It’s impossible in a 7-minute-long video to include every detail relating to this recently-carved (no, it's not from the 12th-century) rune near Sierra Vista, Arizona. Below is additional information that isn’t included in the video, so that you have even MORE of the rest of the story!
0:00 The fake story
0:23 Skepticism
1:40 When were the runes carved?
2:07 The cave
3:14 The fake translation
3:49 The real translation
5:52 Who carved the runes?
6:16 No, there aren't 12th century runes here
7:00 Rune translation
Timeline and information provided by Ward Sherwood:
1981 - The Arizona Cave Survey prepares a 6-page report on this cave. The report includes drawings of both inside and outside the cave. The drawings include the same rock that is highlighted in this video. The 1981 survey shows that the rock is not buried and that there are no carvings on it. http://arizonacaves.org/index.htm
1984 - The Arizona State Land Department performs an archeological survey of the site. Steve Ross of this Department states, in 2012, that the 1984 survey does not indicate that there were any carvings on this rock.
1994 - A purported "Sudovian" language dictionary is posted on an internet site, copyrighted 1994 by J. POŠKA. The site states that it is “A Restored Lexicon of our Sūdovian & Yatving Indigenous Language For Use By Sūdovians & Yatvings, and their descendants". In 2016 Jenny Larsson, a professor of Baltic languages at Stockholm University states that the dictionary on “Pashka’s website in Jatvingian (aka Sudovian) words is pure fantasy.”
2011 - Local rock climbers notice the rune stone.
2012 - The America Unearthed episode airs.
2013 - Ward, Jim, Bruce, Stan and other local hikers locate the cave. Ward posts on a website of his skepticism that these are 12th century runes.
2015 - Professor Henrik Williams sees Ward’s posts, but he isn’t able to contact Ward through that site. However, the Professor, intent to get in touch with Ward, scours the internet and eventually finds Ward through a Model-T message board that Ward has also posted on (about cars, naturally, not runes). The Professor joins the Model-T message board and reaches Ward through that site.
2015 through 2016 - Ward does lots of research to assist the Professor. He contacts the State Land Department to get a copy of the 1984 archaeological survey. That Department tells Ward that the report was turned over to the Arizona State Museum in Tucson. Ward contacts this museum but is told that the museum lost the report somehow, and it is nowhere to be found. Ward also tries to contact Steve Ross, the state archaeologist in TV show, but Steve was no longer working for that agency. But Ward is not one to give up! He was active with the Cochise County Cavers at that time, and he asks some of the local cavers if any of them had visited this site prior to 1990. He finds one cave friend who had been up there in the 1980s, and he didn’t recall any runes on the rock. Ward also gets a tip to contact Tom Gilleland with the Arizona Cave Survey. http://arizonacaves.org/index.htm Eureka! Tom has a survey of the cave (Pictograph Cave) completed in 1981 by a man named Lang Brod. The report includes descriptions, measurements, and hand-drawn pictures of the cave, including the boulder in question. Ward is informed that if there were any runes on that boulder, Lang would have definitely made a significant note about them. Lang would not have taken the time to draw the boulder and not note something so significant. Also, importantly, Lang’s description and drawing confirms that the site had been previously excavated by artifact hunters, therefore, the boulder was not buried and it had no runes in 1981. That 1981 Arizona Cave Survey report shows the location and size of the boulder, exactly where it sits today.
2015 – Hikers find another rune inscription directly across the valley from the Mustang Mountains. The runes are chiseled on the wall of a small shelter cave in the Huachuca Mountains, and they translate in fake "Sudovian" to “I Pashka write runes.”
2015 - Professor Williams publishes his research into the fake runes. A brief version of the research is available here: http://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/bl... .
2015 - The local Sierra Vista Herald newspaper publishes an article about Ward's findings.
2016 - Professor Williams, on a nationwide tour related to runic inscriptions that included The Smithsonian Institute, visits Sierra Vista and provides a presentation. He highlights the involvement of Ward and other local hikers, and he tells the true story of the fake runes.
2020 - Arizona Highways publishes an article with some details of the actual circumstances surrounding the fake rune stone. https://www.arizonahighways.com/artic....
Other sites:
https://runicstudies.org/
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/vetenskap/...
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