Yet the amazing nature of the story would seem to demand follow-up. This despite the fact that Joe Mulhatton sometimes took credit for his stories. There was never any follow-up to the two original Gazette stories.
However, there are numerous problems with this theory as I will detail later. It seems ole Joe was notorious by the late 1800s for spinning wild yarns and passing them off in newspapers as if they were true. The article, at least upon one way of reading it, was meant to announce initial discoveries and impressions and to assure everyone that appropriate follow-up would take place.īut was that the intent? Others upon reading it, even at the time of publication, said the article had to be the product of the “Prince of all Liars” Joe Mulhatton (1848–1913). The tale related was extraordinary but was delivered in the most matter-of-fact way. Rather quickly, Kincaid was ready to reveal some of this information to the press. Jordan apparently arrived rapidly but with only small team. Jordan (or Jordon - I’ll explain later) to lead an expansive investigation. Upon receiving his missive and the items, the Smithsonian dispatched a more senior archeologist called S.A. Kinkaid made a brief preliminary incursion and discovered a number of ancient relics and sent a few samples back to his seemingly peripatetic employer (or contractor) the Smithsonian “Institute”. He clambered up the Canyon and eventually discovered the entrance to a cavern that turned out to be, per his testimony provided to the paper, a massive underground “citadel”. During Kinkaid’s travels, you noticed stains high up in the Canyon and decided to inspect further. He claimed to have been on the lookout for “mineral” (a well-known euphemism at the time for gold).Ĭoincidentally, President Roosevelt had made the extraction of gold from the Grand Canyon illegal.
Kincade lost caves series#
Kincaid had purportedly been traveling down a series of river systems and stopping to photograph nature along the way. Kincaid (or Kinkaid, I will alternate spelling throughout because we do not know which is correct). The site had been located by a man called G.E.
These explorations had turned up what were referred to as “Orient”-style artifacts which resembled Egyptian and Mongolian forms. In 1909, the year after the Tunguska Incident, Arizona’s second largest newspaper published a front page, full-spread article about explorations in the Grand Canyon.
But was the story true? What ever happened to this story? And, better still, how can we know? Stunningly these artifacts were suggestive of Old World contacts and, if confirmed, would re-write much of what we think we know about both the history of the Americas and the history of Egypt. In order for you to understand what I’m doing in this article, it is imperative that you read or follow along with the original articles.) Artifacts dating back thousands of years had been found inside a cave carved into the upper reaches of the Grand Canyon. (If you haven’t already, you can read the article here: Grand Canyon. The Enduring Mystery of Ancient Egyptians and the Grand CanyonĪ little over one hundred years ago, a scintillating story was published in an Arizona newspaper, The Arizona Gazette, which claimed that an extraordinary discovery had taken place in the Grand Canyon.
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