Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts or just the plain unexplainable.
This week: Ancient Artifacts
The Mayan's prophetic abilities are still held quite high in some circles. They made a calendar depicting the end of the world as we know it as occurring on December 21, 2012 – a date which an awful lot of people are holding them to. But calendars weren't their only supernatural forte – they also possessed crystal skulls they believed to be from a time when humanity inhabited 12 different planets.
Fantastic magical powers have been attributed to the skulls, and some claim even Hewlett-Packard testing has backed up their mystical strangeness.
There's a powerful lot of old stuff out there that large chunks of humanity like to think ancient civilisations couldn't have made without modern-esque technology. You have Egypt's pyramids, Stonehenge, even that old map of Antarctica we talked about a few weeks back.
And there's the crystal skulls. Some of the skulls are said to be between 5,000 and 36,000 years old, and impossible to make in less than a year even with today's tools. There are said to be 13 of these skulls – only five of which are currently found. Some believe the skulls give off a powerful energy that can increase happiness and overall quality of life just by holding them.
Further legend states that when all the 13 skulls are assembled together they reveal valuable information on the origins of humanity, and speak of how to avoid future catastrophe. That 'speak' is meant quite literally by the way, as the jaw bones of the skulls are hinged.
Only five of the skulls whereabouts are known. The most famous of these is referred to as the Mitchell-Hedges skull. It's supposed to have been discovered around 1927 by Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges on top of an ancient Mayan temple. It's also referred less lovingly to as 'the Skull of Doom'.
In 1970 a man named Frank Dorland claims to have submitted the skull to Hewlett-Packard for testing. The following statement regarding the skull is alleged to come from Hewlett-Packard:
"Our scientists cannot explain how these skulls could have been carved in ancient times without instruments and tools of today".
There you have it. it's important to note, however, that Hewlett-Packard has never officially acknowledged that statement. Along similar lines, in 1992 an anonymous source submitted their skull to the Smithsonian Institute for similar testing. The source claimed to have purchased their head-bone in 1960 Mexico City under the guise that it was of Aztec origin – which it most definitely was not, as test results showed.
If there truly are 13 crystal skulls which when all gathered together begin yammering on about things that once were, and marvellous things to come, might we suggest a wide sweeping search of the globe for the remaining eight. hecklerspray'd be more than happy to finance the trip's first twenty minutes.
Seriously, we really want to know if there'll ever be some sort of Seinfeld reunion.
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