Author: Brian Nettles

Written by Joseph B. Mahan By including ethnological context in the scope of my presentation, I am requiring myself to treat with the entire culture of the people under discussion and to understand its nature sufficiently well to define its context, meaning its relationship to other cultures. Specifically, I must deal with the religious aspect […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: Burrows’ Cave demands a new understanding of history, which will evolve slowly, through many years of research. But productive work is already underway, as shown by the following collection of essays. At the 1991 ISAC conference Dr. Mahan read a paper entitled “Historic and Ethnological Context of Burrows’ Cave.” When I […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: The Burrow’s Cave Executive Committee had several meetings in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a central location between Olney, Illinois and Marquette, Michigan, and was the home of the chairman, Dr. Jim Scherz, but that location imposed great hardship on Virginia Hourigan from New York. At my invitation we decided to have […]

Written by Russell Burrows: In June of 1991, Fred Rydholm and I decided to meet in Vincennes and travel together to the ISAC conference in Columbus, Georgia. I had spoken to June, Fred’s wife, about this and she and I agreed that it would be much easier on Fred, especially since he would already have […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: On June 13, 14, and 15 of 1991 the Institute for the Study of American Cultures convened in Columbus, Georgia, Dr. Joseph B. Mahan presiding. Former President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter came and ate with the group, and shook hands with everyone in attendance. On Saturday evening, June 15th, he and […]

Written by Jim Sherz I have another very personal interest in Burrows’ Cave, and in where a full analysis of its data might lead. Like Col. Burrows, I have some Native American genes in my ancestry, and thus have a personal reason to help uncover the truth of the history of vanquished Indians – which […]

Written by Jim Sherz I first heard of Burrows’ Cave from Bart Jordan, a talented musician who is also a scholar of ancient music and of the sacred Old World “canons of proportion” that were used in ancient times to tie together our calendars, musical scales, and units of measure into one harmonious system. My […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: In June of 1990 Dr. James P. Scherz was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Burrows’ Cave Executive Committee. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a professor of surveying in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. Jim has been working on archaeo-astronomical investigations […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: In the fall of 1990, my son Dan, who is in a PhD program at Union Theological Seminary in New York, called with a message for me. Dan had become very interested in the cave, naturally, and had by this time stepped beyond the bounds of skepticism and was truly trying […]

Written By Fred Rydholm: Two men who have never faltered in their support for the cave’s authenticity and colossal historical importance are Dr. Joseph Mahan of Columbus, Georgia and Dr. Cyclone Covey, professor emeritus of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Both of these men have known the Yuchi Indians intimately and […]

Written by Fred Rydholm and Warren Dexter: Another person who has done a preliminary analysis of the Cave material is Warren W. Dexter. It will be difficult to summarize all of it but here are some of his observations. He visited the cave, and first observed the collections of things that had been removed from […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: The Elephant Stele is not the only tablet that resembles things from elsewhere. Virginia Hourigan discovered what resembles the cartouche of Merneptah on a stone from the cave; the similarity is very close, but there are obvious notable differences. It seems that a forger could have been more accurate had he […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: By 1990 I had became a good friend and supporter of Russ Burrows. I could see no way that a fraud could have been perpetrated. When I discussed the cave with doubters I realized they were all backing up thei doubts with the opinions of the experts. I had gone way […]

Written by Russell Burrows: On my next trip in, I took along a small two-and-a-half-ton hydrojack as well as a crank-type “come-along.” I was determined to find out what was on the other side of that stone wheel. After some experimental rigging of my tools I soon figured out how to roll the stone away […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: Russell continued to go to the cave in 1987-88 to probe a little further. He was convinced that there was much more there to be seen. Besides the doorway at the bottom of the trap (the first one he discovered), he thinks there may be several other such openings to that […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: Dr. Warren Cook was very enthusiastic about the cave. On his visit to Vincennes in 1987 he said he was willing to organize the entire study and he offered to set up the system, provide a plan for strategy, hire the personnel and see that everything from the cave would be […]

Written by Russell Burrows: On my first visit to Columbus, I met a man I really liked. He is a real down-to-earth guy for one who is respected as a scholar the world over. That man is Dr. George Carter. I had spoken to him by telephone previous to our meeting in 1988, and I […]

Written by Fred Rydholm: As stated, in 1987 I’d joined ISAC (the Institute for the Study of American Cultures). My good friend Warren Dexter encouraged me to attend the 1988 annual meeting in Columbus, Georgia. So June and I traveled down there. It was here on that hot day in June that I first met […]

Written by Russell Burrows: I will continue with the account of my contacts with Bart Jordan, the archaeologist: After Bart had left Vincennes and continued on his journey to New Mexico, accompanied by one of the sweetest young ladies I have ever had the pleasure to meet, I forgot about him. That was not easy […]

Written by Russell Burrows In 1987, an event occurred which convinced me that there were some people who would go to any lengths to control the cave. By this time, I had accepted the fact that there was something unusual about the cave and, because of that, many people wanted to get in on the […]