’s work documenting the geometry and astronomical alignments of Carnac in Brittany France.
And Robin Heath has done field-work in Wales…
…to record the astronomical alignments…
…and geometric alignments in the landscape with sacred sites there.
The ancient name for Wales is Cymru.
There’s the “Khem” sound again!
So back to Southeast Asia, the Khmers of Cambodia were responsible for building the Hindu-Buddhist temple complex at Angkor Wat, the largest in the world.
Angkor Wat is located on an artificial island surrounded by a perfectly-square moat.
This is what happens at the main Temple of Angkor Wat on the equinoxes, the time of year when the sun crosses the plane of the Earth’s equator, and day and night are of equal length, with the sun sitting right on top of the middle spire…
…and these are the Face Towers at the Bayon Temple, located within the Angkor complex.
The memory of these people has been erased from our collective memory, and replaced with a lot of mysteries.
Who built these things?
Why did they build them?
How did they build them?
These are conundrums that confound the constructs that guide our understanding of history because we haven’t been told the True History of Earth.
My next stop is Hanoi, the capital of Viet Nam in the Red River Delta.
We are told that Hanoi was founded as Thang Long, the capital of Imperial Viet Nam, in 1010, with the Thang Long Citadel said to have been built around that same time by the Ly Dynasty.
The Nguyen Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of Viet Nam, moved the capital to the Imperial City of Hue in 1802, in a walled enclosure within the citadel there…
…which has all the hallmarks of…
…a star city…
…like what is found in Lucca, Italy…
…and what used to be in Trujillo, Peru…
…of which this is all there is left of the bastion walls in Trujillo.
Thang Long was renamed Hanoi in 1831, and conquered by the French in 1873, and from 1883 to 1945 was the capital of French Indochina. We are told the French colonization made a lasting impact on the city’s architecture that is visible today through French-styled avenues, buildings and bridges.
Like the Hanoi Opera House, said to have been built between 1901 and 1911…
…the Hang Dau Water Tower, said to have been built in 1894…
…the Long Bien Bridge…
…a bridge used by the railroad, mopeds, bicycles, and pedestrians today.
This picture was said to have been taken after the completion of the construction of the Long Bien Bridge by a French architectural firm between 1899 and 1902.
It is far easier to put a plaque on something than to build a massive engineering structure like this, with both steel and masonry.
We are told the plans were laid for a city-wide tramway system in Hanoi in 1894, but by 1899, advances in technology in those five-years made it possible to construct the entire system as state-of-the-art electric system instead of the steam-power which was originally planned…
…with construction of the first lines starting in 1900, and the first two lines being opened in 1901.
All four lines that were built over the years, we are told, gradually either deteriorated or fell victim to modernization, and these are the chaotic traffic patterns in Hanoi in our day and age.
One more thing before I leave Viet Nam for Laos.
Hanoi was the site of the world’s fair in 1902 and 1903.
The year 1902 was the year Hanoi replaced Saigon as the capital of French Indochina…and the year of the opening of the Long Bien Bridge.
The Grand Palais was said to have been built specifically for the Hanoi Exposition in 1902.
The Grand Palais of the Hanoi Exposition was completely destroyed by airstrikes at the end of World War II because when the Japanese took over Viet Nam in 1940, at which time they based their military and supply in the palace.
The next place we come to on this alignment is in the land-locked country of Laos.
Luang Namtha is the name of a Province in northern Laos, and its capital city.
The city of Luang Namtha is located on the S-shaped Tha River.
This is a site along the Tha River on the left that reminds me in appearance of Thunder Mountain in Sedona, Arizona, on the right.
There is a provincial museum in Luang Namtha City that is largely an anthropological museum…
…containing numerous items relating to the local people like clothing, textiles, household items, Buddhist-related items, and bronze Khamu drums.
The majority of Khamu, or Khmu, now live in northern Laos, though the Khamu are indigenous to Southeast Asia, and are found in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Viet Nam (where they are officially recognized), and in the Yunnan Province of China (where they are not officially recognized).
Yet another Kham to connect to the Ancient Kemetic civilization of Egypt.
Other peoples of Laos include the Hmong, a sub-group of the Miao people…
…the Akha people…
…and the Mien People.
What I find interesting is that the woven textiles and traditional clothing of all of these ethnic groups is not significantly different from each other, nor is it significantly different from that of other places like the Helong weavers of West Timor in Indonesia…
…or the textiles and clothing of Peru.
Is there a much closer relationship between these different groups of people than what we have been told?
The Nam Ha National Protected Area in Luang Namtha Province is home to some of the Khmu, Hmong, and Akha peoples, among several other of the ethnic minorities in Laos.
The Pha Yueng Waterfall is located in the Nam Ha Protected Area, on the road from Luang Namtha to Muang Sing.
Muang Sing is a small town and district in Luang Namtha Province, 37-miles, or 60-kilometers, northwest of the town of Luang Namtha, and in close proximity to the border between Laos, and Yunnan Province of China.
The principal Buddhist temple here is called the That Xieng Tung Stupa.
A festival is held here every year on the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (in October or November).
The Nam Keo Waterfall is slightly over 1-mile, or 2-kilometers from this stupa.
Muang Sing is also the name of an historical park in neighboring Thailand.
It protects the remains of two Khmer temples said to date from the 13th- and 14th-centuries in Thailand’s Kanchanaburi Province, on the S-shaped Khwae Noi River.
Before I move along the alignment into Myanmar, there are several more things I would like to bring up in or about Laos.
One is the Patuxai, or the Arch of Triumph of Ventiane, built in the capital city of Laos, and which we are told was built in the 1960s as a monument dedicated to those who fought in the struggle for Laos’ independence from France.
Among other problems with that dating of the construction of this arch is that during the 1960s, Laos had its own problems with the Viet Nam war spilling over into Laos, with Laos being bombed by American planes starting in 1964, in retaliation we are told, for the shooting down of an American plane by insurgents, and after which bombing runs over Laos intensified, with over 100,000 bombing runs on Laos’ eastern border with North Viet Nam.
Don’t we hear the exact same reason given for aggressive military action even today, like what started against Yemen on January 12th of 2024 ?
Same template, same tactic, same reason.
Controlled opposition set-up to wreak havoc on the lands of the ancient civilization and its people.
For example, the Plain of Jars in Laos.
The Plain of Jars is a mystery, with thousands of what look like huge jars cut from stone filling the landscape.
Some of the stone jars are massive in size!
Between 1964 and 1973, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U. S. Air Force operating against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces, and it was said that the Air Force dropped more bombs on the Plain of Jars than it dropped during the entirety of World War II.
These were some unexploded bombs removed from the Plain of Jars from the secret war in Laos.
Why the incessant and excessive bombing of a megalithic archeological site?
Per capita, Laos is the most bombed country in history.
One last place that I would to mention in Laos is Luang Prabang on the left, where there are beautiful waterfalls that look similar to Havasupai Falls in Arizona’s Grand Canyon on the right.
Leaving the country of Laos, I am tracking the alignment into the country of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, through the city of Lashio, the largest town in northern Shan State.
The population of Shan State is mostly comprised of the Shan People, Chinese, and Burmans.
The Shan people live primarily here, but they are also found on other parts of Myanmar, China, Laos, Thailand, and India.
The majority of Shan are Theravada Buddhists or practice the animist Tai folk religion.
The Shan Hills are found in Myanmar’s Shan State.
There are hot springs in Lashio, of which I come across many tracking planetary alignments.
The Gokteik Viaduct was said to have been built in 1899 – 1900 by an American Company on behalf of British Authorities, and is between Lashio and Pyin Oo Lwin in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar, and which became a permanent military outpost for the British in 1897 and eventually the summer capital of British Burma, which existed from 1824 until 1948 when Burma chose to become a fully independent republic instead of a British Dominion.
The Gokteik Viaduct goes across the Gokteik Gorge, which has at least one waterfall as seen here.
The appearance of the Gokteik Viaduct reminded me of this trestle of the Algoma Central Railway in Ontario. The Algoma Central Railway was said to have been chartered in 1899 and built between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Hearst, Ontario by 1914.
The Algoma Central Railway is known for its daily excursion to Agawa Canyon, 113-miles, or 182-kilometers, north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, through a sparsely populated area with few roads.
There are waterfalls in the Agawa Canyon as well.
Here is a comparison of the Gokteik Viaduct at the Gokteik Gorge in Myanmar on the left, with the Algoma Central Railway Trestle at the Agawa Canyon on the right.
There is no doubt in my mind that there was an energy-generating connection for the original civilization between the railroad, s-shaped river bends, hydro-electricity generation, waterfalls, gorges and springs.
In 2023, I researched these findings extensively in my blog post “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System.”
Next, let’s take a look at the British Colonial Summer capital of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar.
This is the All Saints Anglican Church there.
Where have I seen that style of church architecture before, with the Moorish-looking tower next to the nave?
All over the place!!!
Like the New Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts…
…this church in Flagstaff, Arizona…
…and the Chapel de Les Alegries in Spain near Barcelona, to name just a few.
This is the Gandamar Myaing Hotel, said to have been an old British colonial mansion converted into a hotel.
I have seen that style of architecture all over the place as well.
In Nova Scotia, a maritime province of eastern Canada…
…Spencer, Oklahoma just outside of Oklahoma City…
…and on the left, in Penns Grove, New Jersey; in the middle, in Jerome, Arizona; and on the right in Providence, Rhode Island.
This is the Purcell Tower in downtown Pyin Oo Lwin, said to have been built in 1934 by the Gillette and Johnson Company to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the reign of George V of Great Britain.
It also looks like a Moorish Clock Tower.
This is actually called the Moorish Clock Tower, and is located in Guayaquil, Ecuador…
…St. Mark’s Campanile in Venice, Italy, which is also a bell-tower…
…and in the United States, there is the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Clock Tower in Baltimore, Maryland…
…the Neenah clock tower in Wisconsin…
…and the Port Townsend, Washington clock tower, again to name just a few of many examples.
I will end my tour of Myanmar with a picture of waterfalls in Pyin Oo Lwin.
Now we are coming into the last leg of the journey along this part of the alignment in Bangladesh.
The country of Bangladesh’s placement on the Bay of Bengal is such that it contains much of the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna Rivers.
While not directly on this alignment, the Sundarbans are described as consisting of mangrove areas, land for agricultural use, mud flats and barren land, and is intersected by multiple tidal streams and channels.
The Sundarbans National Park in West Bengal, India, is home to the largest population of Bengal tigers.
The Bengal tiger ranks amongst the biggest wild cats alive today, though it is an endangered species.
Note the stone with angles this tiger is standing on, and the large, what looks like stone-work, in the background.
The Bengal tiger was named for a historical place, like the Barbary apes, a species of macaque, of the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and the Rif Mountains of Morocco, and also found in Gibraltar.
This guy is also sitting on top of what looks like old stonework.
The Barbary Coast, or Barbaria, was also the name given to a vast region stretching from the Nile River Delta, across Northern Africa, to the Canary Islands.
Memories of places and people is quite frequently retained in the name of something, in this case species of animals indigenous to particular places.
This slight-of-hand name change seems to be what happened with this part of what was the ancient civilization of Bengal. Change and rearrange a few letters, and you have “Bangla.” No one’s the wiser because the region’s true past history is unknown to the general public.
Interesting to note that we told that the proprietary rights to the Sundarbans were sold to the British East India Company in 1757 by the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II, although I also found a reference to the Battle of Plassey occurring that same year in which the British East India Company defeated the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies.
The British East India Company ruled over parts of the Indian Subcontinent between 1757 and 1858, commencing after the 1757 Battle of Plassey, called a decisive victory over the Nawab of Bengal, and this was considered to be the start of British Imperialism in India, and a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas there.
The British East India Company held a monopoly granted to it by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600 between South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope and Tierra del Fuego’s Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, until 1834 when the monopoly was lost.
We are told It was initially formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region with the East Indies, which was the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, and yet it seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, and ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India.
Its three Presidency Armies totalled an estimated 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at the time.
It ceased operations on June 1st of 1874 when it was dissolved.
Systematic management of the mangrove forest tracts of the Sundarbans was administered by the British starting in 1860s, apparently to simultaneously protect the forests and remove the resources.
The borders of the country of Bangladesh were the major portion of the historic region of Bengal, an ancient civilization dating back at least 4,000 years.
The borders of modern Bangladesh were established with the separation of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became East Pakistan of the newly formed State of Pakistan following the Boundary Partition of India, even though it was separated from West Pakistan by 994-miles, or 1,600-kilometers.
Bangladesh became an independent republic in 1971 after a period of armed conflict.
This was the flag of Bangladesh circa 1971.
The only difference in the flag of the country today is that the image of the country is no longer in the circle.
The Meghna River of the Ganges Delta is the one of the most important rivers in Bangladesh, and the widest river to flow completely within the boundaries of Bangladesh.
The river is described as almost perfectly straight in its lower reaches towards the Bay of Bengal.
I believe all so-called river systems are actually canal systems, and I have found extensive evidence all over the world to support this belief.
One example would be the identical appearances of the confluences on the top left of the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers in Iowa; that of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near St. Louis on the right; and where the White Nile and Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan on the bottom left.
As a matter of fact, the Mississippi River Delta, Nile River Delta, and Yangtze River Delta are in linear alignment with respect to each other, straight across the 30-degree north parallel.
I tracked the alignment starting in Manila through Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, and one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world, with a population of 20.2 million in the Greater Dhaka area.
It is the largest city of eastern South Asia, a subregion which besides Bangladesh, also includes the countries of Bhutan, Nepal, and India, and is between the eastern Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal.
We are told the city of Dhaka rose to prominence in the 17th-century in the Mughal Empire in South Asia, and for 75 years was the capital of Mughal Bengal, also known as the Bengal Subah.
This building is what is called the Pink Palace, or Ahsan Manzil, in Dhaka, and was the official palace and seat of the Nawab of Dhaka.
We are told that the construction of it started in 1859, and completed in 1872.
The Pink Palace in Dhaka is described as having been constructed in the Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture style, also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, and Hindoo Style, and was said to have been utilized by British architects in India in the later 19th-century, especially in public and government buildings.
Here is a comparison on the left of an outdoor spiral, what looks to be iron staircase, at Ahsan Manzil, with the wooden staircase at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico on the right.
And when I saw the existence of a pink palace in Dhaka, I was reminded of the pink Don CeSar Beach Resort, a massive building located on St. Petersburg Beach in Florida, and which I drove past many times when I lived in neighboring Clearwater, Florida, for a few years.
The Don CeSar was said to have been developed by Thomas Rowe, with a design by architect Henry H. DuPont, opening in 1928. It was said to have gained renown as a Gulf of Mexico playground for America’s pampered rich at the height of the Jazz Age in the 1920s and 1930s, a has this reputation to this day.
Then there is the pink Prince’s Palace of Monaco, the official residence of the sovereign prince of Monaco, and said to have been built in 1191 as a Genoese fortress, and home of the Grimaldi family since they captured it in 1297.
Hatirjheel Lake in Dhaka was said to have been constructed under the Bangladesh Army and Special Works Organization (SWO) in the Center of Dhaka, starting in 2007, which also was said to have built…
…the Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain, the largest in South Asia, with an amphitheater that seats 2,000 people.
Did they construct it…or get something working that was already built?
I was reminded of the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas.
This is the Kamalapur train station in Dhaka, with its gigantic archways. It was also said to have been designed and opened in the 1960s.
The railroad is an important mode of transportation in Bangladesh.
Dhaka was one of several places given the nickname “Venice of the East.”
We are told that there are three major canal systems in Bangladesh that drains into the three major rivers around Dhaka – the Turag; the Balu; and the Buriganga rivers.
This is what the Kallyanpur canal looks like today.
The Dutch East India Company, also known as VOC, was chartered on March 20th of 1602 to trade primarily with Mughal Bengal, India and Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly for the Dutch spice trade.
The first formally listed public company by widely issuing shares of stock and bonds to the general public in the early 1600s, it was the world’s most valuable company of all-time, with a worth of $7.9-trillion.
It is considered by many to be to have been the forerunner of modern corporations.
Mughal Bengal was described as a “Paradise of Nations,” and its inhabitants living standards were among the highest in the world at one time.
Mughal Bengal was from where 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported.
For a then-and-now comparison, this is a typical photo of the poverty found in Bangladesh today.
As of the 2022 statistics of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 1.82-million people lived in slums, lacking access to clean water, safe sanitation, and wast e management.
This was a view of Dhaka from across the Buriganga River, said to have been painted in 1861 on the left, and on the right, Dhaka across the Buriganga River today.
This was an historic photo from the 1880s of the Mitford Hospital in Dhaka, which was said to have been established in 1854 after land that was bequeathed by Robert Mitford for public works in Dhaka was made available for that purpose in 1850.
There was a whole lot going on the historical record we have been given around the years on either side of 1850.
I believe the official kick-off of the new historical reset timeline was the “Great Exhibition of All Nations,” opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1851…
…in the Crystal Palace in London…
…and 1851 was the same year the Prime Meridian of earth was moved from the Great Pyramid of Giza to Greenwich, London, England, where the Royal Observatory is located.
The parasitic beings who found a way to incarnate into human form engineered a hostile takeover of the planetary grid system, and they invented a new history based to a certain extent on the original civilization, and inserted themselves into the new timeline as royalty, among other things, and objects of worship and veneration.
For one example, this is the Prince Albert Memorial in London’s Kensington Gardens, said to have been unveiled in 1872.
This hostile takeover was not about benefiting Humanity by any stretch of the imagination.
Everything that has taken place since this happened has been about the degradation and diminishment of Humanity, and the destruction of the original beautiful and high civilization, as we have seen all along this alignment from Manila to Dhaka.
There’s much more I could bring forward from this region to talk about, but there is enough in this post to show you that there is a persistent pattern of colonization, economic and social domination, the claiming of the legacy of the original ancient people of the Earth as their own, and the destruction of warfare in this part of the world alone, and these same patterns are visible everywhere else as well, and this is only a snapshot of what has been taking place on Earth.
I am in the process of organizing my recent blot post “On the Trail of Giants – In Appalachia and Beyond,” into the four main themes that are interwoven throughout the original post that I want to bring forward separately for your consideration.
This is the second themed segment that is done, with the featured theme of “Giants.”
The first themed segment was “Robber Barons and Resetters.”
The other two segments will feature the following main themes of the original video: ”The Energy Grid;” and “The Cataclysm.”
This particular post on “Giants” will be focusing on topics including, but not limited to, how the finding of giant human remains was well-documented in the 19th-century, and yet these days, the very existence of giants seems to be vigorously denied, and/or fact-checked as a hoax, when their remains turn-up somewhere.
This topic of where giant remains were found also ties into the location of infrastructure, like s-shaped river bends, rail and canal among other things, and there are also intriguing correlations between the locations of where some of these these giant remains were found and Civil War battlesand events.
Yes, they were reported to be found at mounds, but they were also randomly uncovered when people were digging.
There are also conflicting beliefs expressed in existing documentation about whether or not these giants were advanced or primitive brutes.
Either way, the existence of giants are pushed way back in time, with what happened to them being a mystery, though frequently with the conclusion that they were warring with each other and killed each other off.}
There are clues to be found in the past and present about something huge that was and is being hidden from us which will be explored in this video.
I have been researching aspects of what I am presenting in this post for years, but this subject came about as an in-depth research topic for me through Aaron of the “Uncovering Hidden West Virginia” video, who sent me places he had identified to look at in places ilike Pennsylvania and West Virginia; different articles he found on giants skeletons; and some place alignments he discovered from his own inner prompting that are very revealing in terms of what has actually been going on here
Aaron is deeply connected to Appalachia, having been born and raised in Marion County, West Virginia, and currently resides in Western Pennsylvania.
I grew up in suburban Maryland in a location very close to a lot of the places mentioned in this post, so I have been to, or near, many of the places mentioned here – church youth retreats, school trips, sightseeing trips, and many other occasions.
Growing up, we accepted as true what we are told about our history, but I know from my own experience of them that these places have a feeling of being much older beneath the surface of our awareness, just like the giants themselves.
Aaron sent me places to look at that look like megalithic-looking stone structures that are tucked away in the state park and public land system, and explained to us as being natural rock formations, for example, created by the sediments deposited in streams and rivers more than 300-million-years ago the Paleozoic era.
He brought my attention to places like Boxcar Rocks in Lebanon County on Pennsylvania State Game Lands 211, described as a long line of stack boulders that are a natural geologic formation a little over a half-mile, or .8-kilometers, long, and 60-feet, or 18-meters, high.
Yet here are images that Aaron sent me where the stone blocks of Boxcar Rocks look like they have been cut-and-shaped!
The Appalachian Trail runs through “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211” in Swatara State Park.
This is Lock #5 of the old Union Canal on the “Bear Hole Trail” of Swatara State Park.
The Union Canal in southeastern Pennsylvania between Middletown, Pennsylvania to Reading, Pennsylvania, a distance of 82-miles, or 132-kilometers and said to have been built between 1792 and 1828, until it closed in 1885.
We are told the American Canal Age was between 1790 and 1855, and started in Pennsylvania, where the first legislation surveying canals was passed in 1762.
The construction of the Union Canal was said to have started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.
This would have been less than ten years after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, supposedly during a time in our history when society was based on agriculture and not technologically advanced.
Keep in mind they were said to have been doing all of this heavy construction work before the start of the Industrial Revolution in America, which would have been in the 1870s according to our historical narrative.
It’s been speculated on alternative media for quite awhile that George Washington and Adam Weishaupt were the same person.
Adam Weishaupt was trained by Jesuits, and was the founder of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati on May 1st of 1776.
So at the very least they were contemporaries, since the Declaration of Independence was signed only two-months later, on July 4th of 1776.
Nah, that’s probably just another conspiracy theory!
Yet the label of conspiracy theory or theorist has been used to disparage and shut down anyone who dares to question the narrative.
At any rate, the “Main Line of Public Works,” of which the Union Canal was a part of, was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826 to fund various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.
Next, Aaron drew my attention to the World’s End State Park in the Loyalsock State Forest, and is situated around the s-shaped bends of Loyalsock Creek.
Here are some photos from the “World’s End State Park,” in the “Endless Mountains.” with what appears to be shaped and cut, block-shaped stone-work.
World’s End State Park is located in Pennsylvania’s “Endless Mountains,” a region of northeastern Pennsylvania that are not considered true mountains, but a dissected plateau on the Allegheny Plateau, and what we are told is that they were comprised of sedimentary rocks of sandstone and shale that were part of a lowland that collected sediments from mountains to the southeast that eroded millions upon millions of years ago.
This region was historically inhabited by the Susquehannock, Iroquois, and Munsee-Lenape peoples.
Another place Aaron sent me to look at was Beartown Rocks can be found in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel, Pennsylvania, in Jefferson County.
The land that became the Clear Creek State Forest was purchased in 1919, at the end of the “lumber-era” that had swept through the Pennsylvania Mountains, by the end of which, Pennsylvania was stripped of its old-growth forests.
The entire park was established on three tracts of land in five Pennsylvania counties – Jefferson, Venango, Forest, Mercer, and Clarion.
Beartown Rocks in the part of the park in Jefferson County near Sigel are described as a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
In the section of the park in Venango County, I found references to an historic railroad that ran along-side the curvy Allegheny River in the Kennerdale Tract of the Clear Creek State Park that is now part of the hiking trail system here.
The Clear Creek State Park is very close to West Hickory, Pennsylvania.
As a matter of fact, these other places I am looking at are close to West Hickory too!
West Hickory is where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
More on the West Hickory giant skeleton later in this post.
Next, Aaron directed me to Panther Rocks in Moshannon State Forest.
The Moshannon State Forest is in five counties – Centre, Elk, Cameron, Clinton and Clearfield – with its main offices in Penfield, Pennsylvania in Clearfield County.
At one time in Penfield’s history, and one of many exmaples throughout the region, it was a company town for the logging and coal mining industries in what was a local resource extraction economy, and the railroad came through here at one time.
Immigrants from Europe settled in the area to work the deep mines scattered through the Benzette Valley here.
There’s not much left to speak of in Penfield, but there are recreational activities nearby at Moshannon State Forest, Bilger’s Rocks Park, Parker Dam State Park and Black Moshannon State Park.
Panther Rocks at Moshannon State Forest are described as a small rock city made of several large sandstone blocks, complete with streets, overhangs, channels, crevices and a short tunnel, also said to have been naturally formed more than 300-million-years ago.
The nearby Bilger’s Rocks in Clearfield County’s Bloom Township near the town of Grampian, and is described as a larger, naturally-formed stone-city than what is found at Panther Rocks, with the same story as to how they were said to have been formed.
It is important to note that Bilger’s Rocks has many examples of what appear to be toolmarks, and linear patterns that look like they were carved or molded, and has the same rock-city-like qualities of these other places we have been looking at tucked away in the Pennsylvania Park system.
Parker Dam State Park is surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
The Park was said to have been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
The original dam here was said to have been constructed as a splash dam for the movement of lumber after he leased lumbering rights at some point after lumber harvesting began here in 1794, and the CCC was said to have built the current dam there to replace it as part of the improvements the otherwise unemployed, unskilled young men made when they came to work on the park.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, operated from 1933 to 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed, unmarried men to do manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
In the nine-years of its operation, the CCC employed 3,000,000 young men.
There is no doubt in my mind that the CCC, and the other alphabet programs of FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression, like the WPA and TVA, were being used to cover-up the ancient advanced civilization.
Black Moshannon State Park is largely surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
It is located in Rush Township in Centre County, and surrounds a lake formed by another dam, also said to have been constructed by the CCC, on Black Moshannon Creek at the site of a former mill-pond dam.
Black Moshannon State Park is the home to the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania, a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials, which contains carnivorous plants, orchids, and species typically found further north.
The boggy Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania has a similar story as Cranberry Glades in West Virginia,
At this point I am going to bring in similarities between Black Moshannon in Pennsylvania and Cranberry Glades in West Virginia.
Cranberry Glades, protected in the “Cranberry Glades Botanical Area” area, are a cluster of five, separate boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County in West Virginia, and like Black Moshannon State Park, species are found at both these locations that are typically further north.
These species include cranberries, sphagnum moss, skunk cabbage, and carnivorous plants, and the Cranberry Glades are the southernmost home of many of the plant species found here.
Interestingly, among other things, both locations have s-shaped river bends and airports nearby, with the name of the parks notated by an oval; the airports by a box; and the river bends are pointed at by arrows.
Cranberry Glades is located close to both the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and White Sulphur Springs, the location of the luxury Greenbrier Resort.
The New River Gorge is one of the few places that I know of that still has a railroad operating right along beside the s-shaped New River.
The Amtrak Cardinal still runs through the New River Gorge 3 days/week.
The Amtrak Cardinal Line was once a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, formed from smaller Virginia Railroads starting in 1869 under the guidance of Collis P. Huntington, and first opened in 1873, providing a rail link between the East Coast ports and Midwest cities.
The city of Huntington in West Virginia was named for him.
Aaron sent me this newspaper clip about an almost 7-foot-, or 2-meter-, long skeleton, of massive proportions, that was found 12-feet, or almost 4-meters, above a prehistoric mound that was ordered to be removed, in a town just four-miles, or 6-kilometers, west of Huntington.
The article states at the end that “the Smithsonian Institution will be notified of the discovery.”
The Smithsonian Institution was established in August of 1846, and was created by the United States government for the stated purpose of the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
Nicknamed the “Nation’s Attic,” it has an estimated 154-million items in its holdings, across numerous facilities, and is the largest such complex in the world.
The Smithsonian Castle was the first building of the Smithsonian Institution, and said to have been built on the National Mall in Washington, DC, between 1849 and 1855.
It is interesting to note that researchers have long suspected the Smithsonian to have played a role in the cover-up of giants.
Back in the day, giant skeletons were displayed in public places and mentioned in newspaper articles, but all that went away.
On the one-hand, there are reports that the Smithsonian admitted to the destruction of thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900 as the result of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling, and on the other hand, there are fact-checkers vigorously debunking this as a satirical claim and false.
Why is there such a contradiction of information, and vehement denial on the subject of giant skeletons, when there were historical records of their existence?
Here is another publication clipping sent to me by Aaron on the subject of giants.
Talking about the Great Lake Region, it says “Long Before the Indians…it is believed to have been inhabited by a superior people – of whom not even a tradition remans – whose only monuments are earthworks and tumuli, scattered here and there, in some places containing bones from men of gigantic size.”
It goes on to say further “Mounds and relics from these “Mound Builders” were formerly abundant throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, especially in this section. If a separate race from the Indians, when and by what agency they were destroyed will probably remain a mystery as deep as that of the lost island “Atlantis.”
So this acknowledges the presence of giants here who were Mound Builders, but shrouds what happened to them in mystery, just like the lost Atlantis, saying we don’t know who they were, or really anything about them, except that they were a superior people.
Criel Mound in South Charleston West Virginia, a short distance as the crow flies of of 41-miles, or 66-kilometers, from Huntington.
It was said to have been levelled in 1840 to create a judge’s stand for horse-races that were run around the base of the mound at the time.
We are told it was excavated between 1883 and 1884, and that thirteen-skeletons were found all together, with one of them being documented as having had a height of almost 7-feet, or 2-meters.
The Criel Mound is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds.
The area extended along the upper terraces of the Kanawha River floodplain for 8-miles, or 13-kilometers, and consisted of 50 mounds and 8 – 10 circular earthworks, as reported by Cyrus Thomas, a prominent ethnologist of the late 19th-century employed by the Smithsonian Institution’s “Bureau of Ethnology,” best known for his work on American mounds.
Along with the tallest skeleton by far being 18-feet, or 5.5 meters, -tall at West Hickory in Pennsylvania, seen earlier in this post, of the ten featured on this graphic, three are in the vicinity of where we have been looking at around Huntington, West, Virginia.
Number 10 on the list was found at the Great Serpent Mound, at 7-feet, or a little over 2-meters, -tall; #9 at Cresap Mound in West Virginia at 7-feet, 2-inches, still a little over 2 -meters, – tall; and #6 at Miamisburg, Ohio at a little over 8-feet, or 2.5-meters, -tall.
The Great Serpent Mound is only a distance of 63-miles, or 102-kilometers, northwest of Huntington.
Numerous historical giants’ skeletons have been found in the area around Serpent Mound.
The Great Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio, is described as an effigy mound that is 1,348-feet-, or 411-meters-, long, and 3-feet-, or almost one-meter-, high.
An effigy mound is defined as a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, person, or some other figure.
Here is a detailed sketch of the area from an 1883 archeological expedition on the left that was in an article from the Volume 39 of the 1889 – 1890 “Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine,” authored by F. W. Putnam.
It shows the proximity of the Great Serpent Mound to the s-shaped bends of Brush Creek, and its nearby confluences/junctions with other watercourses, compared with the Google Earth Screenshot of the location on the right.
Now I am starting to look for railroad history every time beside all these s-shaped rivers, but it was elusive here for some reason.
The only thing I was really able to find was this one photograph of railroad tracks at the Scioto Brush Creek State Nature Preserve in Adams County, Ohio.
I mentioned to Aaron that I was having difficulty finding information on historic railroad in this area next to the Great Serpent Mound.
So he sent me a link he found when he looked as well of a 1914 Railroad Map of Ohio from the Ohio Public Utilities Commission showing all the railroads in Ohio.
It is hard to see in this form, but if you click on the quadrants of the map, it shows a close-up of each.
Here is a close-up of the railroads in the southwestern part of Ohio where Peebles and Adams & Scioto County is located near the state’s border with Kentucky, which is formed by the s-shaped bends of the Ohio River.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is marked in the yellow on the map, where it parallels the Ohio River.
Peebles in circled in red on the rail-line passing through, and there is a red box around “Brush Creek” showing an historic railroad line there.
Astronomical alignments have been found in the shape of the Great Serpent Mound.
The official narrative loves to describe the Mound Builders as “indians in loin cloths building the mounds one basketful of dirt at a time…” that “…achieved something extraordinary with their profound understanding of geometry and astronomy.”
Even the name of “Hopewell” given to the civilization of the Mound Builders was after the owner of the farm where an extensive earthwork site was excavated in 1891.
Interesting to note the alignments Aaron uncovered when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the Serpent Mound as a hub and the locations on Google Earth of Kirkbride Facilities (marked by white), key masonic lodges (green), and state capitals (red).
I believe that the Earth’s original free energy grid system, which was originally designed to benefit all life everywhere, was reverse-engineered into a control system used against Humanity by those responsible for what has taken place here for the benefit of a very few.
And what are Kirkbride Facilities?
Thomas Kirkbride was a Pennsylvanian who was said to have designed a system of insane asylums starting in the mid-19th-century that were constructed according to the Kirkbride Plan across the U. S. and while numerous Kirkbride structures still exist, many have been demolished, partially-demolished, or repurposed.
I will be talking more about Aaron’s findings along these lines in the third themed segment of this series, which is on “The Energy Grid.”
It is interesting to note that in the lower right quadrant of the 1914 Ohio Railroad map that insane asylums, and other state institutions, were actually highlighted on it.
It certainly seems like the institutionalization of people for one reason or another was quite common during this time period in our history.
Next, number 6 of the “Top Ten Giant Discoveries in North America” was found in Miamisburg, Ohio, near the Miamisburg Mound, which is 70-miles, or 113-kilometers, from the Great Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio.
The Miamisburg Mound is located next to the s-shaped Great Miami River.
The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical-shaped earthwork of its kind in the United States.
Silbury Hill, located near the Avebury megalithic complex in Wiltshire in England, is similar in appearance to the Miamisburg Mound, and is the largest mound of its kind in Europe
It is interesting to note that crop circles have appeared in proximity to these three places in Ohio and England.
This one appeared near the Great Serpent Mound in a soybean field in August of 2003.
Another one appeared in a cornfield in Miamisburg near the Miamisburg Mound, almost exactly a year later, on August 25th of 2004.
And crop circles show up near Silbury Hill quite frequently, like this one on July 5th of 2009, called a “Mayan Mask” design.
Crop Circles are another subject that makes the Establishment want to classify them as a hoax.
But the complexity and intricacy of crop circles that have manifested certainly make it challenging to explain them away as hoaxes.
Number 9 on the Top 10 list in North America was found documented to have been found in 1959 by Dr. Donald Dragoo, the Curator for the Section of Man at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, at Cresap Mound in West Virginia at 7-feet, 2-inches, still a little over 2 -meters, – tall.
Yet Academia still persists in the debunking of presence of giant humans here.
Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia, is just the short distance of 9-miles, or 15-kilometers, north of Cresap on the Energy Highway which parallels the Ohio River…
…and also the route of the Ohio River Railroad, most of which survives today for use by CSX for freight transportation. unlike so many other places where it is completely gone.
The Grave Creek Mound is considered to be one of the largest conical mounds in the United States, and first excavated by amateurs in 1838, at which time giant skeletons reported to be as long as 8-feet were uncovered, but not listed on the top ten giant discovered in North America for some reason. I guess because it was done by amateurs.
The Grave Creek Mound just so happens to be smack dab across the street from the West Virginia Penitentiary!
If you are interested in going for a visit, the West Virginia Penitentiary was said to have been built in 1866, one year after the end of the American Civil War, and was decommisioned in 1995.
The location offers prison tours from April to November every year, and paranormal investigations take place here because of its haunted reputation.
The Grave Creek Stone is called West Virginia’s most controversial archeological relic.
It was discovered when the Grave Creek Mound was first excavated in 1838.
Initially it was believed to be some kind of “Indian Hieroglyphs,” but different scholars of the day concluded the characters on the stone resembled a variety of ancient alphabets, including but not limited to that of Celtic, Tunisian, Egyptian and Etruscan.
Other scholars dismissed the Grave Creek Stone as a fraud.
The Smithsonian has four casts of the stone, but the location of the original is said to be unknown.
The characters of the Grave Creek Stone bring to mind those on the Heavener Runestone in east-central Oklahoma, which have been mostly attributed to being the Norse Runes of Vikings that found their way there long ago.
Same thing for the appearance of Old South Arabian, like the inscription found in southern Yemen on the left, compared with Norse Runes on the right.
What if these runes were actually the runes of Vril, or “Life Force,” pictured on the bottom middle, that was connected to the Ancient Humans and their mastery of how to harness natural energy to create amazing things.
Giant skeletons have also been uncovered in the desert sands of southern Arabia in the process of looking for gas and oil, but like everywhere else these days, discoveries like this have been labelled as hoaxes.
Back in West Virginia, in 1857, the almost 11-foot skeleton of a giant was found in the vineyard of the sheriff in East Wheeling, and was on-display there for an unknown period of time.
Looks like the giant skeleton was parked outside of a store in Wheeling displaying an array of skulls and bones!
Hmmm – wonder what that was all about!
Wheeling is just up the Ohio River a short-distance from Moundsville.
Wheeling became an important railroad hub, political power, and manufacturing center for cigars, matches, and nails, from the completion of the B & O Railroad from Baltimore to Wheeling in 1852, and the beginning Ohio River Railroad in 1882.
By June of 1961, passenger service had ended, and in the years that followed, the industrial base of the area declined for reasons ranging from strict regulations to foreign competition, and the railroad infrastructure was no longer needed.
Moundsville had been incorporated in 1830, and the B & O Railroad came here in 1852
The B & O Railroad Main Line diverged from the Ohio River Railroad at Grave Creek in Moundsville, and linked to Fairmont in Marion County, West Virginia.
Aaron also provided me with recorded references to giant skeletons that were found in in Marion County, that is tucked in-between West Virginia’s borders with Ohio to the West; Pennsylvania to the North; and Maryland to the East.
Here is an oral account that was recorded of giant bones found on the Monongahela River in Marion County.
A local woman reported that a schoolmaster had found four human skeletons near the river, presumably washed from their graves, where Palatine is now, and before reburying them, measured them and found that they were 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, -long.
Today, Palatine is part of Fairmont on the Monongahela River.
Fairmont is the seat of Marion County.
Aaron also sent me this information on p. 10 in “The History of Marion County.”
The information on this page referred to:
–Workmen preparing to build a bridge unearthed three giant skeletons, measuring over 7-feet, or 2-meters, in length, in the village of Rivesville at Paw Paw Creek;
–Other skeletons having been found in the area, like around Boothsville.
The excerpt also references traces of an “aboriginal fort having been found 2-miles, or a little over 3-kilomers, north of Fairmont.
The only fort I can find any information on to speak of near Fairmont is “Pricketts Fort,” which just happens to be the same distance north of Fairmont that is referenced on the “History of Marion County” page.
Pricketts Fort State Park is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Pricketts Creek, and we are told that it is was a reconstructed “refuge fort to defend local settlers from hostile indian raids.
A couple of interesting things to note about the Picketts Fort location.
First is that the site of the fort is located on a river-bend, right next to an old railroad bridge that is now part of the Marion County Rail-Trail, and there are railroad tracks right next to the Monongahela River, still in use by the Fairmont Subdivision, a railroad from Grafton to Rivesville that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation on what used to be part of the B & O Railroad Mainline.
Fairmont is located just above the confluence of where the West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the Monongahela River.
I searched for more information on Fairmont’s railroad history and this is what I found.
First, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was an inter-urban electric streetcar system that served the Fairmont and Clarksburg areas, linked by a main-line, and connected the communities of Bridgeport, Fairview, Mannington and Weston.
It offered both passenger and freight services, and connected communities and coal camps.
It became operational in 1901.
This interurban streetcar system was abandoned entirely by 1947, when the system had transitioned entirely to bus services.
This was the crossing of this interurban line at Hawkinberry Run near Rivesville, where aforementioned giant skeletons were found in Marion County.
Besides the historic main-line between Fairmont and Wheeling in West Virginia Next, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad once connected Fairmont to Uniontown in Pennsylvania, a distance of 56-miles, or 17-kilometers, from 1894, until 1953 when passenger service ended after the importance of the line wanted as coal mines closed along the route.
By 1991, most of the line between Fairmont and Uniontown was abandoned, with the exception of two short stretches that are still in use today by CSX Transportation.
Other places of interest in West Virginia include places like the Greenbrier River Trail, which is located between the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs and Lewisburg on Interstate 64, also near the bogs at Cranberry Glades.
It was also a former railroad bed and right-of-way.
What is now the Greenbrier River Trail was gifted to the State of West Virginia in the late 1970s and opened as a recreational, multi-use trail in 1980.
It runs between North Caldwell and Cass in Eastern West Virginia.
Cass was the location of the Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and named for Joseph Kerr Cass, the Vice-President and co-founder of the pulp and paper company.
Most of the town named for Joseph K. Cass, and its buildings, were bought by the State of West Virginia in 1961 after the pulp and paper mill closed in 1960, and it became the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.
The Cass Scenic Railroad State Park continues to offer trips to Whittaker Station; the ghost town of Spruce; and Bald Knob, the highest point of the Back Allegheny Mountain in Pocahontas County.
The logs for the pulp mill in Cass came from the nearby Cheat Mountain, which were brought by rail to the mill for processing until the mills closure.
Cheat Mountain, which is next to the Back Allegheny Mountain, was once the home of the largest red spruce forest south of Maine.
Cheat Mountain is flanked on the western side by U.S. Route 219 and on the eastern side by the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.
The Cheat River runs along this section of West Virginia between the state’s border with both Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Aaron sent me this reference to giant skeletons having been uncovered in the location of the Cheat River.
The first reference was a Tucker County resident finding giant bones protruding from the ground in the area on the Cheat River known as “Horse Shoe” in 1774, that he estimated would have been from someone 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, -tall when he laid them out.
Also, other settlers found large-size bones nearby in what is described as an “ancient village” that had earthen and stone mounds, earning the area the nickname “Giant Town.”
This brings us to one of several Civil War correlations between the subject of historical giants and Civil War activity in the course of doing present and past research.
We are told that during the American Civil War, Cheat Mountain was of strategic importance during the early part of the Operations in West Virginia Campaign.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place between September 12th to 15th of 1861, and was the first battle that General Robert E. Lee led troops into combat.
Still a part of Virginia at the time, since what became the state of West Virginia was not formed until after the Civil War, troops under Lee sought to regain confederate territory that had been gained by the Union after Union troops had advanced into the western region of Virginia from Ohio.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain was a Confederate attempt to regain the Union occupied Fort Milroy on top of Cheat Mountain, but they were unsuccessful and “lost” the battle.
Also, West Virginia’s Beartown State Park. is close to Hillsboro, the town closest to Cranberry Glades and not far from Lewisburg, all of which are adjacent to the Greenbrier River Trail that ends in Cass near Cheat Mountain and the Cheat River.
We already saw Beartown Rocks earlier in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel in Pennsylvania, which is also close to the place where the 18-foot, or 5.5-meter,-tall skeleton was found in West Hickory, and where there is another rail-trail found at the Kennerdell Tract of the Clear Creek State Forest, as mentioned previously in this post.
Beartown State Park in West Virginia is located 7-miles, or 11-kilometers, southwest of Hillsboro, on the Eastern Summit of Droop Mountain, and right in the middle between Cranberry Glades and White Sulphur Springs.
There’s a couple of things to unpack here – one is Beartown State Park, and the other is the Civil War Battle of Droop Mountain.
First the rock formations at Beartown State Park in West Virginia are described as having “unusual rocky formations, massive boulders, overhanging cliffs, and deep crevices,” with the deep crevices having a regular criss-crossed pattern making them appear like the streets of a town.
This is very similar to how the Beartown Rocks back in Pennsylvania, were described, which was as ” a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
The other thing is that the Battle of Droop Mountain was said to be the largest battle, and last major battle, of the Civil War to take place in what was to become West Virginia.
It took place on November 6th of 1863.
This is what we are told.
Troops under Union Brigadier General William Averill defeated a smaller Confederate force under Brigadier General John Echols and Colonel William “Mudwall” Jackson.
While the Union succeeded driving Confederate forces from their locations on Droop Mountain.
Though Lewisburg was captured, the Confederate forces returned later, and the Union did not succeed in it objective of damaging the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad that played a strategic role in supplying the Confederate Army.
So it was actually considered a tactical victory for the two Confederate Commanders, since the Confederate Army was not eliminated in Lewisburg, and the railroad was not disturbed.
Interesting to note that the following year, on May 9th of 1864, Union troops under Brigadier General George Crook, successfully destroyed a large bridge across the New River on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad during the Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain in southwestern Virginia, several more bridges along the railroad line and the depot at Dublin, Virginia.
This “victory” was said to sever one of the Confederacy’s last vital lifelines and only rail connection to Tennessee.
Makes me wonder what was really going on during the Civil War!
More to come on this subject.
A few more things to take a look at back in Ohio.
Like the Newark Earthworks.
The Newark Earthworks in Ohio are roughly mid-way between Miamisburg, Ohio, and Cresap, West Virginia.
Consisting of three sections of earthworks – the Great Circle Earthworks; the Octagon and Circle Earthworks; and the Wright Earthworks – this complex contains the largest earthen enclosures in the world at about 3,000-acres, or 1,214-hectares.
Like we saw at the Great Serpent Mound, we see the same precise geometry and archeoastronomy in these earthworks in North America that we see in other countries, like Great Britain.
Yet, this fact didn’t stop the development of a golf course on the Octagon & Circle Earthworks in the early 20th-century.
These earthworks come into play on eleven of the holes of the Moundbuilders Country Club.
I found this newspaper clipping from the Newark Advocate in 1902 in my past research describing a giant skeleton that was found in Bowling Green in northwestern Ohio that was over 8-feet, or 2.5-meters, -tall.
Bowling Green in Ohio is in what is called the “Great Black Swamp,” which is located between Fort Wayne in Indiana and the southern shore of Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.
Interesting to note all the historic rail-lines that go through the same area as the Great Black Swamp in Northwest Ohio, circa that 1914 Ohio Public Utilities Commission Railroad map of Ohio, with Bowling Green where the giant skeleton was found circled in red.
The story that accompanies the existence of the railroads is that they were all constructed after the swamp land was drained.
…and that made the construction of the railroads possible.
But I continue to have serious doubts that railroads were constructed by the people who said they built them when they were said to have been built.
My belief falls along the line that they were already there and being made serviceable once again after the swampland was drained and/or reclaimed.
One more place I want to bring up in Ohio.
A viewer emailed me information that he wanted to bring to public awareness.
He owns property in Columbiana County in Ohio where there was a huge valley of the dead that was intentionally destroyed and covered-up in the 1950s to hide the ancient city.
He said they brought in ceramics to cover-up the real artifacts, but that some burials survived, and he finally figured out the corruption going on here!
He also indicated that the Ohio government is permitting in Negley, Ohio, the destruction, and covering up with garbage, of an Advanced Ancient Sand Stone Slab City Site that is on top of a Glacial End Moraine with a Triangle Pyramid Mound carved from and attached to the End Moraine, with burials.
He said the Glacial End Moraine was mined for coal and clay by the Ancients and the sand stone slabs were used to build the ancient city on top, and that the government in the past 4 years has permitted the two World Heritage Mounds defaced for garbage and graveltipping fees and are permitting the destruction of the entire ancient city site!
I found the same thing taking place in Oklahoma City when I first started waking up to all of this.
There are three humongous mounds in Oklahoma City that serve as landfill sites, like this one in East Oklahoma City.
There are a couple more things I would like to point out about Columbiana County in Ohio before I move on from here.
One thing is it was the historical location of the Sandy and Beaver Canal.
This is what they tell us.
It was a 73-mile, or 117-kilometer, -long canal with ninety locks between the Ohio and Erie Canal in Bolivar, Ohio, to the Ohio River at Glasgow, Pennsylvania.
It was chartered in 1828, completed and 1848, and ceased operations only four-years after it was completed, in 1852.
Make sense?
Here are some of the ruins of Sandy and Beaver Canal.
And here’s a lock on the Sandy and Beaver Canal on the left compared to the lock of the Union Canal on the right that we saw back in Swatara State Park in Pennsylvania near Boxcar Rocks.
The other thing I want to mention is that East Palestine is in Columbiana County, the location where just a year ago, a train derailed and released hazardous chemicals, including vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical used in making plastics. into the environment.
The viewer wondered why here?
He asked could it have been to make sure the site does not meet World Heritage standards, or if the train was derailed at the best place to contaminate the Wild & Scenic river system and ancient site here?
All of this adds a lot of questions to the list of wondering what’s really going on here, and why.
I am going to take a peak for a moment at the area around Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, which is southeast of here.
I looked through this same region a couple of months ago when I was doing the research for “Trekking the Serpent Ley.”
I started at the Bermuda Triangle, and ended at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and went right through all these places.
This research was based on a ley-line identified by Peter Champoux, who has done incredible work on specific ley-lines in North America, and other continents as well, as seen on his website geometryofplace.com.
Peter identified Pilot Mountain as a central hub of leylines.
Pilot Mountain State Park is on the western end of what are called the “Sauratown Mountains,” named after the Saura, or Cheraw People, the Siouan-speaking indigenous people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans.
Pilot Mountain is described as one of the most distinctive natural features in the State of North Carolina.
It is seen here centered on U. S.. Route 52.
When I was looking up information about the Saura/Cheraw people, I found historical records at the Museum of Regional History in nearby Mount Airy mentioning a vanished tribe, and “remnants of their rich cultural heritage recorded in historical journals, still buried in the earth.”
Hmmm. Interesting description. Still buried in the Earth?
Interesting to note that a viewer left me a comment that before it was called Pilot Mountain, it was known as Mount Ararat.
I looked into it and found the historic Ararat River with rail infrastructure running beside it on the top left, and today’s Ararat River Greenway Trail where the railroad used to be on the bottom right.
The Ararat River Greenway Trail is at the eastern edge of the city of Mount Airy.
The only Mount Ararat I have ever heard of is in modern Turkey today, and historic Armenia in the past, the legendary landing place of Noah’s Ark.
What’s Mount Ararat doing in North Carolina?
And why was the name changed to Pilot Mountain?
Way back when I believed the narrative I probably would have accepted it as a being “named after” situation, but not anymore!
Mount “Airy” North Carolina was Andy Griffith’s home town, and the place Mayberry was based on in “The Andy Griffith Show.”
I am going back to this part of North Carolina because when I was looking here previously, I found several examples of giant furniture on display.
First, in Thomasville, North Carolina, which is between Pilot Mountain and Asheboro on the Serpent Lei alignment, is the location of what is called “The Big Chair.
“The Big Chair” is said to be a large-scale replica of a Duncan Phyfe armchair that was built in 1950 at the Thomasville Furniture Industries.
The original “Big Chair” here was said to have been constructed from pine in 1922, but was torn down in 1936, we are told, because the pine had worn down over time.
The base the chair sits upon is made from Indiana Limestone.
We are told that Indiana Limestone was the limestone used in the construction of much of the nation’s monumental architecturect of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
When I was looking for information on “The Big Chair,” I found “The Big Bureau” tourist attraction in neighboring High Point, the world’s largest chest- of-drawers.
It was said to have been built in 1926 as a “civic counter-punch” to Thomasville’s “Big Chair.”
The original “Big Bureau” was said to have been built here in 1926 as a building to serve as a Welcome Center for the High Point furniture industry.
But, alas, it was also the worse for wear over 70-years, so in 1996, a local designer and craftsman oversaw a complete makeover of it on top of the original bureau.
There are also a couple of giant chairs on display there at High Point College.
Another giant chair in my past research was in Anacostia, an historic neighborhood in Washington, DC, at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and V Street SE.
We are told it was built by the Bassett Furniture Company, and installed there by the Curtis Brothers Furniture Company in 1957.
But could these have been the furniture of actual giants, and not gimmicks as we have been led to believe?
Next, I am going to turn my attention to West Hickory in Pennsylvania, where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
Aaron sent me this article from the “Oil City Times” from the “Marysville Tribune” of Marysville, Ohio, dated January 26th of 1870.
At the top of the article, it referenced the “Cardiff Giant Outdone” and the alleged discovery of the skeleton of a giant in the oil regions.
So, I looked up the “Cardiff Giant” to find out more about it.
What has come down to us in our historical narrative about the “Cardiff Giant” was that it was one of the most famous archaeological “hoaxes” of all time.
In October of 1869 in Cardiff, New York, workers digging a well behind the barn of William “Stub” Newell, uncovered a 10-foot, or almost 3-meter, -tall, 3,000-pound, or 1,371-kilogram, petrified giant man.
Subsequently, Newell covered the giant with a tent and turned it into a local attraction, drawing a lot of attention from visitors.
This is the story we have been told to explain the Cardiff Giant’s existence.
The hoax was said to have been perpetrated by a New York tobacconist named George Hull, who wanted to fool people as to how easy it would be to create a giant.
The narrative says that in 1868, only three-years after the end of the American Civil War, Hull hired men to quarry a ginormous block of gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and had it shipped to Chicago to have it sculpted into a giant.
Then Hull had it shipped to the farm of his cousin William Newell in New York in November of 1868, where it was buried in a hole. Then, after almost a year had passed, Newell hired to men to dig the “well” where they found the giant.
The “Cardiff Giant” in short-time was sold to a syndicate, who moved it to Syracuse, New York, for exhibition.
The “Cardiff Giant” garnered a lot of attention, including that of “experts” as well as of P. T. Barnum, who was said to have hired a man covertly to model the giant’s shape in wax in order to make a plaster replica of it after his offer to buy the giant was refused.
P. T. Barnum was a showman, businessman, and politician, who got his start in the “Dime Museum” business in 1841.
Dime museums were most popular in the United States at the end of the 19th-century and beginning of the 20th-century as institutions which provided cheap entertainment for working-class people, and reached their peak in popularity in the time-period between 1890 and 1920, declining in popularity with the rise of Vaudeville and the film industry.
Barnum’s American Museum in Manhattan’s Financial District was known for its strange attractions and performances.
The attractions were a combination of zoo, museum, lecture hall, wax museum, theater, and freak show.
Barnum’s American Museum became a central location in the development of American popular culture.
Barnum’s American Museum was filled with things like dioramas; scientific instruments; modern appliances; a flea circus; the “feejee” mermaid; Siamese twins, and other human curiosities.
At any rate, P. T. Barnum was said to have exhibited his plaster giant as the real giant and the Cardiff giant as the fake.
Then, by December of 1869, the “Cardiff Giant” was said to have been exposed as a fraud, and Hull confessed everything to the press, and that by February of 1870, both the Cardiff Giant and Barnum’s giant had been revealed as fakes in court.
The Cardiff Giant, and what we are told was the unauthorized copy of it made by P. T. Barnum, are on display at “Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum” in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
But what if both the Cardiff giant and Barnum’s giant were actually real giants, and not hoaxes as we are told, after all?
Wouldn’t that be something!
The tobacconist George Hull as a hoaxer story gets even stranger!
The “Solid Muldoon” was another petrified giant human body that was unearthed in Beulah, Colorado, and later called a hoax perpetrated by the same guy, George Hull.
The “Solid Muldoon,” at over 7-feet, or 2-meters, -long was said to have been discovered near Mace’s Hole in Beulah, Colorado, in 1877, 3-months after Hull “created” it, this time from “mortar, rock dust, clay, plaster, ground bones, blood and meat” and kiln-fired before it was buried in the location it was “discovered” three-months later.
The “Solid Muldoon” went on display in Colorado and New York before before revealed as a hoax to the New York Times.
So, now let’s see what the 1870 newspaper article has to say with regards to the giant that was found at West Hickory.
Two men excavating near West Hickory in preparation for erecting a derrick first exhumed an enormous rusty helmet of iron…
…and then they unearthed a 9-foot, or almost 3-meter, – long sword.
So they made the hole bigger, and soon came upon the bones of two enormous feet.
After a few hours, they unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human.
The bones of the skeleton were described as “remarkably white;” the double- teeth all in place, of extraordinary-size; and that when the giant was alive, he must have stood 18-feet, or 5.5-meters, in stockings.
And lastly, the bones were found about 12-feet, or 3.5-meters, below the surface of a mound, and the mound was not more than 3-feet, or less than a meter, above the level of the ground around it.
To put that into perspective, this garage has 12-foot walls, so the giant’s bones were found that far below the surface of a mound, which was another 3-feet higher than the ground.
West Hickory just happens to be located geographically only 14-miles, or 23-kilometers southeast of Titusville, and only 25-miles, or 41-kilometers, northwest of the previously discussed Beartown Rocks in the Clear Creek State Forest in Sigel.
Titusville is noteworthy because it was where the petroleum industry in the United States began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil on a piece of leased-land near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in what is now called Oil Creek State Park.
For this reason, Titusville is called the Birthplace of the Oil Industry, and for a number of years this part of Pennsylvania was the leading oil-producing region in the world.
Today, not surprisingly at this point, the Oil Creek State Park Trail runs on the bed of the first railroad line to reach Titusville, the Oil Creek Railroad.
Samuel Kier had established America’s first oil refinery in Pittsburgh in 1854 for making lamp oil, just five-years before oil was “found” in Titusville.
So. it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.
Roughly a decade after the birth of the oil Industry at Titusville, in 1870 by , John D. Rockefeller, along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, founded the Standard Oil Company, an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company.
Oil was used in the form of kerosene was used throughout the country as a light source and heat source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel source for the automobile, with the first gas-powered automobile having been patented by Karl Benz in 1886.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr, was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.
He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this ranking by CNN Business.
Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.
At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.
It certainly looks like as quickly as possible, a way was found to replace what remained of the free-energy system with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.
There is no doubt in my mind that there was an energy-generating connection for the original civilization between the railroad, s-shaped river bends, hydro-electricity generation, waterfalls and gorges.
I researched these finding extensively in my blog post “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System.”
Other documented finds of the skeletal remains of giants included Erie and Aliquippa in the same region of Pennsylvania.
Aaron sent me this except from a book on the “History of Erie County.”
It makes reference to the following finds in “Chapter 5:”
“When the link of the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad from the dock at Erie was in the process of construction, the laborers dug into a great mass of bones at the cross of the public road which runs by the rolling mill. From the promiscuous way in which they were thrown together, it is surmised that a terrible battle must of have taken place in the vicinity on some day so far distant that not even a tradition of the event has been preserved…” and that “…at a later date, when the roadway of the Philadelphia & Erie Road…was being widened, another deposit of bones was dug up and summarily disposed of as before. Among the skeletons was one of a giant….”
Aaron also sent me this article referencing Beaver Falls at the beginning about two skeletons of gigantic size that were found while workmen were “digging a ditch from the new shovel works to the river at Aliquippa.”
The area around Beaver Falls and Aliquippa were on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad line.
While we are here in this part of Pennsylvania, this is a good place to mention that this is the historical land of the Susquehannock People.
The Susquehannock People were known for their height.
This was not a secret.
On the left is a size comparison between a Susquehannock skeleton compared with a European-sized skeleton.
Captain John Smith, who played an important role in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas at Jamestown in May of 1607, published a map of the Colony of Virginia within a few years, which includes Susquehannock lands in what is Pennsylvania today, on which there is an illustration of a Susquehannock man and the caption at his feet reads “Sasquesahanougs are a gyant-like people, and thus atired.”
The Susquehannock People were said to have had a sharp population decline from disease and war by the 1670s.
Their population continued to decline, and that by 1763 its remaining members in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were massacred by a vigilante group known as the Paxton Boys, at which time they became extinct as a distinct cultural entity.
The Paxton Boys were said to have been formed for the protection of Pennsylvania colonists during Pontiac’s War, a Native American Rebellion in the Great Lakes Region against English Rule that lasted from 1763 to 1766, but as such the Paxton Boys in effect had carte blanche to massacre members of all the Native American tribes of the region, including the Lenape and the Mohican.
Now I’d like to take a look at other places that look like “rock cities” that are outside of Pennsylvania.
First up, Giant City State Park in Makanda, Illinois.
Giant City State Park in the Shawnee National Forest, in Makanda, Illinois, is just south of Carbondale in Southern Illinois.
Carbondale is the crossing point of the “Paths of Totality” for both the 2017 & 2024 solar eclipses, locations where the moon’s shadow completely covers the sun, and this part of southern Illinois was and is the “point of greatest eclipse duration,” where the shadow of the moon from the eclipse of the sun lasts the longest.
So it looks like whoever built this ancient advanced civilization new exactly where they were in time and place, both astronomically and terrestrially.
During the American Civil War, the Confederate Army was said to have constructed a fort in Columbus, Kentucky,at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, very close to Cairo, Illinois, and Carbondale, in a part of Illinois nicknamed “Little Egypt.”
Today, Cairo in Illinois is empty and deserted, and considered a ghost town.
In its heyday, Cairo, located right at the confluence of these two great rivers, was an important city along the steamboat routes and railway lines.
Back in 1861, the Confederacy lost the State of Kentucky, which had wanted to remain neutral until a Confederate Army occupied Columbus, Kentucky, which was supported by President Davis, and Kentucky requested aid from the Union.
A primary attraction at the Columbus-Belmont State Park, the historical location of that fort, are the remains of a mile-long giant chain, and its anchor estimated to weigh between 4- to- 6-tons.
The giant chain was said to have been constructed under the direction of Confederate General Leonidas Polk, who in 1861 had it stretched across the Mississippi River between the fortification in Columbus, and Camp Johnson in Belmont, Missouri.
But apparently this defensive strategy didn’t work too well, as Union troops under then Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant occupied the area and took down most of the chain.
Just as an interesting side-note.
Located on an S-shaped bend in the Mississippi River, Vicksburg is roughly 400-miles, or 600-kilometers, south of this location at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
Vicksburg is perhaps best-known for the Vicksburg Campaign and Siege during the American Civil War, which took place between 1862 and 1863, and at the end of which the Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold of the port of Vicksburg on July 4th of 1863 and divided the Confederacy.
This is a wartime picture of the Shirley House in Vicksburg, circa 1863, with what is described as the camp of the 45th Illinois Infantry behind it.
But there are things going on in this photo that don’t make sense to me.
Why all the digging and entrances?
What we are told is that during the Siege of Vicksburg, the people of the city dug caves into the sides of hills to get out of harm’s way from the hail of iron that was coming their way from Union forces.
A possible explanation…but is it plausible?
The photo on the left was notated as Union soldiers on the lawn of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg after the siege.
It was said to have been constructed between 1858 and 1860.
Interesting to note the contrast between the size of the soldiers and that of the courthouse.
Considered to be Vicksburg’s most historic structure, a museum is operated within the old courthouse today, pictured on the right.
The next place I am going to look at is the Heavener Runestone State Park, the best known tourist attraction in Heavener, located in east-central Oklahoma.
I mentioned the characters on the Heavener Runestone earlier in comparison with the Grave Creek Stone and Old South Arabian characters in southern Yemen.
The Heavener Runestone State Park is very close to the Arkansas State line, on the edge of the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma.
The idea that Vikings came through here once-upon-a-time, and carved the runes on the surface of a huge stone is actively promoted, and there is a Viking festival held here twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
Heavener Runestone State Park was one of the places that I first started waking up to this ancient civilization in 2015 when I was living in Oklahoma City between 2013 and 2016, and I visited there several times during that time.
The first time I did not take note of my surroundings at the Runestone, and just saw the Runestone.
The second time I went there, I noticed that the Runestone was surrounded by an actual wall (which is referred to as a canyon there).
The third time I went to Heavener, I took these photos further up from the Runestone in a different location on the state park grounds, that have absolutely no attention drawn to them whatsoever.
The part of the park where you see these walls on the perimeter is more like an afterthought for a place to put picnic tables.
The Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas are named after the Washitaw Mu’urs of North America, one of the many empires of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization.
But…who are the Washitaw?
The Washitaw Mu’urs, also known as the Ancient Ones and the Mound-Builders, with a history that goes back to Ancient Mu, also known as LeMuria, still exist to this day, and have been recognized by the UN as the oldest indigenous civilization on Earth.
Matriarchal and matrilineal, the Washitaw Mu’urs are ruled by an Empress to this day.
Empress Verdiacee pictured here passed away in April of 2014, and the reigning Empress of the Washitaw Nation is her granddaughter, Wendy Farica Washitaw.
But for some reason the general public has never heard of the Washitaw.
Washitaw Proper, the ancient Imperial seat, is in Northern Louisiana, in and around Monroe.
How come we’ve never heard anything about the Washitaw?
Quite simply, they don’t want us to know.
The Watson Brake Mounds are a short distance south of Monroe.
Watson Brake is an inaccessible archeological site to public view on private property in Ouachita Parish near Monroe in Richwood, Louisiana, and dated to 5,400-years ago.
It is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America.
Note the summer and winter solstice alignments depicted here in this diagram of Watson Brake
Stonehenge in Southern England on the right, believed to date similarly to about 5,100 years ago, has a similar earthwork enclosure to what is seen at Watson Brake in Louisiana encircling the big stones.
How is this even possible with the history we are taught?
Oh yes, and the illustration of Watson Brake on the left shows s-shaped river bends right next to it.
Another landscape feature it shares with Stonehenge, which has the s-shaped Salisbury Avon right next to it as well.
Another place I want to look at is Gornaya Shoria, on a different continent in Siberia.
Aaron sent me photos of Gornaya Shoria to bring it to my attention regarding its similarity to these rock formations we keep seeing in State Parks in North America.
Here is Boxcar Rocks in Pennsylvania on the left compared with Gornaya Shoria on the right.
Gornaya Shoria is found in Russia in southern Siberia, east of the Altay Mountains, and is known for its gigantic megalithic stone structures.
There are other similarities to share between Siberia and what we find in North America in Appalachia.
One is that Gornaya Shoria is that it is rich in ores, and in one of the largest coal-mining areas in Russia with one of the largest coal deposits in the world.
Another shared feature from what we have seen thus far in different places are the s-shaped river bends and confluences, like what we see in Kemerovo, the administrative center of the Kemerevo Oblast and the coal-mining capital of Russia.
It is located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, and is situated in an S-shaped bend of the Tom River.
The Kuznetsk Railroad Bridge crosses the Tom River at Kemerovo.
The Western Siberia Railway branch of the Great Trans-Siberian Railroad passes through Kemerovo, which has two railroad stations.
There is even what we think of as classical Roman architecture here in Siberia, like the Kemerovo Regional Lunacharsky Drama Theater.
You know, Siberia, the land of freezing cold!
Like what you see in North America and other places, the indigenous Shor people of the Kemerevo Oblast are portrayed as hunter-gatherers and farmers…but who knew how to smelt-iron and make iron objects.
Hence their name from the Russians who encountered them in 1607, the Kuznetsk Tatars, or “Blacksmith Tatars.”
So the indigenous Shors, where the massive megalithic site of Gornaya Shoria is located, were “Tatars,” or Tartars, of the historic Tartarian Empire, one of many ancient empires around the world that were in harmony and balance with each other, and not at war with each other as we have been taught to believe in our historical narrative.
So you have the indigenous peoples of Russia, like the Shor…
…and the Itelmen People of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East looking very much like Native American Tribal people.
Well, that similarity is accounted for in the official narrative with the migration story that the first humans to enter North America came from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge at the end of the last Ice Age.
Right?
The story we learn about in school anyway.
So, what exactly happened to get us to our present belief systems?
How about we’ve been indoctrinated in to our present belief systems…
… which has been reinforced through programming in things like movies, television and music.
And Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general has been dominated by Freemasons.
Through such celebrities as John Wayne and Roy Rogers, who were Shriners, an organization comprised of 32nd- and 33rd-degree freemasons, the highest degrees of western freemasonry.
The name “Shriners” is derived from the “Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.”
Also known as “Shriners International,” it is an American Freemasonic society that was established in 1870 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
I think it is accurate to say that the freemasonic Shriners are best known to the general public for their hospitals, circuses and parade antics in little cars.
Even comedian Red Skelton, musician Roy Clark and Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, were Shriners!
These are Prince Hall Shriners of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Ancient Moorish Masonry has 360-degrees of initiation…327 more than western freemasonry.
Until Prince Hall found a way back in, Moorish Masons were denied admittance into Freemasonry.
Moorish Masonry is based on Moorish Science, which also includes the study of natural and spiritual laws, natal and judicial astrology, and zodiac masonry.
This is where the perfect alignments of infrastructure on earth with the sky comes from – the consummate alignment of earth with heaven that is seen around the world – like the lunar roll along the top of this recumbant stone in Crowthie Muir near Forres, Scotland.
Muir is pronounced “Moor.” Like in the Ouachita Mountains in North America, the memory of the people is retained.
Even though the spelling is different, the pronunciation is the same.
Like in the Ouachita Mountains in North America, the memory of the people is returned in the name.
According to George G. M. James in his 1954 book “Stolen Legacy,” the European Freemasons stole the legacy for themselves of the original Moorish Masons, the custodians of the Egyptian mysteries.
The Tartarian Empire in Asia was part of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization, with its roots in Ancient Mu.
The history we have been given about the “Tatars” in Russia is that they were steppe nomads who were assimilated into the Mongol hordes that swept in on horseback under the leadership of the Mongolian Chieftain Genghis Khan, the founder and first Khan of the Mongol Empire, which he ruled from 1206 until his death in 1226.
Tartary was also hidden in name changes throughout the whole region.
Like the name of Manchuria, a region located in northeast China and part of the Russian Far East, came into use in the 1800s, instead of Tartary.
In the beautiful canal city of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea, which was said to have been founded by Czar Peter the Great in 1703, it is important to note the sphinxes there.
First, there are two sphinxes at either end of a quay on the Neva River in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Here is what we are told about these two.
They were brought from Egypt to Russia during the height of Egyptomania in 1832.
The story goes that a Russian named Andrei Muravyov, about whom there is no information available to find, went on a pilgrimage to holy places in 1830.
He saw these two 3,500-year-old sphinxes for sale in Alexandria, Egypt.
This guy was so impressed, he contacted the Russian Ambassador with a proposal to buy them.
They ended up being acquired, and eventually made their way to St. Petersburg in 1834 and their present location the quay on in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
There are also sphinxes on St. Petersburg’s Egyptian Bridge on the Fontanka River.
The Egyptian Bridge was said to have been originally constructed between 1825 and 1826 by two civil engineers, also as a tribute to early 19th-century Egyptomania.
Besides sphinxes, it had Egyptian -style ornaments, obelisks and hieroglyphics, and the iron-work was elaborately gilded.
There’s a whole story about the Egyptian Bridge collapsing in 1905 when a cavalry squadron marched across it, and that the present bridge was rebuilt by 1955, incorporating features from the original bridge, but as I have already indicated, I have serious doubts about the veracity of what we are told about historical events and how things in our world came to be what we see.
I’d also like to bring the Atlantes of the Winter Hermitage in St. Petersburg to your attention.
The Winter Hermitage was the official palace of the House of Romanov from 1732 to 1917, and is a museum complex today.
The Palace pictured here, what we are told was the fourth “Winter Palace” since Peter the Great’s time, was said to have been constructed between 1754 and 1762.
What the historical narrative tells us that the Emperors constructed their palaces on a monumental scale to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia.
The giant-sized statues of the Atlantes are located at a portico entrance of the Winter Hermitage.
The ten Atlantes statues that hold up the Hermitage portico were said to have been sculpted from granite, and polished, by Alexander Terebeniev, and completed in 1852.
Old photos are all that remain of the living giants of the past, like those of Tartary…
…with the possible exception of seeing the giant gene of Humanity expressed in the basketball players of today.
So, exactly how do you go about hiding giants and their advanced civilization?
Based on the information I have provided throughout this post and past research, I think the American Civil War was another one of the many ways this was done, and was not what we are told it was about.
For another example of finding correlations between giants and civil war battles, Aaron sent me this article he found on the bones of giant indians near Antietam Creek on the Library of Congress website.
Titled “Bones Of Giant Indians,” about giant skeletons found in Antietam, Maryland, it was originally published on February 9th of 1898 in the “Juniata Sentinal and Republican” newspaper in Mifflintown in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
This article implies that the tall “Indian” skeletons that were found of seven-feet in height, roamed over the State of Maryland in their wildness, armed with instruments that either nature gave them, or in their limited skill to make.
It further goes on to say that the locality from where these skeletons came near Antietam Creek in Frederick County was supposed to have been the battleground of two tribes of Indians, the Catawabas and the Delawares.
According to this claim, some Catawbas overtook a band of Delawares living at the mouth of the Antietam and annihilated them, but the President of the Maryland Academy of Sciences and Provost of the Peabody Institute, after a careful review of the locality, found that there was no evidence to support this claim of a battle other than some spears and arrowheads found there.
This location of Antietam Creek and the alleged battleground between the two Indian tribes would not have been far in distance from the location of the Battle of Antietam the deadliest one-day battle in American Military History, on September 17th of 1862, with 22,727 dead, wounded, or missing.
We are told that after a long bloody day of fighting and death, the Union Army succeeded in turning back the Confederate invasion of Maryland, and was considered a major turning point in the war in the Union’s favor.
So exactly how was the President of the Peabody Institute supposed to find evidence of an historical battle between giant Indians in a place with an even more recent battle, and of this magnitude?
The Peabody Institute mentioned in this article immediately caught my attention.
In 1857, banker, and also called the “Father of Modern Philanthropy,” George Peabody established the Peabody Institute in Baltimore with a bequest of at least $800,000, and it is the oldest conservatory in the United States.
By the time it was completed and opened in 1866, one year after the official end of American Civil War, it was dedicated by George Peabody himself,and included a music academy, library and art gallery.
That entrance at the east wing of the George Peabody Library sure looks proportionally like its made for much bigger people than we are today!
George Peabody’s bank became the premier American banking house in London after he took up residence from Baltimore to London permanently in 1837, and went from being a wholesale dry-goods and cotton merchant, to a merchant-banker offering securities in American railroad and canal enterprises to British and European investors.
He started a banking business trading on his own account a year after he moved to London, and by 1851, he established the banking firm of “George Peabody & Company” to meet the increasing demand for securities issued by American railroads, and his company specialized in financing governments and large companies.
According to “The Secret Founding of America” book by Nicholas Hagger…
…George Peabody was the Freemasonic banker from whom money was transferred to the “southern insurrectionists,” and he hired the father of J. P. Morgan to handle the funds when they arrived in the United States.
It’s also important to note that the just mentioned Antietam Battlefield is quite close to Harper’s Ferry in West Virginia, also known for its Civil War history, as well as numerous historic forts, rivers, canals, railroads, and hydroelectric plants.
The original rail-lines and canals would have been providing power for the free-energy system, and the original architecture would have provided the antiquitech to process and utilize the free energy throughout the worldwide system.
The Earth’s original free-energy grid system was based on exact and precise geometric alignments of cities and places.
This is what I have come to believe has taken place here over the course of my research.
Firstly, I believe that those behind the reset of Earth’s history and the New World Order deliberately caused a cataclysm via directed energy into the grid system relatively recently, which devastated the surface of the Earth, simultaneously causing the land to undulate and buckle, causing among other things, swamps, bogs, deserts, dunes, and whole land masses to shear-off and submerge under seas and oceans, and that the European colonizers we learn about in our history were exploring and claiming the land of a post-cataclysmic world.
Secondly, I believe the beings behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Ames Shovel Shop was established in Easton, Massachusetts, in 1803.
It became nationally known for providing the shovels for the Union Pacific Railroad, which we are told opened the West.
It was said to have been the world’s largest supplier of shovels in the 19th-century.
We are told that the federal government operated a land-grant system between 1855 and 1871, where new railway companies in what we are told was the uninhabited west were given millions of acres they could sell or pledge to bondholders.
The co-owners of the Ames Shovel Shop at the time the land grant system was being operated by the Federal government were Ames Brothers.
Oliver Ames, Jr, (b. 1807 – d. 1877) was the President of the Union Pacific Railroad from when it met the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah for the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in North America in 1869.
The other brother, Oakes Ames, was a member of the U. S. Congress House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd District from 1863-1873.
He was credited by many as being the most important influence in building the Union Pacific portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Why were shovels so important to the opening of the West and the expansion of infrastructure?
Again…what if…the tracks were already there and just needed to be dug out?
Oakes Ames was also noted for his involvement in the Credit-Mobilier Scandal of 1867, regarding the improper sale of stock of the railroad’s construction company.
He was formally censured by Congress in 1873 for this involvement, and he died in the same year.
Ten-years later, he was posthumously exonerated by the Massachusetts State Legislature on May 10th, 1883.
Then they only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they found replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them for what had originally been a free-energy power grid and transportation system worldwide, and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed.
So, I think there was a hostile take-over of the Earth and it’s grid system, which was reverse-engineered as a mind-control and energy-harvesting system for human energy.
A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giant could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory…
…and vanished like the Saura people in North Carolina, from around where Pilot Mountain is located as we saw earlier in this post, with, as we are told, their rich cultural heritage recorded in historical journals still buried in the Earth.
I believe that these beings with a negative agenda devised a complicated plan to knock Humanity off the positive Moorish Timeline of Higher Consciousness…
…in an interdimensional war in order to control Humanity, using Humans as their tools against the Creator and Creation.
I bring all this up is because it is important to know this is what has been going on here.
Humans are inherently sovereign beings.
They have gone to all of this trouble because, by Universal Law, they can’t lay a finger on us.
They have tricked us into accepting their sovereignty over our own.
But they have to tell us what they are doing so they have our consent.
So they choose avenues like movies, literature, art, and music to tell us without telling us they are telling us, and if we don’t get it and object collectively, then they technicially have our tacit consent even if we don’t know we are being told something, and that is what they are counting on.
So let’s look at a few examples from art and music.
First, from public art.
There are two identical sculptures entitled “The Awakening.”
They are of a 72-foot, or 22-meter, statue that depicts a giant embedded in the Earth, struggling to free himself.
One is at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
They consist of 5 aluminum pieces buried in the ground in such a way that it gives the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground…
…with mouth in mid-scream as the giant struggles to emerge from the Earth.
There is an identical sculpture in Chesterfield, Missouri.
I find it interesting to note that the head of the giant in these “Awakening” Sculptures, with the mouth in mid-scream, on the left, looks very much like the mouth in the head of this giant skeleton that was uncovered in Adam’s County, Ohio, near the Great Serpent Mound, on the right.
Here are some examples of sculptures around London, also very reminiscent of the two “Awakening” sculptures, of buried giants, or giants attempting to free themselves from the ground.
They are putting these sculptures in public places where people can interact with them and accept the as “Art,” without realizing that they might be communicating to us something that has been very well-hidden about the world we are living in.
Then there is the “Crowned Head” in the labyrinth underneath Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary, the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings.
Buda Castle has one of the world’s remaining incline railways, also known as funiculars, still in operation.
The Buda Castle labyrinth under Buda Castle Hill is part of a huge underground system, complete with caves, thermal springs, basements and cellars.
Among other features, there are five separate labyrinths encompassing nine halls.
What is called the Crowned Head is in the Ottoman Alley of the labyrinth.
I find this to be extremely odd.
To me, this giant head looks more like a petrified head with long-gone eyes, that is covered up to the nose and ears by mud, than an intentional work of art.
Now an example from music.
These are the lyrics from Rasputina’s song “Holocaust of Giants,” from their 2010 “Sister Kinderhook” album.
I found this when I was looking up general info under the search term “holocaust of giants.”
The lyrics of this song echo what we saw in the 19th-century accounts, when the existence of giants was acknowledged, but we don’t know what happened to them, but it was long ago, they were primitive, and they must have killed each other off.
The message is yes there were giants, but something unknown happened to them, and that’s really all we know, and that’s all you need to know.
The lyrics to a “Holocaust of Giants” can be summarized thus:
First verse of the song.
When I was a child in Ohio, a worker was digging a well on my dad’s land, and he found a massive bone.
Ever since I’ve known there was a race of giants in the northern hemisphere, that lived here 10,000-years ago.
It’s seems incredible, but its true, that a primeval brute was turned to stone but he wasn’t alone, there were hundreds of them.
Even giants think they’ll live forever.
Second verse of the song.
Everything turned to stone where a stream once flowed into the Ohio.
The Bible speaks of giants in our midst, but they killed each other in a meaningless war.
Thank goodness we don’t do that anymore!
The gravel-encrusted skull was found in a shoal, with double rows of sharp teeth and the jaw measured 25-feet, or almost-8-meters, but it had turned to stone.
The last verse of the song recaps the first two.
Just a few more things in closing.
Why do I think this happened relatively recently?
The simplest answer is that we are still using giant-sized infrastructure and architecture, every day all over the world.
How many generations of school-children have attended school in buildings like the still in use El Paso High School in Texas, that is extremely large and ornate, and looking like a Roman temple…
…or in schools that have been long torn-down, like the former Butcher Elementary School in Fairmont, West Virginia, in Marion County, with this photo of the school-kids and teacher taken in front of a giant door circa 1911.
Aaron attended grades 1 – 12 at Mannington High School in Mannington West Virginia, in Marion County, and he has shared vivid memories of incredibly tall windows in the building from his school years.
Another viewer sent me these photographs he took of a 6-toed large footprint that he came across in the Lime Peak Quarry near Eureka, Utah.
He estimated the length to be about 12″ to 14,” or 305-mm to 356-mm, long.
Echoes and imprints of giants in our midst, right beneath the surface of our awareness.
The Controllers have always feared the Great Awakening of Humanity, and thus threw everything they could at us to prevent it from happening and keep us asleep so we would never know what hit us.
But no matter what they do, they can’t keep it from happening. Among many other things, they lost control of the narrative no matter how hard they try to get it back.
I don’t believe the giants were hoaxes.
I believe the hoax is on us to hide their very existence from us, especially from not that long ago.
I am in the process of organizing my recent blot post “On the Trail of Giants – In Appalachia and Beyond,” into the four main themes that are interwoven throughout the original post that I want to bring forward separately for your consideration.
This is the first segment that is ready-to-go, with the featured theme of “Robber Barons and Resetters.”
I take a very close look at this region and its official history in this video, which among other things, was important to the settlement and industrialization of America, and also the wealthy and influential men behind it all.
The other three segments will feature the following main themes of the original video: ”Giants;” “The Energy Grid;” and “The Cataclysm.”
I have been researching aspects of what I am presenting in this post for years, but this subject came about as an in-depth research topic for me right now because Aaron, from the “Uncovering Hidden West Virginia” video presentation on YouTube, suggested that I look into this particular topic. He and I have been corresponding about this for several months, and have been working together on this project.
My starting point for the research in this post are places in Pennsylvania that Aaron sent me that he had identified as looking like megalithic stone structures
Like “Boxcar Rocks,” also known as the “Chinese Wall,” and the “High Rocks,” on Gold Mine Road in Cold Spring Township in Lebanon County.
We are told that they are a natural geologic formation a little over a half-mile, or .8-kilometers, long, and 60-feet, or 18-meters, high, described as a long line of stacked boulders that were likely left over from melting glacial deposits during the last Ice Age.
Yet here are images that Aaron sent me where the stone blocks of Boxcar Rocks look like they have been cut-and-shaped!
Cold Spring Township was incorporated in 1853, and In 2010, there was a population recorded of 52 people.
Most of the Township is part of “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211,” who manage the lands for the purposes of hunting, trapping, and fishing.
The Appalachian Trail runs through “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211” in Swatara State Park.
This is Lock #5 of the old Union Canal on the “Bear Hole Trail” of Swatara State Park.
This section of the Union Canal was said to have been closed after the dam holding the reservoir was washed away by a devastating flood in 1862, and the rest of the Union Canal was said to have been closed to use in 1885 because it could not compete with the “efficiency of the railroad.”
The 82-mile, or 132-kilometer, -long Union Canal in southeastern Pennsylvania between Middletown, Pennsylvania to Reading, Pennsylvania, was said to have been built between 1792 and 1828, until it closed in 1885.
We are told the American Canal Age was between 1790 and 1855, and started in Pennsylvania, where the first legislation surveying canals was passed in 1762.
The construction of the Union Canal was said to have started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.
The “Main Line of Public Works,” of which the Union Canal was a part of, was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826.
It funded various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.
Next, Aaron drew my attention to the World’s End State Park is in Forksville, Pennsylvania, a small village of about 200 people in the Loyalsock State Forest.
World’s End State Park is situated around the s-shaped bends of Loyalsock Creek.
These locations are in Pennsylvania’s “Endless Mountains,” a region of northeastern Pennsylvania that are not considered true mountains, but a dissected plateau on the Allegheny Plateau.
We are told the “Endless Mountains” are comprised of sedimentary rocks of sandstone and shale that were part of a lowland that collected sediments from mountains to the southeast that eroded millions upon millions of years ago.
This region was historically inhabited by the Susquehannock, Iroquois, and Munsee-Lenape peoples.
Here are some pictures from the “World’s End State Park,” in the “Endless Mountains.”
Beartown Rocks can be found in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel, Pennsylvania, in Jefferson County.
With a population a little bit larger than Forksville, Sigel has a small population of a little over 1,100 residents at last count.
This is what we are told.
Clear Creek State Forest was formed because of the depletion of old-growth forests by lumber and iron companies that took place in the mid-to-late-19th-century.
The forests were clear-cut, and wildfires caused by the sparks of passing steam kept the formation of new-growth forests from occurring.
Conservationists became alarmed that the forest would never re-grow, so they lobbied the state to purchase the land from the lumber and iron companies, which they were happy to sell because they had been depleted of resources.
The land that became the Clear Creek State Forest was purchased in 1919, at the end of the “lumber-era” that had swept through the Pennsylvania Mountains, by the end of which, Pennsylvania was stripped of its old-growth forests.
The entire park was established on three tracts of land in five Pennsylvania counties – Jefferson, Venango, Forest, Mercer, and Clarion.
Beartown Rocks in the part of the park in Jefferson County near Sigel are described as a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
In the section of the park in Venango County, I found references to an historic railroad that ran along-side the curvy Allegheny River in the Kennerdale Tract of the Clear Creek State Park in Venango County that is now part of the hiking trail system here.
The Clear Creek State Park is very close to West Hickory, Pennsylvania.
As a matter of fact, these other places I am looking at are close to West Hickory too!
More on this as we go.
West Hickory is where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
Aaron also directed my attention to Panther Rocks in Moshannon State Forest, with its main offices in Penfield, Pennsylvania in Clearfield County’s Huston Township.
In the 2020 census, the population of Huston Township as a whole was recorded as a little under 1,300 people.
At one time in Penfield’s history, it was a company town for the logging and coal mining industries in what was a local resource extraction economy, and the railroad came through here at one time.
Immigrants from Europe settled in the area to work the deep mines scattered through the Benzette Valley here.
There’s not much left to speak of in Penfield, but there are recreational activities nearby at Moshannon State Forest, Bilger’s Rocks Park, Black Moshannon State Park, and Parker Dam State Park.
We find the same story at Moshannon State Forest that we found at Clear Creek State Forest – it was formed as a direct result of the depletion of the forests of Pennsylvania that happened in the mid-to-late 19th-century, when lumber and iron companies clear-cut the forests and sparks from passing steam-locomotives caused wildfires from the remnants of the forest-lands, preventing the growth of new forests.
The land that became Moshannon State Forest was purchased by the State in 1898.
The old-growth forest was gone by 1921, with a second-growth forest replacing it since then.
Interesting to note that a tornado in 1985 tore through the forest and destroyed an estimated 88,000 trees.
Panther Rocks at Moshannon State Forest are described as a small rock city made of several large sandstone blocks, complete with streets, overhangs, channels, crevices and a short tunnel
They were said to have formed more than 300-million-years ago in the by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
The nearby Bilger’s Rocks in Clearfield County’s Bloom Township near the town of Grampian, and is larger stone-city than what is found at Panther Rocks.
The creation of Bilger’s Rocks was also said to have taken place more than 300-million-years ago, formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
Bilger’s Rocks has many examples of what appears to be toolmarks, and linear patterns that look like they were carved or molded, and has the same rock-city-like qualities of these other places we have been looking at tucked away in the Pennsylvania Park system.
Parker Dam State Park is surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
The Park was said to have been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
The original dam here was said to have been constructed by William Parker as a splash dam for the movement of lumber after he leased lumbering rights at some point after lumber harvesting began here in 1794, and the CCC was said to have built the current dam there to replace it as part of the improvements the otherwise unemployed, unskilled young men made when they came to work on the park.
There was much logging going on from this region, so the “Susquehanna Boom” was said to have been built in the 1850s across the West Susquehanna River at Williamsport, a system of cribs and chained logs designed to catch and hold floating timber until it could be processed, and logging railroads built to transport the lumber, to the tune of 45-cars per day until logging ended here in 1911, when all the trees were gone.
The lumbermen left a barren landscape that was devastated by fires, flooding and erosion more many years, until the CCC came in the 1930s and started replanting trees after the State of Pennsylvania bought the deforested land from the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company in 1930.
The Civilian Conservation Corps CCC operated from 1933 to 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed, unmarried men to do manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
In the nine-years of its operation, the CCC employed 3,000,000 young men.
Black Moshannon State Park is largely surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
It is located in Rush Township in Centre County, and surrounds a lake formed by another dam, also said to have been constructed by the CCC, on Black Moshannon Creek at the site of a former mill-pond dam.
Black Moshannon State Park is the home to the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania, a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials, which contains carnivorous plants, orchids, and species typically found further north.
Black Moshannon State Park is is 9-miles, or 15-kilometers east of Phillipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504.
Philipsburg Borough was founded in 1797 by one Henry Phillips, who purchased 350,000 acres on the western side of the Allegheny Mountains for $173,000, and the proceeded to auction the land off on the streets of Philadelphia for two-cents per acre.
The region developed around the lumber and coal-mining industries.
The “Snowshoe Rails to Trails” is near Philipsburg and Black Moshannon, and is seen here in the top-left-hand corner, right next to the Moshannon River where the arrows are pointing.
The “Snowshoe Rails-to-Trails” has 19-miles, or 31-kilometers, of abandoned railroad bed along 37-miles, or 60-kilometers, of legalized Snowshoe Township Roads for ATVS/UTVs.
We are told that it was originally the route of the Beech Creek Railroad between the South Jersey Shore and Mahaffey Borough, Pennsylvania, and part of the Susquehanna and South Western Railroad, and used for coal mining services in the region starting in 1884.
This railroad ran near State College, home of Penn State University, and not far from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
More on State College and Altoona to come in this post.
Mahaffey Borough, first incorporated in 1841, was located on U. S. Route 219, at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
The arrows point to where railroad tracks ran along s-shaped river-bends. on this section of Route 219 going through Mahaffey Borough.
This railroad project in Pennsylvania was said to have been backed and financed by William H. Vanderbilt, President of the New York Central Railroad.
The New York Central Railroad was said to have begun operating in 1853 with the consolidation of earlier independent companies running between Albany and Buffalo. This graphic depicts the New York Central rail system as of 1918.
We are told extensive trackage existed in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, plus additional trackage in Ontario and Quebec, and by 1925 operated 26,395-miles, or 42,479-kilometers, of track.
William H. Vanderbilt had developed a plan to facilitate railroad access to enter the “Clearfield Coalfield,” a large, juicy coal-mining area in Clearfield County, which would have been otherwise exclusively accessed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It was said to have been constructed starting at the end of 1882 to high-standards, including extensive curvature, bridges, and a tunnel, and became operational in November of 1884.
Eventually, this railroad line provided passenger service and used as such until 1990.
In 1994, the right-of-way was acquired by the Headwaters Charitable Trust for the “Snowshoe Rail-to-Trail Project” and the rail went away.
Like Black Moshannon State Park, the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area in West Virgina is an area of boreal bogs located near US Route 219.
This is the same U. S. Route 219 we saw in connection with Mahaffey Borough, located on U. S. Route 219 at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
The Cranberry Glades Botanical Area is located close to both the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and White Sulphur Springs.
First, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
The New River Gorge is one of the few places that I know of that still has a railroad operating right along beside the s-shaped New River.
The Amtrak Cardinal still runs through the New River Gorge 3 days/week – on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Besides the railroad line that runs along the New River through the New River Gorge in West Virginia, there are things found in the gorge like historic coal mines, waterfalls, and hydro projects.
We are told that after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway opened up this rugged wilderness in 1873, coal was carried out of the New River Gorge to the ports in Virginia and to cities in the Midwest.
As a result, by 1905, thirteen cities sprang up between Fayette and Thurmond, which was 15-miles, or 24-kilometers, upstream, and provided the West Virginia coal that contributed greatly to the industrialization of the United States until the 1950s.
After the coal seams were exhausted and mines closed, these company towns like Fayette were for the most part completely abandoned, with the possible exception of Thurmond which had a very small population of 5 in 2010.
Aaron sent me information about the Red Ash and Rush Run Coke Ovens near Thurmond.
The Rush Run Coke Ovens were said to belong to the Rush Run Mining Company, and there were believed to have been up to 180 of them at this location, which borders the railroad tracks.
Coke ovens are described as being made of brick, or some kind of heat-resistant material, and used to separate the coal-gas, coal-water, and tar.
Coke is formed when the coal-gas and coal-water fuse together, and is used primarily in steel-production.
Rush Run was established as a coal-mining community in 1889 when the post office first opened, and boomed until the post office closed in 1939.
The mine there continued to operate until it was closed in the 1940s.
The nearby Red Ash coal camp was developed by the Red Ash Coal and Coke Company in 1891, for a high-quality coal that burned with a “fine red ash.”
There were estimated to be 80 coke ovens here at one time, and the mine was exhausted by the 1950s.
So, the typical pattern seen throughout this whole region known as Appalachia is communities and railroads coming on-line only for a short-time in order to extract resources until they are exhausted, and then they are gone.
We’ve seen multiple examples of this pattern, and we will continue to see it throughout this video.
Also, there’s a service tunnel at the location of the Red Ash Coke Ovens.
The fine brick-work found at the Red Ash facilities reminds me of the fine brickwork I have seen in tunnels all over the place, including what is called the Great Tunnel of the C & O Canal in Allegheny County, Maryland, and part of the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River as it is winding its way through West Virginia and Maryland.
Built using more than 6,000,000-bricks, this tunnel has been described as the “greatest engineering marvel along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.”
The Paw Paw Tunnel was said to have been built between 1836 and 1850 for the C & O Canal to by-pass the bends in the Potomac River near Paw Paw, West Virginia, with no work having been done on it between 1841 and 1847 due to construction and financial problems.
The C & O Canal closed to canal boats in 1924.
Canals, like the railroads, were found running next to rivers, and the Potomac River is a good example of this, like here where the canal and the railroad run side-by-side at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
We are told that the C & O Canal, and other canals, were made obsolete because the railroad was so much more efficient and canals couldn’t compete with them.
Such as the Wabash and Erie Canal, which was said to have been built during roughly the same time period as the C & O Canal.
Canals like the C & O Canal subsequently became a popular hiking, biking and canoeing venue, as we are seeing with the Rails that quietly became trails when no one was paying attention.
It is interesting to note that at one time in its history, Thurmond was a prosperous railroad town that was the largest, revenue-generating stop on the C & O Railroad, where passenger and coal trains rolled through here throughout the day.
Today, a visitor center for the National Park Service operates here in the old railroad depot.
CSX Transportation, formerly the C & O Railroad, has freight transportation operations in and through historic Thurmond, and the Amtrak Cardinal passenger route goes through here, the second-least-used Amtrak station in the nation.
So whereas the railroad that runs alongside the New River in the New River Gorge is still operational for freight and passenger service, the railroad that used to run beside the New River in Galax, Virginia, to the southwest of the New River Gorge, was abandoned in 1985, and the former railroad right-of-way became the New River Rail Trail.
Starting at the North Bend State Park in Cairo, West Virginia, northwest of Cranberry Glades and northeast of the New River Gorge, there is the 72-mile, or 116-kilometer, – long hiking corridor known as the “North Bend Rail Trail.”
What is now the North Bend Trail was at one time one of the most distinguished railroad lines in United States History.
During its prime, it hosted the B & O Railroad’s premiere passenger train, the National Limited, between New York City and St. Louis, Missouri.
Eventually the rail-line that was part of the North Bend Rail Trail became freight-only, and the line was abandoned and dismantled in 1988.
The trail, completed between 1991 and 1996, has beautiful, red-brick tunnels along the way.
Now I am going to take a look at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which is roughly 24-miles, or 39-kilometers, to the southeast of the bogs at Cranberry Glades.
White Sulphur Springs was said to have been settled in 1750, and developed as a health spa in the 1770s, as the story goes after a woman was healed of rheumatism after bathing in the springs, and calls itself “America’s Resort since 1778.”
The springs are on the grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel, which was said to have been built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company in 1913.
Even today, the same Amtrak Cardinal Line that runs through the New River Gorge has a station at White Sulphur Springs.
The Greenbrier Resort was at one time a Presidential getaway, with President Eisenhower the last President in office to have stayed there, with 27 presidents having stayed at the hotel before him.
The Presidents’ Cottage is a museum today.
A top-secret, super-sized underground bunker was said to have been constructed there in the 1950s during the Eisenhower Administration to serve as a relocation point for the U. S. Congress in the event of a nuclear war, but when the secret came out in 1992 in a newspaper article, it was decommissioned.
It had features like:
–A 25-ton blast door that opened with only 50-lbs of pressure
–It’s own power plant with purification equipment, and the capacity for 75,000-gallons of water storage, and 42,000-gallons of diesel fuel
–Every kind of medical care one would ever need
–Sleeping, meeting, and eating facilities for over 1,000 people.
It was kept stocked with supplies for thirty-years but never used as an emergency location.
In 1995, the government ended the lease agreement with the Greenbrier, and it was opened to the public for tours, which it offers to this day.
Today’s Amtrak Cardinal Line runs between New York and Chicago, by way of Washington, DC; through White Sulphur Springs, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, on its meandering route.
The Amtrak Cardinal Line was once a part of, among others, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
It was formed in 1869 from several smaller Virginia Railroads under the guidance of Collis P. Huntington, in order to connect the coal reserves of West Virginia with the new coal piers that were built in Hampton Roads and Newport News, Virginia, and first opened in 1873, forging a rail link to places like Chicago in the Midwest.
The city of Huntington in West Virginia was named for him.
Huntington was said to be one of the first American cities to have electric streetcars, with service believed to have started around the end of 1888, and ran until the 1920s, during which time the Ohio Valley Electric Railway had organized a gas-powered bus service, which by November 1937 had completely replaced all of Huntington’s former electric streetcar lines.
Collis P. Huntington was one of the Big Four of western railroading, along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker.
Then in 1888, Huntington lost control of the railroad to J. P. Morgan, an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age between 1877 and 1900, and William K. Vanderbilt, who managed the Vanderbilt family’s railroad investments.
William K. Vanderbilt was was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history, who was an American magnate, and who built his family’s fortune in shipping and railroads.
The process continued on for the C & O Railroad to consolidate and merge railroads, and, for example, to gain access to productive coal fields throughout the region, through the 1920s.
The Greenbrier River Trail is located between the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs and Lewisburg on Interstate 64, and was also a former railroad bed and right-of-way.
Lewisburg is located near the junction of Routes 219 and and Interstate 64, just to the south of Cranberry Glades
What is now the Greenbrier River Trail was gifted to the State of West Virginia in the late 1970s and opened as a recreational, multi-use trail in 1980.
It runs between North Caldwell, which is 3-miles, or 5-kilometers, east of Lewisburg on U. S. Route 60/Interstate 64,and Cass in Eastern West Virginia.
Cass, West Virginia, was founded as a company town in 1901 for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and named for Joseph Kerr Cass, the Vice-President and co-founder of the pulp and paper company.
Interestingly, this information on Joseph Kerr Cass on the “My Genealogy Hound” website from the “History of Allegheny County,” published in 1889, shows the following.
His great-grandfather was Revolutionary War Major Jonathan Cass, and Jonathan Cass was the father of Lewis Cass, who represents the State of Michigan in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol.
Lewis Cass, among other things, was President Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of War from 1831 to 1836.
As President Jackson’s Secretary of War, Lewis Cass was central in implementing the Indian Removal policy of the Jackson administration after Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
The Indian Removal Act was directed specifically at the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeastern United States – the Cherokee, Creeks, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw – though it also affected tribes in Ohio, Illinois and other areas east of the Mississippi River.
Most were forced to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Lewis Cass was the grandfather of Lewis Cass Ledyard, a New York City lawyer, personal counsel to financier J. P. Morgan, and a President of the New York Bar Association.
Most of the town named for Joseph K. Cass, and its buildings, were bought by the State of West Virginia in 1961 after the pulp and paper mill closed in 1960, and it became the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.
The Cass Scenic Railroad State Park continues to offer trips to Whittaker Station; the ghost town of Spruce; and Bald Knob, the highest point of the Back Allegheny Mountain in Pocahontas County.
The logs for the pulp mill in Cass came from the nearby Cheat Mountain, which were brought by rail to the mill for processing until the mills closure.
Cheat Mountain, which is next to the Back Allegheny Mountain, was once the home of the largest red spruce forest south of Maine.
The Cheat River runs along this section of West Virginia between the state’s border with both Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Aaron sent me this reference to giant skeletons having been uncovered in the location of the Cheat River.
We are told that during the American Civil War, Cheat Mountain was of strategic importance during the early part of the Operations in West Virginia Campaign.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place between September 12th to 15th of 1861, and was the first battle that General Robert E. Lee led troops into combat.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain was a Confederate attempt to regain the Union occupied Fort Milroy on top of Cheat Mountain, but they were unsuccessful and “lost” the battle.
Aaron also provided me with recorded references to giant skeletons that were found in Marion County, that is tucked in-between West Virginia’s borders with Ohio to the West; Pennsylvania to the North; and Maryland to the East.
Fairmont is the seat of Marion County.
The location of “Pricketts Fort” is a short distance north of Fairmont.
Pricketts Fort State Park is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Pricketts Creek.
What the historical narrative tells us is that it is was a reconstructed “refuge fort,” built on Jacob Pricketts’ homestead, to defend local settlers from hostile indian raids, and these days commemorates life on the Virginia frontier in the late 18th-century.
A couple of interesting things to note about the Picketts Fort location.
First is that the site of the fort is located on a river-bend, right next to an old railroad bridge that is now part of the Marion County Rail-Trail, and there are railroad tracks right next to the Monongahela River, still in use by the Fairmont Subdivision, a railroad from Grafton to Rivesville that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation on what used to be part of the B & O Railroad Mainline.
The Marion County Rail Trail runs for 2.5-miles, or 4-kilometers, from the Pricketts Fort State Park, along Pricketts Creek through rural Marion County, to Fairmont, including a long, lighted tunnel, said to have been built in 1914 by the Monongahela Railroad.
Fairmont is located just above the confluence of where the West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the Monongahela River.
I couldn’t help but notice all the s-shaped riverbends going on around here!
I searched for more information on Fairmont’s railroad history and this is what I found.
First, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was an inter-urban electric streetcar system that served the Fairmont and Clarksburg areas, linked by a main-line, and several other communities and coal camps, starting in 1901.
Again, we are told that now the electric streetcar services just couldn’t compete with the advent of automobiles, and this interurban streetcar system was abandoned by 1947, when the system went entirely to bus services.
In time, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was managed by the larger West Penn Railway system of electric streetcars that was headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and was said to be part of the regions power-generation utility.
It was operational from 1904 to 1952.
Next, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad starting in 1894 once connected Fairmont to Uniontown in Pennsylvania, a distance of 56-miles, or 17-kilometers.
We are told the importance of this line waned as the coal mines along the route closed, and in 1953, passenger service ended.
By 1991, most of the line between Fairmont and Uniontown was abandoned, with the exception of two short stretches that are still in use today.
This map of the Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition’s Parkersburg to Pittsburgh (P2P) Corridor shows its plan to have a fully-connected recreational rail-to-trail between the two cities, with the proposed segments overlaid in red.
I have put a blue box around the Fairmont to Uniontown segment of the former railroad line, and a red box around the section between the West Fork River Trail, which starts just outside of Fairmont, and goes to Parkersburg, and includes the previously mentioned North Bend Rail- Trail.
Before I leave West Virginia, and head back up to Pennsylvania, there’s a few more things I would like to mention about Cranberry Glades.
Hillsboro, the town closest to Cranberry Glades, is just 30-miles, or 49-kilometers, up U. S. Route 219 from Lewisburg.
So Cranberry Glades is located near U. S. Route 219; it is very close to the Greenbrier River Trail, that ends in Cass and near Cheat Mountain; and is also very close to West Virginia’s Beartown State Park.
We already saw another Beartown Rocks earlier in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel, Pennsylvania.
Beartown State Park in West Virginia is located 7-miles, or 11-kilometers, southwest of Hillsboro, on the Eastern Summit of Droop Mountain, and right in the middle between Cranberry Glades and White Sulphur Springs.
There’s a couple of things to unpack here – one is Beartown State Park, and the other is the Civil War Battle of Droop Mountain.
First the rock formations at Beartown State Park in West Virginia are described as having “unusual rocky formations, massive boulders, overhanging cliffs, and deep crevices,” with the deep crevices having a regular criss-crossed pattern making them appear like the streets of a town.
This is very similar to how the Beartown Rocks back in Pennsylvania, were described, which was as ” a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
The Battle of Droop Mountain was said to be the largest battle, and last major battle, of the Civil War to take place in what was to become West Virginia.
It took place on November 6th of 1863.
This is what we are told.
Troops under Union Brigadier General William Averill defeated a smaller Confederate force under Brigadier General John Echols and Colonel William “Mudwall” Jackson, though it was actually considered a tactical victory for the two Confederate Commanders, since the Confederate Army was not eliminated in Lewisburg, and the railroad was not disturbed.
Interesting to note that the following year, on May 9th of 1864, Union troops under Brigadier General George Crook, successfully destroyed a large bridge across the New River on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad during the Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain in southwestern Virginia, several more bridges along the railroad line and the depot at Dublin, Virginia.
This “victory” was said to sever one of the Confederacy’s last vital lifelines and only rail connection to Tennessee.
Now, I’m going to return to the area around the bog of Black Moshannon State Park and take another look there for the purposes of comparison to the area around Cranberry Glades.
Black Moshannon State park is 22-miles, or 35-kilometers, from State College, Pennsylvania, which is only a difference of 2-miles, or 4-kilometers, of the distance between the bogs at Cranberry Glades and the community of White Sulphur Springs, with its luxurious and exclusive Greenbrier Resort.
State College, Pennsylvania, is the home of Penn State University.
It is connected to Phillipsburg and Black Moshannon State Park via Pennsylvania U. S. Route 322.
Penn State was founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, and in 1863, it became the state’s first land-grant university.
State College is surrounded by many different highway routes and by s-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
First a word about the United States Numbered Highway System, also known as the Federal Highway System, called an “integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid across the contiguous United States,” and first approved in 1926.
Drawn up in 1913, by the National Highway Association, this map was said to be the first proposed U. S. Highway Network map.
The red roads were delineated “Main” National Highways; the blue roads “Trunk” National Highways; and the yellow roads were “Link” National Highways to connect all the “Mains” and “Trunks.”
The Nation’s first Federal Highways would not be adopted until 1926, when the American Association of State Highway officials approved the first plans for the numbered highway system, with this section showing Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
I have blue arrows pointing to major cities that are the central point of at least five highways – Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; and Birmingham, Alabama.
What we see happening with the highway system of certain cities being the central point of multiple highways, is also seen with rail-lines.
This Civil War era-example shows that Petersburg in Virginia, just south of Richmond, was a central point of multiple rail-lines emanating from it in all directions.
Petersburg was the focal point of the railroads that supplied Richmond during the Civil War, and was the primary target for the Union Army in Virginia from the last half of 1864 until April of 1865.
The third major Civil War fire was the April 2nd of 1865 Burning of Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and of the Confederate States of America.
Also known as the “Evacuation Fire,” and the “Fall of Richmond,” Richmond was set on fire on the night of April 2nd by Confederate forces after Confederate President Jefferson Davis was said to have ordered the burning of warehouses and bridges after Union General Ulysses S. Grant had taken nearby Petersburg.
This is a lithograph depicting it by Currier & Ives.
The huge classical temple-like building on the left was the Exchange Bank of Richmond, and said to have been damaged by the fire, and on the right is another view of Richmond and its State Capitol Building in the middle of the picture, as seen from above the Canal Basin in Richmond after the 1865 fire.
LIke Lewis Cass, the enforcer of the Indian Removal Act, the former President of the Confederacy and the man who ordered the burning of Richmond, Jefferson Davis, is also in the National Statuary Hall, representing the State of Mississippi.
In our historical narrative, the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant days later, on April 9th of 1865, after his final defeat at the Battle of Appomattox Court House that same day.
There’s a very similar configuration between Petersburg Rail-lines of the Civil War-era, and the highways around Richmond and Petersburg today.
Back to State College in Pennsylvania.
As I mentioned previously, besides many highway routes, State College is also surrounded by s-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
And, yes, there is a railroad history to be found in the area around State College too.
Whereas West Virginia was mined exhaustively for its coal, this part of Pennsylvania came to be mined exhaustively for its iron ore.
Andrew Carnegie had begun mining iron ore in Scotia in 1881 for his steel mills in Pittsburgh, and by 1887, we are told that a new era of iron-making in the Nittany Valley began, with the opening of the Nittany and Bellefonte Furnaces along Buffalo Run near its junction with Spring Creek, and three railroads that were said to have been constructed to haul the iron ore to them – the Bellefonte Central (BFC), Central Railroad (CRR) and Nittany Valley Railroad (NV).
By 1911 both of these furnaces had been shut-down.
By 1950, all the railroads that had once served the area, either for the iron-related industry or passenger service, including the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, circled in blue, were no longer in service.
The only historic rail here that became operational again was a portion of the Bellefonte Central after the Bellefonte Historical Railroad was organized as an excursion line in 1985, and occasionally offers runs as a tourist attraction.
Now I am going to take a look at Altoona in Pennsylvania just down the road from State College.
Altoona is only 43-miles, or 70-kilometers southwest of State College.
Altoona was said to have been established by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849.
Aaron drew my attention to Altoona with information he sent me about the nearby “Horseshoe Curve.”
The “Horseshoe Curve” is a three-track railroad curve that is described as one of the world’s most incredible engineering feats, and was accomplished by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1854.
It was said to have replaced the original Allegheny Portage Railroad, which was said to be the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in 1834, and connected to the Pennsylvania Canal, all of which was said to have been built as part of the transportation by the “Main Line of Public Works” that was mentioned at the beginning of this post after it was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826.
Considered a technological marvel in its day and critical to opening the way to commerce and settlement past the Appalachian Mountains, the original Allegheny Portage Railroad consisted of a series of five inclines on either side of the ridge-line to Cresson Summit alongside what is called the Little Conemaugh River to where it meets the Conemaugh River at Johnstown.
Interesting things to note that along the historic route of the Allegheny Portage Railroad are as follows:
After leaving the main canal location of Hollidaysburg and going up towards Cresson Summit, we first come to the lopsided-looking “Skew Arch Bridge,” called the “only purposefully built bridge on the Portage” and crossed over the railway.
It was said to have been built in the 1830s as part of the early road system.
Today, the “Skew Arch Bridge” is preserved in the middle of “Old U. S. Route 22” and the new “U. S. Route 22.”
U. S. Route 22 is an East-West Numbered Highway from 1926 that runs from Cincinnati in Ohio to Newark in New Jersey, and passes through West Virginia and Pennsylvania on the way.
The next landmark n the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s journey through the Allegheny Mountains is the summit at Cresson, a borough (which in Pennsylvania is a municipal entity like a town or small city) on top of the Eastern Continental Divide.
US Route 22 is one of the highways that accesses Cresson.
Back in the industrial heyday of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, there were lumber, coal and coke-yard industries located here.
Wealthy Pittsburgh businessmen like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and Charles Schwab, all connected to each other through the steel industry, had summer residences here, like Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage in Cresson.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant to America, who came to Pittsburgh in 1848 with his parents at the age of 12, got his start as a telegrapher, and who by the 1860s, had investments in such things as railroads, bridges and oil derricks, and ultimately worked his way into being a major player in Pittsburgh’s steel industry.
I couldn’t find a picture of Andrew Carnegie as a freemason, but I could find a reference to him being a “famous freemason” on a masonic website.
His first steel mill was operational by 1874, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with his partners, one of whom was Henry Clay Frick, the owner of a coke manufacturing company, a product used in making steel.
They subsequently acquired other steel mills, and in 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was formed, of which Henry Clay Frick became chairman. and in 1897, Charles M. Schwab, who had gotten his start as an engineer at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, became President of the Carnegie Steel Company in 1897.
In 1901, Charles M. Schwab helped negotiate the sale of Carnegie Steel with a merger involving it with Elbert Gary’s Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company to a group of New York City Financiers led by J. P. Morgan.
After the sale of Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American at the time, and Charles M. Schwab became the first President of the newly minted U. S. Steel Company.
Now back to Cresson.
Cresson was known for its therapeutic mineral springs, and we are told that in 1881, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the Mountain House Resort Hotel.
Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage is still standing on the 400-acre property, which had 32-lots for private-cottages.
Alas for the Mountain House Resort Hotel and Cresson Springs, just like canals falling by the wayside for railroads, and railroads the same for automobiles, America’s appetite for “mountain” or “inland” resorts began to decline in favor of beach resorts.
The Mountain House Resort Hotel had ceased operations by the early 1900s, and in 1916, it was completely razed to the ground, and the original hotel building was gone.
Interesting to note, that unlike the luxurious Mountain House Resort Hotel that got razed to the ground, the likewise spacious building of the former Cresson Sanitorium and Prison is still-standing, albeit in pretty rough shape these days!
This is what we are told.
Cresson Sanitorium was built on land that was donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, and first opened in 1913 in order to provide hospital and long-term care facilities for individuals and families with tuberculosis and other health conditions.
In 1956, it was incorporated into the Lawrence F. Flick State Hospital for people with mental illness.
In 1983, it was converted to a State Correctional Facility, and operated as such for the next 30-years, until its final closure in 2013.
The building is located on Old Route 22.
After the former Allegheny Portage Railroad left the summit at Cresson, on its downward descent in elevation into Johnstown, along the Little Conemaugh River, we come to South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River and what was the former location of the South Fork Dam.
The famous Johnstown Flood on May 31st of 1889, the worst flood in the United States in the 19th-century, was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, and was the second major disaster the American Red Cross responded to, after the Michigan Thumb Fire, which started on September 5th of 1881, with hurricane-force winds and hot and dry conditions this was less than four months after the establishment of the American Red Cross in May of 1881.
John D. Rockefeller was amongst several that donated to create a national headquarters for the American Red Cross near the White House in Washington, DC, said to have been built between 1915 and 1917.
The South Fork Dam was said to have been an earthwork built between 1838 and 1853 as part of a canal system as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
But then, after spending 15-years building the dam, it was abandoned by the Commonwealth, and sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, who turned around and sold it to private interests.
In 1881, speculators had bought the abandoned reservoir and built a clubhouse called the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and cottages, turning it into an exclusive retreat for 61 steel and coal financiers from Pittsburgh, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, Philander Knox, John Leishman, and Daniel Johnson Morrell.
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania Corporation and owned the South Fork Dam.
Henry Clay Frick was a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, and was actually said to have been largely responsible for the alterations to the South Fork Dam that led to its failure.
Interesting to note that I did find this reference on the website of the Pleasant Valley Masonic Center in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, that Henry Clay Frick was a freemason in its King Solomon’s Lodge #346 from 1872 to 1877 , at which time he resigned as an active mason, but from what this entry says, his masonic lodge continued to enjoy the benefits of his generosity long afterwards, as well as that of his daughter.
What we are told is that the South Fork Dam failed after days of unusually heavy rain, and 14.3-million-tons of water from the reservoir of Lake Conemaugh devastated the South Fork Valley, including Johnstown 12-miles, or 19-kilometers, downstream from the dam, killing an estimated 2,209 people and causing $17-million in damages in 1889, which be $490-million in 2020.
Though there were years of claims and litigation, the elite and wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were never found liable for damages.
In 1904, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club corporation was disbanded and assets sold at a public auction by the sheriff, and there were permanent exhibits in many places, like Atlantic City, depicting the horrors of the Johnstown Flood experience for public consumption, billed as a “Thrilling Account of the awful floods and their appalling ruin.”
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club building and the nine-remaining of sixteen club member cottages still stand today, and are under the auspices of the National Park Service as part of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
The Conemaugh Viaduct was located between the South Fork Dam and Staple Bend Tunnel on the descent into Johnstown.
This is what we are told in the official narrative about what happened here.
The Conemaugh Viaduct was originally built in 1833 as part of the Allegheny Portage Railroad where it crossed the Little Conemaugh River, and that it was often described as the most beautiful railroad bridge in the world.
We are told that it was a massive stone structure, over 70-feet, or 21-meters, in height, with a single arch.
We are told this massive stone structure was ultimately no match for what had become a 90-foot, or 27-meter, – high wave of water coming from the failed South Fork Dam, and was destroyed after a few minutes of holding the flood waters back.
We are told that it was essential that the bridge be replaced immediately to bring in help in the aftermath of the flood, so railroad workers came in from New York and Pennsylvania, and in the short-time of 2 1/2-days, built a temporary railroad trestle, and that on June 14th, roughly 2-weeks after the horrifying flood on May 31st, the Pennsylvania Railroad resumed service.
Then we are told that same year, in 1889, the Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilt the Conemaugh Viaduct to replace the temporary wooden structure and original viaduct.
The Staple Bend Tunnel is located just a short distance from the location of the viaduct in the vicinity of Mineral Point, a town just 1-mile, or 1.6-kilometers, down from the Conemaugh Viaduct, which was completely destroyed by the flood.
The Staple Bend Tunnel was said to have been constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and was the first railway tunnel constructed in the United States, and the third tunnel of any kind, after two canal tunnels, also in Pennsylvania.
At 901-feet, or 275-meters, in length, we are told the tunnel was rock-bored and stone-lined by workers – being paid $13/month plus room and board for 12-hour days, 6-days/week – who hand-chipped away and blasted through solid rock.
So what was really going on here?
Paying workers meager wages for hard labor in the early 1830’s hand-chipping and blasting away through solid rock to bring a brand-new tunnel into existence…or chipping and blasting away through whatever material was obstructing a pre-existing tunnel?
In 1994, the Staple Bend Tunnel was declared a National Historic Landmark, and in 2001, it became part of the “Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site,” and like the Johnstown Flood National Memorial, administered by the National Park Service.
So now we come to Johnstown, which is located 57-miles, or 92-kilometers, east of Pittsburgh.
It is at the confluence of the Conemaugh and the Stonycreek Rivers.
The is a map of the 1889 Johnstown Flood direction from the National Park Service map.
“Mass of debris” is marked at the Stone Bridge location.
The Stone Bridge is a 7-arch railroad bridge that was said to have been constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1887 and 1888.
The Stone Bridge itself survived the flood, but it trapped all kinds of debris, including miles of barbed wire, that had been swept away by the raging floodwaters.
The debris at the bridge caught on fire burned for three days, and killed many people that were trapped in the debris.
If the failure of the South Fork Dam, and the subsequent catastrophic Johnstown Flood was deliberately caused by prestigious members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which evidence in the narrative suggests was the case, then apparently these men had had no care or concern for the death, destruction and suffering for which they were never held accountable that they caused downriver.
From 1834 to 1854, Johnstown was a key transfer point on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal.
At the head of the canal’s western branch, canal boats were transported over the mountains by the Allegheny Portage Railroad to continue the trip by water to Pittsburgh at the “Forks of the Ohio” and on to the Ohio River Valley.
We are told that when the Pennsylvania Railroad became connected to Johnstown in 1854, with the completion of the main-line, the same year we are told the amazing Horseshoe Curve in Altoona came into existence, the Pennsylvania Canal became obsolete, and Johnstown grew rapidly as a major producer of steel via the Cambria Iron Company, and at one time was the country’s leading producer of steel.
It operated under this name until 1898, and was under different management two more times, before it closed permanently in 1992.
Though the Cambria Iron Company’s facilities were said to have been badly damaged during the flood, the company was able to reopen on June 6th of 1889, a week after the flood, and continued to operate.
Both Johnstown on the one side of the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona on the other side, might have operational remnants of the original incline railway system, though that’s not what we are told about them.
The Johnstown Inclined Plane was said to have been designed by Hungarian-American engineer Samuel Diescher, and completed in 1891 to serve as an escape route from floods in the valley at the confluence of the Conemaugh and Stonycreek Rivers, and to connect Johnstown with the Borough of Westmont on Yoder Hill.
Samuel Diescher was also credited with the design of four of Pittsburgh’s seventeen original Inclines, of which only two remain, the Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines on Mt. Washington.
Billed as the “World’s steepest vehicular inclined plane,” it’s slope has a grade of 71.9%, and it takes 90 seconds for it to travel in-between the two stations.
The Johnstown Incline is closed for rehabilitation work, now projected to be completed in 2024.
The Inclined Plane Railway back at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona was said to have been built in the 1990s to take tourists up to the park above to get a gscenic view of the incredible engineering feat by the Pennsylvania Railroad circa 1854 of the Horseshoe Curve and its three-tracks that eliminated the need for the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s 10-incline planes.
Like the one at Johnstown, this incline has been closed for repairs, and is also expected to reopen in 2024.
Incline railways work like an obliquely-angled elevator, in which cables attached to a pulley-system raise- and-lower the cars along the grade.
Two cars are paired at opposite-ends and act as each other’s counterweight. As such, there is not a need for traction between the wheels and rails, and thereby allowing them to scale steep slopes, unlike traditional rail-cars.
Thing is, there used to be way more of them than there are now, and inclined-railways were a worldwide thing.
Now they are mostly either tourist attractions, or kept on as an important part of a communities’ transportation infrastructure from low-ground to high-ground.
I looked at the subject of Incline Railways in-depth in this post, “Incline Railways of the Past and Present.”
Like the canals, railroads, electric streetcars and luxurious holiday resorts of the past, most of the world’s incline railways were largely made to go away for one reason or another.
Back in Johnstown, come to find out that the main highway connecting Johnstown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike is once again our old friend US Route 219!
What is it about US-219?!
This is a great place to revisit the U. S. Number Highway System and see what comes up to the surface.
First up, a deeper look into US-219.
US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.
It is 535-miles, or 861-kilometers, -long, and runs from West Seneca, New York, at the eastern end of Lake Erie south of Buffalo, and ends at Bluefield, Virginia, right across the state border from Bluefield, West Virginia
As mentioned previously, these two highways meet at Bluefield in Virginia, of which there is one city on other side of the West Virginia/Virginia border with that name.
The land beneath the two Bluefields contains the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, known as the “Pocahontas Coalfield,” or the “Flat-Top Pocahontas Coalfield,” named after the Flat Top Mountain on US-19 in West Virginia, and Pocahontas, Virginia, where the first coal-seam here was discovered.
The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.
Pocahontas in Virginia was named after the famous daughter of Chief Powhatan in connection with the 17th-century Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
This is the most famous depiction of Pocahontas from her time on the left, but this how we have been taught to see Pocahontas and Powhatan on the right.
We are told that Bluefield in West Virginia, with its great location with respect to the developing Pocahontas Coalfield, was selected as the location of a major Division point on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the late 19th-century, and that the railroad greatly stimulated to the town’s growth, so much so that in its hey-day, Bluefield was considered a “Little New York.”
Welch, the county seat of McDowell County, was on the Norfolk and Western Railway, just 23-miles, or 36-kilometers, to the northwest of Bluefield.
I had looked at Welch previously because it was situated where I was looking on the previously mentioned Serpent Lei identified by Peter Champoux.
The McDowell County Courthouse was said to have been designed by Frank Pierce Milburn and constructed between 1893 and 1894, after Welch was named the county seat in 1892.
Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were murdered on the courthouse steps in 1921 by Baldwin-Felts agents.
Sid Hatfield was the Matewan Chief of Police at the time of the Matewan Massacre in May of 1920, at which time he joined the side of striking coal miners because he sympathized with the unionization efforts.
The Matewan Massacre took place in the Pocahontas Mining District of southwestern West Virginia on May 19th after detectives from the Baldwin-Felts Agency came to evict families that had been living at the Stone Mountain Coal Camp. They served eviction notices, went to eat, and when they left to go to the train station, long story short, they were surrounded by armed miners and two detectives, seven miners, and the towns mayor were killed.
This was during a time when the United Mine Workers of America were trying to unionize the mine, a place where miners worked long hours in unsafe and poor conditions, received a low wage, and were paid in company scrip for the company store.
This situation was typical of how companies treated and viewed their workforce.
Poor treatment dealt with a very heavy hand!
This massacre marked a turning point for miners rights, and thirteen-years later, with the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, American Labor Unions were recognized by the federal government.
Next, I am going to take a deeper look at the longer U. S. Route 19 starting at its northern terminus, and then come back to Bluefield and continue the journey southward on US-19.
Now, on to more about U. S. R0ute 19.
The North-South U. S. Route 19 runs from its northern terminus at U. S Route 20 at Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania to its southern terminus at an interchange with U. S. 41 in Memphis, Florida, just south of St. Petersburg.
Erie is located just about right in-between Cleveland, Ohio, which is 90-miles, or 140-kilometers, southwest of Erie, and Buffalo, New York, 80-miles, or 130-kilometers, northeast, on the southern shore of Lake Erie.
Pittsburgh is 128-miles, or 206-kilometers, south of Erie.
Erie was an important railroad hub during the mid-19th-century.
We are told the first railroad station in Erie was established in 1851, and replaced in 1866 by the Romanesque Revival Union Depot seen on the left, which was demolished in 1925.
The current Art Deco Union Station in Erie on the right was said to have opened in 1927, and designed by the Fellheimer and Wagner, an architectural firm credited with a bunch of railroad stations between 1923 and 1940.
The Erie Union Depot is used as an Amtrak stop on the Lake Shore Limited route, and is otherwise used for commercial space today, like a brew pub.
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was said to have been incorporated on April 1st of 1858, with operations starting in March of 1860.
Then on April 1st of 1870, the Pennsylvania Railroad took-over operations.
It was an 83-mile, or 134-kilometer, -long railroad between Girard just west of Erie, and points south around the Pittsburgh area.
Today, it looks like what was the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line followed what is now Pennsylvania State Route 18 going south out of Girard, through these same two towns of Beaver Falls and Aliquippa on its way to Pittsburgh; US-19 is just east of there, going south from Erie on its way to Pittsburgh; and Pennsylvania State Route 8 leaves Erie and heads south through Titusville on its way to the greater Pittsburgh area.
One last thing I want mention in Erie itself is Waldemeer Park & Water World.
It is billed as one of only thirteen trolley parks still operating as an amusement park in the United States.
But what we see today ain’t what they used to be!
Waldemeer Park was first leased as a trolley park in 1896 by the Erie Electric Motor Company, and is the fourth-oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
Waldemeer has operated continuously since then under different owners, but the trolleys of the park are long-gone.
Trolley parks were said to have started in the United States in the 19th-century as picnic and recreation areas at the ends of streetcar-lines, and were precursors to today’s amusement parks.
They were said to have been created by streetcar companies for reasons like giving people a reason to use their services on weekends.
By 1919, there were estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 such parks.
But like what we have already seen with countless electric streetcar lines, canals, railroad lines, and historic resorts, these magnificent trolley parks went the way of the dinosaur too.
So, in this example, dozens of trolley parks were operating at one time in this part of Pennsylvania, just in the location alone between Erie and Pittsburgh, much less everywhere else!
This was an historic trolley park at Aliquippa.
One of Pittsburgh’s first amusement parks, it was said to have been established sometime in the 1880s by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad as a way to bolster ridership, but by 1905 had fallen into disrepair, and the land was purchased by the “Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation” that year to construct the “Aliquippa Works.”
Gigantic skeletons were also reported to have been unearthed in Aliquippa by workers digging a ditch.
With the location of Trolley Amusement Parks being historically at the end-terminals of streetcar-lines, I have come to believe that they were somehow involved with recharging the Earth’s energy grid for the original civilization in a really fun way, and were just utilized by the bringers-in of the world’s new system for a short time until they were no longer needed, or just plain inconvenient to the new narrative.
Now I am going to put this area near Erie and US-19 into the perspective of this new system in our historical narrative with its proximity to Titusville, which we come to going south out of Erie on Pennsylvania State Route 8.
The petroleum industry in the United States began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil on a piece of leased-land near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in what is now called Oil Creek State Park.
For this reason, Titusville is called the Birthplace of the Oil Industry, and for a number of years this part of Pennsylvania was the leading oil-producing region in the world.
Today, not surprisingly, the Oil Creek State Park Trail runs on the bed of the first railroad line to reach Titusville, the Oil Creek Railroad.
Samuel Kier had established America’s first oil refinery in Pittsburgh in 1854 for making lamp oil, just five-years before oil was “found” in Titusville.
So. it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.
Roughly a decade after the birth of the oil Industry at Titusville, in 1870 by , John D. Rockefeller, along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, founded the Standard Oil Company, an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company.
Oil was used in the form of kerosene was used throughout the country as a light source and heat source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel source for the automobile, with the first gas-powered automobile having been patented by Karl Benz in 1886.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr, who was born in the United States in 1839, was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.
He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this ranking by CNN Business.
Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.
At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.
As quickly as possible, a way was found to replace what remained of the free-energy system with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.
Next, I am going to turn my attention to West Hickory, is the the short distance of just 14-miles or 22-kilometers, south of Titusville, where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found.
The 1870 newspaper article printed in the “Marysvillle Tribune” in Ohio from the “Oil City Times” in Pennsylvania says this with regards to the giant that was found at West Hickory.
Two men were excavating near West Hickory in preparation for erecting a derrick and unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human.
The bones of the skeleton were described as “remarkably white;” the double- teeth all in place, of extraordinary-size; and that when the giant was alive, he must have stood 18-feet, or 5.5-meters, in stockings.
The bones were found about 12-feet, or 3.5-meters, below the surface of a mound, and the mound was not more than 3-feet, or less than a meter, above the level of the ground around it.
Yet another nut for the Antiquarians to crack!
To put that into perspective, this garage has 12-foot walls, so the giant’s bones were found that far below the surface of a mound, which was another 3-feet higher than the ground.
Another mystery for the antiquarians – how did a well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human with “remarkably white” bones get way down there?
Antiquarians are those who study history with a particular attention to artifacts, archaeological and historic sites, and historic archives and manuscripts.
The American Antiquarian Society was established in 1815, said to be a national research library of pre-20th-century American history and culture, and the oldest historical society with a national focus, having been founded in 1812.
Its stated mission is to collect, preserve, and make available for study all printed records of what is known as the United States of America.
Seems like the American Antiquarian Society was established to be a gate-keeper for the new official history, like the “Smithsonian Institution.”
Somehow I don’t think the self-described Antiquarians had any intention of “cracking the nut.”
The seal of the American Antiquarian Society translates from the Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 15, Line 872: “Now I have completed my work, which neither sword nor devouring Time will be able to destroy” complete with an illustration of what we have come to consider Greco-Roman architecture and a broken corinthian pillar at the feet of what appears to be an angel. Hmmm.
The view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia is pictured on the right.
The Smithsonian Institution was established in August of 1846, and was created by the United States government for the stated purpose of the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
Researchers have long suspected the Smithsonian to have played a role in the cover-up of giants.
Back in the day, giant skeletons were displayed in public places and mentioned in newspaper articles, but all that went away.
The previously mentioned rock-city-like Beartown Rocks in Pennsylvania are located in the Clear Creek Forest just 25-miles, or 41-kilometers, southeast of West Hickory.
While we are still here in this part of Pennsylvania, this is a good place to mention that this is the historical land of the Susquehannock People.
The Susquehannock People were known for their height.
This was not a secret.
On the left is a size comparison between a Susquehannock skeleton compared with a European-sized skeleton.
Next, there are just two places I would like to bring forward here out of several that I looked at in the original post outside of Pennsylvania. that are along the same lines Bear Rocks and Boxcar Rocks.
They are Heavener Runestone State Park in Oklahoma and Gornaya Shoria in Southern Siberia.
First, Heavener Runestone State Park, the best known tourist attraction in Heavener, located in east-central Oklahoma, very close to the Arkansas State line, on the edge of the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma.
The idea that Vikings came through here once-upon-a-time, and carved the runes on the surface of a huge stone is actively promoted, and there is a Viking festival held here twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
Interesting to note that what we know of as “Norse” runes, and associated with the Vikings, bear a remarkable resemblance to “Vril” runes, referring to “Universal Life Force Energy.”
Heavener Runestone State Park is one of the places that I first started waking up to this ancient civilization in 2015 when I was living in Oklahoma City between 2013 and 2016, and I visited there several times during that time.
The first time I did not take note of my surroundings at the Runestone, and just saw the Runestone.
The second time I went there, I noticed that the Runestone was surrounded by an actual wall (which is referred to as a canyon there).
The third time I went to Heavener, I took these photos further up from the Runestone in a different location on the state park grounds, that have absolutely no attention drawn to them whatsoever.
The Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas are named after the Washitaw Mu’urs of North America, one of the many empires of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization.
But…who are the Washitaw?
The Washitaw Mu’urs, also known as the Ancient Ones and the Mound-Builders, with a history that goes back to Ancient Mu, also known as LeMuria, still exist to this day, and have been recognized by the UN as the oldest indigenous civilization on Earth.
Matriarchal and matrilineal, the Washitaw Mu’urs are ruled by an Empress to this day.
Empress Verdiacee pictured here passed away in April of 2014, and the reigning Empress of the Washitaw Nation is her granddaughter, Wendy Farica Washitaw.
But for some reason the general public has never heard of the Washitaw.
Washitaw Proper, the ancient Imperial seat, is in Northern Louisiana, in and around Monroe.
How come we’ve never heard anything about the Washitaw?
Quite simply, they don’t want us to know.
It is quite interesting to note that Watson Brake, an inaccessible archeological site to public view on private property in Ouachita Parish near Monroe in Richwood, Louisiana, is dated to 5,400-years ago, and is considered the oldest earthwork mound complex in North America.
Note the summer and winter solstice alignments depicted here in this diagram of Watson Brake
Stonehenge in Southern England on the right, believed to date similarly to about 5,100 years ago, has a similar earthwork enclosure to what is seen at Watson Brake in Louisiana encircling the big stones.
How is this even possible with history we are taught?
Oh yes, and the illustration of Watson Brake on the left shows s-shaped river bends right next to it.
Another landscape feature it shares with Stonehenge, which has the s-shaped Salisbury Avon right next to it as well.
One more place in the Ouachita Mountains I would like to mention is Pinnacle Mountain State Park outside of Little Rock, Arkansas.
This was definitely one of the places I woke up to this ancient civilization in North America.
This is a picture of Pinnacle Mountain, which is only viewable like this from the Education Pond at Pinnacle Mountain State Park.
I had first heard of Pinnacle Mountain when I learned about a conference that was held there in 2012.
I didn’t think much of the name Pinnacle Mountain until several years later, in 2015, when finding this image on-line. This was the beginning of my “looking” and then “finding” out more and more. It really got my attention!!!
So I had to go there and see it for myself! It was about a 3 – 4 hour drive from where I was living at the time, and I went twice with friends.
There are two more what appear to be pyramids next to Pinnacle Mountain, and this view is only obtainable from the Visitor Center Observation Deck on a relatively clear day, which I was lucky enough to photograph.
Otherwise, access to all other views is completely cut off by private property and fences, and these are certainly not advertised as pyramids.
Here is a comparison of what is seen from the Pinnacle Mountain Visitor Center Observation deck on the left, and the pyramids on the Giza Plateau in Egypt on the right, in which they all seem to be facing in the same direction.
Another thing is that I can’t help but notice the map of the Washitaw Empire on the left, roughly corresponds to the map of the Louisiana Purchase in the middle and the Western and Trans-Mississippi Theaters of the American Civil War on the right.
As a matter of fact, the Trans-Mississippi Department was a geographical subdivision of the Confederate Army.
When Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold of the port of Vicksburg on July 4th of 1863 and divided the Confederacy, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith’s forces were cut off from the Confederate Capital of Richmond, Virginia.
At the time, Edmund Kirby Smith was the Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and for the rest of the Civil War, he remained west of the Mississippi River.
As a result of being cut-off from Richmond, Kirby Smith had free reign in a nearly independent area of the Confederacy, and the whole region became known as “Kirby Smithdom.”
Like Lewis Cass and Jefferson Davis, Edmund Kirby Smith is in the National Statuary Hall, representing the State of Florida.
I have gotten through about half of the 50 States in the series I have done on who’s in the National Statuary Hall, so I have looked at around 50 out of 100 statues, some of them famous but most of them obscure historical figures, and from what I’ve seen so far, it sure seems like a “Who’s Who” of the New World Order’s Reset Agenda to me!
I first learned about the Trans-Mississippi Department when I was doing some research around Albert Pike, an influential 33rd-degree Freemason who was a senior officer of the Confederate Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, otherwise known as Oklahoma.
Around this same time period, Albert Pike was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction, a position which he held from 1859 to 1891.
One last place I want to look at before I go back to continue down US-19 where we left off at Bluefield, Virginia, is Gornaya Shoria, on a different continent in Siberia.
Aaron sent me photos of Gornaya Shoria to bring it to my attention regarding its similarity to these rock formations we keep seeing in State Parks in North America.
Here is Boxcar Rocks in Pennsylvania on the left compared with Gornaya Shoria on the right.
Gornaya Shoria is found in Russian in southern Siberia, east of the Altay Mountains, and is known for its gigantic megalithic stone structures.
There are other similarities to share between Siberia and what we have seen so far in North America.
One is that Gornaya Shoria is that it is rich in ores, like the abundant iron ore we saw in State College, and is in the Kuznetsk Basin, one of the largest coal-mining areas in Russia with one of the largest coal deposits in the world, like the Pocahontas Coal Field, the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, back in southern West Virginia and western Virginia.
Another shared feature from what we have seen thus far in different places are the s-shaped river bends and confluences, like what we see in Kemerovo, the administrative center of the Kemerevo Oblast and the coal-mining capital of Russia.
It is located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, and is situated in an S-shaped bend of the Tom River.
The Kuznetsk Railroad Bridge crosses the Tom River at Kemerovo.
The Western Siberia Railway branch of the Great Trans-Siberian Railroad passes through Kemerovo, which has two railroad stations.
The Great Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world.
At 5,772-miles, or 9,289-kilometers,-long, it connects Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
We are told that the first railway projects in Siberia began after the completion of the Saint Petersburg to Moscow Railway in 1851.
The Siberian line was divided into seven sections, and construction started in 1891, and we are told most of the line was simultaneously worked on by 62,000 workers.
This was labelled as an 1895 photo of convicts working on the railroad in East Siberia near Khabarovsk.
This photo with shadowy figures standing in the background reminds me of other creepy, staged-looking photos I see from time to time in my research.
Like this one noted as taken in 1870 in Trenton, New Jersey…
…and from the 1884 Flood of Paducah in Kentucky on the left that even has the words “stage of water” in the title below the photograph, and on the right a similar-looking photo taken in front of the Machinery Hall for the 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States in Cincinnati.
At any rate, the financial support behind the Great Trans-Siberian Railroad was leading European financier Baron Henri Hottinguer through his bank Hottinger & Cie, one of the first private banks, created by the Hottinguer family in Switzerland on August 1st of 1786.
Known today as the Hottinger Group, it is headquartered in the City of London London, and is primarily-owned by the Geneva-based Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Swiss Banks, along with off-shore banks in other countries, are notorious for the ability of wealthy people to hide their money and assets in them.
There is even what we think of as classical Roman architecture here in Siberia, like the Kemerovo Regional Lunacharsky Drama Theater.
You know, Siberia!
And wherever this picture was taken in the Siberian winter has an operational incline railway!
Like what you see in North America and other places, the indigenous Shor people of the Kemerevo Oblast are portrayed as hunter-gatherers and farmers…but who knew how to smelt-iron and make iron objects.
Hence their name from the Russians who encountered them in 1607, the Kuznetsk Tatars, or “Blacksmith Tatars.”
So the indigenous Shors, where the massive megalithic site of Gornaya Shoria is located, were “Tatars,” or Tartars, of the historic Tartarian Empire, one of many ancient empires around the world that were in harmony and balance with each other, and not at war with each other as we have been taught to believe in our historical narrative.
So you have the indigenous peoples of Russia, like the Shor…
…and the Itelmen People of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East looking very much like Native American Tribal people.
Well, that similarity is accounted for in the official narrative with the migration story that the first humans to enter North America came from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge at the end of the last Ice Age.
Right?
The story we learn about in school anyway.
So, what exactly happened to get us to our present belief systems?
Well, for one way, there was “Wild Bill Cody’s Wild West” Show.
Wild Bill Cody, a Freemason, became internationally known for his touring show, called “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.”
His “Wild West” Show travelled across the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Europe, starting in 1883.
In 1893, the name was changed to “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World” from horse-cultures the world over.
This one, and a plethora of other Wild West Shows, were the precursors of western movies in shaping the New Narrative in the minds of countless young people who grew up believing this was portraying true history.
The first commercially successful western film was “The Great Train Robbery” a silent film that was released in 1903.
The story-line was as follows: outlaw gang holds up and robs a steam locomotive; flee across mountainous terrain; and defeated by a posse of locals.
A pretty standard formula for western movie plots over the years.
The western-movie genre continued to grow as time went on, and in 1914, Cecil B. DeMille in his directorial debut released a silent western called “The Squaw Man.”
Director Cecil B. DeMille was a Freemason…
…and so were actors John Wayne and Roy Rogers, among many other famous actors and film-makers of the day.
Both John Wayne and Roy Rogers were Shriners, an organization comprised of 32nd- and 33rd-degree freemasons, the highest degrees of western freemasonry.
The name “Shriners” is derived from the “Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.”
I think it is accurate to say that the freemasonic Shriners are best known to the general public for their hospitals, circuses and parade antics in little cars.
Even comedian Red Skelton, musician Roy Clark and Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, were Shriners!
These are Prince Hall Shriners of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Ancient Moorish Masonry has 360-degrees of initiation…327 more than western freemasonry.
Prince Hall, and fourteen other Moorish men were initiated into the British Army Lodge 441 of the Irish Registry, after having been declined admittance into the Boston St. John’s Lodge, at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor.
He was the founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry on September 29th of 1784, and the African Grand Lodge of North America.
Until Prince Hall found a way back in, Moorish Masons were denied admittance into Freemasonry.
Moorish Masonry is based on Moorish Science, which also includes the study of natural and spiritual laws, natal and judicial astrology, and zodiac masonry.
This is where the perfect alignments of infrastructure on earth with the sky comes from – the consummate alignment of earth with heaven that is seen around the world – like the lunar roll along the top of this recumbant stone in Crowthie Muir near Forres, Scotland.
Muir is pronounced “Moor.” Like in the Ouachita Mountains in North America, the memory of the people is retained.
Even though the spelling is different, the pronunciation is the same.
What I am seeing and believing is that Humanity was on a completely different and positive timeline from what we are experiencing today.
This civilization, with different empires around the world, but all part of the same civilization, built all of the infrastructure on the earth in alignment with sacred geometry and Universal Law to create Harmony and balance between Heaven and Earth.
According to George G. M. James in his 1954 book “Stolen Legacy,” the European Freemasons stole the legacy for themselves of the original Moorish Masons, the custodians of the Egyptian mysteries.
So, now I am going to head back to where I left off in Pennsylvania and pick up US-19 in Pittsburgh.
The routes I looked at leaving southward out of Erie – US-19, US-18, and US-8 – meet on the highway system around Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh looks like another one of those central hubs we saw earlier with the US Highway System and historic Railroad lines.
Pittsburgh is the largest city in Appalachia and the Ohio Valley.
It developed as the vital link between the Atlantic Coast and the Midwest, with examples like the Allegheny Portage Railroad connecting the Pennsylvania Main Canal to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River and points west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Pittsburgh played a dominant role in the development of the U. S. Steel Industry.
Many leading industrialists of the 19th-century were based in Pittsburgh, and resided in the East Liberty neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End, at one time the richest suburb in America, with names including Mellon, Carnegie, Heinz, and Westinghouse living there.
We are told that East Liberty started developing as a commercial area in 1842, when Thomas Mellon, prominent businessman and patriarch of the Mellon family in Pittsburgh, married Sarah Jane Negley, daughter of one of the earliest land-owners in the area, and made East Liberty their home..
We are told that Thomas Mellon made his fortune selling or rented land inherited by his wife, and used the proceeds to finance early industries in Pittsburgh.
In 1870, he and his sons Andrew and Richard established the “T. Mellon & Sons Bank,” and it became the Mellon National Bank In 1902.
It became a force in the mass production revolution in the United States, particularly in the Midwest.
A National Bank is a private bank operating as a commercial bank within the Federal Government’s Regulatory Structure, and under the supervision of the “Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,” rather than a state banking agency.
At one time in our history, National Banks had the authority to print money.
At its height, Mellon Financial Services was one of the world’s largest money management firms.
It merged with the Bank of New York in 2007 to become BNY Mellon.
Richard Mellon, with an adjusted wealth of $103-billion, is listed as the 5th wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, and a founder of Gulf Oil and Alcoa Aluminum, as well as a number of other big corporations, along with his brother…
…Andrew Mellon, who is listed as the 15th-wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $63.2-billion.
It is important to note that Andrew Mellon was an acknowledged Freemason, and also the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury from March 9th of 1921 to February 12th of 1932, presiding over the Boom years of the 1920s as well as the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, which led directly to the Great Depression.
Andrew Mellon was also a close friend of Henry Clay Frick, and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, along with Andrew Carnegie, on the property where the dam failed that caused the Johnstown Flood, as previously discussed.
Along with Andrew Mellon, as we saw earlier in the section on Johnstown, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick were initiated into Freemasonry, with Henry Clay Frick active for only five-years, but supported Freemasonry his entire life.
Andrew Carnegie was ranked as the 6th-richest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $101-billion.
It’s important to note that with the philanthropic activities spoken of these extemely wealthy men, which are made to sound extremely benevolent and meant to benefit Humanity, it seems like their intent was highly questionable as to their actual motives.
We have seen or referenced all four of these men who receive the top billing as “Robber Barons.”
More on Vanderbilt and Morgan to come.
Among many other things, both the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations have been involved in the American Educational System…
…from the need to education to train the future workforce….
…to the insidious “Woke” currriculum of today that is taught in American public school classrooms.
And, even as early as 1914, the National Education Association expressed alarm at the activity of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, and their efforts to control the policies of State educational institutions, and everything related to the educational system.
Now I am going to leave Pittsburgh, and head south on US-19, back to where it meets US-219 in Bluefield, Virginia.
It was from tracking the Serpent Lei alignment, the red line on this screenshot, that I first encountered Burkes Garden, Virginia, which is just south of Bluefield, accessed from US-19, and the next place I want to bring to your attention.
Burkes Garden has a population of about 300 people, in a place considered to have the most fertile soil in Virginia, but no post office; no cell phone or cable service; cool-to-cold weather; and one paved road to Tazewell, the nearest town about 15-miles, or 23-kilometers away.
Burkes Garden is known as “Vanderbilt’s First Choice” for the Grand Biltmore Estate.
We are told that the land-owners there wouldn’t sell to George Vanderbilt II, so he went to Asheville in North Carolina instead.
More on Asheville shortly.
There are a number of historic railroads in the vicinity of Burkes Garden, like the Norfolk & Western Railroad’s Clinch Valley Line between the coalfields of Bluefield running through Tazewell County beside US-19 to the high-quality coalfields of the Clinch River Valley south of Richlands.
The last place I want mention on US-19 is Asheville in North Carolina.
Asheville is at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers.
George Vanderbilt II’s Biltmore Estate is divided by the French Broad River, and its confluence with the Swannanoa River is on the Biltmore Estate.
The Western North Carolina Railroad was said to have been constructed through here starting in the 1850s, and today the existing track is operated by different railroads to transport freight, primarily Blue Ridge Southern, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
This whole region we have been looking at through here was part of the traditional lands of the Cherokee people.
They were said to have ceded their land here around Asheville 1819.
The Cherokee were one of the five civilized tribes to be forcibly removed from their land after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed by Congress, and as mentioned previously, enforced by Lewis Cass, Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of War, and the Cherokee were marched west to Indian Territory in one of several Trails of Tears.
So Asheville on US-19 ended up being the location chosen by George Vanderbilt II for the Biltmore Estate instead of his “first choice” Burkes Garden, also on US-19.
The Biltmore Estate is on 8,000-acres, or 3,237-hectares of land.
This is what we are told about the Biltmore.
It was said to have been a Chateauesque-style mansion, meaning in the revivalist Renaissance architectural-style of French chateaux of the Loire Valley, built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1885 and 1895.
It is the largest privately-owned residence in the United States, and is considered of the most prominent of the Gilded Age mansions.
The Gilded Age is the name given to the period of time in American history between 1877 and 1900, a time of rapid industrialization and rapid economic expansion.
This would have roughly corresponded in our historical narrative to the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War, which we are told ended in 1865, and the Progressive Era, which is what we are told was a period of widespread political activism and reform, that started in 1896.
It was also time when the contrast of the ostentatiousness of the wealthy versus the abject poverty of the working class became more visible.
We are told that the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was employed by George Washington Vanderbilt II to design the landscape for the Biltmore Estate.
It was said to be Frederick Law Olmsted’s last project, and he was memorialized in a plaque there.
The Biltmore Estate contains numerous ancient Native American sites, including what is known as the “Biltmore Mound,” an earthwork platform mound, and other archaeological discoveries on the grounds.
While I can’t find a direct reference to George W. Vanderbilt II himself being a Freemason, I did find a reference that the Vanderbilts were known Freemasons…
…and Aaron sent me the link to the Biltmore Lodge saying that George W. Vanderbilt procured the Lodge Hall for the Biltmore Masons to conduct business.
More on this finding to come.
George Washington Vanderbilt II was William Kissam Vanderbilt’s brother, who was mentioned earlier in this post as having gained control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, along with financier J. P. Morgan, from Collis Huntington in 1888.
Their grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Staten Island-born Cornelius Vanderbilt got his start in regional steamboat lines and ocean-going steamships, and from there got into the railroad business.
He bought control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864; the New York Central Railroad in 1867; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad in 1869; and the Canada Southern Railway in 1876.
He consolidated his two key lines into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1870, becoming one of the first giant corporations in the history of the United States
According to CNN Business, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the second-richest American in history, with an adjusted wealth of $205-billion.
George W. Vanderbilt II was supposed to sail on the RMS Titanic with his wife but they changed plans at the last minute and sailed instead on the sister ship of the Titanic, the RMS Olympic, which left port before the Titanic, and arrived in New York before the Titanic sank.
J. P. Morgan has long been suspected of having been behind what has come down to us as the sinking of the Titanic.
This is what we are told on the Federal Reserve History website.
A secret meeting took place on Jekyll Island off the coast of the State of Georgia to lay the foundations of the Federal Reserve between November 20th and November 30th of 1910.
The purpose of the meeting was so secret that what the six men talked about was a closely guarded secret for many years, and they did not admit to it until the 1930s.
They were laying the foundation for what would become the Federal Reserve System.
Again, this information is from the Federal Reserve History website.
J. P. Morgan was a member of the exclusive Jekyll Island Club, was likely the one who arranged for the group to use the club’s facilities.
George’s brother, William K. Vanderbilt was also member of what Munsey’s Magazine described in 1904 as the “richest, most exclusive, and the most inaccessible” club in the world.
Arriving on a private train car, the group of men who attended the 10-day secret meeting on Jekyll Island in November of 1910 adopted the cover story of a “duck hunt” to explain their activities and hide the true purpose of their meeting, and addressed each other by their first names only – hence they adopted the name of the “First Name Club.”
This was the train station in Brunswick that serviced Jekyll Island on the Southern and Atlantic Coast Railroad.
The Oglethorpe Hotel pictured here was said to have opened in January of 1888, after having been built on top of the previous Oglethorpe House which was said to have burned down during the Civil War.
It remained in operation until 1958, at which time it was torn down and replaced by a Holiday Inn.
The Holiday Inn was eventually torn down too, leaving an empty lot in downtown Brunswick called the “Oglethorpe Block.”
Then, on April 15th of 1912, we are told the Titanic sank. with all the bankers opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve on board, including John Jacob Astor IV, one of the richest people in the world at the time.
I can’t help but wonder if the “Sinking of the Titanic” was also a veiled reference to the “sinking of the Titans.”
The word “titanic” means “of exceptional strength, size, or power.”
More on my thoughts about this particular subject later in this post.
The following year, on December 23rd, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act Passed Congress, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. It created and established the Federal Reserve System, and created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (commonly known as the US dollar) as legal tender.
John Jacob Astor IV was the great grandson of John Jacob Astor, who made a fortune in real estate development, the fur trade, and opium smuggling.
John Jacob Astor was considered to be the world’s first multi-millionaire, and the third-richest American of all time according to CNN Business.
J. P. Morgan himself didn’t make the CNN Business List of 20 wealthiest Americans of time, but he dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the “Gilded Age,” and was a major driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, like the previously mentioned U. S. Steel in 1901.
J. P. Morgan’s father, Junius Spencer Morgan, was the founder of the company that would become J. S. Morgan & Company in 1864, that was the successor company to George Peabody & Company, of which he became the Junior Partner in October of 1854.
In 1854, Morgan was put in charge of the firm’s iron portfolio, which included the marketing of railroad bonds in London and New York.
By the time J. S. Morgan died in 1890, the Morgan banks were the dominant forces in government and railroad finance, and his son John Pierpont Morgan had taken the helm of the company, becoming known as. J. P. Morgan & Company in 1895, now known as JP Morgan Chase & Company.
George Peabody’s bank became the premier American banking house in London after he took up residence from Baltimore to London permanently in 1837, and went from being a wholesale dry-goods and cotton merchant, to a merchant-banker offering securities in American railroad and canal enterprises to British and European investors.
He started a banking business trading on his own account a year after he moved to London, and by 1851, he established the banking firm of “George Peabody & Company” to meet the increasing demand for securities issued by American railroads, and his company specialized in financing governments and large companies.
According to “The Secret Founding of America” book by Nicholas Hagger…
…George Peabody was the Freemasonic banker from whom money was transferred to the “southern insurrectionists,” and he hired the father of J. P. Morgan to handle the funds when they arrived in the United States.
Banker George Peabody established the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1857 with a bequest of at least $800,000, and it is the oldest conservatory in the United States.
By the time it was completed and opened in 1866, one year after the official end of American Civil War, it was dedicated by George Peabody himself,and included a music academy, library and art gallery.
George Peabody was also called the “Father of Modern Philanthropy.”
That entrance at the east wing of the George Peabody Library sure looks proportionally like its made for much bigger people than we are today!
So, exactly how do you go about hiding giants and their advanced civilization?
Based on the evidence I have provided throughout this post and past research, I think the American Civil War was one of many ways to do this, and not what we are told it was about.
Frederick Law Olmsted, who later became a revered landscape architect credited with such grand landscapes as that of the Biltmore Estate as seen previously, started out his career as a journalist.
Among other things, during the pre-Civil War time period, Olmsted was commissioned by the New York Daily Times to start on an extensive research journey in the American South and Texas between 1852 and 1857.
He published three books from this time into one book, called “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom,” in 1861 during the first six months of the American Civil War at the suggestion of his English publisher.
All of these books by Frederick Law Olmsted raise red flags for me, as I have come to believe from my research that publications like these are indicative of some kind of setting the stage in seeding the new historical narrative into our consciousness by those responsible for the hijack of the original positive civilization that built all of Earth’s infrastructure.
Frederick Law Olmsted was also the first executive secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission as well as an organizer of the Union League.
First, the United States Sanitary Commission.
What we are told about the United States Sanitary Commission is that it organized “Sanitary Fairs” during the American Civil War as a fundraiser for the many needs of Union Soldiers, including health.
“Sanitary Fairs” had everything, including majestic “temporary” buildings said to have been built for the fairs, to be torn down after, and while not as elaborate as the big expositions such as in Chicago, they were still something in and of themselves.
Frederick Law Olmsted was on the standing committee for the United States Sanitary Commission that was formed in New York, with its main members throughout the Civil War also consisting of: Henry Whitney Bellows; George Templeton Strong; and surgeons Dr. William H. Van Buren, Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, and Dr. Wolcott Gibbs.
Did the U. S. Sanitary Commission and its volunteers really have the wherewithal to both construct the buildings for and pull off these extraordinarily lavish and festive undertakings against the backdrop of national war and suffering?
Or was it a private front comprised of the very same people who organized and were prominent members of the private membership clubs of the day, like the Union League and the Century Association.
The Union League was a private social club for wealthy men that opened in New York City in 1863 for pro-Union men could come together “to cultivate a profound national devotion” and “strengthen a love and respect for the Union.”
It became the most exclusive mens’ club in Manhattan, and perhaps in the nation.
This location for the Union League Club was said to have been built on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and 39th Street between 1879 and 1881.
Along with Frederick Law Olmsted, oganizers of the Union League Club were Henry Whitney Bellows, George Templeton Strong, and Wolcott Gibbs, same names as the United States Sanitary Commission.
Henry Whitney Bellows was also involved in the organizing of the Century Association in New York City, founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1857.
The Century Association was a private social, arts and dining club, and named after the first 100 people proposed as members.
The Century Association Building at 42 E. 15th Street was in-use by the association starting in 1857, and which served as one of the headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission.
Members of the Century Association have included artists and writers like: poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant; landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church; landscape painter Winslow Homer; and best-known for stained-glass-work, Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Architect members have included: landscape-architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted; Beaux-Arts architects Carrere and Hastings, as well as York and Sawyer; and architects McKim, Meade and White, who were said to have defined the ideals of the American Renaissance in end-of-the-century New York.
Other members were said to have included: Eight U. S. Presidents; ten U. S. Supreme Court Justices; forty-three Members of the Presidential Cabinet; twenty-nine Nobel Prize Laureates; members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, and Astor families; as well as financier J. P. Morgan and morse code inventor Samuel P. Morse.
Ever hear the George Carlin quote “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it?” and wonder where that idea might have come from?
Seems like all of these private clubs we are seeing in this post were private and exclusive for a reason, and that was to secretly plan their activities and next moves that no one supposed to know about!
The so-called elites have continued doing the same thing to this day in their secretive meetings to plan their agendas for what they want the future to look like for Humanity and the World, and what they want doesn’t look good for us!
The United States Sanitary Commission and the Sanitary Fairs and the exclusive private clubs associated with the very same people leads to the larger question, of what was really going on during the American Civil War, historically described as a civil war between northern states, or “Union,” and the southern states, or “Confederacy,” over the status of slavery and its expansion into newly acquired land after the Mexican-American War.
We are told there were three theaters of war during years of American Civil War, between 1861 and 1865: Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi.
I have often thought that theater, defined as a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, like a stage, is a thought-provoking word choice for an area or place in which important military events occur or are progressing.
I have come to view the American Civil War as Freemasonic Theater, which I think applies to all the wars and armed conflicts of our modern era.
Orphan trains started in 1854, under the auspices of Frederick Law Olmsted’s good friend, Charles Loring Brace, and the Children’s Aid Society, which Brace established in 1853.
A new experimental program of his called “placing-out” became known to us as “Orphan Trains,” and for the next 75-years, over 200,000 children were sent across the continent, to uncertain destinations and uncertain futures with strangers.
A movement going in this direction was widely supported by wealthy New York families, like Charlotte Augusta Gibbes, the wife of John Jacob Astor III, grandson of John Jacob Astor, and who was the wealthiest Astor family member of his generation.
Right around the same time as the beginning of the Orphan Train Movement, and the alleged completion of the Horseshoe Curve by the Pennsylvania Railroad near Altoona, both taking place in 1854, we are told that the federal government operated a land-grant system between 1855 and 1871, where new railway companies in what we are told was the uninhabited west were given millions of acres they could sell or pledge to bondholders.
The establishment of a land-grant system at this time is a good place to insert once again the story of the Ames Brothers of Easton, Massachusetts, co-owners of the Ames Shovel Shop, nationally known for providing the shovels for the Union Pacific Railroad, which we are told opened the West.
It was said to have been the world’s largest supplier of shovels in the 19th-century.
Why were shovels so important to the opening of the West and the expansion of infrastructure?
What if…the tracks were already there and just needed to be dug out?
Not only that, one brother, Oliver Ames, Jr, (b. 1807 – d. 1877) was the President of the Union Pacific Railroad from when it met the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah for the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
The other brother, Oakes Ames, was a member of the U. S. Congress House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd District from 1863-1873. He was credited by many as being the most important influence in building the Union Pacific portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Oakes Ames was also noted for his involvement in the Credit-Mobilier Scandal of 1867, regarding the improper sale of stock of the railroad’s construction company.
He was formally censured by Congress in 1873 for this involvement, and he died in the same year.
Ten-years later, he was posthumously exonerated by the Massachusetts State Legislature on May 10th, 1883.
Has nothing ever changed?
Have we always had the same corruption in our government?
Then, there was the Kirkbride Plan coming in around the same time in the mid-1800s as all these other things I just mentioned.
Thomas Kirkbride was a Pennsylvanian who was said to have designed a system of mental asylums starting in the mid-19th-century that were constructed according to the Kirkbride Plan across the U. S. and while numerous Kirkbride structures still exist, many have been demolished, partially-demolished, or repurposed.
The first building said to have been constructed with Kirkbride’s design was the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1848, also known as the Trenton State Hospital.
Aaron uncovered what I am going to share next when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the locations on Google Earth of Kirkbride buildings (marked by white), key masonic lodges (green), and state capitals (red).
You will see in the following screenshots of what he found, there is a high correlation of these buildings being on or near these alignments.
Gettysburg in Pennsylvania turned out to be a hub, circled in red, with many alignments between all three of these types of locations going out in all directions.
He found the same thing happening with the New River Gorge in West Virginia as a hub, with many alignments between all three of these types of locations going out in all directions.
He also looked up these three types of location alignments from the address of the previously mentioned Biltmore Masonic Lodge, which is marked in orange and circled in red, and found some interesting linear patterns emerging from North America.
Here is a more localized view of alignments of Kirkbrides, masonic lodges and state capitals to the northeast of the Biltmore Lodge, and upon which the earlier Kirkbride example I gave of the Trenton State Hospital falls directly, circled at the top of the screenshot.
The Earth’s original free-energy grid system was based on exact and precise geometric alignments of cities and places, which is actually what we are seeing in high-definition with Aaron’s Kirkbride alignments, and it was reverse-engineered into an energy-harvesting and control system.
And how did they manage to do that?
I have come to believe after years of extensive research in tracking cities and places in alignment on the Earth’s grid system and delving deeply into reset historical narrative that there was a deliberately caused cataclysm relatively recently by directed energy into the grid system, which devastated the surface of the Earth.
I have put forward the idea that the Philadelphia Experiment was connected to what has taken place here, which I discuss in-depth in “Recovering Lost History from Estuaries, Pine Barrens & Elite Enclaves Off the Atlantic Northeast Coast of the United States,” but however it happened, I believe this cataclysm was a deliberately-caused attack on the Earth’s grid system and was not caused naturally.
A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giants could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory.
Secondly, I believe the beings behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.
There’s extensive underground infrastructure where people could have survived until the surface of the Earth was habitable.
Then they only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they found replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them for what had originally been a free-energy power grid and transportation system worldwide, and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed, as we have seen here in all these examples from Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Oh yes, and they claimed the very best of everything for themselves, including but not limited to, what became the Greenbrier Resort.
While the new elite class lived in the lap of luxury, and helped themselves to the best of everything, they had little care for anyone or anything else – not at all.
Quite the opposite.
They have actively facilitated the demise of all the rest of us, who they call “useless eaters,” into the present-day.
The same story repeats all over the country with the Robber Barons coming in and setting up shop, and the Resetters staging a new history.
Like Lumber Baron William Carson, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1849, from New Brunswick in Canada, with a group of other woodsmen.
In 1850, he and Jerry Whitmore were said to have felled a tree, the first for commercial purposes on Humboldt Bay, and in 1854, he was said to have shipped the first loads of Redwood timber to San Francisco.
In 1863, he and John Dolbeer formed the Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company.
William Carson was also said to have been involved with the founding of the Eel River and Eureka Railroad in November of 1882.
Its service was said to have been stopped for safety reasons between 1996 and 1997, and it’s been abandoned ever since.
But the new history of the “Robber Barons and the Resetters” seems to have gotten its start in Pennsylvania, where there were a lot of firsts happening.
The nickname of Pennsylvania is “The Keystone State,” and in its anecdotal history, was said to have come from it’s location in the keystone of the arch, depicted here, in the center of the original thirteen colonies.
But another reason comes to mind in the definition of “keystone,” in its figurative sense as opposed to its literal meaning as the stone in the middle of the arch which holds up the others.”
The idea of “that which holds together other parts…locking together the whole structure.”
Pennsylvania certainly seems to have played an instrumental role in doing just that in our historical narrative and new economic system.
Additionally, the story of the Masonic Keystone is well-worth looking at. which has the letters “HTWSSTKS” engraved on it, said to mean “Hiram The Widows Son Sent To King Solomon,” referring to Hiram Abiff.
Hiram Abiff is the main character in an allegory presented to all 3rd-degree Freemasonry candidates as the main architect of Solomon’s Temple.
Hiram Abiff was murdered inside the temple with a mason’s tool by three fellow-craft masons from the workforce, or “ruffians,” after he wouldn’t give them his Master Mason secrets, which were lost with his death.
I found an article on the masonicworld.com website awhile back when I was looking for information on Hiram Abiff.
In it, the writer talks about “Operative Masonry” and the beginning of “Speculative Masonry” in 1717, with the founding of the Premier Grand Lodge of England.”
The writer indicates in the article that while some believed that operative masons were also in position of the tragic story of Hiram Abiff, there was no mention ot Hiram Abiff in the existing records of Operative Masonry from before that time; that there was no third, or Master Mason Degree as a rite until the Premier Grand Lodge was established in 1717; and that it was likely that the legend of Hiram Abiff was introduced at the time of Freemasonry became a speculative organization.
To me this provides supporting evidence that the ritual of the recital of the death of Hiram Abiff is actually an allegory for what happened to the Moors themselves and their advanced civilization by the unworthy craftsman that has been enshrined in one of their main initiation rites.
It is my understanding that only those initiated into the highest degree of western Freemasonry know directly about the Moors.
And it is no secret within Modern Freemasonry that it is “speculative,” meaning based on conjecture rather than knowledge, as opposed to “operative,” meaning those who actually worked with stone.
The New World’s Controllers stole the identity and legacy of the operative masons, and took us from the “Moorish Divine Movement of the World,” from Antiquity, with the eye on top of the pyramid signifying our pineal gland and our connection to the Creator, to it symbolizing “Big Brother,” and the control of the 13 Bloodline families.
There’s a lot more to our lost history, but this gives you some idea of what has taken place here, and not for our benefit.
In these shorter, themed-segments, as I have done in this one, I am going to bring forward additional information that was not included in the original post.
As much as possible, I am going to change-up the information in each of these different segments so you are not seeing the same information continually repeating, as all the information presented in “On the Trail of Giants – In Appalachia and Beyond” was closely interconnected.
The next post will be “On the Trail of Giants – In Appalachia and Beyond – Theme 2: Giants.”
I have been researching aspects of what I am presenting in this video for years, but this subject has come about as an in-depth research topic for me right now because Aaron, from the “Uncovering Hidden West Virginia” video presentation, suggested that I look into this particular topic.
He sent me places he had identified to look at in Pennsylvania and West Virginia; different articles he found on giants skeletons; and some place alignments he discovered from his own inner prompting that is very revealing in terms of what has actually been going on here
Aaron reached out to me after he watched my “Trekking the Serpent Ley” video from this past August, in which I brought up the subject of Appalachia, because the Serpent Ley crosses right through there.
This piqued his interest, because he doesn’t see Appalachia talked about very much, and believes it worthy of more attention. Especially after doing this deep dive, I wholeheartedly agree with him!
Aaron is deeply connected to Appalachia, having been born and raised in Marion County, West Virginia, and currently resides in Western Pennsylvania.
I grew up in suburban Maryland in a location very close to a lot of the places mentioned in this video, so I have been to, or near, many of the places mentioned here – church youth retreats, school trips, sightseeing trips, and many other occasions.
Growing up, we accepted as true what we are told about our history, but I know from my own experience of them that these places have a feeling of being much older beneath the surface of our awareness, just like the giants themselves.
There is no question that the consistent finding of giant human remains was well-documented in the 19th-century, several examples of which are presented in this post, from skeletons that were reported to be found co-located with mounds, to skeletal remains found randomly from digging.
Today, the very existence of giants seems to be vigorously denied, and/or fact-checked as a hoax, when their remains turn-up somewhere these days.
Then there are recurring themes that come up consistently throughout this video, including but not limited to, incredible feats of canal, railway, and tunnel-building that we are told began in our history around the late 1700s and early 1800s, most of which was completely obsolete by the early to mid-20th-century; S-shaped river bends and a history of railroads running alongside them throughout the region; mass clear-cutting of forests and mining coal-fields and iron-ore deposits until completely depleted, then the railroads started to disappear; and many of the former rail-beds having been turned into recreational trails.
My primary focus was Appalachia in western Pennsylvania and eastern West Virginia, though I did look at other places as well, including the location of Gornaya Shoria in southern Siberia.
By the end of this video, you will see another story about what has actually taken place here coming into focus as I take a very close look at this region and its official history, which among other things, was important to the settlement and industrialization of America, and also the wealthy and influential men behind it all.
My starting point for the research in this post are places in Pennsylvania that Aaron sent me that he had identified as looking like megalithic stone structures
The first place that Aaron directed my attention to was the location of “Boxcar Rocks,” also known as the “Chinese Wall,” and the “High Rocks,” on Gold Mine Road in Lebanon County.
We are told that they are a natural geologic formation a little over a half-mile, or .8-kilometers, long, and 60-feet, or 18-meters, high.
They are described as a long line of stacked boulders that were likely left over from melting glacial deposits during the last Ice Age, though there is some disagreement on the issue of whether or not there were glaciers that far south in Pennsylvania.
Yet here are images that Aaron sent me where the stone blocks of Boxcar Rocks look like they have been cut-and-shaped!
Gold Mine is the name of a Hamlet in Cold Spring Township.
Cold Spring Township was incorporated in 1853.
In 2010, there was a population recorded of 52 people.
There is no local government here, nor services – no taxes, no water, no sewage, and no public officials.
Most of the Township is part of “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211,” who manage the lands for the purposes of hunting, trapping, and fishing.
The Appalachian Trail runs through “Pennsylvania State Game Lands #211” in Swatara State Park.
This is Lock #5 of the old Union Canal on the “Bear Hole Trail” of Swatara State Park.
This section of the Union Canal was said to have been closed after the dam holding the reservoir was washed away by a devastating flood in 1862, and the rest of the Union Canal was said to have been closed to use in 1885 because it could not compete with the “efficiency of the railroad.”
The 82-mile, or 132-kilometer, -long Union Canal in southeastern Pennsylvania between Middletown, Pennsylvania to Reading, Pennsylvania, was said to have been built between 1792 and 1828, until it closed in 1885.
We are told the American Canal Age was between 1790 and 1855, and started in Pennsylvania, where the first legislation surveying canals was passed in 1762.
The construction of the Union Canal was said to have started under the administration of President George Washington in 1792, and was touted as the “Golden Link” in providing an early transportation route for shipping anthracite coal and lumber to Philadelphia.
The “Main Line of Public Works,” of which the Union Canal was a part of, was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826.
It funded various transportation systems, including canal, road, and railroad.
Next, Aaron drew my attention to the World’s End State Park is in Forksville, Pennsylvania, in the Loyalsock State Forest, and is situated around the s-shaped bends of Loyalsock Creek.
World’s End State Park is in Forksville, Pennsylvania, in the Loyalsock State Forest, and is situated around the s-shaped bends of Loyalsock Creek.
Forksville is a village of about 200 people that is almost encircled by park and the forest on Pennsylvania State Route 154.
Not much there, but it does have Victorian-style architecture and a covered bridge.
These locations are in Pennsylvania’s “Endless Mountains,” a region of northeastern Pennsylvania that are not considered true mountains, but a dissected plateau on the Allegheny Plateau.
We are told the “Endless Mountains” are comprised of sedimentary rocks of sandstone and shale that were part of a lowland that collected sediments from mountains to the southeast that eroded millions upon millions of years ago.
This region was historically inhabited by the Susquehannock, Iroquois, and Munsee-Lenape peoples.
Here are some pictures from the “World’s End State Park,” in the “Endless Mountains.”
Beartown Rocks can be found in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel, Pennsylvania, in Jefferson County.
With a population a little bit larger than Forksville, Sigel has a small population of a little over 1,100 residents at last count.
We are told was laid out as a community called Haggerty by Joseph Haggerty in 1850, and was renamed “Sigel” in 1865 after Civil War Major General Franz Sigel.
It is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 32 and Pennsylvania Route 949.
This is what we are told.
Clear Creek State Forest was formed because of the depletion of old-growth forests by lumber and iron companies that took place in the mid-to-late-19th-century.
The forests were clear-cut, and wildfires caused by the sparks of passing steam kept the formation of new-growth forests from occurring.
Conservationists became alarmed that the forest would never re-grow, so they lobbied the state to purchase the land from the lumber and iron companies, which they were happy to sell because they had been depleted of resources.
The land that became the Clear Creek State Forest was purchased in 1919, at the end of the “lumber-era” that had swept through the Pennsylvania Mountains, by the end of which, Pennsylvania was stripped of its old-growth forests.
The entire park was established on three tracts of land in five Pennsylvania counties – Jefferson, Venango, Forest, Mercer, and Clarion.
Beartown Rocks in the part of the park in Jefferson County near Sigel are described as a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
In the section of the park in Venango County, I found references to an historic railroad that ran along-side the curvy Allegheny River in the Kennerdale Tract of the Clear Creek State Park in Venango County that is now part of the hiking trail system here.
The Clear Creek State Park is very close to West Hickory, Pennsylvania.
As a matter of fact, these other places I am looking at are close to West Hickory too!
More on this as we go.
West Hickory is where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
Next, he directed me to Panther Rocks in Moshannon State Forest.
The forest is in five counties – Centre, Elk, Cameron, Clinton and Clearfield – with its main offices in Penfield, Pennsylvania in Clearfield County’s Huston township at the intersection of State Routes 153 and 255.
In the 2020 census, the population of Huston Township as a whole was recorded as a little under 1,300 people.
At one time in Penfield’s history, it was a company town for the logging and coal mining industries in what was a local resource extraction economy, and the railroad came through here at one time.
Immigrants from Europe settled in the area to work the deep mines scattered through the Benzette Valley here.
There’s not much left to speak of in Penfield, but there are recreational activities nearby at Moshannon State Forest, Bilger’s Rocks Park, Black Moshannon State Park, and Parker Dam State Park.
We find the same story at Moshannon State Forest that we found at Clear Creek State Forest – it was formed as a direct result of the depletion of the forests of Pennsylvania that happened in the mid-to-late 19th-century, when lumber and iron companies clear-cut the forests and sparks from passing steam-locomotives caused wildfires from the remnants of the forest-lands, preventing the growth of new forests.
The land that became Moshannon State Forest was purchased by the State in 1898.
The old-growth forest was gone by 1921, with a second-growth forest replacing it since then.
Interesting to note that a tornado in 1985 tore through the forest and destroyed an estimated 88,000 trees.
Panther Rocks at Moshannon State Forest are described as a small rock city made of several large sandstone blocks, complete with streets, overhangs, channels, crevices and a short tunnel
They were said to have formed during the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago in the Pottsville Group, a rocks formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
The nearby Bilger’s Rocks in Clearfield County’s Bloom Township near the town of Grampian, and is larger stone-city than what is found at Panther Rocks.
The creation of Bilger’s Rocks was also said to have taken place during the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago, in the Homewood Formation of the Pottsville Group, a rock-unit formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
Bilger’s Rocks has many examples of what appears to be toolmarks, and linear patterns that look like they were carved or molded, and has the same rock-city-like qualities of these other places we have been looking at tucked away in the Pennsylvania Park system.
Parker Dam State Park is surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
The Park was said to have been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
The original dam here was said to have been constructed by William Parker as a splash dam for the movement of lumber after he leased lumbering rights at some point after lumber harvesting began here in 1794, and the CCC was said to have built the current dam there to replace it as part of the improvements the otherwise unemployed, unskilledyoung men made when they came to work on the park.
There was much logging going on from this region, so the “Susquehanna Boom” was said to have been built in the 1850s across the West Susquehanna River at Williamsport, a system of cribs and chained logs designed to catch and hold floating timber until it could be processed, and logging railroads built to transport the lumber, to the tune of 45-cars per day until logging ended here in 1911, when all the trees were gone.
The lumbermen left a barren landscape that was devastated by fires, flooding and erosion more many years, until the CCC came in the 1930s and started replanting trees after the State of Pennsylvania bought the deforested land from the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company in 1930.
The Civilian Conservation Corps CCC operated from 1933 to 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed, unmarried men to do manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.
Originally for young men ages 18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
In the nine-years of its operation, the CCC employed 3,000,000 young men, providing them with food, shelter and clothing, and a wage of $30/month, $25 of which had to be sent home to their families.
Black Moshannon State Park is largely surrounded by the Moshannon State Forest.
It is located in Rush Township in Centre County, and surrounds a lake formed by another dam, also said to have been constructed by the CCC, on Black Moshannon Creek at the site of a former mill-pond dam.
Black Moshannon State Park is is 9-miles, or 15-kilometers of Phillipsburg on Pennsylvania Route 504, and in Phillipsburg itself, other major roads that pass through are Pennsylvania State Routes 322, 350, and 53.
Philipsburg Borough was founded in 1797 by one Henry Phillips, who purchased 350,000 acres on the western side of the Allegheny Mountains for $173,000, and the proceeded to auction the land off on the streets of Philadelphia for two-cents per acre.
The region developed around the lumber and coal-mining industries.
Back to Black Moshannon State Park.
It is the home to the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania, a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials, which contains carnivorous plants, orchids, and species typically found further north.
At this point I am going to bring in similarities between Black Moshannon in Pennsylvania and Cranberry Glades in West Virginia.
The boggy Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania has a similar story as Cranberry Glades in West Virginia, which Aaron had mentioned at the beginning of our talk in “Uncovering Hidden West Virginia.”
First, Cranberry Glades, protected in the “Cranberry Glades Botanical Area” area, are a cluster of five, separate boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County in West Virginia, and like Black Moshannon State Park, the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania, species are found at both these locations that are typically further north.
These species include cranberries, sphagnum moss, skunk cabbage, and carnivorous plants, and the Cranberry Glades are the southernmost home of many of the plant species found here.
Both locations have s-shaped river bends and airports nearby, with the name of the parks notated by an oval; the airports by a box; and the river bends are pointed at by arrows.
The “Snowshoe Rails to Trails” is near Philipsburg and Black Moshannon is seen here in the top-left-hand corner, right next to the Moshannon River where the arrows are pointing.
The “Snowshoe Rails-to-Trails” has 19-miles, or 31-kilometers, of abandoned railroad bed along 37-miles, or 60-kilometers, of legalized Snowshoe Township Roads for ATVS/UTVs.
We are told that it was originally the route of the Beech Creek Railroad between the South Jersey Shore and Mahaffey Borough, Pennsylvania, and part of the Susquehanna and South Western Railroad, and used for coal mining services in the region starting in 1884.
So this railroad ran near State College, home of Penn State University, and not far from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
More on State College and Altoona to come in this post.
Mahaffey Borough, first incorporated in 1841, was located on U. S. Route 219, at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
The arrows point to where railroad tracks ran along s-shaped river-bends. on this section of Route 219 going through Mahaffey Borough.
This railroad project in Pennsylvania was said to have been backed and financed by William H. Vanderbilt, President of the New York Central Railroad.
The New York Central Railroad was said to have begun operating in 1853 with the consolidation of earlier independent companies running between Albany and Buffalo. This graphic depicts the New York Central rail system as of 1918.
We are told extensive trackage existed in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, plus additional trackage in Ontario and Quebec, and by 1925 operated 26,395-miles, or 42,479-kilometers, of track.
William Vanderbilt had developed a plan to facilitate railroad access to enter the “Clearfield Coalfield,” a large, juicy coal-mining area in Clearfield County, which would have been otherwise exclusively accessed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It was said to have been constructed starting at the end of 1882 to high-standards, including extensive curvature, bridges, and a tunnel, and became operational in November of 1884.
Eventually, this railroad line provided passenger service and used as such until 1990.
In 1994, the right-of-way was acquired by the Headwaters Charitable Trust for the “Snowshoe Rail-to-Trail Project” and the rail went away.
Cranberry Glades is located close to both the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and White Sulphur Springs.
First, New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
The New River Gorge is one of the few places that I know of that still has a railroad operating right along beside the s-shaped New River.
The Amtrak Cardinal still runs through the New River Gorge 3 days/week – on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Besides the railroad line that runs along the New River through the New River Gorge in West Virginia, there are things found in the gorge like historic coal mines, waterfalls, and hydro projects.
We are told that after the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway opened up this rugged wilderness in 1873, coal was carried out of the New River Gorge to the ports in Virginia and to cities in the Midwest.
As a result, by 1905, thirteen cities sprang up between Fayette and Thurmond, which was 15-miles, or 24-kilometers, upstream, and provided the West Virginia coal that contributed greatly to the industrialization of the United States until the 1950s.
After the coal seams were exhausted and mines closed, these company towns like Fayette were for the most part completely abandoned, with the possible exception of Thurmond which had a very small population of 5 in 2010.
There are waterfalls and hydro-electric projects found on the New River as it winds its way through the gorge.
I was able to find several waterfalls here that are accessible by road, and reference to over 100 others .
The first two waterfalls I found that are accessible by road are the Kanawha Falls and Cathedral Falls.
They are directly across from each other on a river-bend, and they both have hydro projects next to them.
There is no doubt in my mind that there was an energy-generating connection for the original civilization between the railroad, s-shaped river bends, hydro-electricity generation, waterfalls and gorges.
I researched these finding extensively in my blog post “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System.”
Aaron sent me information about the Red Ash and Rush Run Coke Ovens near Thurmond.
It is interesting to note that at one time in its history, Thurmond was a prosperous railroad town that was the largest, revenue-generating stop on the C & O Railroad, where passenger and coal trains rolled through here throughout the day.
Today, a visitor center for the National Park Service operates here in the old railroad depot.
CSX Transportation, formerly the C & O Railroad, has freight transportation operations in and through historic Thurmond, and the Amtrak Cardinal passenger route goes through here, the second-least-used Amtrak station in the nation.
The Rush Run Coke Ovens were said to belong to the Rush Run Mining Company, and there believed to have been up to 180 of them at this location, which borders the railroad tracks.
Coke ovens are described as being made of brick, or some kind of heat-resistant material, and used to separate the coal-gas, coal-water, and tar.
Coke is formed when the coal-gas and coal-water fuse together, and is used primarily in steel-production.
Rush Run was established as a coal-mining community in `1889 when the post opened first opened, and boomed until the post office closed 1939.
The mine there continued to operate until it was closed in the 1940s.
The nearby Red Ash coal camp was developed by the Red Ash Coal and Coke Company in 1891, for a high-quality coal that burned with a “fine red ash.”
There were estimated to be 80 coke ovens here at one time, and the mine was exhausted by the 1950s.
There’s a service tunnel at the location of the Red Ash Coke Ovens.
The fine brick-work found at the Red Ash facilities reminds me of the fine brickwork I have seen in tunnels all over the place, including what is called the Great Tunnel of the C & O Canal in Allegheny County, Maryland, and part of the Paw Paw Bends section of the Potomac River as it is winding its way through West Virginia and Maryland.
Built using more than 6,000,000-bricks, this tunnel has been described as the “greatest engineering marvel along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.”
It is located roughly mid-way between Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania and Cranberry Glades in West Virginia…
…and isn’t far from the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland, which is also on the Potomac River, and a place where I will be talking about later in this post.
The Paw Paw Tunnel was said to have been built between 1836 and 1850 for the C & O Canal to by-pass the bends in the Potomac River near Paw Paw, West Virginia, with no work having been done on it between 1841 and 1847 due to construction and financial problems.
The C & O Canal closed to canal boats in 1924.
Canals, like the railroads, were found running next to rivers, and the Potomac River is a good example of this, like here where the canal and the railroad run side-by-side at Point of Rocks, Maryland, before they both enter Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.
We are told that the C & O Canal, and other canals, were made obsolete because the railroad was so much more efficient and canals couldn’t compete with them.
Such as the Wabash and Erie Canal, which was said to have been built during roughly the same time period as the C & O Canal.
Canals like the C & O Canal subsequently became a popular hiking, biking and canoeing venue, as we are seeing with the Rails that quietly became trails when no one was paying attention.
So whereas the railroad that runs alongside the New River in the New River Gorge is still operational for freight and passenger service, the railroad that used to run beside the New River in Galax, Virginia, to the southwest of the New River Gorge, was abandoned in 1985, and the former railroad right-of-way became the New River Rail Trail.
And starting at the North Bend State Park in Cairo, West Virginia, northwest of Cranberry Glades and northeast of the New River Gorge, there is the 72-mile, or 116-kilometer, – long hiking corridor known as the “North Bend Rail Trail” running between Cairo and Ellenboro, West Virginia.
What is now the North Bend Trail was at one time one of the most distinguished railroad lines in United States History.
It was said to have been constructed between Grafton, West Virginia, and Parkersburg, West Virginia, by the Northwestern Virginia Railroad between 1851 and 1857, at which time it was sold to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and became known as the “B & O Parkersburg Branch.”
The Parkersburg Branch was said to have been built to high engineering standards with 23 tunnels and 52 bridges to minimize curvature, and had a maximum grade of 1.5%
During its prime, it hosted the B & O Railroad’s premiere passenger train, the National Limited, between New York City and St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1827, the State of Maryland chartered the Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad, the first common carrier, and the oldest, railroad in the United States.
The first section of the B & O Railroad was said to have opened in 1830, and it was said to have reached the Ohio River in 1852, the first eastern seaboard railroad to do so.
Unfortunately, we are told that with the rise of automobile ownership, ridership declined, and B & O ended its passenger service in 1971, at which time Amtrak took over and passenger service continued for another ten-years.
Eventually the rail-line that was part of the North Bend Rail Trail became freight-only, and the line was abandoned and dismantled in 1988.
The trail was completed between 1991 and 1996, and also has beautiful, red-brick tunnels along the way.
The North Bend Rail Trail is part of the “American Discovery Trail,” that runs from coast-to-coast through 15-states and the District of Columbia, and is the only non-motorized trail that crosses the country.
Interestingly, the “American Discovery Trail” includes the the Indiana Dunes Discovery Trail on the Southern Shore of Lake Michigan, which is called one of the most biodiverse areas in the United States, and includes sand dunes and wetlands, including bogs, existing right next to each other in the same location, and both are beside railroad tracks, circled on the bottom right.
The South Shore Line runs in ths part of Indiana starting in South Bend, and goes between Michigan City just to the east of the Indiana Dunes, to Gary, Indiana, located just to the west of the Indiana Dunes, on its way to Chicago, Illinois.
In June of 1906, the location of what became the city of Gary, about 26-miles, or 42-kilometers, east of Chicago, Illinois, was a wasteland of drifting sand and patches of scrub oak.
No one lived there, and there was no agricultural value to the land.
Yet, three or four railroads passed through the area and the Grand Calumet River wound its way around sand dunes to get to Lake Michigan.
It was in June of 1906 that the first shovelful of sand was turned for the creation of the new steel town of Gary.
Laborers were housed in tents and shacks, and were digging trenches as very little work was being done above-ground.
By 1908, lo-and-behold, the city of Gary had taken on its shape and form!
Gary was heralded as a “Magic City,” having been transformed from sand dunes in record time!
It was established to be the “company town” for U. S. Steel, and became home to the largest steel mill complex in the world, with its operation starting in June of 1908, only two-years after the first shovelful of sand was turned at this location.
U. S. Steel is still the largest employer in Gary, and is still a major steel producer, but with a significantly reduced workforce due to the increase in overseas competitiveness in the steel industry over the years.
Actually, after the “magic” of its beginnings, Gary has been in decline for years, with population loss leading to abandonment of much of the city, unemployment and decaying infrastructure.
Now I am going to take a look at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which is roughly 24-miles, or 39-kilometers, to the southeast of the bogs at Cranberry Glades.
White Sulphur Springs was said to have been settled in 1750, and developed as a health spa in the 1770s, as the story goes after a woman was healed of rheumatism after bathing in the springs, and calls itself “America’s Resort since 1778.”
The springs are on the grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel, which was said to have been built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company in 1913.
Even today, the same Amtrak Cardinal Line that runs through the New River Gorge has a station at White Sulphur Springs.
Today’s Amtrak Cardinal Line runs between New York and Chicago, by way of Washington, DC; through White Sulphur Springs, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, on its meandering route.
The Amtrak Cardinal Line was once a part of, among others, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
It was formed in 1869 from several smaller Virginia Railroads under the guidance of of Collis P. Huntington, in order to connect the coal reserves of West Virginia with the new coal piers that were built in Hampton Roads and Newport News, Virginia, and first opened in 1873, forging a rail link to places like Chicago in the Midwest.
The city of Huntington in West Virginia was named for him.
Aaron sent me this newspaper clip about an almost 7-foot-, or 2-meter-, long skeleton, of massaive proportions, that was found 12-feet, or almost 4-meters, above a prehistoric mound that was ordered to be removed, in a town just four-miles, or 6-kilometers, west of Huntington.
The article states at the end that “the Smithsonian Institution will be notified of the discovery.”
The Smithsonian Institution was established in August of 1846, and was created by the United States government for the stated purpose of the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
Nicknamed the “Nation’s Attic,” it has an estimated 154-million items in its holdings, across numerous facilities like museums, libraries, and research centers, and is the largest such complex in the world.
The Smithsonian Castle was the first building of the Smithsonian Institution, and said to have been built on the National Mall in Washington, DC, between 1849 and 1855.
It is interesting to note that researchers have long suspected the Smithsonian to have played a role in the cover-up of giants.
Back in the day, giant skeletons were displayed in public places and mentioned in newspaper articles, but all that went away
On the one-hand, there are reports that the Smithsonian admitted to the destruction of thousands of giant human skeletons in the early 1900 as the result of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling, and on the other hand, there are fact-checkers vigorously debunking this as a satirical claim and false.
Why is there such a contradiction of information, and vehement denial on the subject of giant skeletons, when there were historical records of their existence?
This is a good place to revisit on the subject of giant skeletons once again.
First, here is another publication clipping sent to me by Aaron on the subject of giants.
Talking about the Great Lake Region, it says “Long Before the Indians…it is believed to have been inhabited by a superior people – of whom not even a tradition remans – whose only monuments are earthworks and tumuli (another word for burial mounds), scattered here and there, in some places containing bones from men of gigantic size.”
It goes on to say further “Mounds and relics from these “Mound Builders” were formerly abundant throughout the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, especially in this section. If a separate race from the Indians, when and by what agency they were destroyed will probably remain a mystery as deep as that of the lost island “Atlantis.”
So this acknowledges the presence of giants here who were Mound Builders, but shrouds what happened to them in mystery, just like the lost Atlantis, saying we don’t know who they were, or really anything about them, except that they were a superior people.
Along with the tallest skeleton by far being 18-feet, or 5.5 meters, -tall at West Hickory in Pennsylvania, seen earlier in this post, of the ten featured on this graphic, three are in the vicinity of where we have been looking at around Huntington, West, Virginia.
Number 10 on the list was found at the Great Serpent Mound, at 7-feet, or a little over 2-meters, -tall; #9 at Cresap Mound in West Virginia at 7-feet, 2-inches, still a little over 2 -meters, – tall; and #6 at Miamisburg, Ohio at a little over 8-feet, or 2.5-meters, -tall.
Criel Mound in South Charleston West Virginia, a short distance as the crow flies of of 41-miles, or 66-kilometers, from Huntington.
It was said to have been levelled in 1840 to create a judge’s stand for horse-races that were run around the base of the mound at the time.
We are told it was excavated between 1883 and 1884, and that thirteen-skeletons were found all together, with one of them being documented as having had a height of almost 7-feet, or 2-meters.
The Criel Mound is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds.
The area extended along the upper terraces of the Kanawha River floodplain for 8-miles, or 13-kilometers, and consisted of 50 mounds and 8 – 10 circular earthworks, as reported by Cyrus Thomas, a prominent ethnologist of the late 19th-century employed by the Smithsonian Institution’s “Bureau of Ethnology,” best known for his work on American mounds.
The Newark Earthworks in Ohio are roughly mid-way between Miamisburg, Ohio, and Cresap, West Virginia.
Consisting of three sections of earthworks – the Great Circle Earthworks; the Octagon and Circle Earthworks; and the Wright Earthworks – this complex contains the largest earthen enclosures in the world at about 3,000-acres, or 1,214-hectares.
We see the same precise geometry and archeoastronomy in these earthworks in North America that we see in other countries, like Great Britain.
Yet, this fact didn’t stop the development of a golf course on the Octagon & Circle Earthworks in the early 20th-century.
These earthworks come into play on eleven of the holes of the Moundbuilders Country Club.
I found this newspaper clipping from the Newark Advocate in 1902 in my past research describing a giant skeleton that was found in Bowling Green in northwestern Ohio that was over 8-feet, or 2.5-meters, -tall.
Bowling Green in Ohio is in what is called the “Great Black Swamp,” which is located between Fort Wayne in Indiana and the southern shore of Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.
The “Great Black Swamp,” and the “Indiana Dunes” on the southern shore of Lake Michigan that I mentioned previously in this post, are geographically quite close together.
Now back to Huntington, West Virginia.
Huntington was said to be one of the first American cities to have electric streetcars, with service believed to have started around the end of 1888, and ran until the 1920s, during which time the Ohio Valley Electric Railway had organized a gas-powered bus service, which by November 1937 had completely replaced all of Huntington’s former electric streetcar lines.
Collis P. Huntington was one of the Big Four of western railroading, along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker.
Then in 1888, Huntington lost control of the railroad to J. P. Morgan, an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age between 1877 and 1900, and William K. Vanderbilt, who managed the Vanderbilt family’s railroad investments.
William K. Vanderbilt was was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history, who was an American magnate, and who built his family’s fortune in shipping and railroads.
The process continued on for the C & O Railroad to consolidate and merge railroads, and, for example, to gain access to productive coal fields throughout the region, through the 1920s.
Anyway, back to White Sulphur Springs, and the Greenbrier Resort.
The Greenbrier Resort was at one time a Presidential getaway, with President Eisenhower the last President in office to have stayed there, with 27 presidents having stayed at the hotel before him.
The Presidents’ Cottage is a museum today.
A top-secret, super-sized underground bunker was said to have been constructed there in the 1950s during the Eisenhower Administration to serve as a relocation point for the U. S. Congress in the event of a nuclear war, but when the secret came out in 1992 in a newspaper article, it was decommissioned.
It had features like:
–A 25-ton blast door that opened with only 50-lbs of pressure
–It’s own power plant with purification equipment, and the capacity for 75,000-gallons of water storage, and 42,000-gallons of diesel fuel
–Every kind of medical care one would ever need
–Sleeping, meeting, and eating facilities for over 1,000 people.
It was kept stocked with supplies for thirty-years but never used as an emergency location.
In 1995, the government ended the lease agreement with the Greenbrier, and it was opened to the public for tours, which it offers to this day.
Now on to Lewisburg.
Lewisburg is located at the junction of Routes 219 and U. S. 60, and 219 and Interstate 64, and yes, the Greenbrier River Trail between the Greenbrier Resort and Lewisburg on Interstate 64 was a former railroad bed and right-of-way.
This is the same U. S. Route 219 we saw back in Pennsylvania in connection with Mahaffey Borough, which was located on U. S. Route 219, at the junction of the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad.
What is now the Greenbrier River Trail was gifted to the State of West Virginia in the late 1970s and opened as a recreational, multi-use trail in 1980.
It is 78-miles, or 126-kilometers, – long and runs between North Caldwell, which is 3-miles, or 5-kilometers, east of Lewisburg on U. S. Route 60/Interstate 64,and Cass in Eastern West Virginia.
Cass, West Virginia, was founded as a company town in 1901 for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and named for Joseph Kerr Cass, the Vice-President and co-founder of the pulp and paper company.
Interestingly, this information on Joseph Kerr Cass on the “My Genealogy Hound” website from the “History of Allegheny County,” published in 1889 by A. Warner & Company, shows the following.
His great-grandfather was Revolutionary War Major Jonathan Cass, and Jonathan Cass was the father of Lewis Cass, who represents the State of Michigan in the National Statuary Hall at the U. S. Capitol.
Lewis Cass, among other things, was President Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of War from 1831 to 1836.
As President Jackson’s Secretary of War, Lewis Cass was central in implementing the Indian Removal policy of the Jackson administration after Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
The Indian Removal Act was directed specifically at the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeastern United States – the Cherokee, Creeks, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw – though it also affected tribes in Ohio, Illinois and other areas east of the Mississippi River.
Most were forced to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
Lewis Cass was the grandfather of Lewis Cass Ledyard, a New York City lawyer, personal counsel to financier J. P. Morgan, and a President of the New York Bar Association.
Also, the information provided in from the Joseph K. Cass from the “History of Allegheny County” on the “My Genealogy Hound” website, indicated that he studied engineering in college, graduated in 1868, and was involved in “locating” various western railroads until 1874, and working for the Pan Handle Railroad in Pittsburgh, before getting into the pulp and paper mill business.
Going to break this down here.
First, Joseph Cass was involved in “locating” various western railroads until 1874.
In the history we have been given, there were a number of Railroad Surveys that took place out west in the 19th-century, including the Pacific Railroad Surveys between 1853 and 1857 under the leadership of Jefferson Davis, who was the Secretary of War in the administration of President Franklin Pierce…the same Jefferson Davis who was elected as the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Like Lewis Cass, the enforcer of the Indian Removal Act, Confederate President Jefferson Davis is also in the National Statuary Hall, representing the State of Mississippi.
Let’s take a look at some of the definitions of survey.
One is the perspective of the definition of survey regarding civil engineering and the activities involved in the planning and execution of surveys, gathering information related to all aspects of engineering projects, including location, in order to construct a project.
But what if another definition of survey might actually be in play here instead of what we have been told?
Perhaps more like some of the definitions shown here:
“A short descriptive summary; the act of looking or seeing or observing; considering in a comprehensive way; holding a review; and a detailed critical inspection,” and not the kind of surveying for civil engineering projects seen in the previous slide as we have been led to believe through historical omission, and for which the phrase of Joseph K. Cass having been involved in “locating” various western railroads would also apply.
What if the Railroad Surveys of the 19th-century were undertaken to explore a ruined landscape surveying, as in “looking at and observing,” everything, including pre-existing rail infrastructure in order to restore it to use once again?
What if the deserts, for example, in North America weren’t always deserts?
Next for Joseph K. Cass, from 1874 to 1876, he worked for the Pan Handle Railroad in Pittsburgh, before getting into the pulp and paper mill business.
The Pan Handle Railroad refers to the name given to the main-line of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, and was a reference to where it crossed the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
We are told construction of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis main-line began in October of 1851, and was in operation under either the name “Railway’ from September 20th of 1890 until December 31st of 1916, and under the name “Railroad,” from January 1st of 1917 until April 1st of 1956, when it was merged into the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, with sections of the original route being adapted for other uses.
Today, the Panhandle Rail-Trail uses a 29-mile, or 47-kilometer, section of the former main-line between Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
The Panhandle Trail runs between Walkers Mill in southern Pennsylvania, to near Weirton at Harmon Creek in northern West Virginia.
Most of the town named for Joseph K. Cass, and its buildings, were bought by the State of West Virginia in 1961 after the pulp and paper mill closed in 1960, and it became the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.
The Cass Scenic Railroad State Park continues to offer trips to Whittaker Station; the ghost town of Spruce; and Bald Knob, the highest point of the Back Allegheny Mountain in Pocahontas County.
The logs for the pulp mill in Cass came from the nearby Cheat Mountain, which were brought by rail to the mill for processing until the mills closure.
Cheat Mountain, which is next to the Back Allegheny Mountain, was once the home of the largest red spruce forest south of Maine.
Cheat Mountain is flanked on the western side by our old friend U.S. Route 219 and on the eastern side by the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.
East to west it is crossed by U. S. Route 33 on one side, and U. S. Route 250 on the other side.
We are told that during the American Civil War, Cheat Mountain was of strategic importance during the early part of the Operations in West Virginia Campaign.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place between September 12th to 15th of 1861, and was the first battle that General Robert E. Lee led troops into combat.
Still a part of Virginia at the time, since what became the state of West Virginia was not formed until after the Civil War, troops under Lee sought to regain confederate territory that had been gained by the Union after Union troops had advanced into the western region of Virginia from Ohio.
The Battle of Cheat Mountain was a Confederate attempt to regain the Union occupied Fort Milroy on top of Cheat Mountain, but they were unsuccessful and “lost” the battle.
The Cheat River runs along this section of West Virginia between the state’s border with both Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Aaron sent me this reference to giant skeletons having been uncovered in the location of the Cheat River.
The first reference was a Tucker County resident finding giant bones protruding from the ground in the area on the Cheat River known as “Horse Shoe” in 1774, that he estimated would have been from someone 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, -tall when he laid them out.
Also, other settlers found large-size bones nearby in what is described as an “ancient village” that had earthen and stone mounds, earning the area the nickname “Giant Town.”
Aaron also provided me with recorded references to giant skeletons that were found in in Marion County, northwest of Tucker County, that is tucked in-between West Virginia’s borders with Ohio to the West; Pennsylvania to the North; and Maryland to the East.
Here is an oral account that was written down that is similar to the find in Tucker County, where giant bones were found on the Monongahela River in Marion County.
A local woman reported that a schoolmaster had found four human skeletons near the river, presumably washed from their graves, where Palatine is now, and before reburying them, measured them and found that they were 8-feet, or almost 2.5-meters, -long.
Today, Palatine is part of Fairmont on the Monongahela River.
Fairmont is the seat of Marion County.
Aaron also sent me this information on p. 10 in “The History of Marion County.”
The information on this page referred to:
–Workmen preparing to build a bridge unearthed three giant skeletons, measuring over 7-feet, or 2-meters, in length, in the village of Rivesville at Paw Paw Creek;
–“Fort Hill” about 2-miles, or 3-kilometers, north of Fairmont, and traces of an aboriginal fort;
–And other skeletons having been found in the area, like around Boothsville.
These giant skeleton findings are consistent with other recorded giant skeleton finds in the surrounding area that I have already mentioned, though so far, some have been reported to have been found in mounds, and some randomly found in proximity to rivers.
The only fort I can find any information on to speak of near Fairmont is “Pricketts Fort,” which just happens to be the same distance north of Fairmont that is referenced on the “History of Marion County” page.
Pricketts Fort State Park is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Pricketts Creek.
What the historical narrative tells us is that it is was a reconstructed “refuge fort,” built on Jacob Pricketts’ homestead, to defend local settlers from hostile indian raids, and these days commemorates life on the Virginia frontier in the late 18th-century.
A couple of interesting things to note about the Picketts Fort location.
First is that the site of the fort is located on a river-bend, right next to an old railroad bridge that is now part of the Marion County Rail-Trail, and there are railroad tracks right next to the Monongahela River, still in use by the Fairmont Subdivision, a railroad from Grafton to Rivesville that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation on what used to be part of the B & O Railroad Mainline.
More on the area’s railroad history in a moment.
The Marion County Rail Trail runs for 2.5-miles, or 4-kilometers, from the Pricketts Fort State Park, along Pricketts Creek through rural Marion County, to Fairmont.
The trail’s main highlight is a 1,200-foot, or 366-meter, -long lighted tunnel, which runs under Speedway Avenue and Suncrest Boulevard. said to have been built in 1914 by the Monongahela Railroad.
The land for the trail was purchased from the railroad by the County in 1989.
Fairmont is located just above the confluence of where the West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the Monongahela River.
I couldn’t help but notice all the s-shaped riverbends going on around here!
So, I searched for more information on Fairmont’s railroad history and this is what I found.
First, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was an inter-urban electric streetcar system that served the Fairmont and Clarksburg areas, linked by a main-line, and connected the communities of Bridgeport, Fairview, Mannington and Weston.
It offered both passenger and freight services, and connected communities and coal camps.
It became operational in 1901.
Again, we are told that now the electric streetcar services just couldn’t compete with the advent of automobiles reducing demand for these services, and this interurban streetcar system was abandoned entirely by 1947, when the system had transitioned entirely to bus services.
This was the crossing of this interurban line at Hawkinberry Run near Rivesville, where aforementioned giant skeletons were found in Marion County.
In time, the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric Railroad was managed by the larger West Penn Railway system of electric streetcars that was headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and was said to be part of the regions power-generation utility.
It consisted of 339-miles, or 546-kilometers, of electric streetcar track at its height.
It was operational from 1904 to 1952.
Next, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad once connected Fairmont to Uniontown in Pennsylvania, a distance of 56-miles, or 17-kilometers.
It became operational in 1894.
We are told the importance of this line waned as the coal mines along the route closed, and in 1953, passenger service ended.
By 1991, most of the line between Fairmont and Uniontown was abandoned, with the exception of two short stretches that are still in use today, like the one I mentioned that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation between Grafton and Rivesville.
This map of the Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition’s Parkersburg to Pittsburgh (P2P) Corridor shows its plan to have a fully-connected recreational rail-to-trail between the two cities, with the proposed segments overlaid in red.
I have put a blue box around the Fairmont to Uniontown segment of the former railroad line, and a red box around the section between the West Fork River Trail, which starts just outside of Fairmont, and goes to Parkersburg, and includes the previously mentioned North Bend Rail- Trail.
Before I leave West Virginia, and head back up to Pennsylvania, there’s a few more things I would like to mention about Cranberry Glades.
Hillsboro, the town closest to Cranberry Glades, is just 30-miles, or 49-kilometers, up U. S. Route 219 from Lewisburg, and the same Route 219 that we have been seeing all along through these places in West Virginia, and Mahaffey Borough and near the area around Black Moshannon State Park in western Pennsylvania.
So Cranberry Glades is located near U. S. Route 219; it is very close to the Greenbrier River Trail, that ends in Cass and near Cheat Mountain; and is also very close to West Virginia’s Beartown State Park.
We already saw Beartown Rocks earlier in Clear Creek State Forest near Sigel, Pennsylvania, which is also close to the place where the 18-foot, or 5.5-meter,-tall skeleton was found in West Hickory, and where there is another rail-trail found at the Kennerdell Tract of the Clear Creek State Forest, both as previously mentioned at the beginning of this post.
Beartown State Park in West Virginia is located 7-miles, or 11-kilometers, southwest of Hillsboro, on the Eastern Summit of Droop Mountain, and right in the middle between Cranberry Glades and White Sulphur Springs.
There’s a couple of things to unpack here – one is Beartown State Park, and the other is the Civil War Battle of Droop Mountain.
First the rock formations at Beartown State Park in West Virginia are described as having “unusual rocky formations, massive boulders, overhanging cliffs, and deep crevices,” with the deep crevices having a regular criss-crossed pattern making them appear like the streets of a town.
This is very similar to how the Beartown Rocks back in Pennsylvania, were described, which was as ” a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
The Battle of Droop Mountain was said to be the largest battle, and last major battle, of the Civil War to take place in what was to become West Virginia.
It took place on November 6th of 1863.
This is what we are told.
Troops under Union Brigadier General William Averill defeated a smaller Confederate force under Brigadier General John Echols and Colonel William “Mudwall” Jackson.
While the Union succeeded driving Confederate forces from their locations on Droop Mountain, they were able to escape through Lewisburg before the arrival of Union reinforcements.
Though Lewisburg was captured, the Confederate forces returned later, and the Union did not succeed in it objective of damaging the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad that played a strategic role in supplying the Confederate Army.
So it was actually considered a tactical victory for the two Confederate Commanders, since the Confederate Army was not eliminated in Lewisburg, and the railroad was not disturbed.
Interesting to note that the following year, on May 9th of 1864, Union troops under Brigadier General George Crook, successfully destroyed a large bridge across the New River on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad during the Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain in southwestern Virginia, several more bridges along the railroad line and the depot at Dublin, Virginia.
This “victory” was said to sever one of the Confederacy’s last vital lifelines and only rail connection to Tennessee.
The last thing I would like to mention in the vicinity of the bogs of Cranberry Glades, there is a pattern of North-South-oriented, perfectly-straight parallel lines that are detectable in the landscape on Google Earth that Aaron had noticed and sent me this screenshot.
I followed the straight lines visible at Cranberry Glades northwards.
While not directly north of it, Pittsburgh isn’t far away from being due north of Cranberry Glades.
In addition, here’s a screenshot of the same kind of parallel lines appearing in the landscape west of Gettysburg that Aaron found, the historical location of a very famous Civil War Battle.
Could these massive parallel lines that are part of the landscape have been part of the Earth’s original energy grid system?
Now, I’m going to return to the area around the bog of Black Moshannon State Park and take another look there for the purposes of comparison to the area around Cranberry Glades.
Black Moshannon State park is 22-miles, or 35-kilometers, from State College, Pennsylvania, which is only a difference of 2-miles, or 4-kilometers, of the distance between the bogs at Cranberry Glades and the community of White Sulphur Springs, with its luxurious and exclusive Greenbrier Resort.
State College, Pennsylvania, is the home of Penn State University.
It is connected to Phillipsburg and Black Moshannon State Park via Pennsylvania U. S. Route 322.
Penn State was founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, and in 1863, it became the state’s first land-grant university.
Besides U. S. Route 322, State College is surrounded by U. S. Route 220 (also part of I-99), and State Routes, like 550; 150; 45; and 26.
State College is also surrounded by s-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
First a word about the United States Numbered Highway System, also known as the Federal Highway System.
It was actually called an “integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid across the contiguous United States.”
It was first approved in 1926.
Drawn up in 1913, by the National Highway Association, thhe map was said to be the first proposed U. S. Highway Network map.
The red roads were delineated “Main” National Highways; the blue roads “Trunk” National Highways; and the yellow roads were “Link” National Highways to connect all the “Mains” and “Trunks.”
The Nation’s first Federal Highways would not be adopted until 1926, when the American Association of State Highway officials approved the first plans for the numbered highway system, with this section showing Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
I have blue arrows pointinh to major cities that are the central point of at least five highways – Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; and Birmingham, Alabama.
What we see happening with the highway system of certain cities being the central point of multiple highways, is also seen with rail-lines.
This Civil War era-example shows that Petersburg in Virginia, just south of Richmond, was a central point of multiple rail-lines emanating from it in all directions.
Petersburg was the focal point of the railroads that supplied Richmond during the Civil War, and was the primary target for the Union Army in Virginia from the last half of 1864 until April of 1865.
The third major Civil War fire was the April 2nd of 1865 Burning of Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and of the Confederate States of America.
Also known as the “Evacuation Fire,” and the “Fall of Richmond,” Richmond was set on fire on the night of April 2nd by Confederate forces after Confederate President Jefferson Davis was said to have ordered the burning of warehouses and bridges after Union General Ulysses S. Grant had taken nearby Petersburg.
This is a lithograph depicting it by Currier & Ives.
The huge classical temple-like building on the left was the Exchange Bank of Richmond, and said to have been damaged by the fire, and on the right is another view of Richmond and its State Capitol Building in the middle of the picture, as seen from above the Canal Basin in Richmond after the 1865 fire.
In our historical narrative, the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant days later, on April 9th of 1865, after his final defeat at the Battle of Appomattox Court House that same day.
There’s a very similar configuration between Petersburg Rail-lines of the Civil War-era, and the highways around Richmond and Petersburg today.
Two other major fires in history have come down to us as Acts of War during the American Civil War.
The first was the Burning of Atlanta, which we are told took place in 1864.
Atlanta was an important rail and commercial center at the time of the Civil War.
General Sherman and his Union Forces captured the city of Atlanta in September 2nd of 1864, and occupied from then until November of 1864.
He gave orders to destroy Atlanta as a transportation hub and as a war material manufacturing center, and in particular the railroad system and everything connected to it.
His orders were carried out destroying physical infrastructure, and on November 15th, everything that had been destroyed was set on-fire.
Like Petersburg/Richmond, Atlanta was a railway hub at the time of the Civil War, and is a highway hub today.
Then, Atlanta was burned down by General Sherman and his troops in November, the following February, Columbia, the capital of South Carolina and an important political and supply center for the Confederacy, was said to have surrendered to General Sherman on February 17th, 1865, after the Battle of Rivers’ Bridge.
On the same day, the fires started, burning much of Columbia, though there is disagreement between historian regarding whether or not the fires on that day were accidental or intentional, but on the following day, General Sherman’s forces destroyed anything of military value, including railroad depots, warehouses, arsenals, and machine shops.
Famous illustration of Columbia burning on the left, with a colorized version on the right that highlights more detail on the appearance of the burning buildings.
Like Petersburg/Richmond and Atlanta, Columbia was a transportation hub with regards to rail infrastructure, and a highway hub today.
Back to State College in Pennsylvania.
As I mentioned previously, besides State and US Routes, State College is also surrounded by s-shaped water courses, like Spring Creek, Buffalo Run, and Slab Cabin Run.
And, yes, there is a railroad history to be found in the area around State College too.
Whereas West Virginia was mined exhaustively for its coal, this part of Pennsylvania came to be mined exhaustively for its iron ore.
Andrew Carnegie had begun mining iron ore in Scotia in 1881 for his steel mills in Pittsburgh, and by 1887, we are told that a new era of iron-making in the Nittany Valley began, with the opening of the Nittany and Bellefonte Furnaces along Buffalo Run near its junction with Spring Creek, and three railroads that were said to have been constructed to haul the iron ore to them – the Bellefonte Central (BFC), Central Railroad (CRR) and Nittany Valley Railroad (NV).
By 1911 both of these furnaces had been shut-down.
By 1950, all the railroads that had once served the area, either for the iron-related industry or passenger service, including the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, circled in blue, were no longer in service.
The only rail here that became operational again was a portion of the Bellefonte Central after the Bellefonte Historical Railroad was organized as an excursion line in 1985, and occasionally offers runs as a tourist attraction.
A couple of other things that I found looking around State College.
First, I looked to see if Penn State University has an underground tunnel system, and it does, though its origin seems mysterious for some reason.
We are told there is a system of tunnels said to have been built for maintenance purposes, and many of which are used today to generate steam to heat the Penn State sidewalks and keep them clear of snow in the wintertime, and other tunnels for other maintenance purposes.
Interesting to note that the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel, the world’s largest water tunnel at the time it was built in cooperation with the Navy in 1949, is at Penn State, and for a long time was the largest circulating water tunnel in the world.
It is still one of the Navy’s principal experimental hydrodynamic research faciilities, and has been declared a historic mechanical engineering landmark.
Also, Penn State University lies at the foot of Mount Nittany.
Mount Nittany was said to have gotten its name from the Algonquin word “Nit-a-Nee,” meaning “Single Mountain.”
For the purposes of comparison for similarity, I recently found a different university with tunnels on a route near a single mountain.
In this photo of the Wake Forest University Campus, you can see the Wait Chapel building in a direct alignment with Pilot Mountain in the background.
The tunnels at Wake Forest University were also said to have been built for heating and maintenance purposes. They have tours, but they are typically not open for public view.
Pilot Mountain, which was just pictured in alignment with the Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest, is described as one of the most distinctive natural features in the State of North Carolina, with two distinctive features, one named “Big Pinnacle,” and the other “Little Pinnacle.”
It is seen here centered on U. S.. Route 52.
Peter Champoux has done incredible work on specific ley-lines in North America, and other continents as well, as seen on his website geometryofplace.com
He shows Pilot Mountain as a hub for ley-lines on the home page of his website, looking much like the cities we just saw that serve as transportation hubs for multiple rail-lines and/or highways.
Not long ago, I researched places along the ley-line Peter identified as the “Serpent Lei.”
I started at the Bermuda Triangle, and ended at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
In the process of doing the research of places along this ley-line, I learned about a lot of the things I have mentioned in this post, including this alignment between Wake Forest University and Pilot Mountain, among other things.
Pilot Mountain is described as a “Quartzite Monadnock.”
This translates to a “hard, metamorphic rock that was originally pure quartz sandstone that is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.”
Here are some other examples of places classified as “Monadnocks.”
Besides Pilot Mountain on the top left, Harteigen in Norway is seen on the top right; Devil’s Tower in Wyoming on the bottom left; and Cooroora in Australia on the bottom right.
What if “Monadnock” is a word used to cover-up gigantic tree stumps?
Here are some examples of giant trees and stumps that are identified as such.
This is a view of Earth from space of the southern Appalachians on the left, in comparison with what an extensive tree root system looks like on the right.
More to come later in this post on the possible connection between the English word “root,” meaning the underground parts of a tree that anchor it,” and “route,” meaning “a particular way or direction between places, including a road or highway.”
So, Pilot Mountain State Park is on the western end of what are called the “Sauratown Mountains,” named after the Saura, or Cheraw People, the Siouan-speaking indigenous people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans.
They are described as an isolated mountain range, sometimes called “the mountains away from the mountains.”
When I was looking up information about the Saura/Cheraw people, I found historical records mentioning a vanished tribe, and “remnants of their rich cultural heritage recorded in historical journals, still buried in the earth.”
I will come back to this finding later in this post.
Interesting to note that I found this reference to a place called “Cheraw,” that still exists today, in this Civil War-related map of the movements of Sherman’s Army around Columbia, South Carolina, on the Pee Dee River that flows from the western North Carolina region of the Sauratown Mountains through today’s South Carolina on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Now I am going to take a look at Altoona in Pennsylvania just down the road from State College.
Altoona is only 43-miles, or 70-kilometers southwest of State College.
Altoona was said to have been established by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849.
Aaron drew my attention to Altoona with information he sent me about the nearby “Horseshoe Curve.”
The “Horseshoe Curve” is a three-track railroad curve that is described as one of the world’s most incredible engineering feats, and was accomplished by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1854 as a way to reduce the westbound grade to the summit of the Allegheny mountains.
It was said to have replaced the original Allegheny Portage Railroad, which was said to be the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in 1834, and which was 36-miles, or 58-kilometers,-long, and connected to the Pennsylvania Canal, all of which was said to have been built as part of the transportation by the “Main Line of Public Works” that was mentioned at the beginning of this post after it was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826.
Considered a technological marvel in its day and critical to opening the way to commerce and settlement past the Appalachian Mountains, the original Allegheny Portage Railroad consisted of a series of five inclines on either side of the ridge-line from Blair Gap to Cresson Summit alongside what is called the Little Conemaugh River to where it meets the Conemaugh River at Johnstown.
Interesting things to note that along the historic route of the Allegheny Portage Railroad are as follows:
After leaving the main canal location of Hollidaysburg and going up towards Cresson Summit, we first come to the lopsided-looking “Skew Arch Bridge,” called the “only purposefully built bridge on the Portage” and crossed over the railway.
The “Skew Arch Bridge” was said to have been built in the 1830s, and was also part of the early road system, said to have gotten its name for its shape when it was being built from a bend in the “Huntington, Cambria, and Indiana Turnpike” which was said to have been first authorized in 1810.
Today, the “Skew Arch Bridge” is preserved in the middle of “Old U. S. Route 22” and the new “U. S. Route 22.”
U. S. Route 22 is an East-West Numbered Highway from 1926 that runs from Cincinnati in Ohio to Newark in New Jersey, and passes through West Virginia and Pennsylvania on the way.
In Pennsylvania, U. S. 22 follows the route of the historic William Penn Highway, which was officially dedicated on November 15th of 1916, that ran parallel to the Pennsylvania Railroad through most of Pennsylvania.
First established in 1846, at its peak in 1882 , the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest railroad, transportation enterprise, and corporation in the world.
This map of the extent of the Pennsylvania Railroad was dated November 3rd of 1857, which would have been four-years before the start of the American Civil War.
But seeing a side-by-side comparison of these two maps, it certainly appears as though most of US-22 is on or right next to what used to be the main railroad line for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The next landmark n the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s journey through the Allegheny Mountains is the summit at Cresson, a borough (which in Pennsylvania is a municipal entity like a town or small city) on top of the Eastern Continental Divide.
US Route 22 is one of the highways that accesses Cresson.
Back in the industrial heyday of the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, there were lumber, coal and coke-yard industries located here.
Wealthy Pittsburgh businessmen like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and Charles Schwab, all connected to each other through the steel industry, had summer residences here, like Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage in Cresson.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant to America, who came to Pittsburgh in 1848 with his parents at the age of 12, got his start as a telegrapher, and who by the 1860s, had investments in such things as railroads, bridges and oil derricks, and ultimately worked his way into being a major player in Pittsburgh’s steel industry.
I couldn’t find a picture of Andrew Carnegie as a freemason, but I could find a reference to him being a “famous freemason” on a masonic website.
His first steel mill was operational by 1874, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with his partners, one of whom was Henry Clay Frick, the owner of a coke manufacturing company, a product used in making steel.
They subsequently acquired other steel mills, and in 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was formed, of which Henry Clay Frick became chairman. and in 1897, Charles M. Schwab, who had gotten his start as an engineer at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, became President of the Carnegie Steel Company in 1897.
In 1901, Charles M. Schwab helped negotiate the sale of Carnegie Steel with a merger involving it with Elbert Gary’s Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore’s National Steel Company in 1901 to a group of New York City Financiers led by J. P. Morgan.
After the sale of Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American of the time, and Charles M. Schwab became the first President of the newly minted U. S. Steel Company.
Now back to Cresson.
Cresson was known for its therapeutic mineral springs, and we are told that in 1881, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the Mountain House Resort Hotel.
Carnegie’s Braemar Cottage is still standing on the 400-acre property, which had 32-lots for private-cottages.
Alas for the Mountain House Resort Hotel and Cresson Springs, just like canals falling by the wayside for railroads, and railroads the same for automobiles, America’s appetite for “mountain” or “inland” resorts began to decline in favor of beach resorts.
The Mountain House Resort Hotel had ceased operations by the early 1900s, and in 1916, it was completely razed to the ground, and the original hotel building was gone.
Interesting to note, that unlike the luxurious Mountain House Resort Hotel that got razed to the ground, the likewise spacious building of the former Cresson Sanitorium and Prison is still-standing, albeit in pretty rough shape these days!
This is what we are told.
Cresson Sanitorium was built on land that was donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, and first opened in 1913 in order to provide hospital and long-term care facilities for individuals and families with tuberculosis and other health conditions.
In 1956, it was incorporated into the Lawrence F. Flick State Hospital for people with mental illness.
In 1983, it was converted to a State Correctional Facility, and operated as such for the next 30-years, until its final closure in 2013.
The building is located on Old Route 22.
The former sanitorium and prison has been operating as a tourist attraction, but is closed pending outcome of a legal battle and hoping to reopen.
This site is known for its paranormal activity of the ghostly sort.
After the former Allegheny Portage Railroad left the summit at Cresson, on its downward descent in elevation into Johnstown, along the Little Conemaugh River, we come to South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River and what was the former location of the South Fork Dam.
The famous Johnstown Flood on May 31st of 1889, the worst flood in the United States in the 19th-century, was caused by the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, and was the second major disaster the American Red Cross responded to, after the Michigan Thumb Fire, which started on September 5th of 1881, with hurricane-force winds and hot and dry conditions this was less than four months after the establishment of the American Red Cross in May of 1881.
John D. Rockefeller was amongst several that donated to create a national headquarters for the American Red Cross near the White House in Washington, DC, said to have been built between 1915 and 1917.
The South Fork Dam was said to have been an earthwork built between 1838 and 1853 as part of a canal system as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
But then, after spending 15-years building the dam, it was abandoned by the Commonwealth, and sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, who turned around and sold it to private interests.
In 1881, speculators had bought the abandoned reservoir and built a clubhouse called the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and cottages, turning it into an exclusive retreat for 61 steel and coal financiers from Pittsburgh, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, Philander Knox, John Leishman, and Daniel Johnson Morrell.
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania Corporation and owned the South Fork Dam.
Henry Clay Frick was a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, and was actually said to have been largely responsible for the alterations to the South Fork Dam that led to its failure.
Interesting to note that I did find this reference on the website of the Pleasant Valley Masonic Center in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, that Henry Clay Frick was a freemason in its King Solomon’s Lodge #346 from 1872 to 1877 , at which time he resigned as an active mason, but from what this entry says, his masonic lodge continued to enjoy the benefits of his generosity long afterwards, as well as that of his daughter.
What we are told is that the South Fork Dam failed after days of unusually heavy rain, and 14.3-million-tons of water from the reservoir of Lake Conemaugh devastated the South Fork Valley, including Johnstown 12-miles, or 19-kilometers, downstream from the dam, killing an estimated 2,209 people and causing $17-million in damages in 1889, which be $490-million in 2020.
Though there were years of claims and litigation, the elite and wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were never found liable for damages.
In 1904, the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club corporation was disbanded and assets sold at a public auction by the sheriff, and there were permanent exhibits in many places, like Atlantic City, depicting the horrors of the Johnstown Flood experience for public consumption, billed as a “Thrilling Account of the awful floods and their appalling ruin.”
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club building and the nine-remaining of sixteen club member cottages still stand today, and are under the auspices of the National Park Service as part of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
The Conemaugh Viaduct was located between the South Fork Dam and Staple Bend Tunnel on the descent into Johnstown.
This is what we are told in the official narrative about what happened here.
The Conemaugh Viaduct was originally built in 1833 as part of the Allegheny Portage Railroad where it crossed the Little Conemaugh River, and that it was often described as the most beautiful railroad bridge in the world.
We are told that it was a massive stone structure, over 70-feet, or 21-meters, in height, with a single arch.
We are told this massive stone structure was ultimately no match for what had become a 90-foot, or 27-meter, – high wave of water coming from the failed South Fork Dam, and was destroyed after a few minutes of holding the flood waters back.
We are told that it was essential that the bridge be replaced immediately to bring in help in the aftermath of the flood, so railroad workers came in from New York and Pennsylvania, and in the short-time of 2 1/2-days, built a temporary railroad trestle, and that on June 14th, roughly 2-weeks after the horrifying flood on May 31st, the Pennsylvania Railroad resumed service.
Then we are told that same year, in 1889, the Pennsylvania Railroad rebuilt the Conemaugh Viaduct to replace the temporary wooden structure and original viaduct.
The Staple Bend Tunnel is located just a short distance from the location of the viaduct in the vicinity of Mineral Point, a town just 1-mile, or 1.6-kilometers, down from the Conemaugh Viaduct, which was completely destroyed by the flood.
The Staple Bend Tunnel was said to have been constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and was the first railway tunnel constructed in the United States, and the third tunnel of any kind, after two canal tunnels, also in Pennsylvania.
At 901-feet, or 275-meters, in length, we are told the tunnel was rock-bored and stone-lined by workers – being paid $13/month plus room and board for 12-hour days, 6-days/week – who hand-chipped away and blasted through solid rock.
In 1994, the Staple Bend Tunnel was declared a National Historic Landmark, and in 2001, it became part of the “Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site,” and like the Johnstown Flood National Memorial, administered by the National Park Service.
So now we come to Johnstown, which is located 57-miles, or 92-kilometers, east of Pittsburgh.
It is at the confluence of the Conemaugh and the Stonycreek Rivers.
The is a map of the 1889 Johnstown Flood direction from the National Park Service map.
“Mass of debris” is marked at the Stone Bridge location.
The Stone Bridge is a 7-arch railroad bridge that was said to have been constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1887 and 1888.
The Stone Bridge itself survived the flood, but it trapped all kinds of debris, including miles of barbed wire, that had been swept away by the raging floodwaters.
The debris at the bridge caught on fire burned for three days, and killed many people that were trapped in the debris.
From 1834 to 1854, Johnstown was a key transfer point on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal.
At the head of the canal’s western branch, canal boats were transported over the mountains by the Allegheny Portage Railroad to continue the trip by water to Pittsburgh at the “Forks of the Ohio” and on to the Ohio River Valley.
We are told that when the Pennsylvania Railroad became connected to Johnstown in 1854 with the completion of the main-line, the Pennsylvania Canal became obsolete, and Johnstown grew rapidly as a major producer of steel via the Cambria Iron Company, and at one time was the country’s leading producer of steel.
It operated under this name until 1898, and was under different management two more times, before it closed permanently in 1992.
Though the Cambria Iron Company’s facilities were said to have been badly damaged during the flood, the company was able to reopen on June 6th of 1889, a week after the flood, and continued to operate.
Both Johnstown on the one side of the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona on the other side, might have operational remnants of the original incline railway system, though that’s not what we are told about them.
The Johnstown Inclined Plane was said to have been designed by Hungarian-American engineer Samuel Diescher, and completed in 1891 to serve as an escape route from floods in the valley at the confluence of the Conemaugh and Stonycreek Rivers, and to connect Johnstown with the Borough of Westmont on Yoder Hill.
Samuel Diescher was also credited with the design of four of Pittsburgh’s seventeen original Inclines, of which only two remain, the Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines on Mt. Washington.
Billed as the “World’s steepest vehicular inclined plane,” it’s slope has a grade of 71.9%, and it takes 90 seconds for it to travel in-between the two stations.
The Johnstown Incline is closed for rehabilitation work, now projected to be completed in 2024.
The Inclined Plane Railway back at Horseshoe Curve near Altoona was said to have been built in the 1990s to take tourists up to the park above to get a gscenic view of the incredible engineering feat by the Pennsylvania Railroad circa 1854 of the Horseshoe Curve and its three-tracks that eliminated the need for the Allegheny Portage Railroad’s 10-incline planes.
Like the one at Johnstown, this incline has been closed for repairs, and is also expected to reopen in 2024.
Incline railways work like an obliquely-angled elevator, in which cables attached to a pulley-system raise- and-lower the cars along the grade.
Two cars are paired at opposite-ends and act as each other’s counterweight. As such, there is not a need for traction between the wheels and rails, and thereby allowing them to scale steep slopes, unlike traditional rail-cars.
Thing is, there used to be way more of them than there are now, and inclined-railways were a worldwide thing.
Now they are mostly either tourist attractions, or kept on as an important part of a communities’ transportation infrastructure from low-ground to high-ground.
I looked at the subject of Incline Railways in-depth in this post, “Incline Railways of the Past and Present.”
Like the canals, railroads, electric streetcars and luxurious holiday resorts of the past, most of the world’s incline railways were largely made to go away for one reason or another.
Back in Johnstown, come to find out that the main highway connecting Johnstown to the Pennsylvania Turnpike is once again our old friend US Route 219!
This is a great place to revisit the U. S. Number Highway System and see what comes up to the surface.
First up, a deeper look into US-219.
US Route 219 is a spur of US Route 19.
It is 535-miles, or 861-kilometers, -long, and runs from West Seneca, New York, at the eastern end of Lake Erie south of Buffalo, and ends at Bluefield, Virginia, right across the state border from Bluefield, West Virginia
In West Virginia, US-219 is said to follow what was known as the “Seneca Trail,” a network of trails of “unknown age” used by indigenous Americans for commerce, trading and communication.
The “Seneca Trail” ran through the Appalachian Valley from what was to become Upper New York State, and went well into Alabama, though they are described to us in our historical narrative strictly as “footpaths.”
What we are told is that by the time the land was settled by Europeans starting in the 18th-century, it was largely abandoned by its previous inhabitants.
So we’ve already seen where US-219 is a highway corridor lthat links the bogs of Black Moshannon State Park near Penn State University and State College and Cranberry Glades, near White Sulphur Springs and the Greenbrier Resort.
Both of these boggy lands are located in close proximity to former railroad infrastructure, with the previously seen Snowshoe Rail-to-Trails at Moshannon Creek , and the Greenbrier Rail-to-Trails running along US-219 and the Greenbrier River near Cranberry Glades.
As mentioned, these two highways meet at Bluefield in Virginia, of which there is one city on other side of the West Virginia/Virginia border with that name.
The land beneath the two Bluefields contains the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, known as the “Pocahontas Coalfield,” or the “Flat-Top Pocahontas Coalfield,” named after the Flat Top Mountain on US-19 in West Virginia, and Pocahontas, Virginia, where the first coal-seam here was discovered.
The Pocahontas Coalfield started to be mined in 1882.
Pocahontas in Virginia was named after the famous daughter of Chief Powhatan in connection with the 17th-century Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
This is the most famous depiction of Pocahontas from her time on the left, but this how we have been taught to see Pocahontas and Powhatan on the right.
We are told that Bluefield in West Virginia, with its great location with respect to the developing Pocahontas Coalfield, was selected as the location of a major Division point on the Norfolk and Western Railway in the late 19th-century, and that the railroad greatly stimulated to the town’s growth, so much so that in its hey-day, Bluefield was considered a “Little New York.”
Next, I am going to take a deeper look at U. S. Route 19 starting at its northern terminus, and then come back to Bluefield and continue the journey southward on US-19.
Now, on to more about U. S. R0ute 19.
The North-South U. S. Route 19 runs from its northern terminus at U. S Route 20 at Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania to its southern terminus at an interchange with U. S. 41 in Memphis, Florida, just south of St. Petersburg.
Erie is located just about right in-between Cleveland, Ohio, which is 90-miles, or 140-kilometers, southwest of Erie, and Buffalo, New York, 80-miles, or 130-kilometers, northeast, on the southern shore of Lake Erie.
Pittsburgh is 128-miles, or 206-kilometers, south of Erie.
Erie was an important railroad hub during the mid-19th-century.
We are told the first railroad station in Erie was established in 1851, and replaced in 1866 by the Romanesque Revival Union Depot seen on the left, which was demolished in 1925.
The current Art Deco Union Station in Erie on the right was said to have opened in 1927, and designed by the Fellheimer and Wagner, an architectural firm credited with a bunch of railroad stations between 1923 and 1940.
The Erie Union Depot is used as an Amtrak stop on the Lake Shore Limited route, and is otherwise used for commercial space today, like a brew pub.
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was said to have been incorporated on April 1st of 1858, with operations starting in March of 1860.
Then on April 1st of 1870, the Pennsylvania Railroad took-over operations.
It was an 83-mile, or 134-kilometer, -long railroad between Girard just west of Erie, and points south around the Pittsburgh area.
Aaron sent me this except from a book on the “History of Erie County.”
It makes reference to the following finds in “Chapter 5:”
“When the link of the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad from the dock at Erie was in the process of construction, the laborers dug into a great mass of bones at the cross of the public road which runs by the rolling mill. From the promiscuous way in which they were thrown together, it is surmised that a terrible battle must of have taken place in the vicinity on some day so far distant that not even a tradition of the event has been preserved…” and that “…at a later date, when the roadway of the Philadelphia & Erie Road…was being widened, another deposit of bones was dug up and summarily disposed of as before. Among the skeletons was one of a giant….”
The area around Beaver Falls and Aliquippa were on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad line.
Aaron also sent me this article referencing Beaver Falls at the beginning about two skeletons of gigantic size that were found while workmen were “digging a ditch from the new shovel works to the river at Aliquippa.”
Today, it looks like what was the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line followed what is now Pennsylvania State Route 18 going south out of Girard, through these same two towns of Beaver Falls and Aliquippa on its way to Pittsburgh; US-19 is just east of there, going south from Erie on its way to Pittsburgh; and Pennsylvania State Route 8 leaves Erie and heads south through Titusville on its way to the greater Pittsburgh area.
One more thing to look at in Erie before I head south is US-20, which goes through Erie and is the northern terminus of US-19 in Erie.
US-20 is a major east-west highway that runs all the way across the continent, and runs along the southern shores of both Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, starting at Route 2 at Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, and ending at US 101 in Newport, Oregon.
It’s very interesting to note that sections of US-20 cross northernwestern Ohio at the southern shore of Lake Erie where the Black Swamp is located, where at least one giant skeleton was found at Bowling Green as mentioned earlier in this post, circled in red.
The section of US-20 between Perryburg and Fremont started out as the 31-mile, or 50-kilometer, – long “Maumee & Western Reserve Road,” or “Mud Pike.”
At the time it was being developed in the late 1700s, what became the “Mud Pike” was the most direct and passable route through what was described as the nearly uninhabitable swampland.
The 1795 Treaty of Greenville opened the Northwest Territory for settlement, but the Great Black Swamp stood in the way between the newly acquired Northwest Territory and settlers.
It was called the “worst road on the continent” early in its existence for the mud-holes that would trap wagon wheels and draft animals and its slow travel, though it was gradually improved as the swampland was drained in the mid-to-late 19th-century.
US-20 as well crosses northern Indiana at Lake Superior where the Indiana Dunes, and co-located marsh wetlands, and Gary, are found on the American Discovery Trail, as we saw earlier in this post.
And just like the “South Shore Line” we saw earlier along that same stretch of land next to the Indiana Dunes and Gary, it looks like US-20 and the Lake Shore Line run a similar route together from Boston to Chicago.
The Lake Shore Line is operated today by Amtrak as the “Lake Shore Limited.”
Today’s “Lake Shore Limited” started out as the New York Central Railroad’s train of the same name, which operated on largely the same route from 1897 to 1956, until Amtrak picked it up again in the early to mid-1970s.
Back to Erie, Pennsylvania.
One last thing I want mention in Erie itself is Waldemeer Park & Water World.
It is billed as one of only thirteen trolley parks still operating as an amusement park in the United States.
But what we see today is not what used they to be!
Waldemeer Park was first leased as a trolley park in 1896 by the Erie Electric Motor Company, and is the fourth-oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
Waldemeer has operated continuously since then under different owners, but the trolleys of the park are long-gone.
Trolley parks were said to have started in the United States in the 19th-century as picnic and recreation areas at the ends of street carlines, and were precursors to today’s amusement parks.
They were said to have been created by streetcar companies for reasons like giving people a reason to use their services on weekends.
By 1919, there were estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 such parks.
But like what we have already seen with countless electric streetcar lines, canals, railroad lines, and historic resorts, these magnificent trolley parks went the way of the dinosaur too.
So, in this example, dozens of trolley parks were operating at one time in this part of Pennsylvania, just in the location alone between Erie and Pittsburgh, much less everywhere else!
There was an historic trolley park at the previously mentioned Aliquippa, where giant skeletons were found.
One of Pittsburgh’s first amusement parks, it was said to have been established sometime in the 1880s by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad as a way to bolster ridership, but by 1905 had fallen into disrepair, and the land was purchased by the “Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation” that year to construct the “Aliquippa Works.”
Also there was a trolley park at Conneaut Lake, only 38-miles, or 61-kilometers, southwest of Erie and just west US-19 and like Aliquippa, also on the former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad line on Pennsylvania State Route 18.
The historic Exposition Park was founded there in 1892 by Colonel Frank Mantor, owner of the Conneaut Lake Exposition Company, with a stated purpose of being a permanent fairground and exposition for livestock, machinery, and industrial products.
Ownership of the park transferred to the railroad in 1901, and in 1907 trolley service was said to have been extended to the park.
Then the following year, in 1908, Many of the park’s original buildings were lost in a fire.
We are told that while arson was suspected as a cause of the fire at the time, it was never proven.
An amusement park at Conneaut Lake has existed under various ownership over the years, but is currently closed for construction until further notice.
With the location of Trolley Amusement Parks being historically at the end-terminals of streetcar-lines, I have come to believe that they were somehow involved with recharging the Earth’s energy grid for the original civilization in a really fun way, and were just utilized by the bringers-in of the world’s new system for a short time until they were no longer needed, or just plain inconvenient to the new narrative.
And actually, now I am going to put this area near Erie and US-19 into the perspective of this new system in our historical narrative with its proximity to Titusville, which we come to going south out of Erie on Pennsylvania State Route 8, and I talk as well about Hector Falls in nearby Sheffield, Pennsylvania; the giant skeleton that was found at West Hickory just south of Titusville; and bring in other examples of rock cities in diverse places, like the previously seen “rock city” at Beartown Rocks, which is located just southeast of West Hickory and Titusville.
First Titusville.
The petroleum industry in the United States began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil on a piece of leased-land near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in what is now called Oil Creek State Park.
For this reason, Titusville is called the Birthplace of the Oil Industry, and for a number of years this part of Pennsylvania was the leading oil-producing region in the world.
Today, not surprisingly, the Oil Creek State Park Trail runs on the bed of the first railroad line to reach Titusville, the Oil Creek Railroad.
Samuel Kier had established America’s first oil refinery in Pittsburgh in 1854 for making lamp oil, just five-years before oil was “found” in Titusville.
So. it certainly appears like the petroleum industry was developed in the 1850s in order to provide a replacement energy technology for the free energy technology of the original civilization.
Roughly a decade after the birth of the oil Industry at Titusville, in 1870 by , John D. Rockefeller, along with Henry Flagler, an American Industrialist and major developer in the state of Florida, founded the Standard Oil Company, an American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company.
Oil was used in the form of kerosene was used throughout the country as a light source and heat source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel source for the automobile, with the first gas-powered automobile having been patented by Karl Benz in 1886.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr, who was born in the United States in 1839, was the progenitor of the wealthy Rockefeller family.
He was considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, as seen in this ranking by CNN Business.
Rockefeller’s wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance.
At his peak, he controlled 90% of all oil.
As quickly as possible, a way was found to replace what remained of the free-energy system with their own coal- and oil-based system, and in the process make money hand over fist from the total control of the new system.
Now I’m going to take a look at Hector Falls, located northeast of Titusville and southeast of Erie.
Aaron brought “Hector Falls” to my attention in Sheffield, in Pennsylvania’s Warren County in the Allegheny National Forest.
Hector Falls are described as flowing from a height of 22-feet, or 6.71-meters, from a “rectangular-shaped” rock-face, in the middle of what looks exactly like a wall.
More of the same kind of thing is found throughout the Allegheny National Forest, like on the popular “Minister Creek Trail.”
The “Minister Creek Trail” is 6.6-miles, or 10.6-kilometers, -long, and is popular for hiking and backpacking.
The trailhead for the “Minister Creek Trail” is roughly 15-miles, or 24-kilometers, west of Sheffield on Pennsylvania State Route 666.
The “Minister Creek Trail” is part of the much larger “North Country Trail.”
The “North Country Trail” is a long-distance hiking trail that passes through eight states on its way from the Midwest to the Northeastern United States that was created in 1980.
It connects more than 160 public land units, including parks, forests, scenic attractions, wildlife refuges, game areas, and historic sites through North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont.
Something tells me the whole 8-state trail has sights on all those public lands that are like what we see at “Minister Creek” and “Hector Falls!”
Next, I am going to turn my attention to West Hickory, where the tallest recorded skeleton in North America was found, at 18-feet, 5.5-meters.
First, I wanted to share the article Aaron sent me from the “Oil City Times” from the “Marysville Tribune” of Marysville, Ohio, dated January 26th of 1870.
At the top of the article, it referenced the “Cardiff Giant Outdone” and the alleged discovery of the skeleton of a giant in the oil regions.
So, I looked up the “Cardiff Giant” to find out more about it.
What we are about the “Cardiff Giant” is that it was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes of all time.
In October of 1869 in Cardiff, New York, workers digging a well behind the barn of William “Stub” Newell, uncovered a 10-foot, or almost 3-meter, -tall, 3,000-pound, or 1,371-kilogram, petrified giant man.
Subsequently, Newell covered the giant with a tent and turned it into a local attraction, drawing a lot of attention from visitors.
The fraud was said to have been perpetrated by a New York tobacconist named George Hull, who wanted to fool people as to how easy it would be to create a giant.
The narrative says that in 1868, only three-years after the end of the American Civil War, Hull hired men to quarry a ginormous block of gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and had it shipped to Chicago to have it sculpted into a giant.
Then Hull had it shipped to the farm of his cousin William Newell in New York in November of 1868, where it was buried in a hole. Then, after almost a year had passed, Newell hired to men to dig the “well” where they found the giant.
The “Cardiff Giant” in short-time was sold to a syndicate, who moved it to Syracuse, New York, for exhibition.
The “Cardiff Giant” garnered a lot of attention, including that of “experts” as well as of P. T. Barnum, who was said to have hired a man covertly to model the giant’s shape in wax in order to make a plaster replica of it after his offer to buy the giant was refused.
Then Barnum was said to have exhibited his plaster giant as the real giant and the Cardiff giant as the fake.
At any rate, by December of 1869, the “Cardiff Giant” was said to have been exposed as a fraud, and Hull confessed everything to thepress, and that by February of 1870, both the Cardiff Giant and Barnum’s giant had been revealed as fakes in court.
The Cardiff Giant, and what we are told was the unauthorized copy of it made by P. T. Barnum, are on display at “Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum” in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
The “Solid Muldoon” was another petrified giant human body that was unearthed in Beulah, Colorado, and later called a hoax perpetrated by the same guy, George Hull.
The “Solid Muldoon,” at over 7-feet, or 2-meters, -long was said to have been discovered near Mace’s Hole in Beulah, Colorado, in 1877, 3-months after Hull “created” it, this time from “mortar, rock dust, clay, plaster, ground bones, blood and meat” and kiln-fired before it was buried in the location it was “discovered” three-months later.
The “Solid Muldoon” went on display in Colorado and New York before before revealed as a hoax to the New York Times.
So, now let’s see what the 1870 newspaper article has to say with regards to the giant that was found at West Hickory.
Two men excavating near West Hickory in preparation for erecting a derrick first exhumed an enormous rusty helmet of iron…
…and then they unearthed a 9-foot, or almost 3-meter, – long sword.
So they made the hole bigger, and soon came upon the bones of two enormous feet.
After a few hours, they unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of an enormous human.
The bones of the skeleton were described as “remarkably white;” the double- teeth all in place, of extraordinary-size; and that when the giant was alive, he must have stood 18-feet, or 5.5-meters, in stockings.
The relics were being viewed in nearby Tionesta before being sent on to New York.
And lastly, the bones were found about 12-feet, or 3.5-meters, below the surface of a mound, and the mound was not more than 3-feet, or less than a meter, above the level of the ground around it.
Yet another nut for the Antiquarians to crack!
To put that into perspective, this garage has 12-foot walls, so the giant’s bones were found that far below the surface of a mound, which was another 3-feet higher than the ground.
Antiquarians are those who study history with a particular attention to artifacts, archaeological and historic sites, and historic archives and manuscripts.
The American Antiquarian Society was established in 1815, said to be a national research library of pre-20th-century American history and culture, and the oldest historical society with a national focus, having been founded in 1812.
Its stated mission is to collect, preserve, and make available for study all printed records of what is known as the United States of America.
Seems like the American Antiquarian Society was established to be a gate-keeper for the new official history, like the aforementioned “Smithsonian Institution” was to become.
Somehow I don’t think the self-described Antiquarians had any intention of “cracking the nut.”
The seal of the American Antiquarian Society translates from the Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 15, Line 872: “Now I have completed my work, which neither sword nor devouring Time will be able to destroy” complete with an illustration of what we have come to consider Greco-Roman architecture and a broken corinthian pillar at the feet of what appears to be an angel. Hmmm.
The view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia is pictured on the right.
West Hickory is 14-miles, or 23-kilometers southeast of Titusville; 12-miles, or 20-kilometers, east of Oil Creek State Park, in Oil City; 25-miles, or 41-kilometers, northwest of Beartown Rocks in the Clear Creek State Forest in Sigel; and 21-miles, or 34-kilometers, from Sheffield, Pennsylvania, where Hector Falls and the Minister Creek Trail are nearby in the Allegheny National Forest.
In a similar configuration at the confluence of rivers as what we saw earlier in Fairmont, West Virginia, located where the s-shaped West Fork and Tygart Valley Rivers meet to form the s-shaped Monongahela River pictured on the right, West Hickory, on the left, is located on the s-shaped Allegheny River right before it meets the s-shaped Tionesta Creek at the borough of Tionesta.
From there, the Allegheny River goes onto meet the Monongahela River at the “Forks of the Ohio” in Pittsburgh, where they form the confluence of the Ohio River.
There were two star forts – known to us as Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt – where there are well-preserved masonry banks on both sides of today’s “Point State Park,” appearing as if these were canals, as seen the bottom right.
Looking just like what we see in Pittsburgh at the Forks of the Ohio, on the top left is a photo of the Monocacy Railroad Junction in Maryland circa 1873, and on the bottom right is a photo of the confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers in Des Moines, Iowa, one of countless examples of so-called river confluences that look exactly like this
A junction is defined as a “an act of joining or adjoining things,” implying intentionality as opposed to something that just happens randomly.
An electrical junction is defined as a point or area where multiple conductors or semi-conductors make physical contact.
It took some digging because it was hard to find out this information, but I was able to find a reference to a railroad history in this part of Pennsylvania at least in Warren County, of which the previously mentioned Sheffield, highlighted by the red box, is a part.
Among showing other railroads running along rivers and creeks throughout the county, it shows a railroad along the Allegheny River where the red arrow is pointing.
Today’s US-62 runs along the Allegheny River through here.
US-62 is an east-west United States Numbered Highway that runs from the Mexican Border at El Paso, Texas, all the way to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canadian Border.
It passes right through Oil City, Tionesta, and West Hickory where it runs along the Allegheny River for 45-miles, or 72-kilometers.
Important to note here that at the end of US-62 in New York, there was an historic train route at Niagara Falls, called the Niagara Belt-Line, which traversed the Niagara Gorge.
Today, you can take a leisurely stroll at the “White Water Walk” where the Niagara Belt-Line once was.
As I mentioned just a little bit ago, the Beartown Rocks seen at the beginning of this post, are located in Clear Creek Forest in Sigel, just 25-miles, or 41-kilometers, southeast of West Hickory.
“Beartown Rocks” are described as a beautiful rock formation consisting of “house-sized” boulders, that are spread out far enough they have road-like spaces in-between them, making it feel like a “rock city.”
While we are still here in this part of Pennsylvania, this is a good place to mention that this is the historical land of the Susquehannock People.
The Susquehannock People were known for their height.
This was not a secret.
On the left is a size comparison between a Susquehannock skeleton compared with a European-sized skeleton.
Captain John Smith, who played an important role in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas at Jamestown in May of 1607, published a map of the Colony of Virginia within a few years, which includes Susquehannock lands in what is Pennsylvania today, on which there is an illustration of a Susquehannock man and the caption at his feet reads “Sasquesahanougs are a gyant-like people, and thus atired.”
The Susquehannock People were said to have had a sharp population decline from disease and war by the 1670s.
Their population continued to decline, and that by 1763 its remaining members in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were massacred by a vigilante group known as the Paxton Boys, at which time they became extinct as a distinct cultural entity.
The Paxton Boys were said to have been formed for the protection of Pennsylvania colonists during Pontiac’s War, a Native American Rebellion in the Great Lakes Region against English Rule that lasted from 1763 to 1766, but as such the Paxton Boys in effect had carte blanche to massacre members of all the Native American tribes of the region, including the Lenape and the Mohican.
Now let’s take a look at some places similar to Bear Rocks, and others that we have looked at like Boxcar Rocks and Bilger’s Rocks, that are outside of Pennsylvania.
First up, Giant City State Park in Wakanda, Illinois.
Giant City State Park in the Shawnee National Forest, in Makanda, Illinois, is just south of Carbondale in Southern Illinois.
Carbondale is the crossing point of the “Paths of Totality” for both the 2017 & 2024 solar eclipses, locations where the moon’s shadow completely covers the sun, and this part of southern Illinois was and is the “point of greatest eclipse duration,” where the shadow of the moon from the eclipse of the sun lasts the longest.
During the American Civil War, the Confederate Army was said to have constructed a fort in Columbus, Kentucky,at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, very close to Cairo, Illinois, and Carbondale, in a part of Illinois nicknamed “Little Egypt.”
Today, Cairo in Illinois is empty and deserted, and considered a ghost town.
In its heyday, Cairo, located right at the confluence of these two great rivers, was an important city along the steamboat routes and railway lines.
Back in 1861, the Confederacy lost the State of Kentucky, which had wanted to remain neutral until a Confederate Army occupied Columbus, Kentucky, which was supported by President Davis, and Kentucky requested aid from the Union.
A primary attraction at the Columbus-Belmont State Park, the historical location of that fort, are the remains of a mile-long giant chain, and its anchor estimated to weigh between 4- to- 6-tons.
The giant chain was said to have been constructed under the direction of Confederate General Leonidas Polk, who in 1861 had it stretched across the Mississippi River between the fortification in Columbus, and Camp Johnson in Belmont, Missouri.
But apparently this defensive strategy didn’t work too well, as Union troops under then Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant occupied the area and took down most of the chain.
Just as an interesting side-note.
Located on an S-shaped bend in the Mississippi River, Vicksburg is roughly 400-miles, or 600-kilometers, south of this location at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
Vicksburg is perhaps best-known for the Vicksburg Campaign and Siege during the American Civil War, which took place between 1862 and 1863, and at the end of which the Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold of the port of Vicksburg on July 4th of 1863 and divided the Confederacy.
This is a wartime picture of the Shirley House in Vicksburg, circa 1863, with what is described as the camp of the 45th Illinois Infantry behind it.
But there are things going on in this photo that don’t make sense to me.
Why all the digging and entrances?
What we are told is that during the Siege of Vicksburg, the people of the city dug caves into the sides of hills to get out of harm’s way from the hail of iron that was coming their way from Union forces.
A possible explanation…but is it plausible?
The photo on the left was notated as Union soldiers on the lawn of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg after the siege.
It was said to have been constructed between 1858 and 1860.
Interesting to note the contrast between the size of the soldiers and that of the courthouse.
Considered to be Vicksburg’s most historic structure, a museum is operated within the old courthouse today, pictured on the right.
The next place I am going to look at is the Heavener Runestone State Park, the best known tourist attraction in Heavener, located in east-central Oklahoma.
The Heavener Runestone State Park is very close to the Arkansas State line, on the edge of the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma.
The idea that Vikings came through here once-upon-a-time, and carved the runes on the surface of a huge stone is actively promoted, and there is a Viking festival held here twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall.
Interesting to note that what we know of as “Norse” runes, and associated with the Vikings, bear a remarkable resemblance to “Vril” runes.
What if these runes were actually the runes of Vril, or “Universal Life Force Energy,” that was connected to the Ancient Humans and their mastery of how to harness natural energy to create amazing things?
Heavener Runestone State Park is one of the places that I first started waking up to this ancient civilization in 2015 when I was living in Oklahoma City between 2013 and 2016, and I visited there several times during that time.
The first time I did not take note of my surroundings at the Runestone, and just saw the Runestone.
The second time I went there, I noticed that the Runestone was surrounded by an actual wall (which is referred to as a canyon there).
The third time I went to Heavener, I took these photos further up from the Runestone in a different location on the state park grounds, that have absolutely no attention drawn to them whatsoever.
The part of the park where you see these walls on the perimeter is more like an afterthought for a place to put picnic tables.
The Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas are named after the Washitaw Mu’urs of North America, one of the many empires of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization.
But…who are the Washitaw?
The Washitaw Mu’urs, also known as the Ancient Ones and the Mound-Builders, with a history that goes back to Ancient Mu, also known as LeMuria, still exist to this day, and have been recognized by the UN as the oldest indigenous civilization on Earth.
Matriarchal and matrilineal, the Washitaw Mu’urs are ruled by an Empress to this day.
Empress Verdiacee pictured here passed away in April of 2014, and the reigning Empress of the Washitaw Nation is her granddaughter, Wendy Farica Washitaw.
But for some reason the general public has never heard of the Washitaw.
Washitaw Proper, the ancient Imperial seat, is in Northern Louisiana, in and around Monroe.
How come we’ve never heard anything about the Washitaw?
Quite simply, they don’t want us to know.
I can’t help but notice the map of the Washitaw Empire on the left, roughly corresponds to the map of the Louisiana Purchase in the middle and the Western and Trans-Mississippi Theaters of the American Civil War on the right.
As a matter of fact, the Trans-Mississippi Department was a geographical subdivision of the Confederate Army.
When Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold of the port of Vicksburg on July 4th of 1863 and divided the Confederacy as previously mentioned, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith’s forces were cut off from the Confederate Capital of Richmond, Virginia.
At the time, Edmund Kirby Smith was the Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and for the rest of the Civil War, he remained west of the Mississippi River.
As a result of being cut-off from Richmond, Kirby Smith had free reign in a nearly independent area of the Confederacy, and the whole region became known as “Kirby Smithdom.”
I first learned about the Trans-Mississippi Department when I was doing some research around Albert Pike, an influential 33rd-degree freemason who was a senior officer of the Confederate Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, otherwise known as Oklahoma.
Around this same time period, Albert Pike was the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction, a position which he held from 1859 to 1891.
There is an interesting similarity between the decoration for the Trans-Mississippi Department, with the motto of the Confederacy – “Deo Vindice” or something along the lines of “With God, our Defender” – and the decoration of the Order of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Scottish Rite, which has the Masonic Motto of the 33rd-Degree – “Ordo Ab Chao” and “Deus Meumque Jus” – inscribed on it, which translates to “Order out of Chaos” and “God and My Right.”
One last place I want to look at before I go back to continue down US-19 where we left off at Bluefield, Virginia, is Gornaya Shoria, on a different continent in Siberia.
Aaron sent me photos of Gornaya Shoria to bring it to my attention regarding its similarity to these rock formations we keep seeing in State Parks in North America.
Here is Boxcar Rocks in Pennsylvania on the left compared with Gornaya Shoria on the right.
Gornaya Shoria is found in Russian in southern Siberia, east of the Altay Mountains, and is known for its gigantic megalithic stone structures.
Another land feature that Gornaya Shoria shared with western Pennsylvania and eastern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains is that Gornaya Shoria is that it is rich in ores, like the abundant iron ore we saw in State College, and is in the Kuznetsk Basin, one of the largest coal-mining areas in Russia with one of the largest coal deposits in the world, like the Pocahontas Coal Field, the richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world, back in southern West Virginia and western Virginia.
So this brings me to look at the Kemerovo Oblast of which Gornaya Shoria is a part.
Kemerovo is the administrative center of the Oblast and is the coal-mining capital of Russia.
It is located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, and is situated in an S-shaped bend of the Tom River.
The Kuznetsk Railroad Bridge crosses the River Tom at Kemerovo.
The Western Siberia Railway branch of the Great Trans-Siberian Railroad passes through Kemerovo, which has two railroad stations.
The Great Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world.
At 5,772-miles, or 9,289-kilometers,-long, it connects Moscow in European Russia to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.
We are told that the first railway projects in Siberia began after the completion of the Saint Petersburg to Moscow Railway in 1851.
The Siberian line was divided into seven sections, and construction started in 1891, and we are told most of the line was simultaneously worked on by 62,000 workers.
This was labelled as an 1895 photo of convicts working on the railroad in East Siberia near Khabarovsk.
The financial support behind the railroad was leading European financier Baron Henri Hottinguer through his bank Hottinger & Cie, one of the first private banks, created by the Hottinguer family in Switzerland on August 1st of 1786.
Known today as the Hottiger Group, it is headquartered in the City of London London, and is primarily-owned by the Geneva-based Edmond de Rothschild Group.
Swiss Banks, along with off-shore banks in other countries, are notorious for the ability of wealthy people to hide their money and assets in them.
Back in Kemerovo, there are still electric streetcars in use today in the Kemerovo Tram System.
There are numerous amusement parks with rides in downtown Kemerov, like Wonderland and Antoshka.
There is even what we think of as classical Roman architecture here in Siberia, like the Kemerovo Regional Lunacharsky Drama Theater.
You know, Siberia!
And wherever this picture was taken in the Siberian winter has an operational incline railway!
Like what you see in North America and other places, the indigenous Shor people of the Kemerevo Oblast are portrayed as hunter-gatherers and farmers…but who knew how to smelt-iron and make iron objects.
Hence their name from the Russians who encountered them in 1607, the Kuznetsk Tatars, or “Blacksmith Tatars.”
So the indigenous Shors, where the massive megalithic site of Gornaya Shoria is located, were “Tatars,” or Tartars, of the historic Tartarian Empire.
So you have the indigenous peoples of Russia, like the Shor…
…and the Itelmen People of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East looking very much like Native American Tribal people.
Well, that similarity is accounted for in the official narrative with the migration story that the first humans to enter North America came from Siberia across the Bering Land Bridge at the end of the last Ice Age.
Right?
The story we learn about in school.
But then…there is “Wild Bill Cody’s Wild West” Show.
Wild Bill Cody, a Freemason, became internationally known for his touring show, called “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.”
His “Wild West” Show travelled across the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Europe, starting in 1883.
In 1893, the name was changed to “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World” from horse-cultures the world over.
This one, and a plethora of other Wild West Shows, were the precursors of western movies in shaping the New Narrative.
The first commercially successful western film was “The Great Train Robbery” a silent film that was released in 1903.
The story-line was as follows: outlaw gang holds up and robs a steam locomotive; flee across mountainous terrain; and defeated by a posse of locals.
The western-movie genre continued to grow as time went on, and in 1914, Cecil B. DeMille in his directorial debut released a silent western called “The Squaw Man.”
Director Cecil B. DeMille was a Freemason…
…and so were actors John Wayne and Roy Rogers, among many other famous actors and film-makers of the day.
Both John Wayne and Roy Rogers were Shriners, an organization comprised of 32nd- and 33rd-degree freemasons, the highest degrees of western freemasonry.
The name “Shriners” is derived from the “Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.”
I think it is accurate to say that the freemasonic Shriners are best known to the general public for their hospitals…
…their circuses…
…and parade antics in little cars.
These are Prince Hall Shriners of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Ancient Moorish Masonry has 360-degrees of initiation…327 more than western freemasonry.
Prince Hall, and fourteen other Moorish men were initiated into the British Army Lodge 441 of the Irish Registry, after having been declined admittance into the Boston St. John’s Lodge, at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor.
He was the founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry on September 29th of 1784, and the African Grand Lodge of North America.
Until Prince Hall found a way back in, Moorish Masons were denied admittance into Freemasonry.
Moorish Masonry is based on Moorish Science, which also includes the study of natural and spiritual laws, natal and judicial astrology, and zodiac masonry.
This is where the perfect alignments of infrastructure on earth with the sky comes from – the consummate alignment of earth with heaven that is seen around the world – like the lunar roll along the top of this recumbant stone in Crowthie Muir near Forres, Scotland.
Muir is pronounced “Moor.” Like in the Ouachita Mountains in North America, the memory of the people is retained.
Even though the spelling is different, the pronunciation is the same.
Like in the Ouachita Mountains in North America, the memory of the people is returned in the name.
What I am seeing is that Humanity was on a completely different and positive timeline from what we are experiencing today.
This civilization, with different empires around the world, but all part of the same civilization, built all of the infrastructure on the earth in alignment with sacred geometry and Universal Law to create Harmony and balance between Heaven and Earth.
According to George G. M. James in his 1954 book “Stolen Legacy,” the European Freemasons stole the legacy for themselves of the original Moorish Masons, the custodians of the Egyptian mysteries.
The Tartarian Empire in Asia was part of the worldwide ancient advanced Moorish Civilization, with its roots in Ancient Mu.
The history we have been given about the “Tatars” in Russia is that they were steppe nomads who were assimilated into the Mongol hordes that swept in on horseback under the leadership of the Mongolian Chieftain Genghis Khan, the founder and first Khan of the Mongol Empire, which he ruled from 1206 until his death in 1226.
Tartary was also hidden in name changes throughout the whole region.
Like the name of Manchuria, a region located in northeast China and part of the Russian Far East, came into use in the 1800s, instead of Tartary.
In the beautiful canal city of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea, which was said to have been founded by Czar Peter the Great in 1703, it is important to note the sphinxes there.
First, there are two sphinxes at either end of a quay on the Neva River in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Here is what we are told about these two.
They were brought from Egypt to Russia during the height of Egyptomania in 1832.
The story goes that a Russian named Andrei Muravyov, about whom there is no information available to find, went on a pilgramage to holy places in 1830.
He saw these two 3,500-year-old sphinxes for sale in Alexandria, Egypt, that were on sale.
This guy was so impressed, he contacted the Russian Ambassador with a proposal to buy them.
They ended up being acquired, and eventually made their way to St. Petersburg in 1834 and their present location the quay on in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
There are also sphinxes on St. Petersburg’s Egyptian Bridge on the Fontanka River.
The Egyptian Bridge was said to have been originally constructed between 1825 and 1826 by two civil engineers, also as a tribute to early 19th-century Egyptomania.
Besides sphinxes, it had Egyptian -style ornaments, obelisks and hieroglyphics, and the iron-work was elaborately gilded.
There’s a whole story about the Egyptian Bridge collapsing in 1905 when a cavalry squadron marched across it, and that the present bridge was rebuilt by 1955, incorporating features from the original bridge, but I have serious doubts about the veracity of what we are told about historical events and how things in our world came to be what we see.
I’d also like to bring the Atlantes of the Winter Hermitage in St. Petersburg to your attention.
The Winter Hermitage was the official palace of the House of Romanov from 1732 to 1917, and is a museum complex today.
The Palace pictured here, what we are told was the fourth “Winter Palace” since Peter the Great’s time, was said to have been constructed between 1754 and 1762.
What the historical narrative tells us that the Emperors constructed their palaces on a monumental scale to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia.
The giant-sized statues of the Atlantes are located at a portico entrance of the Winter Hermitage.
The ten Atlantes statues that hold up the Hermitage portico were said to have been sculpted from granite, and polished, by Alexander Terebeniev, and completed in 1852.
Old photos are all that remain of the living giants of the past, like those of Tartary…
…with the possible exception of seeing the giant gene of Humanity expressed in the basketball players of today.
So, now I am going to head back to where I left off in Pennsylvania and pick up US-19 in Pittsburgh.
The routes I looked at leaving southward out of Erie – US-19, US-18, and US-8 – meet on the highway system around Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh looks like another one of those central hubs we saw earlier with the US Highway System and historic Railroad lines.
Pittsburgh is the largest city in Appalachia and the Ohio Valley.
It developed as the vital link between the Atlantic Coast and the Midwest, with examples like the Allegheny Portage Railroad connecting the Pennsylvania Main Canal to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River and points west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Pittsburgh played a dominant role in the development of the U. S. Steel Industry.
Many leading industrialists of the 19th-century were based in Pittsburgh, and resided in the East Liberty neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End, at one time the richest suburb in America, with names including Mellon, Carnegie, Heinz, and Westinghouse living there.
We are told that East Liberty started developing as a commercial area in 1842, when Thomas Mellon, prominent businessman and patriarch of the Mellon family in Pittsburgh, married Sarah Jane Negley, daughter of one of the earliest land-owners in the area, and made East Liberty their home..
We are told that Thomas Mellon made his fortune selling or rented land inherited by his wife, and used the proceeds to finance early industries in Pittsburgh.
In 1870, he and his sons Andrew and Richard established the “T. Mellon & Sons Bank,” and it became the Mellon National Bank In 1902.
It became a force in the mass production revolution in the United States, particularly in the Midwest.
A National Bank is a private bank operating as a commercial bank within the Federal Government’s Regulatory Structure, and under the supervision of the “Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,” rather than a state banking agency.
At one time in our history, National Banks had the authority to print money.
At its height, Mellon Financial Services was one of the world’s largest money management firms.
It merged with the Bank of New York in 2007 to become BNY Mellon.
Richard Mellon, with an adjusted wealth of $103-billion, is listed as the 5th wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, and a founder of Gulf Oil and Alcoa Aluminum, as well as a number of other big corporations, along with his brother…
…Andrew Mellon, who is listed as the 15th-wealthiest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $63.2-billion.
It is important to note that Andrew Mellon was an acknowledged Freemason, and also the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury from March 9th of 1921 to February 12th of 1932, presiding over the Boom years of the 1920s as well as the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, which led directly to the Great Depression.
Andrew Mellon was also a close friend of Henry Clay Frick, and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, along with Andrew Carnegie, on the property where the dam failed that caused the Johnstown Flood, as previously discussed.
Along with Andrew Mellon, as we saw earlier in the section on Johnstown, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick were initiated into Freemasonry, with Henry Clay Frick active for only five-years, but supported Freemasonry his entire life.
Andrew Carnegie was ranked as the 6th-richest American of all-time by CNN Business, with an adjusted wealth of $101-billion.
It’s important to note that with the philanthtropic activities spoken of these extemely wealthy men, which are made to sound extremely benevolent and meant to benefit Humanity, it seems like their intent was highly questionable as to their actual motives.
We have seen or referenced all four of these men who receive the top billing as “Robber Barons.”
More on Vanderbilt and Morgan to come.
Among many other things, both the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations have been involved in the American Educational System…
…from the need to education to train the future workforce….
…to the insidious “Woke” currriculum of today that is taught in American public school classrooms.
And, even as early as 1914, the National Education Association expressed alarm at the activity of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, and their efforts to control the policies of State educational institutions, and everything related to the educational system.
Now I am going to leave Pittsburgh, and head south on US-19, back to where it meets US-219 in Bluefield, Virginia.
It is important to note this location at the two Bluefields and the Pocahontas Coalfield is on the alignment of the Serpent Lei identified by Peter Champoux and the red line in this Google Earth screenshot, that I tracked in a previous post from the Bermuda Triangle to Lake Itasca in Minnesota, which passes through the “monadnock,” Pilot Mountain (AKA giant tree stump?) in North Carolina right before it passes through this location.
It was from tracking the Serpent Lei alignment that I first encountered Burkes Garden, Virginia, which is just south of Bluefield, accessed from US-19, and the next place I want to bring to your attention.
Burkes Garden has a population of about 300 people, in a place considered to have the most fertile soil in Virginia, but no post office; no cell phone or cable service; cool-to-cold weather; and one paved road to Tazewell, the nearest town about 15-miles, or 23-kilometers away.
Burkes Garden is known as “Vanderbilt’s First Choice” for the Grand Biltmore Estate.
We are told that the land-owners there wouldn’t sell to George Vanderbilt II, so he went to Asheville in North Carolina instead.
More on Asheville shortly.
Burkes Garden is also called “God’s Thumbprint,” and is the highest valley in Virginia and largest rural district.
So, a couple of things I want to mention about Burkes Garden and Tazewell County which US-19 passes through.
First, is like we saw back in Pennsylvania in the Allegheny National Forest near Sheffield and the way you get to the Minister Creek Trailhead, Burkes Garden has a State Route 666 as one of its connecting roads.
Maybe that’s not a significant finding.
But then again, maybe it is.
Also, the Norfolk & Western Railroad’s Clinch Valley Line between the coalfields of Bluefield and Norton ran through Tazewell County beside US-19 for a litle ways, and then went their separate ways at the southwestern end of the county, near Richlands, though there were numerous other Norfolk & Western Coal Lines throughout this region.
The coalfields of the Clinch River Valley south of Richlands were a signifcant source of high-quality coal during the hey-day of coal-mining operations here.
Arrows point to the mainline of the Clinch Valley Line following the s-shaped bends of the Clinch River.
The City of Tazewell has one of only two historic railroad depots still-standing on what was the historic Clinch valley Line, out of what was once fourteen depots, and today is the Visitors Center.
The Norfolk and Southern Railroad continues to carry freight on the Clinch Valley Line.
On the other side of the high land-feature upon which Burkes Garden sits on top of is the North Fork of the Holston River.
On one end of the North Fork of the Holston River, just above Burkes Garden, there is an abandoned railroad for the New River, Holston and Western Railroad between Narrows and Sutter, Virginia.
It was said to have been constructed starting in 1903 to supply a tannery in Narrows with virgin stands of timber.
By the 1930s, the timber along the line started to be exhausted, and the railroad line was dismantled in 1946.
Portions of the former New River, Holston and Western Railroad became part of Virginia Route 61.
The Holston River is the main river flowing from the northeast to the southwest in this region, to which these other rivers are connected.
Today, there is still railroad in operating called the “Knoxville and Holston River Railroad.”
The Knoxville and Holston Railroad is a short-line railroad in Tennessee that runs between Knoxville, and Marbledale, 20-miles away on the French Broad River.
Knoxville is situated at the confluence of three s-shaped rivers – the Holston, French Broad, and Tennessee Rivers.
This configuration in Knoxville on the top left looks just like what we have seen previously at Tionesta in Pennsylvania, where Tionesta Creek meets the Allegheny River; Fairmont in West Virginia, where the Monongahela River meets the West Fork River and the Tygart Creek River; and Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny River and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio River.
One more thing before I head south on US-19.
Tazewell, Virginia, prides itself on at one time being the smallest town in America with an electric streetcar.
It ran from the railroad depot to Main Street.
There was a horse-drawn streetcar in town from 1892, until the introduction of the electric streetcar in 1904, which operated until 1933.
The next I am going to look at on US-19 is Abingdon.
Abingdon in Virginia is located near Virginia’s borders with Tennessee and North Carolina.
Like we saw in Tazewell, Abingdon was an active line on the Norfolk and Western Coal Lines…
…and the Norfolk & Southern still runs freight through the remaining track in Abingdon.
Abingdon is better-known for as the beginning or the end of the “Virginia Creeper Trail.”
It operated as a branch of the Norfolk & Western Railroad until 1974, and track removal began in 1977.
Today’s “Virginia Creeper Trail” was completed in 1984.
It is a 34-mile, or 55-kilometer, -long rail-trail from Abingdon to the Whitetop Station at the Virginia-North Carolina border.
Well wasn’t that nice of them, to take out all these railroad tracks when they no longer needed them for mining, and have them replaced with super-fun, multi-use recreational trails!
Ya think they did it because they’re really nice?
I sure don’t!!!
The last place I want mention on US-19 is Asheville in North Carolina.
US-19 is co-signed with other highways and routes along its length, including Asheville.
Asheville is also located on the French Broad River, and as a matter of fact, Asheville is only 81-miles, or 130-kilometers, southeast of Knoxville.
Asheville is at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers.
George Vanderbilt II’s Biltmore Estrate is divided by the French Broad River, and its confluence with the Swannanoa River is on the Biltmore Estate.
The Western North Carolina Railroad was said to have been constructed through here starting in the 1850s, and today the existing track is operated by different railroads to transport freight, primarily Blue Ridge Southern, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
This whole region we have been looking at through here was part of the traditional lands of the Cherokee people.
They were said to have ceded their land here around Asheville 1819.
The Cherokee were one of the five civilized tribes to be forcibly removed from their land after the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed by Congress, and as mentioned previously, enforced by Lewis Cass, Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of War, and the Cherokee were marched west to Indian Territory in one of several Trails of Tears.
The Swannanoa Gap Tunnel near Asheville is said to be the longest hand-dug tunnel in the world.
It is 1,832-feet, or 558-meters, long, and 123-feet, or 7-meters, underground.
It was said to have been dug out by convict laborers digging it out, with the help of nitroglycerine, working from opposite ends of the mountain, and miracle of miracles, these two tunnels lined up perfectly when they met!
It is estimated that 300 convicts died as a result of cave-ins caused by the use of the nitroglycerin explosives.
Completed in March of 1879, we are told it opened up Asheville as a railway hub for North Carolina’s western counties.
So Asheville on US-19 ended up being the location chosen by George Vanderbilt II for the Biltmore Estate instead of his “first choice” Burkes Garden, also on US-19.
The Biltmore Estate is on 8,000-acres, or 3,237-hectares of land.
This is what we are told.
It was said to have been a Chateauesque-style mansion, meaning in the revivalist Renaissance architectural-style of French chateaux of the Loire Valley, built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1885 and 1895.
It is the largest privately-owned residence in the United States, and is considered of the most prominent of the Gilded Age mansions.
The Gilded Age is the name given to the period of time in American history between 1877 and 1900, a time of rapid industrialization and rapid economic expansion.
This would have roughly corresponded in our historical narrative to the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War, which we are told ended in 1865, and the Progressive Era, which is what we are told was a period of widespread political activism and reform, that started in 1896.
It was also time when the contrast of the ostentatiousness of the wealthy versus the abject poverty of the working class became more visible.
We are told that the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was employed by George Washington Vanderbilt II to design the landscape for the Biltmore Estate
It was said to be Frederick Law Olmsted’s last project, and he was memorialized in a plaque there.
The Biltmore Estate contains numerous ancient Native American sites, including what is known as the “Biltmore Mound,” an earthwork platform mound, and other archaeological discoveries on the grounds.
While I can’t find a direct reference to George W. Vanderbilt II himself being a Freemason, I did find a reference that the Vanderbilts were known Freemasons…
…and Aaron sent me the link to the Biltmore Lodge saying that George W. Vanderbilt procured the Lodge Hall for the Biltmore Masons to conduct business.
More on this finding to come.
George Washington Vanderbilt II was William Kissam Vanderbilt’s brother, who was mentioned earlier in this post as having gained control of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, along with financier J. P. Morgan, from Collis Huntington in 1888.
Their grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Staten Island-born Cornelius Vanderbilt got his start in regional steamboat lines and ocean-going steamships, and from there got into the railroad business.
He bought control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864; the New York Central Railroad in 1867; the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad in 1869; and the Canada Southern Railway in 1876.
He consolidated his two key lines into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1870, becoming one of the first giant corporations in the history of the United States
According to CNN Business, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the second-richest American in history, with an adjusted wealth of $205-billion.
George W. Vanderbilt II was supposed to sail on the RMS Titanic with his wife but they changed plans at the last minute and sailed instead on the sister ship of the Titanic, the RMS Olympic, which left port before the Titanic, and arrived in New York before the Titanic sank.
J. P. Morgan, the colleague of George’s brother William on the C & O Railroad as mentioned previously, has long been suspected of having been behind what has come down to us as the sinking of the Titanic.
This is what we are told on the Federal Reserve History website.
A secret meeting took place on Jekyll Island off the coast of the State of Georgia to lay the foundations of the Federal Reserve between November 20th and November 30th of 1910.
The purpose of the meeting was so secret that what the six men talked about was a closely guarded secret for many years, and they did not admit to it until the 1930s.
They were laying the foundation for what would become the Federal Reserve System.
Again, this information is from the Federal Reserve History website.
J. P. Morgan was a member of the exclusive Jekyl Island Club, was likely the one who arranged for the group to use the club’s facilities.
George’s brother, William K. Vanderbilt was also member of what Munsey’s Magazine described in 1904 as the “richest, most exclusive, and the most inaccessible” club in the world.
Arriving on a private train car, the group of men who attended the 10-day secret meeting on Jekyll Island in November of 1910 adopted the cover story of a “duck hunt” to explain their activities and hide the true purpose of their meeting, and addressed each other by their first names only – hence they adopted the name of the “First Name Club.”
This was the train station in Brunswick that serviced Jekyll Island on the Southern and Atlantic Coast Railroad.
The Oglethorpe Hotel pictured here was said to have opened in January of 1888, after having been built on top of the previous Oglethorpe House which was said to have burned down during the Civil War.
It remained in operation until 1958, at which time it was torn down and replaced by a Holiday Inn.
The Holiday Inn was eventually torn down too, leaving an empty lot in downtown Brunswick called the “Oglethorpe Block.”
Then, on April 15th of 1912, we are told the Titanic sank. with all the bankers opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve on board, including John Jacob Astor IV, one of the richest people in the world at the time.
I can’t help but wonder if the “Sinking of the Titanic” was also a veiled reference to the “sinking of the Titans.”
The word “titanic” means “of exceptional strength, size, or power.”
More on my thoughts about this particular subject later in this post.
The following year, on December 23rd, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act Passed Congress, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. It created and established the Federal Reserve System, and created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (commonly known as the US dollar) as legal tender.
John Jacob Astor IV was the great grandson of John Jacob Astor, who made a fortune in real estate development, the fur trade, and opium smuggling.
John Jacob Astor was considered to be the world’s first multi-millionaire, and the third-richest American of all time according to CNN Business.
J. P. Morgan himself didn’t make the CNN Business List of 20 wealthiest Americans of time, but he dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the “Gilded Age,” and was a major driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
Like the previously mentioned U. S. Steel in 1901 by merging three companies into one, and creating the world’s first billion-dollar corporation!
J. P. Morgan’s father, Junius Spencer Morgan, was the founder of the company that would become J. S. Morgan & Company in 1864, that was the successor company to George Peabody & Company, of which he became the Junior Partner in October of 1854.
In 1854, Morgan was put in charge of the firm’s iron portfolio, which included the marketing of railroad bonds in London and New York.
By the time J. S. Morgan died in 1890, the Morgan banks were the dominant forces in government and railroad finance, and his son John Pierpont Morgan had taken the helm of the company, becoming known as. J. P. Morgan & Company in 1895, now known as JP Morgan Chase & Company.
George Peabody’s bank became the premier American banking house in London after he took up residence from Baltimore to London permanently in 1837, and went from being a wholesale dry-goods and cotton merchant, to a merchant-banker offering securities in American railroad and canal enterprises to British and European investors.
He started a banking business trading on his own account a year after he moved to London, and by 1851, he established the banking firm of “George Peabody & Company” to meet the increasing demand for securities issued by American railroads, and his company specialized in financing governments and large companies.
According to “The Secret Founding of America” book by Nicholas Hagger…
…George Peabody was the Freemasonic banker from whom money was transferred to the “southern insurrectionists,” and he hired the father of J. P. Morgan to handle the funds when they arrived in the United States.
So, exactly how do you go about hiding giants and their advanced civilization?
Based on the evidence I have provided throughout this post and past research, I think the American Civil War was one of many ways to do this, and not what we are told it was about.
First, Aaron sent me this article he found on the bones of giant indians near Antietam Creek on the Library of Congress website.
Titled “Bones Of Giant Indians,” about giant skeletons found in Antietam, Maryland, it was originally published on February 9th of 1898 in the “Juniata Sentinal and Republican” newspaper in Mifflintown in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
This article implies that the tall “Indian” skeletons that were found of seven-feet in height, roamed over the State of Maryland in their wildness, armed with instruments that either nature gave them, or in their limited skill to make.
It further goes on to say that the locality from where these skeletons came near Antietam Creek in Frederick County was supposed to have been the battleground of two tribes of Indians, the Catawabas and the Delawares.
According to this claim, some Catawbas overtook a band of Delawares living at the mouth of the Antietam and annihilated them, but the President of the Maryland Academy of Sciences and Provost of the Peabody Institute, after a careful review of the locality, found that there was no evidence to support this claim of a battle other than some spears and arrowheads found there.
This location of Antietam Creek and the alleged battleground between the two Indian tribes would not have been far in distance from the location of the Battle of Antietam the deadliest one-day battle in American Military History, on September 17th of 1862, with 22,727 dead, wounded, or missing.
We are told that after a long bloody day of fighting and death, the Union Army succeeded in turning back the Confederate invasion of Maryland, and was considered a major turning point in the war in the Union’s favor.
So exactly how was the President of the Peabody Institute supposed to find evidence of an historical battle between giant Indians in a place with an even more recent battle, and of this magnitude?
It’s also important to note that the Antietam Battlefield is quite close to Harper’s Ferry in West Virginia, also known for its Civil War history, as well as numerous historic forts, rivers, canals, railroads, and hydroelectric plants.
The Peabody Institute mentioned in this article immediately caught my attention.
In 1857, banker, and also called the “Father of Modern Philanthropy,” George Peabody established the Peabody Institute in Baltimore with a bequest of at least $800,000, and it is the oldest conservatory in the United States.
By the time it was completed and opened in 1866, one year after the official end of American Civil War, it was dedicated by George Peabody himself,and included a music academy, library and art gallery.
That entrance at the east wing of the George Peabody Library sure looks proportionally like its made for much bigger people than we are today!
Frederick Law Olmsted, who later became a revered landscape architect credited with such grand landscapes as that of the Biltmore Estate as seen previously, started out his career as a journalist.
Among other things, during the pre-Civil War time period, Olmsted was commissioned by the New York Daily Times to start on an extensive research journey in the American South and Texas between 1852 and 1857.
He published three books from this time into one book, called “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom,” in 1861 during the first six months of the American Civil War at the suggestion of his English publisher.
All of these books by Frederick Law Olmsted raise red flags for me, as I have come to believe from my research that publications like these are indicative of some kind of setting the stage in seeding the new historical narrative into our consciousness by those responsible for the hijack of the original positive civilization that built all of Earth’s infrastructure.
Frederick Law Olmsted was also the first executive secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission as well as an organizer of the Union League.
First, the United States Sanitary Commission.
What we are told about the United States Sanitary Commission is that it organized “Sanitary Fairs” during the American Civil War as a fundraiser for the many needs of Union Soldiers, including health.
“Sanitary Fairs” had everything, including majestic “temporary” buildings said to have been built for the fairs, to be torn down after, and while not as elaborate as the big expositions such as in Chicago, they were still something in and of themselves.
Frederick Law Olmsted was on the standing committee for the United States Sanitary Commission that was formed in New York, with its main members throughout the Civil War also consisting of: Henry Whitney Bellows; George Templeton Strong; and surgeons Dr. William H. Van Buren, Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, and Dr. Wolcott Gibbs.
Did the U. S. Sanitary Commission and its volunteers really have the wherewithal to both construct the buildings for and pull off these extraordinarily lavish and festive undertakings against the backdrop of national war and suffering?
Or was it a private front comprised of the very same people who organized and were prominent members of the private membership clubs of the day, like the Union League and the Century Association.
The Union League was a private social club for wealthy men that opened in New York City in 1863 for pro-Union men could come together “to cultivate a profound national devotion” and “strengthen a love and respect for the Union.”
It became the most exclusive mens’ club in Manhattan, and perhaps in the nation.
This location for the Union League Club was said to have been built on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and 39th Street between 1879 and 1881.
Along with Frederick Law Olmsted, oganizers of the Union League Club were Henry Whitney Bellows, George Templeton Strong, and Wolcott Gibbs, same names as the United States Sanitary Commission.
Henry Whitney Bellows was also involved in the organizing of the Century Association in New York City, founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1857.
The Century Association was a private social, arts and dining club, and named after the first 100 people proposed as members.
The Century Association Building at 42 E. 15th Street was in-use by the association starting in 1857, and which served as one of the headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission.
Members of the Century Association have included artists and writers like: poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant; landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church; landscape painter Winslow Homer; and best-known for stained-glass-work, Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Architect members have included: landscape-architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted; Beaux-Arts architects Carrere and Hastings, as well as York and Sawyer; and architects McKim, Meade and White, who were said to have defined the ideals of the American Renaissance in end-of-the-century New York.
Other members were said to have included: Eight U. S. Presidents; ten U. S. Supreme Court Justices; forty-three Members of the Presidential Cabinet; twenty-nine Nobel Prize Laureates; members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Roosevelt, and Astor families; as well as financier J. P. Morgan and morse code inventor Samuel P. Morse.
Ever hear the George Carlin quote “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it?” and wonder where that idea might have come from?
Seems like all of these private clubs we are seeing in this post were private and exclusive for a reason, and that was to secretly plan their activities and next moves that no one supposed to know about!
This question about the United States Sanitary Commission and the Sanitary Fairs and the exclusive private clubs associated with the very same people leads to the larger question, in these cases, of what was really going on during the American Civil War, historically described as a civil war between the northern and Pacific states, known as the “Union,” or “North,” and the southern states, known as the “Confederacy,” or South, over the status of slavery and its expansion into newly acquired land after the Mexican-American War.
We are told there were three theaters of war during years of American Civil War, between 1861 and 1865: Eastern, Western, and Trans-Mississippi.
I have often thought that theater, defined as a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, like a stage, is a thought-provoking word choice for an area or place in which important military events occur or are progressing.
I have come to view the American Civil War as Freemasonic Theater, which I think applies to all the wars and armed conflicts of our modern era.
Orphan trains started in 1854, under the auspices of Frederick Law Olmsted’s good friend, Charles Loring Brace, and the Children’s Aid Society, which Brace established in 1853.
A new experimental program of his called “placing-out” became known to us as “Orphan Trains,” and for the next 75-years, over 200,000 children were sent across the continent, to uncertain destinations and uncertain futures with strangers.
A movement going in this direction was widely supported by wealthy New York families, like Charlotte Augusta Gibbes, the wife of John Jacob Astor III, grandson of John Jacob Astor, and who was the wealthiest Astor family member of his generation.
Right around the same time as the beginning of the Orphan Train Movement, and the alleged completion of the Horseshoe Curve by the Pennsylvania Railroad near Altoona, both taking place in 1854, we are told that the federal government operated a land-grant system between 1855 and 1871, where new railway companies in what we are told was the uninhabited west were given millions of acres they could sell or pledge to bondholders.
The establishment of a land-grant system at this time is a good place to insert once again the story of the Ames Brothers of Easton, Massachusetts, co-owners of the Ames Shovel Shop, nationally known for providing the shovels for the Union Pacific Railroad, which we are told opened the West.
It was said to have been the world’s largest supplier of shovels in the 19th-century.
Why were shovels so important to the opening of the West and the expansion of infrastructure?
What if…the tracks were already there and just needed to be dug out?
Not only that, one brother, Oliver Ames, Jr, (b. 1807 – d. 1877) was the President of the Union Pacific Railroad from when it met the Central Pacific Railroad in Utah for the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
The other brother, Oakes Ames, was a member of the U. S. Congress House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd District from 1863-1873. He was credited by many as being the most important influence in building the Union Pacific portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Oakes Ames was also noted for his involvement in the Credit-Mobilier Scandal of 1867, regarding the improper sale of stock of the railroad’s construction company.
He was formally censured by Congress in 1873 for this involvement, and he died in the same year.
Ten-years later, he was posthumously exonerated by the Massachusetts State Legislature on May 10th, 1883.
Has nothing ever changed?
Have we always had the same corruption in our government?
Next I am going to share original findings by Aaron about the grid system in this region that he uncovered when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the locations of Kirkbride buildings, key masonic lodges, and state capitals.
Before I go into sharing the screenshots of what he found, let me first talk about Thomas Story Kirkbride, the Kirkbride Plan, and what that entailed.
Thomas Story Kirkbride was a Pennsylvanian whose great-great-grandfather, Joseph Kirkbride, was one of the original land-grant settlers of Pennsylvania, and Thomas lived there throughout his life.
We are told the “Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane” was built to replace the Pennsylvania Hospital’s crowded insane wards at 8th & Spruce Streets, which was founded in 1751, and considered the first hospital in America, the original Pennsylvania Hospital building is still in use as such today.
In Philadelphia in 1844, Kirkbride helped found the “Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane,” and held various leadership positions for it from 1844 to 1870.
The Kirkbride Plan was said to be a system of mental asylums he designed in the mid-19th-century.
The first building said to have been constructed with Kirkbridge’s design under was the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1848, which also known as the Trenton State Hospital.
Dr. Henry Cotton was the medical director of the Trenton State Hospital between 1907 and 1930.
He left a legacy there of the removal of teeth and body parts, allegedly as a means of preventing infection, that continued on for years after he left the facility.
While the original Trenton State Hospital building is largely abandoned…
…and considered to be haunted, like the abandoned Cresson Sanitorium we saw back in Pennsylvania…
…there still is a wing of it operating as the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital today.
In 1854, Kirkbride first published what was considered the source book in the 19th-century for Psychiatric Directives entitled “On the Construction, Organization, and General Organization of Hospitals for the Insane, ” with some remarks on insanity and its treatment.
We are told that throughout the 19th-century, numerous psychiatric hospitals were designed and constructed according to the Kirkbride Plan across the U. S. and while numerous Kirkbride structures still exist, many have been demolished, partially-demolished, or repurposed.
As I mentioned, Aaron made some original findings about the grid system in this region.
He uncovered what I am going to share next when he was prompted to look into the relationship between the locations on Google Earth of Kirkbride buildings (marked by white), key masonic lodges (green), and state capitals (red).
You will see in the following screenshots of what he found, there is a high correlation of these buildings being on or near these alignments.
Gettysburg turned out to be a hub, circled in red, with many alignments between all three of these types of locations going out in all directions.
He found the same thing happening with the New River Gorge in West Virginia as a hub, with many alignments between all three of these tyes of locations going out in all directions.
He also looked up these three types of location alignments from the address of the previously mentioned Biltmore Masonic Lodge, which is marked in orange and circled in red, and found some interesting linear patterns emerging from North America.
Here is a more localized view of alignments of Kirkbrides, masonic lodges and state capitals to the northeast of the Biltmore Lodge, and upon which the earlier Kirkbride example I gave of the Trenton State Hospital falls directly, circled at the top of the screenshot.
Aaron also found a lot of alignments with these three types of location emanating from Boise, Idaho, out in the western U. S.
Aaron also shared images with me from Gary Schoenung’s work on”Ruins of Old Earth” showing these same patterns we have been seeing with regularity in this post, with a central hub and multiple lines that emanate out in every direction from the hub, whether it be for as we have seen rails, or roads, or Kirkbrides/Masonic Lodges/State Capitals.
I noticed the same kind of star-burst pattern found by Gary Schoenung on the top left appearing around Knoxville, Tennessee, on the bottom right when I was looking at it earlier.
Aaron also recently sent me a link to a 2019 on-line article posted on the CNN website about what was described as the finding of the root system of the world’s oldest forest of fossilized trees in an abandoned quarry in upper New York State near Cairo, New York.
The team investigating the site after its discovery hypothesized that the forest was killed in a catastrophic flood.
The forest itself was dated back to 385-million-years ago.
The 300-million-year-plus dating of the age of the fossilized forest brings to mind the dating of the “rock formations” that look like rock cities that we saw in Pennsylvania at the beginning of this post, like Panther Rocks and Bilger’s Rocks,which were dated back to the Pennsylvania Age of the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era more than 300-million-years ago, and said to have been formed by sediments deposited in streams and rivers.
At this point in my research for this post, and research from before, I think it is highly likely that ancient giant trees and the root system emanating from them were an integral part of the Earth’s energy grid and leyline system.
The original rail-lines and canals would have been providing power for the free-energy system, and the original architecture would have provided the antiquitech to process and utilize the free energy throughout the worldwide system.
The Earth’s original free-energy grid system was based on exact and precise geometric alignments of cities and places, which is actually what we are seeing in high-definition with Aaron’s Kirkbride alignments.
Nowadays, the tree “roots,” are highway “routes” or hiking trails, which has more to do with human energy being generated from their use instead of infrastructure creating free-energy for the system to use.
This concept is following up on the idea that Chad Williams and I talked at length about in our recent conversation “Giant Trees, the Earth’s Grid, and the New World Order.”
In this conversation, among many other things, Chad and I talked about the ideas that giant trees were integrally-connected to the Earth’s original grid system, and that “tree energy” equalled “free energy,” and that those behind the reset of history and the New World Order they were ushering sought to capitalize on the power of the giant trees and the Earth’s energy grid, but in a negative way that sought to only benefit the few, and which they reverse-engineeredfor power and control over Humanity, instead using it in the positive way that the Earth’s original energy grid system benefited all life everywhere.
We also explored the idea that the European Colonizers were exploring and claiming the land of a post-cataclysmic world.
Our conversation started off with this intriguing illustration that Chad found in his research and had sent along to me at take a look at.
It seems to be showing trees on a root-looking grid exploding simultaneously, which might be an explanation for why we don’t recognize them as trees any more.
This is what I have come to believe has taken place here, in the course of all the past and present research I have done for my blog posts in 5 1/2-years of extensive research.
Firstly, this cataclysm was deliberately caused relatively recently by directed energy into the grid system, which devastated the surface of the Earth, simultaneously causing the land to undulate and buckle, causing among other things, swamps, bogs, deserts, dunes, and whole land masses to shear-off and submerge under seas and oceans.
I have put forward the idea that the Philadelphia Experiment was connected to what has taken place here, which I discuss in-depth in “Recovering Lost History from Estuaries, Pine Barrens & Elite Enclaves Off the Atlantic Northeast Coast of the United States….”
…but if that is too far out of the box for comfort, or one of several causes, then consider this clip from the Global Vision YouTube Channel video, “Old World Order, World We Lost,” from which the full-video is mirrored on my channel.
However it happened, I believe this cataclysm was a deliberately-caused attack on the Earth’s grid system and was not caused naturally.
Secondly, I believe the beings behind the cataclysm were shovel-ready to dig enough of the original infrastructure out of the ruined Earth so they could be used and civilization restarted, which I think started in earnest in the mid-to-late 1700s and early 1800s.
There’s extensive underground infrastructure where people could have survived until the surface of the Earth was habitable.
Then they only used the pre-existing infrastructure until they found replacement fuel sources that could be monetized and controlled by them for what had originally been a free-energy power grid and transportation system worldwide, and when what remained of the original infrastructure was no longer useful to them, or inconvenient to their agenda, they had it destroyed, discontinued, or abandoned, typically in a very short time after it was said to have been constructed, as we have seen here in all these examples from Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Oh yes, and they claimed the very best of everything for themselves, including but not limited to, what became the Greenbrier Resort.
While the new elite class lived in the lap of luxury, and helped themselves to the best of everything, they had little care for anyone or anything else – not at all.
Quite the opposite.
They have actively facilitated the demise of all the rest of us, who they call “useless eaters,” into the present-day.
Those that heretofore have been in control of the world in which we live deviously figured out a way to keep us asleep by this new culture they created, and they have been getting filthy rich at our expense because we have been paying for our own poisoning with our addictions; paying for our own mind control programming with distractions; and keeping us in consumerism mode to enrich corporate interests; and ultimately financing our own destruction.
So, I think there was a hostile take-over of the Earth and it’s grid system, which was reverse-engineered as a mind-control and energy-harvesting system for human energy.
A sudden cataclysmic event, creating swamps, deserts, and even submerging entire landmasses around the Earth, would account for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giant could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory…
…and vanished like the Saura people in North Carolina, where Pilot Mountain is located, with, as we are told, their rich cultural heritage recorded in historical journals still buried in the Earth.
In the business world, there are two kinds of takeover bids, and I think this is a really important concept to understand with regards to what has taken place here.
The first is called a friendly takeover bid, and occurs when the Board of Directors from both companies (target & acquirer) negotiate and approve the bid.
Then there is the hostile takeover bid, which occurs when an acquiring company seeks to acquire another company – the target company – but the board of directors from the target company has no desire to be acquired by, or merged with, another company.
The two most common strategies used by acquirers in a hostile takeover are a tender offer or a proxy vote.
The tender offer is an offer to purchase shares at a premium to the market price.
The proxy offer is persuading shareholders of the target company to vote out the existing management.
So we have Team Light on one side who, along with the ancient advanced Human civilization of Earth, were co-creating the fullest expression of Human Potential there ever was on earth.
Then we have Team Dark on the other side, comprised of fallen angels, and other beings with a negative agenda towards Humanity who have been interfering egregiously on Earth.
What was Team Dark to do?
They were jealous of Humanity…greedy…and hungry for power.
They wanted to rule over it all, take the wealth for themselves, and control the destiny of Humanity for their own benefit.
But the problem is in a Free Will Zone like Earth, the Human Beings who live here have to give their consent to choose whether the follow the Light or the Dark.
The negative beings behind all of this wanted to set up a new god as lord of this world – Lucifer – and wanted a proxy vote for their hostile takeover.
They wanted to persuade enough of Humanity to voluntarily accept Lucifer over the Creator of the Universe.
The only way they can accomplish this acceptance, however, is by outright lies, deception and duplicity because if people knew the true agenda of these controllers, the majority of Humanity would never, ever accept this.
I believe that these beings with a negative agenda devised a complicated plan to knock Humanity off the positive Moorish Timeline of Higher Consciousness…
…in an interdimensional war in order to control Humanity, using Humans as their tools against the Creator and Creation.
I bring all this up is because it is important to know this is what has been going on here.
Humans are inherently sovereign beings.
They have gone to all of this trouble because, by Universal Law, they can’t lay a finger on us.
They have tricked us into accepting their sovereignty over our own.
But they have to tell us what they are doing so they have our consent.
So they choose avenues like movies, literature, art, and music to tell us without telling us they are telling us, and if we don’t get it and object collectively, then they technicially have our tacit consent even if we don’t know we are being told something, and that is what they are counting on.
So let’s look at a few examples from art and music.
First, from public art.
There are two identical sculptures entitled “The Awakening.”
They are of a 72-foot, or 22-meter, statue that depicts a giant embedded in the Earth, struggling to free himself.
One is at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
They consist of 5 aluminum pieces buried in the ground in such a way that it gives the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground…
…with mouth in mid-scream as the giant struggles to emerge from the Earth.
There is an identical sculpture in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Here are some examples of sculptures around London, very reminiscent of the two “Awakening” sculptures, of buried giants, or giants attempting to free themselves from the ground.
They are putting these sculptures in public places where people can interact with them and accept the as “Art,” without realizing that they might be communicating to us something that has been very well-hidden about the world we are living in.
Then there is the “Crowned Head” in the labyrinth underneath Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary.
Buda Castle. was the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings, and was said to have been first completed in 1265 AD, and that later, between 1749 and 1769, the massive Baroque palace occupying most of the site was built.
Buda Castle has one of the world’s remaining incline railways, also known as funiculars, still in operation.
The Buda Castle labyrinth under Buda Castle Hill is part of a huge underground system, complete with caves, thermal springs, basements and cellars.
Among other features, there are five separate labyrinths encompassing nine halls.
What is called the Crowned Head is in the Ottoman Alley of the labyrinth.
I find this to be extremely odd.
To me, this giant head looks more like a petrified head with long-gone eyes, that is covered up to the nose and ears by mud, than an intentional work of art.
Now an example from music.
These are the lyrics from Rasputina’s song “Holocaust of Giants,” from their 2010 “Sister Kinderhook” album.
I found this when I was looking up general info under the search term “holocaust of giants.”
The lyrics of this song echo what we saw in the 19th-century accounts, when the existence of giants was acknowledged, but we don’t know what happened to them, but it was long ago, they were primitive, and they must have killed each other off.
The message is yes there were giants, but something unknown happened to them, and that’s really all we know, and that’s all you need to know.
The lyrics to a “Holocaust of Giants” can be summarized thus:
First verse of the song.
When I was a child in Ohio, a worker was digging a well on my dad’s land, and he found a massive bone.
Ever since I’ve known there was a race of giants in the northern hemisphere, that lived here 10,000-years ago.
It’s seems incredible, but its true, that a primeval brute was turned to stone but he wasn’t alone, there were hundreds of them.
Even giants think they’ll live forever.
Second verse of the song.
Everything turned to stone where a stream once flowed into the Ohio.
The Bible speaks of giants in our midst, but they killed each other in a meaningless war.
Thank goodness we don’t do that anymore!
The gravel-encrusted skull was found in a shoal, with double rows of sharp teeth and the jaw measured 25-feet, or almost-8-meters, but it had turned to stone.
The last verse of the song recaps the first two.
Just a few more things in closing.
Why do I think this happened relatively recently?
The simplest answer is that we are still using giant-sized infrastructure and architecture, every day all over the world.
How many generations of school-children have attended school in buildings like the still in use El Paso High School in Texas, that is extremely large and ornate, and looking like a Roman temple…
…or in schools that have been long torn-down, like the former Butcher Elementary School in Fairmont, West Virginia, in Marion County, with this photo of the school-kids and teacher taken in front of a giant door circa 1911.
Aaron attended grades 1 – 12 at Mannington High School in Mannington West Virginia, in Marion County, and he has shared vivid memories of incredibly tall windows in the building from his school years.
Another viewer sent me these photographs he took of a 6-toed large footprint that he came across in the Lime Peak Quarry near Eureka, Utah.
He estimated the length to be about 12″ to 14,” or 305-mm to 356-mm, long.
Echoes and imprints of giants in our midst, right beneath the surface of our awareness.
The Controllers have always feared the Great Awakening of Humanity, and thus threw everything they could at us to prevent it from happening and keep us asleep so we would never know what hit us.
But no matter what they do, they can’t keep it from happening. Among many other things, they lost control of the narrative no matter how hard they try to get it back.
In the first-part of this series called “Circle Alignments on the Earth Amsterdam Island” that I am updating from a series I originally did between November of 2018 and January of 2019,” I tracked this circle alignment from Amsterdam Island, one of the French Subantarctic Islands in the South Indian Ocean to Berbera in Somaliland, an historic city that has served as a major commercial center and port since antiquity, and has a glorious past in terms of importance to the region but which is looking quite rough these days!
In the second-part of this series, I picked up the alignment in the Gulf of Aden on the way into Yemen from Berbera, and explored this region of the Earth around the Gulf of Aden that is prominent in human and biblical history, before heading along the alignment through Yemen, and through the Empty Quarter of the southern-third of the Arabian Peninsula, the world’s largest desert, through the United Arab Emirates and ended in Dubai, one of the world’s “Global” cities.
In this third-part of the series, I am picking up the alignment where it leaves the United Arab Emirates and crosses over the Strait of Hormuz and its islands to southern Iran between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
The Strait of Hormuz is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open Ocean.
The Musandam Peninsula is on the the south coast of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran is on the north coast of it.
Additionally, there are numerous islands in the waters surrounding it that I am going to be looking at in this post.
In my journey of coming to awareness regarding this information, I have found that islands on the Earth’s gridlines are extremely interesting.
The governance of Musandam Peninsula is shared by the countries United Arab Emirates and Oman.
The United Arab Emirates govern Ras al Khaimah and parts of Dibba, and the Musandam Governate is administered by Oman.
Today, the city of Ras al Khaimah is positioning itself as a haven for wealthy individuals.
The location of Ras al Khaimah is said to have been the site of continuous human habitation for 7,000 years, and that it is one of the few places in the country and world that can say this.
There are thriving mangrove swamps lining the coast of Ras al Khaimah, as well as inside the city.
In the last part of this series, we saw mangrove swamps on the coast near Alula, the capital of the Bari Region of Somalia’s Puntland.
Mangroves are a type of tree that grows in brackish water.
Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands characterized by these salt loving trees and shrubs that are typically found in estuaries, where salt water meets freshwater.
So Estuaries have water that is salty, dirty & unpleasant, and there are one or more rivers flowing into it, and a connection to the open sea.
I have been speculating for awhile now from my research that the Earth’s estuaries are actually ruined and sunken land that once had the infrastructure of civilization in it.
Sites of historical and archeological interest here include the Shimal Fort, also known as Sheba’s Palace, associated with the town wall of the port of Julfar, and was once the seat of the Ruler of Julfar, and associated with the indigenous Shihuh people.
Another archeological site of interest in the Ras al Khaimah area is the Tell of Kush, situated on an important trade route.
We saw the Kingdom of Kush back across the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea from here in East Africa in the last part of this series, an ancient kingdom of Nubia historically in what is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
I am going to leave this here for contemplation.
It won’t be the last time was see a “Kush” on this alignment as we go through this series.
Musandam is the home of an ancient people, the Shihuh, that are indigenous to the jagged peninsula, who inhabit the Hajar Mountain Range in the northern part of it.
The Shihuh are divided into two main sections: the Bani Hadiyah and the Bani Shatair.
Long influential in this region, they have fiercely maintained their identity and independence.
Telegraph Island is located in what was named the Elphinstone Inlet for the East India Company’s then-Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, and was the location of a telegraph repeater station built by the British there in 1864, only to be abandoned in the mid-1870s , and remains deserted to this day.
We are told that the slang term in English “going ’round the bend,” meaning a feeling of exasperation, came from the telegraph workers who were stationed there, with its heat, rocks, and isolated location.
The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint.”
At least 20% of the world’s petroleum passes through here, and one-third of the world’s liquefied natural gas, and is a highly important strategic location for international trade.
Not surprisingly, this is a tense area, to say the least!
There a couple of things to mention about this.
One is that the ships that pass through the territorial waters of Oman and Iran through the Strait under the “Transit Passage” provisions of the “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,” first adopted in 1982, which established a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.
While not ratified by all countries, it is accepted by most as customary navigation rules.
The Strait of Hormuz has been site of many military conflicts and attacks over the years, including but not limited to the 1984 Tanker War that took place during the Iran-Iraq War when Iraq attacked the oil terminals and tankers on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, said to have been done to provoke Iran into retaliating with extreme measures, and lasted for several years.
Next, I will share with you what I found out about the Islands of the Strait of Hormuz.
These islands are windows to a hidden history.
First, Abu Musa.
I mentioned Abu Musa in my recent post called “What is it Exactly about the World’s Disputed Islands,” in which I looked at seemingly insignificant islands and island groups that are the subjects of territorial disputes between countries, that I keep coming across in tracking different long-distance alignments of cities and places and the Earth, and speculated on the possibility they were once giant-tree locations.
The island of Abu Musa is contested between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.
It has been administered by Iran as part of the Hormozgan Province since 1971.
It is the furthest Island from the Iranian coast, and is strategically important as it sits near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, and because of sea-depth, ships and oil tankers must pass between Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, also administered by Iran, on their way through.
The size of Abu Musa is 4.9-square-miles, or 12.8-kilometers-squared.
Abu Musa City is the largest settlement on the island, with a population of somewhere around 2,000 people.
This tiny island even has its own regional airport.
Between 1908 and 1968, the British controlled the Abu Musa, along with other islands in the Persian Gulf.
There are iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa.
Before I go into the iron oxide deposits found on Abu Musa specifically, this is a good place for me to insert background about the British East India Company’s “Persian Gulf Residency.”
This is what we are told.
The “Persian Gulf Residency” was a sub-division of the British Empire from 1822 to 1971, during which time the United Kingdom maintained varying degrees of economic and political control over several states in the Persian Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, and at different times, over the southern portions of Persia (Iran), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar, known collectively as the “Trucial States,” the name given to a group of southeastern Arabia who had signed protective treaties, or “truces” with the British between 1820 and 1892.
The British interest in the Persian Gulf had increased as India’s importance in the British imperial system increased in the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
In 1622, the British helped the Persian Emperor, Shah Abbas, in expelling the Portuguese from Hormuz Island in 1622.
In return, the East India Company was allowed to establish a trading post in Bandar-e-Abbas on the southern coast of what is known as Iran today.
More on these two places, Hormuz Island and Bandar-e-Abbas, as we go through this region.
An important side-note here is that the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 divided the newly “discovered” lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, one year after Pope Alexander VI had issued the Inter Cetera Bull in 1493, which essentially authorized the grab of the lands of the indigenous Moorish civilization.
Among other things, the bull assigned to Castile “the exclusive right to acquire territory, to trade in, or even approach the lands laying west of the meridian situated one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands, except for any lands actually possessed by any other Christian prince beyond this meridian prior to Christmas of 1492.”
Thirty-five-years later, the Treaty of Zaragoza was signed, which specified the Antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified by the Treaty of Tordesillas, defining the areas of Spanish and Portuguese influence in Asia, and used as the means to justify the colonize the world by the Spanish and Portuguese.
A “Papal Bull” is an official papal letter or document, named after the leaden seal used to authenticate it, and they figure prominently in the historical narrative we have been given.
As a result of a series of Royal Charters granted by King Charles II, starting in 1661, the East India Company was granted the rights to autonomous territorial acquisitions; to mint money; to command fortresses and troops and form alliances; to make war and peace; and to exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the acquired areas.
A royal charter was a formal grant issued by a monarch under “royal prerogative” as “letters patent,” and used early on as the means by which the British legitimized their colonization of the world.
“Royal prerogative” is a body of customary authority, privilege and immunity recognized in common and civil law jurisdictions within a monarchy as belonging to the sovereign that becomes widely vested in government, and the same idea as the Papal Bull, by which the authority to take land, among other things, was vested in one”Supreme Leader.”
Back to the Persian Gulf Residency.
The East India Company, as a result of the Royal Charters granted by King Charles II, became responsible for conducting British foreign policy in the Persian Gulf as the Crown’s regional agent.
The East India Company established their Residency at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf, and another one later at Basar,
In 1822, the Bushehr and Basar Residencies were combined, and Bushehr became the headquarters for the new “British Resident of the Persian Gulf” of the British Colonial Residency.
A “Chief Political Officer” was the “Chief Executive Officer,” and was subordinate to the “Governor of Bombay until 1873, at which time this position became subordinate to the Governor-General of India until 1947, when India was granted its independence from Great Britain, at which time the responsibility was tranferred to the British Foreign Office.
The British terminated its protectorate and military presence in the Persian Gulf in December of 1971.
Now to apply this history back to the small, disputed island of Abu Musa.
Before 1908, the island had been under the rule of the Sheikh of Sharjah, now one of the United Arab Emirates but which had been one of the British “Trucial States.”
After the Sheikh had cancelled a 1906 mining concession he had awarded to three Arabs, for them to mine the red iron oxide deposits on Abu Musa because they turned around and offered to sell the extracted iron oxide to a German company, the British helped him expel the workers from the island but by 1908, the British came into control of the island.
In 1968, Britain announced it would be ending its military and administrative positions in the Persian Gulf.
Two days before the official establishment of the United Arab Emirates, on November 30th of 1971, the Sheikh of the Emirate of Sharjah signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.
This MOU allowed Sharjah to have a police station on the island, and allowed Iran to station troops there, and divided the island’s energy resources between the two. This was supposed to preventing Iran from invading and taking over Abu Musa like it had the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands, two other disputed islands between the two coutnries.
However, on the same day of November 30th of 1971, a day before the British officially left the region, Iran moved its troops in and took over with the help of the Sheikh’s brother, and the dispute has existed ever since.
Just a couple more things about what I saw looking at photos of the island of Abu Musa before I move on from here.
First, it has beaches with a symmetric curvature, as seen in this photo of Abu Musa on the top left, are features found in diverse places, like the Dead Sea in the top middle, which is located between Israel and Jordan; Halawa Bay on the top right, on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai; .Casco Cove on the island of Attu in the far-western part of the Aleutian Islands, on the bottom left; the Black Sea in Bulgaria, on the bottom middle; and and Lake Baikal in Siberia, on the bottom right.
Not sure exactly what we are seeing here, but there appears to be a pattern of some kind!
Another thing that Abu Musa has in common with other places are the presence of rocky shorelines.
How about this comparison of the rocks on the shore of Abu Musa on the top left with the shore of Flowerpot Island, an island in Georgian Bay in the Province of Ontario on the top right; on the bottom left, Deadman’s Reef on Bahama Beach, located at West End on the Grand Bahama Island, and on the bottom right, at the Jipsam Revolutionary Site in Chongjin, North Korea.
Next, I am going to take a look at the tiny island of Sir Abu Nu’ayr.
Sir Abu Nu’ayr does belong to the Emirate of Sharjah.
It lies 50-miles, or 80-kilometers, north of Abu Dhabi, and 64-miles, or 103-kilometers, west of Dubai in the Persian Gulf.
It is described as an almost perfectly round island, with a short-extension at one end, making it shaped like a droplet of water.
It has a small harbor and airfield located at the southeast end where the short-extension is located.
The island is said to be a “salt piercement structure,” or “salt dome,” formed by the movement from the Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian Hormuz Formation Salt, with surface expressions of sedimentary, igneous rocks, and quartzitic sandstone.
To the north-northeast of the island is Dubai’s Fateh Oil Field complex; to the north is the Sirri Oil field of Iran; and to the west by the oil and gas fields of Abu Dhabi.
The tiny island of Sir Abu Nu’ayr is environmentally-protected under the “Sharjah Environment and Protected Areas Authority,” and is registered on the list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.
The Ramsar Convention was an international treaty that was first signed in February of 1971 in Ramsar, Iran, and is reviewed every three-years by the contracting international parties.
It designated sites, known as “Ramsar Sites,” to be considered of international importance when it comes to the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
As a matter of fact, the United Arab Emirates as a whole has eight Ramsar wetlands sites.
The Ramsar Convention defines wetlands as “areas of marsh, fen, peat, or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide, does not exceed 20-feet, or 6-meters.
In 2012, Sir Abu Nu’ayr it was listed as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Next I am going to turn my attention to Iran’s Sirri and Farur Islands.
First Sirri.
Sirri Island is one of six islands in the Abu Musa Island Group , and is located 31-miles, or 50-kilometers, west of Abu Musa, in the Hormozgan Province of Iran.
It is 3.5-miles, or 5.6-kilometers, wide, and 1.9-miles, or 3-kilometers, long.
Sirri Island is the location of an oil platform that was reconstructed after having been destroyed by U. S. Naval operations during Operation Praying Mantis in April of 1988.
Operation Praying Mantis was a retaliatory attack against Iran because of an American warship that was damaged as a result of Iran mining International waters in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War.
There are numeous offshore oil fields in the Sirri District.
I saw where Sirri Island has a lighthouse, called the “Jazireh-ye Sirri” Lighthouse, but I was unable to find a picture of it.
When I was looking for a picture of it, however, I found a reference to a present or past history of lighthouses on these islands we are looking at here.
I am not saying the following without having done a great deal of research on places with lighthouses and similar terrain and water features all over the Earth, based on what I am finding and seeing.
I don’t think the original purpose of lighthouses is what we are told.
Some may have been used as navigational aids for ships by the original civilization, like the lighthouses found at the entrances of harbors and ports, but I suspect “lighthouses” were quite literally referring to “a house for light” for the purposes of precisely distributing the energy generated by this gigantic integrated system that existed all over the Earth that was in perfect alignment with everything on Earth and in heaven.
Even the colossal “Statue of Liberty” was a lighthouse in Upper New York Bay, and utilized as such from November 1st of 1886 until March 1st of 1902 in our historical record.
They ended up becoming utilized as navigational aids, but I think that was because the land sheared off and sank right beside where they were located, creating the hidden conditions in the waters that the lighthouses became needed for.
I believe there was a worldwide subsidence of land-masses, and the simultaneous creation of estuaries, marshes, swamps, deserts, and dunes that happened relatively recently in our history as the result of a deliberately-caused cataclysm in a targeting of the Earth’s grid-system by the self-styled global elite class behind the New World Order, with ambitions of world domination and control driving their agenda, and that they occulted the timeline we are currently living on.
Next, Farur Island is close to Sirri Island, and is located 36-miles, or 58-kilometers, from Abu Musa.
Currently uninhabited with the exception of some government officials that live there, it is said to have the remains of ruined buildings and water wells…and a lighthouse, though, like the one on neighboring Sirri Island, there is no photo of it.
The Farur Island region is one of the richest wildlife regions in the country, and having things like a substantial bird population…
…and there is a subspecies of Arabian Gazelle on Farur that is considered a relict population that survived in isolation after having been split off from other Arabian gazelle populations.
Now, I am going to turn my attention to the large island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.
It is the largest island in Iran, and one of the largest islands in the world.
An important trading center at one time, it is situated just a short distance off the coast of Iran.
The narrow Clarence, or Khuran, Strait separates Qeshm from the mainland.
The Clarence Strait is the home to the most extensive location of mangrove trees in the Persian Gulf, the “Hara Forest,” and has been a protected Ramsar Site since 1975.
It is dominated by the species of Hara mangrove known as “white” or “grey,” and is found, like other mangrove trees, in the intertidal zones of estuaries, places where salt water meets freshwater; where the water is salty, dirty & unpleasant; where there are one or more rivers flowing into it; and where there is a connection to the open sea.
The Hara forest is comprised of floating mangrove trees…
…and the Hara Forest has many channels running throughout it.
Qeshm Island on the top, like the Hawaiian Island of Molokai pictured below it, looks remarkably like the shape of…well…a dolphin… including land shaped like flukes and flippers.
Not only do both of these islands look like dolphins, they both have a large population of sea animals in their waters, including large sea turtles and cetaceans like whales and dolphins.
Well, you might expect that in the Hawaiian Islands, but in Iran? In the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s biggest oil transit waterway “chokepoint?”
As a matter of fact, Qeshm has the earth’s largest mammal, the blue whale, swimming in its waters…
…as well as sea turtles and pods of dolphins that are also found in the waters around Qeshm.
The whole island of Qeshm was designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2017.
It is said to be part of the southeastern portion of the Zagros Mountains, and part of the Hormuz Formation Salt plugs mentioned previously with respect to the tiny island of Sir Abu Nu’ayr.
Qeshm is called the Island of Seven Wonders, and along with the Hara Forest, some of these wonders include:
The Namakdan Salt Cave Complex on Qeshm, considered to be one of the world’s largest salt cave systems, if not the largest.
The cave system is said to be a 4-mile-, or 6.5-kilometer-, -long labyrinth, most of which is closed to the public.
This location is said to be therapeutic for treating asthma and other respiratory ailments.
Another wonder on Qeshm is the Valley of the Stars, or Stars Valley, called one of the most amazing natural sites in the world.
But is it natural, or could that possibly be melted ancient masonry?
This view of the Valley of the Stars on Qeshm Island on the top left has a similar appearance to what’s found at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah on the bottom left, and to Red Rock State Park in California on the right.
Another of the wonders on Qeshm is found at Chahkooh Canyon.
Here here we find what is described as the intersection of two vertical canyons.
The color of the water in this view of Chakooh Canyon location on Qeshm Island on the left reminded me of the Emerald Pool in Guadelupe Canyon in Baja California, Mexico, on the right, a place that I found tracking a different long-distance alignment.
A few more things I would like to point out about Qeshm Island before I move on from here.
The Talla Wells on Qeshm are capable of holding water for a long time, keeping it healthy and cool.
The locals say in the past, the number of these cisterns equalled the number of days in the year, and every day, one of the wells was used for water.
The Talla Wells reminded me of the Plain of Jars in Laos.
The Plain of Jars is a mystery, with thousands of huge jars cut from stone filling the landscape.
Some of the stone jars in Laos are massive in size!
Other well systems in the world include the ancient Puquio Wells of Nazca in Peru.
This is a system of subterranean aqueducts, and most are still functioning.
And in part 2 of this series, we saw the“Cisterns of Tawila” in the port city of Aden in southern Yemen.
Interesting there is signage at the Cisterns saying that nothing was known about the original construction after they were “accidently” discovered by a British Officer in 1854.
And like the vicinity around Aden in southern Yemen being a possible candidate for the biblical “Garden of Eden,” also mentioned in part 2 of this series, Qeshm was mentioned as a supposed site of the Garden of Eden in Cassell’s Bible.
Cassell’s Bible was an illustrated version of the Bible first published in serialized format starting in 1859 and on through the 1870s, during which time it was published in sections for a certain price each section.
This way of publishing reading material for public consumption was typical during this time in both Great Britain and America, like Charles Dickens and “Sketches by Boz ~ Illustrative of Every Day Life and Every Day People,” a collection of short pieces Dickens published between 1833 and 1836 in different newspapers and periodicals…
…and Jack London, whose famous novel “Call of the Wild,” was first published in serialized form in “The Saturday Evening Post” in 1903.
What is called the old Portuguese Castle, or Fort, on Qeshm was said to have been built by the Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507 as the “Fort of Our Lady of the Conception,” in order to manage an unforeseen insurgency by the locals, and mainly used as a warehouse for guns and artillery.
On the east end of Qeshm Island in the vicinity of the old Portuguese Castle/Fort are three lighthouses.
These lighthouses on Qeshm are at the entrances to artifically made harbors, so probably used as navigational aids for ships by the original civilization as harbor guides on top of whatever other function they might have had.
Other places I have found where lighthouses are located at harbor/port entrances in a similar configuration as Qeshm are at the Grand Harbor in Valletta, Malta, with Fort St. Elmo on one side, and Fort Ricasoli on the other…
…at the harbor entrance in Sousse,Tunisia, not far from the historical location of Carthage near the country’s capital at Tunis.
The Ribat of Sousse is an historical fortification in Sousse, near the harbor.
I found the same configuration of lighthouses at the entrance to the Port of Dover, England, in the English Channel, which has several fortifications nearby, like the sprawling Dover Castle; Drop Redoubt Fortress; and Fort Burgoyne.
Like lighthouses, I think these so-called forts served some kind of energy function on the Earth’s grid system.
Perhaps as batteries, as they are so often called, like these in Hobart, Tasmania.
I typically find these in pairs or clusters as well, all over the Earth.
A battery is a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit.
There is one more thing I would like to point out before I leave the beautiful island of Qeshm, which is in a free zone, so a visa is not required to visit.
This photo is of Harbor Laaft on Qeshm.
These buildings most definitely have Moorish architectural features.
To support what I am saying, here are photos of five-lobed Moorish arches in Harbor Laaft on Qeshm on the top left; the Hotel Ceballos in Colima, Mexico on the top right, and of five-lobed arches in Cordoba, Spain, which is acknowledged Moorish architecture, the bottom right.
Next, the island of Hengam is located just south of Qeshm, holding the position of what looks like a flipper that broke off from the main body of the dolphin-shaped island.
Hengam is called the “Island (or Home) of the Dolphins.”
It has three villages – Old Hengam, New Hengam, and Ghil – but doesn’t have cars or paved roads.
Besides the dolphin population around Hengam’s waters, the island itself is home to a species of Persian gazelle that is native to Iran known as the Chinkara…
…as well as a species of large, spiny-tailed lizard known as the Egyptian Uromastyx…
…and is one of several locations throughout this region where hawksbill sea turtles are found and have their nests.
Hengam is also known for its glowing blue sea from phytoplankton at night when the water is calm and windless.
Like Qeshm and other islands we have seen here, Hengam also has a lighthouse.
Hengam also has an intriguing-looking coast.
So, for purposes of comparison, here is a view of sheer cliffs along Hengam Island’s coastline on the left, compared for similarity of appearance with the sheer white cliffs of Dover on the coast of southern England on the top right, and the cliffs along the southern coast of Australia in Victoria State where the Great Ocean Road runs for a long distance next to a sheer cliff, and showing the location of the 12 Apostles, then name given to what are called “limestone stacks” in the water off Port Campbell.
When the word “sheer” is used to refer to a cliff, it means a high area of land with a very steep side.
One of the meanings of the word “shear” spelled with an “a” is to break off, or be cut off, sharply.
A synonym of the word for “sheer cliff” is “bluff.”
Another meaning of the word “bluff” is a deception, or an attempt to deceive.
Here are two of countless examples I have found of why I believe there is a connection about between the lighthouses and land-subsidence.
On the left-side is the rugged coast of southern England, where the “White Cliffs of Dover” are located, and a map showing corresponding lighthouses locations along the coast, and on the right side is a picture of the cliffs along the coast of Victoria State in southern Australia, where the Great Ocean Road passes by the 12 Apostles and the corresponding lighthouses beside the cliff-edge there.
As I mentioned earlier in this post, I have come to believe that lighthouses originally had a different function on the Earth’s grid system having to do with light energy, and ended-up becoming utilized as navigational aids in our world because the land sheared-off and sank right beside where they were located, creating the hidden conditions in the waters that the lighthouses subsequently became needed for, because of a deliberately deliberately-caused cataclysm involving the Earth’s grid-system, that also simultaneously created estuaries, marshes, swamps, deserts and dunes, and that this happened relatively recently in our history by the self-styled global elite class behind the New World Order, with ambitions of world domination and control driving their agenda and bringing us the crazy, upside-down world we live in today, with a new historical narrative and a new timeline that was occulted.
Coincidentally (or not), the word “occulting” is used to describe a type of lighthouse light-characteristic pattern.
This is an intriguing photo I came across earlier this year of the lighthouse at Turtugreis in Turkey.
There are many reasons I have come to believe that lighthouses were originally connected with light energy and its distribution in the Earth’s energy grid system.
The last place I want to introduce you to in this part of the series about the Strait of Hormuz, is Hormuz Island.
Like what we saw with little island of Sir Abu Nu’ayr awhile back in this post, Hormuz Island is also an almost perfectly round island, with a short-extension at one end, making it a water-droplet-shaped island.
Hormuz Island is called the “Rainbow Island of Iran.”
It is interesting to note that note that other places in the world that have rainbow colors similar to Hormuz Island on the top left include, Vinicunca, the rainbow mountain in the Cusco region of Peru on the right, and the Rainbow Mountains in the Zhangye Danxia National Park in China on the bottom left.
Here are some places to visit on Hormuz Island.
What is known as “Red Beach” is said to get its color from a soil rich in red iron oxide, which is a valuable mineral used not only for industrial purposes but also in local spices and jams.
The Valley of the Statues on Hormuz Island has rock-shapes likened to animal-forms…
…and where there are “sheer cliffs” next to the coast of the island.
Like Qeshm, Hormuz Island has a Mangrove forest…
…and an old Portuguese fort, also said to have been built by the Portuguese Duke Alfonso de Albuquerque after he captured the island in 1507, and also known as the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception, and became part of the greater Portuguese Empire.
This is a good place to revisit the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, which divided the newly “discovered” lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, one year after Pope Alexander VI had issued the Inter Cetera Bull in 1493, which essentially authorized the grab of the lands of the indigenous Moorish civilization.
This is what we are told in our historical narrative.
First, Duke Afonso de Albuquerque.
He has gone down in our history as a great Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman.
He was Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515.
Besides capturing the forts on Qeshm and Hormuz in 1507, he led Portuguese forces in the Conquest of Goa in 1510, and captured the city of Malacca in the Strait of Malacca in Indonesia in 1511.
Among other goals of conquest, he sought to secure the spice trade for the Portuguese Empire, which include control of Malacca in the Spice Islands; Goa in India: Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz; and the port city of Aden in Yemen on the Gulf of Aden near the Red Sea that we saw in the last part of this series.
There is another papal bull to bring up here.
It was the one that was issued by Pope Paul III in 1540, by which he established the Jesuit Order under the leadership of Ignatius Loyola, a Basque nobleman from the Pyrenees in Northern Spain. and Francis Xavier, a Spaniard who became a representative of the Portuguese Empire in Asia, was a co-founder of the order.
The Jesuit Order included a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment.
No sooner than the Jesuits had been established in 1540, Francis Xavier was on his way to Goa in India from Lisbon in 1541, arriving there in May of 1542, for the stated reason of spreading the message of Jesus.
He has a dark legacy there even though his name came to be revered worldwide.
The inquisition started functioning in Portugal in 1541, and Francis Xavier laid the foundation for the Inquisition to be established in Goa after he arrived there in order to impose the Catholic Church’s policies and mass conversion on the population there.
He died in China in 1552, and in December of 1553, his body was shipped to Goa, where he was subsequently placed in a glass container encased by a silver casket in Goa’s Basilica of Born Jesus, where his remains are to this day.
There are 32 silver plates on every side of the casket depicting episodes from his life.
Francis Xavier was beatified in October of 1619 by Pope Paul V, and canonized as a saint by Pope Gregory XV in March of 1622.
Twenty-years after the establishment of the Jesuits and Francis Xavier’s arrival in Goa, the Goa Inquisition officially started in 1561 as an extension of the Portuguese Inquisition in Portuguese India in order to enforce Catholic Orthodoxy and an allegiance to the Pope.
It was considered to be one of the worst inquisitions in human history, with more than 2,000 people burned alive, and many more than that tortured.
In our historical narrative, the same year of 1622 that Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier was canonized as a saint, the Portuguese lost Hormuz Island to the forces of the British East India Company allied with the Persians, who had successfully re-captured the forts at Hormuz Island and Qeshm.
English explorer William Baffin was in the service of the East India Company when he died of wounds sustained during the Capture of Hormuz.
Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada, and Baffin Island in Canada, are named after him.
I personally have a lot of questions about the veracity of what our historical narrative tells us about the history of this time period because of the number of early Portuguese explorers, for example, that I came across that had their first biographies written by German and English Biographers in the 19th-century.
Please see my blog post “Evidence for the Manipulation of Space and Time & the Creation of a New Timeline for the Earth” for an in-depth look at this subject.
Here is a photo of the vaulted arches of the Portuguese fort on Hormuz on the left; compared with the vaulted arches of the Seville Cathedral in the capital of Moorish Spain, in the middle; and on the top right is the “Spanish Gothic” architecture at Bryn Mawr College in PA that was torn down about 15-years ago, with its vaulted ceiling, and five-lobed Moorish arches; and the vaulted archways at Ft. Pulaski in Savannah, Georgia, on the bottom right.
While we are taught all of these architectural similarities were occurring at different times across countries and continents during centuries when, according to what we are also taught in history class, transportation was limited and communication was regional.
The date given for this old map of Hormuz is 1747, showing lots of activity going on here, and what appears to be another star fort shape across the Strait of Hormuz on the coast of what is now southern Iran.
While on Google Earth there no longer appears to be a similar structure across the water in this location…
…there does appear to be an intentional configuration of many square shapes in the desert in that location in a close-up shot on the left that are reminiscent of circuitry chips on a circuit board on the right.
As always, there is more here than what I have shared, but this serves as an introduction to an obscure, but fascinating, place on the Earth.
I will pick up the alignment on the coast of southern Iran in the port city of Bandar-e-Abbas in the next part of the series.
In the first-part of this series called “Circle Alignment on the Earth Amsterdam Island” that I am updating from a series I originally did between November of 2018 and January of 2019,” I tracked this circle alignment from Amsterdam Island, one of the French Subantarctic Islands in the South Indian Ocean to Berbera in Somaliland, an historic city that has served as a major commercial center and port since antiquity, and has a glorious past in terms of importance to the region but which is looking quite rough these days!
I am picking up the alignment in the Gulf of Aden on the way into Yemen in the second-part of this series.
This series was one of my earliest efforts in tracking cities and places in alignment over a very long distance, and consistently seeing the same characteristics and hand of design across oceans and continents.
The Gulf of Aden, also known as the Gulf of Berbera, is bounded on the North by Yemen, the Arabian Sea and Guardafui Channel in the east, and the Horn of Africa, a peninsula comprised of Somalia, Somaliand, Ethiopia, and Djibouti to the south and west.
For starters, I am going to take a deeper look at some of these places around the Gulf of Aden.
Then I will continue tracking the alignment from where it enters Yemen in Mukhalla, after it crosses the Gulf of Aden from Berbera, Somaliland.
First, Yemen.
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, at the end of World War I, when the former Ottoman Empire was divided between the countries on the “winning” side of the war…
…northern Yemen became an independent state known as the Kingdom of Yemen.
Then on September 27th of 1962, revolutionaries deposed the newly-installed, last King of Yemen, Muhammad al-Badr, and formed the Yemen Arab Republic, which was said to have been inspired by the Arab Nationalist Ideology of Nasser’s Egyptian United Arab Republic.
This action started the North Yemen Civil War from 1962 to 1970 between supporters of the Kingdom, which included Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic, which included Egypt.
By the end of the North Yemen Civil War, the supporters of the Kingdom were defeated, and the Yemen Arab Republic was recognized by Saudi Arabia in 1970.
The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the South was known as the Aden Protectorate in 1918, which it had been known as since 1874 with the creation of the British Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate, which consisted of 2/3rds of present-day Yemen.
The Aden Protectorate existed until 1963, when it was merged with the new Federation of South Arabia.
By 1967, the Federation of South Arabia had merged with the Protectorate of South Arabia, and later changed its named to the People’s Republic of Southern Yemen, becoming a Marxist-Leninist state in 1969, the only Communist state to be established in the Arab World.
This is the same thing we saw happening in Somalia and Ethiopia in the first part of this series, with the division of countries and people; civil war; territorial war; and some form of Marxist government implemented.
On March 22nd of 1990, the leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic (North) and People’s Democratic Republic (South) of Yemen announced unification as the Republic of Yemen.
With the 1990 reunification of Yemen into the Republic of Yemen, the new government was comprised of officials from both sides, with a de facto form of collaborative governance, until the country went into Civil War in 1994.
The current Yemeni Civil War started in 2014, with multiple entities vying for governance, including the Presidential Leadership Council; the Islamist Houthi Movement’s Supreme Political Council; and the Southern Movement’s Southern Transitional Council.
Today Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world, and in 2019, the UN reported that Yemen had the highest number of people in need of Humanitarian Aid.
Yemen is another one of those places in this region with a missing glorious ancient past.
The historical Yemen occupied more land than what it does currently, and stretched into what is now southwestern Saudi Arabia and southern Oman today.
The Kingdom of Saba was believed to have been the biblical Sheba, and the oldest and most important of the historic South Arabian kingdoms.
This was the historical land of the biblical Queen of Sheba, who brought a caravan of gifts to King Solomon.
This was the Awwam Temple in Marib, Yemen, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Saba.
The Awwam Temple is also known as the Mahram Bilquis, or the Sanctuary of the Queen of Sheba.
Arash Bilqis, or the Throne of Bilqis, at the Barran Temple, also in ancient Marib, has monolithic stone pillars (meaning single block of stone) more than 26-feet, or 8-meters, high, featuring writing and advanced masonry.
It is interesting to note the desertification through this region, something we will be seeing a lot of as we go through this part of the world.
It is interesting to note that the old South Arabian inscriptions seen here on the top left, have a Norse rune look to them on the top right.
What if these runes were actually the runes of Vril, or “Life Force,” that was connected to the Ancient Humans and their mastery of how to harness natural energy to create amazing things.
This whole region is part of the East African Rift, where the African Plate is splitting into two plates – the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate.
The red triangles are showing the location of historically active volcanoes.
What’s interesting to me about this fact is the example of the tree-trunk looking appearance of some of the volcanoes in Yemen, like the one in the middle of the town of Hammam Damt, and speculation that what were once giant trees became volcanoes.
Another thing found all over Yemen is quaint and unique architecture built on high.
Yemen has many examples of this.
Why build like this?
What are we actually looking at?
Was there a relationship between the ancients and giant tree stumps that were used in building their communities?
The port city of Aden in Yemen is located on the Gulf of Aden near the eastern approach to the Red Sea, almost directly across from Berbera in Somaliland.
Aden is one of the largest cities in Yemen, with a population of over 1,000,000 people.
It is a crucial maritime hub that connects Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
There is a legend in Yemen that Aden is as old as human history itself, and that Cain and Abel are buried somewhere in the city.
More on the possible Aden – Eden connection in a bit.
A couple of things to point out about Aden.
One is the Crater District.
It’s official name in Arabic is “Seera,” and it is situated in the crater of an ancient volcano which forms the Shamsan Mountains.
Aden was first visited by the British East India Company ship “The Ascension” in 1609, before it sailed to Mocha, another port in Yemen on the Red Sea known for things like its coffee trade.
Starting with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1796, the British Government and East India Company were interested in this area for naval fleets and other bases.
In 1839, the East India Company landed royal marines here to “secure the territory,” and stop attacks by pirates against British shipping to India, but what they actually meant by “securing,” was capturing for British interests.
By 1850, Aden was declared a “free trade” port by the East India Company, with liquor, salt, arms and opium trades, and all the coffee trade it had won from Mocha.
The other thing I would like to mention in Aden are the “Cisterns of Tawila.”
It is surmised that the “Cisterns of Tawila” were designed to collect rainwater for the city’s drinking water that flowed down from the Shamsan Massif.
Interesting there is signage at the Cisterns saying that nothing was known about the original construction after they were “accidently” discovered by a British Officer in 1854.
Next, we come to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, located between southwestern Yemen near Aden, and northeastern Djibouti, and connects the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea.
This strait is of great strategic and economic importance.
For one thing, millions of barrels of crude oil are shipped through it every day.
As I was looking for images of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, I noticed this Google Earth Image on the right showing Perim Island, and the old map on the left showing it as a British possession at one time.
It was part of the British Aden Protectorate between 1857 and 1967,and is considered part of Yemen.
Perim is described as a volcanic island, and was said to have been called the “Island of Diodorus” in ancient times.
Diodorus was a historian was said to have lived in the 1st-century BC,best-known for writing the “Bibliotheca Historica,” about the history and culture of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, Arabia, North Africa, Greece and Europe.
The image of Diodorus on the top right we are told is from a 19th-century fresco…
…and this work of Diodorus we are told was translated into English between 1933 and 1954 by an American named Charles Henry Oldfather, a Professor of Greek and Ancient History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Perim was occupied by the British starting in 1856 under the direction of the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, with the purpose of countering French ambitions in Egypt and the Red Sea with the Suez Canal project sponsored by the French.
The island had already been taken possession of the by the British East India Company in 1799, and the British claimed credit for building a lighthouse in 1861 due to the treacherous waters around the island.
Interesting to note that during the same time-period, the 1850s, the so-called Palmerston Forts on the Isle of Wight, and other places in and around the English Channel, were said to have been built during the Victorian Era in response to a perceived threat of French invasion.
They are called the Palmerston Forts due to their association with the same Lord Palmerston who authorized the occupation of Perim for the same reason of the perception of a threat from the French by the British.
It certainly appears like the conflicts and wars between nations of the modern-era provided the cover story needed to explain the existence of the infrastructure of the original civilization, like light houses and star forts, which were found all over the world and functioned as part of the Earth’s original free-energy grid-system, and they were repurposed as necessary navigational aids and military fortifications in the reset narrative.
The volcanic Sawabi Islands are southwest of Perim Island in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and they are part of the country of Djibouti.
They are known as a popular diving site.
I want to bring your attention again to the desertification of this region.
Here is a Google Earth screenshot of the Sahara Desert today from the western coast of North Africa, across to the eastern coast.
When I saw the downward flow of the Sahara Desert on either side of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea off the coast of East Africa on the top left, it immediately brought to mind the downward flow of the desert off the coast of West Africa in Mauretania and Western Sahara on the bottom right.
What we are told is that the Sahara was green until about 5,000-years ago, when it started turning into inhospitable desert after the end of glaciation 10,000-years ago created a climate change that affected the ability of yearly monsoon rains to reach this part of the continent.
But I think that is just another cover story to hide a deliberately-caused cataclysmic event that happened much more recently in time that resulted in world-wide devastation and destruction along the Earth’s grid-lines, causing landscapes to simultaneously turn into deserts, swamps, or to submerge completely.
And where have we heard “climate change” before?
Let’s see what else we find looking around the Gulf of Aden.
The Republic of Djibouti situated in the horn of Africa, and located between Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Djibouti is the primary location of the Afar Triple Junction, or Afar Triangle, a tectonic triple junction of three tectonic plates – the Nubian, Somalian, and Arabian – at the northern end of the Great Rift Valley and Djibouti is the southernmost country on the Arabian Plate.
The Afar Triangle is thought to be the cradle of the evolution of Humans, and here is where the possible Aden – Eden connection comes back in to this region.
The Afar people live in the Afar Triangle region today and traditionally are described is Cushitic nomadic livestock herders.
But were they always nomadic livestock herders?
Or did the Afar people have a much more glorious past than present?
The ancient Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia, was at one time a powerful civilization in this part of Africa.
I remembered from something I read a long time ago that the Great Rift Valley in this part of the world was where the remains of “Lucy” were discovered in 1974, and as it turns out, they were discovered at Hadar, which is in Ethiopia in the Awash River Valley on the edge of the Afar Triangle.
“Lucy” was classifed as the 3.2-million-year-old skeletal remains of a female “Australopithecus,” or the earliest known hominids considered to be a close relative of modern humans, and postulated by some to be the “missing link” between apes and humans.
When I typed “Aden Eden” into the search bar, this is one of the images that came up.
It is titled “Garden of Eden (Aden) on Google Earth by Bradly Couch on Pinterest.”
As the Book of Genesis relates our creation story, Eve was our earliest female ancestor, created by God from Adam’s rib, and they were the first man and woman.
So what’s interesting to me is that the Hadar Site is where one of Bradly’s arrows is pointing with the caption: “Act of procreation and branching,” and what I am wondering about this is whether or not we have been given a replacement story about our origins linking us to evolution from apes instead of our creation coming directly from God.
And that this replacement story occurred in a region connected with the name “Aden,” which is one letter different from the name “Eden.”
I don’t know.
I just wanted to point out these intriguing connections I found in this location.
I want to mention Lake Abbe, described as a salt lake on Djibouti’s border with Ethiopia in the Afar Triangle, where the three tectonic plates are pulling away.
Lake Abbe is a truly surreal-looking place, and is considered one of the most inaccessible areas on Earth.
I am just left wondering what we are really looking at here like we are told – the result of natural geologic processes…or a sudden cataclysmic event wreaking havoc on the Earth!
Ethiopia’s Awash River runs from near Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to Lake Abbe.
And is the Awash River actually a canal?
We are taught to believe that rivers are of natural origin, and that any infrastructure related to canals or hydrology were of modern origin.
There’s also a railway history along the Awash River, more infrastructure that is attributed to having been built in our more recent modern history.
Yet, I find railroads all over the world co-located with rivers/canals/gorges, and connected with hydroelectric facilities.
Finding the same thing here.
Railway along the Awash River, which has a gorge and three functional dams.
One of the worst railroad accidents in history took place in 1985, when an express train derailed on a curved bridge over the gorge of the Awash River in Awash, Ethiopia, killing 428, and injuring 500.
I am having a hard time finding information about the crash, but this was what we are told about it.
I go into depth about this finding railroads in very different places that are co-located with rivers/canals/gorges, and connected with hydro in my post “Of Railroads and Waterfalls and Other Physical Infrastructure of the Earth’s Grid System.”
In this same region In Ethiopia, north of Addis Ababa , we find Lalibela, Lake Tana, Gondar, the Simien Mountains and Aksum.
Lalibela is the second holiest of Ethiopia’s cities, after Aksum.
It is famous for its complex of all together eleven monolithic churches, meaning cut out of one rock.
It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978.
The population of Lalibela is almost completely Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.
The ancient Ethiopian language of Ge’ez is the oldest African script still in use to this day, and is the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Jewish Community in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back to the acceptance of Christianity by the Kingdom of Axum in 330 AD.
The Jewish community in Ethiopia is dated back to at least 15-centuries.
Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile, and the largest lake in Ethiopia, and is a sacred lake.
It has been a registered UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Site since 2015, along with its seven ancient monasteries, like the main monastery of Narga Selassie on Lake Tana’s Dek Island.
Among other things, the heart-shaped Lake Tana has living traditions about being a place where Joseph, Mary, and Jesus stayed on their way back to Israel after fleeing Herod, and also as a place where the Ark of the Covenant was kept for 800 years before going to Axum, where it is said to currently be located.
This photo is a comparison for similarity of appearance of an old bridge near Lake Tana on the top left, with the River Nith Old Bridge, one of the oldest standing bridges in Scotland, in Dumfries, on the bottom right.
Next, Gondar.
Gondar was the royal city of Ethiopia.
Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was the capital of the historic Ethiopian Empire and we are told the Imperial Seat from the 1200s to the 1900s.
The Fasil Ghebbi, nicknamed the “Camelot of Ethiopia,” was the home of Ethiopia’s Emperors in our historical narrative from the 17th-century to the 20th-century.
The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was the former ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire.
Its members were lineal descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba through their son Menelik I, the first Emperor of Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie was the last Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
The full title traditionally of the Emperors of Ethiopia was: “Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia.”
The overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie took place on September 12th of 1974, in a coup initiated by a Marxist-Leninist factions in the military, and marked the beginning of a 17-year-long Ethiopian Civil War, which formally ended in 1991.
The war left at least 1.4 million dead.
The last Ethiopian Emperor was apparently murdered in August of 1975 by the same Marxist Army officers who had overthrown him the year before.
The Simien Mountains, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 1978, are located between the royal city of Gondar and Aksum.
Designated as a National Park in 1966, it is Ethiopia’s largest national park.
The Simien Mountains are described as plateaus separated by valleys and rising to pinnacles.
Said to be of volcanic origin and formed from basaltic lava outpourings between 40- to 25-million years ago, prior to the creation of the Great Rift Valley.
Again, just wondering what we are really looking at here.
They look like more candidates for giant tree stumps!
Next, we come to Aksum, the holiest city in Ethiopia, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980.
It is in the Tigray National Regional State.
Between 2020 and 2022, the Tigray War took place between the Ethiopian Federal Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, during the course of which infrastructure was destroyed, and many war crimes were commited, including mass extrajudicial killings of civilians took place throughout the region, including Aksum.
The conflict in Tigray led to major humanitarian crises, widespread famine, and severe economic damage to the tune of an estimated $20-billion.
Aksum was the capital of the historic Kingdom of Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled the whole region as well as parts of what is now Saudi Arabia, and Yemen
There are a couple of noteworthy things to mentioned about the ancient city of Aksum.
The first is that it is believed to be the home of the Ark of the Covenant at the Saint Mary of Zion Church, and that the Tablets of Stone upon which the Ten Commandments were inscribed lay inside the Ark.
The Ark is closely guarded by one custodian known as the “Keeper of the Ark,” who is the only person allowed to enter the resting chamber of the Ark.
The keeper is appointed for life and can’t leave the sacred grounds until death.
The next thing that I want to point out is the Northern Stelae Field, or Park, in Aksum.
There are 120 stelae here, each made from a single piece of granite, and standing as high as 82-feet, or 25-meters.
Each stela looks like a building, with intricately carved windows, marked stories, and false doors at the bottom.
These stelae are attributed to having been made as funeral monuments for Aksum’s ancient rulers…
…who were believed to have been buried in tombs beneath the Stelae.
The Great Stela was 108-feet, or 33-meters, -tall, and weighed 573 tons, or 520 metric tons.
This was an explanation I found for what happened to the Great Stela, pictured here.
It was likely the largest monolith humans ever attempted to erect, and that it probably fell down when the attempt was made to erect it.
There’s more than one fallen stela here.
This one that was 29-feet, 9-meters, tall.
What are we actually seeing here with multi-ton monolithic, intricately-carved stelae made from single pieces of granite, with some having fallen, and even broken into pieces, and an partially-above-ground and mostly underground building beneath them?
This is a good place to mention that Aksum was one of the twelve primary nodal points of the Earth’s Grid system.
A nodal point is a place where numerous leylines connect.
Other nodal points include Rapa Nui, best known as Easter Island, where the famous heads were discovered to have bodies…
And Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, said to have the world’s oldest stone megaliths dating back to at least 9500 BC, and the excavation of which started in 1995.
It was first noted in a survey in 1963, and the site was said to have been intentionally backfilled with earth when it was mysteriously abandoned in 8000 BC.
Another example of being covered by earth was the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, just to the northwest of today’s Ethiopia.
It was covered up to its shoulders, as seen in this famous painting of Napoleon Bonaparte before the Sphinx.
The rise of Napoleon starting in 1796, and the Napoleonic Wars between 1799 and 1815, seem to mark a major beginning in the new, reset timeline.
So even the Sphinx needed to be dug out from the sand that surrounded it.
And according this map of the historical Kingdom of Aksum, Mecca on the Red Sea in today’s Saudi Arabia was once part of it.
And historical photos of Mecca show the same situation of being surrounded by desert, “low-rise” buildings, no floors, just soil underneath everything.
I believe there was deliberately-caused, sudden cataclysmic event of directed energy that went through the Earth’s entire grid system, causing the entire surface of the Earth to undulate and rip, creating deserts, swamps, and causing land-masses to shear off and submerge based on what I am finding and seeing., and accounts for how a highly advanced worldwide civilization of giants could be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from our collective memory.
Historical photos that are available to find on the internet provide evidence that buildings, canals, and rail-lines, among other things, had to be dug out so they could be used once again…
…so the Controllers could usher in their New World Order on the ruins of the Old World, one based on power over Humanity and the Earth’s resources, and they imposed their control matrix over the world through the Earth’s grid system that they had removed from collective awareness.
Before I move back to the Gulf of Aden and tracking the Amsterdam Island Circle Alignment, I just want to say there is clearly something of great historical importance to this region that has been lost to us and it has been destroyed in every way possible, with great suffering and misery happening to this day.
Knowledge of great value has been taken from Humanity that is exemplified through this region, with it’s biblical and historical importance.
Even old maps of Africa tell a different story than what we have been told!
What’s going on here?!
So, now back to the Gulf of Aden.
On the other side of the Gulf of Aden from where we have been looking in South Arabia and east Africa is the Guardafui Channel.
It is between the Socotra Archipelago and Cape Guardafui.
It connects the Gulf of Aden with the Indian Ocean.
It was named for Cape Guardafui, also known as Ras Asir, which is a headland in the Guardafui Administrative Province of Puntland in Somalia.
The Cape Guardafui lighthouse was said to have been inaugurated in 1930 by Italian Fascist authorities when it was part of Italian Somaliland.
By 1930, the authorities were part of Fascist Italy, which existed under Mussolini’s totalitarian rule as Prime Minister and Dictator between 1922 and 1943.
Ras Hafun juts out into the Guardafui Channel, and is considered the easternmost point in Africa.
Ras Hafun has numerous ruins and structures, and it was believed to be the location of Opone, an old trading emporium serving seemingly the whole world – Africa, Asia, Greece, Rome, and Indonesia, among other places.
It was also known as the center of the world’s spice trade.
Ras Filuk, also known as “Cape Elephant,” is a headland next to the Guardafui Channel.
It has steep cliff walls that jut into the Gulf of Aden.
Ras Filuk is near Alula, the capital of the Bari Region of Puntland.
Alula is situated next a shallow lagoon lined by mangroves, a type of tree that grows in brackish water.
Here is a picture of mangroves covering the coast of this area by Alula on Google Earth.
Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands characterized by these salt loving trees and shrubs that are typically found in estuaries, where salt water meets freshwater.
So Estuaries have water that is salty, dirty & unpleasant, and there are one or more rivers flowing into it, and a connection to the open sea.
I have been speculating for awhile now from my research that the Earth’s estuaries are actually ruined and sunken land that once had the infrastructure of civilization in it.
One example of this research is found in this blog post.
These are photos from the 1920s of Alula with the same sand-covered appearance as the other places we have been looking it.
But was it always like this?
Our historical narrative sure wants us to believe it was!
Just as an interesting side-note, this region even today produces 1.5-million kilograms per year of different types of frankincense, an aromatic resin used in incense, perfumes, and essential oils, obtained from Boswellia trees.
Medicinal properties of frankincense include anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties.
Cape Guardafui was known as “Aromata,” or the cape of spice, due to the abundance of spices it produced, including frankincense, cinnamon, and indian spices.
A word about the spice trade.
Since ancient times, the spice trade has been worth great amounts of money.
The growing of the rarest spices was exactly in this region where we have been looking in southern Arabia and Africa.
In First Kings, Chapter 10, verse 10, we find the Queen of Sheba giving King Solomon gold talents and an abundance of spices.
On the other side of the Guardafui Channel, we find the Socotra Archipelago, which is officially part of Yemen, with Socotra being the largest island.
I first learned about Socotra several years ago when I watched a travel video about it that popped up as a YouTube recommendation for me. I looked more into it at the time. Otherwise I would never have heard of it before.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008, it is considered of universal importance because of its rich and distinct flora and fauna, most of which are found nowhere else. It has also been called the most alien place on earth.
These are the Dragon’s Blood Trees of Socotra, the only place in the world they are found.
It has a dark-red resin, giving this evergreen type of tree its name.
Considered a vulnerable species, they can grow to 30-feet, or 9-meters, in height, and live for 600-years.
Dragon’s blood resin is used for things like dyes, incense, and medicine.
It’s medicinal properties include wound healing and digestion, among many others.
There are more anomalous things find in the Guardafui Channel islands, and about the Gulf of Aden, but I think I will move along, and leave you with this picture and caption concerning the Gulf of Aden if you wish to research its validity for yourself.
Just saying this is out there.
Personally, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is truth.
As we are seeing, there is so much we haven’t been told about the world we live in, and that is actively kept from our awareness on an on-going basis.
Now back to the Amsterdam Island alignment after this long tangent looking at an overlooked part of the world, yet with tremendous historical importance which has been forgotten and debased in modern times.
Leaving Berbera in Somaliland on the alignment, we come to Mukalla, port city on the Gulf of Aden in Yemen.
Also called Al-Mukalla and Mukalia, it is the capital of Yemen’s Hadhramaut Governate.
This is a view of the Mukalla waterfront, with block-shaped rocks in the foreground compared with the block-shaped rocks seen at Lake Chapala near Colima, Mexico, a place I found tracking a different alignment.
Interesting to find out that a cyclone named “Chapala” destroyed Mukalla’s waterfront in 2015.
I found this photo of what is called one of the oldest houses in Mukalla.
Quite an interesting place to build a house.
Mukalla was connected to the historical port of Qana, which was the main Hadhrami trading post between India and Africa.
Incense fields were to the north of here in an area, which were also harvested for trade.
The historic capital of Hadhramaut was Shabwa along the Nabataean “Incense Trade Route,” an ancient network of major land and sea trading routes linking the world with eastern and southern sources of incense, spices and other luxury Goods.
The Hadhrami people had in their culture a tradition of sea-faring and trading.
The Nabataeans were an ancient people who inhabited the Arabian Peninsula, who were characterized as being nomadic Bedouins who moved from place to place but also were skilled in trade as well.
Interestingly, rock-cut Petra in today’s Jordan was the capital of their nomadic kingdom, and was said to be a regional trading hub for them.
Shibam is located slightly northeast from Mukalla, and is also on the alignment.
The Old Walled City of Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on the cliff-edge of Wadi Hadhramaut near Mukalla built from mud bricks has been described as the “‘Chicago’ or ‘Manhattan’ of the Desert.”
It is said to be the oldest city in the world using vertical construction techniques, and, like Shabwa, was also a stop on the ancient incense trading route.
This is a photograph of the massive canyon at Wadi Leysar also in the Hadhramaut Province of Yemen, on the left, and it reminded me in appearance of Courthouse Butte in Sedona, Arizona, on the right.
Hadharem, or Hadhrami. is the name of the historic people of the Hadhramaut region.
They are also in diaspora, living in scattered places around the world.
At one time their presence and influence throughout in the Horn of Africa region was significant.
Next the alignment crosses the Rub Al Khali, otherwise known as the Empty Quarter.
It is the largest desert in the world.
It encompasses most of the southern third of the Arabian peninsula.
A recent Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali Al-Naimi, reported that the dunes don’t drift – that while sand blows off the surfaces, their essential shape remains intact.
I would not be surprised at all to learn that there is enduring infrastructure underneath all that sand!
The Empty Quarter has been determined to have what would have been the third-largest lake in the world and one of the longest rivers in the world, whose flow would have rivalled the Nile River in Egypt or the Amazon River in South America.
The Shaybah Oil field was discovered in 1968, 25-miles, or 40-kilometers, from the northern edge of the Empty Quarter.
As of May of 2014, it was projected to be able to pump 750,000 barrels/day for the next 70-years.
The Shaybah Oil Field is considered to be one of the most prominent landmarks in the Empty Quarter, and is surrounded by a series of giant, semicircular sand dunes, some of which are 984-feet, or 300-meters, high.
The Incense Trade made its way through this region, and it has been suggested that the lost city of “Iram of the Pillars” depended on such trade.
Its location has been searched for over the years and no place has never been conclusively identified as such.
It intriguingly has the nickname of “Atlantis of the Sands.”
Also, in the process of oil and gas exploration in the Empty Quarter, giant skeletons apparently have turned up from time to time, though you find things like this fact-checked and flagged as hoaxes.
Like for some reason they really don’t want us to know giants existed upon the Earth once upon a time.
The Liwa Oasis is found in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, one of the seven Emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Liwa Oasis is not far from the Shaybat Oil Field.
As a matter of fact It stretches along the northern edge of the Empty Quarter for 62-miles, or 100-kilometers, along an in arch curved to the north, and consists of approximately 50 villages, with Muzayri being the geographic and economic center of the Oasis.
The history of the Mezairaa Fort in Muzayri is not known.
It has been speculated that it was built in the 19th-century by the local tribes to protect their wells and to provide protection for nomads who roamed the desert through here.
The same story is given for the altogether nine historical forts in the Liwa Oasis.
The other six restored forts here include:
Dhafeer Fort…
…Qutuf Fort…
…Maria Al Gharbiyah Fort…
…Muqib tower…
…Attab Fort…
…and the Al-Jabbana Fort.
The two forts considered ruins in the Liwa Oasis are the:
Al Hayla Tower…
…and the Umm Hosn fort.
What’s absolutely uncanny is the similarity between the mud-brick architecture of the Liwa Oasis in Abu Dhabi like the Dhafeer Fort on the top left and on the right, the mud-brick architecture of places like the Great Mosque of Djenne in the west African country of Mali clear on the other side of Africa from here, both of which have features that resemble the imperial castle of Fasil Ghebbi in Gondar, Ethiopia, on the bottom left.
We’ll be seeing more examples of this finding as we continue travelling along this alignment.
Before we move on here, just wanted to share with you some tourist attractions here.
If you ever travel to the Liwa Oasis, one of the fun things you can do is take a trip to the Moreeb Dune in the Empty Quarter.
It is the tallest dune in the UAE and one of the highest sand hills in the world at 984-feet, or 300-meters, high, with a 50-degree angle from the ground to the top.
Among other things, it is popular for organized car-racing, and other vehicular activities.
Must have a pretty hard surface underneath all of the sand!
They do the same thing on the dunes at the Little Sahara State Park, near Waynoka, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma was where I first awakened to all of the things I am sharing with you now, about a worldwide, advanced civilization that has been erased from our memory.
Back in the United Arab Emirates near the Liwa Oasis, you can even mark a romantic dinner surrounded by sand and dunes off your bucket list when you come on your dream vacation to the Empty Quarter.
Next on the alignment, we come to the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE.
It is located on an island in the Persian Gulf.
Here’s an aerial view of Abu Dhabi, with lots of channels and canals showing up.
I find this to be noteworthy, because the ancient advanced civilization was a canal-building civilization, and like the mud-brick architecture mentioned previously, we will continue to find the presence of canals along this alignment.
And here is a view of it from the water, with a nice rectangular beach-head on the top left, and a nicely-shaped manmade water front on the bottom right.
This is the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, and its elegant and sophisticated design features on the top left.
The date for construction is given as 1996.
I am comparing it with the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, on the bottom right because they have similar design features, especially the shape of the domes.
Yet the Taj Mahal was built in the mid-1600s as a mausoleum, according to the historical narrative we have been given.
In both places, the architecture is simply-breathtaking!
The sophistication and striking similarities of these two monumental works of architecture raise some real questions in my mind about how they were built – both then and now.
The next location we come to on the alignment is Dubai, another Emirate, and the largest city of the United Arab Emirates.
You can tell just by looking at a map of the city that this is a unique place in the world.
Dubai is one of the world’s “Global Cities,” which means it is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network, with a focus on financial power, and high technology infrastructure.
The Burj Khalifa Tower,the world’s tallest building, is in Dubai.
The building is 2,722-feet, or 830-meters, tall in height.
Construction dates are listed between 2004 and 2009, with it opening to use in 2010.
The oldest existing building in Dubai is the Al-Fahidi Fort, and was said to have been built in 1787 to protect the locals and the pearl-fishing economy from neighboring tribes.
Today the old fort houses the Dubai Museum, pictured on the left.
The Al-Fahidi Fort has the same architectural features shown previously in this post as the Fasil Ghebbi in Gondar, Ethiopia, the home of Ethiopia’s Emperors, on the top right, and the Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali in west Africa on the bottom right.
Djenne is said to be the oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa.
Djenne in Mali is located close to the Bandiagara Escarpment, where the Dogon people live.
This is the Bandiagara Escarpment on the top, looking remarkably like Mesa Verde in the U. S. State of Colorado, on the bottom.
The Dogon have a very sophisticated spiritual, astronomical and calendrical system, as well as extensive anatomical and physiological knowledge. They also have a systematic pharmacopeia, which means directions for compound medications.
Perhaps they are best known for the accurate knowledge they possess about the Sirius star system.
Yet we know the Dogon to have an agricultural society?
One last thing I want to show you in Dubai before I end this post.
This is an aerial view of what is considered Dubai’s Old Town, the Bur Dubai.
Here are more photos of the architecture and canal system of Old Town Dubai.
Like with everywhere else, there is much more to find here in these places I’ve been looking at, but I will end this post here, and in the next post will pick up the alignment as it goes across the Strait of Hormuz into Iran.
This post involves a circle alignment that I found beginning and ending on Amsterdam Island, a small island in the French Subantarctic Islands.
I am updating the original series from November of 2018 through January of 2019, and have added a considerable amount of new material to what I had in the original eleven-part series called “Circle Alignments on the Planet Amsterdam Island.”
I have removed “Planet” from the title and replaced it with “Earth” because I do believe as a result of what I have encountered in my research over the last five-years-plus, that we have been lied to about the shape of the realm, along with all the other things we have been lied to about.
This series was one of my earliest efforts in tracking cities and places in alignment over a very long distance, and consistently seeing the same characteristics and hand of design across oceans and continents.
The process of doing the research along this alignment and other alignments has provided extensive evidence for a worldwide, advanced civilization, which has been deliberately suppressed, misattributed and removed from our collective awareness so that we wouldn’t know about its existence.
For comparison of similarity of appearance is the Temple of Khnum in Esna , Egypt, pictured on the left, and the Victoria-era “Temple Mill,” in Leeds, England, on the right.
This advanced civilization that developed on Earth originated in the far distant past in ancient Mu, also known as LeMuria; and that this was the same civilization known as “Atlantis,” which I believe existed up until relatively recent times and represents the missing positive timeline of Humanity.
While this map may not represent the actual extent of the Earth’s landmass at the time of the “Fall of Atlantis,” which I have come to believe took place relatively recently in time as opposed to many-thousands of years ago, it is the closest representation on a map that I could find to a depiction of the continental landmasses being much more connected than what we have been taught to believe in our historical narrative, which doesn’t even officially confirm the actual existence of LeMuria and Atlantis.
Mu and Atlantis are treated more like historical “maybes” – maybe they once-existed, and maybe they didn’t – and typically placed in the elusive “mythical” category by Academia.
From the extensive research I have done thus far, I have reason to believe this ancient global civilization was aligned on Earth and Heaven in a Flower of Life pattern, within which all sacred geometric shapes are contained, and built out on the surface of the Earth according to the principles of Sacred Geometry.
The start- and end-point of this next circle alignment. that I found and am about to share with you in this post, is a tiny dot in the South Indian Ocean.
The dot is Amsterdam Island, one of the French Subantarctic Islands, officially claimed by France in 1892, and known as the territory of the “French Southern and Antarctic Lands,” since 1955, along with “Adelie Land,” the French claim on the Antarctic continent which has been applied to the “Antarctic Treaty System” rules since 1961.
We are told that Amsterdam Island got its name in 1633 from a Dutch sea captain who named it after his ship, Nieuw Amsterdam, which was named after the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam (which later became New York City).
This tiny speck of real estate, for which the only settlement is a seasonal research station, even has its own flag.
The research station studies biology, meteorology, and geomagnetics.
Here is a photograph of Lee Waves taken on Amsterdam Island. Lee Waves are atmospheric stationary waves, and are a form of internal gravity waves. Must be a reason as to why the geomagnetics of this island are studied.
Amsterdam Island is considered the northernmost volcano above the water-line on the Antarctic Plate.
Here is a map of the island circa 1901, showing the island looking rather like a tree stump, with the Cliffs of Entrecasteaux right below what is described as two volcanic calderas.
Here is a photo of the Cliffs of Entrecasteaux below the caldera on the west side of the island.
Chad Williams and and I had a recent conversation for his YouTube Channel “Deeper Conversations with Chad,” and it was called “Giant Trees, the Earth’s Grid, and the New World Order,” where we discussed, among many other things, the apparent volcanic nature of these giant trees and their integral relationship to the Earth’s Grid System, and how this might in turn connect to what might have taken place to render the giant trees as unrecognizable as such.
Our conversation started off with this intriguing illustration that Chad found in his research and had sent along to me at take a look at.
It seems to be showing trees on a grid exploding simultaneously, which would account for why we don’t recognize them as trees any more.
In the course of this same conversation with Chad, we also talked about the consistent pattern of western countries claiming these small islands and island groups in remote locations as their colonies or territories. and upon closer examination, it appears they were making a concerted effort to claim for their own purposes what was left of these giant trees.
Besides the four islands claimed by France in the “French Southern and Antarctic Lands,” of Amsterdam, St. Paul, Kerguelen, and Crozet in this region…
…we find the British in the same region claiming for its empire places like the British Antarctic Territory on the top left; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on the top middle, and Tristan da Cunha, the home of the world’s most isolated settlement, which takes 6-days, each-way, by boat to get to-and-from.
Leaving Amsterdam Island, the next place we come to on the alignment is Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.
Mauritius is officially the Republic of Mauritius, and in addition to the main island, consists of the islands of Rodrigues, Agalega, and St. Brandon. These islands are 1,200 miles (2,000 km) southeast of the African continent.
Mauritius was initially colonized by France in 1715, who in turn ceded it to the British in the 1814 Treaty of Paris.
It gained its independence from Britain in 1968, and became a Republic in 1992.
In a comparison of what seems to be the same style of architecture in very different places, this is the Port Louis Natural History Museum on the top left, said to have been constructed in 1880; on the top left is the Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, said to have been built in 1879, and was the royal residence of the Kingdom of Hawaii until the monarchy was over thrown under Queen Lili’oukalani in 1893; and the Natural History Museum in Merida, Mexico, on the bottom right, said to have been built between 1909 and 1911.
And for further comparison for similarity of appearance, here are photos of the harbor at Port Louis on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean on the left; Freeport Harbor on Grand Bahama Island in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle; and Honolulu Harbor in Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean on the right.
These are just a few of countless examples of harbors from around the world with man-made shorelines and docks.
I first learned about Mauritius from an amazing French archaeologist named Antoine Gigal, and its massive walls, hydraulic systems and road systems that are all connected with the pyramid complexes there.
Much of her work is in Egypt, but she has ventured to other places in her quest for knowledge and understanding, and she has documented much evidence of the sophisticated technology of the ancient civilization.
To learn more about her work on Mauritius, check out this link where she talks about the discovery of
I first learned about the seven pyramids of Mauritius several years ago in a 2011 Megalithomania presentation by her.
They are terraced structures made of black volcanic stone.
Interestingly, there are six terraced pyramids, also made of black volcanic stone, in Guimar on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
In both places they are in perfect astrological alignment with the winter and summer solstice.
Besides the same-style of terraced pyramids, Mauritius and Tenerife in the Canary Islands also share a volcanic history as well.
First, Mauritius.
Mauritius itself is called a massive shield volcano, a broadly domed volcano with gently sloping sides formed from fluid, basaltic lava flows, and has a line of craters bisecting the main island as diagrammed here.
One of the craters, Trou aux Cerfs, which interestingly translates from the French to “Deer Hole,” is described as a dormant volcano with a well-defined cone and crater, on the outskirts of Curepipe, the second-largest city of Mauritius.
This is a view from Curepipe of what are called the “Trois Mamelles” and Mount Rempart.
“Trois Mamelles” translates from the French as “Three Breasts.”
Curepipe is the location of some interesting, what is called “colonial,” architecture, like the Saint Therese Church in the background, said to have been built in 1868…
…and the Town Hall which is nearby, said to have been built starting in 1902.
There is what is called a “Step Mountain” on the Le Morne Brabant, a peninsula on the extreme southwestern tip of Mauritius.
This location is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The “Le Morne” in the peninula’s name could well-refer to the original people of this land.
The “Maroons”of the Indian Ocean, like the “Maroons” of the Americas, they were described as the descendents of Africans who escaped from slavery, and not as the Moorish original people of these lands which is nowhere to be found in our historical narrative.
Only in the place-names, like “Le Mor-ne” and “Maur-itius.”
The “Brabant” in the name of the peninsula “Le Morne Brabant” came from the Dutch East India ship “Brabant” that ran a-ground here at the end of December of 1783.
Interesting to note, there appears to be an underwater waterfall next to it, though it is described as an optical illusion and not actually a waterfall.
Though Mauritius is being researched possibly as the remnants of a lost continent, and for its strong gravitational pull.
Next, Tenerife.
Mount Teide is a volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and is the highest point in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in Spain.
Now an autonomous community of Spain, the Canary Islands, located off the coast of Western Africa in the vicinity of Morocco and Western Sahara, have been claimed completely by Spain since 1496, after European colonization efforts were said to have started there by France in 1402.
This conquest of the Canary Islands was considered the basic model of European attack on the New World: violent colonization that involved enslavement of the local population; genocide; and the mining of the land’s resources that radically changed the landscape.
The Canary Islands are also said to be of volcanic origin, and have been visited by researchers from the very beginning of the 19th-century, including Alexander von Humboldt in 1799, a Prussian naturalist, mining engineer and explorer, who was said to have climbed the Teide volcano, before heading off to study Venezuela, which has the 2nd-highest gold reserves in the world, as well as Cuba, the Andes, Mexico, and the United States.
Then, in 1815, the same year as the Congress of Vienna which reoragnized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars ended, the German geologist and paleontologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands, where he primarily studied the production and activities of volcanoes.
Von Buch studied with Alexander von Humboldt at the Freiburg University of Mining and Technology, and was considered a founder of modern geology.
The Freiburg University of Mining and Technology is the oldest school of mining and metallurgy in the world, having been established in 1765 by Francis Xavier of Saxony of the House of Wettin.
Its main purpose was the education of highly skilled miners and scientist in fields connected to mining and metallurgy.
It is interesting that the coat of arms of the German noble House of Wettin has a wyvern tail in the middle of it, and I found this coat of arms of Tenerife, showing a large tree in the center, and wyvern supporters on either side.
I do think these heraldic devices are telling us Truths that have been well-hidden from us.
Wyverns are two-legged, winged creatures that are similar to dragons, but unlike dragons, which can be good or evil, they are unambiguously malicious predators.
Wyverns in heraldry signify war, envy and pestilence.
Primarily through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, first-cousins and members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin, the original royal houses of Europe were completely replaced by this obscure German Ducal lineage.
Humboldt University in Berlin was named after Alexander von Humboldt and his brother Wilhelm.
It was first opened in 1810, and was regarded as one of the world’s pre-eminent universities in the study of Natural Sciences in the 1800s and 1900s.
Famous faculty and alumni included such luminaries in our current historical narrative as: theoretical physicist Albert Einstein; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, c0-collaborators on “The Communist Manifesto; Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire and the mover behind the 1884 Berlin Conference,which carved up the African Continent between the European powers; Georg Hegel, whose philosophy gave us the “Hegelian Dialectic” of Problem-Reaction-Solution; and the Brothers Grimm, best-known for their fairy tales which has such story-lines as eating people, as in “Little Red Riding Hood and “Hansel and Gretel.”
For one of many examples, the German Benedictines were said to have been quite active in establishing institutions for German immigrants to America during the 1840s and 1850s, like in Atchison, Kansas.
When I saw the view of Atchison, Kansas in the top left photo, I was immediately reminded of the view of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife in the Canary islands, on the bottom left, with a shared building-style, directional orientation of the buildings, and placement of the windows in twos, threes, and fours.
Then on the right is a picture of the ancient city of Ouarzazate, Morocco, which I had encountered in my research, and its appearance reminded me exactly of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Atchison.
And like with Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, it is important to note that the Canary Islands have long been rumored to be the remnants of a lost continent as well.
In the case of the Canary Islands , they have been rumored to the the lost continent of Atlantis.
I first heard that particular rumor many years ago.
Before I leave this part of the Indian Ocean in which we find Mauritius on the alignment, I want to bring to your attention to the nearby inhabited French island of Reunion, home to nearly 1,000,000.
It has been governed as a French region since 1946, and is the outermost region of the European Union.
This is what we are told about the history of Reunion Island.
Reunion Island was uninhabited until French settlers from the French East India Company arrived in the 17th-century, and subsequently established a plantation economy based on sugar and instituted a slavery system with slaves and indentured laborers brought in primarily from Africa and Asia.
St. Denis is the administrative capital of French Overseas Department and Region of Reunion, which the island has been known as since 1793, when it was changed from “Bourbon Island” to erase the name of the Bourbon Dynasty after the “Insurrection of 1792,” a defining event in the French Revolution that led to the abolishing of the French Monarchy and the establishment of the French Republic.
Who were the Bourbons?
I think the actual truth the French Royal House of Bourbon has also been obscured to hide the True History, but what we are told is that it originated in the Kingdom of France as a Royal House in 1272.
Like I mentioned earlier with the clues found in place-names, a clue to the cover-up of the True History is found in the name given to the French Monarchy, attributed from the Middle Ages to 1789, the year that marked the beginning of the French Revolution in our historical narrative.
It was called the “Ancien Regime,” which has been translated to mean the “Old Regime.”
The typical understanding of the meaning of the word “Ancien” or “Ancient” is shown here, belonging to a period of history that is “thousands’ of years in the past, not “hundreds” of years.
The word “old” just doesn’t have the same association with the far distant past that “ancient” does when referring to historical time periods.
The word “old” is even used to refer to yesterday!
At any rate, St. Denis was said to have been founded in 1669 by the first governor of the Island, Etienne Regnault, who named it after the ship of one of his friends which had landed the year prior.
St. Denis eventually became the only colonial capital in 1738, and all the architecture found in St. Denis, and on Reunion Island, has been attributed to the French colonial era.
There are two main volcanoes on Reunion Island.
Piton de la Fornaise, or Piton “of the Furnace,” is described as a very active shield volcano on the southeastern end of the island, one of the most active in the world, along with Kilauea in the Hawaiian Islands; Mount Etna in Sicily and Mount Stromboli on an island off the coast of Sicily; and Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
Piton des Neiges, or Snow Peak, on the northwestern end of Reunion Island is the highest point on the island, as well as considered to be the highest point in the Indian Ocean.
According to what we have been told, unlike its neighbor volcano on the island to the southeast of it, it has not been active for 20,000-years.
I have a long way yet to go on the alignment, but there’s a lot more to find out on Reunion Island just from a cursory look at its history.
I may revisit this location again in future research….Lots going on here for such a remote, out-0f-the-way location, and the French are still holding on tight to it to this day.
France never gave this place away to another country, unlike its neighbor Mauritius!
Next we come to Tromelin Island, located 310-miles north, or 500-kilometers, north of Reunion Island, and 280-miles, or 450-kilometers, east of Madagascar.
Tromelin Island is a small, low, flat island.
Besides being a seabird and sea tortoise sanctuary, the only structure here is a meteorological station used to gather data in order to forecast hurricanes and cyclones.
It is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands as a French overseas territory, however, the island nation of Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island.
Next the alignment goes through the Republic of the Seychelles, an archipelago country consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean.
It is almost 1,000-mles, or 1,609-kilometers, off the coast of East Africa, and is a member of the African Union.
Independence from the United Kingdom was established in 1976.
It’s Africa’s smallest country, and least populated sovereign country.
Like Reunion Island, we are told that they Seychelles were uninhabited prior to the arrival of Europeans, that there was no indigenous population to the islands when they arrived.
The British East India Company first landed here in 1609.
The French arrived here in 1770 and claimed the Seychelles as theirs and the British arrived to settle the Seychelles in 1794.
The British and the French had competing interests here until the Seychelles came under full British control in the 18th-century.
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The capital of the Seychelles, Victoria, is on the main island of Mahe.
What became known as Victoria in 1841 after Queen Victoria, was settled by the French in 1778.
The Victoria Clock Tower in the city-center is called the oldest historical landmark in Victoria, and is a replica of, in one reference, a clock that was erected in 1897 near Victoria Station in London, and in another reference it was a replica of Big Ben.
Whatever it was said to be a replica of, it was inaugurated in 1903 by the British administrator of the Seychelles.
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Victoria was said to have been built in 1874 in the French Colonial-style of architecture.
This is a beach-head on Mahe in the Seychelles on the top left, compared with Vaja Beach in Korcula, Croatia, on the top right; Myrtos Beach on the Greek island of Kefalonia, on the bottom left; and Grama Bay in Albania on the Bottom right.
These are just a few of countless examples of the same style of beach-head found around the world that I find interesting to note.
These islands are also known as the Granitic Seychelles.
Here is an assemblage of photos of the interesting-looking rock formations on the coasts of these islands on the left, and on the right are photos of similar-looking rock formations on the Natuna Islands, part of Indonesia, and located in the South China Sea, off the northwest coast of Borneo. I found the Natuna Islands on a different alignment which is how I even knew about them.
Next on the alignment is Mogadishu, the capital and largest city of Somalia. It is located on the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, and has been an important port city for thousands of years.
This is a historic photo of Mogadishu.
It was the capital of Italian Somaliland from 1889 to 1936.
When the Somali Republic became independent from Italy in 1960, it was known as the “White Pearl of the Indian Ocean.”
The Somali Civil War started in the early 1990s, after the ousting of Siad Barre in 1991, who had been serving as President of the Somali Republic since 1969.
The Somali Civil War has been on-going for years.
The situation started to stabilize in 2011, and in 2012 a new government was formed with a passing of a constitution and election of a president, but it has never ended.
It is estimated that at least 500,000 people have been killed as a result of it.
The following photos will show you what happened to the historic buildings of Mogadishu as a result of years of conflict.
This is the Villa Somalia, the presidential residence, before the president was ousted and after as the result of civil warfare.
This is an historic picture of Mogadishu Cathedral on the left and Seville Cathedral on the right.
Seville was the capital of Moorish Spain.
In particular, note the same double-window design component of both of the cathedrals’ towers.
This is what remains of Mogadishu Cathedral today.
Gotta wonder if these Civil Wars were/are created to destroy the infrastructure of the original civilization.
Leaving Mogadishu, we head across the eastern region of Ethiopia known as Ogaden, part of the Somali region of Ethiopia.
The majority of its inhabitants are Somali clans.
It is described as a semi-arid to hot desert climate that is part of the “Somali Acacia-Commiphora Bushlands and Thickets Ecoregion” in the Horn of Africa.
It extends along the floor of the East African Rift, where the African Plate is splitting into two plates – the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate.
The red triangles are showing the location of historically active volcanoes.
The Simien Mountains northwest of this region were said to have formed prior to the Great Rift Valley.
The Ogaden War took place between Ethiopia and Somalia between July of 1977 and March of 1978.
The administration of the British Protectorate of Somaliland had given Ethiopia this land in 1948 as the result of an 1897 Treaty.
The Soviet Union supported Ethiopia after Somalia invaded the region.
Ethiopia won the war with the support of Cuban armed forces, Soviet advisors, and over $1-billion worth of military supplies airlifted by the Soviet Union.
The origins of the Somali Civl War resulted from the demoralization in the Somali Armed Forces and the people of Somalia caused by the loss, eventually leading to the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, who had been a Marxist-Leninist Military Dictator of Somalia since 1969 after the assassination of the President of the Somali Republic, the name given to the Newly independent state of Somalia after its independence from Great Britain.
It is important to note that the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie took place three-years earlier on September 12th of 1974, in a coup also initiated by a Marxist-Leninist faction in the Ethiopian military, and marked the beginning of a 17-year-long Ethiopian Civil War, leaving 1.4 million dead.
The Ethiopian Civil War formally ended in 1991, the same year Siad Barre was overthrown and the Somali Civil War started.
The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was the former ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire.
Its members were lineal descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba through their son Menelik I, the first Emperor of Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie was the last Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
The full title traditionally of the Emperors of Ethiopia was: “Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia.”
There seems to be a pattern emerging in this part of the world.
Either upon Independence from a European Colonial power, a Marxist-Leninist faction within the military seized power from the Republican form of government that replaced the colonial government; or a dynastic ruler was replaced by a Marxist-Leninist Faction in the military.
The result was the same: dividing countries and people; civil war; territorial war; and some form of Marxist government implemented.
We are heading to Berbera in the region of northern Somalia known as Somaliland today.
Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 following the ouster of Siad Barre, after a decade of state repression and civil war in the region.
It is a self-governing region, though not recognized as a sovereign state internationally.
As mentioned previously, this region had been a former British Protectorate, from the 1880s and 1960.
Berbera is located on the Gulf of Aden, and was the capital of British Somaliland Protectorate from 1884- 1941.
It is still the capital of the Sahil Region of Somaliland.
Berbera is strategically on an oil route.
It has a deep harbor, and it it is situated near entrance to the Red Sea.
From antiquity, Somalia been an important commercial center, and likely the location of the ancient land of Punt.
Punt was a trading partner with Egypt, and was a wealthy country that was rich in resources and exotic goods.
There is still a region of Somalia today known as “Puntland,” adjacent to Somaliland.
Berbera was once a powerful and well-built city that has served as a major commercial center and port since antiquity, and has a glorious past in terms of importance to the region.
Berbera is looking quite rough these days.
These photos are of crumbling historic buildings in Berbera’s Old Town.
I am going to end this post here and pick up the alignment in the Gulf of Aden on the way into Yemen in the next post.
Revealing What Has Been Hidden in Front of Our Eyes 