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F.A. Mitchell-Hedges

and Daughter Anna’s

Lies Exposed!

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HEAD CASE

Of all the weird new stories related to that
“prophecy” in 2012, one of the weirdest was the
report of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Dr. Jane
Awe, director fo the Institute of Archaeology of
Belize. Awe was suing the Mitchell-Hedges
estate, demanding they “return the artifact to the
people of belize.” Also being sued were
Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Pictures, and
Paramount for a cut of the “illegal profits”
generated by the stolen skull. “Lucasfilm never
sought, nor was given permission to utilize the
Mitchell-Hedges Skull or its likeness in the
film,” wrote Adam Tracy, the lawyer who filed
the suit. When asked by LiveScience if the skull
maybe it was 1926. In most versions, it was, “on Villa, who accused him of being a spy. Standing
is genuine, Tracy answered, “The government
top of a pyramid,” but other times it was “under in front of a firing squad, the adventurer claimed
of Belize does not believe the skull is fake. As
a collapsed altar inside a temple.” Her accounts he was able to save himself by singing an off-
such, I do not foresee any further testing of the
changed over the years – even contradicting her key rendition of ‘God Save the King.’” Villa
artifact.”
father, who once wrote that he found the skull took Mitchell-Hedges under his wing and made
There were a few problems with this
“in the 1930s.” There’s a lot about Anna’s him a spy. That’s when the Englishman said he
lawsuit from the outset. For one the crystal skull
version of events that haven’t added up over the first developed an interest in archaeology. He
in the movie doesn’t have that much in common
years. That’s a habit she picked up from her cam to believe that there must be some link
with the Mitchel-Hedges skull – it’s larger,
father. between the lost city of Atlantis and the ancient
milkier in color, and it was found in South
Maya, and he started funding expeditions to
America. Indiana Jones himself even backs this
STORY TIME discover that link.
up in this line of dialogue from the movie: “It
It was a few years later, in 1917, when
isn’t anything like the Mitchell-Hedges skull. Mitchell-Hedges was in Canada, that a good
Look at the cranium – how it’s elongated at the Just who was this F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, friend of his died, leaving behind a 10-year-old
back.” Another problem: The government of anyway? His given name was Frederick Albert, orphan named Anna. He “informally” adopted
Belize was never in possession of the artifact in but he went by Mike. Born in London in 1882, her. (But even that story has been disputed;
the first place, so it didn’t have much legal the self-described “adventurer, traveler, and some suspect that F.A. Mitchell-Hedges was
footing. writer” spoke in a thick British accent and Anna’s biological father.)
But the biggest problem with Dr. Awe’s always had a pipe in his mouth. He was rumored
lawsuit was that Dr. Awe himself didn’t know to be one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones, DANGER HIS ALLY
anything about it! After it was reported in nearly but George Lucas, who created the character,
every major newspaper outlet worldwide, Awe has never confirmed that. Mitchell-Hedge’s
said he was approached by some people who 1954 autobiography, Danger My Ally, doesn’t Piecing together Mitchell-Hedge’s story doesn’t
told him he could get the skull back, but he told even mention the word “archaeologist.” In that get any easier after reading Danger My Ally. The
them that he wasn’t interested. It turned out that book and others (with titles like Battles with thing he’s most known for only gets one
the lawsuit wasn’t even filed in Belize, but in Giant Fish), and his popular New York-based paragraph in the entire manuscript. Next to a
Chicago by Etezzon Productions. It was a radio show in the 1930s (with jungle drums page-size photo of the “sinister Skull of Doom
publicity stunt. The organizers – including beating in the background), Mitchell-Hedges he writes that it…
Awe’s supposed lawyer – were planning to hold would dramatically detail his harrowing “true
a concert on December 21, 2012, in stories” of fighting off scary savages, wrestling “…is made of pure rock crystal and according to
Xunantunich, another Maya site in Belize. The sea monsters, and discovering the “cradle of scientists it must have taken 150 years,
newly returned Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull civilization” in Nicaragua. Listeners had no way generation after generation working all days of
would be revealed at the end of the concert, and of knowing whether his stories were real, but it their lives, patiently rubbing down with sand an
the world would be saved…or something like was all very entertaining. And just as outlandish immense block of rock crystal until the perfect
that. The event never happened. There was very as his exploits were the famous friends he Skull emerged. It is at least 3,600 years old and
little chance that Belize’s government would claimed he’d made along the way. according to legend was used by the High Priest
ever issue permits for a huge concert to be held After leaving England at 18 (he didn’t of the Maya when performing esoteric rites. It is
at one of their most sensitive and culturally want to be a banker like his father), Mitchell- said that when he willed death with the help of
significant sites. As for Dr. Awe – he’s a respect Hedges ended up in New York, where he the skull, death invariably followed. It has been
archaeologist with a reputation to maintain. He worked as a stockbroker by day and a high- described as the embodiment of all evil. I do not
said he wished to “disassociate” himself from stake poker player at night. It was during that wish to try and explain the phenomena. How it
the lawsuit. Besides, he said, he doesn’t even time that he may (or may not) have shared a came into my possession I heave reason for not
think the crystal skull comes from Belize. room with noted Marxist Leon Trotsky. He later revealing.”
wrote that Britain’s MI6 wanted him to spy on

THE PLOT THICKENS the Russian revolutionary, but he declined (Continued on Page 13)
(Trotsky always paid his rent on time, he said).
In 1913, when Mitchell-Hedges was in DARE TO BELIEVE
Anna Mitchell-Hedges maintained until her
Mexico looking for work, he told of being DARE TO BE HEARD!
100th year that it was she who found the crystal
captured by the revolutionary general Pancho
skull in Belize on her 17th birthday in 1924. Or www.XZBN.net