Last December Heartland Research Group and other scientists, archaeologists and supporters gathered in Ohio to do magnetometry research attempting to locate ancient evidence of human activity in Ohio over 2,000 years ago. The company SENSYS, from Germany was hired to utilize their state of the art equipment. Heading this research was John Lefgren PhD and longtime scientist. He said the following:
“On Friday evening, December 14th, 2018, at the Frisch’s Big Boy Family Restaurant near the AmeriStay Motel in Batavia, Ohio I was eating a buffet and sitting with Richard Moats, Kirk Magleby, Hu McCullough, and Jeffery Wilson. It was a pleasant evening. There were other people at the table. In our table conversation, I turned to the aforementioned people and I said that I wanted each one of them to answer a plain and simple question. Were there ancient Hebrews in Ohio? Richard Moats said absolutely yes. Hu McCullough said yes. Jeffery Wilson said yes. Kirk Magleby said no.
How about that?”
John Lefgren PhD, President Heartland Research Group
Who said yes and who said no to the question, “Hebrews in Prehistoric America?”
“Absolutely”, says Richard Moats Ordained Evangelist in the Church of Jesus Christ International. and Avocational Archaeologist, Archaeoastronomer who has lived in Ohio all his life.
“Yes”, says J. Huston McCulloch Professor of Economics and Finance The Ohio State University and Ohio Avocational Archaeologist for 40 years.
“Yes”, says Jeffery Wilson the director/manager of the Serpent Mound in Ohio. Friends of Serpent Mound, or FOSM for short, is made up of individuals, organizations, and businesses that care about and see the value in preserving the Great Serpent Mound Park. He knows Ohio Archaeology very well.
“No”, said Mesoamerican advocate and Executive Director of Book of Mormon Central Kirk Magleby.
Richard Moats about Hebrews in Ohio
“I am an Ordained Minister in the Church of Jesus Christ International. I am also an Avocational Archaeologist specializing in Archaeoastronomy. It may seem strange to some people that I am both a student of the Bible and Scientist. The pre-history of America has not been fully understood. Every year, new tools of science push back the curtain of understanding into the lifeways of early Native Americans.
This is expected of science because, unlike the Bible, there are no written records. The only record of the peoples living here are prior to discovery is written in the artifacts left behind and the DNA that has moved forward.
Frequently I am asked, “Do I believe Hebrews were in prehistoric America”. My answer is always yes.
Of course the next question is “why”. But, because this is a short essay, I cannot give the four hour lecture with supporting evidence and pictures. So I will give simple answers to what is a complex question.
The evidence has been rejected by so called scientists for over 150 years. The Newark Holy Stones were discovered in a Hopewell burial mound near Jacksontown, Ohio. The Newark Holy Stones were declared fake by the “scholars” of the day. But, if the truth be known about those who declared them fake, you would find they are all atheists. The Holy Stones were too much for their paradigm to handle.
But, a scientist by the name of Scott Wolter, a Geologist and Petrologist, recently studied the stones and said “there is no evidence to suggest the stones are not as old as the Hopewell context in which they were discovered.
Wolter also studied the Bat Creek Stone and said “the Hebrew writing on the stone is as old as the Hopewell burial in which it was discovered. The evidence from the Newark and Bat Creek stones demonstrates Hebrews made contact with the Native Americans we call the Hopewell prior to 500 AD.
The other evidence is from a discovery of Haplogroup X Mitochondrial DNA marker found in Hopewell skeletal remains in mound number 25 at Mound City near Chillicothe, Ohio by Dr. Lisa Mills. HgX originated in Galilee, the land of the Hebrews. The concentration of HgX in the area around Galilee is 27%. The next highest concentration in the world is in Nova Scotia, Canada at 25%. As HgX is over the globe, it could not have come into south east Canada by any route other than by sea. (See National Geographic Article Here)
The sphere of influence of the pre-Algonquin people of southeast Canada extended into what is now New York, Maine, and Vermont. The sphere of influence of the Hopewell extended into southern Canada as well as what is today New York State. This suggests the Hopewell and the pre-Algonquin interfaced sometime before 500 AD; thus, the exchange of HgX DNA.
The Hopewell belief system was a three tier system where they lived in the terrestrial world but believed in an underworld and an upper world. The constructed massive geometric earthworks to align with celestial events. They viewed the upper world as the destination of the souls of their ancestors and themselves in the “Pathway of Souls”. The “Pathway of Souls” or “River of Souls”, is the Milky Way Galaxy band of stars. The parallels between our Judeo Christian worldview is the same. We view the lower world as a very bad place, and the upper world as Heaven.
Lastly there is the enigmatic East Fork Earthworks which in fact existed in Clermont County, Ohio. It is also called the “Menorah site” after the configuration found inside the earthen walls of the enclosure appearing to be that of a Nine Candle Menorah. This massive earthwork was destroyed for some unknown reason early in the 19th century. But, there is no doubt it did exist. Only Hopewell built massive geometric earthworks. Therefore, the East Fork Works appears to be the “smoking gun” to prove contact into the Hopewell Native Americans sometime before the Hopewell disappeared before 500 AD.
There is a concerted effort to relocate the East Fork Works by a group of researchers known as the Heartland Research Group. By using cutting edge magnetometry surveying, the group will scan hundreds of acres in south west Ohio in an effort to find the “lost menorah”. When it is relocated, possibly the proof of Hebrews contacting the Hopewell in Ohio will be discovered.
There is a megalithic structure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia named Nolan’s Cross. It is formed by huge stones placed on the island to form a Christian Cross. Who built it? When was it built? Why was it constructed? I do not know. But, is it possible that Hebrews which came to Mahone Bay Nova Scotia Canada and placed a stone memorial to their entry into the “Promise Land”? I say yes because it is what Joshua did when he led the Hebrews across the Jordan River into the promised land of today’s Israel. (Joshua Chapter 4).
Hopefully the Newark Holy Stones and the Bat Creek stone will be subjected to today’s best analytical tests and declared authentic by science. Hopefully HgX is scientifically proven to have come into the Americas between 0 and 500 AD by the geneticists. And the East Forks Works are determined to be influenced by the Hebrews thus proving cultural contact.
For your own study and research, use the key words from this essay to search the net for knowledge and revelation.”
Richard D. Moats, Rev./Avocational Archaeologist/Archaeoastronomer
INTRODUCTION: TO YOST WORKS Here and Here
The site known formally as the Yost Works is a Hill Top Geometric Earthworks constructed by a Hopewell Chiefdom sometime late in the Hopewell fluorescence. It is within three miles of the old Fort Glenford Hill Top Enclosure constructed by the earlier culture, the Adena. These two sites are about 8 miles south east of the Great Stone Mound where the Newark Holy Stones were found. All three of these sites are intervisible one to the other with an absence of foliage. This makes them related in ways we are only beginning to understand.
This paper will offer the scientific data of the Yost Works. The archaeoastronomical alignments associated with this site by sheer numbers makes it possibly the most important geometric earthwork in terms of gaining insight into the minds of those who constructed it. To endeavor to understand the minds of the Hopewell and what drove them to build such a plethora of geometric works is termed Cognitive Archaeology.
INTRODUCTION TO FORT GLENFORD HILL TOP ENCLOSURE Here
Fort Glenford is not a Fort in the definition of Military Forts of the 19th century in America. Its name was drawn from the early mindsets of the archaeologists comparing its structure to stockades and even castles of Europe which were defensive compounds. Fort Glenford is an Adena constructed mortuary complex from the late Archaic Period into the onset of the Woodland Period from about 1000 BC to 200 AD.
The structure is on a hilltop in Ohio which is characterized by a stacked stone wall approximately 1.5 mile long enclosing approximately 23 acres of land. There were several entrances up the steep terrain through the natural bedrock and into enclosed space. Inside this enclosed space stood a stacked stone mound 18 feet high.
The mound stood opened until Mr. James Dutcher cleared away the stones and revealed the mound floor in the late 1980’s. Until Mr. Dutcher excavated to mound floor and discovered diagnostic artifacts consistent with the Adena Culture, no one knew for certain who constructed the site. No one knew how old the site was or when the wall and mound had been constructed.
Hebrews in Prehistoric America?
There is a concerted effort to relocate the East Fork Works by a group of researchers known as the Heartland Research Group. By using cutting edge magnetometry surveying, the group will scan hundreds of acres in south west Ohio in an effort to find the “lost menorah”. When it is relocated, possibly the proof of Hebrews contacting the Hopewell in Ohio will be discovered.
There is a megalithic structure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia named Nolan’s Cross. It is formed by huge stones placed on the island to form a Christian Cross. Who built it? When was it built? Why was it constructed? I do not know. But, is it possible that Hebrews which came to Mahone Bay Nova Scotia Canada and placed a stone memorial to their entry into the “Promise Land”? I say yes because it is what Joshua did when he led the Hebrews across the Jordan River into the promised land of today’s Israel. (Joshua Chapter 4).”
Richard D. Moats AA, Archaeoastronomer
