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The Kensington Rune Stone

There’s More to Learn About the Kensington Rune Stone

The Kensington Rune Stone just may be the most important artifact ever found in North America. Why? Because it reveals the suppressed history of the United States that you were never taught in school because it doesn’t fit the established historic paradigm by the academic establishment. So, you had better buckle up because the Kensington Rune Stone (KRS) is a genuine artifact, carved and buried in what is now Minnesota in 1362, 130 years before Columbus, by fugitives being hunted down by Roman Catholic Church in Europe, the Knights Templar. (continued below)

Background

When and where was the stone found and what is it? In the Autumn of 1898 a farmer named Olof Ohman, an immigrant from Sweden, was working with his two young sons in central Minnesota clearing the trees in preparation for using the land for growing crops. When he pulled a tree over with a winch a large tombstone like slab came up entangled in the roots, just below the surface. One of the boys noticed there was some sort of writing on it and alerted his father. Ohman recognized the writing as runes, an early alphabet used in Scandinavia going back to the Viking era and beyond for carving into stone such things as marking property boundaries, gravestones and memorializing important events, although modern people like Ohman were not able to read the ancient script. Thousands of rune stones exist in Scandinavia to this day and scholars who can read them and study them are called runologists.

The Ohman family asked for help from runologists to try to learn what the stone said but were surprised to meet with extreme resistance from many. In fact, Ohman himself was accused of having carved the stone as a hoax. The entire Ohman family of eleven was ridiculed for years over the accusations. For the rest of his life, Olof Ohman denied having anything to do with carving the rune stone. However, in the early twentieth century there were a few investigators who studied the rune stone objectively, including the first Minnesota state geologist, Newton H. Winchell who concluded, “The said stone is not a modern forgery, and must be accepted as a genuine record of exploration at the date stated in the inscription.” Winchell came to this conclusion because he used hard science techniques to study the geology and weathering of the rune stone, concluding that the inscription was much older than anyone living in the area at the time, including Ohman who had only settled the property eight years earlier.

The next century of investigators, mainly those of soft science opinion-driven disciplines, would treat the Kensington Rune Stone primarily as a hoax because to declare it legitimate would be to admit that Europeans had visited the interior of North America more than 130 years before Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered America. And then in 2001 another geologist, Scott Wolter, would be asked to study the inscribed stone, now housed in a museum in Alexandria, Minnesota and did, having had no prior knowledge or interest in the stone or previous studies, and again like Winchell but with the advantage of modern technology, would conclude the inscription was very old and could not be a hoax. Wolter himself would be accused of “cooking the experiment” by humanities scholars who did not use scientific method to draw conclusions and towed the line for the sake of their jobs to not break the “nobody was here before Columbus” paradigm. Wolter was stunned to learn about this paradigm and made it his personal mission to solve who carved the KRS, and why. It would be a life changing mission for him and his family. With the help of colleagues in geological sciences, Wolter would go on to conclude the stone itself was indigenous to Minnesota and was carved there. What was carved on the stone, a complex inscription, would convince him that it was carved by none other than the persecuted medieval Knights Templar order, who followed the waterways to the center of the continent.