Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> It was found in MINNESOTA by a man who just
> happened to be of Norse extraction.

...and no dummie either.

> If that isn't
> suspicious as heck I don't know what is.

While I agree the arguments on both sides have been pretty good at times, what gets me is the message itself.

After fearing for their lives and running away in more or less the wrong direction, they stopped at the risk of being discovered (I mean how did they know the Indians weren't after them too?) to hammer away on a rock that would make enough noise that could give away their position. That makes no sense at all.

So then the next argument; the message was in code of some sort. A regular Gulliver's Travels written on differnt levels in the middle of nowhere? That's suspicious also.