A Minnesota Mystery- The Kensington Runestone

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A Minnesota Mystery: TheKensington Runestone

By Ben Tracy | wcco.com

It's one of Minnesota's greatest mysteries. It's something that puts settlers in

America well before Columbus. A Minnesota geologist thinks the controversial

Kensington Runestone is the real thing and there is evidence that he says backs up

the theory.

The Kensington Runestone is a rock found near Alexandria a century ago. It'sinscription speaking of Norwegians here in 1362. It begs the question. Were Vikings

exploring our land more than 100

years before Columbus? Or is it just

an elaborate hoax?

New research shows that the stone

is genuine and there's hidden code

that may prove it. It contains carved

words that have haunted these hills

and the Ohman family for more than

100 years, yet their faith has neverwavered.

"I just never had any doubt. I mean I

was very emphatic about it.

Absolutely it's real. There's no

doubt," said Darwin Ohman. His

grandfather found the Runestone.

Darwin's grandfather Olof Ohmanhas been considered the author of

Minnesota's most famous fraud, the Runestone. He says he found it buried under a

tree in 1898. Critics say the language on the stone is too modern to be from 1362,

that some of the runes are made up. They say this simple farmer carved it himself

to fool the learned.

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"You're calling him a liar. If this is a hoax he lied to his two sons, he lied to his

family, lied to his neighbors and

friends and lied to the world," said

Scott Wolter a geologist and

researcher of the Runestone.

Wolter and Texas engineer Dick

Nielsen are sharing for the first

time new evidence about the

hidden secrets they say are

carved in this stone.

"It changes history in a big way,"

Wolter said

In 2000 he performed one of the

very few geological studies on thestone. He says the breakdown of

minerals in the inscription shows

the carving is at least 200 years

old, older than Olof Ohman. Those findings support the first geological study in

1910 that also found the stone to be genuine.

"In my mind the geology settled it once and for all," he said.

Linguistic experts are not convinced. They say runes like those on the stone are

made up. But Nielsen has now found the same one here in an old Swedish rune

document dating back to the 1300's.

"It makes me ask the question if they were wrong about that what else were they

wrong about?" Wolter said.

For the first time Wolter has documented every individual rune on the stone with a

microscope. He started finding things that he didn't expect. He was the first to

discover dots inside four R shaped runes on the stone. He said they are

intentional and they mean something. So Wolter and Nielsen scoured rune catalogs.

"We found the dotted R's. It's an extremely rare rune that only appeared during

medieval times. This absolutely fingerprints it to the 14th century. This is linguistic

proof. This is medieval, period," Wolter said.

They traced the dotted 'R' to rune covered graves inside ancient churches on the

island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden. What they found on the grave slabs were

very interesting crosses. They were Templar crosses, the symbol of a religious







order of knights formed during the crusades and persecuted by the Catholic Church

in the 1300's.

"This was the genesis of their secret societies, secret codes, secret symbols, secret

signs all this stuff. If they carved the rune stone why did they come here and why

did they carve this thing?" Wolter asked.

He has uncovered new evidence that has taken his research in a very different

direction. Wolter now believes that the words on the stone may not be the record of

the death of 10 men but instead, a secret code concealing the true purpose of the

rune stone.

Two runes in the form of an L and a U are

two more reasons why linguists say Olof

Ohman carved the stone. They are

crossed and linguists say they should not

be.

A third rune has a punch at the end of

one line. Each rune on the stone has a

numerical value. Wolter and Nielsen took

the three marked runes and plotted them

on a medieval dating system called the

Easter Table.

"When we plotted these three things we

got a year, 1362. It was like 'oh my god isthis an accident? Is this a coincidence?' I

don't think so," Wolter said.

They wondered why Templars would

come to North America, carve the stone and code the date.

"If it's the Templars that were under religious persecution at the time, that would

be a pretty good reason to come over here," Wolter figured.

"I'm sure a lot of people are going to roll their eyes and say oh it's the Davinci Code

and if they do they do. This is the evidence. This is who was there. This is what thegrave slabs tell us. It is what it is," he said.

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