New trailer for "DUNE 2" has been released. In theaters on March 1.




Official poster for "FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA". In theaters on May 24.




New poster for Matthew Vaughn’s "ARGYLLE".




First look at Nicolas Cage in ‘THE SURFER’. The psychological thriller follows an Australian ex-pat who buys his family’s beach home but must go to war with a group of surfers who claim the beach for their own.


The first trailer for "BEVERLY HILLS COP 4" has been released. Releasing this Summer on Netflix.




The first trailer for John Krasinski’s "IF" has been released. Starring Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Matt Damon, Alan S Kim and Emily Blunt. In theaters on May 17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2KvK-w6w8



"ORPHAN 3" is in the works.




Zack Snyder’s "REBEL MOON" has ambitious plans for building out this world into its own major franchise.



Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire IMDB  | Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024) IMDB


A live-action "AMERICAN GIRL" movie is in the works at Mattel and Paramount.
Attempting to bank woke off of Barbie.





Sony will release Jon Watts "WOLFS" theatrically for Apple. Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. No release date yet. IMDB


Most anticipated movies of 2024, according to a Fandango survey of over 8,000 people.

1- Deadpool 3
2- Beetlejuice 2
3- Ghostbusters 4
4- Dune 2
5- Venom 3
6- Despicable Me 4
7- Inside Out 2
8- LOTR: The War of Rohirrim
9- Gladiator 2
10- A Quiet Place: Day One

Not a single original.


Adventure/Sci-fi...in theaters on February 14.


Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.


GOOD OMENS has been renewed for a third & final season at Prime Video.




Over 90 new films and shows just got added to Prime Video and Freevee this month. Full list

Reacher Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on December 15, 2023!


The final season of ‘STRANGER THINGS’ is like "season 1 on steroids." "Everyone’s back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in season 1."

Mark Wahlberg says the "UNCHARTED 2" script is written.

Movies joining the National Film Registry this year include:

- "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
- "Fame" (1980)
- "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985)
- "Home Alone" (1990)
- "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991)
- "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
- "Apollo 13" (1995)
- "Love & Basketball" (2000)
- "12 Years a Slave" (2013)
Variety


Disney is licensing "LOST" and "PRISON BREAK" to release on Netflix in July 2024.

1 in 5 voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 election admit to participating in at least one kind of voter fraud.

Mail-In ballots are "normally" rejected at an astounding rate. In recent primary elections in New York and Pennsylvania, over 20% of ballots are rejected due to errors but somehow, in the National election, only 0.8% were rejected (who would have thought right?).

New poll finds rampant mail-in voting fraud in the 2020 election

Using a conservative estimate, it appears likely that more than 14 million ballots cast in 2020 were fraudulent.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion...0-election

Quote:The national poll of 1,085 likely voters was conducted between November 30 and December 6, with a margin of error of +/-3 percentage points and a 95% level of confidence

Using only the most conservative estimate (21%), the number of fraudulent ballots is still astronomical. According to election data, 43% of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail — by far the largest percentage in U.S. history. Twenty-one percent of that 43% mail-in figure yields approximately 9%.

Moreover, the survey reveals that fraudulent voting may not have been purely limited to mail-in ballots. Eight percent of all survey respondents — not only those who cast mail-in ballots — admitted that a friend, family member, or organization (such as a political party) offered to pay or reward them for voting.

Add your favorites...any genre, any decade.



The Salsoul Orchestra - Christmas Medley (1976)




2022 Christmas Light, Drone, and Special FX Show Featuring Call of Duty!
This one is over the top!

Some may say Karma, others may say "act of God"

https://twitter.com/WarWatchs/status/173...3760786675

https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-mp...ahs-wrath/

Quote:A Turkish lawmaker collapsed in parliament Tuesday, suffering a heart attack at the end of a livestreamed parliamentary speech in which he slammed Israel and said it wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah.”



Hasan Bitmez, 53, of the conservative Felicity Party, delivered an address at the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament, ending it by saying that “we can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history,” and by addressing the Jewish state: “You will not escape the wrath of Allah.”


He then said, “I salute you all,” immediately before collapsing to the ground at the podium, with his head hitting the floor.

Fellow members of the assembly rushed to his side.


According to Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, Bitmez was hospitalized and his condition was “extremely critical and serious.”

What happens when the Leftist Crazies come for your company because you don't agree 100% with them? They have told Musk that they will destroy Twitter by pulling all advertising so....if you are ultra-rich and they are going to attempt to destroy you no matter what... then why not?

A vote was cast and overwhelmingly won.

Alex Jones RETURNS to X, THANKS Elon Musk for ENDING CENSORSHIP on Twitter

Quote:If you haven’t discerned this yet, the Party of Chaos — Globalism’s “fifth column” in America — lost ground badly in early December even as the country supposedly enters its annual Christmastime coma. You know what a fifth column is? I will explain: it is a subversive enemy force operating inside a nation to sabotage its interests. The Party of Chaos, of course, is the party of “Joe Biden” the fictitious “president” euchered in plain sight to that position via flagrant chicanery in the 2020 Super Tuesday primary and then the free-for-all fraud-o-rama of the general election that year.

     This subversive Party of Chaos (with Marxist characteristics), has worked overtime for years to mindfuck Americans into destroying their own country. Just think of the absurdities you are asked to swallow daily and the punishments meted out for opposing them. It all came to an interesting inflection point lately with the three presidents of exalted universities failing spectacularly to cover their asses in congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

     At issue was why, after years of grandstanding on the oppression of victim groups, and censoring, silencing, cancelling, and crucifying alternate opinions, they gave their students and faculty a pass in recent weeks on yelling for the extermination of Jews. Wow, did that business disorder the whole Woke cosmography! I’ll tell you why:

My people, the Jews, including a major chunk of the intellectual class, assumed leadership in the Woke crusade because the Holocaust of the 1940s established us as the world’s premier oppressed victim group. That badge of honor stuck for decades. Seventy percent of American Jews vote for the Party of Chaos, which used to be the Party of Civil Rights, which used to be synonymous with truth and justice. Thus, for decades, we American Jews were able to feel marinated in virtue.

     Incidentally, the reason American Jews went all in for the Civil Rights movement was because after the big war and all its horrors they felt a victory for expanded tolerance and acceptance in America — the defeat of “Jim Crow” in particular — could only be a good thing for Jews, who, by the way, had demonstrated that a former “out” group could succeed spectacularly in 20th century America if permitted to try, which suggested that other “out” groups could too, and ought to be allowed to try. For Jews, America turned out to be the promised land, and one can easily see how that rhetoric jibed so well with Martin Luther King and his followers in the 1960s.

But the Civil Rights crusade is history now and American intellectuals, Jews especially, appear to be secretly disillusioned and rather ashamed at the less than satisfactory results, such as intractable black poverty and crime. Successful American Jews have been out of their own ghettos for decades, and they have no desire to live adjacent to any black ghetto if they can help it — though they would never dare admit it. However, they flocked to and flourished in the ghetto of elite academia, where they could make a good living in the commerce of ideas, luxuriate in enhanced social status (especially at Ivy League schools), with the bonus of fabulously easy work requirements (two classes a week and then summers off, what a deal!).

        Life on campus has become increasingly uncomfortable in recent years as Wokery ramped up. Lately, the demonization of all white people, including most Jews, became the order of the day to account for and expiate the disappointments of the Civil Rights program. It required considerable cognitive dissonance for American Jews, especially in higher education, to go along with the growing aggressive absurdity of Woke politics. And then their remaining illusions blew up in the fall of this year after Hamas went on its savage rampage and Israel decided to bring down the wrath of Yahweh to remind the world what never again means.

      American Jews on campus — in the crucible of victimhood politics — now find themselves called out as “oppressors” and “colonizers” on the seesaw of social justice. No longer an “out” group, they are fingered as a cruel and hate-worthy “in” group of the most privileged sort. Jewish students on campus began to feel like they had targets painted on their foreheads. At some colleges, they were indeed actively harassed and menaced. And after all they’ve done, and all the money they’ve given, to assist all the other victims, have-nots, left-behinds and marginalized in this world! And finally, to see how they were sold out by those three smirking boss-girl elite college presidents at the witness table in Congress, equivocating so strenuously that it seemed to affect the oxygen content in the room. From the river to the sea. . . woe unto you!

       And now, an even bigger question looms: with Wokery unraveling on campus, will it now also unravel the Party of Chaos — and its ability to act as Globalism’s fifth column undermining our country? Personally, I think it is indeed the beginning of the end of all that, especially the disgraced intellectual class of America’s ability to play along for mere social status brownie points. Perhaps we’ll all begin to discern that the next trip to be laid on the people of this land will be the final one, the Big Enchilada, the event that will truly knock the wind out of Western Civ and leave it gasping and wheezing on the floor: blowing up the banking system. When that happens, we’ll all finally know just where things stand, and then maybe we’ll all start to sing together.

Quote:

Where Are the Good Men?

Ever hear of a guy called J.D. Haltigan? Well, here’s what he said:

“We are at an inflection point, a threshold, where weak, brittle, effete personality structures are a threat to human civilization.”

He’s right. But let’s face it, those are the very structures that are running the country these days. “Toxic masculinity” is certainly not one of their character traits.

So here we are now in a Second Civil War. Really? “Between whom?” you might ask. Between truth and untruth. Between a sociopathic bureaucratic blob steeped in lies and a citizenry obliged to live and die by the blob’s lies.

If you’re troubled at all about the state of our country, and even your own small role in it, you might be asking yourself whether the people running things have any idea what they’re doing.

Some of these doings happen in the metaphysical realm of finance, for instance America’s national debt ($34 trillion and going up like mad), and the death of the U.S. dollar, along with the bonds that underwrite it.

Or the shell game with the repo and reverse repo markets played between the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury to give the broken banking system the appearance of stability when it is actually in deepening ruin.

Did you understand any of that? Probably not, but it’s not because you’re dumb. It’s because all that action is meant to be incomprehensible even to people who went to grad school. The news media only amplify the mystification. They certainly don’t understand it.

It Doesn’t Seem Real Anymore

The net effect is that increasingly nothing in the life of our nation is real. Every action taken is a swindle of one kind or another, a cavalcade of switcheroos aimed at zeroing out the consensus about reality.

What trickles down from all this cosmic activity is the dwindling possibility of a fruitful life for most Americans. You cannot make a living. You can’t fix all the machines in your life or get new ones. You can’t get married because there’s no way you can fulfill your end of the contract.

You search in vain for something purposeful to do. You are eventually faced with the choice: surrender to depression and hopelessness, or revolt against a ruling blob that is only good at one thing: depriving you of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What also trickles down from on-high is the increasing dysfunction of all the systems that evolved to serve American life on-the-ground. For instance, the supply chains that stuff the gigantic merchandise marts from sea to shining sea.

Where are the Lumpers?

The trucking industry is falling apart. The industry can’t find enough workers to load the trucks. They call them “lumpers” in the trucking biz. United Parcel Service (UPS) is hurting so badly for lumpers that they now make the drivers load and unload the brown trucks and have to pay them double overtime for it.

The fruit and vegetables that have to make a truck journey thousands of miles from the sunshine lands to the icy north sit rotting in the warehouses because there aren’t enough lumpers on the loading docks — in case you’ve noticed that the produce in your supermarket is looking wilty and gross.

All the systems that move stuff around this big country are wobbling. Many trucking and logistics companies went out of business in 2023, led by Convoy’s bankruptcy in October due to “an unprecedented freight market collapse” and inability to get financing.

UPS has not recovered from the big drop in shipping that followed the end of COVID lockdowns — 1.2 million packages per day in lost volume — nor adjusted to its new contract with the Teamsters Union, a 46% cost increase for drivers in the first year.

A CEO Takes a Pay Cut!

UPS CEO Carol Tome even took a pay cut: $19 million this year, down from $27.6 million (including stock packages) in 2021. Please donate to her GoFundMe page! FedEx also saw a sharp drop in package deliveries and in September yanked its full-year profit guidance.

The FedEx share price dropped 20% in one day. Consider, too, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations aimed at a “zero carbon emissions” goal in 2035, legislation guaranteed to first paralyze and then kill trucking in that state, including trucks delivering into and out of California.

Good luck with that.

Then there is the good ole U.S. Postal Service, a crypto-public/private corporation cobbled together back in the 1970s supposedly because mail delivery was losing money.

While our Constitution stipulates that the government “establish Post Offices and post Roads” with the implied authority to carry and deliver the mail, the Constitution never said that the post office had to show a profit any more than the Army or the Navy does.

A Scrooge-Like Christmas

These days it looks like our country is just about done with the mail business. Been to your local post office lately? Mine is looking like an old Soviet DMV… a few part-timers on duty… mail delivered when they feel like it… an odor of rot in the building.

Consider that the post office is one of the few places where we citizens actually interface directly with the government’s workings. So how does it look like it’s working to you?

Christmas 2023, will be a test of how all these crumbling services and wobbling business models are affecting the people who live in the outfit known as the USA. Initial reports of empty Walmarts and maxed-out credit cards don’t paint a pretty picture.

The Yuletide potlatch will not look like it used to. At some point, the activity on-the-ground — or eerie absence of activity — might ordinarily be expressed in the stock indexes.

But these strange days the markets seem to be hostages of some algorithm cult that operates in a mystical vacuum where nothing matters.

When it gets to the point where famished Americans start eating each other to stay alive, will we see another S&P record high?

Got to wonder if they believe this stuff or are they paid to lie for the WEF Democratic party ?

This is part 5 of Weird Reads with Emily Louise entertaining series.




Vid summary:

This is the fifth installment of the infamous hoaxes iceberg explained series, as created by Silent Chatter on Reddit. In this episode I cover the Cottingley fairies, the Raelian baby cloning cult, fake alien pictures, supposed satanic rituals and so much more!

(Upon reviewing the footage I realised I pronounced automaton incorrectly, apologies!)

You can watch the rest of the series here

The Hoax Iceberg by u/silentchatter : https://i.redd.it/hwffa8s9cao71.png

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:36 The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Phaal
04:06 The Great Moon Hoax
08:55 Cottingley Fairies
21:01 Our First Time
22:55 Spaghetti Tree
25:22 CERN Satanic Ritual
29:15 Marisa Tomei Got Her Oscar By Accident
32:06 Disturbing Movie Iceberg Rumours
33:03 Mariana's Web
33:41 Hi Walter! I got a new gf today!
35:48 Raelian Human Clones
40:53 Hercules the Horse Sized Dog
42:08 Berners Street Hoax
43:45 Automaton Chess Player
45:29 Left Handed Whopper
46:17 Wing Dings Predicted 9/11
48:29 malepregnancy.com
49:51 Hunting for Bambi
51:51 Lady Hope
53:05 Wisconsin Deer Count
53:48 Wiesbaden Martian
58:37 Brunus Edwardii
59:28 Outro

Good story from the past reprinted in Nevada Magazine.

Quote:In 1924, a group of scientists and reporters announced that Yerington was the cradle of civilization!
This story first appeared in our August 1993 issue.

BY HARRY A. CHALEKIAN

On August 17,1924, readers of the “San Francisco Examiner” received the shocking news with their Sunday morning coffee: The cradle of civilization had been discovered on a rocky hilltop near Yerington, Nevada.

WAS THE GARDEN OF EDEN LOCATED IN NEVADA?” blared a front-page headline. An editor’s note declared:

“We have found what appears to be the evidence of the oldest civilization in the world-the oldest writing, the oldest art, the oldest sacrifice, the oldest worship, and the oldest burial.”

For the next week the [i]“Examiner”[/i], flagship of the Hearst newspaper empire, presented a spectacular series of articles and photos to support the theory that the Nevada site was “the actual scene of the creation of mankind.” The reports were the result of an expedition to the Yerington area led by Alan Le Baron, a self-proclaimed archaeologist. The key discovery, according to the paper’s breathless reports, was that the area’s petroglyphs appeared to be related to—and even predate—the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. Thus, the Nevada site could be the cradle of mankind, the true Garden of Eden.

Stories called the hill near Yerington the “Site of a Thousand Tombs.” Photos showed petroglyphs of birds, snakes, and bighorn sheep. Scientists from around the world offered authoritative comments. The headlines focused often on the petroglyphs:

NEVADA CARVINGS ARE LIKE EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS.

INSCRIPTIONS GIVE CLEW TO ANCIENT MAN.

Other so-called discoveries were announced in the series of archaeological exposes:

TREMENDOUS ROCKS COVER ANCIENT DEAD.

CHEMIST SAYS DUST IN TOMBS IS MADE OF BONE.

While California readers were being bombarded with this startling news, the Reno and Carson City newspapers did not mention the series. The “Yerington Times” made a rare reference to the investigation when it noted that “it seems that Lyon County is about to become the Mecca of numerous expeditions.”

Around Yerington, residents had always believed the ancient petroglyphs were created by the forebears of the Paiute people. The late Sherman Lewis, a former ranch foreman, once recalled, “The local ranchers were too busy with their own lives and activities to pay much attention to the people from San Francisco. We thought Le Baron and his theories were cuckoo.”

The locals’ skepticism was well founded. For all its high-minded scientific pontifications, the Garden of Eden series turned out simply to be an entertaining hoax.



THE RINGLEADER

The tale began in the fall of 1923, when, the “Examiner” said, a rancher and mining man named Frank Bovard found a group of petroglyphs near the East Walker River. He described his discovery to Le Baron, a mining engineer and geologist who was working in the area. Le Baron took photographs of the petroglyphs and sent them to “Arabian scholars in Egypt,” according to the paper. The “scholars” then confirmed his theory that the inscriptions were Egyptian and Babylonian characters.

On May 8, 1924, Le Baron led an “Examiner” team to investigate the site. On June 10, Edward Clarke, the paper’s Sunday editor, joined them. Two months later the news exploded on the “Examiner’s” front page.

Alan Le Baron’s credentials were impeccable, said the “Examiner.” Le Baron had spent much of his youth in Egypt and had studied the records of ancient Arabian tribes. As a result, the paper said, “hieroglyphics to Le Baron are like the English alphabet to our readers.”

Editor Clarke admitted in print that the work “was rapid—possibly superficial from the viewpoint of cold, careful positive Science.” At the same time, he clearly was not about to let Science stand in the way of a good story.

LOCAL IMPRESSIONS

Today a number of Lyon County residents, now in their 80s, remember the so-called Garden of Eden and its promoter, Alan Le Baron. Eileen Vedder, a retired schoolteacher who lives in Yerington, recalls the Garden of Eden site well—her grandparents owned it. She says her parents, Charles and Violet McCloud, would take the family to the area for picnics in 1916, seven years before Le Baron’s “discovery.” The children would amuse themselves by playing among the rocks.

“There were two particular rock formations that towered above the other rocks on the hill. They were called ‘Adam and Eve,'”Vedder recalls. “Some time after the exploration team left, the two formations were pushed over by mischievous children—not me.” Could the Adam and Eve rock formations have inspired the notion of a “Garden of Eden?”

Vedder’s cousins, George and Leland Churchyard of Yerington, also remember the picnics and the hill. The two brothers say their aunt and mother named the two highest formations “Adam and Eve.” Leland recalls a local woman’s claim to have found some ossified plant bulbs in the area, and Egypt was said to be the only other place in the world where such bulbs were known to exist. Perhaps the plant-bulb fossils led to the Egyptian connection.

Howard Rogers clearly remembers the Garden of Eden area. A Paiute who lives near Yerington, Rogers was born at Desert Creek in Smith Valley 90 years ago. Sitting on his front porch and looking at the hills, Rogers recalls, “As a young man, I worked as a cowboy at all the ranches along the East Walker River. The ranchers would ask for me because I was a good man on a horse.”



Rogers says, “I remember often riding my horse to the hill of carved rocks. I know the carvings were done by earlier Paiute tribes living and hunting in the area.”

A few locals also remember Alan Le Baron. Walter Cox, retired publisher of the “Mason Valley News,” says Le Baron was a chivalrous man “who always made sure the ladies he escorted were seated first, always near the fire, and well attended to.” These social graces, combined with his credentials as a mining engineer, made Le Baron attractive to the wealthy families of the area.

Another man who knew Le Baron was the late Sherman Lewis, a former cowboy and ranch foreman. Le Baron would occasionally dine with the Lewis family at their ranch, which was located near the petroglyph site. Between Lewis’ mother, a schoolteacher, and his father, a mineralogist, Le Baron learned a lot about the area and its history at those dinners. Lewis said he believed it was his father, Harry Lewis, who first showed the inscribed rocks to Le Baron.

Lewis remembered the Paiutes spending winters near the rock hill. The hill was used as a lookout for hunting antelope, bighorn sheep, and deer that would come to the river for water. As a young boy, Lewis explored the hill and its inscriptions. With a glint in his eye, he also admitted that as a young man he took girlfriends to the hilltop for picnics and “scientific research.”

Donald Tuohy, curator of anthropology at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, first learned of Le Baron while working in eastern Nevada 25 years ago. Tuohy never met the Garden of Eden promoter, but he recalls hearing about Le Baron during his professional travels. Tuohy says Le Baron was likely “a charlatan who used any pretext to draw attention, and funding, to his exploits as a self-proclaimed archaeologist.”

Another Eden skeptic is Doris Folsum, a retired teacher and amateur archaeologist who now lives in Reno. Folsum was in fifth grade at Yerington Elementary School at the time of the “Examiner” series.

“I remember when the story hit Yerington, but I don’t remember anyone being duly impressed. The only thing that impressed me was that my teacher, the former Georganne Kaufman, married Alan Le Baron.” Folsum, an active woman who has traveled the world, recalls that her teacher’s marriage to Le Baron created more excitement in Yerington than the “Eden” discovery.

THE FACTS

Over the years, other archaeologists have made authentic efforts to document the “Garden of Eden” site. An early description was provided by Garrick Mallery in his 1889 work, “Picture Writing of the American Indian.” Julian Steward described the site in his 1929 monograph, “Petroglyphs of California and Adjoining States.” In 1962, Robert Heiser and Martin Baumhoff used the data they recorded at the site to provide support for their idea that the petroglyphs were created at spots where game could be ambushed.

A more recent study of the area was performed in 1973 and 1974 by Karen Nissen of the University of California at Berkele. Her team catalogued and documented the rock inscriptions to test the hypothesis that the carvings were correlated with the hunting habits of local Indians. Additionally, the stone cairns or “soldiers” erected on a hill to the east of the site reflected John Muir’s 1890 description of a mountain sheep hunt conducted nearby. Nissen’s study barely mentioned the “Examiner” team’s exploration, stating that it was never scientifically reported.



Now an archaeologist with the California Department of Transportation, Nissen says, “I have heard of the Examiner articles, but I’ve never seen them. We studied the site quite thoroughly and classified 783 boulders with more than 3,800 art forms.”

She adds, “I’ve also made recent visits to the site escorting world-renowned archaeologists. From my extensive re- search at the site, I can only scoff at or heavily discount Alan Le Baron’s claims.”

The Garden of Eden is a 30-mile drive south of Yerington. On a recent visit, the quiet and beautiful landscape described in the newspaper articles was marred by a rough road that had been cleared around the base of the hill near the East Walker River.

The hilltop revealed a series of rock-walled enclosures that provided a protected and commanding view of the river valley. Inside the enclosures and on the top of the hill were the many petroglyphs that, combined with the scenic river and valley below, created the “Eden” excitement. The carvings portrayed bighorn sheep, deer, skeletons, snakes, birds, and round and star-like forms.

Below were more rock protected enclosures. Some of the rocks were inscribed with animal forms and other symbols. One could imagine sighting the herds from the hilltop and signaling the hunters waiting below.

A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY

After the visitors spent almost five hours climbing among the rocks, watching for rattlesnakes, admiring the carvings, and enjoying the view, the “Examiner’s” ‘Thousand Tombs’ and ‘Ancient Dead’ were nowhere to be found. Except for a hole blasted in the rock, there were no signs of major excavations.

The hill and its carvings did not point to Egypt or the origins of civilization. Obviously, the Examiner stories were simply a wonderful combination of scientific exaggeration and sensationalism designed to sell newspapers.

One Nevada authority who agrees with that assessment is archaeologist David Johnson of Carson City. Johnson has been interested in the East Walker River site for a number of years. He calls the “Examiner” articles” outrageously funny” and typical of the “Hearstian” journalism and attitudes of the era. Johnson adds, “There is no question in my mind that the East Walker River petroglyphs are of Native American origin.”

The man who promoted the Garden of Eden site so skillfully, Alan Le Baron, in time faded from the scene. Yerington folks remember that within a few years he and Georganne Kaufman, the local schoolteacher, were divorced. He was last seen working with a road crew on a highway project between Fernley and Yerington.

While Le Baron’s reputation and the “Examiner’s” sensational reports proved to be wildly exaggerated, the Garden of Eden site remains pristine and beautiful. Taking in the view of the river and valley below, one can understand the feelings inspired by the petroglyphs. The ancient symbols remind us that a rocky Nevada hilltop, in its own way, is a perfect place to find paradise.