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00:00So we're going to go to our phone lines live here. Hi, you're live on the air. Do you have
00:06a question or a comment for Johan or David? Isn't this exciting? My dad has wanted this
00:12for years. Okay, I got an old house right here. There is a blue structure here that is about the
00:17size of what you would expect a privy hole to be. My connection, I think, is I have relatives here.
00:24If these holes represent the three boulders on top of that hill, we need to look under the
00:29middle boulder. We're also very much on the hunt of a story called Curse of the
00:33Viking Grave. We found the grave. Come on, have a look here. You're going to like this.
00:59We've got my friends from Canada. Welcome, guys. We got a chance to talk yesterday. The
01:06Faraheim team is in Alexandria, Minnesota to examine the infamous Kensington Moonstone. They
01:14are guests of a local radio station to talk about their research and see if any resident
01:19from canada welcome guys we got a chance to talk yesterday the faraheim team is in alexandria
01:26minnesota to examine the infamous kensington runestone they are guests of a local radio station
01:33to talk about their research and see if any residents have their own relics to share
01:40so we uh for about a decade now have been looking for traces and artifacts of european
01:46specifically icelandic greenland exploration between a thousand a.d and when chris showed up
01:52in 1492. 500 years after the first proven settlement in newfoundland alantso meadows
01:59conventional archaeology anthropology would say there wasn't a lot of other activity so to think
02:05that after coming to north america in 1021 nobody showed up for another 500 years it's almost
02:11unbelievable in fact it's not even reasonable but we're also very much on the hunt of a story that's
02:16been circulating in canada for a long time called curse of the viking grave the faraheim team seeks
02:23the truth behind whether norse or scandinavian settlers were here in the 1300s well before
02:30christopher columbus they also believe that norse travelers in the 1800s were unknowingly following
02:36in their ancestors footsteps to north america so what you're doing david you're here in the area you're
02:44opening up wanting people in the area have any artifacts or even any stories about the vikings
02:52things they found that could maybe connect the dots too right we are asking people for their stories
02:58and anything that they found that they don't know what it is you're going to be at the fairfield
03:03inn and suites in alexandria and you're encouraging people to drop by tomorrow night
03:09from seven to nine right if they have any stories any artifacts but if you have stories or artifacts
03:15please please share so we really wanted to get a local and maybe even have an event to get people to
03:21come on down and bring their uh their stuff like like antique road shows like bring your artifacts down
03:26let's take a look and uh so we're really looking forward to seeing what the locals know
03:30alexandria was established in 1858 though the area was already home to the dakota people for centuries
03:40it soon became a new home for scandinavian people there is a story that i've heard for a decade that
03:47a 50 to 100 years ago and you see how these stories go someone got so mad about uh being
03:54dissed about the uh kensington runestone artifacts they took a bunch of artifacts and threw them down their
03:58outhouse wow so what if that old outhouse is gone then can you tell this is where it used to be yes
04:06listeners call in to talk with david and joe so we're going to go to our phone lines live here hi
04:13you're live on the air do you have a question or a comment for johan or david our neighbor has a
04:18mooring stone oh interesting yeah boy very interested in coming to have a look and chatting with you about
04:25them this is fascinating to hear johan and david yeah they're a couple of great guys you'd love them
04:30too uh uh already they feel like family here so are they interested in in place mooring stones that
04:37have never been moved sure send us information and let's talk thanks johan thanks david this is great
04:42i'm glad you could be in studio the next night at their hotel joe and david speak with dozens of
04:49residents sharing their own theories and stories isn't this exciting
05:00who are you talking to there's nobody there oh let me let me answer that for you yes it is okay
05:08so my grandma was the town historian and we've just always known about the brunstone cars because
05:16grandma was born in 1912. i have been following and researching sort of off and on about the
05:22kensington runestone since i was 13 years old in 1959. it's one of those things where the runestone was
05:32it was a forbidden topic for many many years in kensington the kensington runestone was discovered
05:38by olaf oman on his farm in 1898 the runic writing suggests explorers from scandinavian
05:45countries journeyed to what is now alexandria in 1362. despite years of research and debate there
05:54is still no definitive conclusion on the stone's authenticity and there was a family that lived
06:00right here at the end of this road he wrote a story about the oman family i think that he interviewed
06:09two of the oman family members for his term paper and they both said that they were so sorry their dad
06:17had ever found that stone but the fact that he owned that story from the moment he found it and never
06:23wavered ever and none of his family did either really makes me believe that it is real like as much
06:29as someone thinks it's a hoax that's a pretty elaborate hoax to basically ruin your family for for
06:34generations at some point you'd think you'd just tell people it was fake if it was actually fake
06:41they never did as it led to nothing but ridicule and grief for the family for the rest of their lives
06:50the controversy hasn't stopped residents from continuing to look for evidence that supports
06:55the kensington runestone we found the grave of the ten men you're absolutely certain and why are you
07:03certain i am so certain on this the grave site that wayne is referring to seemingly connects to a
07:12translated line on the stone ten men red with blood but you got to not make it public
07:23okay close the door lock the door no one's going home is is this the kensington runestone park
07:33yeah this is just north of the park i had this aerial photograph of the property here 1965 you know
07:39it's just an empty field and then i looked at the 1951 one and what's in the middle of that field
07:48well it's a shadow of some sort it's a clump of trees yeah and why wasn't it taken out
07:55because there was a grave underneath well if that is true that guy can find it in about 10 minutes
08:05mark harris from okm detectors is a ground penetrating radar or gpr expert that is working
08:13with the team in minnesota is that the highest value site that you think we should look at
08:20to definitively find something like a grave i would if i was betting money yeah it'd be a sure bet
08:27okay okay get your money out okay the event is a success there are new leads that the team would
08:35not have found any other way sitting down with people is important to build trust there's lots of
08:42information out there and sitting down with them lets me understand what they know and who they are
08:49and what they have to see if it's worth the time to follow up on their leads i'm looking forward to
08:56tomorrow's park visit more than anything because my dad has wanted this for years he has just if only we
09:06could see underneath the ground the next day the team arrives at the kensington runestone park and is
09:13joined by ralph a local resident we're looking forward to you showing us some of your research
09:18and the maps and we've got some really good guys with technology come today that'll either make your
09:23day or make you a very sad ralph gunderson well we will find out very shortly ralph has been exploring
09:30this park area for years and most often with a witching rod and so he had witching rods he had
09:38basically learned about everything in the park through his witching rods okay so now what we'll do
09:43is go and ask the runestone where it was actually found and the stick says right here right at this point
09:54and there was a tree that they kept over and it was in the roots of the tree well we've got uh mark
10:02from okm here with some great technology a gpr i think will work really well here witching rods it's
10:10it's an interesting technique to find things but we are definitely using technology to then understand
10:17what's under the ground the forked stick or rod is utilized with the user's intuition
10:24to detect minerals water and other buried items including bodies the team eagerly gets to work
10:32examining this potential site while ralph uses dousing rods mark follows his path using his gpr
10:39equipment well listen let's get at it okay now show you where the action took place
10:47ralph relays other locations he believes have ancient items people and even
10:54a viking ship buried okay now if you stand here and you look here at the rock
11:01you see where it's raised up there yes okay there's 14 men and indians buried or we call it mounded
11:10okay are they are they all in a row are they on top of each other two rows of seven two rows of seven so
11:16one two this way yep and you see where that tree is there yep from there to the rock okay there's 14
11:23men and indians david joe and mark discuss the best way to proceed with the gpr ralph shows mackenzie
11:33some key areas of the park that might be of interest to the team so was this all under water at one
11:40point yeah i'll show you right where the water line was okay okay here is the salt water line of 1362
11:50wow lake agassiz was one of the most dominant glacial ice formations that covered most of manitoba
11:57and parts of minnesota thousands of years ago its influence on the red river valley is still visible
12:03today okay now just watch okay i'm looking for a ship looking for a ship there's a ship right here yeah
12:18now we're getting down here and here is the end of the ship right here there's a 125 foot ship here wow
12:32ralph tells mackenzie there's a 125 foot ancient viking ship buried here he's found stones he thinks are ballasts
12:41i thought i was a believer but i don't think i am but with ralph it it works so well and he's really
12:49confident in the stuff he's found i'm looking for ballast stones i'm looking for ballast stones
12:55here's ballast stones whoa and there's my creative way of not digging up fair enough so they're from
13:10that mark to there the stones are heavy enough to balance the ship okay they're just just all in
13:19in layers yeah in the ship he thinks that the kensington runestone could be a ballast from the
13:26long buried ship it might also be the burial location of the 10 men that died according to the
13:32runestone he's not the only one who's gone over those areas and found similar results so i'm not
13:38sure what to believe but there's a possibility that it's real the team has now encountered many people
13:44who believe the runestone is real and that the events inscribed in stone occurred right here in
13:51alexandria being here and uncovering new information on the runestone adds weight to their northern
13:57expedition there may be a connection to the northern cairn or viking grave
14:07the team is on their northern expedition poring over maps they compare windy smith's original
14:14map with a modern day map to try to pinpoint the cairns location i'm going to show you uh the
14:19original sort of map of this cairn that we're looking for the original map that was drawn by windy smith
14:26in 1929 windy smith came out of this bay with his dog team in a blizzard and headed that way
14:33and because the blizzard was so bad he pulls into shore to get some shelter and he looks around and he
14:40said whoa what the heck is that and he describes this thing that's like 16 by 16 by 6 high big boulders
14:50big log no windows no doors hard to find hard to see doesn't look like it was made for you know a
14:59shelter or a marker or didn't want anybody to see it easily it's kind of it's hidden okay yeah you see
15:05this big thing here this guy yeah that point there yeah we think it's this point right here
15:12okay because it's a significant height of land there's a big high 300 foot ridge that runs here
15:18and that high point is almost certainly this okay we we think we're on the right track if you look at
15:26this it's that point because that is a significant it's kind of someplace he says it's the key to the
15:32whole thing the height of land the high point key to the whole thing that means that it's over here
15:47mark scans locations that ralph earlier identified with his gpr equipment
15:52he's found something it's like a wall is right at the end of the um okay the scan there see how it's
16:03a continuous stunning structures well yeah look at that it looks like a wall
16:12the team is interested in mark's initial ground penetrating radar scan there appears to be a wall or
16:18structure under the ground it's vertical and um very well defined in the vertical plane we have to
16:28move over a little so we need to go deeper the gpr scans as low as 40 feet below but that's if ground
16:35conditions are ideal which today they aren't the ground is still partially frozen and the uneven terrain
16:42is a challenge so do you have to keep that uh below or is that close to the ground and not above
16:50a certain height you want to keep it right as close to the ground as you can without hitting brush
16:55but it's you can't do it up here yeah it's got to be you want it to be for the best results it
17:01needs to be within six inches of the ground
17:04the heck is that yeah it doesn't have nearly as much structure when you see the whole thing
17:13so so that that whole big blue thing is one continuous thing yes i hate to say this but it
17:19looks cross-shaped it's definitely cross-shaped definitely let me here move your hand for a
17:23second let me do the gain yep and as i increase the density there's definitely is that a box that's
17:30well it it's a major it's a real hit right kind of here below the um device the scans reveal
17:41fascinating structures that might have been intentionally placed there but it's unclear
17:47if these are graves what we are seeing are rock formations in this area but it's um to find an 18
17:55inch deep grave that's 700 years old we're 1100 years old we're not going to find it with this
18:02do you have anything that we can do here that can give us a more definite answer about whether
18:08there are any graves here do we have any technology with us today yeah you're holding it in your hand
18:15other than digging it no there's no technology that i kind of figured that out it's a state park so
18:22obviously we can't dig anywhere we handed everything over to the the state authorities and maybe one
18:28day they'll actually do a dig is it a rock is it actually a full grave is it really a viking ship
18:34i don't know we can't really dig anything because it's a park digging in this park is strictly prohibited
18:41and to the team's knowledge has never happened they hope that one day they or someone else will be
18:48permitted to explore what's buried in kensington runestone park let's take pictures and we'll hand
18:54that off to minnesota and they can uh ponder what to do with that yeah okay so if we start uh go down
19:00and get ralph to show us where the boat is if you turn around and look at where those poles are that's
19:06the width of where the ballast stones are they're right there oh i see okay so we got ballast stones
19:11which are rocks they should show up but a boat they'll show up very similar to what we found here i would
19:17expect yeah ralph is adamant there's a viking ship buried in the park he takes the team to where he
19:24thinks it is okay right here there's rocks i don't think we should be cutting down about four feet deep
19:42that's the ballast stones there's um three in this path there were three really strong hits
19:48oh yeah and these ballast stones were supposed to be in the boat yeah there should be a lot of domino
19:54shaped stones around here uh yeah unless we can't quite tell the shape of the of the stones mark's scan
20:05appears to corroborate ralph's claim of ballast stones that are roughly four feet underground
20:12i heard you guys found something so so here's a problem mac are you ready to be astounded or
20:18confused how about both so we're standing in the middle of what the where the ship was supposed to
20:23be right correct that's one end that's the other yep these ballast stones are supposed to be the source of
20:28the kensington runestone stone right so you'd think they'd be domino so mark just did a bunch of
20:34scanning and what did mark find flat rocks oh stacked on top of each other you can see
20:43um he did say they were going to be stacked yeah so again this would be a great data package to hand
20:48out the minnesota people to take a look at because again i don't know what to do with that information
20:54any there that are the size of the kensington runestone for example that is a possibility i
21:04mean you can see here that we've got a very you can see the deep blue yes that's the thickness of the
21:09target okay i'm at 4.74 so you're looking at 0.6 um of a foot so you're looking seven inches thick seven
21:19inches thick and how thick's the runestone yeah like seven inches yeah you're supposed to give
21:28us quantitative data to shut down the story or give us all you've done is just made the story bigger
21:33the data doesn't lie i mean you know it's it's here we did it you know right here on the spot
21:39that's what that's what we're measuring flat stones pretty so so you're gonna you're we're gonna make
21:44you uh tell ralph this uh your fat findings because all you're gonna do is he's gonna be here every
21:49day now with a dowsing rod we've got some uh flat stones over there where ralph says the ship is
21:55about the size of the kensington runestone which is really odd they're flat stones and
22:00flat stones don't appear to be in in multitudinous numbers in this area so it's looking interesting
22:06with nothing more they can do with the possible ballast stones they found they look for an ancient
22:15outhouse with the help of ralph's dancing rods okay i'm looking for an outhouse looking for an outhouse
22:23okay i got an outhouse right here right there okay right here outhouse cone over here
22:31right here yeah yeah yeah anywhere in here which way did it run across the hill or well angled
22:43okay right out about here ralph traces the walls of the outhouse
22:48that mark attempts to verify with his gpr equipment
22:51so survey says so we're looking at something actually it's going to be right in here
23:04right where we've got this uh depression yeah this ground that is looks like it's depressed a little
23:09bit matches up with um the signal we've got here there is a blue structure here that is about the size
23:16of what you would expect a privy hole to look to be okay i think a nice indication of there's still
23:22a lot in this universe that we don't know and just because we don't necessarily understand it doesn't
23:28mean that it's not close to the truth so so the uh well why don't we go take a look at the top of the
23:34hill because i don't think we've looked at the mooring stones and then head over to the field uh where
23:39the the thing's supposed to be lined with rocks because that sounds it's more like up your alley for
23:44getting a good hit that would be the guess yeah that's gpr okay let's go okay up we go
23:51it's interesting we've definitely i think with the with the magnetometer we found some interesting
23:56disturbed sites over here or let's say disturbed soil so that definitely gives me the impression that
24:03you know there has been activity here definitely if um uh it were me and i were in a position of
24:10power over this facility this site i would want to do some additional excavation and see okay what
24:17what is that the area we were searching with the gpr is a protected site definitely not digging but
24:22the interest is there if there's facts to support the work so us just saying there's a boat under this
24:30dirt they're not going to show up but if we actually showed them a shape of a hull using a gpr
24:37there is enough evidence to go take a look at it
24:45the team now knows this area is rich with underground treasures waiting to be unearthed
24:51for now they will stay a mystery every once in a while you you you run across uh you know a situation
24:58that you can't you think can't possibly happen and it does and it just opens up more questions but
25:05we have threads of a mystery that we're trying to weave together and it's really interesting to
25:10see where that goes i think the for us the fun part and the satisfying part is that we're finding
25:16a target whether that target is a gas tank or a gold chest or ballast stones from a viking longboat it's
25:26still it's a lot of fun to go out and find them i think the technology definitely delivered it made our
25:32job easier it i don't think it did our job for us but i think it made it a lot more efficient and
25:37faster we would have never known if anything was actually in that ground that ralph had said if we
25:41didn't have that unless we were digging which could have taken years to get permits so i think it was
25:47all very like supporting characters but i'm really happy we had all of it
25:51the next day alexandria resident wayne takes the team to an area that he believes is a viking burial mound
26:03based on a picture from the 1950s the 10 dead men depicted on the runestone are theorized by wayne to
26:11be in this location keep up mark i'm not waiting for you anymore what do you need dog i need you to
26:18throw up google earth this one is new that they have another deer standard right beyond that
26:27right around here two rows of five skeletons yeah two rows of five skeletons and probably
26:36that's the head to toe so we're going to say five feet so that's going to be 25 feet long no it would
26:42be 10 feet by 12 feet it's not deep five right okay so it's not head to toe it's shoulder to shoulder
26:49shoulder to shoulder gotcha okay head to toe we're going to run one line to here that's that's that's
26:57actually really good incredible balance mark finishes his scan and reads the results
27:11whoa what's that thing that is something right in the middle of that
27:17walk it is 13.8 feet from the start so if there was multiple rocks would it show up as multiple rocks or
27:26one big like highlight of something if it were i mean when you look at this take the map off that is
27:36multiple targets kind of all in a line the initial findings are promising but mark wants more data
27:43which means more scanning i love it let's get let's get yeah let's get the next next scan how about if we
27:49get another scan going what he said wait mckenzie what about if we get another scan going should we get
27:55another scan going wait wait wait guys guys what we really need to do is another scan okay let's go
28:05let's do it let's do it yeah
28:11not optimum conditions but oh don't make excuses before you're done listen mark if it was easy
28:19everyone would do it this new data is even more encouraging
28:28it's getting bigger no what is that yeah what is that
28:36targets what kind of targets reflects echoes of um of the past something hard what if we what if we
28:43start there and we do a whole scan so they're all linked and we have we have the big area like right
28:47now we can do that instead of just doing a little one yeah i think i mean i think you've proven i would
28:51say that that's a great idea all right but first let's do another scan eight feet in the north direction
29:01connect and see what we've got on those three and then from that we'll orient where we want our more
29:08complete scan okay joe brings wayne in for a closer look at the results unfortunately they can only
29:16speculate as to the reasons for the stones being there wayne come on have a look here
29:23yeah like this pull right in there's a bit of a glare there so you're gonna have to kind of lean in
29:27okay so the red line is what i just walked uh-huh and those blue images that you see there yeah are
29:36targets hard targets where we are it's safe to call them stones okay of some type so your hypothesis
29:44is it's there how far down half a meter that's in that that's just over i mean just under two feet
29:53yeah yeah that's just that's two feet yeah that's within the air tolerance of this technology what's
29:59your opinion looking at that i'm thinking that there are two significant rocks in this case based on the
30:11local geology that are 16.8 feet from where we started wayne is interesting because
30:23he's done a lot of research and he's trying to ground truth what he thinks is the case and he
30:29he does a pretty good presentation of facts related to the story of the runestone that makes it possible
30:37the only way you can prove his theory is by going to search and if you find something then digging down
30:44well so the so your hypothesis is there with the original the 10 people from the runestone are buried
30:51right here right here right here and then so the the the spot you have in that 50 map 51 i think it is
30:57matter within a 15 foot radius we had three people that spot there and they all came in with 15 feet of
31:06one another in a circle so what happened to that thing that was in the in the uh in the photo from
31:12the 50s the 50s that was the a burial mound with trees on it that was at least uh as he said six feet
31:20high but where'd it go i mean like where where is it now like what we're probably standing right on top
31:24of it but but why did it move cut uh tore it down it was in the way he pushed all the rocks that were
31:30in that into the bush over here and that's where big rocks are huge rocks the mountain itself is
31:36unusual that's unusual absolutely and you're and you're connecting that to the graves yeah but that's
31:43it like there's no other oral story connecting and nothing i'm it guys this is happening in wayne's
31:49world yes that's the good way this is my world so so in the next month the landowner here he has
31:57people working for him we're going to find the exact spot here scrape the dirt off and if we find human
32:05remains we call the sheriff once the remains are exhumed wayne hopes they can be sent for dna
32:12analysis to confirm their viking origin is there anything else we can do here to help wayne in
32:18in this quest here today one big scan we're pretty much where that mound is yeah and you um
32:25put it in my lap now and we'll have an answer in a month how long would it take us to do a scan
32:32of just to connect all the dots like 12 minutes should we get her done and then head this we're
32:38here we've got all the equipment we're fired up head for the hill just do it okay so when we started
32:44scanning we just were doing some stripes and get some quick like is something there and something
32:50showed up right away it was like oh my gosh like it looks like stones it looks like a wall
32:54so then we started doing more and filling in the the data and what we were catching was a bunch of
32:59stones together not a wall what he's going to do is literally the what an archaeologist would do you
33:04strip away the dirt until you find something are the scans revealing stones or are there bodies beneath
33:11the surface we won't know until wayne excavates the site at the completion of the program wayne has yet
33:18to begin his day the faraheim team travels to an undisclosed location south of kensington runestone park
33:32we're guests we're guests in your backyard here so we're cutting up this so i mean this is the hill
33:39mound right here they have been told of other potential viking grave sites to investigate
33:46this is i think is the burial site for the 10 vikings that were killed back in 1362 they come
33:54back they find 10 guys yep slaughtered yeah bury them where they're slaughtered yeah but then they
34:00go all the way over to runestone hill to carve the runestone correct why would they do that because
34:06they want people to find this site okay there might be another runestone here there's a rock up here
34:12that looks like it's flat like a runestone but we flipped it over there wasn't anything on the other
34:16side local residents randy and elroy are convinced the 10 men red with blood from the kensington runestone
34:26inscription are buried here well i've been cutting wood out here for a number of years and it just
34:32i just had a feeling about not being alone out here when i was actually alone i just felt there's a
34:40presence other than myself and this mound here kept kept me thinking about stuff and my connection
34:52i think is i have relatives here my mother believes that she said i think you're gonna find relatives here
35:00and i've had that feeling that i would too this is a site that randy has been visiting for years
35:09and feels a personal connection to it randy's confession resonates with the team they also
35:16believe their ancestors came through centuries ago but can't shake the feeling that the answers they're
35:22looking for are in the northern cairn so he's looking for the outlets he's coming from windy lake comes
35:33down windy river he gets in here he's in a blizzard blizzard is almost certainly coming from the northwest
35:38of the northeast he gets into shelter he goes onto the land he's not crossing the land he goes onto the
35:44land to find shelter joe suggests what windy smith might have done when he found the cairn years ago
35:53if he's coming down here and gets into a blizzard he pulls into here to get out of the wind
35:57because i always thought wondered why he's going across land at all but i think that's probably
36:01it because he's following the lake he's trying to get to the outlet which is way over here
36:05so my question then if he's in a blizzard he's gonna reduce visibility
36:09yeah so is he following this high land like if he's following the shoreline here that's what i'm thinking
36:19he's he came down the windy river he's probably following along here this high ground keeping it
36:22on his right could be he's basically on the lake because he describes and then he pulls it off and
36:26then it comes comes across to try and find like you said that exit something yeah okay he knows he's
36:32got to go this way he doesn't even know exactly where this outlet is so off something like that that's
36:39where we look let's leave that big net behind there sam we won't need it we'll have to oh listen to
36:48that whoa nothing hum the team takes to the water to begin retracing what they think is windy's route
36:56if we stop the worst thing is is i pitch forward i got nothing to stop me from when we hit a rock the
37:04water's got to be like 40 degrees even though the lake is mostly thawed falling into the water right
37:10now would be dangerous you want to go through that it's all candled it should be thin i'll just tuck the
37:17i'll do it hang on andrew ramming speed it looks fairly it looks a little thick how thick is it
37:38back in minnesota elroy and randy lead the faraheim team to an area with three boulders on top of a hill
37:45and by themselves i think yeah this is interesting but it really doesn't you know that doesn't say
37:52much okay and so i told randy you know look for rocks with holes in them sure so two years later
38:00he sent me a picture of the melby stone he calls it the melby stone okay big rock with three holes in
38:07it in this same pattern basically we've heard about a lot of hole stones a lot of mooring stones a lot of
38:12code stones a lot of everything with holes in them never see never heard of three yet exactly so it's
38:17you're going to see three that's why we're here absolutely got to see it yeah we're going to see
38:22three holes okay fall in all right okay so there it is okay the melby stone
38:30each hole is two and three quarter inches deep they're two and how two and how much three quarters
38:40i think two and three quarters but okay yeah so the theory is if these represent the three
38:46if these holes represent the three boulders on top of that hill we need to look under the middle boulder
38:52joe and david go in for a closer look on the boulders and the suspicious holes in it elroy and
39:00randy are adamant that the graves of the ten vikings mentioned on the kensington wound stone
39:06are underneath the boulders to prove it almost the entire area would have to be thoroughly examined
39:13and unearthed which isn't an option there's a flat stone flat stone let's go and look at it is it gray
39:19whack no it's not it's not gray wacky you see yeah so we saw this rock and i thought well that looks
39:28interesting we tried we flipped it up to make sure there wasn't anything written on the other side
39:32for sure but if they were going to carve another runestone this you know maybe they carved off one and
39:37this is what's left over but you know a lot of these boulders that are up here in this area have
39:43all been pulled in here pushed in here yeah so they were clearing the field and drug in here with oxen or
39:49something like that well doing the search of the area we didn't find anything and uh and one of the
39:57things we did find though is the farmers in their day cleared all their fields so they took all the
40:03stones and rocks and move them around it'd be like stonehenge being plowed over to put corn up so we
40:09have this problem where there's things that look interesting but they may not be in the right place
40:14anymore mark sadly could not commit to the entire trip however randy guerrilo is still with the team
40:22he puts his metal detector to work around the middle stone to see if he gets any action randy over here
40:28yeah all right okay yeah so strong ferris hit under or near this rock okay okay have at it and fairly
40:38deep we're thinking right
40:51something a little bit more closer to surface what do you got there bud
40:58you're getting a little ticks here a little bit more but it's still probably a little bit deeper
41:10than i tried to pinpoint and it won't let me pinpoint how deep do you think it might be
41:16like it could be yeah it could be a foot and a half foot and a half yeah what do you think it might be what
41:22does it sound like it's all iron it's fair or whatever yeah it's kind of frozen it's frozen
41:28don't throw that too far though stone's coming along okay let's just try it you know
41:36hey i got it you got it okay
41:39i think it's a really cool area i think there's a lot of history there
42:00i don't know if there was vikings in every spot but i do think someone or something was there
42:06maybe it wasn't a viking village but there was there's just so much data and so much support
42:11that it's hard to say that nothing existed there i think there was something unfortunately the minnesota
42:18trip doesn't lead to any monumental discoveries or proof of vikings in the area but like their ancestors
42:26the faraheim team continues to investigate all possibilities on the road to truth
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