Posted on 05/31/2017 10:27:24 PM PDT by Theoria
Could it be a message left by some of New Mexico’s first explorers?
A set of mysterious stone pillars found in the state’s remote northern forest has sparked that question. They’re carved stone pillars covered with symbols that clearly have a history — but a history, so far, no one seems to know anything about.
One man has now made it his quest to find the answer. He’s hoping someone will step forward to help solve the mystery that spans across decades near Cimarron.
“Who made it? How did it wind up in northern New Mexico? What does it mean?” asked Louis Serna.
A northern New Mexico native who was born and raised in Springer and Cimarron, Louis Serna has spent his retirement writing about the people and places that make-up northern New Mexico’s history.
“This has been my life you know, so to speak, history and exploration,” said Serna.
As he looks at images of the first stone pillar he found at a Cimarron business, Serna’s excitement is easy to notice. He calls the mystery behind the stone pillars one of New Mexico’s most intriguing, comparable to “Mystery Rock,” or what some know as the “Los Lunas Decalogue Stone” on Hidden Mountain in Valencia County.
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1598....earliest noted presence of Spanish guys in New Mexico, with a fort built. They were ‘hiking’ through the area fifty years prior to that.
Stone grave markers from the 1800s show far more wear than this pillar. And the carving is remarkably crisp. This thing isn’t old.
That’s what it looks like to me, maybe for early converts from Spanish mission work who were not yet literate.
I was disappointed that no mention was made as to how they emerged. Did they crawl out of the forest? Hitch a ride? Get beamed down?
Looks as though they were merely found in said forest, which is still interesting, all in all.
I could totally make that.
I just watched a YouTube show about these last night. This guy Lerna has some pretty far out theories about their origins.
#12. I majored in Anthropology/Archaeology and “minered” in Geology ( I was lousy in my Stratigraphy class but worked as a lab assistant on Conodonts, those my teacher found in the Cincinatti Basal Formation (Grand Tetons, possibly) and my own finds in the Ordovician rocks of a limestone quarry just outside of Chambersburg, PA and along the nearby railroad tracks.
Whatever I wrote about limestone is based on things I learned about 50 years ago though I ocassionally took my kids and now my granddaughter out to fossil sites in the Shenandoah Valley and the Miocence of the Potomac River/Paleocene of the DC Beltway.
That dude is a fraud looking for evidence of Mormon history and proving Mormons are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel...
Vikings
I saw that in the headline, too, and thought it was hilarious: “the pillars emerged from the forest.” On their own two feet? On horseback? Was it in daylight or - spooky! - after dark?
That was my first thought “The Lost Tribe!!!”
I worked for a company that was trying to come up with some signage, symbols, monuments, etc. to place at a nuclear waste burial site. Something that 500,000 years from now would still mean “KEEP OUT”.
I hope these aren’t a similar thing!
Or deliberately hoaxed. Read about the Roanoke Colony stones.
That area probably averages about 1-2” per month of moisture (rain/snow).
Not a lot of sandstorms in that area, dust sure.
I was leaning toward bored sheepherders. They left lots of interesting things in that area.
Rocks don’t change that much in 50 years. :-)
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Fakity fake fake.
Looks to me to be saying, “Louie, sit down and eat...your dinner is getting cold”.
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