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12 Smithsonians Crystal Skull 12 Smithsonians Crystal Skull The Smithsonian's claimed that they were ancient.” These Were The Guests That Were on The Smithsonian's These Were The Guests That Were on A major player in the skull game, The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show in July Crystal Skull according to Walsh, was Frederick Arthur The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show in July Crystal Skull 2008 2008 Mitchell-Hedges, an English stockbroker- turned-adventurer who, in 1943, began BRIAN DAVID ANDERSEN - Earth Changes; displaying a crystal carving that he called “The MARIE D JONES - 2013: The End of Days or a New Skull of Doom” to his dinner-party guests. His Beginning?; CONNIE FOGAL - Leader of the Canadian Action Party (CAP); DR. DANEEN daughter, Anna, later claimed that he had found PETERSON - Stop The North American Union; the skull in a ruined temple in Belize during the PAUL GRONDIN - The Great American Phone In; early 1920s. The family’s stories seemed to DR NOAH McKAY - Wellness At Warp Speed; CHIP generate the “discovery” of more skulls with REAVES - Seven Tips For Having A Healthier even wilder tales attached. (They had come Computer; JOE GANNASCOLI - From Sopranos to Sick Kids; KAL KORFF - Kal's Korner LIVE from from the lost city of Atlantis or been left by Prague in the Czech Republic; HOLLY HALL - extraterrestrials.) Astrologer; MAJOR KEVIN RANDLE - The Investigations by the Linnean Society of Stephenville UFO; DR TED BROER - The Top 5 London, a research institute specializing in Foods Not To Put On Your Grill This Summer!; taxonomy and natural history, revealed that DENNIS BALTHASER - The Roswell New Mexico UFO Crash; PAUL ADAMS and ALYSSA Mitchell-Hedges actually purchased his skull at HAMILTON - The Collective Known as How the museum's quartz How the museum's quartz auction at Sotheby’s in London in 1943 for "Anonymous"; DAVID ICKE - Exposing The Dream World We Believe To Be Real; LA MARZULLI - around £400, about $18,000 today. How it came cranium highlights the to the auction house isn’t known. (Anna The Nephilim Trilogy; ANDY LOPEZ - The Invisible cranium highlights the Gardener; MARSHALL VIAN SUMMERS - The epic silliness of the new Mitchell-Hedges kept it until her death at age Allies of Humanity; PHILIP CARLO - GASPIPE: epic silliness of the new 100 last year; the object remains in the family.) Indiana Jones movie Experts now believe that many extant crystal CONFESSIONS OF A MAFIA BOSS; PASTOR Indiana Jones movie HARRY WALTHER - The Bible Code's Warning of A skulls were made in Germany during the late Terrorist Attack in Chicago, Illinois on August 8 2008; 1800s; Walsh thinks that the Smithsonian skull KAREN TATE - The Sacred Feminine; DR. MARC By Owen Edwards was carved in Mexico in the 1950s. ROSE - Cholesterol Drugs for 8-Year-Olds? Doctor By Owen Edwards By 1996, Walsh had decided to put the Says It Means the Parents Have Lost Control; RICHARD P JACKSON - Paranormal Investigator The crystal skull sought by Harrison skull to the test. She took it to London’s British and Exorcist; STEPHEN JOHNSTON - When Is Ford as Indiana Jones in the latest silver-screen Museum, whose collections contain two similar Judgment Day?; TRAVIS VERGE - Walking In installment of the archaeologist’s over-the-top skulls. Margaret Sax, a materials expert there, Shadows: A Book which distinguishes between God's adventures is, of course, a movie prop— used scanning electron microscopy to study tool truth and Satan's deceptions; JOHN LOVING - masquerading as an ancient artifact from pre- marks on the skulls. In each case, she noted that Combat Advisor; SID WATERMAN - Grief is the Columbian Central America. (Disclosure: in my modern tools and abrasives had been employed. price we pay for love; WILLIAM FEDERER - Exclusive: William J. Federer exposes religious, day job, I work for a magazine published by Today, the skull that launched Walsh’s sleuthing military, political life of Muslim chief; HASSAN producer George Lucas’ Educational sits in a locked cabinet in her Washington, D.C. JAFFER - Astrologist to the Rich, Stars and Famous; Foundation.) As it happens, the prop bears a office, faux and forlorn. Walsh, offering an JESSE KALSI - Astro-Numerologist; DR WILLIAM strong resemblance to scores of crystal skulls in explanation as to why many museums even SCHNEID - Serial Killers! What Makes Them? Who Are They?; CAROL BRADLEY BURSACK - museum collections around the world. These today exhibit crystal skulls as authentic Minding Our Elders; ED CRAFT - Anomalist and skulls, carved from large chunks of quartz, may Mesoamerican antiquities, describes the UFO Researcher; SHELIA POWELL - Psychic, well have been chiseled by descendants of artifacts as “reliable crowd pleasers.” Medium, Paranormal Investigator; JAMES Aztecs and Mayans, but they are decidedly A few years ago, another skull was sent ROLLINS - The Last Oracle; MARK STONE - post-Columbian. to NMNH for testing. Researchers took a Behind The Screen - Hacking Hollywood; WAYNE PERRY - Sound Medicine; NICOLE AND Fakes are an all too real part of the sample; what had appeared to be quartz crystal MICHAEL SEBASTIAN - The Dream Dudes; DR. museum world. “There are always artists was found to be glass. BRUCE GOLDBERG - Hypnosis; JOHN JAY capable of making and selling things that seem “So that [one],” says Walsh, “turned out HARPER - The Stories Behind Planet-X and Prepare old,” says anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh to be a fake fake.” for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Ugly; MITCH BATTROS - Earth Changes; DR. KEVIN ORLIN JOHNSON, PH.D. - The SeedTime History (NMNH). Walsh has seen her share of ABOUT ELIZABETH OWENS: Owen Project; DOV BARON - Baron Mastery Institute; fakes. In fact, she has become something of a Edwards,who lives in San Francisco, is a TYLER MT. PLESANT - Psychic; MARK specialist on the subject. “I didn’t start out as a freelance writer and author of the book Elegant UNDERWOOD - Jellyfish Can Protect Your Brain skeptic,” she says, “but experience has changed Solutions.[] Cells; JEFF LOWRANCE - USA Tomorrow; my outlook.” KAREN BENTLEY - The Sugar-Free Miracle Diet; DASH BEARDSLEY - Ghost Tours of Galveston In 1992, according to Walsh, the Island; MARCIA MCMAHON - Channels Princess museum received an unsolicited donation of a Diana, John Lennon and Jesus; DITA WEGMAN - larger-than-life, ten-inch-high skull carved from Nostradamus's Dream Book; CHRISTINE milky-hued quartz. Some time later, Walsh, an NIGHTINGALE - Angels; JASON LEIGH - expert in Mexican archaeology, was asked to Unidentified Flying Objects; CHRIS CARLSSON - Nowtopia; DR MAJOR KEVIN RANDLE - The research the skull, one of several known to Roswell Crash of 1947 and MJ-12; BILL KNELL - exist. Until that point, skulls of this kind The UFO Guy; RANDALL SHELTON - What on typically had been attributed to ancient earth is happening?; CHRISTOPHER BALZANO - Mesoamerican cultures. Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads; ELIZABETH Walsh knew that if the skull proved to be JOYCE - Psychic; BOBBIE ATRISTAIN - Virginia a genuine pre-Columbian relic, it would Ghosts; CHEF LORI NICHOLS DAVIES - Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada; KYLE HOOVER - constitute an important addition to the Pastor, Lecturer & Author of The House That Wisdom Smithsonian collection. But she harbored Built; JOHN RINGO - Author of The Last Centurion; doubts from the start. “After Mexican ROBERT W MORGAN - The American independence,” she says, “a lot of outsiders Anthroplogical Research Foundation; ALAN started coming into the country and collecting ARCIERI - Earth School101: Who we are, where we are and why we are here...; DIANNE GREGG - The historic pieces for museums.” The collectors, Hidden Dangers of Soy; BARRY CHAMISH - Return she adds, “created a demand, and local artisans Of The Giants; DR BRUCE CORNET - The Pine then created a supply. Some of the things sold to Bush Anomaly & UFOs; AMIRAH - SoulMystic; DR. these foreigners may not have been made to SETH SHOSTAK - Senior Astronomer - SETI; STEVEN A LACHANCE - Paranormal Investigator intentionally deceive, but certain dealers SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE & Author []