Geologist says 'Runestone' found in 1898 by Olof Ohman is not hoax; local descendents agree

Isanti County News Minnesota ^ | 9/21/05 | Rachel Kytonen

[solitas]

ping

[luvbach1]

I think the runetone says: "Ole Olson was here!"

[bboop]

Very cool, thanks for posting this. Ya, you betcha.

[solitas]

[Charles Henrickson]

Isanti County is in Minnesota, not Michigan.

[To Hell With Poverty]

very cool!

[A.Hun]

I think the runestone says: "It's George Bush's fault, ya!"

Then we would know it was authentic! </sarc>

[msnimje]

[DannyTN]

Is this the guy?

[Boundless]

> It contains a message that Wolter believes was carved by Norsemen.

Any guesses as to what it says?

[FairOpinion]

GGG PING. (w picture)

Thanks solitas for finding and posting this.

(I am pinging for SunkenCiv for a couple of days)

[nuconvert]

Ya sure, pong

[FairOpinion]

What happened to the picture? It was a great picture, I saw it a moment ago, now all I get is a red X.

[Dr Stormfist]

I still state that our ancestors were more advanced then we thought. It's so easy for us today to mock the past be denying evidence...because it's "impossible" for today's technology to have been used in the past.

Batteries in Eqypt

Mechanical clock in Greece

Norsemen in the Midwest

You name it...

[muawiyah]

No doubt the best evidence that the runestone is a hoax is that its discoverer was Scandinavian.

On the other hand, just about the only ordinary farmer who would have instantly recognized a runsone for what it was would have had to have been a Scandinavian.

For anyone else it was just a scratched rock.

Another one of the great mysteries of the Midwest is the location of the gold. Most historians believe the indians lied to DeSoto about where Gold could be found. However, you follow the diary all the way through and you discover the Indians very consistently pointed toward what is today South Central, Indiana where, in fact, a serious glacial deposit of gold was found in the 1800s.

Which means, of course, that the Indians in a broad area of North America, in several different cultures, knew where to find gold in the Ohio Valley.

[SengirV]

Stories like this NEED a picture.

[solitas]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490363/posts?page=5#5

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6726/kensington/kensington.htm

[hombre_sincero]

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens3.gif

Here is the clearest - warning! LARGE GIF (2,290,613 bytes)

[hombre_sincero]

A serious site on teh Runestone

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm