Previous episode BS

I'm always curious about the people he has on the show. That's Thomas K. Backerud who on several websites posted by HIMSELF, is listed as a volunteer at the Minnesota Historical Society. He's also posted several articles...never mentions this potential HUGELY historically important marker? Which makes..no sense. You find something this significant and you instead contact this snake oil salesman history show clown? Volunteering or joining the MHS is really easy, just throw them a few bucks. Now all of a sudden you can call yourself a "local historian"

Besides the fact that there are two different distinctive writing styles on the same rock(Du Luth is in block form, 1679 is in curve form) I'm not even sure what he's saying is "1679" is actually that? To me it looks like a number 167..with an S.underline

But even if the person carving it for some reason chose to write in two distinctively different styles, there are millions of stones with a name and date on them scattered all over America...They're called...grave stones. Some are elaborate, some are simply scrawled on stone.

Let's say your son died in 1679, you couldn't order him a granite marker and he was starting to smell, so you buried him near a rock and scratched his name on it and the date and moved on..happened all over America back then.

But let's assume this is a claim... even though it could very easily be a grave stone...The "DU LUTH" stone....find an article for me about this potentially historically significant stone?

There are laws. Finding a historical artifact is one thing, keeping it's location from TRUE historians and other proper authorities? That's another thing. You don't own things you find in America, even if you join a historical society, or feel you're the caped protector of your areas secrets.

There's all sorts of legalities. Of course keeping the lid on it's whereabouts from the general public is not a bad idea. However, when I investigated there's literally no mention of this out there, like they are keeping it for themselves.

This brings up all sorts of questions. Is it on property they even have the right to be on? Who are they to think they have sole custody? The very fact that he touches it might have been illegal.

If I went there would I suddenly realize I'm in a graveyard? From all the other markers?

I'll be contacting certain people about that Monday morning! Let's see..the local news agencies, and then the DA's office for starters. Why do I have the feeling nobody with real prestige has ever heard of the kid?

If this was truly a significant piece and not some hoax, then there would be published articles about it's existence. Not necessarily it's whereabouts, but certainly it's existence!

I'd love nothing better than exposing one of these con artists!

My suspicion is that the real reason it's location is being guarded is it wouldn't pass the light of a true investigation.

There's a lot of this type of thing going on in these TV shows suddenly. These con man showing messages written on stones that only they know where they are. J Hutton Pulitzer just did the exact same thing on The Curse of Oak Island.