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Underwater Stone Formation at Bimini: Ancient Harbor Evidence (Uncovering the Bimini Hoax)
Mysterious America ^ | 11/2005 | Greg Little

Posted on 08/06/2007 5:27:45 PM PDT by Renfield

In 1968 a 1600-foot long J-shaped formation of stone blocks was reportedly discovered about one mile off the west coast of North Bimini, Bahamas by a Miami-based biologist, Dr. J. Manson Valentine. The formation was initially thought to resemble a collapsed wall or a road and the unfortunate name “Bimini Road” was attached to it. Media coverage speculated that the site was associated with Atlantis and sensationalized reports about the formation were widely disseminated. Shortly thereafter, four geologists asserted that the formation was nothing but natural limestone. Most archaeologists and geologists have accepted the four geologists’ claims without question. However, an inspection of the site shows that the skeptics’ most important claims about the formation are inaccurate. More importantly, however, a careful evaluation of the prime skeptical geologist’s original research results indicate that his published findings were changed, misreported, and misrepresented in later reports that presented the same data. By definition, this geologist’s claims about the Bimini site, based on his later reports, constitute a hoax that has now lasted 25 years. A well-known archaeologist appears to have participated in the hoax as a coauthor. Paradoxically, these coauthors alleged in several articles that a hoax had been perpetrated at Bimini by others. It is demonstrated herein that USGS geologist Eugene Shinn and archaeologist Marshall McKusick published a series of articles wherein they presented false and misleading results summarizing Shinn’s research findings at Bimini....

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KEYWORDS: archaeology; bimini; godsgravesglyphs; ruins
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Many good photos and diagrams are at the original site. It's a .pdf file so I can't post any pictures here. The author makes a strong argument that a harbor facility, similar to those made by the ancient Phoenicians, was constructed along the coast of Bimini sometime prior to 5000BC!
1 posted on 08/06/2007 5:27:47 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Ping.

(Blam—I couldn’t find a free pdf-to-Word converter, so I can’t post the whole article or photos. Sorry.)


2 posted on 08/06/2007 5:29:48 PM PDT by Renfield (How come there aren't any football teams with pink uniforms?)
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To: Renfield
Thanks anyway. I know the story and have probably already seen most of the photos anyway.

Some good photos here

3 posted on 08/06/2007 5:47:06 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Renfield
However, an inspection of the site shows that the skeptics’ most important claims about the formation are inaccurate.

Skeptics don't need real evidence because they already know what all the answers are supposed to be.

All they have to do is hear someone suggest something like Atlantis and they automatically know that it is a natural formation because Atlantis couldn't have existed.

Just like astronomers used to know with certainty that rocks didn't fall from the sky because there are no rocks in the sky. So anyone who claimed to see a rock fall from the sky was obviously a liar or crazy.

4 posted on 08/06/2007 5:48:05 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: blam

Looks like the remains of a giant turtle to me.

See the turtle of enormous girth
Upon his back he holds the earth.

His thought is slow but not unkind
He holds us all within his mind

Upon his back all vows are made
He knows the truth but mayn’t aid

He loves the land and loves the sea
And even loves a child like me!

That probably isn’t quite right but it is from Stephen King’s Dark Tower books.


5 posted on 08/06/2007 5:52:12 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: Duke Nukum
Atlantis
6 posted on 08/06/2007 5:57:59 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Interesting. Reminds me of Cowtown by TMBG:

I’m going down to Cowtown
The cow’s a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean and that’s where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves
And that’s where I will be
I’m gonna see the cow beneath the sea


7 posted on 08/06/2007 6:52:23 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: Duke Nukum

BUMP!


8 posted on 08/06/2007 6:58:56 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961

Sadly, there aren’t really any good videos of this song on You Tube. This is probably the best one but it’s only 23 seconds and is very, very violent. Not for the squeemish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpZH5EdCMY

Oh, and also, it has nothing to do with cows.

The other two are really, really boring.

I remember after getting this album and listening to this song over and over, they had a news story on the radio about a mummified cow found in the ocean someplace. So that makes me think this song is rock, solid fact! There may or there may not be or have been an Atlantis but Cowtown is real.

We yearn to swim for home, but our only home is bone
How sleepless is the egg knowing that which throws the stone
Foresees the bone, the bone
Our only home is bone
Our only home is bone


9 posted on 08/06/2007 7:10:52 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: Duke Nukum

VERY well put.


10 posted on 08/06/2007 9:48:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, August 6, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Thanks Renfield.
 
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11 posted on 08/06/2007 9:49:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, August 6, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Thanks Renfield! Read this yesterday while following the links within that page you'd already sent the link for, and tried to do the conversion. That online converter at the Adobe website, well, it kinda does nothing but run a gif animation claiming that the file is being processed.

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12 posted on 08/06/2007 9:51:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, August 6, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Renfield

Reminds me of a program I saw on the History Channel about a similar formation near Okinawa or someplace like that; anyone else see that/recall that/have any information about that? Someone on the show was claiming it’s evidence of an ancient civilization, while someone else was claiming it’s just a natural - if unusual - geological formation.


13 posted on 08/07/2007 1:39:22 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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That’s Yonaguni. Last I heard, all but the baying hounds agreed it’s a natural formation.


14 posted on 08/07/2007 4:32:50 AM PDT by Graymatter ( Number 1 job real Americans won't do: holler for bread & circuses.)
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To: Jack Hammer; Graymatter
I saw the same show and googled it. Here are some of the links I bookmarked:

Ancient Archaeology

the mysterious underwater pyramid structure at Yonaguni

more Yonaguni evidence from the personal website of Professor Masaaki Kimura from an exclusive illustrated interview with Professor Kimura about the underwater pyramid structures discovered off Yonaguni-Jima, Japan

Yonaguni

Given that we know for a fact there are lands submerged because of ice age melting, the idea that there are civilizations under water doesn't seem so crazy, as ideas go. Evidence is necessary, but the idea isn't crazy.

15 posted on 08/07/2007 5:49:52 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Renfield

So this is the truth about a hoax about a hoax?


16 posted on 08/07/2007 8:26:17 AM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: Renfield; blam; SunkenCiv; All

I don’t know how many will read the long article, I got to page 20 before my significant other begged to let him look at the latest stock market figures.

At any rate, it reports about two separate sets of phenomena. One the old known “Bimini Road” which I think is at least 20 feet under water, and the other more recently discover artifact which is only about 8 feet under water, which the article suggest could represent a more recent period of time.

The author presents numerous comparisons with finds at the shallower level which correspond to Mediterranean artifacts for harbors with Roman, Phoenecian, and related ancient peoples. These include anchor stones, and off shore harborages for quick visits.

Then they report things this expedition found on the “older sites” when they explored a difficult area which was covered with vegetation, and sharks. They opined that the earlier reporters may have avoided that site. There they discovered stones stacked on stones, with the ones on the top the most eroded, and also resting on large foundation blocs if you brushed away a little sand.

I am less than a quarter of the way through the article and am going back to see what else they say.


17 posted on 08/07/2007 12:19:19 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Renfield

These people are considering the Bimini Road to be an isolated occurence. Bimini has many things to suggest it was a site of some significance in the past, not the least of which are the shark mound (which lines up on a perfect north-south and east-west axis), seahorse mound and cat mound, all of which are visible from the air but difficult to reach because they lie in a nearly impassable mangrove swamp. Throw in the “Healing Hole” which is a tidal pool in the middle of a mangrove swamp on North Bimini that fills up with mineral-laden (lithium and sulfur)fresh water on the outgoing tide and it gets interesting.

Bimini has only been inhabited for the last 150 years by modern man, but there is much evidence that the two islands have played a much more significant role in human history than we are aware.


18 posted on 08/07/2007 12:49:33 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Someone on the show was claiming it’s evidence of an ancient civilization, while someone else was claiming it’s just a natural - if unusual - geological formation.

I saw that show. It looked manmade to me, especially the "stage" area and a corner that looked like a face with eyes had been carved in it.

What part of the Bimini road has been proven to be fake?

19 posted on 08/07/2007 12:57:42 PM PDT by Ping-Pong
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To: Ping-Pong
An Enigmatic Ancient Underwater Structure off the Coast of Yonaguni Island, Japan
20 posted on 08/07/2007 1:40:41 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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