Frozen Muck
In Alaska, thick frozen deposits of soil, boulder, plant and animal exist, commonly known as “muck.”
Professor Frank C. Hibben, of the University of New Mexico, describes these deposits:
“In many places, Alaskan muck is packed with animal bones and debris in trainload lots. Bones of mammoths, mastodons, several kind of bison, horses, wolves, bears, and lions tell a story of a faunal population. Within this frozen mass lie the twisted parts of animals and trees intermingled with lenses of ice and layers of peat and mosses. It looks as though in the midst of some cataclysmic catastrophe of ten thousand years ago the whole Alaskan world of living animals and plants was suddenly frozen in mid-motion like a grim charade. Twisted and torn trees are piled in splintered masses. At least four considerable layers of volcanic ash may be traced in these deposits although they are extremely warped and distorted.”[1]
This suggests that although volcanoes were erupting, other forces were acting in concert with these volcanoes to dismember and displace these animals into giant clumps of bones, with mighty floods and hurricanes being the most likely cause.
Rancho La Brea Tar Pits
These pits in the heart of Los Angeles are one of the richest sources of fossils discovered to date. More than 565 species all got stuck in the tar (asphalt to be precise) over tens of thousands of years, fossilizing over time.
At least that’s what the experts at the George C. Page Museum would have us believe, but they fail to explain the incredible density of animals that “got stuck” there.
During the first University of California excavations in 1906, they found a “bed of bones” which contained over seven hundred sabre-toothed tiger skulls. These, combined with wolf skulls, averaged twenty per cubic yard.[2] Almost more bones than tar. They are not the bones of animals that merely got stuck and waited to die. They are “broken, mashed, contorted, and mixed in a most heterogeneous mass,”[3] just like in the muck of Alaska.
And we mustn’t overlook the fossilized birds that have been dug up. 100,000 of them, including over 138 species, 19 of which are extinct. The George C. Page Museum suggests that the 3,000 birds that are predators and scavengers may have been attempting to feed on other trapped animals when they themselves got stuck. As sensible as this sounds, it fails to explain the presence of the further 97,000 birds that were non-carnivorous. Or the species of fish!
Frozen Mammoths
Massive graveyards of these enormous beasts exist in Siberia. Their remains have been mined for ivory tusks. It has been estimated that more than half a million tons of mammoth tusks were buried along Siberia’s Arctic coastline[4], which equates to roughly five million mammoths. Several dozen frozen mammoth carcasses have been found with the flesh still intact. They died suddenly. In their stomachs can be found undigested vegetation, including grass, bluebells, wild beans, and buttercups[5], food typically only available in the summer. Scientists examining them have concluded that three of the mammoths died of asphyxiation. The cause of death of the others has not been determined.
Regardless of cause, they froze within days of their dying, and when unfrozen, the flesh has been fresh enough to feed to dogs! If the poles shifted, the climate would have rapidly changed, from a summer savannah where mammoths munched on buttercups, to a frozen wasteland.
But wait a minute; weren’t the woolly mammoths suited to living in a cold climate? They are described as woolly due to their hairy coat, but their coat is not oily hair; it’s greaseless hair. To help protect them from the cold, all of today’s Arctic mammals have glands that make their hair oily to retain warmth – the mammoths had no such gland. Although thicker, the mammoth’s hair is the same as that of elephants, and it is well known that elephants live in the tropical regions. Many animals found in equatorial jungles also have thick hair, the tiger being one such example. Anyone still unconvinced could consider this; bones of tigers, rhinoceroses, and antelope were found alongside the mammoths, and these are obviously not Arctic creatures.
Bone Caves
All around the globe there are caves which are full of bones. Many of these contain the remains of animals that would not have normally existed alongside each other. One such cave at Oreston, near Plymouth, England, contained mammoths, rhinoceroses, bears, lions, and reindeer. Kent’s cave, in nearby Torquay yielded, amongst other things, the bones of sabre-toothed tigers.
A cave near Settle, in West Yorkshire, contains the remains of the hippo, rhino, mammoth, bison, hyena, and other animals. They are buried under twelve feet of clay deposits and the cave is 1450 feet above sea level.
In China, near the village of Choukoutien, among the animals found in caves were porcupine, tiger, woolly rhinoceros, camel, elephant, baboon, ostrich, and a species of tortoise. They are not of the same habitat; the bones have been somehow gathered up and dumped in the caves.[6]
In Sicilian caves were found hippopotami, hyenas, lions, Megatherium, rabbits, bears, and elephants.[7] On Kotelnoi Island, in the Arctic Circle above Siberia where “neither shrubs, nor trees, nor bushes exist,” are found the bones of elephants, buffaloes, horses, and rhinoceroses.[8]
Similar mass bone yards exist worldwide—proof of destruction on a level we dare not imagine to be possible.
Arctic Coral and Water Lilies
Spitsbergen (now known as Svalbard) is an island in the Arctic Ocean, just eleven degrees from the North Pole, to the north of Norway. It was uninhabited until the 1890’s when a mining colony was established there. For almost six months of winter, there is no sunlight, yet fossilized plants have been found there, including pines, firs, elms, swamp-cypress, and water lilies.[9] Regardless of climate change, these cannot grow anywhere without regular sunlight. At some time in the past, Spitsbergen must have been farther away from the pole. Further evidence comes from Soviet archeologists who have discovered prehistoric cave drawings of deer and whales, as well as axes fashioned from mammoth tusks.
Reef corals have been found deep within the Arctic Circle, on the islands of Ellesmere (Canada) and Spitsbergen. Under snow now, they must have originally grown in a tropical region.[10] Coral requires a minimum temperature of 64° Fahrenheit to grow, which means either a tropical location, or somewhere outside the tropics where warm currents bring tropical waters into higher latitudes (Japan, South Africa, and Bermuda for example).[11]
At the opposite pole, Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton found coral beds within 200 miles of the South Pole. The Byrd expedition of 1935 uncovered fossils that were later identified as tree ferns, as well as the footprint of a “mammal-like reptile.”[12] At both ends of the globe, places which are currently the coldest on Earth, we find evidence of warmth equivalent to that of latitudes at least 30 degrees closer to the equator.
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Undersea Cities
There also exists throughout the world evidence of past civilizations that have suddenly vanished with all of their advances. Giant cities, still intact, have been discovered off the coasts of Cuba, Cypress, China, Japan, India, and other areas of the world. Some of these cities are well-preserved and still contain identifiable structures. The submerged city off of the coast of Japan is 200 to possibly 300 miles long. That’s equivalent to the distance between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. Within its confines contains identifiable roads, cathedrals, and even a pyramid. This report from the magazine Ancient American, describes the discovered underwater city:
“One of the greatest discoveries in the history of archeology was made last summer, off Japan. There, spread over an amazing 311 miles on the ocean floor, are the well preserved remains of an ancient city. Or at the very least, a number of closely related sites…They beheld long streets, grand boulevards, majestic staircases, magnificent archways, enormous blocks of perfectly cut and fitted stone―all harmoniously welded together in a linear architecture unlike anything they had ever seen before.”[13]
A structure thought to be the world’s oldest building, nearly twice the age of the great pyramids of Egypt, has been discovered in these waters off of Japan.
The rectangular stone ziggurat under the sea off the coast of Japan could be the first evidence of a previously unknown Stone Age civilization, say archeologists. The monument is 600ft wide and 90ft high and has been dated to at least 8,000 B.C.
The oldest pyramid in Egypt, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, was constructed more than 5,000 years later.
Robert Schoch, professor of geology at Boston University, dived at the site last month.
“It basically looks like a series of huge steps, each about a metre high. Essentially, it’s a cliff face like the side of a stepped pyramid. It’s a very interesting structure,” he said. “It’s possible that natural water erosion combined with the process of cracked rocks splitting created such a structure, but I haven’t come across such processes creating a structure as sharp as this.”
Further evidence that the structure is the work of humans came with the discovery of smaller underwater stone mounds nearby. Like the main building, these mini-ziggurats are made of stepped slabs and are about 10m wide and 2m high.
Teruaki Ishil, professor of geology at Tokyo University, said the structure dated back to “at least 8,000 B.C. when the land on which it was constructed was submerged at the end of the last ice age.”[14]
In February 2005, an ancient port city was discovered off the Indian coast. This report, taken from ABC News Online, describes this city.
“Indian archeologists have found what they believe are undersea ‘stone structures’ that could be the remains of an ancient port city off India’s southern coast. The archeologists learned of the structures after locals reported spotting a temple and several sculptures when the sea pulled back briefly just before deadly tsunamis smashed into the coastline on December 26.
An official from the state-run Archeological Survey of India(ASI), Alok Tripathi, said divers discovered the stone remains close to India’s famous beachfront Mahabalipuram temple in Tamil Nadu state.
Mr. Tripathi headed a diving expedition after the tsunamis uncovered the remains of a stone house, a half-completed rock elephant, and two exquisite giant granite lions, one seated and another poised to charge.
Some scholars believe the entire city, barring a few rock structures and carvings, were submerged under the sea. The divers have brought up pottery pieces and small stone blocks from the seabed.”[15]
The dating of these cities, 8 to 10, 000 years ago, correlates to the end of the last ice age. The same age of the mass extinction of many of the animals found in the Bone Caves and Muck Pits.
Could it be that these cities were slowly submerged over time as glaciers melted?
Or did they sink into the sea during a great cataclysm that also destroyed many of the earth’s animals?
[1] F.V. Hibben, “Evidence of Early Man in Alaska,” American Antiquity, VIII (1943) p.254-259 [2] Immanuel Velikovsky, Earth in Upheaval (1955) p.59 [3] G. M. Price, The New Geology (1923) p.579 [4] John Massey Stewart, “Frozen Mammoths from Siberia Bring the Ice Ages to Vivid Life,” Smithsonian (1977) p.67 [5] Ivan T. Sanderson, “Riddle of the Quick-Frozen Giants,” Saturday Evening Post (Jan 16 1960) p.82 [6] D. S. Allan & J. B. Delair, When the Earth Nearly Died (1995) p.114 [7] Fairholme, George, New and Conclusive Physical Demonstration of the Fact and Period of the Mosaic Deluge, n.p.,(1837) [8] D. Gath Whitley, Journal of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, XII (1910) p.50 [9] Charles H. Hapgood, The Path of the Pole, Adventures Unlimited Press (1999) p.67 [10] C. O. Dunbar, Historical Geology (1949), pp.162,194 [11] Coral Bleaching, Coral Mortality, and Global Climate Change – report presented by Rafe Pomerance, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Environment and Development – To the U.S. Coral Reef task force, March 5 1999 Maui Hawaii. Released by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, March 5 1999, http://www.state.gov/www/global/global_issues/coral_reefs/990305_coralreef_rpt.html [12] Charles H. Hapgood, The Path of the Pole (1999) Adventures Unlimited Press, p.62 [13] Joseph, Frank, 1997, “Underwater City found near Japan,” Ancient American, vol. 3, #17 (March/April 1997), pp.2-6 [14] Trushar Barot, www.cyberspace orbit.com/../japan2.html [15] ABC News Online, Feb 27 2005