Barry Fell
Howard Barraclough Fell or Barry Fell was born June 6th of 1918 and died in April 1994. He had a PhD in marine biology from Harvard and is considered the father of pre-columbian contact ideas. He has also been deemed the greatest linguist of the twentieth century because of his research on inscriptions. However archaeologists refer to him as a self-promoting pseudo scientist who is blindly trusted in anthropological matters and threatened to undo more than a century of careful progress in archaeological research.
Biography
Publications
Barry Fell wrote Saga America in 1983, Bronze Age America in 1982, and America B.C. in 1979. In this writings he proposed and supported with evidence that North America had been visited and colonized by practically everyone before Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the New World. His evidence ranged from linguistic to architectural. He argued that there were linguistic connections between Native American languages and different European languages. He also claimed that inscriptions found in the New World were written in many ancient European alphabets. He was really interested in writings and inscriptions especially Ogham. Ogham is an ancient British and Irish alphabet, consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line. Fell spent most of his career trying to find these inscriptions but his findings were either completely fake and just scribbles or they turned out to be plow lines made in the stone. Fell’s architectural evidence that there were colonizers before Columbus was that there were architectural similarities between stone structures in North America (mostly New England) and ancient Europe. His most famous examples or research subjects were Mystery Hill, Poulnabrone Dolmen, and specifically the sacrificial altar stone.
Mystery Hill and the Altar Stone
Mystery Hill is in North Salem, New Hampshire and it is otherwise known as America’s Stonehenge. Barry Fell gravitated towards it because it looked like European stone creations and served as proof of colonization before Columbus. The sacrificial altar stone at Mystery Hill was a long stone slab that was supposedly used for religious sacrifices where the blood flowed into divots in the stone and was drained off the slab. [1] This was a completely false theory, the stone altar was actually used for the creation of soap in the 19th century. All of these claims about the builders, the time period, and the use of the structures have been purely speculation.