The Beast Of Coalport

Coalport Parchment Detail:

     In 1948, the famed "Coalport Parchment" was discovered in a camphor wood box at a depth of 46 feet below the street level of the abandoned town of Coalport along the Des Moines River. Paleographers from diverse illustrious institutions have offered opinions on the orign of the glyphs, some citing similarities of the early bronze age Mediterranean cultures, including the Linear B script associated with Homer's Troy. Less mainstream experts have offered interpretations that the text is from the cultures that built Atlantis...or Mu...or even Visigothic adventurers from the Iberian Peninsula (now Spain).

     Photo courtesy of the University of Emmetsburg Center For Plains Archeaology.