The Oak Island Mystery

by Lionel

  It is only when Dr. Mortlet’s extensive studies of Glozel and its weird alphabet[1] are combined with George Young’s keen perception that the most likely explanation of the Yarmouth Stone’s inscription is forthcoming. Far from detracting from the Stone’s historical interest and importance, a connection with the Glozel Alphabet — which appears to be much older than the Viking runes — greatly enhances the Stone’s importance and raises a score of intriguing questions about how long it lay in Dr. Fletcher’s saltmarsh, who inscribed it, and how they reached Nova Scotia.

  Here are the characters inscribed on the Yarmouth Stone, set alongside their Glozel counterparts, numbered according to Dr. Morlet’s categorization on pages 31 and 32 of his Origines de l’Ecriture.[2]

  Notes

  Foreword

  1. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, Secrets of Rennes-le-Château (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1992).

  2. One of Lionel Fanthorpe’s theology tutors during Ordination Training, Canon Mogford, is rightly renowned and widely respected throughout the Church in Wales for his profound wisdom, wide experience, and extensive scholarship. The authors are deeply grateful to him for reading the manuscript and enriching their book with this foreword.

  Chapter 3: The Work of the Onslow Company in 1803

  1. Something doesn’t quite seem to click here. If these dimensions and the weight are taken as accurate, the density of the stone can be calculated to be 1.68. This is rather light considering that most of the minerals of the earth’s crust have densities between 2.8 and 3.5. Could the stone possibly have been hollow?

  Chapter 9: Into the Twentieth Century

  1. It would be worthwhile to submit specimens of this pottery to Edinburgh or Copenhagen Universities, where the techniques of thermo-luminescent glow-curve dating of pottery have been pioneered. In essence, a fragment of the ceramic is placed inside a dark chamber and heated. Depending upon how long ago it was last fired, it will glow when a certain temperature is reached. Pottery fired in Roman times, for example, glows at lower temperatures than pottery fired in the fourteenth century, and that, in turn, glows at lower temperatures than Victorian pottery. Thermo-luminescent testing has already verified the age of some of the controversial objects found on M. Fradin’s farm at Glozel near Vichy, France, in 1924: another intriguing unsolved mystery which may well have connections with both Rennes-le-Château and Oak Island.

  Chapter 10: Triton Alliance Takes Over

  1. Radio-carbon dating was developed at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s. The basis of the technique comprises a comparison between the relative activities of 14C (the radioactive form of carbon) in contemporary living tissue and in the sample being dated. The logarithm of this ratio then has to be multiplied by the rate of decay of 14C. The half-life of 14C is normally reckoned to be 5,568 years ±0.54 percent an uncertainty equivalent to ±30 years out of the 5,568.

  Chapter 11: Pirates and Privateers

  1. See pamphlet entitled New York’s Land-Holding Sea Rover (New York: Lotus Press, New York Title and Guarantee Co., 1901.)

  2. See the reference to the “limitless” Cathar Treasure, pecuniam infinitam, which disappeared from the mountain fortress of Montségur, France, in 1244, described in Secrets of Rennes-le-Château, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1992), 44.

  3. Ernle Bradford, Drake (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987), 96.

  Chapter 12: Celts and Vikings

  1. See T.F, O’Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, 1946; Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, The Voyage of Bran, 1895; and G. and T. Jones (translators), The Mabinogion, 1946.

  2. The term “clew” refers to a ball of magic thread, or fine cord, of the kind which Ariadne used to guide Theseus out of the Cretan Labyrinth after he had slain the hideous bull-headed Minotaur.

  3. R. Brinley Jones (Ed.), Anatomy of Wales, article entitled “Industry in Wales” by D. Morgan Rees, 86. (Peterston-super-Ely, Glamorgan, Wales, Gwerin Publications, 1972.) See also D. Mercer, Exploring Unspoilt Britain (London: Octopus Books, published for the National Trust, 1985), 56.

  4. J.R. Enterline, Viking America: The New Crossings and their Legacy, (London: New English Library, 1973.)

  5. See C. Gini, “The Location of Vinland,” Papers of the Institute of Economics of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Number 10, Bergen, 1958; and C. Gordon, Before Columbus (New York, Crown, 1971).

  Chapter 13: Religious Refugees

  1. George Young, Ancient Peoples and Modern Ghosts (Queensland, Halifax County, NS, B0J 1T0, 1980).

  2. See for example, D.A. Deal, The Nexus, (Columbus, GA: ISAC [Institute for the Study of American Cultures] Press, 1993), 124–127.

  3. Exod. 12: 35, 36.

  Chapter 14: The Indomitable Templars

  1. Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal (London: Heinemann, 1992).

  2. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, Secrets of Rennes-le-Château (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1992).

  3. Lewis Spence, The Encyclopedia of the Occult (London: Bracken Books, 1988), 143.

  4. Nestorius (circa 380–451), Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, argued against the use of the term Θεοτόκος (Mother of God) to describe Mary the Mother of Jesus. See J.F. Bethune-Baker, Nestorius and his Teaching, 1908.

  5. For information on Prester John see: Friedrich Zarncke, Der Priester Johannes (Leipzig: 1870); M. d’Averac, “Recueil de Voyages et de Memoires” in Societe de Geographic, Volume iv, 547–564, Paris, 1839).

  6. Gustav Oppert, Des Presbyter Johannes in Sage und Geschichte (Berlin: 1870).

  7. 1 Kings 10 vv 1–13, repeated in 2 Chron. 9: 1–12.

  8. William Smith, (Ed.), A Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 3, article titled “Seba” by R.S. Poole, 1188–89. There is also interesting support for this idea in Psalm 72, verse 10: “The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.”

  9. G. Hancock, The Sign and the Seal (London: Mandarin Paperbacks, 1993), 44.

  10. Song of Sol. 1: 5–6.

  11. Sergew Hable-Selassie, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa: Haile-Selassie I University, 1972), 265.

  12. M. Baigent, R. Leigh, H. Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), Corgi Paperback Edition, 248.

  13. 2 Chron. 9:31–2 Chron. 10:19.

  14. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, translated by H.M. Mustard, and C.E. Passage (New York: 1961), 251.

  15. Andrew Sinclair, The Sword and the Grail (London: Random House, 1993).

  16. Michael Bradley, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1988).

  17. William S. Crooker, Oak Island Gold (Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 1993).

  18. William F. Mann, Nova Scotia: The New Jerusalem.

  Chapter 15: The French Connection: Rennes and Glozel

  1. Gen. 14:18

  2. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, The Holy Grail Revealed: The Real Secret of Rennes-le-Château (San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, Second Edition, 1986), 68.

  3. David Wood, Genisis, and D. Wood and I. Campbell, Geneset (Sunbury-on-Thames, U.K.: Bellevue Books).

  4. H. Lincoln, The Holy Place (London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1991).

  5. Paul Haupt, Das babylonische Nimrodepos (Leipzig: 1884).

  Chapter 16: Francis Bacon’s Secret Cypher

  1. E. Lawrence-Durning, Bacon is Shakespeare, 1910, and The Shakespeare Myth, 1912.

  2. Paul Harvey (ed.), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fourth Edition, revised by D.S. Eagle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), 58.

  3. Darcy O’Connor, The Big Dig (New York: Ballantine, 1988), 218.

  4. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, Secrets of Rennes-le-Château, (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1992), 101.

  5. George MacDonald, Lilith, Lion Paperback Edition, 1982 reprint of 1895 original, p. 11, reference to a magic mirror acting as a window into a strange, faërie realm.

  6. Francis Bacon, The Essays
(Long Acre, London: Odhams Press Ltd.), 204.

  7. Ben Jonson, “Discoveries, made upon men and matter,” 1641.

  8. Even this twelve-book scheme for the Faerie Queene constitutes only half of Spenser’s proposed work. As Spenser himself explained in an open letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, “I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a braue knight, perfected in the twelue priuate morall vertues, as Aristotle hath deuised, the which is the purpose of these first twelue bookes: which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged, to frame the other part of polliticke vertues in his person, after that hee came to be king.” — The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Smith & Selincourt (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 407.

  Chapter 17: Something Older and Stranger

  1. Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 384.

  2. C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (London: Pan Books paperback edition, 1980), 172.

  3. C. Berlitz, and W. Moore, The Philadelphia Experiment (London: Souvenir Press, 1979, Granada Paperbacks, 1980). B. Steiger, A. Bailek, and S. Hanson-Steiger, The Philadelphia Experiment and Other UFO Conspiracies (New Brunswick, NJ: Inner Light Publications, 1990).

  4. P.B. Nichols and P. Moon, The Montauk Project (Westbury, NY: Sky Books, 1992).

  5. L. Spence, Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt (London: George C. Harrap and Co., Dover 1990 reprint), 106–107.

  6. M. Baigent, R. Leigh, and H. Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (London: Corgi Edition, 1983).

  7. M. Baigent, R. Leigh, and H. Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (London: Corgi Edition, 1983), 412.

  8. Judg. 6:37, et seq.

  Appendix II: George Young, Glozel, and the Yarmouth Stone

  1. A. Morlet, Origines de l’Ecriture (Montpelier, France: Cause, Graille & Castelnau, 1955).

  2. Ibid.

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