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Bat Creek Stone | The True Story of America's Forgotten Visitors

The Bat Creek Stone is an inscribed stone tablet, now considered to be a hoax, found by John W. Emmert on February 14, 1889.

Emmert claimed to have found the tablet in Tipton Mound 3 during an excavation of Hopewell mounds in Loudon County, Tennessee.


This excavation was part of a larger series of excavations that aimed to clarify the controversy regarding who is responsible for building the various mounds found in the Eastern United States.


Forensic geologist Scott Walter re-examines the highly controversial Bat Creek Stone, an artifact found in a Tennessee burial mound in 1889 that bears an inscription in an ancient form of Hebrew.


Using state-of-the-art 3D microscopic analysis, Walter seeks to definitively prove the stone is a genuine pre-Columbian relic, not a hoax planted by an archaeologist.

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