Atlantis and the Yucatan Travel Movie

You may have noticed that I have written books on finding evidence of Atlanteans in Egypt and Yucatan. I’ve also made a movie, which is almost ready to be distributed, on Yucatan Travel. Atlantis and Yucatan Travel seem to be separate subjects. Here’s how it came about: It turned out that while I was doing research in Yucatan for the books, I couldn’t find DVDs to show me what to expect while traveling in Yucatan. As a result, I decided to videotape my experiences in Yucatan in the hopes of being helpful to other people who want to know what to expect. That’s how the Yucatan Travel Movie came about.

How will we know it’s Atlantis?

I often wonder: When we finally find Atlantis, will there be a large sign saying, “Atlantis” so we know we have found the right place? Because, if it’s only a ruin, it could be anything! And, if there is a marquee, will the name be listed in English? (I hope you realize this is all tongue-in-cheek.) Even though I am kidding, the kernel of truth within it is that with every claim that some explorer has found the lost city of Atlantis–and there are so many–I wonder how will the archaeologists prove that this particular ruins is Atlantis?

Atlantis disappearance not the usual trend!

Yesterday I wrote to say that the grid-pattern, thought by some to be the lost city of Atlantis,  found on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa by Google Maps has disappeared. How unusual. Usually, Atlantis keeps popping up in many diverse places. A disappearance is definitely out of the ordinary! What can it mean? Is this the first 2012 earth upheaval?

Google Maps’ Atlantis disappears!

On March 17, 2010, I wrote a post on this blog saying that Google Maps had supposedly found Atlantis off the coast of Africa, that is, until the Google mappers realized that they mapping boat had actually created the grid that some thought looked like city streets.

Now, improved mapping techniques have eliminated the grid artifacts in recent Google mapping forays over the ocean floor, according to a Mobile Magazine article.

The internet giant, in a drive to clean up, or rather upgrade, its ocean mapping system, has removed from Google Earth the image which was believed to be that of the lost city of Atlantis.

Atlantis Disappears Again! Google Removes ‘Image of Lost City’ In Its 3D Ocean Upgrade

Tales from the Yucatan Jungle doing well on Amazon

I am really happy today, because a book I worked on as editor, Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village by Kristine Elllingson, is doing very well.

Yesterday, on Amazon.com, the paperback book went to No. 3 in books on the Yucatan Peninsula.

This morning, on Amazon.ca (Canada), the paperback was No. 1 in books on the Yucatan Peninsula.

This morning, on Amazon United Kingdom, the paperback was No. 5 in books on the Yucatan. 

 The Amazon.com Kindle is doing well also. Yesterday, it was No. 1 in books on Mexico. Not too shabby!

It is a great book and I highly recommend it. It’s not only a love story of how Kristine met and married her Mayan husband of 20 years, but it’s also a behind-the-scenes insider’s view of a Mayan village. Most expat stories are about the difficulties of being an outsider in a foreigner country. Kristine has become an insider. She tells stories of a Yucatan that tourists see while they drive by in their tour buses, but seldom know anything about. Get this book and get the inside story!

Super-volcanoes could bring about a 2012 doomsday scenario

As we enter 2012, and wonder about the Mayan prophecies: Are they about the end of the world, a new beginning, or what? Here’s some information about super-volcanoes:

Each of the world’s roughly one dozen super-volcanoes is capable of spewing out thousands of times more magma and ash than any eruption ever recorded in human history.

Can scientists predict volcanic eruptions? Mythical Atlantis may hold the answer.

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Shipwreck hunters find a possible UFO in the Baltic Sea

They were looking for vintage champagne bottles from a wreck … and they found them. But they found more. This CNN video shows images of a mysterious object found 80 meters underwater by team led by Peter Lindberg.

“We had been out for nine days and we were quite tired and we were on our way home, but we made a final run with a sonar fish and suddenly this thing turned up,” he continued.

I have been doing this for nearly 20 years so I have a seen a few objects on the bottom, but nothing like this
Peter Lindberg, team leader Ocean Explorer.

Using side-scan sonar, the team found a 60-meter diameter cylinder-shaped object, with a rigid tail 400 meters long.

Shipwreck hunters stumble across mysterious find

2012 and Beyond Movie interview

Today I’m working on the 2012 and Beyond Movie. When I was in Yucatan in December 2011, I met with Kristine Ellingson, author of Tales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village. She’s an American who is married to a Mayan man and has been living in a Mayan village with him for 20 years. During my visit in Yucatan, I interviewed her for the movie asking her what the Maya in her village think about 2012–are they afraid of the end of the world? Do they even know about it?

Kristine’s intriguing memoir is available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle form, and on BarnesandNoble.com or by order from Barnes and Noble bookstores.

Diego blood antigen system points to a Bering Land Bridge origin of North American native peoples

Going by the distribution of people with ABO blood types, it appears that the indigenous peoples of the Americas–North, South, and Central–could not be descended from Asian people who crossed the Bering Land Bridge during the Ice Age. Indigenous Americans are universally Blood Type O and Asians are for the most part Blood Type B, with very few Os. However, a new blood typing method first discovered in 1955 corroborates the Bering Land Bridge hypothesis. The ABO Blood typing system was discovered in 1900 and 1901, and relates to many other primates as well as humans.

As first glance, the distribution of people throughout the world by ABO Blood type did not seem to support a Bering Land Bridge influx of Blood Type O people, and therefore, could have meant that native Americans originally came from a now sunken lost continent in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which some believe was called Mu or Lemuria.

A new blood typing system is called Diego “comprises 21 rare blood factors,” according to a Wikipedia article entitled, Diego Antigen System., and it supports the Bering Land Bridge theory:

Diego antigens are only found (or in some cases, only not found) in populations of Aboriginal Americans (in both North and South America) and the Mongolic peoples of East, Southeast, North-Central and Northeast Asia. Incidence of the factors is not diminished in ethnically mixed populations. Indeed, the first two Diego factors were found in people of mixed European and Aboriginal American ancestry.

Diego Antigen System