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I am not normal.
While most people in my country angrily shout at a television because of holding calls, the little gay kid getting kicked off a talent show despite his rendition of the Carpenters song being FAR superior to the fat black girl's or when the Tide car passes the Skoal car.
But me, no. Last night I was watching a show called "America Unearthed" on the "History" channel. It was all about the lost colony of Roanaoke Island and the dubious at best collection of so-called "Dare Stones".
The story is, basically, a colony of English lived on Roanoake Island near the Outer Banks. One of the colonists left to ask Sir Walter Raliegh for help and supplies and when he returned the entire colony was gone without a trace (*). That was late 1500s. In 1937, completely by coincidence that at the time of a play about the lost colony was popular, a person found a stone with inscriptions that indicated that one of the colonists, Eleanor Dare, was leaving behind a trail for people to find the colonists who were running for their lives. Over the next few years, and again completely by coincidence, more stones were found in South Carolina and outside Atlanta. Near where the play was showing.
Evidence suggests that the colonists made friends with an Indian Tribe, the Croatoans and due to harsh conditions, moved to their island, now Cape Hatteras. And when I say evidence, I mean the word "Croatoan" carved on the fort walls on Roanoake (* this is called a trace), tools and personal belongings of the colonists and stories of a rival tribe murdering the entire Croataoan tribe and a bunch of English people.
But this dumbass, who calls himself a forensic geologist, examines one of the rocks, declares them old and "real", speculates that the Colonists moved inland because of Hurricanes and eventually found their way to Atlanta. And then berates the guy who operates the Croatoan museum for "Wild speculation without fact" when he says "Uhh, those stones are the only thing that doesn't fit the evidence, so they are probably fake".
I wound up shouting at the TV - "YOU ARE THE WORST FUCKING INVESTIGATOR I HAVE EVER HEARD OF!"
Which was actually way better than when he tried to prove that America was discovered by Phoenecians because when you draw a straight line from the Salem Rock formations (America's "Stonehenge") through the actual Stonehenge, it ends near Beirut. Which was Phoenicia, and Canaan. If I didn't love my TV so much, I may hove heaved a shoe at it.
My wife suggested I watch House hunters International instead.
While most people in my country angrily shout at a television because of holding calls, the little gay kid getting kicked off a talent show despite his rendition of the Carpenters song being FAR superior to the fat black girl's or when the Tide car passes the Skoal car.
But me, no. Last night I was watching a show called "America Unearthed" on the "History" channel. It was all about the lost colony of Roanaoke Island and the dubious at best collection of so-called "Dare Stones".
The story is, basically, a colony of English lived on Roanoake Island near the Outer Banks. One of the colonists left to ask Sir Walter Raliegh for help and supplies and when he returned the entire colony was gone without a trace (*). That was late 1500s. In 1937, completely by coincidence that at the time of a play about the lost colony was popular, a person found a stone with inscriptions that indicated that one of the colonists, Eleanor Dare, was leaving behind a trail for people to find the colonists who were running for their lives. Over the next few years, and again completely by coincidence, more stones were found in South Carolina and outside Atlanta. Near where the play was showing.
Evidence suggests that the colonists made friends with an Indian Tribe, the Croatoans and due to harsh conditions, moved to their island, now Cape Hatteras. And when I say evidence, I mean the word "Croatoan" carved on the fort walls on Roanoake (* this is called a trace), tools and personal belongings of the colonists and stories of a rival tribe murdering the entire Croataoan tribe and a bunch of English people.
But this dumbass, who calls himself a forensic geologist, examines one of the rocks, declares them old and "real", speculates that the Colonists moved inland because of Hurricanes and eventually found their way to Atlanta. And then berates the guy who operates the Croatoan museum for "Wild speculation without fact" when he says "Uhh, those stones are the only thing that doesn't fit the evidence, so they are probably fake".
I wound up shouting at the TV - "YOU ARE THE WORST FUCKING INVESTIGATOR I HAVE EVER HEARD OF!"
Which was actually way better than when he tried to prove that America was discovered by Phoenecians because when you draw a straight line from the Salem Rock formations (America's "Stonehenge") through the actual Stonehenge, it ends near Beirut. Which was Phoenicia, and Canaan. If I didn't love my TV so much, I may hove heaved a shoe at it.
My wife suggested I watch House hunters International instead.
for making me look something up!!
