Ed Conrad
Tue, Jun-22-04, 05:17
>
> As you all know by now, truth no longer is playing second
> fiddle to the fiction, fantasy and fairy tales that have
> been dished out for more than a century about man's origin
> and ancestry. < Finally, it's the official end of the
> deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy that has long
> been perpetrated by arrogant, egotistical members of the
> Scientific Establshment in and out of its hallowed Halls of
> Learning. < Their monumental hoax on mankind has met its
> match with the presentation of undeniable physical evidence
> that, multi-millions of years ago, the good earth wasn't
> anything like what has long been depicted by the scientific
> community. < For one thing, man -- in almost our present
> form -- existed while coal was being formed, and our
> ancestors lived alongside giant scorpions, dinosaurs and
> beasts with six-inch-high canine teeth. < And man and
> animals had one thing in common. Both were annihilated in
> some incredible catastrophe that blew them limb from limb
> and scattered their bones, teeth and soft organs in all
> directions.. < What happened next is a testament to the
> late, great Immanuel Velikovsky who, more than a
> half-century ago, said the true story of earth's -- and
> man's -- past is written in the rocks, visible for all to
> see as part of the fossil record. < Eons ago -- before coal
> hardened -- some sort of fluid engulfed the bones, teeth
> and soft organs just after the great catastrophe, causing
> them to petrifiy and now offer a mindboggling horror story
> of mankind's distant past. < That man existed during the
> Carboniferous Period also offers proof that we could not
> possibly have evolved as suggested by the Darwin Theory. <
> Rightly so, because the theory of the evolution of man
> never possessed a shred of physical evidence in the first
> place. Man could not -- and did not -- become such a
> magnificent machine by a series of incredible accidents of
> nature since it's an astronomical mathematical absurdity. <
> Even Charles Darwin had a sneaky suspicion his theory was
> full of hot air.
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/truth/tosuppose.gif
>
> And Earnest Hooton, longtime professor of anthropology at
> Harvard University, seconded the motion years later in his
> book, "Apes, Men and Morons," citing the absence of
> undeniable physical evidence.
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-013S.JPG
>
> < But, since we were spoon-fed such pablum -- the evolution
> of man -- by members of the omniscient Scientific
> Establishment, most of us ate up every word. These pompous
> asses were neither to be questioned nor challenged. < About
> a year after finding my first specimen of petrified bone
> between coal veins in June 1981, I couldn't believe the
> incedible resistence I was encountering in my pursuit of
> honest investigation. < My longtime friend, Clayton Lennon
> (1900-1996), warned me it wouldn't be easy and one day,
> between puffs of his cigar, summed up my despair quite
> eloquently . <
>
>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/coalbones/edyournot.gif
>
> < Meanwhile, as their noses continued to grow, so also did
> the arrogance of members of the Scientific Establishment who
> had long lost the goal of a search for truth. The only
> important thing to them, I soon learned, was to make no
> waves and concentrate on protecting their vested interests.
> < Over time, they had become incredibly ruthless and bold,
> really believing that -- as members of omnipotent Acadamia
> -- they could do anything they damn well pleased and answer
> to no one.. < Since I have had a ringside seat over these
> past 23 years, I assure you that it has included not only
> denial of physical evidence that could -- would -- destroy
> the theory of the evolution of man but actually tampering
> with that evidence -- and I have come right out and named
> names. < Then, with brass testacles, the criminals were
> actually belitting the victim, with character assassination
> leveled like a Gatling gun. < And even worse, the assault on
> truth was adamantly defended by their colleagues. <
> Fortunately, for your grandchildren and mine, that day is
> over. The pseudoscientists' day of reckoning has finally
> arrived. < But it comes as no surprise. After all, they had
> been forewarned: <
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/canals/hooton.gif
>
> <
> ==================================================
> < TRUTH FINALLY CATCHES UP TO THE PERPETRATORS OF DECEIT,
> DECEPTION, COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACY <
> ===================================================
> < Here are just a few of the thousands upon thousands of
> specimens of petrified bones, teeth and/or even soft organs
> -- some human -- that I have discovered between two separate
> anthracite veins in Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past
> 23 years. <
>
>>
Petrified human finger (with fingernail AND Petrified human
toe (with toenail):
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Au29/MVC-016S.JPG
Petrified human skull embedded in a boulder
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg
Another petrified human skull
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg
< Petrified human femur still embedded in slate
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg
< Petrified human gall bladder containing gall stone
(via CATscan)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg
>
Portion of petrified tibia
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg
>
Petrified human lung (or is it a human liver?)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg
>
Whitled wood: Tool and/or weapon (turned to coal)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
>
One hemisphere of human brain.
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG
< Human jaw with a few teeth
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix5/MVC-002S.JPG <
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Bones/MVC-006S.JPG
>
Side view of human mandible
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg
>
etc.,etc.> <
> Portion of three-toed dinosaur foot still embedded in slate
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
< Petrified giant fetus
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-013F.JPG
< Another giant fetus (this one still embedded in slate)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG
>
Portion of a giant petrified scorpion
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-001S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG
>
>
> < Strange, according to scientific doctrine, they couldn't
> possibly have been found in Carboniferous strata, dated at
> a minimum of 280 million years. < You see, every scientific
> textbook insists that no large land animals, let alone man,
> existed back then. Hell, man wouldn't begin evolving until
> multi-millions of years later, the pseudos proclaimed. <
> But the incredible arsenal of petrified bones, teeth and
> even soft organs proves -- beyond doubt -- that man and
> large land animals indeed had been around when coal was
> being formed. Otherwise, their mortal remains could not
> have been preserved between layers of anthracite as the
> result of a catastrophe beyond our wildest imagination. <
> And, since this is the grim evidence that a catastrophe
> happened before, there is NO question that it could happen
> again. < Velikovsky provided evidence of catastrophes in
> his two books, "Worlds in Collision" and "Earth in
> Upheaval," published back in the early 1950s. In them, he
> offered undeniable evidence of calamities beyond human
> comprehension but was ridiculed and badmouthed by members
> of the Scientific Establishment. < Here's a copy of these
> two books, in paperback, and an explanation why Velikovsky
> was treated with scorn and contempt, which is how members
> of the Scientific Establishment have treated me for the
> last 21 1/2 years.
>
>>>====================================================
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Petrifiedx/MVC-010S.JPG
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Petrifiedx/MVC-011S.JPG
>
> More Velikvosky: <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-014S.JPG
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-008S.JPG
>
> <
>
>>>====================================================
>
> < A longtime newspaperman, I figured -- when realizing I was
> getting the shaft from the Scientific Establishment -- I'd
> get a fair shake from newspapers in an effort to tell my
> story. < I thought the editors would be genuinely interested
> in what might've sounded like a farfetched story, except
> that it was backed up by petrified bones, teeth and soft
> organs as old as coal. < Reporters from the Allentown (Pa.)
> Call-Chronicle and Las Vegas Sun, to mention just two, were
> greatly impressed. But when their stories appeared in print,
> it took my breath away. The articles were completely
> negative, making me look like that proverbial horse's ass. <
> Naturally, there was nothing I could do about it, so I had
> to give up on newspapers completely. I had long known the
> New York Times, Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer
> wouldn't touch it because they had several opportunities to
> do so but bowed to their vested interests and ignored me. <
> Ditto for the TV network news shows like "60 Minutes" and
> "Larrry King.">
<
> For the longest time, it appeared the world would never know
> the truth about the catastrophe that decimated both man and
> animal while coal was being formed. < Then a miracle
> happened -- along came the Internet. It gave me a way to
> reach the pubic but, of course, the public wasn't paying
> attention because members of the Scientific Establishment
> kept making me look like a fool and an imbecile. < And, if
> you recall, they had been doing a mighty fine job of it
> right up until yesterday. That's when members of the
> Scientific Establishment got the second biggest shock of
> their lives, dwarfed only by the attack on the Twin Towers.
> < Suddenly overnight, with the presentation of an arsenal of
> physical evidence, the ridicule and character assassination
> had eased somewhat. < Suddenly, their cannons ran out of
> ammunition, accusations that I'm a liar and a fraud. <
> Suddenly, these Clown Princes of Sciences -- long having
> made a joke at the expense of sacred Science -- finally
> realized that their involvement in deceit, deception,
> collusion and conspiracy has caught up with them. < These
> Omniscient Buffoons have defended their colleagues who, with
> incredible audacity, have made a mockery of physical
> evidence, totally ignoring it and sometimes even tampering
> with it. < Thomas Alva Edison probably put in a nutshell
> what they were doing for so long, and my dear friend Clayton
> was right on target, too. <
>
>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/quotesnew.gif
>
> <
> ===========================================
>
>>========= SOME OF THE SPECIMENS =========
>
> ===========================================
> <
>
>>THE VERY FIRST DISCOVERY
>
> < The following is the very first discovery of petrified
> bone in coal-bearing Carboniferous strata in June 1981. <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith1/first.jpg
>
> < The specimen, which I found by accident, resembled a giant
> skull and the Smithsonian expressed an interest after
> receiving a photo, inviting me to bring it down to
> Washington so it could be examined firsthand. < Three of its
> "experts" -- an anthropologist, a paleontologist and a
> geologist -- looked it over carefully but, after a few
> minutes, concurred that it was nothing more than a rock or
> concretion, certainly nothng that had ever lived. < No one
> mentioned that a microscopic study of the specimen's
> cellular structure would accurately identify whether it is
> or is not bone. (I had no knowledge of this fact at the time
> and wouldn't be aware of it until many months later) <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/textbook.gif
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/thefactthat.gif
>
> < In any event, while preparing to leave the Smithsonian, I
> politely asked if they would want to keep the specimen,
> perhaps to break apart the jaw-like area to see if teeth
> could be found inside. The three "experts" -- Joseph Brown
> and Robert McCurdy, the only two names I remember -- laughed
> at me and said it would be an absolute waste of their time.
> < About a month later -- rather discouraged -- I decided to
> search the interior of the jaw-like area on my own. It began
> with a nail to penetrate the rock hardness, then using all
> sorts of small tools to reach inside and, strangely, begin
> pulling out what resembled brownish dirt. < I was mysified
> that some sort of cavity existed and contacted the
> Smithsonian about this -- but was ignored. < After several
> weeks of part-time labor, I found a pair of peculiar objects
> inside. Photos were taken, greatly enlarged and sent to
> Krogman, the bone expert. < Our friendship had begun months
> previous when I had driven to Lancaster to show him the
> first strange sPecimen I had found that had come from
> between coal veins -- the large skull that the Smithsonian
> later dismissed as a rock. < Krogman studied the photo of
> the inclusion and then told me over the phone that the
> object is definitely a premolar tooth because "I can see a
> pair of cusps." < Here's the photo that Krogman had
> examined, with the dime offering an indication of size. <
>>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-014S.JPG
> < The photo below shows another view of where the premolar
> was attached. <
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/z1.jpg
>
> Krogman suggested an infrared scan be performed and it was
> done at American Medical Laboratories in Chantilly, Va.
> Here's the result of the test:
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/coalbones/graph.gif
>
> This is what the laboratory stated in its official report:
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/result.gif
>
> It meant that the inclusion in the jaw-like area was neither
> rock nor concretion but something that once lived. < When
> the scan was interpreted later, this fact was confirmed.
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/compatible.gif
>
> <
Ed Conrad
> http://www.edconrad.com
> As you all know by now, truth no longer is playing second
> fiddle to the fiction, fantasy and fairy tales that have
> been dished out for more than a century about man's origin
> and ancestry. < Finally, it's the official end of the
> deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy that has long
> been perpetrated by arrogant, egotistical members of the
> Scientific Establshment in and out of its hallowed Halls of
> Learning. < Their monumental hoax on mankind has met its
> match with the presentation of undeniable physical evidence
> that, multi-millions of years ago, the good earth wasn't
> anything like what has long been depicted by the scientific
> community. < For one thing, man -- in almost our present
> form -- existed while coal was being formed, and our
> ancestors lived alongside giant scorpions, dinosaurs and
> beasts with six-inch-high canine teeth. < And man and
> animals had one thing in common. Both were annihilated in
> some incredible catastrophe that blew them limb from limb
> and scattered their bones, teeth and soft organs in all
> directions.. < What happened next is a testament to the
> late, great Immanuel Velikovsky who, more than a
> half-century ago, said the true story of earth's -- and
> man's -- past is written in the rocks, visible for all to
> see as part of the fossil record. < Eons ago -- before coal
> hardened -- some sort of fluid engulfed the bones, teeth
> and soft organs just after the great catastrophe, causing
> them to petrifiy and now offer a mindboggling horror story
> of mankind's distant past. < That man existed during the
> Carboniferous Period also offers proof that we could not
> possibly have evolved as suggested by the Darwin Theory. <
> Rightly so, because the theory of the evolution of man
> never possessed a shred of physical evidence in the first
> place. Man could not -- and did not -- become such a
> magnificent machine by a series of incredible accidents of
> nature since it's an astronomical mathematical absurdity. <
> Even Charles Darwin had a sneaky suspicion his theory was
> full of hot air.
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/truth/tosuppose.gif
>
> And Earnest Hooton, longtime professor of anthropology at
> Harvard University, seconded the motion years later in his
> book, "Apes, Men and Morons," citing the absence of
> undeniable physical evidence.
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-013S.JPG
>
> < But, since we were spoon-fed such pablum -- the evolution
> of man -- by members of the omniscient Scientific
> Establishment, most of us ate up every word. These pompous
> asses were neither to be questioned nor challenged. < About
> a year after finding my first specimen of petrified bone
> between coal veins in June 1981, I couldn't believe the
> incedible resistence I was encountering in my pursuit of
> honest investigation. < My longtime friend, Clayton Lennon
> (1900-1996), warned me it wouldn't be easy and one day,
> between puffs of his cigar, summed up my despair quite
> eloquently . <
>
>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/coalbones/edyournot.gif
>
> < Meanwhile, as their noses continued to grow, so also did
> the arrogance of members of the Scientific Establishment who
> had long lost the goal of a search for truth. The only
> important thing to them, I soon learned, was to make no
> waves and concentrate on protecting their vested interests.
> < Over time, they had become incredibly ruthless and bold,
> really believing that -- as members of omnipotent Acadamia
> -- they could do anything they damn well pleased and answer
> to no one.. < Since I have had a ringside seat over these
> past 23 years, I assure you that it has included not only
> denial of physical evidence that could -- would -- destroy
> the theory of the evolution of man but actually tampering
> with that evidence -- and I have come right out and named
> names. < Then, with brass testacles, the criminals were
> actually belitting the victim, with character assassination
> leveled like a Gatling gun. < And even worse, the assault on
> truth was adamantly defended by their colleagues. <
> Fortunately, for your grandchildren and mine, that day is
> over. The pseudoscientists' day of reckoning has finally
> arrived. < But it comes as no surprise. After all, they had
> been forewarned: <
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/canals/hooton.gif
>
> <
> ==================================================
> < TRUTH FINALLY CATCHES UP TO THE PERPETRATORS OF DECEIT,
> DECEPTION, COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACY <
> ===================================================
> < Here are just a few of the thousands upon thousands of
> specimens of petrified bones, teeth and/or even soft organs
> -- some human -- that I have discovered between two separate
> anthracite veins in Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past
> 23 years. <
>
>>
Petrified human finger (with fingernail AND Petrified human
toe (with toenail):
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Au29/MVC-016S.JPG
Petrified human skull embedded in a boulder
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/skullb.jpg
Another petrified human skull
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg
< Petrified human femur still embedded in slate
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z8femur.jpg
< Petrified human gall bladder containing gall stone
(via CATscan)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z5gall.jpg
>
Portion of petrified tibia
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/newtibia.jpg
>
Petrified human lung (or is it a human liver?)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/z9lung.jpg
>
Whitled wood: Tool and/or weapon (turned to coal)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-003S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-005S.JPG
>
One hemisphere of human brain.
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/MVC-001S.JPG
< Human jaw with a few teeth
http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix5/MVC-002S.JPG <
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Bones/MVC-006S.JPG
>
Side view of human mandible
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/1tooth.jpg
>
etc.,etc.> <
> Portion of three-toed dinosaur foot still embedded in slate
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/z3dino.jpg
< Petrified giant fetus
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Petrified/MVC-013F.JPG
< Another giant fetus (this one still embedded in slate)
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Day/MVC-005S.JPG
>
Portion of a giant petrified scorpion
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-001S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-010S.JPG
> http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Scorpion/MVC-020S.JPG
>
>
> < Strange, according to scientific doctrine, they couldn't
> possibly have been found in Carboniferous strata, dated at
> a minimum of 280 million years. < You see, every scientific
> textbook insists that no large land animals, let alone man,
> existed back then. Hell, man wouldn't begin evolving until
> multi-millions of years later, the pseudos proclaimed. <
> But the incredible arsenal of petrified bones, teeth and
> even soft organs proves -- beyond doubt -- that man and
> large land animals indeed had been around when coal was
> being formed. Otherwise, their mortal remains could not
> have been preserved between layers of anthracite as the
> result of a catastrophe beyond our wildest imagination. <
> And, since this is the grim evidence that a catastrophe
> happened before, there is NO question that it could happen
> again. < Velikovsky provided evidence of catastrophes in
> his two books, "Worlds in Collision" and "Earth in
> Upheaval," published back in the early 1950s. In them, he
> offered undeniable evidence of calamities beyond human
> comprehension but was ridiculed and badmouthed by members
> of the Scientific Establishment. < Here's a copy of these
> two books, in paperback, and an explanation why Velikovsky
> was treated with scorn and contempt, which is how members
> of the Scientific Establishment have treated me for the
> last 21 1/2 years.
>
>>>====================================================
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Petrifiedx/MVC-010S.JPG
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Petrifiedx/MVC-011S.JPG
>
> More Velikvosky: <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-014S.JPG
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/quote/MVC-008S.JPG
>
> <
>
>>>====================================================
>
> < A longtime newspaperman, I figured -- when realizing I was
> getting the shaft from the Scientific Establishment -- I'd
> get a fair shake from newspapers in an effort to tell my
> story. < I thought the editors would be genuinely interested
> in what might've sounded like a farfetched story, except
> that it was backed up by petrified bones, teeth and soft
> organs as old as coal. < Reporters from the Allentown (Pa.)
> Call-Chronicle and Las Vegas Sun, to mention just two, were
> greatly impressed. But when their stories appeared in print,
> it took my breath away. The articles were completely
> negative, making me look like that proverbial horse's ass. <
> Naturally, there was nothing I could do about it, so I had
> to give up on newspapers completely. I had long known the
> New York Times, Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer
> wouldn't touch it because they had several opportunities to
> do so but bowed to their vested interests and ignored me. <
> Ditto for the TV network news shows like "60 Minutes" and
> "Larrry King.">
<
> For the longest time, it appeared the world would never know
> the truth about the catastrophe that decimated both man and
> animal while coal was being formed. < Then a miracle
> happened -- along came the Internet. It gave me a way to
> reach the pubic but, of course, the public wasn't paying
> attention because members of the Scientific Establishment
> kept making me look like a fool and an imbecile. < And, if
> you recall, they had been doing a mighty fine job of it
> right up until yesterday. That's when members of the
> Scientific Establishment got the second biggest shock of
> their lives, dwarfed only by the attack on the Twin Towers.
> < Suddenly overnight, with the presentation of an arsenal of
> physical evidence, the ridicule and character assassination
> had eased somewhat. < Suddenly, their cannons ran out of
> ammunition, accusations that I'm a liar and a fraud. <
> Suddenly, these Clown Princes of Sciences -- long having
> made a joke at the expense of sacred Science -- finally
> realized that their involvement in deceit, deception,
> collusion and conspiracy has caught up with them. < These
> Omniscient Buffoons have defended their colleagues who, with
> incredible audacity, have made a mockery of physical
> evidence, totally ignoring it and sometimes even tampering
> with it. < Thomas Alva Edison probably put in a nutshell
> what they were doing for so long, and my dear friend Clayton
> was right on target, too. <
>
>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/quotesnew.gif
>
> <
> ===========================================
>
>>========= SOME OF THE SPECIMENS =========
>
> ===========================================
> <
>
>>THE VERY FIRST DISCOVERY
>
> < The following is the very first discovery of petrified
> bone in coal-bearing Carboniferous strata in June 1981. <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith1/first.jpg
>
> < The specimen, which I found by accident, resembled a giant
> skull and the Smithsonian expressed an interest after
> receiving a photo, inviting me to bring it down to
> Washington so it could be examined firsthand. < Three of its
> "experts" -- an anthropologist, a paleontologist and a
> geologist -- looked it over carefully but, after a few
> minutes, concurred that it was nothing more than a rock or
> concretion, certainly nothng that had ever lived. < No one
> mentioned that a microscopic study of the specimen's
> cellular structure would accurately identify whether it is
> or is not bone. (I had no knowledge of this fact at the time
> and wouldn't be aware of it until many months later) <
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/brain/textbook.gif
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/thefactthat.gif
>
> < In any event, while preparing to leave the Smithsonian, I
> politely asked if they would want to keep the specimen,
> perhaps to break apart the jaw-like area to see if teeth
> could be found inside. The three "experts" -- Joseph Brown
> and Robert McCurdy, the only two names I remember -- laughed
> at me and said it would be an absolute waste of their time.
> < About a month later -- rather discouraged -- I decided to
> search the interior of the jaw-like area on my own. It began
> with a nail to penetrate the rock hardness, then using all
> sorts of small tools to reach inside and, strangely, begin
> pulling out what resembled brownish dirt. < I was mysified
> that some sort of cavity existed and contacted the
> Smithsonian about this -- but was ignored. < After several
> weeks of part-time labor, I found a pair of peculiar objects
> inside. Photos were taken, greatly enlarged and sent to
> Krogman, the bone expert. < Our friendship had begun months
> previous when I had driven to Lancaster to show him the
> first strange sPecimen I had found that had come from
> between coal veins -- the large skull that the Smithsonian
> later dismissed as a rock. < Krogman studied the photo of
> the inclusion and then told me over the phone that the
> object is definitely a premolar tooth because "I can see a
> pair of cusps." < Here's the photo that Krogman had
> examined, with the dime offering an indication of size. <
>>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Tool/MVC-014S.JPG
> < The photo below shows another view of where the premolar
> was attached. <
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/z1.jpg
>
> Krogman suggested an infrared scan be performed and it was
> done at American Medical Laboratories in Chantilly, Va.
> Here's the result of the test:
>
>>>http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/coalbones/graph.gif
>
> This is what the laboratory stated in its official report:
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/ebay/Newpix3/result.gif
>
> It meant that the inclusion in the jaw-like area was neither
> rock nor concretion but something that once lived. < When
> the scan was interpreted later, this fact was confirmed.
>
>>>http://edconrad.com/oldascoal/images/compatible.gif
>
> <
Ed Conrad
> http://www.edconrad.com