Bat Creek Stone
"The Bat Creek inscription (also called the Bat Creek stone or Bat Creek tablet) is an inscribed stone collected as part of a Native American burial mound excavation in Loudon County, Tennessee, in 1889 by the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology's Mound Survey, directed by entomologist Cyrus Thomas. The inscriptions were initially described as Cherokee, but in 2004, similarities to an inscription that was circulating in a Freemason book were discovered. Hoax expert Kenneth Feder says the peer reviewed work of Mary L. Kwas and Robert Mainfort has "demolished" any claims of the stone's authenticity. Mainfort and Kwas themselves state "The Bat Creek stone is a fraud.""
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Bat Creek inscription" (accessed 10/21/2015)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Additional Digging Uncovers Source of Bat Creek Hoax" (Brad Lepper, 5/2/2014)
- "Scott Wolter Calls for Congressional Investigation of the Smithsonian; Brien Foerster Discusses Alien DNA" (Jason Colavito, 2/7/2014)
- "The Smithsonian Responds to America Unearthed - "Lost Relics of the Bible" Episode" (Scott Wolter, 2/6/2014)
- "Review of America Unearthed S02E10 "Lost Relics of the Bible"" (Jason Colavito, 2/2/2014)
- "The "Bat Creek Stone" - or "Wait a minute, the Lost Tribe of Israel was in East Tennessee?"" (Mysterious Tennessee, 1/30/2013)
- "The Mesha Stele: A Source for the Bat Creek Stone's "Word Divider"? (Jason Colavito, 5/16/2012)
- "Bat Creek Crazy: Can Scott Wolter Rehabilitate a Hoax?" (Jason Colavito, 5/3/2012)
- "Beck on Bat Creek Stone" (blog post on Unreasonable Faith, 9/6/2010)
- "The Bat Creek Fraud: A Final Statement" (Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, Tennessee Anthropologist 18(2), Fall 1993)
- "The Bat Creek Stone: Judeans in Tennessee?" (Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Mary L. Kwas, Tennessee Anthropologist 16(1), Spring 1991)
Other Online Media
- "Hoaxes: Bat Creek Stone" (Fair Morman Answers)
- "The Bat Creek Stone" (Lowell Kirk, undated)
- "The Bat Creek Stone" (Ancient Revelations)
