Sedimentary Periods
There are odder oddities. Inexplicable even by the super dinosaur theory are man like tracks allegedly found in Carboniferous sandstone by Dr Burroughs of the Geology department at Berea College in the 1930s. He found ten man like tracks and parts of others in strata of the Paleozoic era of 250 million years ago, millions of years before the dinosaurs and, in fact, when the highest species then evolved were the amphibians. Both left and right feet were seen with a step length of 18 inches. The prints found in Mississippi limestone mentioned at the outset seem to be from the same period.
Amphibians emerged near the start of the Carboniferous, about 400 million years ago, and radiated into many ecological niches over the roughly 200 million years of their dominance. They eventually attenuated at the end of the Permian period, about 225 million years ago when the reptiles began to assume their ascendancy. 200 million years may seems long enough for intelligence to evolve in a vertebrate lifeform but, if it did, one would expect to see it arise towards the end of the period, whereas these tracks—if the rock matrix has been correctly dated—are at least 50 million years too soon. More importantly, since the amphibians were cold blooded, all the arguments formerly used against intelligent cold blooded dinosaurs genuinely applies to them. Perhaps barefooted “gods” visited us in carboniferous times after all. Or have the creative Creationists been at work?
On 25 January 1927, in Pershing county, Nevada, a Mr Knapp found a fossilized shoe print impressed in rocks laid down at the time of the great reptiles. The double stitches in the seams were distinct, microphotographs showing them very clearly:
At one place it was double stitched and the twist of the thread could be clearly seen.
The authenticity of the find was suggested by minute crystals of mercuric sulfide long ago deposited by leaching action in the impression. Such crystalline deposits can not realistically be imitated. A geologist of the Rockefeller Foundation confirmed that the substratum of the fossil was Triassic limestone.
In 1897, the Los Angeles Herald revealed that laborers had discovered a fossil shoe print in solid rock. The imprint was that of a shoe with a high narrow heel and a broad flat sole. It was so clear, in the fine grained shale in which it was found, that it looked as though “the owner had unwittingly put his right foot into soft mud but a day or two ago”. Sandal or moccasin prints have also been seen in the gypsum of the White Sands in New Mexico. Ellis Wright, in 1932, found tracks of human form but 22 inches long. Some later tracks were accompanied by marks suggestive of the use of some sort of support like a walking stick by one of the antediluvian beings. The White Sands were laid down as an ancient inland sea gradually dried up around the time of the demise of the dinosaurs.
Oil workers have recovered carved bones and decorated “coins” from deep rocks brought up during well drilling. A gold necklace was found in a piece of coal. What appeared to be an iron tool was found in a Scottish coal seam.
Oddities in Coal
Two workmen signed affidavits to their amazing discovery in 1912 of an iron pot inside a large piece of coal that they were breaking up to be used in the furnace of a power plant. The pot left a clear fossil impression in the remaining pieces of coal.
Coalminers noticed a curious slab in an Iowa coal mine in 1897. Found 130 feet below ground just below the sandstone which capped the seam, it was approximately two feet long by one foot wide and was four inches deep. Its surface was inscribed with diamond shapes having the face of what seemed to be an old man in the middle of each.
Steiger implies that the stone slab must have been 300 million years old. This puts it with some of the other observations here into the “super erratic” category in that it preceded the death of the dinosaurs by over 200 million years and can hardly fit our thesis. But, like the iguanodons, it could have been accidently buried. Or could it have been deliberately buried by a later race just as we would bury some sort of time capsule? Perhaps it carries a message meant to be decipherable by future beings.
The features of the faces were said to be all similar, inclined to the right except for two of them, and, interestingly, all had a strange dent in the middle of their forehead. Was this the third eye (our pineal gland) which is most pronounced in some types of modern lizard—and possibly some dinosaurs too?
Steiger relates the story of a man whose grandfather in 1928 came across a concrete wall buried in a coal mine two miles below ground. While shot blasting a seam, the miner found, among the dislodged coal, blocks of concrete about a foot across. Although the broken edges showed that they were made of what passed as an ordinary sand and cement mixture, the faces of the blocks were highly polished. The remainder of the wall disappeared into the coal seam.
Another miner working a coal face about 100 yards away struck what seemed to be the same wall. Mysteriously the coal owners pulled the men out of the coal faces and ordered them to keep quiet about their discoveries. What is more, before he joined that gang, a few years earlier, they had found a similar wall in a nearby pit. They had also found a cylinder of silver with staves imprinted on it, and a large bone described as being “like an elephant’s”. Wouldn’t a layman easily mistake a fossilized dinosaur bone for an elephant’s?
Another coal miner in West Virginia claimed miners had found a well constructed concrete building, and, astonishingly, a “perfectly formed human leg that had been changed into coal”. Though the leg presumably was not human, it evidently was sufficiently human like (“perfectly formed”) to convince observers that it was human, with the implication that some human like creature existed millions of years ago.
Animal remains are rarely found in coal deposits because the conditions in the steamy jungles that gave rise to them promoted rapid decomposition. However Otto Stutzer describes in his Geology of Coal an apparently human skull in the coal collection of the Mining Academy in Freiberg. He does not mention the age of the coal deposits but says the skull is composed of brown coal and manganiferous and phosphatic limonite. Although there are deposits of brown coal in Russia that are from the Carboniferous period, brown coal is usually young coal from the Mesozoic era or the Tertiary period, the former of which covered the age of the reptiles!
The New York Times, in November 1926, reported that a Dr Siegfriedt who collected fossils for the University of Iowa, had found a “human” molar in coal deposits laid down in the Eocene epoch. Although the enamel had carbonized and the roots had mineralized into an iron compound, local dentists felt sure it was a human second lower molar. Dr Siegfriedt described the stratum as yielding many fossils for dinosaur research as well as sharks’ teeth and fish scales.
These oddities are not particularly evidence of anthroposaurs but they are evidence that oddities are not uncommon. Science often progresses by looking at oddities, apparent violations of received knowledge. Yet much of this is ignored.
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